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Followers
26K
Account age
1 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$145 – $236 / sponsored post
Estimated from audience size & typical reach — every deal is negotiable and held in SocialDB escrow.
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📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
Aug 5latest
3
Avg engagement / post
2–4
Typical post (engagement)
0%
Engagement vs followers
77/100
Very consistent reach
Nov 2024
On Bluesky since
Half of recent posts land between 2 and 4 likes + reposts (median 3) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.
🔥 Top post: An increasing number of studies have linked ultra-processed food · 7 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
85.7 / week
A very active account — posts many times a day.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
812×
Follows 32 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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To predict when we’ll have a truly useful quantum computer, we need to know precisely what one is. Columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan finds that’s harder to pin down than you might think
After the Chicxulub impact 66 million years ago, trillions of tonnes of rock vapour was launched into space before falling back to Earth at ballistic speeds, creating a global blast of heat strong enough to broil life on land
A pill that induces hypoxia in the brain has been linked to improved symptoms of three neurodegenerative conditions when tested in mice
Tom Gauld's weekly cartoon
For years, NASA has woken its space-bound astronauts with playlists chosen from classics of the time. The musical line-up was a bit different for the Artemis II crew – and it’s a delight
NASA researcher Heidi Becker has photographed sublime sights around Jupiter that have never been seen before, from its ghostly rings to the dark sides of its moons. And she does it all with an instrument that wasn't even designed for photo…
Steven Benner’s Meet The Neighbors is an intriguing tale of misunderstood planetary biochemistry. Paul Marks is engrossed
A first-of-its-kind Guillain-Barré drug switches off part of immune system and could be approved for use next year.
The asteroid 44 Nysa was first spotted more than 150 years ago, but we are only now finally figuring out its weird shape and mysterious formation
Laser-scanning surveys reveal that the ancient Aquiry civilisation was bigger than previously thought, building tens of thousands of large geometric earthworks in what was once thought to be pristine wilderness
In this extract from Peter Heller’s novel, the August read for the New Scientist Book Club, we are introduced to pilot Hig, who lives alone after most of the world was killed in a superflu pandemic
🦋 Handle & authenticity
✅ Domain-verified
@newscientist.com
The handle is the domain newscientist.com. On Bluesky a domain handle proves the owner controls that website — so this is verifiably the real newscientist.com account, not an impersonator.
On Bluesky since
Nov 2024
Joined after Bluesky opened to the public — a settled account with a real history.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Bluesky in 2024 — 1 year ago.
👁️Averages 3 views per post.
📤Posts about 85.7× per week.
🏅Earned the 10K Followers for passing 10K followers.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated53/100
Fair
Credibility score
76%
Mixed
Real audience
Medium
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 76% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
- Low engagement (~0.0% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Verified account.
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
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