Great initiative. We just started something similar in the German state of Lower Saxony: https://academiccloud.social https://academiccloud.social . It is a Mas

Great initiative. We just started something similar in the German state of Lower Saxony: https://academiccloud.social https://academiccloud.social . It is a Mastodon instance open to members of universities and research institutes in the state. I think Mastodon is an interesting platform for science communication. A lot of colleagues who write on Twitter are feeling more and more uncomfortable there and started publishing here too. Mastodon is not a complete replacement for Twitter, but for certain communities it can work really well.