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!
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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.
Select, opt-in lists are also available though this handy web app.
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Official University Accounts
This list includes only official university-affiliated accounts.
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Austria
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France
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Germany
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Ireland
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Netherlands
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Spain
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Switzerland
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United Kingdom
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United States
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Groups
There are also groups over on Mastodon that you can use to connect to fellow academics. Start your own or view more groups here.
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Preprint/bibliography bots
These bots provide automated access to a few preprint servers.
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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. For a comprehensive guide to migrating servers click here.
If you would rather like to register on a university server but yours does not offer one, you could attempt to lobby for one by passing on this call to action.
- 18th Century Mastodon (For scholars of eighteenth-century global culture, history, literature, philosophy, and ideas)
- airpollution.science (Air pollution scientists)
- academiccloud.social (Login via AcademicID, which covers universities, higher education or research institutions in Lower Saxony (Germany), members of the Max Planck Society and other partners)
- akademienl.social (focused primarily on Dutch academia)
- aoir.social (For members of the Association of Internet Researchers)
- Archaeo.Social (Anthropologists/Archaeologists/Historians)
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Official Instance (Computing professionals)
- Astrodon.social (Astronomy, astrophysics, astrophotography, and adjacent sciences)
- Atmoschem (Atmospheric science & adjacent sciences)
- Ausglam.space (Australasian Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums and Records)
- baudigital.social (Architecture, civil engineering, or urban studies; run by FID BAUdigital)
- Biologists.social (The Company of Biologists community server: cell biology, developmental biology and experimental biology)
- Climatescienc.es (Climate science and related fields)
- Clinicians Exchange - (For mental health professionals and the general public to exchange ideas, resources and expertise including but not limited to ethics, politics, practice building, and clinical issues; See here for more info.)
- Datasci.Social (For Human-Centric Data Science and Adjacent Topics)
- Design Lounge (Middle and High-School Design Teacher Community)
- digipres (digital galleries, libraries, archives, museums, and special collections, digital preservation)
- ecoevo.social (biological ecology and evolution)
- EconTwitter.net (Economics)
- EUPolicy.social
- faculty.mastodon.stanford.edu
- Fedihum (Humanities, with a focus on Digital Humanities)
- Fediphilosophy (Mastodon instance for academic philosophers; server guide & rules)
- Fediscience (General science)
- The Folklore Cafe (Myths, legends, and folklore)
- Genomic.Social (Genomic Science Community)
- glammr.us (Galleries, libraries, archives, museums, and special collections, records, memory work)
- h-net.social (Humanities and Social Sciences scholars, hosted by H-Net)
- High Performance Computing
- higher-edu.social (Higher Education, run by the Gesellschaft für Medien in der Wissenschaft and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Hochschuldidaktik)
- Historians.Social
- Human Computer Interaction
- Humanities Commons
- InfoSec
- Julia Language
- Law Professors
- Legal General Interest
- Mastodon.Art (Creative Arts)
- Mastodon.energy (Energy & climate professionals)
- Mastodon.ngo (NGOs, nonprofits, and those in the human rights space)
- Mathstodon
- Mapstodon (GIS, mapping, geospatial and cartography professionals and enthusiasts)
- Med-Mastodon
- Medievalist-Masto
- MIT (Unoffical)
- mstdn.science (Primarily Microbiology, but all sciences welcome.)
- Open Educational Resources
- OpenBiblio (For German speaking librarians and information specialists)
- polsci.social (For political scientists)
- Qubit (Scientists and engineers interested in quantum computing, sensing, and communication)
- redNiboe (Academics in Latin America, invite only)
- Religion Mastodon (Academic study of religion)
- Scholar.social (invite only)
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
- Scicomm.xyz (Science communicators)
- ScienceMastodon.com (Science journalists and scientists)
- Sciences.Re (French-speaking Academics)
- Sigmoid.social (Artificial Intelligence)
- Social.edu.nl (Server for the Dutch Higher Education institutes)
- sciences.social (Social Sciences)
- science.social (Science and Astronomy Mastodon Instance; not to be confused with sciences.social)
- SolarSystem.social (For professionals working in the field of planetary science)
- Synapse Cafe (Neuroscience)
- Universeodon (Astronomy, astrophysics, physics)
- Visualisation (SciArt, SciComm, data visualization, creative coding)
- WxCloud.social (meteorology, climate, environment)
- writing.exchange (Creative Writing)
- Zirkus (literature, philosophy, film, music, culture, politics, history, architecture)
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General
Lemmy/Kbin
Lemmy and Kbin are link aggregators on the Fediverse, similar to Reddit. They are generally compatible with each other.
- sub.rehab - A listing of where Reddit servers have migrated to, mostly Lemmy/Kbin.
Servers
- Clinicians Exchange - A Lemmy server for mental health professionals and the general public to exchange ideas related to mental health. See here for more info.
- mander.xyz - A Lemmy server dedicated to the sciences.
Matrix
Matrix is a secure messaging application similar to Discord, Slack, Telegram, and WhatsApp.
- Element - Popular mobile, web, and desktop application for using the Matrix network.
- Matrix guide from the University of Dresden.
Servers
- Archaeology:
matrix.archaeo.social
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Additional Mastodon Resources
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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: @[email protected] and @[email protected]
This list is primarily maintained by Hendrik Erz (Linköpings Universitet). Below you can find ways to contact me in case you have individual questions regarding this collection of lists, or if you would report a potential opt-in violation (or similar issues).
This contact info is not meant to send me links to new lists. If you would like to add a list, please open a PR instead! In case that this somehow doesn’t work for you, you can also open an issue, state why the PR didn’t work, and provide the link to the list (and optionally the form). I receive dozens of work-related emails via the address below, so by keeping everything list-related here on GitHub I can keep that separated. Thank you very much for your understanding.
License
This list (but none of the linked content) is licensed via CC BY-NC 4.0 International. Please read the License file for further details and exceptions from this license.
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