If you use Bluesky for politics or news, I’d love your help with a short University of Zürich study on politics and social media. It takes under 5 minutes. uzh-mediastudy.org/join #promoted

Is Bluesky a bubble? We collected all 1B+ posts since Dec'24. 13% of content is political. We found high polarization, but also strong imbalance: on most topics, the opposing stance made up just 1–2% of users. Strongest split: Gaza, Ukraine, Musk & Trump Link: arxiv.org/abs/2506.03443 🔽

New Paper! @prashantgarg.bsky.social @fdenker.bsky.social @abovet.bsky.social study the migration of academics from X to Bluesky 🦋 Please reach out with any comments, ideas, or questions! A thread by my prolific coauthor👇

Prashant Garg@prashantgarg.bsky.social · last yr.

Happy to share this paper. Full thread coming soon!

Our new paper, "Bluesky: Network Topology, Polarization, and Algorithmic Curation," is out! Together with @abovet.bsky.social, we analyzed data from 5 million Bluesky users from Feb 2023 to May 2024. Check it out: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Bluesky: Network topology, polarization, and algorithmic curation

Bluesky is a nascent “Twitter-like” and decentralized social media network with novel features and unprecedented data access. This paper provides a characterization of its interaction network, studyin...

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It was a pleasure to present our work on Blocking on @bsky.app @netsciconf.bsky.social ! In this thread I will make a case for Bluesky as a fantastic opportunity for scientists to answer old questions with new data! (1/7)

Meanwhile on Twitter ... I don't understand how you could mess up so badly.