ErrantScience

@ErrantScience · Internet · joined 15 May 2015

An account full of silly science comics & occasionally irreverent blog posts. For new content, see our website or one of our other social media accounts.

28 214Followers

26Following

3 185Posts total

44.7KViews on collected posts

Posts recentes

ErrantScience@ErrantScience23 Aug 2024

So we’re sorry to say that we’ll no longer be posting cartoons here on X. You can continue to see all our cartoons updated daily on Mastodon, BlueSky, Instagram, LinkedIn and Facebook. But our time on X has come to an end. https://t.co/Mfasc1E7Rx

3.4K views · 22 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

ErrantScience@ErrantScience23 Aug 2024

ErrantScience started its social media journey back in 2015 here on Twitter. It was a great place to share our cartoons and stories about science, and somewhere we’ve loved being 💙 2.2K views · 8 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

ErrantScience@ErrantScience20 Aug 2024

Just before getting lost in trying to organised anything with project management software, my last words were 'Fly, you fools!' https://t.co/3jmArlz7wB

4K views · 75 likes · 4 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

ErrantScience@ErrantScience20 Aug 2024

@ErrantScience My first proper conference was on the cusp of powerpoint taking over so we had literally every type of presentation known to biologist - slide carousels, OHP, chalk'n'talk and one powerpoint presentation which had precisely one animation in it ....1/ 60 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

ErrantScience@ErrantScience19 Aug 2024

Not included in this cartoon are people that use transition effects as I'd rather not give them any more attention than they already clearly crave https://t.co/3K9DoeE2qJ

30.8K views · 407 likes · 53 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

ErrantScience@ErrantScience18 Aug 2024

Uninterruptible power supplies are great at lulling you into a false sense of security https://t.co/SUWbxSxvfL

4.2K views · 60 likes · 9 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

4.2K18 Aug

30.8K19 Aug

6020 Aug

2.2K23 Aug

3.4K

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

1.65%18 Aug

1.52%19 Aug

1.67%20 Aug

2.03%

0.40%23 Aug

0.72%

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

What the audience does

Likes80.6%572 in total

Reposts9.4%67 in total

Replies1.3%9 in total

Quotes0.6%4 in total

Bookmarks8.2%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.

Followers by day

23 Sep

Daily snapshots since 23 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.