Scientists Are Flocking to Bluesky
Per Shiffman and Wester, an “Overwhelming” Overwhelming “of respondents said BlueSky has a” vibrant and healthy online scientific community, “while twitter does not do. And many BluesyKy users reported to get more blow for their below, so to speak, on Bluesky. They may have a lower follower, but those followers are much engaged: someone with 50,000 twitter / x followers, maybe five likes get on a particular post; But on Bluesy, may they only have 5,000 followers, but their messages will receive 100 likes.
According to Shiffman Twitter always used to be in the top three in terms of referral traffic for messages in southern Fried science. Then the “Musqueification,” and suddenly they did not even have the top 10. At a contrast, Bluesks, Bluesks, Bluesks is driven “a hundred in the southern fried science or twitter. Ironic, “the Blog post That is the most site views received from Twitter is the one about this paper, “said Shiffman said.
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Bubble, Schmubble
As words searched science sales to share scientific paper online, Shiffman pulled the alt metal statistics for the new paper of his and Wester. “It is already one of the 10 most shared papers in the history of that social media,” he said, with 14 shares on Twitter / X VS on Bluesyky (as of 4 August 20). “If it shows it, there is a more active academical scientific conversation on BluesKy-I mean, Damn,” he said.
And while there has been a stiff drumbat from on-eds of late in certain Legacy Media Outlets Caps Bluesky of the caught of caught in the own liberal bubble, Shiffman, Shiffman, for someone, has a few worried about that. “I don't like this because I do not use social media to argue about strangers about politics,” he wrote in its associated blog post. “I use social media to talk about fish. If I talk about the Bluesy, people ask me questions on Twitter, threatens people to kill my family because we are Jewish.” He compared the current instraction of Twitter or not better than 4chan or truth in terms of the percentage of “Cospiracy distressed extremists” in the audience. “Even if you want to stay, the algorithm works against you,” he wrote.
“There have been many opinion of opinion to why BluesKy is not useful because the people are relative to that,” Shiffman Ars. “I haven't even seen twitter is mini since it is relatively right because it is relatively right. Twitter is no representative of example.” And evening his focus on ocean protection and science-based, data-driven ambusion, he will probably find a more busy and persuasive public at Blues.
