Michael Lin, MD PhD 🧬

@michaelzlin · Harvard→UCLA→HMS→UCSD→Stanford · joined 28 Jul 2015

Professor of Neurobiology & Bioengineering @Stanford ☘️🧪🦠🧠🔬📖🇺🇲🌏Neurons, viruses, medicines. Invented predecessor of nirmatrelvir. Also @MichaelLinLab

28 668Followers

451Following

18 023Posts total

1.6MViews on collected posts

Neueste Beiträge

Michael Lin, MD PhD 🧬@michaelzlin18 Sep

This is an excellent video on Beatta Halassy curing her own metastatic breast cancer with measles vaccine strain and VSV virotherapy It explains the mechanisms involved very very well, and also the regulatory impediments to actually testing virotherapies https://t.co/KgRZwrsKQ9 2K views · 18 likes · 3 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Michael Lin, MD PhD 🧬@michaelzlin16 Sep

I know it's a guest essay but this does mean that NYTimes finds it intellectually/morally/politically acceptable to float the idea that we don't need to maximize knowledge and develop expertise. And then they wonder why voters aren't knowledgeable and don't vote for expertise. 3.7K views · 22 likes · 2 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →

Michael Lin, MD PhD 🧬@michaelzlin16 Sep

This op-ed can’t be real: “Students on University of California campuses may struggle with basic math, but they are graduating at record rates.” “What has made the University of California exceptional is its commitment to increase access without sacrificing excellence.” https:/

1.1M views · 6.3K likes · 825 reposts · 365 replies Open on X →

Michael Lin, MD PhD 🧬@michaelzlin15 Sep

Yes the results are disappointing (worse overall survival, even if longer delay to progression). You wouldn't know that from reading the headlines though. Quite obvious that most news sites just repeat company press releases. Only Fierce Pharma gets it right. https://t.co/JDRlvc

2.5K views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Michael Lin, MD PhD 🧬@michaelzlin14 Sep

As our refusal to recognize the biggest world problem of all (climate change) is due to incuriosity about facts and scientific methods, I’d say intelligence is THE bottleneck to solving the world’s problems But you can count on an AI bro to say human intelligence doesn’t matter 1.1K views · 9 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Michael Lin, MD PhD 🧬@michaelzlin14 Sep

I think this is a very difficult pill for many scientists and engineers to swallow: intelligence is not the biggest bottleneck in most of the world’s problems. 226.5K views · 4.5K likes · 395 reposts · 178 replies Open on X →

Michael Lin, MD PhD 🧬@michaelzlin31 Jul 2023

Click the thread below to get to my SARS-CoV-2 mega-metathread. That thread previously had its own intro tweet, but I deleted it by mistake. This being Twitter, there are no free undos. So instead this tweet will parachute you into it. https://t.co/f0Fev0zI9M 136K views · 130 likes · 18 reposts · 15 replies Open on X →

Michael Lin, MD PhD 🧬@michaelzlin2 Jan 2023

First, a link to the COVID-19 metathread of 2020-2021 https://t.co/oc63zcHZgk 146.7K views · 33 likes · 9 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Im Vergleich zu Konten gleicher Größe

6 Beiträge aus den letzten 90 Tagen, verglichen mit der Größenklasse 10K–100K Follower. wird weit gezeigt, aber nur wenige dieser Zuschauer reagieren.

Medianaufrufe3 086dieses Konto987Median für 10K–100K

Reichweite, %10.76%dieses Konto3.79%Median für 10K–100K

Interaktion, %0.86%dieses Konto1.52%Median für 10K–100K

Kennzahl	Dieses Konto	Median für 10K–100K	Verhältnis
Medianaufrufe pro Beitrag	3 086	987	3.13×
Reichweite (Aufrufe ÷ Follower)	10.76%	3.79%	2.84×
Interaktionsrate	0.86%	1.52%	0.57×

Weitere Konten dieser Größe → Mit einem anderen Konto vergleichen → Wie diese Vergleichswerte entstehen →

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

146.7K2 Jan

136K31 Jul

226.5K14 Sep

1.1K

2.5K15 Sep

1.1M16 Sep

3.7K

2K18 Sep

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.03%2 Jan

0.12%31 Jul

2.28%14 Sep

0.89%

0.24%15 Sep

0.69%16 Sep

0.84%

1.29%18 Sep

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

What the audience does

Likes74.2%10 996 in total

Reposts8.5%1 253 in total

Replies3.9%572 in total

Quotes2.0%296 in total

Bookmarks11.5%1 699 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.