This pattern is common in orb weaver spiders

If Altmetric stops nothing will really happen to papers

Altmetric is a sign of a powerful paper in the eye of the public. Like the citations which are generally considered the sign of scientific importance of a paper

They are intertwined - Altmetric is a sign of media attention and generally comes from a good quality media release : news 8 points, each twitter or Bluesky post 1 point,… - other time just because people like the work - so if many people re-tweet the attention to work (Altmetric) goes up

High Altmetric is generally useful for commercialisation and possibly enhanced public attention - Altmetric of >1000 for a few papers resulted in a few companies out of my lab

anecdotal evidence - more academics are joining everyday as bluesky is linked to Altmetric

seagulls like chicken nugget too - carnivores !

I still think seagulls are worse to deal with - at least magpies have little brains and can become friendly sometimes 🙂

It’s interesting that such uses of dashboard displays are not only prohibited but also considered a serious driving offense now

My friend once said “you are old when the number of reference letters you write for others is more than than the number of reference letters others write for you“

Those were different times

Brilliant

Rightly said: There are recurring issues in Hitchcock movies

JAL service was the best in the 70s

Just brilliant

Beautiful sarracenias