Quirks & Quarks

@CBCQuirks · joined 18 Aug 2010

Join host Bob McDonald on CBC Radio's weekly science show, as he interviews the people behind the latest discoveries. This account is inactive.

57 090Followers

892Following

21 388Posts total

17.5KViews on collected posts

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Quirks & Quarks@CBCQuirks21 Apr 2023

Looking for more Quirks & Quarks stories beyond Twitter? Find us on our website: https://t.co/4KUcOVLGGU Listen: https://t.co/73KR3TYJim Facebook: https://t.co/48xfUB3RLO 4.5K views · 14 likes · 5 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Quirks & Quarks@CBCQuirks17 Apr 2023

An "AI scientist" re-discovered fundamental scientific theories like Kepler's third law of planetary motion, Einstein's time dilation equation and Langmuir's adsorption law, which governs the behaviour of gases. https://t.co/Mn7xNhWros 3.3K views · 15 likes · 5 reposts · 12 replies Open on X →

Quirks & Quarks@CBCQuirks16 Apr 2023

Bob's blog: If there is life around our sun, we're more likely to find it inside other bodies in the solar system than on any surface. https://t.co/2jSV7onOJb 2.5K views · 8 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Quirks & Quarks@CBCQuirks16 Apr 2023

@CBCQuirks I’m @yorkobservatory not UoT 😆 and my name is Elaina, but Dr. Hyde is also fine 76 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Quirks & Quarks@CBCQuirks16 Apr 2023

A listener asks: How would the Earth be different if it had never collided with the object that created the moon? U of T's physics and astronomy professor Dr. Elena Hyde has the answer. Ask us your science questions! https://t.co/TRFVzfzIJM 5.5K views · 21 likes · 5 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Quirks & Quarks@CBCQuirks15 Apr 2023

Journalist-turned-midwife Leah Hazard explores what we know and what we need to learn about the uterus in her new book, Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began. https://t.co/jQbHqfJvf1 1.6K views · 6 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

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

1.6K15 Apr

5.5K16 Apr

2.5K

3.3K17 Apr

4.5K21 Apr

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.55%15 Apr

0.51%16 Apr

2.63%

0.40%

1.01%17 Apr

0.47%21 Apr

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views.

What the audience does

Likes60.7%65 in total

Reposts17.8%19 in total

Replies14.0%15 in total

Quotes3.7%4 in total

Bookmarks3.7%4 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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