Greg Matthews @chimoose.com OG Twitter refugee and health data fan. HealthQuant.com founder. Pharma, Biotech, MedTech, KOLs and HCP online influencers. Current: Austin TX. Former: Chicago, Bloomington, Frankfurt aM. Cheer for Chi Cubs, IU Hoosiers, Texas Longhorns.
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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social Views my own, but you can borrow them if you feel so inclined. Anti-disease. Negentropy hunter. Kosmotropophile. Big Nerd Energy. “A homework person.” Fun at parties. Antibody hoarder. “Problematically literate.” he/him
Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social Journalist. Contributing Ed, Scientific American. Senior Fellow, Emory Univ Center for the Study of Human Health. Books: BIG CHICKEN, SUPERBUG, BEATING BACK THE DEVIL. Stories: https://authory.com/marynmckenna. Location: points on the 44th parallel.
Infectious Disease Tracker @hmpxvt.bsky.social Infectious disease news.
Sharing reports on outbreaks, from bird flu to Ebola.
Now on Substack :)
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social I cover infectious diseases for STAT (www.statnews.com). 2020 Polk winner. Nieman '11. She/her. I write about H5N1 (in all species), Covid, polio, flu, Ebola, RSV, mpox, STIs. Send me news tips on Signal: HBranswell.01
Max Roser @maxroser.bsky.social — Founder of Our World in Data
— Professor at the University of Oxford
Data to understand global problems and research to make progress against them.
Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social science journalist. author. molecular biologist. curious.
interested in #microbes, #misinformation and all things #blue
contributing correspondent at @science.org
co-host of @pandemia.bsky.social
2024 KSJ fellow at MIT
Signal: kakape.93
public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social personal account. past: tfgh, cdc, emory. interests: health policy, law, & politics, global health. big fan of: human rights, vaccines, abiding no hatred. shares/likes ≠ endorsements. he/his/him.
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
Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social Virologist. PI working at but not speaking for USask. Co-EiC of Vaccine. 🇺🇸 in 🇨🇦. Emerging viruses, pathogenesis, zoonosis, host responses, dogs, football, off-color language, transcriptomic chaos. Opinions my own.
Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net Raising kids & bread & grant money. Cleaning data & diapers & fish. EA (bed nets, not light cone). Social scientist. typos. twitter.com/ryancbriggs
Sarah Zhang @sarahzhang.bsky.social eukaryote, also a staff writer at the atlantic
Michael Baym @baym.lol Associate Prof @HarvardMed. Microbial evolution, antibiotic resistance, mobile genetic elements, algorithms, phages, molecular biotech, etc. Find me under “floating dumpster fire”
Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social Author and Professor of Maths and Public Engagement.
Books -
Math(s) of Life and Death
How to Expect the Unexpected
You Don't Know What You're missing
https://tinyurl.com/37rx2yuv
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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social Infectious diseases & genomics. Immunologist in (voluntary) exile. Minimal sarcasm. Fierce HOA (Hater of Acronyms). Personal account - opinions expressed are my own and not those of my employer.
Stephanie M. Lee @stephaniemlee.bsky.social Senior writer at @chronicle.com, writing about scholarship, scholars, and society. stephanie.lee@chronicle.com / Signal: stephaniemlee.07 / stephaniemlee.com / San Francisco
Health Nerd @gidmk.bsky.social Epidemiologist. Research Fellow. Doctor of Spreadsheets. Writer (Slate, TIME, Guardian, etc). PhD, MPH. Host of senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him. Find my writing on Substack and Medium.
Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social Award-winning public health reporter at KFF Health News. Bylines at Nature, New York Times, National Geographic & more. AmyM@kff.org Signal: AmyMaxmen.25 www.amymaxmen.com & https://kffhealthnews.org/news/author/amy-maxmen
Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social Epidemiologist + Statistician | Clinical Research Facility - University College Cork | UCC School of Public Health | #ClinicalTrials #Epidemiology #Statistics #RStats
Posts not for everyone ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Dr Duncan Robertson @duncanrobertson.bsky.social Policy & Strategy Analytics academic at Loughborough University; Member, Independent SAGE; Fellow, St Catherine's College, Oxford.
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 🐈 & 🛫
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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.
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
Josh Trebach, MD @jtrebach.bsky.social ER doc. Toxicologist. 🏳️🌈 I post about poisons & cats & fighting misinformation. Posts/DMs = my own (not employer’s) & not medical advice. contact = ToxTrebach@gmail.com
Jeremy Kamil @macroliter.bsky.social [He, him.] CMV virologist exploring how viruses
enter cells and other tricky mischief (lately, of the glycoimmune-centric variety). University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. My posts here are my own speech, not my employer’s. #LoveVirology #Glycotime
Eddie Holmes @eddieholmes.bsky.social Virus spotter. You're twistin' my melon man.
Adam Feuerstein✡️ @adamfeuerstein.bsky.social Reporter at STAT. The Harry Kane of biotech. Dog ❤️er. Polk Award winner. Said one analyst: The likes of Adam Feuerstein attack viciously.
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 .
Meaghan Kall @kallmemeg.bsky.social Epidemiologist, public health trainee, mom, wife. Formerly @UKHSA. Disability advocate. Born 🇺🇸 Migrated 🇬🇧. 🏳️🌈 Personal account.
Tom Peacock @peacockflu.bsky.social Virologist - Influenza and Coronaviruses
Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com Health contributor/reporter at Guardian US, contributing editor at the New Republic, freelance elsewhere. Arctic obsessive and book enthusiast.
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Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social Demographer, former tweeting statistician and female data lad. Attempting to make a difference in public health analysis at DHSC. I ran the UK's covid dashboard. Now seen running parkruns. DMs not available. She/her 🍉🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Jason Kindrachuk @kindrachukjason.bsky.social Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in emerging viruses, U.Manitoba. Expert in the emerging zoonotic viruses with a focus on WHO priority pathogens. All views expressed are my own
Björn Meyer @bmeyer.bsky.social Virologist ☣ | Trying to understand why viruses tick the way they do - then, now and in future | 🇩🇪🇪🇺🇺🇳
@themeyerlab.bsky.social
Alex Crits-Christoph @acritschristoph.bsky.social Computational microbiologist
I like to post about: microbial genomics, microbial ecology, evolution, micro+plant biotechnology, climate, symbiosis, virology, ag, sci publishing and policy
Alexander Tin @alexander-a-tin.bsky.social Reported for CBS News in D.C. on federal public health. Raised in sunny Nevada. Decided to move overseas to be near family.
Saskia Popescu @saskiapopescu.bsky.social Infectious disease epidemiologist & global heath security strategist | GHSN CEO |UMB Asst Prof working in pandemic prep, biosurveillance, One Health, AMR, BW & biosecurity. ELBI & CFR ☣️
Biopreparedness & biothreat guru - movie aficionado. Views=my own
Jon Cohen @cohenjon.bsky.social Staff writer at Science, specializing in infectious diseases and immunology. Vaccine history geek. Hate outbreaks, love covering them. Serious surf addiction, occasional contributor to the incomparable Surfer's Journal.
Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social
Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social Biostatistician. Baritone. He/Him.
Product of more than one country.
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Deepta Bhattacharya @deeptabhattacha.bsky.social Professor of Immunology at University of Arizona studying immune responses to infections and vaccines. Views my own.
Katelyn Jetelina @kkjetelina.bsky.social Epidemiologist, lover of the ocean and ice cream. Mom of two toddlers. Founder of “Your Local Epidemiologist”. https//yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
Roby Bhattacharyya @roby-b.bsky.social ID doc (MGH), PI (Broad Institute), antibiotic resistance resister, sepsis immune profiler, COVID doc, husband, dad. Coffee, tennis, kindness, science, & sleep enthusiast. Here to learn, as that other place devolves. Views mine. | bhattacharyyalab.org
Stuart McDonald @actuarybyday.bsky.social Analysis of health and mortality data.
Actuary. Partner at LCP.
Chair of the CMI.
MBE for services to Public Health.
Brian Wasik @brianrwasik.bsky.social Virologist. Evolutionary biologist.
Colin Angus @victimofmaths.bsky.social Professor of Alcohol Policy in the Sheffield Addictions Research Group (@SARG-SCHARR), graph drawer, data botherer, cake eater, incompetent cyclist and intermittent birder.
Nick Mark, MD @nickmark.bsky.social Intensivist, pulmonologist | Husband, Dad² | made www.OnePagerICU.com & www.criticalcaretime.com | passionate about innovation in medicine & novel forms of medical education |
Michelle Wille @duckswabber.bsky.social Avian influenza & avian virome ecology | "Expert in Ducks" | (she/her) | michellewille.com
Bill Hanage @billhanage.bsky.social Refugee from Twix. Arsenal fan and Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Opinions my own.
Maria Glymour @mariaglymour.bsky.social Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology at Boston University School of Public Health
Jason McLellan @mclellanlab.bsky.social Structural virology / Structure-based vaccine design
mclellanlab.org
Professor of Molecular Biosciences
The University of Texas at Austin
Opinions are my own and not the views of my employer
Paul Mainwood @paulmainwood.bsky.social
Lee Crawfurd @leecrawfurd.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Global Development
https://www.cgdev.org/expert/lee-crawfurd
@jacobtref.bsky.social @jacobtref.bsky.social blog.jacobtrefethen.com
OpenAI Foundation
science!
Justin Sandefur @justsand.bsky.social Development economist, worrying about economic growth these days. https://www.openphilanthropy.org/about/team/justin-sandefur/
Stéphane Helleringer @shelleringer.bsky.social Demography and epidemics
Marco Piani @marcopiani.bsky.social Physicist by training, silly by choice. Views my own.
Noah Louis-Ferdinand @michigannoah.bsky.social Formerly @Michigan_Noah from Twitter. Misinfo slayer, writer and patient (the medical kind). Posts about public health & health behavior. 3X 50-mile runner. Opinions mine.
Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social Collector of social media sites. Infectious disease epidemiologist. Writes about vaccine hesitancy, science misinfo, zombies. Probably somewhere on a trail. Views own etc.
Hilda Bastian @hildabast.bsky.social Scientist (PhD she/her), writer, cartoonist. 🦘
Tracking NextGen Covid Vaccines at https://vaxtracker.wordpress.com/
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Dr Joel C Miller @joelcmiller.bsky.social Mathematical Biologist specializing in infectious diseases and network science.
Leo Bastos @leosbastos.bsky.social Public health researcher at Fiocruz 🇧🇷
Associate professor at IMPA Tech 🇧🇷
Bayesian statistician 📈
Infectious diseases modeller 🦠🦟
Father of 3 boys (be nice).
Theo Sanderson @theo.io researching viral pathogen genomics at @lshtm.bsky.social, building @pathoplexus.org | theo.io / sandersonlab.org
Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social Medicinal chemist / chemical biologist, author of “In the Pipeline” at http://science.org/blogs/pipeline. derekb.lowe@gmail.com and on Signal at Dblowe.18
All opinions are mine; I don’t speak for my employer in any way.
Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social Hymowitz Family Professor of Global Health & Professor of Public Policy at Duke University. Director of the Center for Policy Impact in Global Health. DJ at WXDU (Thursdays, 4-6pm ET, wxdu.org). TIME columnist. He/him. Tallest Jew on Earth.
Andrew Stokes @astokespop.bsky.social Associate Professor at Boston University; Population Health, Demography, Sociology
Thomas House @tah-sci.com Professor of Mathematical Sciences, working mainly on epidemiology although partial to a bit of non-commutative algebra, social science and basic biology.
https://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/thomas.house/about.html
Daniel Westreich @epidbydesign.bsky.social Epidemiologist, writer, bon vivant. Professor @UNC (opinions my own); co-PI of STAR Cohort; "Morpheus of the Table 2 Fallacy.” He/him.
Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @epiellie.bsky.social Epidemiologist and science communicator | newsletter: epiellie.substack.com | cohost @casualinfer podcast | Causal inference for public health #epitwitter | Canadian in US 🇨🇦 | she/her/Dr
Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social Emergency physician & Dean of the Yale School of Public Health. Gun violence prevention researcher. Incorrigible optimist (because we can and do create change, together). Mom of two teens. GO BILLS. @meganranney at the other place 🛟🩺📉📈🧪
1Day Sooner @1daysooner.bsky.social 1Day Sooner leads campaigns in science, policy, and bioethics to stop the world’s most harmful infectious diseases. We advocate for volunteers who participate in high-impact medical studies, including human challenge studies. www.1daysooner.org
Hensley Lab @scottehensley.bsky.social dad, viral immunologist, professor
Yassen Tcholakov @yassentch.bsky.social Public Health Doc, Head of Infectious Diseases in Nunavik
Passionate about epi, global health, & planetary health
Assistant Prof at @McGill University
#EpiSky #IDsky #MedSky
https://www.linkedin.com/in/yassentch/
Natalie Dean, PhD @nataliexdean.bsky.social Associate Professor of Biostatistics at Emory Rollins School of Public Health
Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social ER doctor at Brigham and Women's in Boston, Harvard Medical School.
Words in: NY Times, WaPo, Atlantic, Slate, CNN. I'm also "editor-in-chief" of MedPage Today and write "Inside Medicine" on Substack:
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Paul Offit @pauloffit.bsky.social Infectious disease physician, co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine, author and grandfather. Author of "Tell Me When it's Over". Commentaries can be found on Pauloffit.substack.com.
Tom Wenseleers @twenseleers.bsky.social Professor @KULeuven - evolutionary biology, theoretical biology & biostatistics (#Rstats). Social insects & microorganisms. Social evolution, self organisation, chemical ecology, statistical machine learning. https://bio.kuleuven.be/eeb/tw/research
Martin Enserink @martinenserink.bsky.social Deputy news editor, Science magazine. Infectious diseases, global health, scientific integrity, science policy. Based in Amsterdam. Cat lover.
Niko McCarty @nikomccarty.bsky.social Science. Biology. Progress.
Founding Editor of Asimov Press. Subscribe at press.asimov.com!
Stephanie Nolen @stephanienolen.bsky.social Global health reporter, The New York Times. Former correspondent in South Asia, Africa, Latin America and the MidEast. Author, 28 Stories of AIDS in Africa; Promised the Moon. Baker. Canoe tripper. Disease nerd. Lover of a fat novel and Earl Grey tea.
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
KFF Health News @kffhealthnews.org A national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues; a core program of @KFF.org.
Sarah Newey @sneweyy.bsky.social Global health security correspondent @telglobalhealth.bsky.social, based in Bangkok, formerly London.
Contact me: sarah.newey@telegraph.co.uk. Or find me elsewhere - @sneweyy
My work: https://sneweyy.squarespace.com/ / https://linktr.ee/neweysnews
Harvard University @harvard.edu Official account for Harvard University. Devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.
Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov Husband and father. Proudly serving as Illinois’ 43rd governor.
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
@healthpolicy.stanford.edu @healthpolicy.stanford.edu Stanford Health Policy: Interdisciplinary innovation, discovery and education to improve health policy here at home and around the world.
Matthew Holt @boltyboy.bsky.social Health Care Curmudgeon
Was Health 2.0; Now @THCBStaff blog & #THCBGang Podcast
AND @smackhealth health tech advisory
Topics: health, tech, politics, soccer
ssi @smitaiyer.bsky.social immunology and irony for the times, Associate Prof @ Pitt_Path
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8918-7005
Johannes W. Dietrich @drjwdietrich.bsky.social Prof. Dr. med. Johannes Dietrich, MLS, endocrinologist, head of the #diabetes, #endocrinology and metabolism section of #KKB @RUBMedizin. Elected member of the Leibniz Society of Sciences. Views are my own.
@medsky.social
http://www.endokrinologie.org
Omar Young MD FACOG @docohms.bsky.social 👨🏾🏫Vice-Chair of Education @uncobgyn/ MFM #highriskOB
🎙️Creator/Executive Producer of "MedEd Matters: Insights and Innovations" podcast on @spotify, @applepodcasts and YouTube
IG: @docohmsmd
Ken Milne MD @thesgem.bsky.social Trying to cut the knowledge translation window down from over 10 years to less than 1 year with the power of social media.
Remember to be skeptical of anything you learn, even if you heard it on the Skeptics’ Guide to Emergency Medicine.
www.TheSGEM.com
Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social Emergency Med physician (25 yrs) & science journalist | Contributor
@Fortune @TIME @SciAm. Author: Runaway Medicine. Championing evidence, truth & democracy. https://www.carolynbarbermd.com/
Ravi H @ravihasanadka.bsky.social Father of 4; Vascular Surgeon; Democrat
Shicheng Guo @shihcheng.bsky.social Senior Director, Translational Genetics and Data Science, Translational Medicine | Data Science | Computational Biology | Drug Discovery. Opinions are my own! Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shg047/
Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social Inaugural Chair, Department of Global & Public Health, McGill University, Montreal & Canada Research Chair in Epidemiology & Global Health 🇨🇦
Tweets: own views. He/him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhukar_Pai