Like “old Twitter” The scientific community finds a new home on BlueskyAfter recent changes to Elon Musk’s X, a gradual migration turns into a stampede
“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.
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