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‘A place of joy’: why scientists are joining the rush to Bluesky


Researchers say the social-media platform — an alternative to X — offers more control over the content they see and the people they engage with.

Bluesky has broad appeal in large part because it looks and feels a lot like X (formerly known as Twitter), which became hugely popular with scientists, who used it to share research findings, collaborate and network. Mae Saslaw, a geoscientist at Stony Brook University in New York, vets requests to post on the feed from people in geoscience and has seen an increase from one a week to half a dozen per day. This pack includes a moderation tool with which users can report content that is racist and anti-Black or contains misogynoir — expressing hatred particularly against Black women — and filter them out.

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