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Followers
9.3K
Account age
3 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$52 – $85 / sponsored post
Estimated from audience size & typical reach — every deal is negotiable and held in SocialDB escrow.
🎁 Free analysisfor Stephen Turner
Known for
3 views
Or get a few hens in your backyard if you can. They’re great at turning leftover garden refuse, spent beer brewing grains, kitchen scraps, etc into protein.
📊 Post engagement
13
Avg engagement / post
0.1%
Engagement vs followers
Apr 2023
On Bluesky since
🔥 Top post: I made a little web tool for myself to drop in a PDF or paste in · 105 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
9.4 / week
Posts daily — consistently active for a campaign window.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 8 text · 3 image · 1 video.
Follower / following
19×
Follows 484 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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Interpreting Dual-Use Biology Benchmarks for Frontier AI www.rand.org/pubs/researc...
Please, and thank you. gruhn.me/blog/2026-08...
New NIH Highlighted Topic: Research on Chatbots and their Usage grants.nih.gov/funding/find...
Good morning 🌞
I wrote here about how tides have turned -- where last year I was fact-checking AI, I'm now using AI to fact check me. I just submitted a mini-review to arXiv that I'll share once it's posted, but in the meantime, here's the prompt I used …
Roundup of what I've been reading, watching, writing this month blog.stephenturner.us/p/july-2026-...
Letters of collaboration should be limited to stating the intent to collaborate or provide material support as described in the application and should not contain endorsements or additional information about or evaluations of the proposed …
"We request that the U.S. government support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development." www.pacingthefrontier.com
While I think a 4-year PhD is attractive for both students and employers (I was in industry/biotech and can confirm), it's still an undeniable fact that a person who finishes a PhD in 4 years will know less and be less capable as a scienti…
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Or get a few hens in your backyard if you can. They’re great at turning leftover garden refuse, spent beer brewing grains, kitchen scraps, etc into protein.
A couple of years ago I was pitching a major poultry industry company on AI enabled precision genome editing. Two hours into the meeting I learned that “AI” to them obviously referred to Avian Influenza. Know your audience.
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Or get a few hens in your backyard if you can. They’re great at turning leftover garden refuse, spent beer brewing grains, kitchen scraps, etc into protein.
A couple of years ago I was pitching a major poultry industry company on AI enabled precision genome editing. Two hours into the meeting I learned that “AI” to them obviously referred to Avian Influenza. Know your audience.
🦋 Handle & authenticity
✅ Domain-verified
@stephenturner.us
The handle is the domain stephenturner.us. On Bluesky a domain handle proves the owner controls that website — so this is verifiably the real stephenturner.us account, not an impersonator.
On Bluesky since
Apr 2023
An early adopter from the invite-only beta (before the Feb 2024 public launch) — an original, established account.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Bluesky in 2023 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 13 views per post.
📤Posts about 9.4× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated58/100
Fair
Credibility score
81%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 81% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Low engagement (~0.1% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Associate Professor and Research Dean at UVA School of Data Science, #Rstats enthusiast, dad, runner, guitar noise-maker. Views my own.
Web: https://datascience.virginia.edu/people/stephen-turner
Newsletter: https://blog.stephenturner.us
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