Bluesky vs. Twitter at COSYNE 2026

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I am interested in network effects in social media & post activity related to recent conferences may be an indicator of this.

Therefore, I counted Bluesky vs. X/Twitter posts mentioning #cosyne2026 hashtags, with more Bluesky posts this time around.

For comparison: during SfN 2025, it was fun to check the hashtag activity for #sfn25 or #sfn2025 here on Bluesky, so I wondered how it would compare to Twitter. Grabbed the number of posts for each day via the API and it seems to be pretty comparable.

(with reposts & replies excluded)

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