Sam Foley

Sam Foley

Bluesky @samuelfoley.com
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Followers
1K
Account age
2 yrs

Known for

Mesmerizing waves that seem to move in slow motion at a water-cyclosiloxane interface.6 views Mesmerizing waves that seem to move in slow motion at a water-cyclosiloxane interface. Homescreen weather widget was not designed with this weather in mind5 views Homescreen weather widget was not designed with this weather in mind Watching a required university training video and... is Sameer here living in Cyberpunk 2077?2 views Watching a required university training video and... is Sameer here living in Cyberpunk 2077? Oh boy, I better go find a phone book!1 views Oh boy, I better go find a phone book!

📊 Post engagement

3
Avg engagement / post
0.3%
Engagement vs followers
Feb 2024
On Bluesky since

🔥 Top post: Mesmerizing waves that seem to move in slow motion at a water-cy · 6 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
4.4 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 8 text · 3 image · 1 video.
Follower / following
1.5×
Follows 671 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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▶ 🔥 Top post Mesmerizing waves that seem to move in slow motion at a water-cyclosiloxane interface. ★ 6
Oh boy, I better go find a phone book! ★ 1 It's so funny to read a (science fiction/fantasy) novel written in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 and get to a chapter that's just a completely undisguised complaint about how annoying this newfangled "TSA" is. ★ 2 When you're rapidly approaching the grant deadline and finally have a complete draft ★ 1 Watching a required university training video and... is Sameer here living in Cyberpunk 2077? ★ 2 Is there a nice (standardized) way to indicate or hint at the integration measure of the functional when writing down a functional derivative? I find it annoying that I can't deduce the units of a functional derivative at a glance the same… ★ 4 Homescreen weather widget was not designed with this weather in mind ★ 5 Apparently autonomous teams of engineers require significantly higher capability than autonomous teams of researchers, for some reason. Setting aside whatever units "capability" is supposed to have. Inverse hallucinations? Fizzbuzzes/minu… ★ 1 What if instead of a grant proposal, I could just put together a packet of all the scribbled down notes on random science ideas I've had and then the reviewer just picks the one they want to fund. I think it would save us both a lot of tim… ★ 4 On the bright side, though, this is my 100th citation according to google scholar! ★ 2 I like to peruse the papers that have cited my work to get an idea of who finds it interesting and useful. For the first time, I've gotten a citation from what seems to be a review-style article chock full of AI-generated figures. In a (su… ★ 3 Clicking "Access Through Your Institution" on an article's webpage and being assaulted by the flashing lights of 8 half-pageloads and redirects in the span of two seconds Then being returned to the same page with no PDF download link and … ★ 1

🦋 Handle & authenticity

✅ Domain-verified
@samuelfoley.com
The handle is the domain samuelfoley.com. On Bluesky a domain handle proves the owner controls that website — so this is verifiably the real samuelfoley.com account, not an impersonator.
On Bluesky since
Feb 2024
Joined after Bluesky opened to the public — a settled account with a real history.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Bluesky in 2024 — 2 years ago.
👁️Averages 3 views per post.
📤Posts about 4.4× per week.

🛡️ Audience credibility

61/100 Fair
  • Est. 84% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
  • Engagement (~0.3% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Bluesky.
Est. authentic audience
84%
Fake-follower risk
Low
Data confidence
High

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

About

Physics of membranes and self-assembly || Biophysics postdoc at Johns Hopkins || Previously Penn State -> Carnegie Mellon || for I perplex others not because I am clear, but because I am utterly perplexed myself || www.samuelfoley.com

📸 Gallery

Oh boy, I better go find a phone book! Watching a required university training video and... is Sameer here living in Cyberpunk 2077? Homescreen weather widget was not designed with this weather in mind Mesmerizing waves that seem to move in slow motion at a water-cyclosiloxane interface.

🔀 Audience overlap

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