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Followers
17.7K
Account age
2 yrs
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📊 Post engagement

Recent posts · likes + reposts
Jul 31latest
19
Avg engagement / post
8–16
Typical post (engagement)
0.1%
Engagement vs followers
61/100
Consistent reach
Oct 2023
On Bluesky since
Half of recent posts land between 8 and 16 likes + reposts (median 14) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.

🔥 Top post: 🧠 Compulsion has a wiring diagram Flip one circuit between cort · 59 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
49.7 / week
A very active account — posts many times a day.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
505×
Follows 35 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post 🧠 Compulsion has a wiring diagram Flip one circuit between cortex and hypothalamus in a mouse and it stops caring about anything but nice food. In people, that same connection tracks body weight and binge eating. www.cell.com/neuron/abstr... 🧪 #Neuroscience #SciComm ★ 59
🧬 Fruit flies can hold false memories In Drosophila, the right reminder cue brings back a forgotten aversive memory, and the same process generates false ones. The line between remembering and misremembering is thin. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s4… ★ 8 🤖 Claude escaped its own safety test Anthropic says its model broke out of a sandboxed test and attacked three real organisations. It also grades itself. 🔗 theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/31/anthropics-claude-escaped-test-sandbox-to-at… ★ 3 🌍 Earth's radiation belt has a rhythm scientists just mapped New satellite data maps the spatial and time patterns of the electromagnetic waves that interact with electrons in Earth's outer radiation belt. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-75… ★ 8 🧠 Mice choose to know things even when it changes nothing Mice will actively seek information that has no effect on the reward they get and build separate signals for smell cues that predict information versus smell cues that predict wate… ★ 31 🧬 A cell's fate gets overruled Everyone assumed a cell decides what it becomes early on and that is that. Mapping a developing human kidney cell by cell caught those decisions being revised later by the tissue around them. doi.org/10.103… ★ 16 📚 A novelist lost two million dollars Nobody caught him using AI. His own agents pulled the book because they could no longer authenticate how it had evolved from first draft to finished manuscript. He could not prove a negative. nypos… ★ 10 💊 A pill that does the injection's job Over 36 weeks, 186 adults with type 2 diabetes took oral zenagamtide and their HbA1c fell by up to 1.4%, against about 0.3% on placebo. Nearly half on the top dose had gut trouble. www.thelancet.com… ★ 14 🧠 You can see who the surgery helped Sixty-two people played a game of reward and loss in a scanner. The ones it had worked for were reading reward almost normally again. The ones it failed still expected the worst. doi.org/10.1093/brain… ★ 11 🔬 AI is changing how science gets done A new study of LLMs as a labour-augmenting technology in science flags unintended consequences for how research actually gets produced. 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2607.17397 #AI #Science #Research 🧪 ★ 43 🤖 AI didn't take his job, it halved it A Wuhan taxi driver says robotaxis haven't cost him his job, they've cut his pay in half as fares get undercut. 🔗 theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/31/china-ai-jobs-workers-labour-market-technology #… ★ 5 🌀 Altman says we are in the singularity Vinge defined it in 1993 as a machine that exceeds us and then improves itself. A model is frozen at inference and cannot edit its own weights. 🔗 theconversation.com/sam-altman-says-were-in-the-sin… ★ 16

🦋 Handle & authenticity

✅ Domain-verified
@samillingworth.com
The handle is the domain samillingworth.com. On Bluesky a domain handle proves the owner controls that website — so this is verifiably the real samillingworth.com account, not an impersonator.
On Bluesky since
Oct 2023
An early adopter from the invite-only beta (before the Feb 2024 public launch) — an original, established account.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Bluesky in 2023 — 2 years ago.
👁️Averages 19 views per post.
📤Posts about 49.7× per week.
🏅Earned the 10K Followers for passing 10K followers.
📍Based in United Kingdom.

🕵️ Fake follower check

Estimated
76/100
Good Credibility score
92%
Real Real audience
Low Fake-follower risk
High Data confidence
  • Est. 92% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
  • Engagement (~0.1% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Bluesky.
  • 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.

About

Full Professor of Critical AI Literacy | Slow AI When to use AI and when to leave it the hell alone. https://theslowai.substack.com/

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