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THREAD

The 2nd annual Altmetric Thread of Threads

Here are all the deep-dives, distractions and rants we've engaged in throughout the year

This year covers Extreme Metal, Mind Reading, Bayard Rustin, Richard Burton, Wikipedia, Free Culture, podcasts, impostors, the "Ghost Donut" & more
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Altmetric reads your mind Ghost donut Meshuggah band photo Black and white photo of Bayard Rustin
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Download Daniel's full report, "DeepSeek and the New Geopolitics of AI: China’s ascent to research pre-eminence in AI."

🔗 Find it on @figshare.com here: ow.ly/gpp050XJxn2
December 15, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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drmeagantyler.bsky.social
Not feeling super meme-y for all of the reasons today but am determined to get a meme from the research / writing / academia meme stash out, each day, for my last few 2025 work days. This throwback to a @raulpachecovega.bsky.social classic is apt for a Monday. #resdev #academicsky #academicchatter
Overview text reads: "Fellow academic writers, as we are about to begin a new week, I come bearing bad news." Three images of Peter Parker (from 1960s Spiderman comics) follow. The first is a man reading a book titled "how to stop stressing about writing." The second is a reverse view of the man reading a page in the book that says: "complete the writing". The final image is a close up of the man's face, showing that he is crying. A take on the Peter Parker reading meme.
December 15, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Top #Altmetric 2025: 7️⃣🧪

@pkapahi.bsky.social et al ( @buckinstitute.org ) show that neuronal glycogen feeds the PPP and contributes to redox homeostasis, thus counteracting tauopathy-associated oxidative stress in Drosophila melanogaster.
Neuronal glycogen breakdown mitigates tauopathy via pentose-phosphate-pathway-mediated oxidative stress reduction - Nature Metabolism
Bar et al. show that neuronal glycogen feeds the pentose phosphate pathway and contributes to redox homeostasis, thus counteracting tauopathy-associated oxidative stress in Drosophila melanogaster.
bit.ly
December 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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🎄On the 5th day of DS #AI Christmas, Digital Science gave to me… 5 Golden OfferRINGS! 💍

2025 highlights: Dimensions Industry Partnerships, Dimensions Author Check, Metis AI agents by metaphacts, Altmetric Sentiment Analysis, Symplectic Item Evaluation!

Find out more 🔗 https://ow.ly/qYgL50XIpig
December 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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grnfluoresceblg.bsky.social
"Its only a temporary place until we renovate your lab"
A man's legs standing on a ladder in a hallway. The rest of the man is inside a hole created by a missing panel in the ceiling.
December 12, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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I asked claude about the credibility of a nuclear physics preprint and it gave me this

I now think this should be implemented across all arxiv papers
December 12, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Still laughing about this a year later. #ThisImageIsFine

researcher meme stash submission for @drmeagantyler.bsky.social
michaelhoffman.bsky.social Michael Hoffman @michaelhoffman.bsky.social · Nov 8
Uh, I think @elisabethbik.bsky.social has some explaining to do
December 12, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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This completely fake university was recently uncovered by @mcintold.bsky.social - it’s fascinating. #FoSci #ResearchIntegrity
digital-science.com Digital Science @digital-science.com · 4d
⚠️ NEW on the #FoSci Substack: "Rogue Domains: When a University Isn’t a University."

Our VP of #ResearchIntegrity & Security, Dr Leslie McIntosh, delves into the latest of her investigations: a university website & emails that mimic a legitimate university.

🔗 Read now: https://ow.ly/lQyW50XHkpr
December 11, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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natmetabolism.nature.com
Top #Altmetric 2025: 8️⃣🧪

TA Ryan et al ( @weillcornell.bsky.social‬ ) show that neurons can use fatty acids as an alternative source of energy to support synaptic function.
Triglycerides are an important fuel reserve for synapse function in the brain - Nature Metabolism
Kumar et al. show that under glucose-depleted conditions, neurons can use fatty acids as an alternative source of energy to support synaptic function.
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December 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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preprints.bsky.social
Why you should care about Altmetrics? 📊

While citation metrics measure academic utility, #Altmetrics measure the wider influence.

📌 Learn more: buff.ly/nja90aY

#PhDsky #Academicsky #EducationalResearch #histsci #SciEngage #ResearchImpact #OpenScience #STS #UKHE
What are Altmetrics and How You Should Use Them
December 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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REF 2029 downgrades research culture, restores five output limit.

"Research impact, known as “engagement and impact”, will remain at 25 per cent, according to an update announced on 10 December."

www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ref-202...
REF 2029 downgrades research culture, restores five output limit
Several planned reforms to the UK’s Research Excellence Framework scrapped or partially rolled back after three-month pause, bringing exercise closer to 2021 audit
www.timeshighereducation.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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How to get science back into policymaking
How to get science back into policymaking
Misunderstanding and hubris have broken public trust in governments’ use of science, but it can be restored.
www.nature.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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THREAD

The 2nd annual Altmetric Thread of Threads

Here are all the deep-dives, distractions and rants we've engaged in throughout the year

This year covers Extreme Metal, Mind Reading, Bayard Rustin, Richard Burton, Wikipedia, Free Culture, podcasts, impostors, the "Ghost Donut" & more
1/27
Altmetric reads your mind Ghost donut Meshuggah band photo Black and white photo of Bayard Rustin
December 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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The warning was there all along. #Tylenol #Autism #episky
Wakefield's retracted Lancet paper on vaccines and autism with TYLENOL RIGHT IN THE TITLE
September 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Here's how we analyse sentiment on Twitter/X and Bluesky

www.frontiersin.org/journals/res...
December 9, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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leibnizinm.bsky.social
Microscopy Mystery Monday #10 🔬🕵️

Can you guess what this textured surface belongs to?

(👉 Like the comment with your answer to vote!)

#MicroscopyMystery #academicsky #STEM #MMM
December 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
An all-too-common interaction I've had:

Scientist: Our research can help shape policy to protect this endangered animal.

Me: Neat! How? What policy? What is it now, and what should it be instead?

Scientist: Uhhhhh.....

Our new paper can help!

www.southernfriedscience.com/shark-scient... 🧪🦑🌍🦈
Shark scientists want their research to help save threatened species, but don’t know how. Our new paper can help.
Sharks are some of the most threatened animals on Earth, and accordingly many scientists who study sharks want their research to be useful for conservation. However, most scientific training does n…
www.southernfriedscience.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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One of our top-rated posts on @altmetric.com this past week was published open access in @natgeosci.nature.com. You can read 'Bio-essential sugars in samples from asteroid Bennu' here: spklr.io/63321Bg9sT

#earthscience #geoscience ⚒️
Bio-essential sugars in samples from asteroid Bennu - Nature Geoscience
Samples returned from asteroid Bennu contain bio-essential sugars such as ribose and glucose that may have formed in the parent asteroid from brines containing formaldehyde, according to a geochemical study.
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December 5, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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elisabethbik.bsky.social
This afternoon, I will give a public lecture about #ResearchIntegrity and #ImageForensics, at the University of Bern, CH, where I will receive an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Science tomorrow.

Thank you for your support ❤️
Screenshot from a flyer that reads: Public Lecture on Scientific Integrity Dr. Elisabeth Bik Errors and Misconduct in Biomedical Research Images Science builds upon science. Even after peer-review and publication, science papers could still contain images or other data of concern. If not addressed, papers containing incorrect or even falsified data could lead to wasted time and money spent by other researchers trying to reproduce those results. Several high-profile cases of science misconduct have been reported, but many more remain undetected. Elisabeth Bik is an image forensics detective who left her paid job in industry to search for and report biomedical articles that contain errors or data of concern. She has conducted a systematic review of 20,000 papers across 40 journals and found that approximately 4% of these contained inappropriately duplicated images. In her talk, she will present her work and show several types of inappropriately duplicated images and other examples of research misconduct. In addition, she will discuss how Artificial Intelligence can both help identify cases of misconduct and also create them, as well as the growing threat of scientific paper mills. On the occasion of the Dies academicus of the University of Bern on 6th December 2025, Elisabeth Bik will receive an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Science for her groundbreaking work and untiring commitment to scientific integrity. Friday 5th December 2025, 4pm Aula, 2nd floor, Main Building, Hochschulstrasse 4. Also see this link: https://www.vetsuisse.unibe.ch/e58/e1479157/e1624857/e1753357/Elisabeth_Bik_flyer_2025_A3_20251104_ger.pdf
December 5, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Not to rub too much salt in @elsevierconnect.bsky.social's wound but they would have caught this earlier if they had been using Altmetric.

www.altmetric.com/details/3783...
Their request “was actually the first time a complaint came to my desk directly,” Martin van den Berg, a co-editor-in-chief of the journal, told Retraction Watch. The article was published long before he took over, said van den Berg, a toxicologist at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, and “it was simply not brought to my attention” until Kaurov and Oreskes’ article. The retraction “could have been done as early as 2017, but it is clearly a case of two parallel information streams not connecting earlier,” he said. Details page showing blog captured in 2017 when the news broke that an article on glyphosate safety was ghostwritten buy Monsanto employees.
December 5, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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yelenab.bsky.social
Sometimes it pays to dig through the Altmetrics of your papers! My rendered image of migrating trunk ventral cells from our latest paper was featured by @bpodaily.bsky.social as the image of the day and I had no idea 😂 beautiful images are what we're all about! 🧪🔬
bpodaily.bsky.social Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · Nov 13
Transcriptome maturation just before multipotent cardiopharyngeal progenitors divide confers their distinct fates – sea squirt study reveals

📷 Yelena Y Bernadskaya, Ariel Kuan, Andreas Tjärnberg, Wei Wang et al @nyu.edu in @embojournal.org
➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025...
December 3, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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What a wonderful year we had with you on here.

Let’s do this again sometime.

#BlueskyWrapped #BlueskyHarvest
Bubble graph of our most interacted accounts. Some of the bsky greats on there 98% of our images had Alt-Text. Damn straight. 100% of those had jokes in them that were funnier than the post. Stretch goal for 2026: 105% Even though it feels like we are terminally online, we don’t hold a candle to some of you lot. Grass touching index tends to offline.
December 5, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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🎉 We’re excited to announce the @altmetric.com Top 25 NTRO Repositories!

Compiled by our VP of Research Futures, Simon Porter @sjcporter.bsky.social, this list spotlights non-traditional research outputs #NTROs & the repositories that host them.

🔗 See the Top 25: ow.ly/XQgM50XoiyL

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November 10, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Shout out to @drmeagantyler.bsky.social for maintaining the academia / writing / research meme stash. Worth a follow!

Meme review coming December 18th in our demented end of year webinar: www.altmetric.com/event/12-mon...
December 4, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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The only recap that matters
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altmetric.com Altmetric @altmetric.com · 12d
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One Year of tracking research communication on @bsky.app

This time last year we officially added the Bluesky social platform to the places where we track research communication and article sharing.

Here are some of the most viral articles that gained traction in the last 12 months.
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Bluesky butterfly #Academicsky #Altmetrics #HigherEd #MedSky #IMSky #Science Altmetric logo
December 4, 2025 at 10:03 AM