I made a BlueSky feed to track the latest and most-engaged academic research publications using DOIs.

tldr: I made a feed of BlueSky posts containing DOIs to help researchers spot the latest and most-engaged publications.

Bluesky

Over the past year a lot of researchers have moved to Bluesky It’s become a handy place to share papers, datasets, figures, and the odd thread that actually explains the work.

I wanted to help that along with a feed that spots DOIs in posts and surfaces them in one place. It’s simple, it’s useful, and it’s also a fun way for me to learn more about Bluesky and the AT Protocol, and to help researchers.

What is it?

The feed watches for Digital Object Identifiers in Bluesky posts and pulls them into a single stream. What matters is the many ways a DOI can show up: straight from doi.org, via legacy dx.doi.org, or through resolver proxies like CrossRef (dx.crossref.org), DataCite (dx.datacite.org), publishers' custom domains and any legacy forms.

In short, it catches all the the common and uncommon shapes DOIs take in the wild.

So what?

If you’re an academic or just curious about the latest science, it saves time.

It’s also a decent way to find new people to follow: authors, data stewards, and projects you might have missed.

Now what?

📌 Pin the feed to discover fresh research worth reading, bookmarking, or citing.

❤️ If you like it, give it a heart.

📩 Share it with your colleagues who are settling into Bluesky.

Make it better?

GitHub - renderghost/bluesky-feed-doi: A structured reference of all known DOI (Digital Object Identifier) patterns, including canonical, legacy, and alternative resolver URLs.

A structured reference of all known DOI (Digital Object Identifier) patterns, including canonical, legacy, and alternative resolver URLs. - renderghost/bluesky-feed-doi

The matching rules live on Github so anyone can inspect, test, and help improve it. If you spot a bug or know about more resolver URL patterns I may have missed, please send me a skeet , raise an issue , or open a pull request .

Some inspirational texts

Scientists Leaving Elon Musk’s X are Driving Growth on Bluesky: Study

With rising engagement and originality, Bluesky is fast becoming a go-to platform for science communication and scholarly exchange.

Scientists say X (formerly Twitter) has lost its professional edge — and Bluesky is taking its place

After Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter, many scientists report the platform is no longer suitable for professional use. A recent survey indicates that researchers are increasingly turning to Bluesky, which they view as more useful, welcoming, and aligned with their goals.

Why Academics Are Leaving Twitter for Bluesky

A cornerstone of the social media landscape is that network effects create high switching costs, making it difficult for users to exit to other platforms once entrenched. Seminal work by Katz and Shapiro [1] explains how markets with strong network externalities often tend toward “winner-take-all” outcomes, as the value of a platform grows with each additional user. These network effects help incumbents maintain dominance [2, 3], especially when leaving a platform means severing ties to an established social network, which induces negative externalities even on non-users [4]. A service like Twitter/X remains valuable to each user until a critical mass moves elsewhere, making coordinated departure inherently difficult. Even if users are dissatisfied with a platform’s governance, features, or content policies, they may remain out of fear that migrating would cost them both reach and relationships.