Society for Neuroscience (SfN) engagement report
@SfNtweets - 245K followers on X
Measured over 13 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 27, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 11 interactions against 245K followers, an engagement rate of 0.004%. Measured over 13 original posts, its engagement rate beats 16% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 2.8K times each, and 0.39% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.15% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.57 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 13 posts sampled, 85% carry an image or video, 8% are part of a thread and 77% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 56 interactions, about 5.1x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #neurotwitter, #scitwitter, #academictwitter.
Measured over 13 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 27, 2026. Recurring tags: #neurotwitter, #scitwitter, #academictwitter.
Compared with accounts its own size
Society for Neuroscience (SfN)'s engagement rate beats 16% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 of 10)). A percentile is spread evenly by construction, so 50 really is the middle of that group and 90 really is its top tenth.
On engagement per impression rather than per follower it beats 22% of the same group. When those two numbers disagree, the gap is about how far its posts travel rather than how people react to them.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.004%, Society for Neuroscience (SfN) sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,956 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.678% |
| 90th percentile | 2.55% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
This ruler is the whole measured catalog, not a size-matched group: it shows where the raw rate falls across every account we can measure, all of which are large. For a like-for-like comparison, read the size-band percentile above instead. See how the bands are built
Posting timing
This account posts most often around 16:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day of the week. The bars below are the catalog-wide pattern, with this account's own busiest slot marked. They do not show how this account performs at each hour: we keep one aggregate per account, not one per hour, so that measurement does not exist in our data.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | -1% | 89K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 88K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 94K |
| 04:00 UTC | -5% | 76K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 75K |
| 06:00 UTC | -5% | 86K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 93K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 108K |
| 09:00 UTC | -4% | 124K |
| 10:00 UTC | -3% | 129K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 141K |
| 12:00 UTC | -3% | 154K |
| 13:00 UTC | -3% | 167K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 173K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 176K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 171K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 159K |
| 18:00 UTC | -2% | 149K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 141K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 131K |
| 21:00 UTC | 0% | 116K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 90K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 393K |
| Monday | +1% | 483K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 520K |
| Wednesday | -3% | 472K |
| Thursday | -2% | 430K |
| Friday | -3% | 447K |
| Saturday | +2% | 393K |
Formats this account uses
Its own posting mix on the left, and what each of those formats does across every account we track on the right. Only formats where the effect clears our publish test appear here, so an empty row is a format we could not measure rather than one that does nothing.
| Format | This account | Catalog effect | 95% interval | Accounts behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image or video | 85% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 77% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 85% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 111% above the same accounts' other posts.
- 77% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts, so a large share of this account's output sits in the weakest bucket we measure.
- Its average post runs 278 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.
These are catalog-wide differences applied to this account's own posting mix, not a measurement of how each format performs for this account specifically. We keep one median per account, not one per format per account, so the second thing is not something this data can tell you.
Best tweets
- Jul 22, 20265.1x their median
🧠 It's #WorldBrainDay! Brain health is essential to how we learn, work, connect, and thrive. Every discovery brings us closer to earlier diagnoses, better prevention, and care that reaches every community. Put your curiosity to the test. 🔗 https://t.co/Q2XVbiANs4 https://t.co/Wz2Xpt4beN
- Sep 14, 20265.0x their median
Congratulations to the recipients of SfN's Chinese Neuroscience Society (CNS) travel award, presenting their research at #CNS2026 in Fuzhou, China last week. SfN is proud to invest in its members and the international connections that shape their work. #NeuroTwitter #SciTwitter https://t.co/bUl3E04DRe
- Aug 4, 20262.7x their median
Notifications are out! Presenting authors of submitted abstracts have been notified of their acceptance status for #SfN26. Drop a comment below or tag us in your post and let's celebrate! 🧠 #NeuroTwitter #SciTwitter #AcademicTwitter #MedTwitter https://t.co/kbEztSxBff
- Jul 9, 20262.3x their median
Greetings from Barcelona! It was a pleasure to meet with the authors of a forthcoming Journal of Neuroscience article and welcome recipients of SfN's FENS Forum travel award this week at #FENS2026. SfN is proud to support its members in sharing their research with the world. https://t.co/EOctJMAB46
- Sep 22, 20261.7x their median
Peer review scores and percentiles help applicants understand funding decisions. The NIH's new proposed changes could take that transparency away. Stand with fellow #NeuroAdvocates and submit a public comment by October 13. 🔗 https://t.co/dvin8qcY5N #NeuroTwitter https://t.co/SeI188jxEr
- Aug 4, 20261.7x their median
Congratulations to the recipients of SfN's Japan Neuroscience Society (JNS) travel award, presenting their research at #Neuro2026 in Kobe, Japan last week. SfN is proud to support its members sharing their work with colleagues around the world. #NeuroTwitter #SciTwitter https://t.co/v3OJujcyou
- Aug 3, 20261.7x their median
It's #NSPWeek! For 40+ years, SfN’s Neuroscience Scholars Program (NSP) has supported grad students and postdocs in neuroscience nationwide. 📣 Calling all #NeuroScholars, past and present: where has neuroscience taken you so far? Drop a comment below and tag a fellow #NSPeep! https://t.co/TAfO5jqrkB
- Sep 8, 20261.6x their median
Late-breaking abstract submissions for #SfN26 are open now. Bring your most recent and exciting research to thousands of colleagues from around the world. Learn more and submit today: https://t.co/7LrT4d0ZvD #NeuroTwitter #SciTwitter #AcademicTwitter https://t.co/yCFku2HJdF
- Jul 22, 20261.5x their median
Protecting brain health can often start with improving everyday habits. What have you done to rest and reset this #WorldBrainDay? Let us know in the comments below! Learn more about the benefits of resting in this article from @Brain_Facts_org: https://t.co/8PtXgLTJ59
- Jul 13, 20261.5x their median
Congratulations to the champions and competitors of the 2025 International Brain Bee! It was a pleasure to meet these young scholars at #FENS2026. SfN is proud to support a competition that motivates & inspires students to learn about the brain & pursue careers in neuroscience. https://t.co/x2D3hHJtCy
Ranked by total interactions across everything we have tracked for this account, which is a longer history than the 30-day window the rates above use. The multiple compares each post to this account's own median.
Recurring topics
The most frequent hashtags in the sampled posts. They describe what this account writes about; they are not a performance signal, and the catalog-wide breakdown on the hub shows how little hashtag count moves.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 11 interactions against 245K followers, an engagement rate of 0.004%. Measured over 13 original posts, its engagement rate beats 16% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 2.8K times each, and 0.39% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.15% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.57 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 13 posts sampled, 85% carry an image or video, 8% are part of a thread and 77% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 56 interactions, about 5.1x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #neurotwitter, #scitwitter, #academictwitter.
- What is Society for Neuroscience (SfN)'s engagement rate on X?
- Society for Neuroscience (SfN) (@SfNtweets) has an engagement rate of 0.004%, based on the median interactions across 13 original posts from the last 30 days against 244,662 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.004%, Society for Neuroscience (SfN) sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,956 accounts in this comparison. Those comparison accounts are all large ones, because our scanning cadence is weighted towards big accounts, so this is a ranking among peers of similar scale rather than a ranking across X.
- Does @SfNtweets have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 16% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts), which puts it in the bottom quarter for its size group. Ranking inside a size band matters because engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly re-measure the follower count. It is a starting point for a look at follower quality, not a verdict on it.
- When does @SfNtweets post?
- Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.57 posts per day across the measured window.