For a long time, Twitter was the best place to share and find the latest science. Until the algorithm changed, that is.
Overnight, my posts went from thousands to dozens of views, while the trolling I received skyrocketed. Instead of tens of hateful replies, I started getting thousands of them.
Where were scientists supposed to go? I tried Mastodon, LinkedIn, and other platforms: but nothing really clicked. Then along came Bluesky.
It takes a while to regrow a community: but a new survey of 830 scientists by @whysharksmatter@bird.makeup and Julia Wester now finds 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."
If you're interested, you can find me (and my 20+ climate starter packs) here: https://bsky.app/profile/katharinehayhoe.com
Read more about their study here: https://academic.oup.com/icb/article-abstract/65/3/538/8196180?login=false
Jonathan Schofield
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