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Followers
11.3K
Account age
1 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$63 – $102 / sponsored post
Estimated from audience size & typical reach — every deal is negotiable and held in SocialDB escrow.
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📊 Post engagement
31
Avg engagement / post
0.3%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2024
On Bluesky since
🔥 Top post: A couple paid more than $800,000 for a gene-editing therapy for · 155 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
7 / week
Posts daily — consistently active for a campaign window.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
625×
Follows 18 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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"AI is an accelerant, not the kindling. The kindling is publish or perish."
"We don't need generative AI to make a dog's breakfast out of scientific literature."
Our Ivan Oransky speaks with @cenmag.bsky.social
After Arday enlisted Carter-Ruck, one of the United Kingdom’s leading defamation law firms, to send @timeshighered.bsky.social a letter, the publication spiked the story, according to three sources who spoke to Retraction Watch.
Chinese university launches probe into girl’s gene-editing death days after investigation by @retractionwatch.com and @science.org investigation revealed the fatality.
A leading environmental economics journal is looking into claims that a 2025 study linking national innovation to lower carbon emissions contains data that does not match its source, after an expert in the field requested the paper be retr…
Weekend reads: Young girl’s death after gene therapy never made public; FDA retracts lettuce test result; ADA delays editorial publication after controversy
Forty-one editors, associate editors and advisory board members resigned from their roles at the Review of Social Economy after the Association for Social Economics, which owns the journal, renewed its contract with publisher Taylor & Fran…
A biomedical journal has retracted a paper by a cancer researcher who sued her former institution over misconduct allegations. The action comes a decade after a sleuth first raised concerns about the article.
A medical student in Nepal is at the center of an international research network churning out everything from systematic reviews and meta-analyses to case reports and database studies. Representatives from leading clinical societies, follo…
The alleged extortion and its aftermath also include an editor-in-chief who admonished Sen for “making accusations” and using “unprofessional language,” a complaint to the FBI, and the manuscript’s author suggesting Retraction Watch accept…
Weekend reads: Private info in ‘most’ arXiv preprints; why did George Church decline authorship; 28 misconduct cases in China
A group of researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston have lost a paper for image duplication following an investigation by the two institutions.
🦋 Handle & authenticity
✅ Domain-verified
@retractionwatch.com
The handle is the domain retractionwatch.com. On Bluesky a domain handle proves the owner controls that website — so this is verifiably the real retractionwatch.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 31 views per post.
📤Posts about 7× per week.
🏅Earned the 10K Followers for passing 10K followers.
🛡️ Audience credibility
67/100
Good
Credibility score
89%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 89% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.3% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Bluesky.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
A project of The Center For Scientific Integrity https://centerforscientificintegrity.org/
Daily newsletter http://eepurl.com/bNRlUn
Database http://retractiondatabase.org
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