Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

Incident report: Earlier this week, our automated moderation system incorrectly labeled ~32,000 accounts as requiring moderator review. Here’s what happened, what we fixed, and the current status. 1/5

An error caused a large number of accounts to be incorrectly "marked for review" by our automated system. This tool is normally used to rapidly respond to mass harassment and spam campaigns. We have removed the incorrect labels and will publish an incident report in the coming days.

I can appreciate as a Canadian that school shootings are so rare that the prime minister suspends his entire schedule over this tragedy.

v1.116 is rolling out now! For all the overthinkers and perfectionists out there, we're launching Drafts.

This is how the pro-Trump fake news from Macedonia started back in 2016. Taking advantage of gullible Americans for clicks and cash.

I had a great chat last week with @cward1e.bsky.social, looking back at the growth of open source investigation from when it was just a small bunch of people trying to figure stuff out, how the counter-disinformation community formed out of that, and why it's causing us all so many headaches now.

I really hope people advocating to ban kids from SM read this. Some kids are isolated by disabilities or circumstances. Furthermore, some kids grow up in abusive households. “Ideally, a child’s exposure to online worlds should be moderated by their parents” isn’t a reassuring sentiment for everyone

How do you protect 39M users from AI-driven abuse? We’ve just published a deep dive into how @bsky.app uses Osprey to handle the scale of the AT Protocol firehose. roost.tools/blog/how-blu...

We said we wanted to take action on toxicity. In 2025 - two experiments, the first on lists and the second on replies significantly cut down on user perceptions of toxicity in the app. Lots to improve in accuracy but it was an incredibly promising start.

These are amazing.

production-grade tools for online safety CAN be built in the public, and CAN be collaboratively developed by engineers across different organizations. We're proud to announce Osprey and so grateful to all the contributors who made this possible! Release notes here: github.com/roostorg/osp...

2026 is the year Bluesky and the Atmosphere really come alive here's what's next bsky.social/about/blog/0...

TikTok alternative Skylight soars to 380K+ users after TikTok U.S. deal finalized

🧵 @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is spot on about the conditions in his FT piece. Liberal democracy held it together thanks to growth, good demographics, and the promise of a better future. Those days are gone, and that’s the "why" behind the erosion. However...

Yeah I'm going to watch the heck out of that. All for the 80s nostalgia on that one.

Reason number #5017 that Hailey was a fantastic engineer (shipping trending topics from scratch in 2-3 weeks) and I'll miss her.

“Today, I’ll talk about the rupture in the world order, the end of a nice story, and the beginning of a brutal reality where geopolitics among the great powers is not subject to any constraints.” www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/spee...

Pick up the nearest book. Open to page 42 and post your second sentence. Add #page42 and include this rule as a reply. "Belief in the supernatural persists in all cultures and across difference traditions; perhaps more surprisingly, so does belief in the demonic origin of disturbance."

stream.place links are now supported in the Live Now beta! OTA update rolling out today. love what @iame.li's building. when you stream there, your LIVE status on Bluesky is auto-updated. very cool demonstration of how Atmosphere apps can interconnect and benefit each other.

Why people believe misinformation even when they’re told the facts theconversation.com/why-people-b... by @kellyfincham.bsky.social cc @alicetiara.bsky.social "When fabricated claims align with a person’s existing values, beliefs and ideologies, they can quickly harden into a kind of 'knowledge'."

Missed our event on Navigating Youth Safety in AI Applications? You can now watch the full convo on YouTube! Alison Lee, @vaishnavi.bsky.social, & Ariel C. discussed how tech companies can better protect young users - covering red-teaming, AI chat risks, & safety by design. 🔗 lnkd.in/ehF3ZsFg

Hey #SpeirGorm folks, know anyone in the Irish govt who could use friendly outreach to get on Bluesky? This is talking about setting up handles, verification, tech support etc… so just if any of those might be blockers on orgs or people moving over.

UK regulator Ofcom launched investigation into X over sexual images generated on Grok. www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safet...

Now two countries have blocked Grok over the ability to create non-consensual intimate images: Malaysia and Indonesia

After years of hunting down and demonising T&S folks, researchers, defunding orgs, suing advertising orgs etc…. We finally see overtly that the free speech absolutism agenda was about cover for pedophilia and abuse of women.

Indonesia blocks Musk’s Grok chatbot due to risk of pornographic content

If you’re planning a fellowship or travel support, we’re happy to provide matching complimentary tickets for #ATmosphereConf Thank you Blacksky & Umoya Fellowship for joining us.

HAPPENING NOW: the much-anticipated US jobs report for last month just dropped! To catch what top finance commentators on Bluesky are saying about this market-moving data, follow & pin this feed: bsky.app/profile/did:...

I have discovered more Irish folks this week on Bluesky due to your combined mockery and contempt of Patrick O’Donovan and I’m really enjoying it.

Current events are making it challenging to track MPs and reputable organisations that are permanently migrating to Bluesky. If folks see examples that we need to assess for verification - do let me know. Will limit it largely to politicians, govt orgs and large orgs at the moment for this pass.

One challenge with talking about Trust & Safety as a single function is that it’s actually made up of many different capabilities. One of the most timely right now is product trust—building safety directly into the product itself. 1/6

some bluesky services, including fulltext search, have delayed indexing right now, by 2-3 hours. working to resolve the infra issue, after which all content should be correctly indexed

I recently learnt the Irish national anthem, and the most powerful part for me was: “Sworn to be free, no more our ancient sireland Shall shelter the despot or the slave;” Definitely feel like Irish values are not being followed as the govt finds many ways to waffle in response.

One of the big failures of institutionalised journalism is in trying to maintain a neutral perspective through false equivalence so they sanitize positions that are indefensible in the need to show both sides. Finally seeing a shift with the FT article on X but we have a long way to go.

If you want to change Bluesky’s default moderation settings, go to your moderation settings on the web - bsky.app/moderation. Apple limits adult-content controls inside iOS apps, so you won’t see those options on the iPhone app itself. 1/2

You’d be surprised at how many folks yell at me for taking down stuff that would get their door kicked in.

who here wants drafts? ✋

Perhaps a timely reminder considering current events.

your mileage may vary but my experience on here improved pretty noticeably when I stopped offering explanations to people whose questions sought conflict rather than answers

One example of how Grok is being used to target women. Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Ebba Busch being sexualised, degraded, and humiliated step-by-step by Grok. All the images accurately reflect the prompts provided.

Today is the 5 year anniversary to when I slowly started losing my mind during the pandemic and began dressing up as works of art. As my Twitter account has long been abandoned, why not make a thread of my madness on BlueSky? This was “The Maid” by Wilhelm August Lebrecht Amberg, from 1862

Happy New Year, friends! I have some ~personal news~, which is that the Bluesky team is generously giving me some contract work (which could possibly turn into a job) welcoming more indie media and local govt to Bsky and supporting those already here. Excited to take my amateur Bsky boosterism pro!

new landing screen coming soon 🦋🔥

Finally got myself a little manual hand grinder after years of pondering whether I actually needed one. Enjoying grinding different decaf coffee beans on the same settings to see which are the best in a direct face off.

A 3-step guide for iPhone users annoyed to discover they have to fix the clock transparency on each new lock screen individually: STEP 1: While phone is in lock mode, long-press your wallpaper to bring up the customize button at center bottom. Click it.

Really enjoying the Instagram experience where they stop your scrolling to force you to consume ads. The perfect example of enshittification.

When regulators design social media frameworks as if every platform is Meta-sized, they risk creating an internet where only monopolies can survive. Bluesky CEO @jay.bsky.team & @rabble.nz discuss how Meta-scale regulation creates barriers that smaller social teams can’t operate under. Out now.