Good morning, I’m back! And I can barely believe all the news that happened while I was away. On vacation, my biggest concern was a broken milkshake machine at a highway McDonald’s. Why are they ...

The headline of a recent story on CNBC claimed, “Scientists Are Using Twitter to Measure the Impact of Climate Change.” I did a double-take and checked the calendar to make sure this was not April ...

Katie Palmer covers telehealth, clinical artificial intelligence, and the health data economy — with an emphasis on the impacts of digital health care for patients, providers, and businesses. You can ...

Researchers are flocking to the social-media platform Bluesky, hoping to recreate the good old days of Twitter. “All the academics have suddenly migrated to Bluesky,” says Bethan Davies, a ...

Scientists adapt to a new era of networking amidst the rise and challenges of online platforms. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Networking is at the core of what it is to be an ...

Marine biologist and conservationist David Shiffman was an early power user and evangelist for science engagement on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. Over the years, he trained ...

“A study examining 2.6m Bluesky posts referencing more than 500,000 scholarly articles over the past two and a half years found they demonstrated ‘substantially higher levels of interaction’ — likes, ...

Shiffman and Wester targeted scientists, science communicators, and science educators who used (or had used) both Twitter and Bluesky. Questions explored user attitudes toward, and experiences with, ...