MIT Science

@ScienceMIT · Cambridge, MA · joined 24 Apr 2010

Official account of the @MIT School of Science

36 396Followers

519Following

12 576Posts total

4.1KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

MIT Science@ScienceMIT13 Aug

Congratulations to Nergis Mavalvala PhD '97, Dean of the MIT School of Science and Curtis and Kathleen Marble Professor of Astrophysics, on being named to the 2026 @Forbes 50 Over 50! #ForbesOver50 https://t.co/boiGp8UrVE https://t.co/Y09OuLpXl4

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MIT Science@ScienceMIT20 Jul

Climate-driven sea level rise is making freshwater ecosystems saltier, and @MIT_Physics researchers have uncovered how that shift could reshape the microbial communities that sustain rivers and estuaries https://t.co/lqSekSnWCW 1K views · 3 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

MIT Science@ScienceMIT13 Jul

The universe keeps telling us that black holes exist in an "impossible" mass zone. That's leaving astronomers to find alternative origin stories for black holes via @gizmodo https://t.co/edp9OuWIE1 625 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

MIT Science@ScienceMIT10 Jun

Congratulations to Pablo Jarillo-Herrero! The @MIT_Physics professor shares the 2026 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience “for foundational work that established the field of twistronics.” https://t.co/UAVCp9jo6W 694 views · 8 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

MIT Science@ScienceMIT16 Apr

At the 2026 NASA Red Sox STEM day, over 4,000 students and teachers learned about NASA’s missions before attending an afternoon game. The @TESSatMIT traveling transit model made the trip to Fenway to demonstrate how TESS searches for planets around distant stars! https://t.co/s9D

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Against accounts of the same size

3 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views1 022this account993median for 10K–100K

Reach, %2.81%this account3.86%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.39%this account1.53%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 022	993	1.03×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.81%	3.86%	0.73×
Engagement rate	0.39%	1.53%	0.26×

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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

37816 Apr

69410 Jun

62513 Jul

1K20 Jul

1.4K13 Aug

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

0.26%16 Apr

1.44%10 Jun

0.32%13 Jul

0.39%20 Jul

1.05%13 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.53%.

What the audience does

Likes81.8%27 in total

Reposts12.1%4 in total

Replies3.0%1 in total

Bookmarks3.0%1 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.