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a man with glasses and a mustache is wearing a white shirt and says yes . Alt: a man with glasses and a mustache is wearing a white shirt and says yes .

That sounds like…POSITIVE sentiment!

Still got it.

*late last year

a man in a suit and tie is talking to someone and saying hey . Alt: a man in a suit and tie is talking to someone and saying hey .

FYI We detect sentiment for posts on Bluesky and Twitter since posted last year

A man in a grey coat reads from a script. To the left Eric Topol’s profile and book front covers.

@erictopol.bsky.social good to see you on Good Work!

youtu.be/W0ltbBby9FU?...

"Like all ALPSP trainings, I always very much appreciate the breakout groups/discussions. It's always nice to hear from so many different departments and positions to gain greater insights and perspectives in what other organizations are doing. The other great thing were the DEMOS! I never knew I could do some of those things in both excel and Altmetrics. I could see myself really being more data driven in my work." - Ashlina Chin, National Academy of Sciences

🗣️ "The other great thing were the DEMOS! I never knew I could do some of those things in both excel and Altmetrics." - Ashlina Chin, National Academy of Sciences

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Vraiment genial!

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FYI - March 8th is National Proofreding Day

Ha, good catch - there’s plenty of flatfooted ways to describe “things with scholarly identifiers”. They do indeed cover datasets, images, or in this case, articles on nature News. We need a better term!

Oh yes, what I meant by that was that the Twitterati love to claim Bluesky and other places are infested with the woke mind virus. But as the article’s sharing demonstrates, there’s robust discussion over there too!

Congrats! The Germans call that "Glück im Unglück". "Lucky side-effect of being unlucky."

So yeah, the trend is still, there, but twitter appears to be on the up, volume-wise. That doesn't speak to the quality of the communication on there.

Bluesky share is about 67% off Twitter's. Still massive for its young years and size.

We'll keep watch as the year progresses.

9/9

Report for: Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric

Exhibit 3: Gladys Mae West, one of the Hidden Figures, and a giant of science, died in January. Her obituary, published in Nature, reached 22m users on Bluesky, and 4.4m on X.

NOT. EVEN. CLOSE.

Rip Gladys, what a queen.

www.altmetric.com/details/1878...

8/9

Report for: Flexible use of a multi-purpose tool by a cow In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric

Exhibit 2: Flexible use of a multi-purpose tool by a cow, which went heavily viral here but was relatively muted on Twitter.

www.altmetric.com/details/1875...

7/9

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

2026 research that exploded on Bluesky and dwarfed its Twitter audience: exhibit 1; The Political Effect of X's algorithm.

Shared by more accounts on Bluesky, but to a WIDER audience on X, due to follower counts of these users being higher there than here.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

6/9

Trend line for tweets versus Bluesky posts for this article: linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0140673626004149

Same day on Twitter: GET THIS. "RFK Jnr: 1 Year of Failure" trended way higher on Twitter than Bluesky. 2,000 tweets sharing this article. Who's the woke echo-chamber NOW, Twitter?

Sentiment is 20% strong negative (very high compared to the average), positive sentiment, 67%. Largely a win.

5/9

Report for: Pokémon turns 30 — how the fictional pocket monsters shaped science In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric

On Feb 27 nearly 3,800 tweets are dedicated to sharing this article on Pokemon at 30:

www.altmetric.com/details/1914...

4/9

What research goes viral on which platform is also interesting. For example, that highest point on Twitter's data is from Feb 27.

Here's what was going viral that day on Twitter:

3/9

increasing trend of Twitter sharing of research

Interestingly Twitter's trend this year is UPWARD, at least so far. Here are the volumes of posts that link to research published After Jan 1st 2026 over there.

2/9

Twitter mentions Friday 6 February: 17,947 posts Bluesky, same timeframe: 24,512 posts

Since we have 2 months of 2026 data now, we can see if the trend we saw last year holds up: does research from the current year get shared more on Bluesky or X-Twitter?

As you can see here, we still see days regularly where Bluesky's volume of research sharing is markedly higher than Twitter.

1/9

Twitter and 4chan being barely distinguishable is an ironically accurate design choice.

Meme origin by platform. Twitter dropping since 2020. TikTok escalating massively

It's not only academic twitter that is in decline.

Co-Signed

I should have gone with THAT

How we arrived on Bluesky

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Collaboration aimed at strengthening research security and integrity across UK universities

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New readership, citation, and Altmetric highlights from Feminist Media Studies 📊 Our work continues to travel widely across scholarship, policy spaces, digital publics, and news media! Here are a few recent snapshots:

My article about the implications of the war for Area Studies made it into the top ten list of highest Altmetric Attention Score across all T&F journals over the last week. The article has been made free to access until 31st March. [link in next post]