A word on bias : clearly this survey accounts only for scientists that were actively following from 2. to 9. February 2026 the science and academia related hashtags from the first post, which are in English, or were reached by the over 260 boosts, which were not only in English. The aim was not to get some robust numbers of #EUScientists on Mastodon, but to get a rough idea of coverage. Many of the people who boosted had over a hundred followers, some over a thousand. Difficult to say how much overlap there was (the possibility of a detailed analysis of all followers of all boosters would clearly be interesting), but with a mean of 200 non-overlapping followers, this survey might have reached 50.000 people or more (some boosts were organizational account with several thousand followers). Thanks for several links of other studies with a similar aim, I will have a look and report back here :-)
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After seven days, here are the final results (thanks to all participants up to the last minute), recalculated across the three difference surveys.
Overall 375 responses, only two countries around 20% (France/Germany), two around 10% (Finland/Netherlands), UK at 5,9%, all other countries have at least one respondent or up to 5% , except Hungary, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Romania, Slovakia, where zero votes were counted. So in this survey of EU scientists, who were in these seven days actively following science related hashtags, and covered by the 263 boosts, five countries represented over 70% of the respondents, and 18 countries the remaining 30%. There will be some more follow up posts
However overall, given that the for me impressive number of 375 respondents is probably just a fraction of EU scientists on Mastodon, the EU coverage is quite impressive.
I would propose, for subjects concerning EU scientists, to follow the existing but relatively rarely used #EUScientists
#AcademicChatter
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