Stephanie M. Lee

@stephaniemlee · San Francisco · joined 05 Jun 2008

Senior writer @Chronicle, writing about scholarship, scholars, and society / stephanie.lee@chronicle.com / on Signal: stephaniemlee.07 / https://t.co/G5wTIjcxNR

21 881Followers

2 325Following

20 634Posts total

30.2KViews on collected posts

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Stephanie M. Lee@stephaniemlee17 Sep

Mary Brady-Atkins, Hemings’ great-great-great-granddaughter, told me she’s worried the book is being pushed out before its findings go through peer review — a big gamble for a family that’s already endured two centuries of speculation. Full story here: https://t.co/5wtKNHTjpe 268 views · 1 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Stephanie M. Lee@stephaniemlee17 Sep

HISTORY BY A HAIR will be published by Crown/Penguin Random House on 9/22. Praised by Jon Meacham and Annette Gordon-Reed, it claims to have "the first conclusive, scientifically validated answer" to the question of whether Jefferson had children w/Hemings https://t.co/KQkV2UQ5M8 373 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Stephanie M. Lee@stephaniemlee17 Sep

SCOOP: A book out next week from the Smithsonian claims to settle the debate about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. But at the 11th hour, a Hemings relative who gave DNA to the study has dropped out. Her worry: the science in the book hasn't been vetted https://t.co/5wtKNHTjpe 2.3K views · 15 likes · 8 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Stephanie M. Lee@stephaniemlee3 Sep

@stephaniemlee Is he non white enough to be allowed to produce fraudulent papers? 925 views · 22 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Stephanie M. Lee@stephaniemlee3 Sep

@stephaniemlee Will Duke fire him now? 1K views · 9 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Stephanie M. Lee@stephaniemlee3 Sep

Within days of Data Colada finding evidence of fraud in another Dan Ariely study, it's being retracted from Psychological Science https://t.co/zPhs3vgsRg 22.9K views · 277 likes · 48 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Stephanie M. Lee@stephaniemlee14 Aug

"Close to 1,000 sociologists boycotted this year’s event because the group’s leadership did not allow a vote on whether to boycott Israel, according to the boycott’s organizers. More than 4,500 sociologists attended the main conference, officials said.” https://t.co/tuQeQwRygm 573 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Stephanie M. Lee@stephaniemlee27 Jul

on Thursday I'll be talking with my colleagues about my recent reporting: the Vanderbilt/WashU humanities report, the divides within sociology, my interview with the head of the American Anthropological Association. we'll take audience questions. join us! https://t.co/f1CguRksqr

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Stephanie M. Lee@stephaniemlee21 Jul

When I was a science reporter at BuzzFeed News, one of my favorite stories I wrote was about CrossFit's crusade against scientific misconduct. I'm delighted to say it is now in a BOOK, out today! Get your copy of THE BEST SCIENCE STORIES AND HOW THEY WORK. https://t.co/KgrkhUY4Jk 769 views · 5 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

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

Median views925this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %4.23%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.04%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	925	924	1.00×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	4.23%	3.62%	1.17×
Engagement rate	1.04%	1.52%	0.68×

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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

76921 Jul

1.2K27 Jul

57314 Aug

22.9K3 Sep

925

2.3K17 Sep

373

268

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

1.17%21 Jul

1.21%27 Jul

0.17%14 Aug

1.46%3 Sep

0.90%

2.59%

1.04%17 Sep

0.80%

0.75%

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

What the audience does

Likes76.4%344 in total

Reposts13.6%61 in total

Replies2.2%10 in total

Quotes0.9%4 in total

Bookmarks6.9%31 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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