Prof Francois Balloux ✓

@BallouxFrancois · Settling in · joined 04 Apr 2019

Director @UGI_at_UCL. Interest in Infectious disease epidemiology, pathogen genomics, global health, and all sorts of other stuff.

141 711Followers

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35 589Posts total

116KViews on collected posts

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Prof Francois Balloux ✓@BallouxFrancois19 Sep

It feels highly unethical to ignore the plight of bacteria. Their 'aggregate suffering' is ~100 billion times higher!!!*. *Estimated number of insects and bacteria on earth, 10¹⁹ and 10³⁰ respectively. 5.7K views · 21 likes · 3 reposts · 10 replies Open on X →

Prof Francois Balloux ✓@BallouxFrancois19 Sep

The biggest concern to me here is the total lack of editorial oversight of many news outlet. Professionally edited commissioned articles go through many iterations and multiple back and forth between the author and the editors. There is no way a properly edited article gets 9.6K views · 93 likes · 13 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Prof Francois Balloux ✓@BallouxFrancois17 Sep

Moral panics have always recruited the language and institutions of consensus. This is true for European witch hunts, the Spanish Inquisition, Blood libel and anti-Jewish pogroms, the Chinese Cultural Revolution, McCarthyism, the Satanic Panic and any other major moral panic I 4.6K views · 26 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Prof Francois Balloux ✓@BallouxFrancois17 Sep

People becoming stupider and emotionally dysregulated has all sorts of implications. For example, moral panics are now regularly confused with intellectual and cultural consensus. 20.8K views · 896 likes · 62 reposts · 13 replies Open on X →

Prof Francois Balloux ✓@BallouxFrancois16 Sep

If I were American, I would probably feel embarrassed (and slightly concerned) that my arch-enemy's politicians come across as so much more educated, intelligent and informed about economics, than my own president. https://t.co/N1mXMEcCzx

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Prof Francois Balloux ✓@BallouxFrancois21 Jun 2022

Our über-massive review on everything you always wanted to know about SARS-CoV-2, or didn't even know you wanted to know, or would have preferred not to know - but if you read it you'll know it (sorry), is out, peer-reviewed and open access. https://t.co/2vVmZjnLxl https://t.co/G

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Face aux comptes de taille comparable

5 posts des 90 derniers jours, à côté de la tranche de 100K–1M abonnés. diffusé à plus de monde que les comptes de taille comparable.

Vues médianes9 633ce compte6 004médiane pour 100K–1M

Portée, %6.80%ce compte1.49%médiane pour 100K–1M

Engagement, %1.12%ce compte0.93%médiane pour 100K–1M

Indicateur	Ce compte	Médiane pour 100K–1M	Rapport
Vues médianes par post	9 633	6 004	1.60×
Portée (vues ÷ abonnés)	6.80%	1.49%	4.56×
Taux d'engagement	1.12%	0.93%	1.21×

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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

75.3K16 Sep

20.8K17 Sep

4.6K

9.6K19 Sep

5.7K

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

1.37%16 Sep

4.70%17 Sep

0.63%

1.12%19 Sep

0.60%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.

What the audience does

Likes82.5%1 909 in total

Reposts8.0%185 in total

Replies3.0%69 in total

Quotes0.7%17 in total

Bookmarks5.8%133 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.