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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We’re releasing new Skygest features soon! Follow this account to be eligible for early access 🙂

Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

yes :) Implementing that now but want to make sure it's great + we think carefully about human agency for feeds. Thanks for the interest!

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Wonderful talk by @sjgreenwood.bsky.social about @paper-feed.bsky.social! Custom feeds on Bluesky are unique resources for researchers interested in recommendation algorithms #IC2S2 Featuring many Bluesky friends like @graze.social @devingaffney.com @kissane.myatproto.social @aendra.com

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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

lol sorry -- we've been going back and forth on removing all pdfs. Probably we should just invest in better categorization of raw pdfs

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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Just people you follow! We're working on tooling for giving users more control over this though :)

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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

In case you missed it-- check out our Paper Skygest preprint! ⤵️

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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

not yet but we are hoping to start rolling out!

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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Update: Bluesky now also sends non-public data on post interaction, as described below:

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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Update: Bluesky now also sends non-public data on post interaction, as described below:

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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

As before, we value your privacy and will never release individual-level data! You can request your data to be removed from research analyses by contacting our team: paper.feed.bluesky@gmail.com!

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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

🎉 Exciting news! 🎉 Bluesky is providing more tools for feed developers -- in particular, they now send us data on feed usage, e.g., which posts you saw on Paper Skygest. We'll be using this to analyze A/B tests to improve the feed and study academic Bluesky.

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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I think the link might be broken - this one should work! bsky.app/profile/pape...

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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Thanks for the kind words! We have a further request: we're writing a paper about Paper Skygest, and would love to quote your post in the paper. By default, our plan is to just quote your post anonymously. But if you prefer, we can either remove the quote or include your handle/link. Thank you!

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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Thanks for writing this and your paper! We are building a personalized research feed that just shows posts about papers from people in your network. Would love a signal boost in case you check it out and like it! bsky.app/profile/nkga...

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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

For more information about Paper Skygest, see below!

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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

**Please repost** If you're enjoying Paper Skygest -- our personalized feed of academic content on Bluesky -- we'd appreciate you reposting this! We’ve found that the most effective way for us to reach new users and communities is through users sharing it with their network

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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Thanks for sharing and the kind words!

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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Thanks for sharing and kind words!

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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

yeah, DM or just replying here would be great, thanks!

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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Thanks for sharing -- at the moment, we capture any post that has a doi, links to a pdf, is from a large list of urls of journals/publication hosts, or has some "paper announcement" patterns. Newspaper links are a mistake; please send them to us!

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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Let us know if we're missing anything systematically, and we're happy to tune the filters!

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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

[This will be true for _new_ posts going forward but old posts from before this morning are still in our database and may be shown]

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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Update: we kept generic ".pdf" links to capture the long tail of papers, but now exclude courtlistener and other popular court case websites. let us know if there are other exclusions to explicitly consider adding!

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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Because Skygest currently picks up all pdfs, we know we include court cases and legal discussion. We are considering explicitly excluding such posts (e.g., courtlistener links). Please reply if you have a strong opinion in either direction or have other common false positives that we should exclude

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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Thanks for the feedback, can you share an example post that's not picked up? We'll edit the inclusion criteria!

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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Also -- if you'd like to continue using Skygest while having your data omitted from our research, that's totally possible! We'd still need to store some limited data about you in order to keep the feed working, but wouldn't include it in any analyses. Just let us know your preference :)

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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

We've noted your Bluesky ID to remove your data from our dataset! For future reference for others, unfortunately Bluesky doesn't tell us when someone has pinned/unpinned the feed so we can't use that.

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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Thanks! yeah to reduce false negatives we currently include any pdf, which does unfortunately pick up judicial rulings. If there are specific urls that you can share that are commonly judicial rulings, happy to exclude them specifically!

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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Finally, we are always looking for feedback/suggestions :) For example, if we’re missing a type of paper post (not capturing a journal/conference url in your field), we are glad to make updates! cornell.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

(2) We have launched a new tool: Paper Skygest Bookmarks! This is a list of posts about papers that you have liked. You need to like the post *containing the url*; it doesn’t matter whether you like the post while using Skygest.

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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Hi Skygesters! We have 2 updates. (1) We are starting to do research to improve and study Skygest and want everyone on board! See our thread here for details regarding data and consent.

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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

If you have any questions or concerns regarding your rights as a subject in this study, you may contact the Institutional Review Board (IRB) for Human Participants at 607-255-6182 or access their website at researchservices.cornell.edu/offices/IRB.

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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

By moving forward and continuing to access Paper Skygest, you are consenting to participating in research; usage is voluntary. If you would like to opt out and remove your data while using Skygest, or if you have questions, you may contact us at paper.feed.bluesky@gmail.com.

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