#Research

Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #Research from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.

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247
Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
172
Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
40
Recent posts
Mastodon
~0.1/hr
Recent pace
Mastodon · last 40
0.4
Avg reactions / post
Mastodon · last 40
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Reddit posts / month
Reddit search
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Open-web mentions
hashtag.org Firehose

Day-by-day usage

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-26 21:03 UTC
64
10-20
31
10-21
46
10-22
32
10-23
24
10-24
26
10-25
24
10-26

247 uses by 172 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.

Related hashtags

measured · mas.to (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-26 21:03 UTC

Live pulse

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-26 21:03 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~335 hours).

Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 15:00

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Languages: English (35) · German (1) · Russian (1)

Avg boosts / post: 1.1

Top of the latest posts

  • Ever wondered why so many larvae of insects that eat fruits exit the fruit when immersed under water? It's not because they are suffocating, it's because they become positively phototactic when immersed in water. IOW, while without the imme

    Björn Brembs@[email protected]♥ 10↻ 52026-10-26 15:58 UTCView post →
  • Interesting links of the week: Strategy: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXL6K1lhvt0 - weeding out the undesirables, if we're not calling out this kind of shit, we're absolutely part of the problem * https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/pro

    Tim (Wadhwa-)Brown :donor:@[email protected]♥ 5↻ 22026-10-25 09:38 UTCView post →
  • Hypothetical question on #genAI and #PeerReview because I feel this will eventually happen... Say you are a researcher and receive a manuscript to peer-review that, after accepting to review it, you realise used genAI for its analysis and i

    El Duvelle@[email protected]♥ 1↻ 12026-10-26 15:16 UTCView post →

What “research” means

Wiktionary · Wikipedia

research/ɹɪˈsɜːtʃ/

  • nounDiligent inquiry or examination to seek or revise facts, principles, theories, applications, etc.; laborious or continued search after truth.
  • verbTo search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently.
Full entry on Wiktionary →

Research is creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge. It involves the collection, organization, and analysis of evidence to increase understanding of a topic, characterized by a particular attentiveness to controlling sources of bias and error. These activities are characterized by accounting and controlling for biases. A research project may be an expansion of past work in the field. To test the validity of instruments, procedures, or experiments, research may

“Research” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →

#research across platforms

every network with a public tag surface

Follow #research straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.

Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/research