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After the World Cup, I tried to find a juvenile Yellow-crowned Night Heron that's been seen in a local park in Champaign, but failed, only finding a Great Blue Heron and a Green Heron
#Birds #BirdPhotography
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A Coneflower Mining Bee on a Yellow Coneflower, Urbana, IL, USA
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A Gray Catbird and American Pokeweed on a cool and misty morning in Champaign, IL, USA
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I found the Yellow-crowned Night Heron today, after help from the people who wanted to talk about free bible courses and were sitting near the tree it was in.
#Birds #BirdPhotography
📊 Post engagement
8
Avg engagement / post
0.4%
Engagement vs followers
Apr 2025
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: Given that Google is currently adding to messages to the top of · 19 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
9.7 / week
Toots daily — consistently active for a campaign window.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 8 text · 4 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
8.9×
Follows 219 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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Yesterday/today might have been my worst work travel experience.
I drove from Champaign to O'Hare, which took 30 minutes longer than normal (2 hrs, 15 min) due to traffic problems caused by very heavy rain and water on the road, which caus…
A Coneflower Mining Bee on a Yellow Coneflower, Urbana, IL, USA
A Gray Catbird and American Pokeweed on a cool and misty morning in Champaign, IL, USA
This made me laugh - Politician reads AI prompt during assembly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlYa8NV5k-U
It's nice to see this article in #HPCWire about #RSE #RSEng at #PEARC26 - I'm looking forward to talking there on Tuesday next week
https://www.hpcwire.com/2026/07/24/a-home-of-their-own-pearc26-debuts-a-dedicated-research-software-enginee…
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@eosc_everse/116969077162192616
I hope to see some of you at this event
Looking at OpenReview.net, used by AAAI. What a good example of the failings of AI...
I can't update my name to how I prefer it, or to change the email address associated with a submission made by a collegue, as far as I can tell, nor can …
Following the update of the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI, https://openscholarlyinfrastructure.org) to v2.0, @joss has updated its commitment to the principles in https://blog.joss.theoj.org/2026/07/JOSS-POSI
It's nice to get a very detailed, clearly human-written review of a paper, even if it means there's potentially a lot to change for the camera-ready version.
I need to keep remembering in my own reviews that I'm writing as much for the aut…
I found the Yellow-crowned Night Heron today, after help from the people who wanted to talk about free bible courses and were sitting near the tree it was in.
#Birds #BirdPhotography
After the World Cup, I tried to find a juvenile Yellow-crowned Night Heron that's been seen in a local park in Champaign, but failed, only finding a Great Blue Heron and a Green Heron
#Birds #BirdPhotography
A Coneflower Mining Bee on a Yellow Coneflower, Urbana, IL, USA
A Gray Catbird and American Pokeweed on a cool and misty morning in Champaign, IL, USA
This made me laugh - Politician reads AI prompt during assembly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlYa8NV5k-U
It's nice to see this article in #HPCWire about #RSE #RSEng at #PEARC26 - I'm looking forward to talking there on Tuesday next week
https://www.hpcwire.com/2026/07/24/a-home-of-their-own-pearc26-debuts-a-dedicated-research-software-enginee…
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@eosc_everse/116969077162192616
I hope to see some of you at this event
Looking at OpenReview.net, used by AAAI. What a good example of the failings of AI...
I can't update my name to how I prefer it, or to change the email address associated with a submission made by a collegue, as far as I can tell, nor can …
Following the update of the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI, https://openscholarlyinfrastructure.org) to v2.0, @joss has updated its commitment to the principles in https://blog.joss.theoj.org/2026/07/JOSS-POSI
It's nice to get a very detailed, clearly human-written review of a paper, even if it means there's potentially a lot to change for the camera-ready version.
I need to keep remembering in my own reviews that I'm writing as much for the aut…
I found the Yellow-crowned Night Heron today, after help from the people who wanted to talk about free bible courses and were sitting near the tree it was in.
#Birds #BirdPhotography
After the World Cup, I tried to find a juvenile Yellow-crowned Night Heron that's been seen in a local park in Champaign, but failed, only finding a Great Blue Heron and a Green Heron
#Birds #BirdPhotography
🐘 Community & instance
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fediscience.org
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On Mastodon since
Apr 2025
An established account with real history on the platform.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2025 — 1 year ago.
👁️Averages 8 views per post.
📤Posts about 9.7× per week.
🛡️ Audience credibility
70/100
Good
Credibility score
87%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 87% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.4% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Verified account.
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About
Chief Scientist @ NCSA, Research Professor @ CS & iSchool, @ U Illinois Urbana Champaign
He/him
Works on: computational & data science & engineering #cyberinfrastructure: #software #foss #opensource #systems #tools #policy #practices #scholcomm #FAIR #RSEng #HPC
Orgs: #ReSA, #JOSS_TheOJ, #US_RSE
Also: #fedi22 #photography #birds
(formerly https://fosstodon.org/@danielskatz)
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