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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.
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aging-us.bsky.social
💯 Aging publications with an @altmetric.com Attention Score higher than 100:

www.aging-us.com/news_room/al...

#openaccess #researchpapers #aging #longevity #healthspan #lifespan #lifestyle #peerreviewed #journalpublication
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www.aging-us.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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springernature.com
One of our top-rated posts on @altmetric.com this past was published open access in Discover Water. You can read 'Overconsumption gravely threatens water security in the binational Rio Grande-Bravo basin' here: spklr.io/63329BOC65

#Hydrology #WaterScience @discover.springernature.com
Overconsumption gravely threatens water security in the binational Rio Grande-Bravo basin - Discover Water
The Rio Grande-Bravo basin shared by the United States and Mexico is experiencing a severe water crisis demanding urgent attention. In recent decades, wate
spklr.io
November 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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digital-science.com
🌟 Blog posts of the week: "To go further, faster... we need to move past human-powered knowledge discovery," writes our VP of #OpenResearch, Mark Hahnel.

Mark says academic research should be prioritized for machines, not humans.

🔗 See why: https://ow.ly/WGTg50Xvf2S

#FAIRdata #AcademicSky
November 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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andytattersall.bsky.social
Plus research podcasts are now tracked by @digital-science.com @altmetric.com

Please feel free to contact me if you want a demo of the course or are interested in a site licence for staff or students.

andy-s-school-aeae.thinkific.com/courses/acad...

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Podcasting for Academics and Professionals
This website teaches researchers, academics, profesionals and students how to create their own academic podcast
andy-s-school-aeae.thinkific.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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andytattersall.bsky.social
If you ever wanted to know everything about making a podcast (or how to do it better) but were afraid to ask, then fear not. I have given my 'Podcasting for Academics and Professionals' course a little refresh.

andy-s-school-aeae.thinkific.com/courses/acad...

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November 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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digital-science.com
Now on Substack: "Machine-First FAIR: Realigning Academic Data for the AI Research Revolution" - by our VP of Open Research, Mark Hahnel.

Why should we prioritize machines over people when sharing data?

🔗 Read Mark's post: https://ow.ly/Z24y50Xu7qk

#FAIRdata #OpenData #OpenResearch #AcademicSky
November 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
Happy birthday to the Soviet linguist Yuri Knorozov who casually deciphered the Mayan script in 1952 and got pissed when editors removed his cat as co-author on papers or cropped her out of his author headshot (the only picture of himself he even liked)
November 19, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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@apastyle.bsky.social you’ve got STYLE
a young boy wearing a cowboy hat and a plaid shirt is walking on a stage
Alt: a young boy wearing a cowboy hat and a plaid shirt is walking on a stage
media.tenor.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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elisabethbik.bsky.social
Good morning from Sydney, where I will be live-posting from the International Research Integrity Conference, organized by @simongandevia.bsky.social , @jabyrnesci.bsky.social, and David Vaux.
#IRICSydney
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Slide with title of the conference
November 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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sailorrooscout.bsky.social
Chemists discovered a powerful hidden antibiotic that’s 100 times stronger than existing ones and effective against deadly superbugs.

The study has been published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED.
• pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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Summary A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It shows no signs of resistance so far, offering hope in the fight against drug-resistant infections and paving the way for new approaches to antibiotic discovery. Abstract The methylenomycins are highly functionalized cyclopentanone antibiotics produced by Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2). A biosynthetic pathway to the methylenomycins has been proposed based on sequence analysis of the proteins encoded by the methylenomycin biosynthetic gene cluster and the incorporation of labeled precursors. However, the roles played by putative biosynthetic enzymes remain experimentally uninvestigated. Here, the biosynthetic functions of enzymes encoded by mmyD, mmyO, mmyF, and mmyE were investigated by creating in-frame deletions in each gene and investigating the effect on methylenomycin production. No methylenomycin-related metabolites were produced by the mmyD mutant, consistent with the proposed role of MmyD in an early biosynthetic step. The production of methylenomycin A, but not methylenomycin C, was abolished in the mmyF and mmy mutants, consistent with the corresponding enzymes catalyzing the epoxidation of methylenomycin C, as previously proposed. Expression of mmyF and mmyo in a S. coelicolor M145 derivative engineered to express mmr, which confers methylenomycin resistance, enabled the resulting strain to convert methylenomycin C to methylenomycin A, confirming this hypothesis. A novel metabolite (premethylenomycin C), which readily cyclizes to form the corresponding butanolide (premethylenomycin C lactone), accumulated in the mmyE mutant, indicating the corresponding enzyme is involved in introducing the exomethylene group into methylenomycin C. Remarkably, both premethylenomycin C and its lactone precursor were one to two orders of magnitude more active against various Gram-positive bacteria, including antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Enterococcus faecium isolates, than methylenomycins A and C, providing a promising starting point for the development of novel antibiotics to combat antimicrobial resistance. Graphical Abstract
November 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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sailorrooscout.bsky.social
THIS IS HUGE! Researchers have just identified a powerful new antibiotic that is 100x STRONGER than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA and VRE. Hiding in a well-known soil bacterium, pre-methylenomycin C lactone KILLS drug-resistant bacteria WITHOUT triggering resistance.
November 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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igraywill.bsky.social
Intrigued that ARNOVA & SSWR still have not created Bluesky accounts at this point in 2025. It integrated into @altmetric.com (unliked LinkedIn) & increasingly preferred by academic & scientific institutions & networks. No platform is perfect but... #AcademicSky #ARNOVA2025 #SSWR2026 #SSWR26 #SWTech
Bluesky now platform of choice for science community
It’s not just you. Survey says: “Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky”…
arstechnica.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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springernature.com
One of our top-rated posts on @altmetric.com this past was published in @nataging.nature.com. You can read 'Multilingualism protects against accelerated aging in cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of 27 European countries' here: spklr.io/63325BMpTZ
Multilingualism protects against accelerated aging in cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of 27 European countries - Nature Aging
In cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of 86,149 participants across 27 European countries, Amoruso, Hernandez and colleagues identify multilingualism as a protective factor against accelerated aging, using biobehavioral age gaps.
spklr.io
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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paolocrosetto.bsky.social
Gentle request that @altmetric.com and @linkedin.com resume contact to be able to track academic LinkedIn activity on AltMetric.

More and more scientific discourse is happening on BlueSky (tracked) and LinkedIn (not tracked).

@linkedin.com let AltMetric use your API and include you! NOW!
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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In recognition of #WorldDiabetesDay, AAI is pleased to highlight the ground-breaking research published in The Journal of Immunology. Read these top five Altmetric scored #diabetes research articles today.

🔗 https://ow.ly/7NZa50XrIPW
Altmetric Ranked Articles in The Journal of Immunology
Two scientists working with plants in a bright laboratory environment.
November 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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🌟 Blog posts of the week: Is your research output among the @altmetric.com Top 25 #NTROs for 2024?

Showcasing non-traditional research outputs and the repositories that host them.

🔗 See the full list now: ow.ly/XQgM50XoiyL
November 14, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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"Digital Science releases Altmetric Top 25 NTRO Repositories" - story in Research Information.

See the impact being made by the Top 25 non-traditional research outputs (#NTROs) of 2024, as tracked by Simon Porter using Altmetric.

🔗 Read the story: https://ow.ly/KXAw50Xr7al
Digital Science releases Altmetric Top 25 NTRO Repositories - Research Information
New list shines a spotlight on non-traditional research outputs (NTROs) and the repositories that host them
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November 13, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Joyce Carol Oates is trending.

Her most shared item we can track (so probably not most of her poetry unfortunately) is the wonderful tribute she penned for her late husband, research scientist Charlie Gross.

altmetric.com/details/9294...

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Charlie Gross (1936-2019)
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November 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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elife.bsky.social
With a score of 85, this article is in the top 5% of all research outputs scored by @altmetric.com!

It even featured in @scienceofthetimes.bsky.social's podcast: elife.altmetric.com/details/1744...

Take a look: elife.altmetric.com/details/1744...

Look out for Altmetric badges on eLife articles 🏆
November 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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careia.bsky.social
It's amazing to see this published. It was a lot of work testing, refining, and improving our AI sentiment proof of concept that is now live in @altmetric.com. If you are curious about the process, do check it out!
altmetric.com Altmetric @altmetric.com · 25d
Nice new paper on how we did the sentiment analysis for social media that talks about research. Tagging @careia.bsky.social and our official account @altmetric.com
herrison2000.bsky.social herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 25d
A little while ago, we added sentiment analysis to #altmetric @altmetric.bsky.social and we (well, Carlos led and the rest of us helped...) wrote a paper on how we did it and what we did www.frontiersin.org/journals/res...
November 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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elisabethbik.bsky.social
Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration
A call to action for universities, academies, science organizations and funders to unite and join this effort.
Bernhard Sabel and Dan Larhammar

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration | Royal Society Open Science
Science relies on integrity and trustworthiness. But scientists under career pressure are lured to purchase fake publications from ‘paper mills’ that use AI-generated data, text and image fabrication....
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November 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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One of our top-rated articles on @altmetric.com this past week was published in @natastron.nature.com. You can read 'An extremely luminous flare recorded from a supermassive black hole' here: spklr.io/63326BzNWs

🔭 #astronomy #astro
An extremely luminous flare recorded from a supermassive black hole - Nature Astronomy
An extreme flare has been seen from a supermassive black hole at redshift z = 2.6. First detected in 2018, it is 30 times brighter than similar events. The most likely cause is the shredding of a star of 30 solar masses or more.
spklr.io
November 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Update: coming through loud and clear!
Cancerspeak podcast mentions in Altmetric
November 7, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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📸 @joyowango.bsky.social delivering the keynote address at #NORFest in Dublin, Ireland.

Joy spoke about TCC Africa's partnership with Digital Science to strengthen #OpenScience, #ResearchIntegrity & data-driven discovery in Africa.

#NORFest2025 @ria.ie @dimensions.ai @figshare.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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bibliosalut.bsky.social
🎧🍩@altmetric.com Segueix les converses sobre la teva recerca amb #podcasts. Detecta mencions en les descripcions dels episodis i mantén-te al dia https://f.mtr.cool/zznwrsdgki

@idisba.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 12:30 PM