Interesting piece on the fragmenting of digital identities in the sciences. I'm sure mine is scattered all over the place.
The key seems to be to keep your ORCID up to date. - and as a model, there are many similarities between ORCID and the fediverse,
"keep your ORCID profile up to date... it is controlled by the researcher, portable across institutions and designed to connect to publishers, funders and organizational systems... makes your ORCID page a stable reference point.."
#AcademicChatter
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04132-y?WT.ec_id=NATURE-202604
Ruth Mottram
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