Ben McLeish

Hello Skywalkers! NEW: Altmetric now indicates if a piece of research has been retracted, and (if available) why. Long-requested, and finally here, our Details Pages now flag prominently the retraction status and retraction reasons.

Happy Invalid Handle Day to all who celebrate

In the first level of Knowledge Fight Country, Dan and his guest adventurer Molly Conger set out to understand the context around Tucker Carlson's interview with a welder who is mad about algebra. @showmestateofmind.bsky.social @socialistdogmom.bsky.social www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...

A video. Watch it.

NEW Mendeley Readership History timeline on Details Pages. When we launched the attention timelines on our details pages last year, one item was conspicuously absent: Mendeley. Until now, Details Pages could only show where the count of Mendeley readers stands today. Here's what you get today:

@travisclark.bsky.social literally only just worked out that Track Rivals is an anagram of Travis Clark. I wonder why I didn’t become an intelligence operative or a brain surgeon.

Yesterday, the Rusich group made ambiguous hints about the Estonian town of Narva on its Telegram channel.

We added 19 new policy organisations to our tracking last month! Here are five of them, interspersed with YouTube videos that will also make your day. You should totally check them out.

UK Nationals.

The Swiss Vatnik Party initiative was strongly rejected today! A yes would have greatly reduced Switzerland's ability to sanction belligerent states, such as russia.

Just one of many accounts on the Hellsite pretending to be Ukrainian, pumping out Russian propaganda, actually from Nigeria. The entire site is a misinformation engine.

South Korea's President is furious at Zelensky for publicly revealing that captured North Korea soldiers chose to defect to the South. I can explain why...

Doug Stanhope appearing on Soft White Underbelly. And just like that, my year is complete.

This serves as advertisement for Alex Gibney’s documentary, Musk, opening October 9. Pass it on.

Kremlin money-laundering scheme moved $6.9 billion through global banks including Citigroup and Standard Chartered in breach of sanctions. [🎁 Gift Article] giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Man the new season of Netflix’s Monster (covering Lizzie Borden) is somehow so much more hardcore than even the Ed Gein season but it’s a bare-knuckle ride the whole way through. Amazing. And Charlie Hunnam is in it again! And he RULES this time too. The leading ladies dominate, however.

The Southern District of New York has uncovered a Russian-backed plot to murder people on US soil. And at the same time that Putin is trying to murder people in America, Trump is sending his FBI Director to Russia to increase cooperation between our two nations.

More from the Authoritarians Club: Trump envoy John Coale says the US has urged banks to unfreeze Belarusian assets.

Altmetric now tracks how seminars cite research as well as how seminars themselves are distributed online.

New Elephant Graveyard vid. Sure seems like a whole lot of the Rogan-sphere comedy clowns are tied up with the Epstein crew. youtu.be/wn9pQb4ukBo?...

We gave our Details Pages a facelift today. Now when you share actual details pages of attention an article has received, you get a much nicer layout.

I'll wager those 900k tweets in April include an awful lot of anti vax nonsense and lazy retweet bots. I guess it all "counts", but increasingly it should be quality as well as quantity (Altmetric also measures social media sentiment.)

“Swales said he had seen "first-hand" how "Reform simply doesn't have a serious plan".”

Ukraine (most likely) attacked another Russian ship in the Mediterranean Sea. This is impressive reach for Ukraine's drone forces.

🧵 (Part 2) Science is Not Just for Scientists We recently cast our eye back over history to answer "should science just be for scientists?" Turns out some of the great minds came from outside the academy. This week we present the modern heroes of citizen science. 1/25 bsky.app/profile/altm...

RIP Gloria Steinem. The world has lost a true pioneer and force for women rights,,, my deepest condolences to her family, friends, and team. Public Enemy will be forever grateful for her blessing and support of our track SHE GOT GAME. open.spotify.com/album/0BG4L6...

Saturday Night Live UK will return on 12th September with Jeff Goldblum as guest host, and CMAT as the musical act. www.comedy.co.uk/tv/fyi/1172/...

Hey @clppng.bsky.social isn’t this King Mala song like, ummm, YOUR melody? youtu.be/8mqfcDhUQBo?...

Let’s hope they raise their kids to know the harms of social media.

An a16z article argues that enshittification isn’t real and that people actually love social media.

The US is currently experiencing the largest Cyclospora outbreak ever recorded.

As Graffiti artists go, I didn't mind Helch's work. Some of the larger pieces were spectacular. RIP. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Alexander Graham Bell may have perfected the telephone, but Phillip Reis invented it. Here's his birthplace in Gelnhausen, Hesse. He may have also developed the roller skate we we know it. Fascinating bloke!

The LEGO Birdman Movie or (The LEGO Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance Movie) (2014)

New study: At Nature Communications (2016-2022), papers approved by #OpenPeerReview had higher #altmetrics scores than papers approved by conventional #PeerReview. www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-9... #Impact #ScholComm

Bellingcat is a finalist in 5 categories in the Online Journalism Awards, the first for General Excellence in Online Journalism, Small Newsroom awards.journalists.org/entries/bell...

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Not King Harald V. Another piece of my childhood gone. 2026 is the new 2016.

Fantastic new incompetence from Manchester Airport. www.manchesterairport.co.uk/help/data-se...

Putin:

I on the other hand asked for the Camel Milk Cortado and was not disappointed, because they also didn’t have that and that would be gross.

Losing Dolly Parton and Tim Curry within basically hours of each other has real 2016 energy :-( www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

A police department in Florida used “decoy” Flock cameras that an officer 3D-printed at home to “bait” would-be vandals and charged a man with three felonies after he cut down and destroyed one of the plastic devices. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYCv...