Richard Dawkins ✓
@RichardDawkins · joined 17 Jun 2008
UK biologist & writer
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@RichardDawkins The scientific part of Cambridge needs to distance itself from the diploma mill of made-up subjects, otherwise the entire reputation of the university will not survive.
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@RichardDawkins While I agree with the overall sentiment, it's important to realize that the problems go much farther than merely the Department of Education.
For example, the Master of the Jesus College at Cambridge, Sonita Alleyne, signed a letter stating that she stood in unw
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@RichardDawkins Richard, this is very unfair, I am confident that some of these PhD students will receive the Nobel prize for Cambridge - and then you will have to reconsider your whole body of work.
https://t.co/WBvdhTQkdZ https://t.co/8WpmJ2hKxR
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The University of Cambridge can boast 126 Nobel Prizes. That’s more than any other university in the world except Harvard, and it does it on an endowment that is one twentieth the endowment of Harvard. In the Nobel ranking, Cambridge beats MIT, Chicago, Columbia, Oxford, and Yale
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@RichardDawkins @Inevitablewest https://t.co/SY2KXSrpN8
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@RichardDawkins I've worked with suicidal clients, and I lost a parent to suicide. Suicide is not a joke. However, the idea that it can be turned into a weapon, used to threaten others and to become immune to criticism, is frankly a greater danger to society. A person's fragile c
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@RichardDawkins @wrench_ala39543 You’re completely bypassing decades of in-doctrinal brainwashing with woke ideology.
The reason why they ask “what colour is his skin” first is because of Critical Race Theory and post colonialism that posits that all white people are bad or gui
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I am bewildered, and not very impressed, by the visceral, naked, irrational hatred spat out by some defenders of Jason Arday. If a Cambridge professor is accused of being an unqualified charlatan, the accusation might be racially motivated. On the other hand it might not,
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Extracts from article in Spectator 16th August by Brendan O’Neill:
Behold the human wreckage of the cult of diversity. The tragedy of Jason Arday is that he was both built up and destroyed by the ruthless machinery of DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion). The academy made him
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Extracts from a further Spectator article (Aug 15) by Andrew Gilligan:
An academic project hosted by Cambridge University platforms creationism, the belief that the world was created by God in seven days. It promotes an academic paper demanding that schoolchildren be taught to
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Extracts from 11 Aug article in Spectator by Andrew Gilligan:
After the Jason Arday disaster, here is new evidence that things have gone deeply wrong at Cambridge University.
We can reveal that a former supporter of Hizb ut-Tahrir, now banned as a terror group, has been
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Against accounts of the same size
11 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 1M–10M follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.
Median views106 508this account17 613median for 1M–10M
Reach, %3.72%this account0.82%median for 1M–10M
Engagement, %3.21%this account1.02%median for 1M–10M
| Metric | This account | Median for 1M–10M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 106 508 | 17 613 | 6.05× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 3.72% | 0.82% | 4.53× |
| Engagement rate | 3.21% | 1.02% | 3.15× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
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
284.3K12 Aug
445K15 Aug
570.5K16 Aug
3.7M19 Aug
101.5K
89.6K
106.5K
1M21 Aug
26.2K
36.7K
9.2K
Last 11 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
2.41%12 Aug
2.03%15 Aug
2.63%16 Aug
2.29%19 Aug
3.21%
3.43%
3.24%
1.77%21 Aug
3.23%
4.36%
5.20%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 1M–10M accounts is 1.02%.
What the audience does
Likes77.9%122 544 in total
Reposts11.3%17 819 in total
Replies2.7%4 265 in total
Quotes1.1%1 722 in total
Bookmarks7.0%11 019 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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