About Lightnews

Lightnews surfaces the most relevant scholar-driven perspectives on today’s news, pulling posts and recommendations from researchers across social media and major publications into a focused front page for your day.

Instead of a random, time-wasting scroll, your home feed becomes a ranked briefing on the most important developments, with clear paths to go deeper into the most relevant expert takes.

Lightnews is unequivocally committed to democracy, openness, freedom of the press and academic freedom – the freedom of scientific inquiry and the autonomy of universities. These principles guide our product direction and institutional choices.

In ranking, we are content-neutral: we prioritize expertise and relevance, not viewpoints. Posts are never up- or down-ranked because we agree or disagree with them; they move up the feed when they are timely, on-topic and backed by strong scholarly credentials and engagement.

How ranking works

Stories are drawn from global coverage in roughly the past 24 hours. For each story, commentary is ordered by a transparent Scholar Power score that blends topic match, scholarly standing (including h-index-style impact), post relevance, recency and social momentum. Tap the Scholar Power badge on any post to see the breakdown.

A full Bluesky client

Lightnews is also a full Bluesky client. Browse News, Trending and My Scholars alongside your standard Bluesky feeds, and reply, like, repost and publish just as in the native app – but starting from a home feed that shows what matters most, not just whatever happens to be newest.

Commitment to the AT Protocol

Lightnews is Swiss-based and committed to the openness of the AT Protocol, providing a stable, independent foothold for the ecosystem if it ever faces regulatory or corporate disruption.