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Christoph Handschin

@c-handschin.bsky.social
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Researcher @biozentrum.bsky.social of @unibasel.bsky.social in 🇨🇭. Skeletal #muscle plasticity / #exercise / #neuromuscular diseases / #aging / #metabolism / #PGC-1alpha biozentrum.unibas.ch/handschin

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Christoph Handschin @c-handschin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
'Twas the season of ... podcasts! Über den Sommer durfte ich meine Meinung in zwei Podcasts kundtun: zuerst bei Felix Hess in "Fit Happens" (grandioser Name!). Teil 1: Wie bleibt man auch im hohen Alter so lange wie möglich gesund? podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fit... 1/4
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Prof. Christoph Handschin: Der Muskel ist deine Apotheke – Longevity Teil 1 by Fit Happens
Wie bleibt man auch im hohen Alter so lange wie möglich gesund? Diese Frage stellen sich immer mehr Personen. Von Rotlicht-Therapie über Eisbaden und Peptide bis zu 100 verschiedenen Supplements pro T...
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Biozentrum, University of Basel @biozentrum.unibas.ch · 10/08/2026
Ready for the next step in your scientific career? Apply now for a fully funded Biozentrum PhD Fellowship and explore a wide range of research fields before choosing your PhD lab. 🧪 Applications for the current call are open until October 18, 2026. More information 👇
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Biozentrum PhD Fellowships
Share your passion for life sciences. If you are talented and highly motivated, want to broaden your horizons and are interested in a wide range of research topics, apply for one of the sought after B...
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Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism @cp-trendsendomet.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Online Now: The local–systemic axis of the skeletal muscle secretome #trends #endocrinology #metabolism
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The local–systemic axis of the skeletal muscle secretome
Exercise stimulates the release of bioactive factors, termed exerkines, that contribute to local and systemic adaptation. Circulating exerkines are often interpreted as direct readouts of muscle secretion, overlooking regulatory processes within tissues that shape their production, transformation, and release. Using skeletal muscle and endurance exercise as a model system, we define a local–systemic secretome axis shaped by spatial organization, stimulus-specific programs, temporal dynamics, extracellular processing, and paracrine circuitry. By integrating evidence from recent transcriptomics, proteomics, interstitial fluid, and extracellular vesicle studies, we outline how these processes govern signal propagation from muscle to circulation and inform the interpretation of circulating exerkines as biomarkers and therapeutic targets.
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Christoph Handschin @c-handschin.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
"Skeletal #muscle is an endocrine organ!" But how do #myokine reach the brain, liver or other organs? Sean Ng @biozentrum.unibas.ch describes the path of muscle-secreted factors through the interstitial space to the circulation. Published in @cp-trendsendomet.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1016/j.te... 🧪
Principles governing production, processing, and selective export of the exercise secretome. From Ng and Handschin (2026) Trends Endocrinol Metab (doi: 10.1016/j.tem.2026.07.001).
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Biozentrum, University of Basel @biozentrum.unibas.ch · 05/05/2026
From molecules to complex biological systems, the Biozentrum explores a wide spectrum of research. In our new series, we introduce the people behind the labs—their science, their ideas, and their stories. We start with @c-handschin.bsky.social and muscle health: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSAi...
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Meet our Professors: Understanding Muscle Health with Prof. Christoph Handschin
YouTube video by BiozentrumBasel
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Christoph Handschin @c-handschin.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Do you want to know more about our research group? Short movie made by @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch youtu.be/dSAiB-ByrrQ?... (English) youtu.be/QJEI2P9BFq0?... (German) Caveat: The algorithm shows "Stop Rambling - Think faster and speak clearer" next in the playlist (see picture below)....
Youtube video on the research group of Christoph Handschin at https://youtu.be/dSAiB-ByrrQ?si=UeWBL1px3NyAouuf
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Biozentrum, University of Basel @biozentrum.unibas.ch · 02/03/2026
The Summer Call for our prestigious, fully funded #PhDFellowships is now open to talented early-career scientists worldwide. 🔬 Rotation-based program 🌍 International community 🗓 Apply by May 8, 2026 Apply now and join a leading life sciences institute! www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/phd/internat...
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Christoph Handschin @c-handschin.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Were you intrigued by our bulk #muscle analysis of acute #exercise and chronic #training published in @natmetabolism.nature.com two years ago? 1/3 doi.org/10.1038/s422...
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Molecular control of endurance training adaptation in male mouse skeletal muscle - Nature Metabolism
The authors explore the molecular signature of skeletal muscle adaptations to an acute bout of exercise in mice, providing a valuable resource that includes transcriptomic, epigenetic, proteomic and p...
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 27/08/2025
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More scientists choose Bluesky over Twitter
It’s not just you. Survey says: “Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky”…
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Biozentrum, University of Basel @biozentrum.unibas.ch · 04/08/2025
Apply now for the prestigious and independent #BiozentrumPhDFellowships. Great science. Unique rotation-based selection of research group and other incentives. The summer call is open until October 12, 2025. bit.ly/4caiqqX @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch #fellowship #PhD#Switzerland
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Biozentrum PhD Fellowships
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?
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American Physiological Society @apsphysiology.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
In today's read from Function, APS CEO Scott Steen explains where we, and #physiology, go from here during this time "of unprecedented challenge for science in the United States." ow.ly/zTTT50Wj8bz #WeArePhysiology 🧪 @apspublications.bsky.social‬
A female scientist in a lab coat is using a microscope to examine a sample.
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Christoph Handschin @c-handschin.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
From the @apsphysiology.bsky.social @apspublications.bsky.social The Breaking Point: Funding Uncertainty Threatens Scientific Innovation www.physiology.org/publications...
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The Breaking Point, Funding Uncertainty Threatens Scientific Innovation
Federal research funding delays and policy shifts are putting science careers and innovation at risk.
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Christoph Handschin @c-handschin.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
@theverge.com www.theverge.com/policy/69730...
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Some patriotic reflections on Independence Day
Look at me. I’m the originalist now.
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Christoph Handschin @c-handschin.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
@theverge.com www.theverge.com/culture/7000...
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How The New York Times is (still) getting gamed by the right
And blowing its credibility in the process.
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Christoph Handschin @c-handschin.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
"Endurance training promotes chromatin closure and timely repression of the post-exercise immediate early stress response" - our new manuscript describes the changes in chromatin accessibility in exercise (acute & training) associated with gene expression. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Endurance training promotes chromatin closure and timely repression of the post-exercise immediate early stress response
Endurance training is known to elicit numerous changes in skeletal muscle to enhance performance and function. Many of these adaptations are controlle…
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APS Publications @apspublications.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
#OpenAccess: Review from Physiological Reviews, Biomarkers of #aging: from molecules and surrogates to physiology and function Regula Furrer and Christoph Handschin 🖱️doi.org/10.1152/phys... #exercise #healthspan #longevity @unibas.ch‬
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Christoph Handschin @c-handschin.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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Bethesda Declaration — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
Support NIH Staff Now!
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Christoph Handschin @c-handschin.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
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US science is being wrecked, and its leadership is fighting the last war
Facing an extreme budget, the National Academies hosted an event that ignored it.
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Christoph Handschin @c-handschin.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
This just in from @apsphysiology.bsky.social "Early reports indicate that the Trump administration’s proposed FY 2026 budget would slash funding for the NIH by more than 40%, cutting the budget from $47 billion to $27 billion. The APS urges Congress to reject this catastrophic proposal..."
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Christoph Handschin @c-handschin.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Now out in the typeset, final version! #openaccess "Biomarkers of aging: from molecules and surrogates to physiology and function" @apspublications.bsky.social @apsphysiology.bsky.social @regula-furrer.bsky.social @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch doi.org/10.1152/phys...
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Biomarkers of aging: from molecules and surrogates to physiology and function | Physiological Reviews | American Physiological Society
Many countries face an unprecedented challenge in aging demographics. This has led to an exponential growth in research on aging, which, coupled to a massive financial influx of funding in the private and public sectors, has resulted in seminal insights into the underpinnings of this biological process. However, critical validation in humans has been hampered by the limited translatability of results obtained in model organisms, additionally confined by the need for extremely time-consuming clinical studies in the ostensible absence of robust biomarkers that would allow monitoring in shorter time frames. In the future, molecular parameters might hold great promise in this regard. In contrast, biomarkers centered on function, resilience, and frailty are available at the present time, with proven predictive value for morbidity and mortality. In this review, the current knowledge of molecular and physiological aspects of human aging, potential antiaging strategies, and the basis, evidence, and potential application of physiological biomarkers in human aging are discussed.
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Christoph Handschin @c-handschin.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
"This moment calls out for moral clarity and resolve. It asks universities to take their mission in society seriously and to resist being co-opted by government forces." @arstechnica.com arstechnica.com/culture/2025...
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Resist, eggheads! Universities are not as weak as they have chosen to be.
Opinion: It’s time for public resistance.
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Christoph Handschin @c-handschin.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
What the is early stress response in exercised #muscle for? At least for Klf5, this seems important to shape lipid homeostasis in the acute (fatty acid metabolism) and chronic (lipid synthesis) settings. All this and more in our new paper: #myoblue www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Krüppel-like factor 5 remodels lipid metabolism in exercised skeletal muscle
Regular physical activity induces a variety of health benefits, preventing and counteracting diseases caused by a sedentary lifestyle. However, the mo…
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Christoph Handschin @c-handschin.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Our magnum opus on everything related to #aging is out as a preprint in Physiological Reviews @apspublications.bsky.social @apsphysiology.bsky.social #openaccess. Great collaboration with @regula-furrer.bsky.social @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch. doi.org/10.1152/phys... Some teasers: 🧵 1/9
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Biomarkers of aging: from molecules and surrogates to physiology and function | Physiological Reviews | American Physiological Society
Many countries face an unprecedented challenge in aging demographics. This has led to an exponential growth in research of aging, which, coupled to a massive financial influx of funding in the private and public sectors, has resulted in seminal insights into the underpinnings of this biological process. However, critical validation in humans have been hampered by the limited translatability of results obtained in model organisms, additionally confined by the need for extremely time-consuming clinical studies in the ostensible absence of robust biomarkers that would allow monitoring in shorter time frames. In the future, molecular parameters might hold great promise in this regard. In contrast, biomarkers centered on function, resilience and frailty are available at the present time, with proven predictive value for morbidity and mortality. In this review, the current knowledge of molecular and physiological aspects of human aging, potential anti-aging strategies, and the basis, evidence, and potential application of physiological biomarkers in human aging are discussed.
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 13/03/2025
Mike spotted this before the rest of us. 🫡 Publications from 2025 are shared more on Bluesky than on X/Twitter.
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Life Science Alliance @lsajournal.org · 10/03/2025
Dysferlin deficiency causes metabolic dysregulation, characterized by mitochondrial abnormalities and death signaling as well as elevated glucose uptake and excessive glycogen accumulation in muscle @biozentrum.unibas.ch @regula-furrer.bsky.social @c-handschin.bsky.social buff.ly/xMvVaxk
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Christoph Handschin @c-handschin.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
What are good #biomarkers of #aging? Exciting data on plasma proteomics, epigenetic clocks and other molecular parameters might supplement existing biomarkers of health, morbidity and mortality in the future. However, at the moment, good clinical data from large and heterogeneous... 1/3
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Christoph Handschin @c-handschin.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Our new paper on #metabolism in #dysferlinopathies / #LGMD2B is out! Why is restoration of membrane repair insufficient to improve disease pathology? Possible explanations in this paper by @regula-furrer.bsky.social and colleagues @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch doi.org/10.26508/lsa... 1/4 🧵
Metabolic alterations in dysferlinopathies contribute to disease pathology. From https://doi.org/10.26508/lsa.202402991
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
"the most strongly worded articles [in response to the CDC edict] have come from editors of UK publications...the culture of campaigning journalism that The Lancet and The BMJ, in particular, publish often does not sit well with US readers" ck.journalology.com/posts/journa...
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Journalology #107: Censorship and chaos
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Christoph Handschin @c-handschin.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
This is not only an American problem! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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American chaos: standing up for health and medicine
Withdrawal from WHO and the Paris Agreements. USAID shuttered and aid halted, ceasing health programmes globally. A freeze on US$3 trillion worth of federal grants and loans, jeopardising the function...
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mackinprof.bsky.social @mackinprof.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Preserving muscle with GLP-1 weight loss drugs: Big deal or nothing to worry about? theconversation.com/preserving-m...
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Preserving muscle with GLP-1 weight loss drugs: Big deal or nothing to worry about?
Early clinical trials suggest that people who lose weight with drugs like Ozempic lose lean mass as well as fat, which could have consequences for older adults at risk of muscle loss.
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Christoph Handschin @c-handschin.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
“Unlocking Athletic Potential: Exploring Exercise Physiology from Mechanisms to Performance” in FRBM is complete! Reviews on exercise physiology, muscle plasticity, molecular mechanisms and more! All #openaccess! #myoblue #muscle #exercise www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... A long🧵: 1/17
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Free Radical Biology and Medicine | Unlocking Athletic Potential: Exploring Exercise Physiology from Mechanisms to Performance | ScienceDirect.com by ElsevierScienceDirect
Exercise training involves repeated exposure to increases in metabolic, thermal, mechanical, and oxidative stress. This exposure stimulates physiological adaptations that improve tolerance to similar ...
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Nature @nature.com · 24/01/2025
Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X go.nature.com/42tH8Ai
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Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform
Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.
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watson News @watson.ch · 10/01/2025
Elon Musk wird von den Medien verteidigt: Sagt mal, geht's noch? Ein Kommentar.
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Sagt mal, geht's noch?
Elon Musk ist der reichste Mensch der Welt, einer der engsten Gefährten des bald mächtigsten Menschen der Welt und er besitzt mit X ein gewaltiges Sprachrohr: Er braucht keine Fürsprecher. Dass etablierte Medien statt ihm strengstens auf die Finger zu schauen – wie es unser Auftrag wäre – ihn vor Empörungen verteidigen, ist stossend.
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Helpful guide to Bksy for newbies, courtesy of @jacoates.bsky.social zenodo.org/records/1449...
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Getting started on BlueSky; a guide for scientists
A quick getting started guide created by Jonny for using BlueSky, aimed primarily at scientists, particularly those interested in open science and research culture. You can follow Rippling Ideas here....
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Craig A. Goodman @craigagoodman1.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Enhancing muscle and brain resilience: The role of prehabilitative exercise in mitigating disuse effects physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...
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Enhancing muscle and brain resilience: The role of prehabilitative exercise in mitigating disuse effects
Abstract figure legend Prehabilitative exercise is the process of preparing, through structured exercise, for anticipated disuse (e.g. bed rest or limb immobilization). Despite positive findings in c...
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Biozentrum, University of Basel @biozentrum.unibas.ch · 06/01/2025
#BiozentrumResearchSummer 2025: Internships for #Bachelor Students in the #NaturalSciences! Engage in a real-life research project in one of the Biozentrum labs during 7 to 9 weeks. Join us and apply by February 23, 2025. @biozentrum.bsky.social @unibas.ch bit.ly/3mYZEsC
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 03/12/2024
BLUESKY MEGA-THREAD Altmetric is thrilled and also LITERALLY RELIEVED to officially announce: We are now tracking research attention as it happens on Bluesky! We have been picking up posts on the site since late Oct. Our team is on Bluesky all day answering questions. Let's get into it!
Blueksy Mentions are now in Altmetric.

It's been 84 years meme

#AcademicSky #HigherEd #MedSky #HMSky #Altmetrics #Medlibs #Metascience
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Christoph Handschin @c-handschin.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Just wondering who might have been fastest PI at today's @biozentrum.bsky.social staircase run???
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Rose 🌹 @rose.bsky.team · 26/11/2024
You wanted starter packs to be searchable. Our engineers are busy keeping us online, so in the meantime, an independent developer built a new searchable library of starter packs. This is the beauty of building in the open 🦋
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Woojin Han @thewooj.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I noticed there wasn’t a starter pack for skeletal muscle scientists, so I made one as the muscle community continues to migrate here. Drop a comment if you’d like to be included! go.bsky.app/3hKK1WX
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Agingdoc⭐David Barzilai🔔MD PhD, MS, MBA, DipABLM @agingdoc.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Like ‘old Twitter’: The scientific community finds a new home on Bluesky 🧪 🔘 February: Bluesky had 3 million users. 🔘 5 November: nearly 14 million users. 🔘Two weeks later it has passed 20 million. 🔑 “It’s just gone completely crazy,” says Mike Young 👨🏻‍⚕️ www.science.org/content/arti...
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a man with a mustache and a suit says " it 's science "
ALT: a man with a mustache and a suit says " it 's science "
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Karyn @kaesser.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
go.bsky.app/S4DM57n
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