Jay Shendure

@JShendure · Seattle, WA · joined 11 May 2011

Genomics technology developer. Developmental biology adult learner. Professor at @uwgenome @HHMINEWS @BrotmanBaty SeaHub @AllenInstitute /him.

14 282Followers

332Following

556Posts total

349KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

2 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views73 033this account3 598median for 10K–100K

Reach, %511.36%this account11.59%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.79%this account1.38%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	73 033	3 598	20.3×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	5.1× audience	11.59%	44.1×
Engagement rate	0.79%	1.38%	0.58×

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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

19.6K14 Oct

133.3K29 Apr

12.1K

29.7K3 Jun

8.2K4 Jun

24.9K30 Jul

121.2K31 Jul

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

1.73%14 Oct

0.72%29 Apr

0.61%

0.80%3 Jun

0.75%4 Jun

0.95%30 Jul

0.64%31 Jul

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.38%.

What the audience does

Likes59.4%2 043 in total

Reposts14.4%496 in total

Replies1.9%64 in total

Quotes2.2%75 in total

Bookmarks22.1%760 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.

Latest posts

Thrilled to post thread re: new single-cell lineage of mouse embryo reconstructed w/ DNA Typewriter. One animal, zygote to late organogenesis (E13.5). Tree has 1,340,794 transcriptionally profiled, annotated tips (cells), 1,142,588 dated internal nodes, rooted at zygote 1/n http 121.2K views · 543 likes · 185 reposts · 15 replies 31 Jul 2026 New preprint from Shendure Lab on Locus-Scale aka Long-@$$ MPRAs led by the amazing Abby McGee & @CGBiar! Most MPRAs test ~300 bp fragments next to a promoter. But real enhancers are bigger, act combinatorially and from a distance. 1/n https://t.co/kbx1kA4d97 https://t.co/1g 24.9K views · 175 likes · 55 reposts · 4 replies 30 Jul 2026 Our latest w/ @sudpinglay Lab -- Shred-seq for gigabase-scale deletion scanning of the human genome! Amazing work by @JonasKoeppel 8.2K views · 53 likes · 8 reposts · 1 replies 04 Jun 2026 1/n What fraction of the human genome is essential for cellular viability? Excited to share our preprint that explores this question by combining an unusual CRISPR system, phage promoters, and thousands of deletion launchpads. @sudpinglay @JShendure https://t.co/rTO1MyFv3q h 29.7K views · 172 likes · 53 reposts · 4 replies 03 Jun 2026 Really thrilled by the framing and scale of this new @biohub initiative, including the combination of internal & external investment in tech-dev, open data, modeling and collaborative science, all good things! 12.1K views · 69 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies 29 Apr 2026 Scaling laws are powering AI. It’s time to scale biology. Today we’re launching the Virtual Biology Initiative to generate the data to unlock scaling laws in biology and build accurate predictive models of the cell. Digital representations of proteins are already expanding our 133.3K views · 748 likes · 137 reposts · 38 replies 29 Apr 2026 Super excited re: first Shendure/Baker Lab collaboration & preprint on a multiplex sequencing-based strategy for screening de novo proteome editors in mammalian cells. Kudos to brilliant Chase Suiter & @Green_Ahn @UWproteindesign on the work! Preprint: https://t.co/7gh8Zt 19.6K views · 283 likes · 54 reposts · 1 replies 14 Oct 2025