Gabe Popkin has 2,198 followers on Substack as of Oct 31, 2026. 24 publications recommend them, and they recommend 11.
Last read Oct 31, 2026 (UTC). Followers are not email subscribers. Substack lists only the newest 50 recommendations for each publication, so a recommender count of 50 or more is a floor. History starts Oct 31, 2026; Substack publishes nothing earlier.
- Followers
- 2,198
- read Oct 31
- Last 7 days
- first number on Nov 7
- Last 30 days
- first number on Nov 30
- Subscribers
- 1.2K+
- rounded by Substack
- Paid subscribers
- none shown
- Recommended by
- 24
- none new in 30 days
- Recommends
- 11
- Bestsellers rank
- not on a board
Followers by day
Tracking since Oct 31, 2026. This is the first reading. Substack doesn't publish past follower counts, so history starts the day I first read a writer and grows by one reading every 3 days (daily if it's on your watchlist). The 7-day change appears on Nov 7, the 30-day change on Nov 30. Recommendation dates below go further back: they're Substack's own.
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| Date | Followers | Change | Subscribers | Paid band |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 31, 2026 | 2,198 | 1.2K+ |
Leaderboard positions
Not on a category leaderboard right now
Substack's boards list the top 100 per category, by paid subscribers (Bestsellers) and by recent paid growth (Rising). I read all 66 of them once a day, so a new entry shows up within a day.
Recommendations
24 publications recommend Gabe Popkin. Gabe Popkin recommends 11, and 3 of those recommend back. Lists read Oct 31.
When the recommendations started
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| Month | Started |
|---|---|
| 2023-01 | 4 |
| 2023-02 | 1 |
| 2023-03 | 1 |
| 2023-04 | 2 |
| 2023-05 | 1 |
| 2023-11 | 2 |
| 2023-12 | 1 |
| 2024-01 | 1 |
| 2024-02 | 1 |
| 2024-03 | 1 |
| 2024-09 | 1 |
| 2024-10 | 1 |
| 2025-04 | 1 |
| 2025-08 | 1 |
| 2025-12 | 1 |
| 2026-02 | 1 |
| 2026-05 | 1 |
| 2026-06 | 1 |
| 2026-08 | 1 |
Recommended by
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- Bryce's Climate Chroniclesstarted Nov 2023
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- Dr.’s Substackstarted Apr 2023
- Ursula’s Substackstarted Apr 2023
- The Ecological Mind: ecology, research, creativitystarted Feb 2023 · mutual
- Play Anthropocenestarted Jan 2023
- Ecologist @ Large started Jan 2023
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Recommends
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Substack lists the 50 newest recommenders of each publication. I add every recommendation found in the full lists of the 6,392 publications I read, so writers with many recommenders may still be missing a few small ones. "Started" is Substack's date.
Recommended by the same publications
Writers who share the most recommenders with Gabe Popkin. Useful for finding peers, and for sponsors looking for similar audiences.
- 3 shared
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Who recommends writers like this one
Publications that recommend at least two other Science writers with 1,000 to 5,000 followers (56 writers in that group), but not Gabe Popkin.
- recommends 3 of themFrequency Wave Theory
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