Matt Ridley ✓

@mattwridley · Northumberland, UK · joined 28 Jun 2009

Biologist, columnist | Author of Red Queen, Genome, Rational Optimist, the Evolution of Everything, How Innovation Works, Viral and Birds, Sex and Beauty.

144 050Followers

3 720Following

47 365Posts total

782.7KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views26 069this account21 891median for 100K–1M

Reach, %18.10%this account6.81%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %1.31%this account1.14%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	26 069	21 891	1.19×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	18.10%	6.81%	2.66×
Engagement rate	1.31%	1.14%	1.15×

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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

334.2K27 Mar

75.8K29 Aug

19.2K

8.7K30 Aug

72.9K

32.9K

6.2K

227.1K31 Aug

5.5K

Last 9 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.38%27 Mar

4.61%29 Aug

1.24%

3.57%30 Aug

0.50%

2.53%

1.08%

0.31%31 Aug

1.38%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.14%.

What the audience does

Likes70.0%5 528 in total

Reposts15.8%1 248 in total

Replies5.4%430 in total

Quotes1.9%153 in total

Bookmarks6.9%542 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

People who insisted the pandemic had a natural origin seem to be keen to deny that the Trisuli river flash flood had a natural origin: blaming it on Chinese dams or man made climate change. Too slow to blame the lab; too quick to blame the dam. 5.5K views · 63 likes · 8 reposts · 4 replies 31 Aug 2026 STOP BLAMING A CHINESE DAM. The evidence is clear: this disaster originated with a massive ice-rock/glacier collapse in NEPAL near Langtang Lirung. The debris then tore down the valley, crossed into Tibet, and devastated the border region. Hydropower infrastructure was https:// 227.1K views · 495 likes · 105 reposts · 83 replies 31 Aug 2026 As in England, metropolis votes for EU, rest of country votes against. 6.2K views · 56 likes · 7 reposts · 4 replies 30 Aug 2026 Yes: "glaciers are not a permanent fixture of our environment and we need to quit pretending that they are. Glaciers will always be growing or receding; they are not supposed to stay static over time. Pretending so is a fool’s errand." 32.9K views · 651 likes · 134 reposts · 36 replies 30 Aug 2026 Iceland: national continuation of EU accession negotiation referendum With all votes in except from the Southwest constituency, "No" has built a sizable lead. It should be noted that "No" currently leads in this constituency. Yes: 47.46% (-2.44%) No: 52.52% (+2.44%) 99% https: 72.9K views · 259 likes · 57 reposts · 21 replies 30 Aug 2026 They rush to call this event man made but insisted for years Covid was not man made. 8.7K views · 257 likes · 33 reposts · 20 replies 30 Aug 2026 NYT knows what caused the Nepal disaster https://t.co/LJoVAPTgQ6 19.2K views · 118 likes · 13 reposts · 94 replies 29 Aug 2026 Long story short, this is BS. Landslides / avalanches in Nepal have happened for tens of millions of years. In fact, floods associated with landslides are how the V-shaped valleys in the region were carved out millions of years ago at pre-industrial atmospheric carbon dioxide ht 75.8K views · 2.7K likes · 647 reposts · 92 replies 29 Aug 2026 In my lecture at @NIH, at the invitation of @NIHDirector_Jay, I explained why I changed my mind from thinking the lab leak theory of covid origins was unlikely to thinking it was almost certainly true. Please watch and assess the evidence yourself. https://t.co/7QBeGJT3yY 334.2K views · 925 likes · 244 reposts · 76 replies 27 Mar 2026