PNASNews

@PNASNews · Washington, DC · joined 28 Feb 2011

Cutting-edge news & reports from PNAS, one of the world's most-cited scientific journals, sibling journal of @PNASNexus & an official journal of @theNASciences.

183 964Followers

1 241Following

19 127Posts total

24.8KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views5 332this account21 891median for 100K–1M

Reach, %2.90%this account6.81%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.21%this account1.14%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	5 332	21 891	0.24×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.90%	6.81%	0.43×
Engagement rate	0.21%	1.14%	0.18×

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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

4.3K27 Aug

5.3K1 Sep

3.4K

5.9K2 Sep

5.8K

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.14%27 Aug

0.21%1 Sep

0.06%

0.48%2 Sep

0.22%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.14%.

What the audience does

Likes64.0%48 in total

Reposts16.0%12 in total

Bookmarks20.0%15 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

Materials under compression will eventually break, bend, or buckle. In some applications, this can be a feature rather than a bug. A study of controlled propagation of buckling events explores the possibilities. In @PNASNexus: https://t.co/7PuyECsBkp https://t.co/ld6FX4fBqj 5.8K views · 11 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 A study of blood and fecal samples from dogs chronicles extensive changes to the gut microbiome after switching to a low- carbohydrate diet. The specific changes depended on whether carbohydrate energy was replaced with fat or protein. In PNAS: https://t.co/iNZ0xWlgnW https://t.c 5.9K views · 21 likes · 7 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 PNAS 2027 subscription rates are here! Get year-round access to high-impact research, Special Features, and 32,000+ pages of groundbreaking science, along with the full archive dating back to 1915. Subscribe today: https://t.co/Bom4MgSnOT https://t.co/3rtLt6BqZO 3.4K views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 01 Sep 2026 A review discusses what is lost when assisted reproductive procedures bypass the fallopian tube. The fallopian tube is an active regulator of preimplantation embryonic development and a biosensor of embryo quality. In @PNASNexus: https://t.co/3L1yA8I0kv https://t.co/nQPxDyE2EW 5.3K views · 9 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies 01 Sep 2026 In this issue: Lyme disease ecology in New York, evidence that a painted plaque suggests an Austronesian tradition preceded Neolithic pottery, and a stem cell-derived model of neurodegenerative retinal diseases. In PNAS: https://t.co/tFwkWfKG4Q https://t.co/rrlAzVPjA8 4.3K views · 5 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 27 Aug 2026