Bluesky is teeming with researchers – here’s why [Video]

Social media platform Bluesky is relatively new, but it’s been growing exponentially as another platform experiences an X-odus. According to Altmetric, Bluesky may already favor a particular community: researchers. 

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On Tuesday, the data company, which specializes in tracking how published work gets shared, shared on Bluesky that mentions of research on the platform have now passed 500,000. Last week, Altmetric posted that it has been monitoring the platform since late October and found that attention for academic articles is higher on Bluesky than on similar sites.

“The academic community and the general public have clearly adopted Bluesky as one of its core places to disseminate and discuss new research,” the company said. 

As of December 3rd, Almetric had already found “395,000 Bluesky posts that link to a research paper or other research object that has a scholarly …