Dava Newman

@DavaExplorer · joined 22 Jun 2015

@MIT Apollo Professor: Explorer-Engineer-Educator-Leader #STEAMD science, tech, engineering, arts, math, design. Former @NASA Deputy Admin & @MediaLab Director.

60 800Followers

38Following

4 300Posts total

14.2KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Dava Newman@DavaExplorer30 Aug

In case you slept in today - Go @NASARoman ! Congrats to all on a magnificent launch. Now she’s traveling 1 million miles to L2 to give @JWSTObservation some company and Astronomy Power to invest the universe’s dark energy, exoplanets and more. Do the hard things! Under budget! 1.3K views · 8 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Dava Newman@DavaExplorer29 Jun

This is the USA. This is what democracy looks like, community, respect, dignity, and integrity. #WeAreAmerica250 Week Five in 250 to 250 . Thanks HCR for telling our shared history (herstory). https://t.co/AiAjoZCHzM 274 views · 3 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Dava Newman@DavaExplorer6 May

May the 4th and everyday be with you! #STEAMD. The next US President, famous actor, astronaut, public school teacher, change maker will walk through those doors on onward to inspire us all. Just like @BarackObama @MarkHamill @NASA 356 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Dava Newman@DavaExplorer6 May

Huge Congrats, Danielle @space_enabled. You make us all better @MIT! 4.5K views · 5 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Dava Newman@DavaExplorer6 May

Celebrating HERstory, the pathbreaking human computers, and @NASA heroes! No longer a @HiddenFigures @WomenNASA We will not be written out of history. #IfThenSheCan 706 views · 7 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Dava Newman@DavaExplorer5 May

Congratulations to Prof. Danielle Wood (@space_enabled) on receiving the 2026 Paul Gray Faculty Award for Public Service from the PKG Public Service Center at MIT (! The award recognizes MIT faculty members who exemplify building a better world through their teaching, research, 5.8K views · 8 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Dava Newman@DavaExplorer5 May

#OTD 5/5/2017: @NASA_Langley honored Katherine Johnson by naming a new computer research lab as a tribute to her. https://t.co/kR3fOgWEys @WomenNASA @HiddenFigures #WomeninSTEM https://t.co/xC423czV1o

1.3K views · 23 likes · 7 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

2 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers of the same size.

Median views763this account927median for 10K–100K

Reach, %1.25%this account3.63%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.27%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	763	927	0.82×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	1.25%	3.63%	0.35×
Engagement rate	1.27%	1.52%	0.84×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

1.3K5 May

5.8K

7066 May

4.5K

356

27429 Jun

1.3K30 Aug

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

2.33%5 May

0.14%

1.13%6 May

0.13%

0.28%

1.82%29 Jun

0.72%30 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes82.1%55 in total

Reposts14.9%10 in total

Replies3.0%2 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

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