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@sfiscience · Santa Fe, NM · joined 15 Nov 2009

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69 083Followers

1 300Following

14 926Posts total

21.1KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers of the same size.

Median views2 660this account2 751median for 10K–100K

Reach, %3.85%this account9.00%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.31%this account1.65%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	2 660	2 751	0.97×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.85%	9.00%	0.43×
Engagement rate	1.31%	1.65%	0.79×

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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

2.5K25 Aug

2.7K26 Aug

5.9K28 Aug

8.7K31 Aug

1.2K2 Sep

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

1.31%25 Aug

1.05%26 Aug

2.42%28 Aug

1.47%31 Aug

1.14%2 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.65%.

What the audience does

Likes62.2%280 in total

Reposts12.7%57 in total

Replies0.9%4 in total

Quotes1.3%6 in total

Bookmarks22.9%103 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

Catch up on SFI’s recent Community Lecture “The Indefinite Sublime: Tom McCarthy on Moby-Dick.” In this lecture, McCarthy reflected on the richness and complexity of Melville’s novel, and on why Moby-Dick still invites new ways of reading and thinking. Watch on SFI’s YouTube ht 1.2K views · 11 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 The Santa Fe Institute is hiring a postdoctoral fellow to work with SFI Professor David Wolpert on the thermodynamic cost of distributed computation, from digital circuits and neural networks to human brains. We are seeking a scholar with expertise in physics, computer science, 8.7K views · 105 likes · 19 reposts · 1 replies 31 Aug 2026 A random walk is a simple model of motion: each step goes in a randomly chosen direction. It's a useful approach to studying random motion, from molecules in a gas to stock-market fluctuations, and it usually assumes the walker is moving through surroundings that stay fixed. http 5.9K views · 117 likes · 24 reposts · 2 replies 28 Aug 2026 While "optimism" isn't quite a taboo word in science, it is not a sentiment most scientists would use to describe their outlook. So much of the process of science is defined by failure, and successes are caricatured as intrepid scientists raging against a status quo machine. In 2.7K views · 21 likes · 5 reposts · 0 replies 26 Aug 2026 Animals forage, immune cells patrol the body for pathogens, and algorithms trawl for optimal solutions to thorny problems. In natural and artificial systems alike, the act of searching is ubiquitous, says SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Aanjaneya Kumar. It's also https://t.c 2.5K views · 26 likes · 7 reposts · 0 replies 25 Aug 2026