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Simon Maechling ✓

@simonmaechling · Lyon, France · joined 16 Apr 2011

PhD Chemist. Scientist. Science communicator. Chemistry | Biotech | AI | Agriculture Making complicated science simple.

67 381Followers
4 550Following
28 922Posts total
249.1KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

@simonmaechling “Googling isn’t research” is a meaningless statement unless you define what someone is doing with Google. Google can mean typing in “prove me right" sure, but it can also mean locating primary papers, government datasets, medical references, court records, histor 808 views · 39 likes · 3 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →
@simonmaechling Actually, all of those are research. They are precisely what research is. When looking for a new car, watching videos can serve as excellent research, more so than a car salesman. Not sure why you think those aren’t research. 643 views · 25 likes · 0 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →
@simonmaechling So if reading and watching are not "research", and peer review/citation isn't a part of that process ... how exactly do you do research? 588 views · 16 likes · 0 reposts · 14 replies Open on X →
“Do your own research” is excellent advice. Just remember: Googling isn’t research. Watching videos isn’t research. Finding a paper that agrees with you isn’t research. And reading scientific literature doesn’t magically give you the expertise required to interpret it. Access 30.7K views · 1.5K likes · 277 reposts · 178 replies Open on X →
Claude, Grok and ChatGPT. How can anyone get any work done? 3.9K views · 34 likes · 2 reposts · 10 replies Open on X →
Chemistry built the modern world. Medicines. Fertilizers. Materials. Electronics. Clean water. Energy. And yet somehow we managed to turn the word chemical into something people are supposed to fear. That’s quite a communications failure for an entire scientific discipline. ht 3K views · 207 likes · 37 reposts · 23 replies Open on X →
People stopped fearing measles because vaccines worked. Now measles is back because people stopped fearing measles and started fearing vaccines. If they don't like that, they can vaccinate. 6.4K views · 689 likes · 79 reposts · 55 replies Open on X →
https://t.co/mhjNT2Ys9g 2.1K views · 7 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
There are ~20,000 known human diseases. To cure them all in 3 years, AI would need to discover about 18 new cures. Every. Single. Day. 4.4K views · 105 likes · 6 reposts · 24 replies Open on X →
We are not more than six months away from AI finding a cure for a major disease. And not more than three years away from AI finding cures for all remaining diseases. 16.2K views · 470 likes · 37 reposts · 78 replies Open on X →
@simonmaechling Galileo was an outlier. In fact, anybody who goes against the trend is an outlier. Until he isn’t. 1.2K views · 45 likes · 0 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →
@simonmaechling Does this look like a clear trend to you, Simon? https://t.co/yMpat8IBnK 2.4K views · 86 likes · 1 reposts · 16 replies Open on X →
@simonmaechling Stupid or corrupt. Many anti vaxxers profit enormously off their lies. 1.5K views · 64 likes · 2 reposts · 22 replies Open on X →
It is impossible to win against stupid. https://t.co/Fg09SiHEIM 175.3K views · 4.4K likes · 903 reposts · 272 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

14 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. ordinary reach for its size, stronger reaction than most.

Median views2 678this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %3.98%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %4.49%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post2 6789242.90×
Reach (views ÷ followers)3.98%3.62%1.10×
Engagement rate4.49%1.52%2.95×

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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

175.3K23 Aug
1.5K
2.4K
1.2K
16.2K2 Sep
4.4K
2.1K
6.4K
3K3 Sep
3.9K
30.7K5 Sep
588
643
808

Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

3.20%23 Aug
5.82%
4.31%
4.21%
3.66%2 Sep
3.09%
0.43%
12.92%
9.03%3 Sep
1.19%
6.43%5 Sep
5.10%
4.67%
5.82%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes74.7%7 624 in total
Reposts13.2%1 348 in total
Replies6.9%709 in total
Quotes1.2%121 in total
Bookmarks4.0%404 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.

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