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@SmithsonianMag
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1,887subscribers
+14 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 1,000–3,162.
| Telegram ID | -1001416425029 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @SmithsonianMag |
| Created | Between 1 April 2019 and 31 October 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 7 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 7 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 12 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 7 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/SmithsonianMag |
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 7 Sept 2026, 04:58 | 1,887 | +10 |
| 2 Sept 2026, 04:23 | 1,877 | +6 |
| 30 Aug 2026, 05:46 | 1,871 | +2 |
| 27 Aug 2026, 01:57 | 1,869 | -4 |
| 24 Aug 2026, 04:04 | 1,873 | +6 |
| 20 Aug 2026, 09:36 | 1,867 | -2 |
| 17 Aug 2026, 16:17 | 1,869 | +1 |
| 14 Aug 2026, 00:53 | 1,868 | -4 |
| 11 Aug 2026, 01:07 | 1,872 | -2 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 21:46 | 1,874 | +1 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 20:47 | 1,873 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 19:44 | 1,873 | first reading |
20 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 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 7 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
This Amazing Archive of Animal Photography Reveals 18,000 Species and Counting. Here's How Joel Sartore Built His 'Photo Ark' For 20 years, the National Geographic photographer has showcased Earth’s animals in a series of striking images that make even the tiniest creatures look immense https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/this-amazing-archive-of-animal-photography-reveals-18000-species-and-counting-heres…
One of Italy's Most Popular Attractions, the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, Reveals Plans for a Major Renovation Over the Next Two Years The collection of treasures, many of them connected to the Medici family, includes Italian Renaissance masterpieces, a palace and a courtly garden https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/one-of-italys-most-popular-attractions-the-uffizi-galleries-in-florence-reveals-plans-for-a-…
Traces of Two Extinct 'Ghost' Ancestors Were Found Hiding in Modern Human DNA, Hinting at Our Extremely Complex Family Tree Researchers used a new method to investigate past interbreeding with Homo sapiens that doesn't require ancient DNA. The technique identified areas of living humans' genomes that came from unknown hominins, including one from a 1.8 million-year-old lineage https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-…
First a Volcanic Eruption, Now a Crustacean Invasion? See the Giant Lobsters Taking Over the Ancient City of Pompeii A pop art installation featuring more than 30 sculptures from artist Philip Colbert is the first contemporary sculpture exhibition to land in Pompeii in three decades https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/first-a-volcanic-eruption-now-a-crustacean-invasion-see-the-giant-lobsters-taking-over-the-…
Butterflies Around the World Are Moving to New Habitats, Largely Because of Climate Change, a Study Suggests Researchers examined data on 1,758 butterfly species—about ten percent of all those known—from 105 countries and estimated that about one in ten global species has shifted its distribution range https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/butterflies-around-the-world-are-moving-to-new-habitats-largely-because…
Why Does Antarctica's Blood Falls Spew Ruby Red Water? Microbes Offer New Clues About the Geologic Feature's Ancient Origins The falls contain saltwater rich with iron, which oxidizes and turns red when exposed to air. A new study provides further evidence that the brine probably comes from ocean water trapped when flood waters retreated millions of years ago https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-does-anta…
This Marine-Life Mosaic Discovered Near the Colosseum Offers a Surprising Clue—Its Building May Have Housed Firefighters in Ancient Rome At the time of the structure's construction in the second century C.E., firefighting in ancient Rome was a formalized profession https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-marine-life-mosaic-discovered-near-the-colosseum-offers-a-surprising-clue-its-building-may-have-housed-f…
Big Waves Meet Biodiversity: Why Surfing Paradises Could Offer a Key Opportunity for Marine Conservation A recent mapping study examines places in northwestern Africa where coastal ecosystems overlap with surf breaks, highlighting areas that could support recreation, the environment and local economies, if protected https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/big-waves-meet-biodiversity-why-surfing-paradises-cou…
Charles Darwin Theorized That These Plants Were Carnivorous 150 Years Ago. A New Study Proves Him Right As the naturalist predicted in 1875, some Saxifraga plants consume insects—using sticky hairs to trap them https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/charles-darwin-theorized-that-these-plants-were-carnivorous-150-years-ago-a-new-study-proves-him-right-180989265/
Notorious Feral Cat That Feasted on Rare New Zealand Ducks Captured After Three-Year Hunt The gray tabby, known as Nine Lives because it eluded capture so many times, had devastated efforts by conservationists to reintroduce the birds to the wild https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nine-lives-a-feral-cat-hunting-rare-ducks-in-new-zealand-has-been-caught-and-killed-after-three-years-180989267/
Metal Detectorists Thought They'd Hit the Jackpot When They Discovered a Gold Bracelet Dating to the Bronze Age. Then They Dug Up Two More At first, Andy Crammond thought the object was a bull's nose ring. Other artifacts unearthed nearby include a Viking brooch, a Roman coin hoard and a Bronze Age ax head https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/metal-detectorists-thought-theyd-hit-the-jackpot-when-they-discover…
Fires and Financial Trouble Leave the Fate of Two Arts Institutions Uncertain in This Scottish City—Including a Century-Old Masterpiece The historic Glasgow School of Art and the more modern Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Arts were both affected by a significant blaze in 2018 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/fires-and-financial-trouble-leave-the-fate-of-a-few-arts-institutions-uncertain-in-this-scottish-…
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @SmithsonianMag. 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.
Named by 2 registered channels — 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.
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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.
This channel appears in 4 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
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 7 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Smithsonian Magazine” (@SmithsonianMag), 1,887 subscribers as measured 7 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/SmithsonianMag.
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