Hey. It's me, talking about Bluesky, Reddit and X (now that Musk has stepped away from politics, a bit). But mostly it's the ever awesome @andytattersall.bsky.social

🌟 NEW blog post: How can #AI help uncover citation data that might otherwise be missed? Our team has used AI to extract citation data from images of conference posters shared on social media. Their work is now published in JMIR AI. JMIR Publications 🔗 Read more: https://ow.ly/JURi50YpCVc

1/5 My PhD thesis has finally been posted. I spent time looking at #altmetrics and citation rates of #openaccess vs non-oa research. There are several findings: firstly, the 'advantage' is very (very) different per discipline and metric Download here tinyurl.com/4vxvaax9 doi.org/10.23912/ope...

One of my goals for 2026 is to draft/write a novel based on forensic scientometrics, following a couple of meetings i had with people who were - i kid you not - working with 2 "security agencies" as forensic scientometricians ... anyway, some colleagues just published this - arxiv.org/abs/2602.14793

Podcast mentions have a unique attention profile! @altmetric.com launched podcast tracking last year, so I thought I'd confirm that podcasts are like news, and mostly happening in the year of publication. They're not - 50% from 2022 pubs in that year, 10% last year, so slower and longer-lasting

Just witnessed an extraordinary murmuration of starlings - not my video - 100,00s birds - and really, we don't know why these humble birds do such extraordinary things - journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

A little while ago, we added sentiment analysis to #altmetric @altmetric.bsky.social and we (well, Carlos led and the rest of us helped...) wrote a paper on how we did it and what we did www.frontiersin.org/journals/res...

Pretty excited to be talking about podcasts and the humanities tomorrow. It's a free event, do come along and listen to me (and, ahem, everyone else...) www.eventbrite.com/e/5th-annual...

Over at @altmetric.com we can hear you! We just added podcasts to the data sources we track for links to academic research, and yes! This does mean a new donut colour, and yes, there are research outputs that only have podcast attention! #altmetrics

A conversation about biases in data led me to discover the shocking lack of data into female human sensory data, and this intriguing model that shows a hypothetical female sensory homunculus doi.org/10.1162/leon...

Thesis now at 56,000 words, I don't want to go beyond 60. I have a list of stuff that needs to be written. I can do this (I just can't do everything else as well 😂)

My own little "mike drop" moment. As of May 2025, new research is more likely to get attention on Bluesky than X. Me speaking at ISMPP last week #omnichannel #altmetrics #science @ismpp.bsky.social

"As of May, this month, I stand here before you and I tell you: new publications get more attention on Bluesky than X." —Mike Taylor's drop the mic moment. @herrison2000.bsky.social speaking at ISMPP 2025 in Washington, D.C. @ismpp.bsky.social @altmetric.com @bsky.app 🦋 #AcademicSky

Quick analysis of links to journal articles on Bluesky versus X, we find that (from May 2025 pubs) Bs is now clearly dominant, 77k to 65k. Threads as yet unknown #altmetrics #science

"The paucity of rare disease-related publications highlights an urgent need for increasing knowledge on rare diseases through medical literature to better serve patients, their families, and the healthcare professionals who treat them" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Two-headed Headline Writing Machine @careia.bsky.social and @herrison2000.bsky.social, our resident data wranglers, recently showed up on the Medical Affairs podcast to drop some science on Bluesky versus X formerly Twitter. In 20 minutes they drop several chunky revelations.

Academics largely trust and would recommend Wikipedia pages that include citations to their academic work. New paper published with Kath Burton, Charles Watkinson, Carlos Areia and self in PlosOne today - journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... #altmetrics

Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work #AcademicSky #EduSky

Wow, quoted by @timeshighered.bsky.social this morning on the migration from X to Bluesky - www.timeshighereducation.com/news/xs-domi... - you need to register to read, but free

'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'

What do the Kardashians do in the lab? Carlos and myself talk up our latest work, "in the lab with the Kardashians", it's about how celebrity boosts impact, from "Postmortum of the Earl of Balcarres" (17th century), through Buffy Studies to more ... kurrent research open.spotify.com/episode/6hwI...

"in March 2025, on most days, Bluesky hosts more posts linked to new research than X" www.altmetric.com/blog/bluesky...

About to talk to medical affairs colleagues, with the news that Bluesky is carrying more posts about new journal publications than X #bluesky #altmetrics #x #xparrot

Epic idea

You'd almost think they haven't read their own press release www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

A very powerful speech on the importance of supporting allies and upholding international agreements that you've signed youtu.be/rFqvErYqFRs?...

Trump's ludicrous suggestion for Gaza isn't quite genocide, but it's on its way. Can't think anything more likely to make the area peaceful than a second nakba

Non-English language Wikipedias make unique contributions to the representation of research in their languages (they're NOT just mini-me English Wikis) - arxiv.org/abs/2501.09666 - check out our arxiv preprint

Once again, I find myself talking about the Earl of Balcarres, and his post-mortum, as published in 1665: an example of celebrities attracting attention in science doi.org/10.1098/rstl...

While it's not #WorldTBDay I'd like to flag the amazing work done by APOPO.org fighting #Tuberculosis with Giant African Pouched Rats bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

What a Completely Delightful Green 😉👩‍⚕️

Just been listening to some old Rest is History podcasts. Hysterically, discussing a Twitter debate on leading politicians, remind each other that it's notoriously left wing. Something I shall use next time I lecture on the dynamic nature of altmetrics and social media @altmetric.com

From the archives: "How tracking language diversity in Wikipedia gives deeper insights into attention" by @herrison2000.bsky.social. We track 41 Wikipedia instances, and 45% of the citations are in non-English languages. #AcademicSky #altmetrics www.altmetric.com/blog/trackin...

Two weeks ago Carrie Brubaker, Carlos Areia and me recorded a pod for MAPS about 'interesting' research in the pharma space. I picked 2 articles about TB, which kills millions. A new drug nature.com/articles/s41... and APOPA's work bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....