Colin Wight (not Colin Wright) ✓

@colwight · WhereverIAm · joined 17 Jul 2011

Emeritus Prof of International Relations. Philosophy of science & social science, terrorism. Reality over slogans: war, sex, academia. NUFC. Guitar.

19 016Followers

3 965Following

114 352Posts total

156.4KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.

Median views1 611this account2 043median for 10K–100K

Reach, %8.47%this account6.16%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %2.04%this account1.59%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 611	2 043	0.79×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	8.47%	6.16%	1.38×
Engagement rate	2.04%	1.59%	1.28×

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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

20.5K3 Sep

128K

2.8K4 Sep

703

561

1.2K

605

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

0.21%3 Sep

1.72%

5.56%

2.36%4 Sep

2.99%

0.71%

0.67%

3.47%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.59%.

What the audience does

Likes75.3%5 512 in total

Reposts22.7%1 662 in total

Replies1.0%75 in total

Quotes0.9%64 in total

Bookmarks0.1%7 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

Cathy clearly didn’t read the @SwipeWright and @benryanwriter piece. It’s a very detailed engagement and critique with the thesis. And if a piece of work falls within the identitarian/postmodern turn then even by Cathy’s own standard it’s subject to criticism. And the idea you 605 views · 19 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 04 Sep 2026 @ProfAliceS @OxSoc @dpxton Critiquing the identitarian/postmodern turn in sociology is very different from rubbishing the entirety of the humanities & social sciences. It needs careful engagement & critique rather than ridicule. 1.2K views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 6 replies 04 Sep 2026 Heller moved the goalposts to a narrow aspect of what Kylie meant by “about”. She’s obviously referring to the whole Arday circus; the media pile on, the race stuff, the tragedy. Obviously, since this whole affair originated in academic misconduct then some aspects are going to 561 views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 Everything is traceable back to the Jews. Everything and always. Just waiting to hear the Jews killed Bambi. 703 views · 15 likes · 2 reposts · 4 replies 04 Sep 2026 He’s still pushing this line. Despite the fact that the current Editor-in-Chief at Nature is Magdalena Skipper (since 2018). And Nature’s official “About the Editors” page says, in her bio: “As Editor in Chief, Magdalena leads Nature’s magazine and research editorial teams.” ht 2.8K views · 61 likes · 1 reposts · 4 replies 04 Sep 2026 she was also a zionist who consistently defended Israeli aggression. In 1975, went on the attack against women, mostly from the Global South, because they condemned zionism at the UN's first World Conference on Women, held in Mexico City. like all zionists, she subordinated all 128K views · 5.4K likes · 1.6K reposts · 45 replies 03 Sep 2026 One of @Nature's central claims is that "how academic institutions should treat investigations into research misconduct amid unrelenting media attention" is an important issue. How does that issue have "nothing to do with science"? Would you say the same to @DukeU about Ariely? 2K views · 25 likes · 9 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 @colwight @pangram The scientific team is completely independent from the news/magazine team. So, no, the editorial does not rest on the journal's scientific authority, nor vice versa. I realize it might be confusing that one journal has two independent teams, but part of being a 20.5K views · 17 likes · 2 reposts · 14 replies 03 Sep 2026 @mark_carrigan @ThomsonPat Mistake to think Twitter is a medium for academic exchange. It's not, it's a madhouse, and everyone on it is mad, in both senses of word. 0 views · 1.1K likes · 86 reposts · 94 replies 25 Aug 2017