That last one I heard from a psych. They also said: if you’re in bed and you can’t sleep, get up. Go back to bed only when you feel tired again. That way you train your brain that bed=sleep.

Pretty good! Doing things that feel meaningful and interesting. Able to follow global politics and read in ways that couldn’t 3 years ago due to work stress. Life situation is excellent. I feel very lucky, and trying to use that to make myself useful.

Right, but why would a scientist set up a mastodon server within their work place? If I were to do it (and I did set up a diaspora instance back in the day), it would be off my own bat, not on work machines.

If I wanted my workplace to do it, that would be a different story, and I’d argue for it to be done by the IT team…

My question was about the “scientists are not allowed to” part. I’ve never heard to such restrictions, and been in the field for more than a decade.

What… Are you taking about? I know hundreds of scientists and the vast majority of them interact with social media just as much as normal people.

Sometimes the normal just-staying-up-to-date news is basically indistinguishable though