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In recent years another platform, Bluesky, has emerged and appears to encourage scientific discourse, and a wave of migration of researchers from X to Bluesky has been documented in survey data, poll responses and altmetric records. Whether scientific claims are described differently on the two platforms has not been fully studied. We collected 8,697 Bluesky posts and 3,48,900 X posts mentioning the term science over a matched observation window, restricted in both cases to English-language text written by the posting account. A combination of data analysis and natural language processing tools was then used to compare the discourse on the two platforms, quantifying disciplinary composition, field concentration, cross-disciplinary reference and linguistic register, with effect sizes reported alongside every test and correction applied for multiple comparisons. The two platforms carried posts across a similar range of science-related topics, including health and medicine, biology and life sciences, and engineering and technology. However, posts on X were easier to read (Flesch\u2013Kincaid grade 9.07 against 10.02), addressed the reader more directly (second-person pronouns 0.0153 against 0.0093) and were less complex (complex word density 0.092 against 0.108). Posts on Bluesky were longer (30.6 against 28.7 words; 15.98 against 14.54 words per sentence), more concentrated within single disciplines (mean field isolation 0.6882 against 0.6200), higher in first-person pronoun use (0.0255 against 0.0208) and more often classified as academic (16.6% against 12.7%). 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