Lea: research-oriented social media
Introducing a beta-version of our new research-focused social media platform
Lea: research-oriented social media
Introducing a beta-version of our new research-focused social media platform
Mastodon pilot for research and education
SURF and Universities of the Netherlands are jointly exploring Mastodon as an open source platform for education and research in the Netherlands.
In an era where research evaluation methods are evolving, the Research Contribution Claim Network makes trustworthy tracking of non-traditional research output easy!
In this whitepaper, Patrick Hochstenbach (Ghent University Library), Thomas van Himbergen (SURF), Laurents Sesink (SURF) and Herbert Van de Sompel (DANS) introduce the...
AI slop has hit the science creators
Do Science Kardashians Get Citation Premium? Self‐Fulfilling Effects of Social Media on Scientific Impact
We analyze whether the visibility of scientists on social media affects the number of academic citations. We use the global COVID-19 pandemic as a quasinatural experiment that exogenously increased p...
Leshem (Legend) Choshen 🤖🤗 on Twitter / X
We know models fail to generalize across languages.But Adam found they fail to generalize when you just call half your English pretraining by another name, like "En2"😵💫 https://t.co/DfWJRP51Fz— Leshem (Legend) Choshen 🤖🤗 (@LChoshen) April 30, 2026
Scientific Web Claims: A survey of definitions, tasks, datasets and methods
Scientific web claims are seen as scientific claims as observed on the Web, across social media, online news, and other platforms. The growing prevalence of scientific discussions on the Web has intensified the need to process and assess this specific type of claims. Unlike claims from scientific publications, scientific web claims are expressed in lay terms, are often decontextualized, and typically lack proper citations, which poses unique challenges for their identification, verification, and communication. Nevertheless, the correct processing of scientific web claims is crucial to keeping online science discussions accurate and informed, for instance through fact-checking. This survey provides the first systematic overview dedicated specifically to scientific web claims. We review and compare existing definitions, task formulations, datasets, and methodological approaches across three major perspectives: (1) Scientific fact-checking on the Web, (2) Scientific citations on the Web, and (3) Science communication on the Web. Our interdisciplinary analysis integrates insights from natural language processing, information retrieval, artificial intelligence, social sciences, and science communication. We identify major methodological challenges, including the lack of unified definitions, domain-agnostic corpora, and foundational models tailored to science-related online discourse. We also discuss challenges related to the existing interplay between emotions and distortions of science online. By mapping current research efforts and highlighting open problems, this survey lays the groundwork for developing robust datasets, methods, and evaluation frameworks to advance the automated processing of scientific web claims, a necessary capability for strengthening the reliability of science-related online discourse at scale.
Home - Octosphere
Octosphere bridges the gap between academic publishing and the social web. It automatically syncs your research publications from Octopus to the AT Protocol (the atmosphere) — an open, decentralized network for social apps like Bluesky.
Octosphere, an experiment in decentralised science with ATProto – Andreas Varotsis
Bridging Octopus and the Atmosphere with lots of vibes
The Astrosky Ecosystem: An independent online platform for science communication and social networking
While almost everything that astronomers study occurs in the vacuum of space, astronomy itself does not `happen in a vacuum'. Interactions between scientists, as well as outreach to members of the public, improve extensively from access to good communication tools. Social media has become a key tool for communication in astronomy, being widely used by individuals and organizations alike for networking, outreach, and more. However, traditional social media is reliant on benevolent corporations providing a free service without compromising on quality, and the recent takeover and decline of Twitter has shown how vulnerable these platforms can be. In this proceeding, we present The Astrosky Ecosystem, which is an initiative to develop open-source tools and integrations for social media, principally the Bluesky social network. We explain how our project enables the astronomy community to operate its own social media infrastructure, independent of for-profit corporations. We also discuss some of the project's technical aspects, including its use of the AT Protocol for social networking, before concluding with ideas for the future.
How Elon Musk’s X Shapes the AI Boom
Like it or not, the artificial-intelligence race is playing out on X. That fact has some big implications.
This feed built with love by your local #FAccT2026 publicity chair and #1 fan of @graze.social. If you're interested in fairness and ethics of tech, then like, subscribe, and enjoy all the paper threads and discussion!
ACM FAccT
It's almost time for this year's conference! 🎉 To follow along with all things #FAccT2026, you can "pin" this feed to your homepage. It matches all uses of the hashtag, tags of @facct.bsky.social, and use of the text string "FAccT" (not case sensitive). Enjoy! bsky.app/profile/did:plc:y32vdst3y7r4f…
We appreciate the love ❤️ But limited engagement and few followers on Bsky makes some (not us!) question whether it's worth it Be sure to follow (and share with your ML friends!) if you want to see more updates from ICML!
Marc Lanctot
Wow, awesome! Massive thank you to the comms & PR team @icmlconf.bsky.social 🤩 ✅️ Multiple update posts per day ✅️ Posts with photos!! 📷 ✅️ Great use of hash tags #icml2026 ✅️ Schedule and QR links at the local mall ✅️ Setting the gold standard for academic Bluesky 👍 🙏
Another reason why it’s so important that we have open protocols for social media.
Kai Kupferschmidt
One of the issues that has come up again and again in my reporting on misinformation and social media is the massive influence social media companies have on research in the field. Last night a preprint dropped that tries to get at this with some numbers. My piece in @science.org (and 🧪🧵 coming):
Chive integrates with @semble.app collections, @leaflet.pub reading lists, and @whtwnd.com blogs. When someone adds your paper to a Semble collection or cites it in a WhiteWind blog post, Chive automatically creates a backlink. All of this happens over the AT Protocol firehose.
1. My new preprint has its own bluesky account. Why? The problems facing social media & scientific publishing are similar: both are dominated by powerful oligopolies. The @atproto.com tech underlying bluesky that aims to solve the social media prob might also help solve the scientific pub prob 🧪 🧵
Menopause evolution preprint
1. Preprint: Menopause averted a midlife energetic crisis with help from older children and parents: A simulation study. zenodo.org/records/18149332 Menopause is rare, known to occur only in humans and toothed whales: 🧵
THREAD The first full year of tracking research on @bsky.app Hi, we are Altmetric, and we track how research is communicated across the web. We now have one full calendar year of Bluesky research data and thought we'd have a looksie.
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ATProto Science Community Garden
Open collection for ATProto science related content: projects, tools, research or anything else you think is relevant!
Managing scientific knowledge for policy on the ATmosphere - Mathew's newsletter
RRGI · Discourse Graph — lens switch
Lupita Nihongo (@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app)
Observ.ing - Observe nature. Own your data.
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