Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬✓

Mastodon @benjaminhccarr@hachyderm.io

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Followers

2.3K

Account age

3 yrs

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📊 Post engagement

Avg engagement / post

0.2%

Engagement vs followers

Nov 2022

On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: Scientists race to collect the last #seeds from a critically #en · 14 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

61.8 / week

A very active account — posts many times a day.

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

3.8×

Follows 604 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post Scientists race to collect the last #seeds from a critically #endangered #tree on Robinson Crusoe Island in #Chile before it goes #extinct Seeds from the last surviving wild Dendroseris neriifolia tree are now stored in Kew Gardens' Millennium #SeedBank, a botanic garden in West… ★ 14

Neil the #seal's damage bill and management costs revealed Neil the #elephantseal has attracted global attention because of his mischievous antics in public places. #Tasmania's environment department says managing his twice-yearly visits i… #NOAA ditches weather-predicting #supercomputers for #GoogleCloud #US Government agency will use Google Cloud H4D VMs to replace #HPE #Cray machines General Dynamics held the previous contract for managing NOAA’s weather predicting machine… ★ 6 #AMD #Zen6 Client #HSMP Patches Point To "#RyzenMaster" Functionality On #Linux Posted to #Linuxkernel mailing enabling AMD Zen 6 client desktop and laptop SoCs for HSMP driver. Up to now AMD HSMP was just used for modern #EPYC #CPU while… Higher #Airfares Are Looming on Busy Routes as #AI Squeezes Out Bargains #Airlines are adopting #artificialintelligence to change seat prices more quickly by weighing dozens of variables in real time, helping capture more revenue while shr… ★ 6 Deep-sea supergiant #isopods last years without food by using a two-part survival system By combining multi-omics analyses with functional assays, the Chinese researchers discovered that #deepsea isopods have a dual survival strategy to c… ‘They surprise me every time’: #bees can use tools to solve problems, study finds #Insects join list of species capable of solving simple ‘box-and-banana’ problem that demonstrates basic #intelligence The #bees were given an adapted versio… ★ 8 #Honeybees and #shrimp are now getting vaccinated #Vaccines that target #invertebrates’ innate #immunesystems could be a major boon for agriculture It has become increasingly clear that #innateimmunesystem has own way of creating immune me… ★ 1 This tiny, blue #octopus is new to science Nearly 1,800m beneath surface of #Pacific, an ROV was creeping along slope of a #Galápagos seamount when its camera caught a tiny, dark blue octopus perched in sediment — an animal no human had se… ★ 4 Even quiet #blackholes create winds, new Milky Way observations reveal New observations reveal a cone-shaped path leading away from #SagittariusA* that could only be carved by a hot wind. “We’ve never seen gentle breezes from black holes, … ★ 2 A secret to making a #queenbee may lie in the #wax around it Specialized workers build queen cells with distinct wax that appears to influence larvae The wax of the peanut-shaped chamber where queen #bee develops has distinct physical and … #Google #DeepMind dismantles Nobel-winning #AlphaFold team in strategy shift Landmark project that solved protein folding gives way to a wider race to build #AI systems for scientific discovery DeepMind confirmed staffers have moved intern… ★ 1

🐘 Community & instance

Home server

hachyderm.io

A tech & engineering server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.

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Verified link

Proved ownership of a website linked on their profile — Mastodon's green-check verification, a real identity signal rather than a paid badge.

On Mastodon since

Nov 2022

Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.

👁️Averages 5 views per post.

📤Posts about 61.8× per week.

🕵️ Fake follower check

Estimated

52/100

Fair Credibility score

76%

Mixed Real audience

Medium Fake-follower risk

High Data confidence

Est. 76% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
Low engagement (~0.2% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
Verified account.
Established account (3+ years old).

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

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About

#Ecology & #Ocean #Scientist now doing Scientific #HPC, #SRE, #DevOps, #PlatformEngineering, and #Supercomputing I also talk about #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #Linux #PhDLife Born below 340ppm