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"Like ‘old Twitter’: The scientific community finds a new home on Bluesky"

In July 2023, Adam Kucharski asked his Twitter followers: What platform do you think you will be spending the most time on a year from now? Like many scientists on Twitter, Kucharski, a mathematical modeler of infectious diseases, was increasingly frustrated with changes to the platform since Elon Musk bought it in October 2022. But of the more than 1300 people who responded to his poll, the vast majority expected to keep posting on Twitter, which was renamed X just 2 weeks later. About one-quarter were banking on Threads, Meta's Twitter rival. Only about 7% chose Bluesky.

Now, that has changed, in a big way. Although academics mostly stuck with X in the year after the poll, Bluesky has rapidly emerged as the new online gathering place for researchers, Kucharski among them. They are drawn by its Twitter-like feel, welcoming features, and, increasingly, the critical mass of scientists in many fields who have already made the move. "The majority has spoken, and researchers are moving en masse" to Bluesky, says De-Shaine Murray, a neuroscientist at Yale University who has also migrated to Bluesky.

"It's just gone completely crazy," says Mike Young, a science communicator in Denmark who gives social media workshops to scientists. He and his colleague Lasse Hjorth Madsen did an analysis in August mapping science communities on Bluesky. They found more than 20,000 influential scientists—people on the platform who were followed by at least 30 other scientists in the same network. When they repeated the analysis last week with an increased threshold of 40 scientist followers, the new number of influential scientists was almost 40,000. It is likely to be many times that now, Young says.

Red One (2024) - 4 out of 5 Hot Wheels Cars

You get exactly what's on the tin with this one. It's a silly action movie around rescuing J. K. Simmons as Santa Claus. Katie and I went to see it to get out of our cold dark house and it was a very enjoyable time.

We survived

We were without power for about 36 hours thanks to the bomb cyclone. It went out around 11:30pm on Monday and we weren't sure when it was coming back. The outage map had all outages marked as Saturday at noon, but I was fairly sure we were on the same grid as the middle school across the street from us. It's why we went to the movies last night, to get out of the house and go somewhere warm.

This morning, Katie excitedly messaged me this morning when the power came back on.

I shared the following few posts during our ordeal.

Automated Archives for November, 21st 2024

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Articles To Read

The following are articles that I saved today. Substance and quality will vary drastically.

• Just a moment...
• The Mystery Millionaire of Gage Park
• Results (Don't) Speak For Themselves: A Case For Documentation
• I Cooked All 25 of America’s Most Important Recipes. My Family’s Laughter Will Haunt Me Forever.

Chess For the Day

Record: 1-0-2
Net Elo Change: -6

Games Played

• AchmadKhoiri - WIN
• EvanSaverio - LOSS
• mfrg1962 - LOSS

Blog Posts On This Day

• November 21, 2023 (1 post)
• November 21, 2022 (5 posts)
• November 21, 2021 (2 posts)