Twitter's been my refuge for 10 years. It has offered a rich mélange of information beaming in from the land of the ordinary as well as the exotic.
Which is why the whole idea of academics using Twitter to discuss research sucks. I should have anticipated different disciplines hijacking the medium to weigh on their research topics but as a happy kid exploring the expanses of the universe through an impersonal and non-reciprocating vehicle I feel cheated.
Twitter is my way of socializing. Of comfortably interacting with the world and keeping my distance. It is also so much more than the boring debates of any one discipline.
Must I move on to Mastodon?
Which is why the whole idea of academics using Twitter to discuss research sucks. I should have anticipated different disciplines hijacking the medium to weigh on their research topics but as a happy kid exploring the expanses of the universe through an impersonal and non-reciprocating vehicle I feel cheated.
Twitter is my way of socializing. Of comfortably interacting with the world and keeping my distance. It is also so much more than the boring debates of any one discipline.
Must I move on to Mastodon?
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