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We measure the attention that research outputs receive from policy documents, mainstream news outlets, Wikipedia, social media and online reference managers. We detect sentiment of Bluesky/X posts. Come for the attention to research. Stay for the memes.

European Commission's estimate of research funded by Human Brain Project Specific Grant Agreement 3: Other (23) Peer reviewed articles (732) Conference proceedings (60) Monographic books (6) Thesis and dissertations (31) Book chapters (29) Non-peer reviewed articles (1)
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Gaming the Metrics: Misconduct and Manipulation in Academic Research (Infrastructures) by Mario Biagioli (Editor), Alexandra Lippman (Editor) Format: Paperback
A screen capture of James Bond in the video game James Bond 007 first light by IO Interactive. He is standing near a very large air-conditioning unit built into the wall.
A set of stripes, increasingly turning blue to red from left to right as temperature averages increase over 1884-2025
Did you know? The voice-over for the movie "Finding Dory" was not given by an actual fish
+* Sentiment Analysis for 132,319 Bluesky and X mentions • Strong negative 3% of mentions Negative 17% of mentions Neutral negative 26% of mentions Neutral 14% of mentions • Neutral positive 13% of mentions • Positive 30% of mentions • Strong positive 2% of mentions
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Meme of 2 astronauts. The first says, "Wait so it's just a small pale blue dot and all of the fighting between nations is pointless?" The other one responds, "It always was."
‪Mark Carney‬ - @mark-carney.bsky.social‬ Canada has always been a nation of risk-takers and explorers. An honour to welcome Jeremy Hansen, Jenni Gibbons, and the entire Artemis II crew to Ottawa today.
Sylvia Meretrix, Heresiarch Lindwyrm @estrogenandspite.bsky.s... • 29d "Oh we shouldn't be going to space, we should spend our money fixing things here!" Fuck that. It has direct benefits to us on the ground. Take the funds out of the hides of the rich, and gut the bloat from the military. Not from science. Not from the future. We can walk and chew bubblegum.
Colourful CMOS sensor
Merck's Keytruda, now injectable thanks to space.
“Miracle Suit” Inspired by NASA Research Saves New Mothers Around the World. Mother and baby in a hospital bed.
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Bluesky Post: "I have to admit, I'm just not that excited about the Artemis mission. It's a first step towards colonising Mars. And honestly, we shouldn't be going out there to destroy another planet. Let's fix this one first. It's our home and it is just so utterly beautiful."
Monty Python's Life of Brian scene where John Cleese asks "What have the Astronauts ever done for us?"
A large neutral to positive attention group from social media. Of 839 positive posts ever for the article, 458 were from 1st Jan 2020 onwards.
The Outward Urge by John Wyndham
Hello Again There's a new digg taking shape at di.gg. The bet is simple: the internet has more noise than ever, and the people who can sort signal from it have never been more valuable. Digg's job is to find that signal and bring it to you. We're starting with AI. It's the noisiest, fastest-moving space on the internet right now. Papers, launches, threads, hot takes flying past faster than anyone can keep up with. If we can surface what actually matters here, we can do it anywhere. Digg watches what 1,000 of the most thoughtful voices in AI are paying attention to, and ranks the stories they're pointing at by what's rising fastest. AI is the first vertical. More are coming. We're living at di.gg during the alpha while we keep building. When things are ready, we'll move home to digg.com. Consider this your early pass. — Kevin Rose, CEO
Ben Mcleish @culturebullet.com presenting sentiment analysis uses of social media posts about research at EARMA 2026.
Dictionary management tool that has been set to correct "The" to "The" every time.
Two photos, each labelled with “shot on iPhone SE” and “shot on iPhone 13 Plus”. The difference in the photos is the obvious environmental degradation caused by cyclical hardware consumption.
This Altmetric attention doughnut for the JAMA paediatrics article shows 268 blue sky users versus 134 Twitter users sharing the article
Google AI showing an image of Jimm y Kimmel under the article remembering Harry Keyishian From: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/debatable-ideas/2026/04/07/remembering-harry-keyishian-1932-2026
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Utter nonsense Abstract, yes this is real: This work look for Soret and Dufour thing on MHD flow for micropolar fluid on sheet with hole stretch, also see hot from electric and warm from move, which old study no much talk. These hot and mix change speed, hot, spin, and mix of fluid in layer. The big math changes to small math by same change and solve in MATLAB BVP4C. Picture line and table show number for skin friction, Nusselt, Sherwood. We see more M make slow speed, light heat make thick hot layer, more micro make more spin near wall. Also, hot from electric and warm from move make more hot, so need in work like earth heat take, oil get, and hot change machine in hole thing.
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The Numbers Aren't Working Out We posted to Twitter (now known as X) five to ten times a day in 2018. Those tweets garnered somewhere between 50 and 100 million impressions per month. By 2024, our 2,500 X posts generated around 2 million impressions each month. Last year, our 1,500 posts earned roughly 13 million impressions for the entire year. To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago.
COVID, Alternative medicine, Brain and mental health, gene editing, vaccine safety and more.
Retractions gap with news coverage shortening during COVID.
55k RetractionWatch retraction reasons, 2217 papers analysed. 25k news stories!
Screenshot of retractionrisk.com plugin running over a retracted Frontiers article.
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List of astonished statements that make an LLM mislabel a post as negative etc.
Criticism, accusations, doubts and sarcasm, irony etc.
Slide explaining workflow by Er Te Zheng on labelling and detecting social media attention
Bluesky - 6,743,577 mentions of research found
Strange Rude label applied to a normal post
Attention Digest shown on Article details page.
British Museum central hall, with Altmetric at 3,000 banners and stands showing. This really took place. OK It did not take place.
Extremely 1980s Altmetric details page. You can positively smell re-runs of ALF, Disco glitterballs and other standard 1980s tropes
Family smiling crowded round an old timey radio. The speech bubble from the radio says "And the outlook for DOI https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-24662-9 is as follows: Dogger, Zero Mentions. Fisher. Zero Mentions. Facebook. 35 mentions..." BTW that's that Scientific Reports article with the autism bicycle AI slop image in it. This will show up on their details page now. We have fun here.
Yellowed image of people working in a Victorian factory assembling newspaper mentions of research by hand. Shout out to Bleak Expectations fans who spotted that carrier-cheetah reference btw, you are god-tier followers.
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How to avoid being Rickrolled on April Fools' Day With April Fools’ Day upon us, we have a simple tip that can prevent you from being fooled—at least by one popular shenanigan:
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Video shows an attention digest button being clicked, and a summary of the attention across the web for the article being generated.
314.1 million mentions of research on the web #Academicsky #altmetrics
2,200 citations. 175 recently. Compared to other medical articles it's cited 36 times higher than normal.