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Steve Stewart-Williams has 33,234 followers on Substack as of Nov 1, 2026. On the latest board read, Oct 31, 2026, they were #23 on Substack's Science Bestsellers board. 60 publications recommend them, 1 of them new in the last 30 days, and they recommend 50.

Followers read · Boards read

Last read Nov 1, 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
33,234
read Nov 1
Last 7 days
first number on Nov 7
Last 30 days
first number on Nov 30
Subscribers
18K+
rounded by Substack
Paid subscribers
Thousands
bestseller badge 1,000+
Recommended by
60
+1 in 30 days
Recommends
50
Bestsellers rank
#23
Science

Followers by day

Tracking since Oct 31, 2026. 2 days of readings. 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.

32,50033,00033,50034,000 Oct 31Nov 2Nov 4Nov 6Nov 8Nov 10Nov 12 12 more days to fill this frame 33,234
32,50033,00033,50034,000 Oct 31Nov 4Nov 8 8 more days to fill this frame 33,234
One reading a day, the last of the day. Marked: leaderboard steps (into the top 25, top 10, or #1). Followers are people who follow Steve Stewart-Williams on Substack; they aren't email subscribers.
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Daily readings
DateFollowersChangeSubscribersPaid band
Nov 1, 202633,234−218K+Thousands
Oct 31, 202633,23618K+Thousands

Leaderboard positions

BoardRank nowBest on recordReads on it
Science Bestsellers#23#234 of 4

Rank on each read

Rank on each read of each board. Each cell is the leaderboard rank; empty means not in the top 100.
WriterOct 3107:00Oct 3113:00Oct 3119:47Nov 621:50Move
Science Bestsellers232323230

I read every board once a day.

Recommendations

60 publications recommend Steve Stewart-Williams; 1 started in the last 30 days. Steve Stewart-Williams recommends 50, and 9 of those recommend back. Lists read Oct 31.

The 9 largest publications on each side, by followers. Bigger dot, more followers. Orange: started in the last 30 days. Gray dots: publications I don't track, so no follower count.

When the recommendations started

Nov 23MayNovMayNovMayNov
Live recommendations by the month each began, using Substack's own start date. Removed ones aren't listed by Substack, so they don't appear. Substack shows only the 50 newest recommenders, so before Jul 2025 (outlined) I see only those from the 6,392 publications whose full lists I read.
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Recommendations started per month
MonthStarted
2023-114
2024-021
2024-031
2024-061
2024-101
2025-041
2025-072
2025-084
2025-092
2025-102
2025-119
2025-122
2026-013
2026-026
2026-034
2026-048
2026-051
2026-062
2026-071
2026-083
2026-091
2026-101

Recommended by

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All 60
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Recommends

All 50
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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.

Who recommends writers like this one

Publications that recommend at least two other Science writers with 10,000 to 50,000 followers (68 writers in that group), but not Steve Stewart-Williams.

  • You know, Cannot Name It
    recommends 7 of them
  • Weekly Review of Public Scholarship
    recommends 4 of them
  • Colin Wright@colinwright
    recommends 3 of them
  • Cremieux@cremieux
    recommends 3 of them
  • Denis Kristan
    recommends 3 of them
  • Unscripted
    recommends 3 of them
  • Unbiased Science@theunbiasedscipod
    recommends 2 of them
  • Jeremy Faust, MD@insidemedicine
    recommends 2 of them
  • Dan Williams@conspicuouscognition
    recommends 2 of them
  • Daniel Pinchbeck@danielpinchbeck
    recommends 2 of them

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