Max Kozlov

@maxdkozlov

science reporter covering biology @Nature | proudly Ukrainian 🇺🇦 | https://t.co/zQQfpzNIUc SIGNAL: mkozlov.01

5 465Followers

608Following

1 838Posts total

2.6MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views1 248this account2 072median for under 10K

Reach, %22.85%this account153.47%median for under 10K

Engagement, %1.66%this account1.63%median for under 10K

Metric	This account	Median for under 10K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 248	2 072	0.60×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	22.85%	153.47%	0.15×
Engagement rate	1.66%	1.63%	1.02×

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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

2.5M20 Jun

19.1K4 Sep

1.4K

891

922

1.8K

76.5K

1.1K

6585 Sep

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

0.24%20 Jun

2.06%4 Sep

2.62%

1.91%

2.49%

1.42%

0.62%

1.16%

0.76%5 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for under 10K accounts is 1.63%.

What the audience does

Likes39.5%2 736 in total

Reposts19.9%1 380 in total

Replies20.1%1 393 in total

Quotes19.2%1 330 in total

Bookmarks1.2%84 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

@maxdkozlov Well the NIH should never have had those funds but giving it to the Pentagon is an even worse idea! @NIHDirector_Jay @SenRandPaul @julianbarnes The DoW cannot track the $$$$ they already sent to China for biodefense: https://t.co/CvVoxJT3UI 658 views · 4 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 05 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

https://t.co/3ZtsQlh0xr 1.1K views · 9 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

Under pressure, the DOD just released the text of its secret 10-year agreement with the NIH. Here are the biggest revelations from the document 🧵 76.5K views · 343 likes · 111 reposts · 11 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

The effort was pushed by Pentagon official Robert Kadlec, who initially sought $1.9B from NIAID—roughly one-third of the institute’s budget. After internal pushback, talks narrowed to moving up to $700M of projects, potentially scaling up over 10 years. 1.8K views · 17 likes · 6 reposts · 1 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

Former HHS general counsel @sbagen warned that using an interagency deal to plug military budget gaps, “that would be illegal, because that would be using funding not to serve the purposes of NIH, but to serve the purposes of DOD.” 922 views · 19 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

Why is NIH doing this? A senior official told Nature: “When the public hears that NIAID funds biodefence, they think we’re developing bioweapons, and we’re trying to get out of that business. We’re trying to get research that’s more Department of War (DOW)-related back to DOW.” 891 views · 13 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

What does moving this portfolio mean for science? Biosecurity experts warn that shifting research into the military threatens the transparency and clinical translation that define NIH-funded work. DOD research will likely focus less on the average American and more on soldiers. 1.4K views · 29 likes · 4 reposts · 2 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

🚨 The NIH is moving to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars in infectious-disease research projects to the DOD under a secret 10-year pact. Here’s what’s happening inside “Operation Prevailing Edge” 🧵👇 https://t.co/3AnvS8uYdd 19.1K views · 214 likes · 157 reposts · 12 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

Due to limitations in the DoD's tracking systems, the full extent of DoD funds provided to Chinese research laboratories for research related to enhancement of pathogens of pandemic potential is unknown. Read our new report now: https://t.co/Ts7V7C15V9 2.5M views · 2.1K likes · 1.1K reposts · 1.4K replies 20 Jun 2024 · Open on X →