Twitter has been useful for keeping an eye on relevant research and ocasionally for a bit of peer support through the PhD journey, as well as for sharing some work-related links, announcements, observations, a bit of fun, etc.
I think lots of people have jumped to mastodon and threads, but I haven't yet bothered to go there properly, mostly because I've been furiously writing up my thesis for the last few months. However, it seems like academia is slow to move (if conference and journal reviewing web portals are anything to go by), so I expect a lot of the organisations and people I follow to keep tweeting for the foreseeable future.
Do you have any advice about how to manage this transition - has academic social media already become too splintered to be of use? Is it worth sticking it out with X, or should I set up accounts on some of the other platforms? It seems to be a tradeoff between investing time in updating and checking different profiles versus a quiet life but missing out on some useful leads. Just to be clear, I'm not trying to make a name for myself online, just to be in the loop for interesting developments and those accidental dicoveries of interesting people or work.
