Sarah Zhang
@sarahzhang · NYC · joined 24 Feb 2008
@TheAtlantic staff writer. I cover science, medicine, humans. Say hi at szhang@theatlantic.com
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@sarahzhang You ever stop and reflect how wrong you were about Covid?
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a fun fact about "whole milk" is that it's not actually whole milk, but skim milk that has fat added back to a standardized 3.25%
meanwhile, the actual fat content of milk coming from cows has quietly been going up and up, because of breakthroughs in genetics and nutrition
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There's a drug 2x as effective as Ozempic for weight loss, but doctors can't prescribed it, pharmacies can't sell it.
*It's still in clinical trials*
Yet thousands and thousands of people are already buying this drug—retatrutide—from China on a "gray market." 🧵
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one of the more interesting expense reports i’ve filed recently https://t.co/5zVG1CDaQ9
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Slight more encouraging update: The USDA says it's investing $21 million to renovate a facility in Mexico that will produce more screwworms
https://t.co/Hihxc41jaI
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@sarahzhang Very sad. I recently got a 1960 documentary film digitized that shows gruesome details of how we got rid of them the first time, with cobalt-60 irradiation. https://t.co/qXVLq79N1n
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Unfortunate update: Screwworms are coming back
https://t.co/3FoTTIXh9r
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This perfectly captures the story and what I set out to do. Thank you for sharing.
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A story of tragedy opens up into a tale of love, which unfolds into a debate over human consciousness. Altogether, @sarahzhang captures life itself. @DVNJr's favorite this week https://t.co/oyAq5DrieX
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Roundup (1960) is about how we used the Cobalt-60 radioisotope to eradicate the screwworm fly in the southeastern US, which was causing all sorts of pretty gnarly trouble for livestock. https://t.co/CRfkAq19nq https://t.co/I6CYspdGnR
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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
23.3K9 Nov
4.6K18 May
3.6K
16K27 May
19328 May
1.5K
1.6K23 Dec
3K24 Dec
8.5K5 Feb
3117 Feb
Last 10 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.06%9 Nov
0.35%18 May
0.70%
0.56%27 May
3.11%28 May
0.97%
1.12%23 Dec
1.47%24 Dec
0.65%5 Feb
0.00%17 Feb
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views.
What the audience does
Likes62.8%214 in total
Reposts10.3%35 in total
Replies8.2%28 in total
Quotes1.8%6 in total
Bookmarks17.0%58 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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