Albert Vilella, PhD. @albertvilella.bsky.social Bioinformatics Scientist / Next Generation Sequencing, Single Cell and Spatial Biology, Next Generation Proteomics, Liquid Biopsy, SynBio, AI/ML in biotech // http://albertvilella.substack.com
Antigen Evolution & Design Lab @antigenevo.bsky.social We study how pathogen antigen proteins evolve and use this knowledge to improve how we design vaccines and therapeutics 💻 💉 🧬
@pasteur.fr 🇫🇷
Lab Head 🧑🦱 @spyroslytras.bsky.social
https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/antigen-evolution-and-design/
Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social The Laboratory of Computational Metagenomics led by Nicola Segata
**We are hiring, get in touch if interested!**
http://segatalab.cibio.unitn.it/
Moderator @svetlanaup.bsky.social
Kunal Jani @jaenomics.bsky.social Postdoc @uniulm.bsky.social | #microbiome #antibioticresistance #onehealth
@r2platform.bsky.social @r2platform.bsky.social 
Ming Tommy Tang @tommytang.bsky.social Director of bioinformatics at AstraZeneca. On my way to helping 1 million people learn bioinformatics. Educator, Biotech, single cell. Also talks about leadership.
Grab my new book https://divingintogeneticsandgenomics.kit.com/wtdt_bioinformatics
RECOMB Conference Series @recombconf.bsky.social The 30th International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology.
May 26 - 29, 2026
recomb.org
Marios Koutsakos @marioskoutsakos.viralvaxlab.com Influenza virologist in ViralVaxLab at TheDohertyInst
https://www.viralvaxlab.com/
Influenza immunity, evolution & vaccines.
Laboratory of Functional Viromics (LETKO) @fviromics.bsky.social Dr. Michael Letko’s Laboratory of Functional Viromics | we study zoonotic potential of novel viruses.
For more information, check out our website: https://labs.wsu.edu/lofv/
The Ramsey Lab @theramseylab.bsky.social The Ramsey philosophy of biology lab at KU Leuven, Belgium.
https://www.theramseylab.org • #HPbio #philsci #philsky #evosky #paleosky #cogsci #AI
BEACON @beaconbio.bsky.social Biothreats Emergence, Analytics & Communications Network (BEACON): open source surveillance program based at @buceid.bsky.social in partnership with @bostonu.bsky.social @buhaririinstitute.bsky.social & @bostonchildrens.bsky.social Healthmap
beaconbio.org
Robert J. Gifford @robjgifford.bsky.social I carry out research into the evolution of viruses and their impact on host species. Open science.
Solid Evidence @solidevidence.bsky.social Molecular virologist, sewage sage and wastewater wizard.
https://lung.fish
Marc Johnson
Professor
Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com Philosopher & Historian of Biology 🇲🇽 • Postdoctoral Fellow @theramseylab.bsky.social (@clpskuleuven.bsky.social) • https://www.alejandrofabregastejeda.com • https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262052825/the-organism-environment-pairing/ • #philsci #HPS #philsky
Jonathan Basile @jonothingeb.bsky.social Postdoc at UofT, 20th C literature and science, viruses, evolutionary theory, deconstruction, libraryofbabel.info. Author: Natural Lection (http://bit.ly/495ZCJD), Virality Vitality (https://sunypress.edu/Books/V/Virality-Vitality)
John Lees @johnlees.bacpop.org Pathogen informatics and modelling http://bacpop.org
(Research group leader at EMBL-EBI - http://ebi.ac.uk/research/lees/)
IGMM-Montpellier @igmm-montpel.bsky.social Laboratoire plurithématique en biologie et santé du @cnrs.bsky.social
et de Université de Montpellier
Plurithematic laboratory in biology and health from @CNRS
and @umontpellier
www.igmm.cnrs.fr
Guy Leonard @guyleonard.eurosky.social Bioinformatician w/ Tom Richards & Team at @oxfordbiology.bsky.social
Homebrewer. WSET Beer Level 2.
Rejoiner 🇪🇺🤝🇬🇧
AI is not 'inevitable', resist its uncritical adoption.
I unfollow everyone who hypes/uses genAI/LLMs/agentic coding.
Markus Moest @markusmoest.bsky.social Biologist | Eco-Evo and sometimes Dynamics | @ILIM • Res. Dept. for Limnology, Mondsee • Univ. of Innsbruck 
Claire Mérot @clairemerot.bsky.social CNRS Researcher - France - Europe
Evolutionary Biology - Genomics - Ecology
Marshall Abrams @marshall0i.bsky.social Philosopher of science, occasional scientist. Phil of:
ev biol, probability, modeling, stat inference. Book: Evolution and the Machinery of Chance. Activity here as private citizen, not as rep of nor supported by employer. https://marshallalmostsurely.com
Mark Ravinet @markravinet.bsky.social Ramen addicted evolutionary biologist working on genomics, ecology, speciation and adaptation in Passer sparrows. Associate Professor based in CEES/EVOGENE at the University of Oslo
Alice Godden @alicegodden.bsky.social Post-doc in Immler lab at University of East Anglia.
Pop Gen and Evo-Devo
Likes small RNAs, TEs and ⚽️
She/Her
🐠🧬👩💻🐍📊🔬
Curro Campuzano @currocam.bsky.social Bioinformatician. Interested in scientific computing, open source, stats and pop-gen. Doing a PhD in evolutionary ecology at UAntwerpen. Living in Brussels. He/Him
https://currocam.github.io/
Jasmin @batevodevo.bsky.social Future PI 🦇 🔬 👩🔬 🧬 evodevo | ecophysio | bats | firstgen | BWF PDEP | HHMI HGF | NSF PRFB | UC Davis ➡️ Harvard ➡️ Stowers
Sabrina Carrella @sabcarrella.bsky.social Molecular Biologist, miRNAs Lover
https://carrellalab.wordpress.com/
Charissa de Bekker PhD (she/her) @zombieantdoc.bsky.social Associate Professor, molecular ecologist @ Utrecht University.
Zombie-making parasites, extended phenotypes, ant behavior, fungal hyper parasites, fungi for sustainable solutions. DEI advocate. #firstgen
Metal head, cat lady, dog mom, BJJ black belt.
Alex Figueiredo @alexfig.eurosky.social Microbiome ecology, animal behaviour, evolutionary biology.
Postdoc at NIOO-KNAW
Previously: Postdoc at U. Oxford & PhD in EvoBio at U. Zurich.
Birder & bird ringing trainee. I dig Mini & cooking. He/him
Social Insects Lab - JGU Mainz @socialinsectlab.bsky.social Behavioral Ecology and Social Evolution Research Groups @unimainz.bsky.social
Dominik Melville @ecoevodom.bsky.social Wildlife microbiology, disease ecology, immunology 🦇🦠 wannabe chef 🥨 queer 🌈
Jeremias N Brand 🪱 @brandgefahr.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist studying the evolution of sex and its consequences.
Group leader at the University of Basel.
My current focus is flatworm diversity in East Africa.
https://www.jeremias-brand.github.io
@hcastelan.bsky.social @hcastelan.bsky.social PhD in science interested in the evolutionary dynamics of viruses, metagenomics
https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=HlIT1ekAAAAJ&hl=en
Emmanuelle Münger @emmanuellemunger.bsky.social Graduate Researcher at Erasmus MC Rotterdam
Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases | Genomic & spatial epidemiology
Postgraduate Virologists Network @pgvironetwork.bsky.social Bringing together virology students from the UK, Ireland and beyond!
www.postgradvirologistsnetwork.co.uk
Schaufler Lab (GEAR@HIOH) @schauflerlab.org We work with #multidrug-resistant #bacteria in a #onehealth context.
https://www.schauflerlab.org
https://www.helmholtz-hioh.de
This account is currently on hiatus. Follow @helmholtz-hioh.bsky.social for all our latest news and updates!
Charlotte Tumescheit @schnamo.bsky.social Computational Biology-Chemistry-Medicine Postdoc at Idiap Research Institue, she/they
Laura White @laurakwhite.bsky.social Colorado RNA biologist & tRNA enthusiast exploring the wild frontiers of nanopore direct RNA sequencing at the intrepid venn diagram of northern blots & machine learning.
HMMER @hmmer.bsky.social Biosequence analysis using profile hidden Markov Models.
HMMER is managed by EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI).
Arvind Varsani @viralnomad.bsky.social Nomadic 'viral' scientist #virome #virus #virus_evolution #virology 🇰🇪🇿🇦🇳🇿
Tatiana Demina @deminatanja.bsky.social Postdoc at Helsinki University, focused on viruses and predatory bacteria in soil, permafrost, sea ice, and high salinity environments 🧫🧬
Anna Antonatou-Pappaioanou @annaantp.bsky.social PhD candidate at MDC-BIMSB, Berlin
Robson Lab - Chromatin (dys)function in disease
| BSc Biology | MSc Evolution & Behaviour |
Bioinformatics at the core — making sense of complex biological data :)
Shusuke Kawakubo @shusukekawakubo.bsky.social Postdoc researcher at IMSUT🇯🇵
Interested in virology, evolution and phylogenetics
Nick Fountain-Jones @nfountainjones.bsky.social Evolutionary disease ecologist, Island One Health, Lecturer in Public Health at the Tasmanian School of Medicine, University of Tasmania. 
Shoichi Sakaguchi @sho1.bsky.social NeoRdRp, RdRp Summit
@rachidtahzima.bsky.social @rachidtahzima.bsky.social Evolutionary Virologist@VUB (Ass. Prof, form. Ntl. Ref. Gov. Lab.) - Ai-based Struct. Biology Bio-Defense/Modulome/OneHealth Comput’al Proteomics and Biophysics Founder@MetaVIRIA🦠
@IBSquare/Vrije University Brussel (VUB) @vubrussel.bsky.social
Emma Harding @emma-harding.bsky.social Postdoc at Oxford University researching paleovirology, virus evolution and the global virome 🇦🇺 🇬🇧
Carlo Fischer @car1of.bsky.social PhD candidate at #ChariteVirology. Interested in epidemiology and diagnostics of emerging viruses.
Zach Hensel @zachhensel.bsky.social single-molecule microbiology lab @ ITQB NOVA in Portugal
https://zach-hensel.github.io/
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social Personal account
Evolutionary biologist, senior scientist at CNRS/Sorbonne Université
Interests: origins and control of infectious diseases and conspiracy theories; diversity in science; scientific publishing
https://www.normalesup.org/~fdebarre/
EN & FR
RNA Society @rnasociety.bsky.social Official account of the RNA Society | We're a non-profit international scientific society with more than 1800 members dedicated to fostering research and education in the field of RNA science.
https://www.rnasociety.org
Titus Brown @titus.idyll.org I am not a deep man, but I have many shallows. ctbrown@ucdavis.edu, http://ivory.idyll.org/blog/.
Richard Lenski @relenski.bsky.social Evolving better E. coli for 75,000 generations. Prof at MSU, but opinions my own. (Ok, I also speak for billions -- er, TRILLIONS -- of E. coli.)
Website for LTEE: the-ltee.org
Banner pic from NYC, shared by Darwin. (The microbiologist, not the other one.)
Christian Drosten @cdrosten.bsky.social Head of Virology at Charite - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Scripps Research @scripps.edu Scripps Research is one of the world's largest, private, non-profit biomedical research organizations. We are Science Changing Life.
Annika Dohme @annikadohme.bsky.social PhD Candidate @ Institute of Virology, Charité Berlin - host innate immune responses upon beta-CoV infection, stress signaling, autophagy
https://virologie-ccm.charite.de/forschung/ag_mueller/
Bas E. Dutilh @bedutilh.bsky.social 
Sam Abbott @seabbs.bsky.social Real-time infectious disease modelling. Developing methods for outbreak response, surveillance, and pandemic preparedness. samabbott.co.uk
Come join me on the epinowcast forum: https://community.epinowcast.org/latest
Nils Gubela @nillegu.bsky.social 
Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social Passionate about Microbes and Biodiversity. Bioinformatics. Novel Molecular Biology, RNA viruses and RdRp. Bioinformatician EMBL-EBI
Dr. Nolwenn M. Dheilly @nmdheilly.bsky.social PhD, HDR, Research Director @ Institut Pasteur Paris. The pathogen Discovery Lab uses Metagenomics to discover novel viruses for improved diagnostics, therapeutics and prevention. #virology #NGS #microbiome #emergence #parasite #holobiont #surveillance
Soil Microbial Ecology Group @soilmicrobes.bsky.social Hazard & Nicol Labs. We aim to understand soil microbial interactions - prokaryotes, fungi, viruses, their contribution to biogeochemical cycling & mitigating their impact or harnessing their potential for reducing climate change. https://soilmicrobes.fr/
Marcos de la Peña @marcos-dlp.bsky.social @csic.es researcher on the frontiers of life, freediver and RNA lover
RdRp Summit @rdrpsummit.bsky.social A discussion-centric event that aims to foster reproducibility, collaboration & interoperability in omics-derived RNA virus discovery. 2nd RdRp Summit - May 11 & 12 2025. RdRp.io
Jarel Elgin Tolentino @jarelelgin.bsky.social Postdoc at the University of Tokyo
Ed Hutchinson @socialinfluenza.bsky.social Virologist | Professor of Sneezy Diseases | studies influenza @ MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research | occasionally draws things | (he/him)
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/infectionimmunity/staff/edwardhutchinson/
Mike Tisza @miketisza.bsky.social In a sequence gaze daze
Bfx in HTX 🧬🖥️
Opinions my own 🦐
https://tiszalab.github.io/
Joan Marquez-Molins @molins.bsky.social Biotechnologist. Member of @RRNAteam. Postdoc at @_SLU. PhD at @i2sysbio and @IBMCP. Manager of @viroidmeeting
German Alliance for Global Health Research (GLOHRA) @globalhealthde.bsky.social GLOHRA is an association of researchers committed to interdisciplinary and collaborative #globalhealth #research. GLOHRA is supported by funds from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
globalhealth.de
linkedin.com/company/globalhealth-de
Sam Wilkinson @biowilko.bsky.social Bioinformatician, CLIMB-TRE dev, CLIMB-COVID admin. Likes food, movies, music, and writing code.
He/Him.
Timo Greiner @greinertimo.bsky.social Epidemiologist exploring social media
Interests:
Wastewater surveillance - Abwassersurveillance/-monitoring
Infectious diseases and mental health - Infektionskrankheiten und mentale Gesundheit
Views are my own
Freie Universität Berlin @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social Offizieller Account der Freien Universität Berlin;
Beiträge aus der Stabsstelle Kommunikation und Marketing.
Impressum: http://fu-berlin.de/impressum
Mastodon: https://berlin.social/@freieuniversitaet 
Dr. Hu? @drhuinthesky.bsky.social Science Outreach @brightgiant.bsky.social
loves 🧗🏻♀️ | 🥾 | 🌳 | 🏔 | 🚲 | 📚 | ☕️ | 📷 | 👩🔬 | 🩰 | 🐙 | 🍄 | 🍪 ... with constantly changing priority
Martin Hölzer @martinhoelzer.bsky.social Bioinformatics and translational research. Team lead at the Genome Competence Center at RKI, Berlin, Germany.
https://hoelzer.github.io
Torsten Seemann @torstenseemann.bsky.social Professor @ University of Melbourne, Australia
Microbial bioinformatics, genomics, software, clinical and public health microbiology
https://tseemann.github.io
Daniel Goldhill @influenzal.bsky.social Scientist. Lecturer in Virology at RVC. Likes experimental evolution, influenza, coronaviruses, desserts. Main life goal: never running a western blot.
@telapsos.bsky.social @telapsos.bsky.social 
Divya Venkatesh @divyav.bsky.social Research Fellow @oxfordbiology.bsky.social · Viruses and their various hosts · Currently studying avian flu 🦠 in seals 🦭 · Miscellanea · Tangents off tangents
Loukas Theodosiou @bioinformatician.bsky.social Senior scientist. Previously postdoc at the @RaineyLab in @MPI_EvolBio. Data Science, Bioinformatics, Machine Learning, R, Rcpp, Python
Karim Majzoub @karimaj.bsky.social Group leader @igmm-montpel.bsky.social studying viruses - Amateur athlete and musician- Husband and father- Europtimist @biolum-montpellier.bsky.social
https://www.igmm.cnrs.fr/en/team/rna-viruses-and-host-factors/
Eurosurveillance journal @eurosurveillance.org Weekly, peer-reviewed scientific journal on infectious disease epidemiology, prevention & control 😷🩺🧪
#OpenAccess 🔓
#PublicHealth
Publisher: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
Impact factor 2024: 7.8
Institut Pasteur Education @pasteuredu.bsky.social 
Etienne Simon-Loriere @simonlorierelab.bsky.social Group leader in the Virology Department at Institut Pasteur
MRC-UofG Centre for Virus Research @cvrinfo.bsky.social Fascinated by viruses and the diseases they cause.
www.cvr.ac.uk
Robert Koch-Institut @rki.de 🔬 Public Health – Fakten, Forschung und Hintergründe aus dem RKI.
💡 Es postet das Social-Media-Team.
👉 Impressum: http://rki.de/impressum
Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social The premier research center for #ComplexSystems #science.
santafe.edu
linktr.ee/sfiscience
Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social Scientist & skeptic. Dad. Book addict. Pathologically curious. Origins and Evolution of Complexity, Synthetic Transitions, Liquid Brains, and Earth Terraformation. ICREA, SFI & CSH professor. Author. Secular humanist.
Tom Peacock @peacockflu.bsky.social Virologist - Influenza and Coronaviruses 
Pathoplexus @pathoplexus.org An open-source pathogen sequence database dedicated to equitable sharing, transparent governance, & empowering global public health.
pathoplexus.org
Nick Loman @pathogenomenick.bsky.social Public health (meta)genomics & bioinformatics, Prof @unibirmingham.bsky.social, Director @imibirmingham.bsky.social & @climb.ac.uk
Dr Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social Die Virenjägerin! 🏹🧬!
Using programming & phylogenetics, I study & track viruses. Co-developer of Nextstrain, based at Swiss TPH & Uni Basel.
Founder of CoVariants.org, co-founder of @pathoplexus.org
I like 🐈 & 🛫
@firefoxx66@mstdn.science
Marion Koopmans @marionkoopmans.bsky.social Virologist, into emerging viral infections, one health, climate and health. Head viroscience department ErasmusMC, Rotterdam NL. Backup for the ex-bird platform. ORCHID 0000-0002-5204-2312; https://pure.eur.nl/en/persons/marion-koopmans . 
Bloom lab @jbloomlab.bsky.social Lab studying molecular evolution of proteins and viruses. Affiliated with Fred Hutch & HHMI.
Opinions are my own and do not reflect those of my employer.
https://jbloomlab.org/
Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social Professor of Algorithmic and Microbial Genomics at the University of Bath (UK). Pangenomes, drug resistance (esp TB), data structures for DNA search, plasmid evolution, global microbial surveillance. Open Data, reproducibility. https://zam-iqbal-lab.org/
Cornelius Roemer @corneliusroemer.bsky.social Studying SARS-CoV-2 evolution @nextstrain @biozentrum
Studied Physics @Cambridge Uni, then learned about computers
Infectious Diseases @infectiousdz.bsky.social Infectious diseases and their global story
Meaghan Kall @kallmemeg.bsky.social Epidemiologist, public health trainee, mom, wife. Formerly @UKHSA. Disability advocate. Born 🇺🇸 Migrated 🇬🇧. 🏳️🌈 Personal account.
Santiago Elena @sfelena.bsky.social Virology, evolution, genomics, systems biology, and computational biology. All at once.
Saba Mottaghinia @mottasx1.bsky.social #IranMassacre
Constantly evolving evolutionary virologist "transposed" into:
@mdc-berlin.bsky.social (Izsvák Lab)
Alumna:
@ciri-lyon.bsky.social
@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social (IZW-Berlin)
@unibonn.bsky.social
#StemCell, #HERV ,Virus-host evolution- W @worobey.bsky.social @worobey.bsky.social