🤖 A University of Ottawa study of 39,761 students (grades 4-12, May 2025-March 2026) found 21% (8,408 students) used AI chatbots for emotional support or advice. These students were significantly more likely to struggle with serious emotional problems, feel isolated, and doubt their own worth. 🧑🏫 The study, published in JAMA Pediatrics, suggests AI use for emotional reasons may signal a need for more human connecti…

Channel
Science News
@Science_News_Facts_Updates_daily
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Reactions · Posts · Citations · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
13,296subscribers
-119 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 10,000–31,623.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001280271845 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @Science_News_Facts_Updates_daily |
| Created | 4 January 2018 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (TGDataset) |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 17 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 32 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 17 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/Science_News_Facts_Updates_daily |
Topic
Science — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 11 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 93% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 17 Sept 2026, 12:20 | 13,296 | -9 |
| 15 Sept 2026, 10:37 | 13,305 | -3 |
| 13 Sept 2026, 20:00 | 13,308 | -6 |
| 12 Sept 2026, 04:38 | 13,314 | -3 |
| 9 Sept 2026, 23:20 | 13,317 | -6 |
| 4 Sept 2026, 08:39 | 13,323 | -7 |
| 3 Sept 2026, 00:45 | 13,330 | -5 |
| 1 Sept 2026, 22:47 | 13,335 | +2 |
| 1 Sept 2026, 00:46 | 13,333 | -12 |
| 30 Aug 2026, 23:48 | 13,345 | -3 |
| 30 Aug 2026, 00:56 | 13,348 | +1 |
| 29 Aug 2026, 00:43 | 13,347 | -6 |
| 28 Aug 2026, 00:53 | 13,353 | -7 |
| 26 Aug 2026, 22:38 | 13,360 | -5 |
| 25 Aug 2026, 20:42 | 13,365 | -2 |
| 24 Aug 2026, 19:44 | 13,367 | -21 |
| 23 Aug 2026, 05:22 | 13,388 | -8 |
| 21 Aug 2026, 13:53 | 13,396 | +4 |
| 20 Aug 2026, 15:22 | 13,392 | +1 |
| 19 Aug 2026, 13:25 | 13,391 | first reading |
Engagement
553 posts held, back to 5 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 50 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
- ERR · 30 days
- 1.09%
- avg views ÷ 13,296 subscribers
- Avg views / post
- 145
- 233 posts measured
- Reaction rate
- 1.10%
- reactions ÷ views · ER floor
- Posts in window
- 233
- of 553 held
ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.
ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views — note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate. It is computed over the 68 of 233 measured posts that carry a reaction reading, and over those same posts' views.
| Window | Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 2 September 2026 |
|---|---|
| Posts held | 553 (5 August 2026 – 2 September 2026) |
| Views total | 33,691 |
| Reactions total | 119 |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 2 Sept 2026, 20:15 UTC |
Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.
Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.
Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.
Reaction mix
387 reactions across 192 posts, in 49 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 14.5% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 56 | 14.5% | |
| 👍 | 35 | 9.04% | |
| 💩 | 31 | 8.01% | |
| 😢 | 22 | 5.68% | |
| 🤡 | 21 | 5.43% | |
| 🥱 | 18 | 4.65% | |
| 💯 | 15 | 3.88% | |
| 🤯 | 14 | 3.62% | |
| 🦄 | 13 | 3.36% | |
| 🌚 | 12 | 3.10% | |
| 🤔 | 12 | 3.10% | |
| 👀 | 11 | 2.84% | |
| 🤣 | 11 | 2.84% | |
| 🤮 | 9 | 2.33% | |
| 🤨 | 8 | 2.07% | |
| 👏 | 6 | 1.55% | |
| 🔥 | 5 | 1.29% | |
| 😱 | 5 | 1.29% | |
| 🥴 | 5 | 1.29% | |
| ⚡ | 4 | 1.03% | |
| 29 further kinds | 74 | 19.1% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 212 of the 553 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 418 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 553 most recent posts we hold, published 5 August 2026 to 2 September 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Recent posts
Research has found young people leaning on AI chatbots for emotional support or personal advice are significantly more likely to struggle with serious emotional problems, feel isolated, and doubt that they truly matter to others Read Full Article #AIAwareness #MentalHealthTech #YouthWellbeing
Autistic adults showed elevated dopamine receptors and altered brain connectivity compared to their peers - autistic individuals exhibit higher dopamine D2 receptor levels and elevated glucose energy consumption in deep brain regions Read Full Article #AutismResearch #DopamineD2 #Neuroimaging
🧬 The largest study to date has identified over 1,000 genetic variants linked to the Big Five personality traits (extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness). 🧬 This research, involving 1.14 million people and published in Nature, found that genetics explains a modest portion (7.4-10.6%) of personality differences between individuals, and less than 4% of variation can be predicted from…
Genetics may play a smaller role in shaping personality than many people assume. New research suggests that life experiences, environment, and social influences account for much more of the variation in personality traits than DNA alone. Read Full Article #Genetics #Personality #LifeExperience
🐁 A new study in mice suggests semaglutide (Wegovy, Ozempic) can extend lifespan by about 12 percent when started in old age. 💪 In mice, semaglutide showed benefits in maintaining memory and blood sugar control, outperforming dieting in these areas. 🧬 Researchers found semaglutide mimics calorie restriction by reducing inflammation and improving blood sugar regulation, but also shows added benefits for memory and c…
👍1
GLP-1 weight-loss medication could slow aging and extend lifespan. Giving old mice semaglutide—commonly sold as Wegovy or Ozempic—extends their lifespan remarkably, a new study finds. Read Full Article #WeightLoss #AgingResearch #Semaglutide
👍1
📈 Younger generations show significantly smaller differences between men and women in core social and economic attitudes like trust and risk-taking, according to a global analysis published in PNAS Nexus. 📊 The study, analyzing data from the Global Preferences Survey and World Values Survey (1981-2022), found that gender gaps in patience, risk-taking, trust, and prosociality have steadily narrowed across birth decad…
🦄1
Sex differences in personality traits are narrowing among younger generations, according to new research, suggesting that social and cultural changes may be reducing long-observed gaps in how men and women score on key personality measures. Read Full Article #GenderDifferences #PersonalityTraits #GenerationalChange
🦄1
Researchers worry that generative AI is homogenizing culture and cognition. This phenomenon is similar to the concept of ‘McDonaldization’, invoking how characteristics of the fast-food industry, such as efficiency and predictability, have influenced society and led to more uniformity. Read Full Article #GenerativeAI #McDonaldization #Cultural homogenization
🧠 A small study of 45 young adults (18-25) in France found that heavy reliance on ChatGPT can reduce critical thinking, diminish memory, and lead to social isolation by discouraging independent thought and causing users to externalize memory. 🗣️ Participants reported experiencing "intellectual laziness," shorter attention spans, and a decline in self-trust, sometimes seeking AI validation for simple decisions and fe…
Heavy ChatGPT use linked to intellectual laziness and social isolation Read Full Article #AIethics #TechImpact #SocialIsolation
Showing the 12 most recent of 553 posts we hold for @Science_News_Facts_Updates_daily. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Forward network
Republished by
Channels on the register that have forwarded this channel's posts into their own feed.
Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.
Mentions
Named by 1 registered channel — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.
Named by
Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
@science · 120,288
Telegram ranks this channel #6 of 92 here — alongside 91 others — read 14 August 2026
@askmenow · 69,098
Telegram ranks this channel #25 of 89 here — alongside 88 others — read 20 August 2026
@Tech_Science_Innovation · 38,185
Telegram ranks this channel #27 of 76 here — alongside 75 others — read 31 August 2026
@Usmle_FA_UW · 24,769
Telegram ranks this channel #28 of 78 here — alongside 77 others — read 15 September 2026
@ieofficial · 65,952
Telegram ranks this channel #33 of 92 here — alongside 91 others — read 21 August 2026
@NEET_Chemistry_Physics_Biology · 110,983
Telegram ranks this channel #35 of 68 here — alongside 67 others — read 14 August 2026
@physics · 33,219
Telegram ranks this channel #48 of 79 here — alongside 78 others — read 4 September 2026
@Official_Dev_Poswal · 34,811
Telegram ranks this channel #51 of 52 here — alongside 51 others — read 2 September 2026
@nasapictures · 25,206
Telegram ranks this channel #55 of 81 here — alongside 80 others — read 14 September 2026
@TechnologyBoxs · 25,050
Telegram ranks this channel #61 of 69 here — alongside 68 others — read 15 September 2026
@ProfessorAcademy · 26,667
Telegram ranks this channel #68 of 75 here — alongside 74 others — read 16 September 2026
@apod_telegram · 35,174
Telegram ranks this channel #71 of 78 here — alongside 77 others — read 2 September 2026
@hindustantimes · 63,334
Telegram ranks this channel #80 of 87 here — alongside 86 others — read 21 August 2026
@BBCWorld · 36,210
Telegram ranks this channel #83 of 89 here — alongside 88 others — read 2 September 2026
@THnewsupdates · 248,989
Telegram ranks this channel #87 of 88 here — alongside 87 others — read 10 August 2026
This channel appears in 15 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 17 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Science News” (@Science_News_Facts_Updates_daily), 13,296 subscribers as measured 17 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/Science_News_Facts_Updates_daily.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.