Paul Staniland

@pstanpolitics

@UChicago @UChicagoCIR @CarnegieSAsia @ChicagoCouncil political scientist, @ChiPubSchools parent, mediocre photographer, self-loathing Bulls fan.

21 791Followers

6 326Following

3 375Posts total

12.3KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views286this account1 384median for 10K–100K

Reach, %1.31%this account4.31%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.91%this account1.92%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	286	1 384	0.21×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	1.31%	4.31%	0.30×
Engagement rate	0.91%	1.92%	0.47×

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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

11.7K19 Aug

167

3720 Aug

405

Last 4 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.82%19 Aug

0.60%

2.70%20 Aug

0.99%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.92%.

What the audience does

Likes73.5%83 in total

Reposts8.8%10 in total

Replies5.3%6 in total

Quotes2.7%3 in total

Bookmarks9.7%11 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

Followers by day

5 Sep

Daily snapshots since 05 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.

Latest posts

@pstanpolitics Requires recognizing the value, though. My book reviews were the 1st in a while that suggested including more insights from my fieldwork (which I have); other reviews for years has just ask for more & more scraped/downloaded data, I assume bc fewer can imagine 405 views · 3 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 20 Aug 2026 @pstanpolitics Unless you carry AI in the palm of your hand, or wear it on your eyes, or embed it in the retina of your eyes... 37 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 20 Aug 2026 @pstanpolitics This is what I have been saying but I’m well aware hardly anyone agrees. Also teaching, because of tacit knowledge and creative error correction that we might not even be aware of. 167 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 19 Aug 2026 I am curious whether the AI revolution will make fieldwork more valuable - if agents can scrape and then analyze publicly available data, more value comes from going places and getting data that are not easy to access for AI; archives, interviews, (non-internet) surveys, etc. 11.7K views · 78 likes · 9 reposts · 6 replies 19 Aug 2026