Sasha Gusev ✓

@SashaGusevPosts · joined 03 Jan 2023

Statistical geneticist | Associate Prof at @DanaFarber / @harvardmed / @DFCIPopSci | Blogging at https://t.co/4D7UObBNdd

25 086Followers

2 925Following

23 197Posts total

1.2MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views48 220this account3 137median for 10K–100K

Reach, %192.22%this account10.26%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.83%this account1.47%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	48 220	3 137	15.4×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	192.22%	10.26%	18.7×
Engagement rate	0.83%	1.47%	0.56×

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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

629.6K21 Feb

48.2K28 Aug

26.3K30 Aug

4.3K

259.1K2 Sep

14.4K

165K3 Sep

57.6K

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.29%21 Feb

1.03%28 Aug

0.83%30 Aug

0.56%

0.79%2 Sep

0.94%

1.44%3 Sep

0.66%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.47%.

What the audience does

Likes64.8%6 387 in total

Reposts7.5%742 in total

Replies2.5%244 in total

Quotes1.4%135 in total

Bookmarks23.8%2 344 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

*opinion journalists when other opinion journalists write a bad opinion editorial in the Nature opinion editorial section* : "wow, academia is really cooked" 57.6K views · 306 likes · 22 reposts · 42 replies 03 Sep 2026 Academia is cooked and it’s too bad. Institutions not even making cursory efforts to preserve their credibility. 165K views · 2.2K likes · 162 reposts · 33 replies 03 Sep 2026 👇 (and periodic reminder that Nature has a news arm that is independent from the scientific publishing arm) 14.4K views · 108 likes · 7 reposts · 17 replies 02 Sep 2026 This editorial is appalling. It omits any mention of Arday's serial fabulism or his attempt to intimidate -- and direct law enforcement against -- a journalist investigating his misconduct. It appears to characterize his fabrication of academic credentials and biographical https: 259.1K views · 1.8K likes · 207 reposts · 50 replies 02 Sep 2026 " But, since we observe that reward hacking is a pretty context-specific problem connected to particular training methods in poorly-built environments that incentivize meta-gaming, we can approach it as an engineering problem and make progress. " 💯 4.3K views · 22 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 30 Aug 2026 A lot of rationalist predictions are vindicated by the HF attack But there are important differences from the "paperclip maximizer" story. In particular, the premise of the paperclip maximizer is that AIs would respond to any goal with reward hacking and instrumental 26.3K views · 163 likes · 20 reposts · 28 replies 30 Aug 2026 This guy has a truly unmatched ability to land on the wrong side of 80:20 policy issues. What a run. https://t.co/wwc7U84iU0 48.2K views · 462 likes · 12 reposts · 21 replies 28 Aug 2026 I've written about race, genetic ancestry, analyses of large biobanks, and human history https://t.co/DogeRfUCdr I'll summarize the key points here 🧵: https://t.co/QZr4km0BRN 629.6K views · 1.4K likes · 312 reposts · 51 replies 21 Feb 2024