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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dear colleages,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">there is currently an intense debate in the scientific community about whether to continue using Twitter. Many scientists use Mastodon as an alternative platform to connect to their colleagues
and talk about things that matter to the Open Science movement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Switching to a new platform always involves certain hurdles and opportunity costs. In order to lower these thresholds and aid the development of the Open Science community, the GRN is maintaining
a directory of community members to increase findability on Mastodon. So, If you're wondering how to find your existing contacts on Twitter on the new platform this list is your first stop:
<a href="https://germanrepro.github.io/Mastodon-OpenScience">https://germanrepro.github.io/Mastodon-OpenScience</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The list serves two purposes, on the one hand you can add your own Mastodon account there to be found easier, on the other hand you can import the accounts stored there (all or selected) into
your Mastodon account and follow them directly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A general overview about Mastodon and how it works can be found in the following article:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/08/mastodon-quick-start-guide/">https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/08/mastodon-quick-start-guide/</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">An overview of different server instances (so-called federations) from the scientific field can be found on the following page:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://fediscience.org/server-list.html">https://fediscience.org/server-list.html</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">An interesting analysis, about switching to the new platform, which we would like to recommend, has been written by Andy Tattersall:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2022/11/10/academics-can-easily-leave-twitters-town-square-but-it-will-be-much-harder-for-their-institutions/">https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2022/11/10/academics-can-easily-leave-twitters-town-square-but-it-will-be-much-harder-for-their-institutions/</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Please share this mail with your colleagues and within your networks!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Best regards and see you on the other side, Rima, Guido and Maximilian from the GRN<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">DR. GUIDO SCHERP<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Head of Open Science Transfer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The Open Economics Guide provides you with practical tips, methods, and tools for
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Open Science in economics:
<a href="https://openeconomics.zbw.eu/"><span style="color:blue">https://openeconomics.zbw.eu/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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