Kathryn Weber-Boer

Snapshot of a spreadsheet with details which funders remain on X.

Funders and who's still on X

Out of 15 national funding bodies and orgs, 10 have ceased posting on the platform, with pretty much no posts in 2025.

An 11th funder, @nuffieldfoundation.org is the only one to have announced they were no longer engaging on X.

Four remain active on the platform.

No academic, news, blogs, policy, guidelines, or patent mentions. 86% strong negative attention, 7% negative attention, 2% neutral negative, 1% neutral, 6% neutral positive, 2% positive

Altmetric Sentiment Analysis for those posts

Another helpful reminder that the Altmetric Score is not an indicator of quality, but of attention. Not all attention is good attention!

This paper with this unbelievable #AI generated yet peer-reviewed Figure 1, is still available online (pending editiorial response). It has now a whopping 932 altmetric score, with - quite interestingly - only 18 posts on X (<93k followers), while on Bluesky there are 1453 posts (<3.4M followers).

Today we give thanks for non-traditional research outputs (NTROs) & the repositories where they're found. 🙌

Let's celebrate by revisiting the Altmetric Top 25 compiled by our VP of Research Futures, Simon Porter.

Why are these #NTROs capturing public attention?

🔗 https://ow.ly/QRnP50XyFL6

What you *might* observe are regional differences in the adoption of good citation practices!

Just to add to the official account reply: it's a sadly surprisingly little known fact that Altmetric doesn't discriminate based on language. We look for identifiers, which are happily language neutral!

I think I might have found a solution for you--I'll follow up on your application by email! (We really like your use of the API!)

Horrifying

How are people establishing and dealing with different attitudes to LLMs with their collaborators and co-authors?

Two colleagues have told me they now have an explicit conversation at the beginning of every new project to establish a clear agreement on what is/not acceptable to all partners.

📣 A keynote not to be missed: "Crimeless Whispers: The Forensics of Deceit in Modern Science," by our VP of #ResearchIntegrity & Security, Dr Leslie McIntosh.

🗓️ Wednesday 26 November 2025
📍 Leicester, UK - or attend virtually

🔗 More details: https://ow.ly/mkaQ50Xxqcx

Every time I'm at the airport this month, I'm reminded how much I hate Brexit. Also because it pushes the train into no advantage. Ugh.

The really annoying thing is that ML is going to suffer from the genAI bubble burst 😒

bsky.app/profile/john...

We tried to tell y'all to stop calling everything "AI" many years ago and you just wouldn't listen and now the poor machine learners must also suffer alongside the statisticians 😜

Warning for North Carolina: Scams are increasing, and the confusion is being made worse by ICE agents failing to properly identify themselves and wearing masks. As a result, residents are becoming targets of immigration fraud.

I have found so many MDPI papers from the same authors that seem to include near carbon copies of data from their other papers that are in other journals, sometimes MDPI!

Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/stats-3
#smbc

Primary Every Democrat It’s exhausting to watch poll-tested, donor-beholden congressional Democrats continue to be too old, too cloistered, and too bumbling to do anything as the government burns.

if anyone remembers anything from the biden experience, it should be that electing blue no matter who isn't going to be enough to cut it in the fight against fascism. you need politicians suited for this moment. primarying them all is the most straightforward way to send that message

Furious Liberals Call for Schumer to Step Aside, Senate Dems Mostly Quiet After their shutdown surrender, liberal lawmakers are begging their base to unite behind them anyway – as Trumpland celebrates that their opposition is a bunch of 'p*ssies.'

MoveOn, Indivisible, Our Revolution, and 6 Democrats have called on Chuck Schumer to step aside as leader.

So we asked all 40 Democratic senators who didn’t cave to Republicans if they still think Schumer is the right leader.

Here's what they said.

@andrewperez.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social

NEW: At Pope Leo’s Urging, Bishops Issue Historic Rebuke of Trump’s Raids Nearly all U.S. Catholic bishops united in Baltimore to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” deportation campaign — a near-unanimous, unprecedented moral stand against a sitting president.

BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.

A staggering statistic: "North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year." What are we doing?

I am *so* protected 😅

I would be happy to show you how it could work, if you have a list of Figshare DOIs you were interested in gathering the numbers for!

They don't--Figshare is a repository, not really meant to be a source of metrics--the views/downloads can be thought of here as metadata. It's a back-burner idea to get those into Altmetric, but I wouldn't hold your breath (there are too many front-burner ideas!).

Still my favourite "What is GIS" video explainer. 60 seconds long, great animation and interesting narrative. Perfect as a class starter or refresher #geographyteacher #GIS

@hahnel.org has anyone ever produced a dataset like this? Could be fun (and meta!) to share the numbers in a Figshare-hosted dataset (with yearly versioning?)

What would you want to do with it? (I'm happy to help you out!)

How to use the Figshare API - Figshare This guide is written for those who may be relatively new to APIs and even new to coding. Rather than a comprehensive guide to using the Figshare API, we hope this gives you a feel for how it works an...

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