SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

@SLAClab · Menlo Park, CA · joined 17 Nov 2009

Official account of the U.S. Department of @ENERGY's Silicon Valley national lab, operated by @Stanford. Verify: https://t.co/mXToIBppNr

28 694Followers

448Following

13 731Posts total

48.7KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views1 120this account2 751median for 10K–100K

Reach, %3.90%this account9.00%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.46%this account1.65%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 120	2 751	0.41×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.90%	9.00%	0.43×
Engagement rate	1.46%	1.65%	0.88×

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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

1.4K26 Aug

84527 Aug

1.1K28 Aug

96231 Aug

44.3K1 Sep

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

3.23%26 Aug

1.42%27 Aug

1.88%28 Aug

1.46%31 Aug

0.56%1 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.65%.

What the audience does

Likes65.8%265 in total

Reposts14.1%57 in total

Replies4.0%16 in total

Quotes1.0%4 in total

Bookmarks15.1%61 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

Could this unexpected signal be our first detection of dark matter? The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment, world-leading dark matter detector, has observed a particle interaction that is the most compelling hint of dark matter reported by the experiment to date: https://t.co/ymDirjHdmA http 44.3K views · 191 likes · 40 reposts · 14 replies 01 Sep 2026 Starting small. This photo shows a small fuel cell inside of a sample chamber at our synchrotron. The conditions inside of the sample chamber can be tuned to various pressures, allowing scientists to study fuel cells and other active chemistry under more realistic conditions. ht 962 views · 10 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies 31 Aug 2026 Cracking the solid-state battery 🔋 Lithium-filled cracks can lead to short circuits & drain charge, but @Stanford & SLAC researchers found that compressing the battery material altered the formation & led to shorter charging times + longer battery life: https://t.co/ 1.1K views · 17 likes · 4 reposts · 0 replies 28 Aug 2026 Ancient #TBT Our X-rays once uncovered a 6th century translation of a book by the Greek-Roman doctor Galen, allowing the hidden text to be read for the first time in a thousand years. Learn more: https://t.co/tTpeVXXkNY https://t.co/zwrXgabyRx 845 views · 8 likes · 4 reposts · 0 replies 27 Aug 2026 A deep underground and extremely cold hunt 🔍 One of the world’s most sensitive dark matter searches, from more than a mile beneath Earth’s surface, has begun collecting its very first scientific data: https://t.co/EuzaDknwc6 https://t.co/XQGVjhD16G 1.4K views · 39 likes · 6 reposts · 1 replies 26 Aug 2026