You might like to explore the communities at mander.xyz, they're a science/nature-focused instance. https://mander.xyz/communities
interesting.... those haven't come up in my searches.... possibly n00b error...
they are basically EXACTLY what I meant. Thank you.
Currently we like general topics to make sure that there's enough conversations being made. If the science community gets pretty big, we'd indeed like to divide it into things that take a lot of space on the community.
I also think that instances that are specialized are pretty cool.
I've set up !geology@lemmy.ca, !geophysics@lemmy.ca -- lemmy.ca is my local instance - but also, Canada has a high rocks to people ratio and a lot of people in the geosciences. I don't intend them to be exclusive to Canada. I'm also just populating some content to get the ball rolling -- and would love it people joined/helped to hit critical mass.
Really like the idea of a Science instance, it'd be pretty handy for newcomers and just organization in general.
Most of the more general instances have a science community or something very similar. The only "split" Beehaw has thus far is having social sciences generally be placed inside Humanities.
We also have a community for space-related stuff (beehaw.org/c/space)!
You should definitely look to small instances for more niche topics
Studies, research findings, and interesting tidbits from the ever-expanding scientific world.
Subcommunities on Beehaw:
Be sure to also check out these other Fediverse science communities:
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