How is science discussed on Bluesky?
2025/07/24 by Er-Te Zheng, Xiaorui Jiang, Zheng, Er-Te +5 · 17 voices · 1 citation
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2507.18840
Abstract
Amid the migration of academics from X, the social media platform Bluesky has emerged as a potential alternative. To assess its viability and relevance for science communication, this study presents the first large-scale analysis of scholarly article dissemination on Bluesky, exploring its potential as a new source of social media metrics. We collected and analysed over 2.6 million Bluesky posts referencing 532,302 scholarly articles from January 2023 to July 2025, integrating metadata from the OpenAlex database. Temporal trends, disciplinary coverage, language use, textual characteristics, and user engagement were examined. A sharp increase in scholarly activity on Bluesky was observed from November 2024 to January 2025, coinciding with broader academic shifts away from X. As on X, Bluesky posts primarily concern the health, social, and environmental sciences and are predominantly written in English. Nevertheless, Bluesky posts demonstrate substantially higher levels of interaction (likes, reposts, replies, and quotes) and greater textual originality than previously reported for X, suggesting both stronger interactive and more interpretive engagement. These findings highlight Bluesky's emerging role as a credible platform for science communication and a promising source for altmetrics. The platform may facilitate not only early visibility of research outputs but also more meaningful scholarly dialogue in the evolving social media landscape.
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- NEW STUDY: Types of science🧪 articles shared on Bluesky: Health 29% Social 25% Physical 23% Life 23% arxiv.org/pdf/2507.18840 Worth reading--lots of other insights! Lately, I've been sharing our new [bsky, 141 points, 6 comments]
- 5/ Les auteurs concluent que Bluesky pourrait faciliter non seulement une visibilité précoce des résultats de recherche, mais aussi un dialogue scientifique plus constructif, dans un paysage des média [bsky, 115 points, 2 comments]
- You'll be shocked—shocked!—to hear that posts about research on Bluesky get 'substantially' more attention than on X. Looking at posts over the last two years posts on Bluesky had 'Stronger interactio [bsky, 31 points, 0 comments]
- How is science discussed on Bluesky? 🤔 Our new study finds higher textual originality on Bluesky scholarly posts than previously observed on X ✨ A fresh platform for science 📢 For more: arxiv.org/ab [bsky, 27 points, 0 comments]
- "Bluesky's emerging role as a credible platform for science communication and a promising source for altmetrics. The platform facilitate not only early visibility of research outputs but also more mea [bsky, 12 points, 0 comments]
- Read more about this here: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.18840 And here, from @michaelsavage.bsky.social in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/technology/2... [bsky, 5 points, 1 comments]
- Άρθρο πάνω στην αυξανόμενη χρήση του bs έναντι του Χ από ακαδημαϊκούς arxiv.org/abs/2507.18840 [bsky, 4 points, 1 comments]
- New source, new possibilities: An exploratory study of Bluesky posts referencing scholarly articles https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18840 [bsky, 4 points, 0 comments]
- In case you missed it: study indicates Bluesky gets more interactions for scientists than on other sites like the Nazi one currently organizing anti-immigrant pogroms in the UK & thus which apparently [bsky, 3 points, 0 comments]
- @ronaldfar.bsky.social - vc. viu este: "How is science discussed on Bluesky?" arxiv.org/pdf/2507.18840 [bsky, 2 points, 0 comments]
- As more of us (and our universities) migrate to Bluesky, early research by @mikethelwall.bsky.social finds it is not only being used to share research but is hosting 'more meaningful scholarly dialogu [bsky, 2 points, 0 comments]
- Secondo uno studio ArXiv gli argomenti più trattati sono: - scienze della salute - scienze sociali - scienze ambientali arxiv.org/abs/2507.18840 [bsky, 2 points, 1 comments]
- Bluesky es lo suficientemente competitivo ante X, e investigaciones como: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.18840 concluyen que hay mayor interacción con las publicaciones científicas en @bsky.app, sin embargo por a [bsky, 2 points, 0 comments]
- Here's the original pre-print article arxiv.org/pdf/2507.18840 [bsky, 1 points, 0 comments]
- How is #Science Discussed on #Bluesky? (revised preprint; via arXiv) arxiv.org/abs/2507.18840 #socialmedia #scholcomm [bsky, 1 points, 0 comments]
- How is science discussed on Bluesky? arxiv.org/abs/2507.18840 Plus fort niveau d’interaction et d’originalité dans les échanges scientifiques sur Bluesky vs X (mais l’étude ne prend en compte que les [bsky, 1 points, 0 comments]
- engagement with scholarly publications is higher on bluesky than it was on X new paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.18840 [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]
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