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Account age
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📊 Post engagement
5
Avg engagement / post
0.3%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: Nextstrain is happy to announce the availability of a Rubella da · 10 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.21 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
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The Nextstrain team has been focused on extending the usability of Auspice and auspice.us.
See the blog post for details: https://nextstrain.org/blog/2026-07-09-auspice-updates
Our discussion forum has moved from discussion.nextstrain.org to nextstrain.discourse.group.
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Nextstrain is happy to announce a major update to our tuberculosis analysis, making it our first real-time (continually updated) analysis for a bacterial pathogen. Please see our new blog post for details:
https://nextstrain.org/blog/2025…
Full blog post explaining situation and background is available here:
https://nextstrain.org/blog/2025-11-06-gisaid-based-ncov-analyses
Closing these public analyses puts the world more in the dark and concretely harms surveillance as it becomes more difficult for variant spotters to contribute to global situational awareness. 4/5
Tools like Nextstrain, CoV-Spectrum, UShER and http://outbreak.info facilitate a global community of experts to keep close tabs on the ongoing evolution of SARS-CoV-2. Support for http://outbreak.info ended in Jan 2025 and CoV-Spectrum has…
We strive to credit labs collecting specimens and generating sequence data prominently. But credit for data contributions is not zero sum – surfacing of data in popular tools generates visibility and does not infringe on future publication…
On Oct 1, 2025, GISAID informed us that they had ended updates to the flat file of SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequences and associated metadata that we had used to update Nextstrain analyses since Feb 2020. GISAID's stated rationale was that their…
Nextstrain is happy to announce the availability of new resources for mumps, as described in our recent blog post. We welcome any feedback on these new resources!
https://nextstrain.org/blog/2025-09-24-mumps-resources
The Nextstrain team has updated our core pathogen workflows to be compatible with Snakemake v8 or higher and has updated the Nextstrain runtimes to include Snakemake v9. Please see our new blog post for more details:
https://nextstrain.org…
Happy Friday! We've got a new blog post all about a new feature that was recently added to the Nextstrain CLI: `nextstrain run`
This is a foundational component for a new, easier way to re-use Nextstrain workflows, take a look!
https://ne…
On Oct 1, 2025, GISAID informed us that they had ended updates to the flat file of SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequences and associated metadata that we had used to update Nextstrain analyses since Feb 2020. GISAID's stated rationale was that their…
Nextstrain is happy to announce the availability of new resources for mumps, as described in our recent blog post. We welcome any feedback on these new resources!
https://nextstrain.org/blog/2025-09-24-mumps-resources
The Nextstrain team has updated our core pathogen workflows to be compatible with Snakemake v8 or higher and has updated the Nextstrain runtimes to include Snakemake v9. Please see our new blog post for more details:
https://nextstrain.org…
Happy Friday! We've got a new blog post all about a new feature that was recently added to the Nextstrain CLI: `nextstrain run`
This is a foundational component for a new, easier way to re-use Nextstrain workflows, take a look!
https://ne…
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
mstdn.science
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✅ Link-verified
Verified link
Proved ownership of a website linked on their profile — Mastodon's green-check verification, a real identity signal rather than a paid badge.
On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 5 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.2× per week.
🛡️ Audience credibility
52/100
Fair
Credibility score
76%
Mixed
Real audience
Medium
Fake-follower risk
Medium
Data confidence
- Est. 76% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
- Low engagement (~0.3% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
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