Nicholas Christakis

And I found that I was

the reason I went to Twitter was that I used it as a source of information.

Like it was like access to experts in a way that was, you know, really, really helpful to me.

And I found that a lot of the knowledge that I was acquiring, I was acquiring, I curated a list of people with diverse expertise and beliefs and followed them.

And I really enjoyed it.

And then I felt like I had to, it wasn't just appropriate for me to take from the commons.

I had to give to the commons.

So I

I tried to generate content that would reflect my expertise or my ideas and be useful to others.

But in the last few years, I found it to be just incredibly toxic.

And the feed became, even when I just tried to follow only my own people, became full of garbage, a lot of trolling, a lot of mostly far-right conspiracy theories, also some left craziness, of course, too.

I just couldn't use it anymore.

So I basically now I stopped using Twitter and I moved to Blue Sky a couple of years ago where I get mostly, I mean, the politics are another issue, but in terms of the science, you know, I follow about 600 accounts, mostly scientists, and I get good scientific content and I have, you know, reasonable interactions.

I have a 10th of the followers I used to have.

That's fine.

Facebook, I don't really use.

LinkedIn, I don't really use.

I just started a YouTube channel on trying to advance the public understanding of science called For the Love of Science, but I don't really know how to use YouTube.

So we just are posting videos, you know, once a week.

So I'm really just basically blue sky for science.