Kristin Hussey @kristinhussey.bsky.social Historian of medicine, science and the environment. Lecturer in Environmental History at Newcastle University researching sleep and circadian rhythms. PI: The Night Shift 1850-present. Also sea swimming, museum-ing and mom-ing. Kristinhussey.co.uk
Brittany Charlton @britshmit.bsky.social Epidemiologist 📊 • Associate Prof at Harvard Med School & School of Public Health • Founding Director LGBTQ Health Center of Excellence • Views=own• Mom of 3 kiddos • she/her + 🏳️🌈
Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social Long Time Internet Guy
Applied Systems Biology @appsysbio.bsky.social Leibniz Institute: Hans Knöll Institute
Jena
The research group Applied Systems Biology is concerned with the mathematical modeling and computer simulation of infection processes caused by human-pathogenic fungi.
Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social Science writer and author of books including Bright Earth, The Music Instinct, Beyond Weird, How Life Works.
Michael E Smith @michaelesmith.bsky.social Archaeologist, Arizona State Univ. Aztecs, Teotihuacan. Ancient & modern cities. Commoners in the past. Transdisciplinary, materialist, historical, occasionally musical. Kino the dog.
- These days I'm working on urban persistence over long periods.
Holden Thorp @holdenthorp.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief of Science and Professor of Chemistry and Medicine at George Washington University. Opinions not those of AAAS. https://holdenthorp.substack.com/about #ActuallyAutistic
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Royal Microscopical Society @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social Dedicated to advancing science, developing careers & supporting a wider understanding of microscopy. Take a closer look: http://instagram.com/royalmicrosoc
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Carlos Flores @carlosebflores.bsky.social Cell and Molecular biologist / HFSP Fellow in host-pathogen interaction, UTI and human tissue modelling @UCL 🇬🇧 ➡️🇨🇭 @biozentrum.unibas.ch @nccr-antiresist.bsky.social
Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social Cellular microbiologist, #UTI host/pathogen interactions, lab head at University College London, novelist, broadcaster, writer, pundit, sci comm, musician, gardener, Editor of LabLit.com, all things geek-chic. M7HZT on ham radio. More at jennyrohn.com
Marlis Denk-Lobnig @marlis.bsky.social Currently a postdoc with Joao Xavier at MSK, studying ecological dynamics of antibiotic resistance in microbial communities. Previous postdoc work with Kevin Wood at UMich, PhD with Adam Martin at MIT. 2022 @jcchildsfund.bsky.social fellow 🦠🪰🔬
Ulf R. Dahle @ulfdahle.bsky.social Specialist Director
Norwegian Institute of Public Health.
Personal posts, not employer’s views.
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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social Optical imaging, interested in STEM topics.
First generation graduate from ETH Zürich
Associate Professor at UT
Southwestern Medical Center
FMI science @fmiscience.bsky.social The Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI), affiliated with @unibas.ch and @novartis.bsky.social, conducts research at the forefront of biomedicine and trains the next leaders in the life sciences.
Laure Plantard @laureplantard.bsky.social Light microscopist at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research 🇨🇭 | Biologist | Powered by black tea | (She/Her)
Rolf Kümmerli @rkmicrobes.bsky.social Professor at University of Zurich, Microbiology, Evolution, Ecology, Microbial Interactions, Infections
Center for Electromicrobiology @cemau.bsky.social No one had ever imagined the existence of cable bacteria: life based on internal electric wires. We aim to unravel how this unique form of life functions.
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WHO @who.int The World Health Organization (WHO) is the United Nations’ health agency, championing Health For All.
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Author. Medical Historian. Breast Cancer Survivor.
Next book: SLEUTH-HOUND, a whirlwind tour of Victorian forensics from the perspective of the man who loaned a voice to Baker St.’s famous resident: Sherlock Holmes. Out October 20.
Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com NYT columnist. Signal: carlzimmer.51
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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
Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social Sci journo, author of Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains. Highly caffeinated. All bad takes mine. She/her
Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com Author, Historian, Novelist. New mystery: THE DEAD COME TO STAY; New nonfic: THE INTERMEDIARIES🏳️⚧️. As seen on THE UNBELIEVABLE & SECRETS DECLASSIFIED. Bylines @SciAm @WSJ @wired 🧪🗃️Social justice & equity
(she/her) #Autistic #NB
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social I cover science and culture at Ars Technica. Former science editor, Gizmodo. Ex-vangelical. Rodeo fan. Married to @seanmcarroll, servant to two cats: Ariel and Caliban. Baltimore, MD. She/her.
Dr. Glaucomflecken @glaucomflecken.bsky.social Ophthalmologist. Comedian. Speaker. Jonathan.
Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social Professor, Archaeologist, Egyptologist, Award-winning writer of books, Dad joke lover, mom, rabble-rouser academic. Owned by cats. she/her
Mary Roach @maryroach.bsky.social Nonfiction author, science goober. Stiff, Bonk, Fuzz, Grunt, Packing for Mars, etc.
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.
Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social Historian of medicine, gender, & politics. Executive Editor Emerita, @nursingclio.
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-nursing-clio-reader/9781978838598/
Forthcoming Book: Doctoring the West: Women Physicians & the Politics & Practice of Medicine
Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford.
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social historian of science, medicine, food, sport and exploration; other content generally but not limited to: my dinner, a weird bug, feminist beer 🏳️⚧️, complaining about bad parking. Latest book: tinyurl.com/HigherColder
I really dislike unsolicited advice.
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.
Jaipreet Virdi @jaivirdi.com Award-winning historian #HistSTM & #DisHist. Author of "Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History" (2020) and "Echoes of Care: Deafness in Modern Britain." Associate Professor at University of Victoria. Deaf & forever a radical
Learn more: jaivirdi.com
Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social Historian of science; Principal Curator of Science @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social & Hon Fellow, STIS, Uni of Edinburgh. President @bshsnews.bsky.social #histSTM. Views own.
Formerly known as @beckyfh
https://teleskopos.wordpress.com/profile
Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social Professor. Attorney, historian, public health ethicist. Always all ways public health. Jiujitsu🟤, Star Wars, Batman, Coffee. #LegalEpi #Stigma #PHLaw #PHEthx #Disability #HistPubHealth (all opinions mine) H/h/h. ✡️
Thony Christie @rmathematicus.bsky.social Aging freak who fell in love with the history of science and now resides mostly in 16th century Nürnberg.
Trinity College Library, Cambridge @trincolllibcam.bsky.social The Trinity College Library in Cambridge comprises the modern student library, the Wren Library, and significant rare books, manuscript and archive collections.
https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/library/home/
https://trinitycollegelibrarycambridge.wordpress.com/
Dr. Rebecca Gibson @drrgibsongirl.bsky.social Corset scholar; bioanth PhD; chaotic neutral--harlequin aspect; bibliophile; tattooed; advocate 4 the dead; cyborg/transhuman/robot lover; bad example 4 hire.
amazon.com/author/rebeccagibsonbioanthro
The HPS Podcast @hpspodcast.bsky.social Award-winning podcast on the history, philosophy & social studies of science brought to you by graduate students from the University of Melbourne.
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New episodes fortnightly.
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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social Staff writer @LiveScience.com
Email: kkillgrove@livescience.com
Web: Livescience.com/author/kristina-killgrove
PhD in anthropology, MA in classical archaeology. Former professor & Roman bioarchaeologist.
I crochet and bake a lot. Chapel Hill, NC based.
Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social Writer, Historian, Researcher | NHS Reform, Birth, Policy |The Health Foundation | NOSTALGIA published by Picador | Repped by Oli Munson | Views own | She/her
Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social The Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) has pioneered interdisciplinary approaches to the history of health, welfare, medical science and practice https://sshm.org/
#histmed
The Cosmic Shambles Network @cosmicshambles.com Independent creators of content for the curious. cosmicshambles.com | patreon.com/cosmicshambles| youtube.com/cosmicshambles
Prof. Pragya Agarwal @drpragyaagarwal.bsky.social ND Scientist & Writer:SWAY, (M)OTHERHOOD, HYSTERICAL/Writing a new book coming early 2026 and spending a lot of time in libraries and archives. FRSA FRGS. V Prof at Loughborough. Fellow at Newnham College-Cambridge, Fulbright (CUNY), Oxford etc.
John Ross @johnrossmd.bsky.social Hospitalist in Boston. FIDSA. Is Ceanadach mé. An Seanduine Liath. #IDSky
Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social Historian of Biology and Medicine. Science is culture, and long live the Humanities. Director of @manchstm.bsky.social. Lapsed biochemist. Immigrant. Urban cyclist (& motorist). Owned by dog. More lucky than smart. 0 attention span. Here privately. He/him.
Emily Cock @emilyncock.bsky.social Historian of health and disability c1600-1850 at Cardiff University. Dysgwr Cymraeg. Also keen on our garden, cat, and chickens.
https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/cocke
Liz Jackson @lizjackson.bsky.social #DisabilityDongle * Succeeding Downwards * she/sir * https://linktr.ee/eejackson
Jon Agar @jonagar.bsky.social historian of modern science and technology
Helen King @helenking.bsky.social Sort of retired (not), Professor Emerita, The Open University. Classics, history of medicine/the body/gynaecology. Writer, blogger, C of E lay preacher, chair of Together on General Synod (formerly Gender & Sexuality Group). She/her. Likes flowers.
Sabine Clarke @sabineclarke.bsky.social Historian of science, technology, medicine and the environment in 20th century Britain, the Caribbean and Africa. PI of “The Chemical Empire” project on the history of past insecticide use. Works at the University of York.
Sara Read @saralread.bsky.social Historical fiction novelist #hisfic; senior lecturer #earlymodern & #creativewriting; mum; grandma; gardener; open water swimmer.
www.sararead.co.uk
Lucy Jane Santos @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social Writer, presenter and consultant
researching the unexpected places where science, culture and consumerism meet. Nobody’s Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hot (Aug 2026)
https://linktr.ee/lucyjanesantos_
Elaine Leong @historyelaine.bsky.social Historian interested in the everyday, mom, novice potter and recipe/food enthusiast.
Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social Award-winning Storyteller of Science. PhD. Founder & Chief Creative Officer at First Create The Media for life science comms strategy & content https://firstcreatethemedia.com/ Views: mine. Book: https://www.rebelcellbook.com.
Cat Irving @anatomicalcat.bsky.social Human Remains Conservator at Surgeons’ Hall. Snake charmer. Beagle feeder. All-round general necromancer
Barts Health Archives @bharchives.bsky.social Explore nearly 900 years of history through the archives and objects cared for by Barts Health NHS Trust Archives. Part of Barts Health NHS Trust. Find out more at www.bartshealth.nhs.uk/barts-health-archives
Bess Lovejoy @besslovejoy.bsky.social Wrote Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses & etc. Now: research, podcasts, journalism, weird fiction.
BessLovejoy.wordpress.com
Jacob Steere-Williams @steerewilliams.bsky.social Historian of disease and the environment. College of Charleston. New book in the works on all things disinfection and the Anthropocene
T.J. Mitchell @workingstiff.bsky.social NYT bestselling coauthor of the Jessie Teska mysteries #FIRSTCUT & #AFTERSHOCK, & the medical examiner memoir #WORKINGSTIFF. Wife & creative partner Dr Judy Melinek does autopsies. I am careful with her.
Books & columns: https://drworkingstiff.com/books
Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social Art historian of medicine
Asst Prof, Health Humanities & Bioethics @ Uni of Rochester
plastic surgery illustration, anonymity, humor
Book: https://boydellandbrewer.com/book/putting-plastic-surgery-on-paper/
@drawingbloodpod.bsky.social co-host
she / her
Paul Craddock @pwcraddock.bsky.social Medical Historian and Filmmaker. Author of Spare Parts. One half of commonfilms.co
RCSEd Library & Archive @rcsedlibandarchive.bsky.social News, collection highlights and heritage stories from the Library & Archive at Surgeons' Hall/Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh #histmed
https://archiveandlibrary.rcsed.ac.uk
https://www.rcsed.ac.uk/career-hub/learning-resources/library-and-archive
Surgeons' Hall Museum @surgeonshall.bsky.social Home to the largest & most historic collection of surgical pathology in the world.
Open 10am-5pm, 7 days a week.
Dan Schreiber @schreiberland.bsky.social Host of QI’s No Such Thing As A Fish / Author of The Theory Of Everything Else / co-founder of BBC’s The Museum of Curiosity
UK TOUR: ‘This Changes Everything’ starts this October
Carolyn Day @carolynaday.bsky.social British historian, historian of medicine, & lover of fashion. Author of Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion and Disease & Remembering Anne Beach: Love, Scandal & Sickness in 18th century Britain (forthcoming UTP).
Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social Medieval Military Medicine-from the Late Middle Ages to the Early Sixteenth Century
Available at Pen & Sword Books and Amazon
www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Medieval-Military-Medicine-From-the-Late-Middle-Ages-to-the-Early-Sixteenth-Century-Hardback/p/61863
Kate So @drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social Above all, pluviophile 🌧️ 📙Freelance book detective 🕵️♀️Health and Heritage ♥️ 👩🏫Cataloguing enthusiast 📚Medical humanities nerd 💊Away with the faeries🧚♀️ Thoughts mine own https://drsoandso.co.uk/
Dr Vicki Yorke-Edwards @vickiye.bsky.social Senior Research Data Steward at UCL's Advanced Research Computing department @ucl-arc.bsky.social, sometime clinical trial conduct methodologist, palaeopathologist, archaeologist, & food historian | #DataSharing #OpenScience #HealthcareSystemsData
Faye Getz 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇳🇱🇨🇦 @fayway.bsky.social Ill-tempered Auntie now haunting EG, Rhode Island. Wrote books etc. on history of science/medicine, mostly medieval. Always in trouble for something. Old. Hangs with prof who writes lots on global capitalism and science. Multinational. F’ing bitch.
Maria Smilios @mariasmilios.bsky.social Award winning author The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
Adjunct Columbia University SPH
Keynote speaker
@penguinrandomhouse
#endtb #gunsafety #factsmatter #womenmatter
(https://www.mariasmilios.com)
Richard McKay @ramckay.bsky.social 🇨🇦🇬🇧 Historian of Medicine and Public Health & Executive Coach (ICF PCC) | Author: Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic (@UChicagoPress.bsky.social, 2017) | Treasurer, SSHMedicine.bsky.social | Whippet afficionado
Beth Linker, Ph.D. @bethlinker.bsky.social Historian of Science + Medicine + Public Health + Disability @UPenn. New book re origins of posture health panic: SLOUCH https://tinyurl.com/46hfkpsn
bethlinker.com
Other books: WAR'S WASTE & CIVIL DISABILITIES
Dr Juliette @ferrydanini.bsky.social Philosophy and history of medicine. Many other things. Autrice "Pilules Roses", julietteferrydanini.com
Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social Medical Anthropology& Humanities, Research Fellow, Univ of Manchester, CHSTM | Medical uncertainty| Mental health
(https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/cinzia.greco)
Editor Anthropologie&Santé (https://journals.openedition.org/anthropologiesante/)
Sandra Eder @ederummadum.bsky.social Prof @ History UC Berkeley | Director CSTMS | Author of _How the Clinic Made Gender_ http://tinyurl.com/y49m84ja | Mostly tired | posts my own | she/her/hers | My kid drew my profile picture |
Science Grrl @science-grrl.bsky.social A UK grassroots network celebrating women and non-binary people in science: local connections with a national voice. Because science is for everyone.
www.sciencegrrl.co.uk
Dr Shelby Zimmerman @shelbyzimme.bsky.social Social historian of medicine, institutions, poverty, and death | PhD from Trinity College Dublin | Based in London
Dr. Katie Foss @ktafoss.bsky.social Professor & Director, School of Journalism & Strategic Media, MTSU. Likes dogs, medical history facts, climbing, TV, and the Oxford comma.
My latest books:
https://www.umasspress.com/9781625348289/capturing-covid/
https://www.umasspress.com/978162534
Matthew Smith @healthhistory.bsky.social Historian of health and medicine at the University of Strathclyde. I research mental health, food/nutrition, and immunology/allergy. Cycling, hiking, kayaking, nature, basic income, music, Gaidhlig, Scotland, Canada.
Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social Historian of science, art, & ideas 🗃
Words: Smithsonian, LA Times, TLS, Aeon, Nature, Science.
Author: HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY
www.surekhadavies.org
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Speaker bureau: Chartwell Speakers
Gabriel Finkelstein @gabrielfinkelstein.bsky.social Historian of neuroscience, modern Europe, and history.
Currently working on “Scientific History,” a study of Buckle, Taine, and du Bois-Reymond.
https://ucdenver.academia.edu/GabrielFinkelstein #histsci #histSTM
Terry-Lee Marttinen @tlmarttinen.bsky.social Nordic Colonialism, Indigenized Lutheranism & Eugenics. Interests: Lived Stories/ Race & Genetics/ Disability & Euthanasia. PhD (C) CMH Oxford Brookes U. http://CONFRONT-EUGENICS.ORG. Research Collaboration-CEMFOR Uppsala U. SSHRC Awardee
Rachel Singer @rachelbsinger.bsky.social Environmental historian of first-millennium Britain/Ireland and Merovingian Gaul.
PhD Candidate at Georgetown researching infectious disease, rebel nuns, and disaster.
Philly sports fan and weird rescue animal enthusiast by night.
rachelbsinger.com
Kathleen Crowther @sacrobosco.bsky.social Historian, Professor, author of Policing Pregnant Bodies (Hopkins, 2024) and The Book Everyone Read: The Sphere of Sacrobosco and the Origins of Modern Science (Princeton, coming 2027)
Dr Rachel Bynoth @rachelbynoth.bsky.social Historian of 18th/19th c. Family, lifecycle, gender, emotion esp. anxiety, distant comms and politics. Bath Spa Senior Lecturer. PhD: PM George Canning and family’s letters/anxiety https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/our-people/rachel-bynoth/
Whitchurch Hospital Historical Society @whitchurchhospital.bsky.social Whitchurch Hospital is a closed Mental Health Hospital in Cardiff 🏴
1908-2016
Used as a military hospital during both World Wars.
Originally known as the Cardiff City Mental Hospital.
Account run by Whitchurch Hospital Historcial Society (Est. 2009)
James Stark @kingtekkers.bsky.social Professor of Medical Humanities (historian of medicine and science) | ageing, germs, advertising, technology | Head of Graduate School | Deputy Pro-Dean for Research
Anita Hoffmann @17cmedicalwomen.bsky.social PhD-ing at York on '17C Private Diseases'. Aspiring historical fiction writer about women medical practitioners and their adventures in 17C London.
Jon Topham @jontopham.bsky.social Professor of History of Science, University of Leeds. History of print, science and religion, life and earth sciences, Britain 1790-1840. Award-winning new book: "Reading the Book of Nature" bit.ly/Book-of-Nature
ahc.leeds.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/143/
Laura Sellers @laurasellers.bsky.social Historian of medicine, science, forensics & prisons. Freelance curator and heritage consultant. Former curator at Thackray Museum of Medicine. She/her
Ciara Nic Ionnraic PhD #Health #Research #SciComms @chendirl.bsky.social #Stillbirth #Perinatal #DeathStudies | #Grief #Bereavement | #Qualitative #SocialScience #Skystorian #Interdisciplinary | #EuroHistHealth Science Officer | #TCD #ASDS #IAPH #IHS #RHS #HSTM | #HistMed #History #MedHum #Maternity #Cillíní #DigitalHumanities
Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social She/Her
Freelance Science Journalist. Fact Checker.
NatGeo, BBC, SciAm, NBC News, PopSci, WIRED, and others.
Hire me to fact check your book.
I post about Jewish stuff, disability, Star Trek, and The Buffalo Bills.
Jersey girl.
Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social Archivist, historian, reader, Londoner, feminist
@erinacean
@erinacean@h-net.social
www.lesleyahall.net
https://lesleyahall.blogspot.com/
Beck Heslop @beckhistorian.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 they/them
🗃️ PhD in progress at CHSTM @ University of Manchester
♿️ History of white canes in twentieth century Britain 🧑🦯➡️ #DisHist
🌳 I have an egg called Dippy and we go on adventures together
Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social Entertaining & educational conversations about science, tech, + more. Hosted by Ira Flatow and Flora Lichtman. From WNYCStudios.