Academics on Mastodon

This repository contains a collection of various lists of academics on Mastodon. These lists are curated by many awesome folks across various disciplines, so make sure to give them kudos as well!

Table of Contents

• Curated Account Lists
• Groups
• Servers/Communities
• Contribute
• Contact

Curated Account Lists

The following are curated lists of academic accounts on Mastodon by discipline. If you would like to start your own group, head over to the original repository, fork it, adapt it, and publish it. Then, make sure to add your list here by proposing a pull request!

These lists are opt-in only, so if you would like to appear on one or more of these lists, click their link. The lists provide instructions. Many lists even provide a form which you can fill in yourself. If you notice that a list violates the opt-in principle, please notify us so that we can take action.

• Anthropology (Form to add yourself)
• Archaeology
• Art and Design Teachers
• Asian Studies (Google Spreadsheet) (Form to add yourself)
• Astrophysics
• Atmospheric science and air quality
• Bioinformatics
• Book History (BookHistodons) (Google Spreadsheet; Form to add yourself)
• Cheminformatics and Computational Chemistry
• Communication and Media Studies (Google Doc)
• Criminology (Google Spreadsheet; Form to add yourself)
• Digital Humanities (Google Spreadsheet; Form to add yourself)
• Education (Google Spreadsheet; Form to add yourself)
• GLAMS: Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Special Collections (Google Spreadsheet) (Form to add yourself).
• Genealogy (Google Spreadsheet) (Form to add yourself)
• Geography
• History and Philosophy of Science
• History (Google Spreadsheet)
• Historians of Science, Medicine, and Technology (Google Spreadsheet; Form to add yourself)
• Information Security (Google Spreadsheet) (Form to add yourself)
• Journalism (Google Spreadsheet)
• Law (Google Spreadsheet; Form to add yourself)
• Literary Studies (Google Spreadsheet)
• Marketing and Consumer Research
• Medical AI
• Medieval History (Medievodons) (Google Spreadsheet; Form to add yourself)
• Neuroscience
• Philosophers and Philosophy Teachers
• Political Scientists
• Psychology (Form to add yourself)
• Public Policy
• Qualitative Researchers (Google Spreadsheet; Form to add yourself)
• Religion (Google Spreadsheet)
• Semantic Web+ (Form to add yourself)
• Science and Technology Studies (STS)
• Sociology
• Technology Law & Policy (Spreadsheet)

Groups

There are also groups over on Mastodon that you can use to connect to fellow academics.

• @academicchatter@a.gup.pe (general chat about academic life)
• @academicsunite@a.gup.pe (academic working conditions)
• @ancientneareast@a.gup.pe
• @anthropology@a.gup.pe
• @archaeodons@a.gup.pe
• @antiquidons@a.gup.pe
• @cognition@a.gup.pe (cognitive psychology)
• @cogsci@a.gup.pe
• @ecologies@a.gup.pe
• @edutooters@a.gup.pe
• @geodons@a.gup.pe
• @histodons@a.gup.pe
• @paleodons@a.gup.pe
• @philosophy@a.gup.pe
• @sociology@a.gup.pe
• @rstats@a.gup.pe (The R language for statistical computing)

Servers/communities

If you are in academia and do not know where to register your account in the fediverse, you may find some space on one of the following instances:

• Scholar.social (invite only)
• Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
• Social Sciences
• Fediscience
• Mathstodon
• Human Computer Interaction
• Visualisation (SciArt, SciComm, data visualization, creative coding)
• Open Educational Resources
• Archaeo.Social (Anthropologists/Archaeologists/Historians)

You can find a comprehensive list of these and many more academic Mastodon servers on fediscience.org. If you are new to Mastodon, hcommons.org has created a quick start guide for academics on Mastodon that also includes a short list of instances that are tailored to humanities specifically.

Contribute

Contributions welcome! Feel free to add academic lists or new groups and submit a PR! Just make sure your additions are on topic. Feel free to reach out to us: @hendrikerz@scholar.social and @perspektivbrocken@social.tchncs.de

Contact

This list is primarily maintained by Hendrik Erz (Linköpings Universitet). If you have any questions or issues relating to the list specifically, or would like to report a potential opt-in violation (or other more serious issues), please contact me:

• Email: hendrik.erz@liu.se
• Mastodon: @hendrikerz@scholar.social
• Office address and further contact info on my website, hendrik-erz.de