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."

One of our top-rated posts on @altmetric.com this past week was published in @natecoevo.nature.com. You can read 'Cellular-level preservation of cutaneous spikes in an Early Cretaceous iguanodontian dinosaur' here: spklr.io/63322DbAus

Those are some solid pieces of flair!

Random Fact of the Day In January of 2025 Altmetric had recorded 212 million posts on all of Twitter/X that cite research. As of today that number has dropped to 203 million total. A lot of posts being deleted and/or migrated to Bluesky it seems.

10 years ago today, our discovery paper was published in Physical Review Letters doi.org/10.1103/Phys... It has gone on to be highly cited. But it has also had an impact outside of academia—its @altmetric.com is in the top 1000 aps.altmetric.com/details/5333... #GW10Years #OTD #OpenAccess 🔭⚛️🧪

But wait, there's more go.bsky.app/4wMsfX4

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Follow these awesome women ocean scientists, many of whom I'm proud to call colleagues and delighted to call friends. 🧪🦑🌍🐟 go.bsky.app/7MdiLgo

✨ NEW blog post: Being open isn't enough - true "research information citizenship" requires building & maintaining a robust, genuinely #OpenResearch infrastructure, writes our VP of Research Futures, Simon Porter. 💡 Here's what it will take to achieve: https://ow.ly/6U3Y50YcJ3J

Where is your data? Today marks the start of LoveDataWeek26 with this motto. Time for us to remember that data is best archived in repositories, FAIR. For data from publicly funded research, this is mandatory. And the DFG monitors this. More: https://t1p.de/5i2m7 PS: graphic's a tribute to xkcd.

He was probably friends with this guy

Finally our shower-thoughts posts can marinate for a day before we go ahead and post them anyway, high-five emoji

Touching tribute to Paul Ayris. The UK open research community owes him a great debt. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

The hopeless victims stand in the Vortex, and are suddenly shown, for the merest instant, the whole of the Universe: the whole infinity of creation, spanning over several trillion light years, and countless millennia, with an insignificant dot saying "You Are Here".

After four months, the journal has not found a single reviewer for my PhD student's manuscript. The academic peer review system is broken. I think we all should: 1. Review three papers for every one that we submit. 2. Promptly declined to review a paper when the request arrives. #AcademicChatter

‼️Research impact in action ‼️ Our climate policy paper is now in the top 5% on @altmetric.com and covered by 28 news outlets - including @eurekalert.bsky.social, @scienmag.bsky.social, @idw-online.de, plus many national and regional outlets across Europe.

"Twitter is a subscription service"

Well spotted, as I'd not formally launched it. It is out there now though - here's all the links if you'd like to share again. Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/0vdP... Apple Podcasts podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/u... YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=35dc...

RIP in peace Researchfish

many thanks to @andytattersall.bsky.social for indulging me and encouraging me to discuss all the things that should go in the bin. Nice long chat which is the antithesis of Tiktok.

@andytattersall.bsky.social interviews @deevybee.bsky.social on Elon Musk and the @royalsociety.org and more. youtu.be/35dcokugAjc?...

In 2025, as Bluesky grew from 25M to 42M users, we took actions to keep it welcoming, using proactive design to reduce toxic content by 79%.  Our 2025 Transparency Report shares how we're building a safer platform while keeping a transparent and human-centered approach: bsky.social/about/blog/0...

This is who runs this account

One of our top-rated posts on @altmetric.com this past week was published open access in @natsustain.nature.com. You can read 'Global gridded dataset of heating and cooling degree days under climate change scenarios' here: spklr.io/63325D8xEl

Webinar: "Unreliable Science: Unravelling the Impact of Mainstream Media Misrepresentation" Last year the University of Turku hosted 2 fascinating webinars with us diving into how unreliable science is shared across social media. Turku join us again on Feb 25th 3pm GMT (10am EST) 1/2

Coauthor on a paper and the journal allows you to enter your social media handles, but ... no Bluesky? Especially given that Bluesky now links to more scientific papers than Twitter, according to @altmetric.com

We just tipped over 24,000 active organisational members and also reached 165 countries with the addition of the *University of Nouakchott*, bringing representation and governance from *Mauritania* for the first time! A big welcome to them 🇲🇷 🤩

And @wikipedia.org is here on Bsky! Give them a follow, and throw them a little cash to help their mission of being a resource of facts in a world where information is both becoming more critical and being more poisoned.

💯 Aging publications with an @altmetric.com Attention Score higher than 100: www.aging-us.com/news_room/al... #openaccess #researchpapers #aging #longevity #healthspan #lifespan #lifestyle #peerreviewed #journalpublication

By end of Feb @bsky.app will be the 2nd largest social media source for research sharing in our database - Google+ managed 945,000 mentions of research during its life - Facebook pages (not people's profiles) have shared papers 6.6m times - Reddit = 600k Bluesky is currently at 6m and climbing

Thank you to everyone who joined our FEDLINK webinar introducing Dimensions, Altmetric, and ReadCube! If you missed it, the recording is now available. Perfect for a quick watch with your coffee this weekend ☕ ⏯️ Watch the recording: https://ow.ly/qxy150Y1VNv 🤫 (Password: +?5N3!1V)

Kudos to James and @fbartos.bsky.social for trying to make sense of oddities in this meta- meta-analysis and its open science webpage. I've found no other substantial analysis of this paper via @altmetric.com — just people copy-pasting its title and/or abstract to their feed (or reshares thereof).🫤

The 10th anniversary edition of the State of Open Data report shows open data has become strongly embedded into research practice with FAIR awareness now widely recognised & AI is reshaping workflows: spklr.io/6332984LsH #OpenData #OpenScience @digital-science.com @figshare.com

Watch now at @cbsnews.com: From the #WorldEconomicForum in #Davos, our CEO @dwh.bsky.social and President Stephen Leicht speak about #AI and the future of research & innovation - and how Digital Science is leading the way. 🔗 See their full interview: ow.ly/c1Ar50Y1Vwe #Davos2026 #WEF #WEF26

One of our top-rated posts on @altmetric.com this past week was published open access in Water Resources Management. You can read 'Water Bankruptcy: The Formal Definition' here: spklr.io/633248LpGn

Love a podcast that comes with a Works Cited!

@jbilbo.bsky.social new recruitment exam for the team?

Good news is especially good when it becomes persistent. From Feb last year: bsky.app/profile/altm...

That’s not the thing that’s broken techcrunch.com/2026/01/21/x...

New podcast klaxon! I'm launching a podcast called Under Review that explores academia's wicked problems. My esteemed guests are going to get the chance to turn academia off and back on again as well as decide what goes into the Under Review waste paper bin. www.youtube.com/watch?v=anuj...

Webinar: "Unreliable Science: Unravelling the Impact of Mainstream Media Misrepresentation" Last year the University of Turku hosted 2 fascinating webinars with us diving into how unreliable science is shared across social media. Turku join us again on Feb 25th 3pm GMT (10am EST) 1/2

A new book about science misconduct: 'The Misinformation Machine: How Fraud, AI, and Greed are Corrupting Science' by James L. Powell www.amazon.com/Misinformati...

📣 THIS WEEK: Using Crossref, Dimensions & Altmetric to demonstrate real impact You'll learn: 🔹How Crossref Grant registration strengthens transparency & reproducibility 🔹How Altmetric attention data reveals influence beyond citations 🔹& more 🔗 Register:https://ow.ly/mqwc50Y0kSh

Pivoting to crypto

“She always worked hard. But we didn’t know anything about this until 2018 when it came out. Everything she did was secretive.“ Didn’t mom say anything when you used GPS?” Zebra asked. “She was concentrating on her map in the backseat!” Oglesby laughed.” Untouchable. thezebra.org/2025/03/13/m...

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

We're excited to be speaking & exhibiting at the inaugural Charleston Conference Asia! 🌏 #CharlestonAsia 🗓️ 26-28 January 2026 📍 Bangkok, Thailand Mark Hahnel will present on "A Decade of Open Data". #StateOfOpenData 🔗 More details: https://ow.ly/p5hb50XZVBp Charleston Hub #CharlestonAsia#StateOfOpenData#CharlestonConference

How you like our glow up?

3 years ago @ahandvanish.bsky.social, @lisamccorkell.bsky.social, @julialmv.bsky.social and I published a review on #LongCovid. Since then it has been downloaded nearly 2 million times and is #4 of >500,000 papers published since by @altmetric.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public