Stian Westlake ✓

@stianwestlake · London and Swindon · joined 06 Apr 2008

Executive Chair of the Economic and Social Research Council (@ESRC)

16 857Followers

1 761Following

11 457Posts total

48KViews on collected posts

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Stian Westlake ✓@stianwestlake4 Sep

Three cheers for this blog post, which makes the point that, despite all the recent attention to bad education research, there are lots of education researchers doing careful, rigorous, useful work in this field. 4.1K views · 12 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Stian Westlake ✓@stianwestlake28 Aug

Always interesting to see evidence of the success (or otherwise) of “let’s recruit international stars” research funding schemes. 3.9K views · 13 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Stian Westlake ✓@stianwestlake21 Aug

You could learn a lot about British politics and public policy in the C21st from a intellectual biography that interwove the stories of: 1. Living Marxism and its descendants 2. Marxism Today and its descendants 3. The Extropians mailing list and its descendants 1.3K views · 19 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Stian Westlake ✓@stianwestlake20 Aug

Who will write the biography of the Extropians? 30.3K views · 116 likes · 5 reposts · 19 replies Open on X →

Stian Westlake ✓@stianwestlake19 Aug

I don’t have strong views on the Faraday Discovery Fellowships specifically, but it’s incredibly valuable to have an organisation like Science Works doing detailed, insightful commentary on specific science policy questions. 3K views · 16 likes · 7 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Stian Westlake ✓@stianwestlake19 Aug

Pleased to speak to Research Professional about the Faraday Discovery Fellowship scheme (free to read) 4K views · 10 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Stian Westlake ✓@stianwestlake11 Aug

On Portobello Beach in Edinburgh, a nice example of @SCP_Hughes’s point that architectural ornament didn’t vanish because it got expensive, but through choice. There were (and are) lots of clever ways to make ornamentation cheap; we mostly chose to stop using them. https://t.co/

1.4K views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Em comparação com contas do mesmo porte

7 posts dos últimos 90 dias, ao lado da faixa de 10K–100K seguidores. aparece para muita gente, mas poucos desses espectadores reagem.

Mediana de visualizações3 938esta conta924mediana para 10K–100K

Alcance, %23.36%esta conta3.62%mediana para 10K–100K

Engajamento, %0.47%esta conta1.52%mediana para 10K–100K

Métrica	Esta conta	Mediana para 10K–100K	Proporção
Mediana de visualizações por post	3 938	924	4.26×
Alcance (visualizações ÷ seguidores)	23.36%	3.62%	6.45×
Taxa de engajamento	0.47%	1.52%	0.31×

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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

1.4K11 Aug

4K19 Aug

30.3K20 Aug

1.3K21 Aug

3.9K28 Aug

4.1K4 Sep

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.50%11 Aug

0.35%19 Aug

0.87%

0.47%20 Aug

1.65%21 Aug

0.43%28 Aug

0.36%4 Sep

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

What the audience does

Likes74.7%192 in total

Reposts7.8%20 in total

Replies10.1%26 in total

Quotes1.6%4 in total

Bookmarks5.8%15 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.