Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social Parent. Interdisciplinary biomedical researcher. Hardline scientist, Professor, PhD. New platforms and real-world impact, emphasis on scientific rigour, reproducibility, integrity and efficiency. Diverse interests.
Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social Journalist, advocate, trans woman. Proud ex-Committee to Protect Journalists, Associated Press, Hartford Courant. Oh proud state school grad too (Go UConn!) Hmm did I work somewhere else 🤔. She/her. billiesweeney.com
Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team Rudolph (Rudy) Fraser ⁂
CEO & Founder, building virtual 3rd places
[ @blackskyweb.xyz ][ blacksky.community ]
@mozilla.org Fellow 🦊
prev. @harvard.edu Fellow
🏴☠️ [ wethepeople.nyc ]
Board @pactcollective.xyz
TSC @lexicon.community
Black crypto-anarchy Ⓐ
Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social Researcher, therapist, heavily caffeinated. Frequently described as a bit of a handful. 🖤 (She/her) 🏳️⚧️ jessk.org/blog
Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social Quick! Somebody call an anthropologist! Assoc prof @ Northwestern. MedAnthro. African studies. Pop culture. Politics. She/her. book: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816692439/hiv-exceptionalism/
Lisa Rowe 🏳️🌈 @txvoodoo.bsky.social Chiweenies • knitting • history • disabled • lupus • rheumatoid arthritis • she/her • Philly girl in Texas • #ItsAPhillyThing • #ImComingHome
Chloé de Canson @chloedecanson.bsky.social Formerly assistant professor of philosophy • bedbound since 2022 with severe myalgic encephalomyelitis, a type of long COVID • philosophy of science, epistemology incl. social, and their history • chloedecanson.net • 🇵🇸
Natacha @natacha.bsky.social Dr Natacha Kennedy 🏳️⚧️ Sociologist/Agnotologist, anti-Brexit. She/her. Opinions expressed here are my own. Block Early Block Often 🇵🇸
Publications: https://goldsmiths.academia.edu/NatachaKennedy
Thomas Mann:
“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”
GM Connie Chang 🌈🐸 @byconniechang.bsky.social they/he/she/ta. chinese-american. ENNIE-winning game writer & narrative designer threading queer drama w/ black-hearted apocalyptica.
Game Master for @transplanarrpg.bsky.social.
Prev: Bungie, NetEase
🌟 byconniechang.itch.io
📧 byconniechang@gmail.com
Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social Climate scientist, professor of Physics of the Oceans in Potsdam. Dad. Opinions my own.
Born at 317 ppm CO2.
Ilkka Rauvola @jukka235.bsky.social Covid-19. In God we trust, all others must bring data.
X: @jukka235 or https://x.com/jukka235
BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social Physician Scientist MDPhD
Infectious Diseases
Academic Medicine
Global Health
Science Communicator
Posts are my opinions, not my employer's and not medical advice
I bet on myself and double down
https://substack.com/@bktitanji
@nonbinarybarrister.bsky.social @nonbinarybarrister.bsky.social
Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social Discrimination Barrister, Railway, Car and Flying Nut. Trans woman.
Xine Yao PhD (she/they) @xineyaophd.bsky.social DISAFFECTED: THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF UNFEELING @DukePress | @phdivaspodcast | Associate Professor | BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker | Co-Director @qUCL.bsky.social | rhymes w fine
from the colonies
https://www.dukeupress.edu/disaffected
Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org Our World in Data is a free, nonprofit website with a mission to increase understanding of the world’s largest problems and drive informed action to solve them. Based out of Oxford University (@ox.ac.uk), founded by @maxroser.bsky.social.
Institute for Government @instituteforgovernment.org.uk The UK’s leading independent think tank working to make government more effective.
➡ Find our latest research, analysis, events and opportunities
https://linktr.ee/instituteforgov
BuDS Disability Service @buds-disability.bsky.social BuDS Disability Service is a user-led, pan-disability grassroots charity working across England. Formerly Buckinghamshire Disability Service. Registered Charity 1102511 #Fair4All #Reach4Work
UK Covid-19 Inquiry @ukcovid-19inquiry.bsky.social The official Bluesky account of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry. An independent and public inquiry, examining the UK's response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
🌐 https://covid19.public-inquiry.uk/
📺 https://www.youtube.com/@UKCovid-19Inquiry
Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social Professor of Medical Anthropology (University of St Andrews, Scotland) researching zoonosis, plague, epidemics, colonial medicine, biopolitics, multispecies relations, and medical visual culture
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/social-anthropology/people/cl12
Douglas Booker @douglasbooker.bsky.social Lecturer in Indoor Air at the University of Leeds, researching all things air quality and environmental justice.
Co-Founder & CEO of NAQTS | Regional Clean Air Champion in the UKRI Clean Air Programme. Views my own.
Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social Two books published this year - Normally Weird & Weirdly Normal and poetry collection Ice Cream for a Broken Tooth
@DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC @drjoepajak.bsky.social PhD in physical chemistry, research experience in thin‑film dynamics, surface forces, wetting, and rheology. Served 11 yrs as an NHS hospital public governor with two trusts.
With airborne pathogens, clean indoor air is vital.
mstdn.science/@JoePajak
The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social To stimulate, catalyse, provoke, expand and intensify conversations in the critical medical humanities. Hosted by Durham University's Institute for Medical Humanities. Supported by Wellcome.
https://thepolyphony.org/
Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social Improving health by understanding hidden experience.
Supported by Wellcome.
durham.ac.uk/imh
medhumsplatform.org
Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social Writer
My biography of Henri Bergson – Herald of a Restless World – is out now!
"The most intellectually stimulating book I read this year.” John Banville
She/Her
https://linktr.ee/eherring
Lydia Becker Institute @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social Researchers from the Lydia Becker Institute of Immunology & Inflammation at The University of Manchester. Fundamental and translational immunology addressing key concepts in health & disease.
https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/lydia-becker-institute/
Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social STEM mom dodging airborne pathogens. Ankylosing spondylitis warrior. Very sweary 😆
Sarah Clarke - Not your doll @damselindystopia.bsky.social Researcher of anti-trans harms (on hiatus). Moody anarchafeminist. A natural source of vitamin 1312.
https://damselindystopia.ghost.io
Sotirios Papathanasiou @seetheair.bsky.social Founder GO AQS
WELL Building Institute Air Advisor
Expert Advisor @ The Safer Air Project
Indoor Air Quality is the value that reassures the well-being of occupants.
www.seetheair.org
www.goaqs.org
Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social Non-binary researcher supporting trans kids and challenging cis-supremacy
@crippingbreath.bsky.social @crippingbreath.bsky.social
Oxford Martin School @oxmartinschool.bsky.social The Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford is a centre of pioneering research that aims to find solutions to the world's most urgent challenges.
https://linktr.ee/oxmartinschool
Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social Immunologist & science communicator based at UoM fascinated by our immune response to threats (pathogens, pollution) & microbiome & how this exposome affects health. Also quite likely to share random dog and nature pics 🧪👩🔬 #AcademicSky #SciCom
Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social physician-scientist, author, editor
https://www.scripps.edu/faculty/topol/
Ground Truths https://erictopol.substack.com
SUPER AGERS https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Super-Agers/Eric-Topol/9781668067666
Seye Abimbola @seyeabimbola.bsky.social Writer, Teacher, Researcher | on Epistemic Practices in Health Systems and Global Health | @sydney.edu.au | Views expressed here are my own.
Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social cohost @deathpanel.bsky.social podcast
www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod
coauthor with @avierkant.bsky.social Health Communism (Verso); forthcoming All Care For All People (Haymarket)
theorizing health, debility, class struggle & the state
minneapolis
Dr Charlotte Hammer @epihammer.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Cambridge University, Fellow of Downing College. Health security and infectious disease epidemiology focused on early detection of emerging & high-consequence infectious diseases. Systems & communities.
https://idea-epilab.github.io
Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social Sharing info on COVID since the start of the pandemic.
#COVIDisNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #MaskUp😷
Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social Journalist, parent to two grown-ups, LGBT+ rights campaigner, former night editor of The Times, Scotland. Lives in France. [she/her]
Lara Mani @laramani14.bsky.social Assistant Research Professor @cser.bsky.social | Co-founder @gvra.bsky.social | Risk communication | Global Catastrophic Risk | Systemic Risk | Volcanic risk 🌋| First Gen | European
Professor Prashant Kumar @profpkumar.bsky.social Chair Air Quality & Health; Founding Director #GCARE @AirPollSurrey
@GuildfordLL @reclaim_network & Co-Director Surrey's @SurreySustain; Trustee @ZeroGuildford
GREENIN Micro Network Plus @greenin.bsky.social GREENIN Micro-Network Plus is a ground-breaking initiative exploring how indoor plants can improve indoor environments.
Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social Singing to the sea, the sky, the land. Blendian. Immunocompromised af. They/She. Pfp by Porridge the Pigeon. Minnesota Stoic.
“Trauma is an unrelenting beast. It never quite leaves our side. But that doesn’t mean we owe it a damn thing.”
betsy ladyzhets 😷 @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social editor/co-founder @thesicktimes.org | journalist covering Long COVID & related crises | she/her/🏳️🌈
email: betsy@thesicktimes.org | signal: betsyladyzhets.25 | https://thesicktimes.org/
Swinda Falkena @swinda.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher at LMD Paris (formerly Utrecht University) | Climate Scientist - Physicist - Mathematician | Tipping - Subpolar Gyre - Weather Regimes - Causality | Born in the year of Rio Earth Summit | Runner | she/her
Ruth Brooker @ruthbrooker.bsky.social Teller of stories. Drinker of wine. Parent to small boys and trying not to lose my brains. Travel by bike. Magazine writer on pause.
Clean Air Campaigner #CleanAirforKids
https://www.cleanairforkids.co.uk/
Dr Jackie Turvey Tait @jaxtait.bsky.social PhD in Natural Law Theory, not a medical doctor. #SSCE
Green Party (views are my own & don't necessarily represent GPEW policy)
#CRPS
Aka Jax
Greens Against Covid @greensagainstcovid.bsky.social #GreenParty of England and Wales #covid and #longcovid campaign working group. Join us? https://linktr.ee/greensagainstcovid
The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change @lancetcountdown.bsky.social Bringing together experts from across the globe to track how climate change is affecting our health, and how the world is responding.
Funded by Wellcome.
Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences @oxprimarycare.bsky.social Rethinking community healthcare through research, education, and innovation. The Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, is a world-renowned centre for academic primary care.
https://www.phc.ox.ac.uk/
The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social AI is not inevitable. We DAIR to imagine, build & use AI deliberately.
Website: http://dair-institute.org
Mastodon: @DAIR@dair-community.social
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dair-institute/
Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social Director of @britishfuture.bsky.social
Author How to be a Patriot https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/how-to-be-a-patriot-why-love-of-country-can-end-our-very-british-culture-war-sunder-katwala?variant=40518936559694
Evertonian
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social journalist, author, reads too much. haggard and unblest. trans guy, he/him.
newsletter:
buttondown.email/theswordandthesandwich
contact: talialavinwrites@gmail.com
National Centre for Atmospheric Science @ncas-uk.bsky.social Unlocking the answers to climate change, high-risk weather and air pollution 🌏 We are NCAS - leading atmospheric science in a changing world.
Latest news, events, courses, jobs: https://linktr.ee/atmosphericscience
Linsey Marr @linseymarr.bsky.social Engineering professor at Virginia Tech with expertise in air pollution, airborne microbes, nanotechnology. Avid recreational athlete.
Putrino Lab @putrinolab.bsky.social
Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social
Founding Director, End Climate Silence
Author, *The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It*
genevieveguenther.com
Logan Grendel @focusedoninfinity.bsky.social This time, we win✊🏾✊🏽✊🏿✊🏻
Magick is real, but it's not supernatural✨️
They/them
Linktr.ee/FoILG
Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social Filmmaker (WHAT LIES WEST) and formerly a little Twitter famous. Married to @sean-a-tiger.bsky.social, writes with @nicksinnott.com
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social Researcher trying to shape AI towards positive outcomes. ML & Ethics +birds. Generally trying to do the right thing. TIME 100 | TED speaker | Senate testimony provider | Navigating public life as a recluse.
Former: Google, Microsoft; Current: Hugging Face
Samwise Masks @theailingwitch.bsky.social They/Them
Queer, Disabled, & Chronically Ill Ostomate
Immunosuppressed, Immunocompromised
“Fighting fascism is a full-time job!”
Writing Fantasy, Learning Harp, Knitting Something, Always Binging DS9
Patreon.com/TheAilingWitch
🚫NO UNSOLICITED MED ADVICE🚫
Karen Wants The Orcas In Charge @riceboilsover.bsky.social #TeamOrca. Aspiring Plant Witch of the Woods. Book collector. Former sociologist. Plant nerd. Fan of squirrels. Hater of AI.
#MaskUp because why would you want to be sick?
(she/her)
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Global Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
The Vertlartnic @thev.bsky.social Democracy Drowns In Dankness
Prof Danny Altmann @daltmann.bsky.social Professor of Immunology, Imperial College London. Editor of OUP Oxford Open Immunology. Co-author - Penguin Long Covid Handbook. Discusses: Covid-19, Long Covid, T cells, immunogenetics and HLA, respiratory infection, science policy, arboviruses, C19th lit
Binita Kane @binitakane.bsky.social Long COVID/ME interested lung doctor | Campaigner | Independent SAGE | Co-Founder South Asian Heritage Month | Diversity Power List 24/25
Website: https://thelongcovidclinic.co.uk
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/binitakane
Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social Prof of European Public Health LSHTM
Co-Director European Observatory on Health Systems & Policy
Member Independent SAGE
Past President BMA & EUPHA
Committed to 🇬🇧 rejoining 🇪🇺
https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/mckee.martin
Prof Cath Noakes @cathnoakes.bsky.social Pro Dean Research and Innovation in Engineering and Physical Sciences at Leeds University. Indoor air, ventilation, infection risks, fluid dynamics, academia, EDI in science and a few cats. Views my own. #academicsky
Mahan Ghafari @mghafari.bsky.social Molecular evolution of pathogens | Wellcome Trust Fellow @biology.ox.ac.uk | Independent Investigator Data Analytics & Epi Group @psioxford.bsky.social | MedSci Fellow @lincoln.ox.ac.uk | Oxford DTP & Zoology alum | https://users.ox.ac.uk/~univ4613/
Isabella Eckerle @eckerleisabella.bsky.social Director, Geneva Centre for Emerging Viral Diseases - Virologist, MD, DTM&H. Interests: Emerging viruses, coronaviruses, diagnostics, translational research for better preparedness for epidemic & pandemic viruses.
Views are my own.
Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
Tom Peacock @peacockflu.bsky.social Virologist - Influenza and Coronaviruses
Meaghan Kall @kallmemeg.bsky.social Epidemiologist, public health trainee, mom, wife. Formerly @UKHSA. Disability advocate. Born 🇺🇸 Migrated 🇬🇧. 🏳️🌈 Personal account.
Theo Sanderson @theo.io researching viral pathogen genomics at @lshtm.bsky.social, building @pathoplexus.org | theo.io / sandersonlab.org
Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social نسرين العلوان🧿💚
Public Health Professor MBE
Southampton
Not afraid of my voice
Posting my personal views not those of any organisation
Reposts not necessarily endorsements
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
M Oliver
Aris Katzourakis @ariskatzourakis.bsky.social Viruses, Evolution, Education, Trade Unions, things like that. Prof at Uni of Oxford, NEC member for UCU. Posts mine, reposts not.
Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social Epidemiologist/mathematician. Professor at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Author of The Rules of Contagion and The Perfect Bet. Views own.
New book Proof: The Uncertain Science of Certainty available now: proof.kucharski.io
Dr Duncan Robertson @duncanrobertson.bsky.social Policy & Strategy Analytics academic at Loughborough University; Member, Independent SAGE; Fellow, St Catherine's College, Oxford.
Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social DEI hire. Prof of Primary Care, Uni of Oxford. Researching digital health/ inequities, covid prevention (masks/ air quality). Wild swimmer. Mum to Rob (marine bio) & Al (doc). She/her. https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=QDCqsJwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social Physics, bubbles, oceans, hot chocolate and curiosity. Professor at UCL, writer, broadcaster. Author of Storm in a Teacup and Blue Machine https://linktr.ee/helenczerski Co-host of BBC Radio 4's Rare Earth
Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social CEO of @taso.org.uk, Chair of Trust for London, Executive Committee of Political Studies Association. The usual disclaimers.
Alf Collins @alfcollins.bsky.social Doctor, patient advocate, Trustee Patients Association, Picker Institute. Person centred, high value care, shared decision making, support for self management. Ex Health Foundation, NHS England. Rugby, family, good food. Personal views
Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social Prof Operational Research , @UCL_CORU, passionate about health care, women in STEMs, defending liberal democracy (!). Member of @independentsage, posts personal. https://www.trumpactiontracker.info/
They Want You Dead @unitedasone.bsky.social Artsy craftsy quiet rebel. Whole person w/diverse ancestry. Child of refugees. BFA+MLA. 💉Covid cautious. 🚫electoral college.
CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com We are a rebel alliance—a decentralized network pledged to anonymous collective action—a breakout from the prisons of our age. We strive to reinvent our lives and world according to the principles of self-determination and mutual aid. 🏴
crimethinc.com
Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social host of Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff. Co-owner of Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness. Latest book is The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice. she/they
Steve Griffin @profstevegriffin.bsky.social Professor of Cancer Virology, University of Leeds.
Co-Chair, Independent SAGE
Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social Composer
Clean Air Advocate
#Covidisairborne #FBCV
Vote Green Party 💚
#Feminist
Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social Writer of games, books, TV, film and comics. Co-Director of Narrativia. Cat Spooner. Flibbertigibbet. https://rhiannapratchett.com
Prof Jeffrey S Morris @jsm2334.bsky.social George S Pepper Professor of Public Health & Preventative Medicine; Biostats, Stats & Data Science, Lifelong learner & truth seeker; Views my own & not employer’s
Prof Devi Sridhar @profdevisridhar.bsky.social Professor & Chair of Global Public Health, Edinburgh Uni. Certified Level 3 Personal Trainer. Views own.
Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way.
Lives with epilepsy.
Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social Common Cyborg | NB ND Mad Bean | Disability and Epistemology | Research Ethics and Dissensus
Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78.bsky.social #LongCovid | researcher | Covid | infectious disease | health, disability, inequality in present and past | human-environment interactions | big data | medicine history | patient-led research | MA PHD| ≠ MD |
Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social We are a community of parents, healthcare workers, teachers, students and individuals who care about improving indoor air quality
https://linktr.ee/cleanairadvocacyireland
Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social Philosopher and historian of human extinction (sadly, an increasingly relevant topic). Coined the term “TESCREAL” w/ Timnit Gebru. Salon, Truthdig, WaPo, Aeon, etc.
Danielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social PharmD, MS in Biophysics, PhD in Biochemistry
🇧🇷 Rio 🇺🇸 Sacramento 🇩🇪 Munich
International Society of Long COVID & Post-Acute Infection Syndromes: https://islc-pais.com/
daniellebeckman.com
BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social A trans-led direct action group combatting the rising tide of bigotry in the UK
Join us: https://lnk.bio/BASHBACK