Mathis Bassler @basslerfish.bsky.social Neuroscience PhD candidate at Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience lab, University of Amsterdam
Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social Scripps Research Professor. HHMI Investigator. Nobel Prize Physiology or Medicine 2021. Opinions are my own and do not reflect those of my employer.
Amir Guppy @amirguppy.bsky.social PhD student in the Isalan Lab at Imperial College London.
SynBio Cynic. Directed Evo Disciple.
https://github.com/zyzzyva23
Alfred Brown @alfredbrown.bsky.social Biodesign Eng PhD @ Imperial.
Alum Newcastle
Co-founded DeSci London
SynBio, MetEng, DeSci. Science For All <3 🧬🌍💻👨🏼🔬🏄♂️
Thomas Vanderstichele @tvdstichele.bsky.social PhD student in Human Genetics at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. Writer of The Week in Bio https://weekinbio.substack.com/.
Tom Inglesby @t-inglesby.bsky.social Director @bsph-chs.bsky.social
Epidemics, public health, biosecurity, policy, and preparedness.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-inglesby-93b51582/
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.
Alexander Berger @albrgr.bsky.social CEO of Coefficient Giving
Max Wilkinson @maxewilkinson.bsky.social keen on reverse transcription | also keen on spliceosomes | cryoEM dabbler
Assistant Member @MSKCC
Formerly post-doc @MIT
Formerly-formerly PhD @MRC_LMB
Formerly formerly-formerly Otago Uni
Kiwi 🥝 🇳🇿
https://wilkinsonlab.bio/
Kitty Clouston @kittyclouston.bsky.social Engineering microbes for greener chemical production
Into biotech, heavy music, climate & social justice
📍Edinburgh / Bangalore
linktr.ee/kittyclouston
David Riglar @driglar.bsky.social PI and Sir Henry Dale Research Fellow at Imperial College London and The Francis Crick Institute.
Indra Roux @indraroux.bsky.social Postdoc at U of Cambridge MRC Tox🇬🇧 PhD UWA🇦🇺Biotech UNQ🇦🇷 🧬🛠️ Functional genomics and engineering biology for microbiome applications. 🔎Microbiome toxicology. She/her Latinx https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RNoSH60AAAAJ&hl=en
Pioneer Labs @pioneerlabs.bsky.social Nonprofit org on a mission to engineer microbes for Mars 🦠. Let's make biomanufacturing ubiquitous, reliable, and green — on Earth and beyond! 🚀🌼
Website: https://www.pioneer-labs.org/
Blog: https://pioneerlabs.substack.com/
Daniel Dunkelmann @dunkelmann.bsky.social synthetic biologist
Jonas Koeppel @jonaskoeppel.bsky.social Postdoc in the Shendure & Pinglay labs @UW
Trying to understand and engineer our wonderfully weird genomes 🧬
Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social Chief Editor of Nature Biomedical Engineering. Ph.D. Previously at Nature Methods. @rita_strack on the place formerly known as twitter.
Sebastian Oehm @sebastianoehm.bsky.social Synthetic biology, biosecurity, therapeutics
Michael Kevin Spencer @aisupremacy.bsky.social Canadian in Taiwan. Emerging tech writer, and analyst with a flagship Newsletter called A.I. Supremacy reaching 115k readers
Also watching Semis, China, robotics, Quantum, BigTech, open-source AI and Gen AI tools.
https://www.ai-supremacy.com/archive
Dr James O'Donoghue 🪐 @interplanetary.bsky.social Planetary scientist, astronomer and science communicator 🪐. Formerly at JAXA, NASA, Boston Uni, and the Uni of Leicester. Now Associate Professor at @UniofReading. Forbes 8 Billion Under 8 Billion. Website: odonoghuespace.github.io
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Scott Saunders @saunderslab.bsky.social Assistant Professor, UGA Micro / 🧬 Bacterial genetics enthusiast 🧫 / Previously UTSW fellow & Caltech PhD (biofilms & redox) / Open & reproducible science (he/him) / saunderslab.org
Science Magazine @science.org Cutting-edge research, news, commentary, and visuals from the Science family of journals. https://www.science.org
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 . 
Matt Clancy @mattsclancy.bsky.social Runs Open Philanthropy’s Innovation Policy program. Creator of newthingsunderthesun.com, a living literature review about innovation. Website: mattsclancy.com.
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.
@jacobtref.bsky.social @jacobtref.bsky.social blog.jacobtrefethen.com
OpenAI Foundation
science!
Hannah Ritchie @hannahritchie.bsky.social Deputy Editor, Our World in Data
Senior Researcher, University of Oxford
Climate, energy, environment, all things data.
Jason Crawford @jasoncrawford.org The Roots of Progress (rootsofprogress.org)
Sam Bowman @sambowman.co Editor of www.worksinprogress.co and head of publishing at Stripe. Just here to have fun.
Mo Khalil @mokhalil.bsky.social Prof @ Harvard University, Broad Institute, and Wyss Institute.
Synthetic & systems biology.
Trying to understand the living world by engineering a synthetic one.
Lab website: https://khalillab.github.io/
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
Ed Yong @edyong209.bsky.social Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him
📷 Canon R6mkii + RF 800mm
Edyong.me
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
Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social Science integrity consultant and crowdfunded volunteer, PhD.
Ex-Stanford University. Maddox Prize/Einstein F Award winner
NL/USA/SFO.
#ImageForensics
@MicrobiomDigest on X.
Blog: ScienceIntegrityDigest.com
Support me: https://www.patreon.com/elisabethbik
Kristen DeAngelis 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🍉 @kristenobacter.bsky.social Scientist, mom, & dog mom. She/they. Trans rights are human rights. Long covid survivor. Pissed about the climate crisis. Tell your dog I said hi
Jose Eduardo Escrig @jose-e.bsky.social PhD candidate Wageningen University
Synthetic Biology 🧬 & AI 💻
Vice-chair EUSynBioS
SynBioBeta @synbiobeta.bsky.social Synthetic Biology Events & Industry Information
🌍 Global Synthetic Biology Conference
📅 May 5-8, 2025 in San Jose
Join us! #SynBioBeta2025
https://www.synbiobeta.com/events/synbiobeta-2025
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
Jose Jimenez @jjimenez.bsky.social Associate Professor in Synthetic Biology at Imperial College London #synbio and evolution for health, the environment and the circular economy josejimenezlab.com
Vitor Pinheiro @pxisto.bsky.social Associate professor (Synthetic Biology) at KU Leuven. Vice-dean for International affairs for the Department of Pharmacy. Focused on directed evolution and xenobiotic nucleic acids (XNAs), but a huge fan of molecular biology. Posts are personal.
Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social All views and opinions expressed are my own.
Niclas Overby Ⓝ @overby.me 🕊️ Progressive 🇪🇺 Sovereignty 👁︎ Sentientist
🛠 SRE helsing.ai 🇺🇦 🔓 Open Source ❄️🐧🦀🔥
🔗 niclas.overby.me 📍 🌌 🌍 🇪🇺 🇩🇰 🇩🇪
⚠️ Follow/Repost ≠ Endorsement ⚠️
Leopold Parts @leopoldparts.bsky.social Faculty in Generative and Synthetic Genomics at Wellcome Sanger Institute; CTO (part-time) at ExpressionEdits. Engineering DNA in mammalian cells to understand and build. 
Ben Lehner @benlehner.bsky.social Solve Biology
Head of Generative Genomics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK
Systems + Synthetic Biology, CRG, Barcelona
http://barcelonacollaboratorium.com http://allox.bio https://www.sanger.ac.uk/programme/generative-and-synthetic-genomics/
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
Philip Oltermann @philipoltermann.bsky.social Culture editor for Europe, The Guardian. Ex-Berlin bureau chief. My book The Stasi Poetry Circle (Faber & Faber) is out now
Kate Connolly @kateconnolly.bsky.social International Correspondent, The Guardian
John Kampfner @johnkampfner.bsky.social Author, journalist
website: www.jkampfner.net
newsletter: https://johnkampfner.substack.com/
Berlin, London
Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social Senior Correspondent ARD London 2008- 2025 • previously Warsaw/New York • Loving London • Living on a Narrowboat • Also writing for Prospect/Blaetter and others.
John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com
📝 ft.com/jbm
Jake Wintermute @synbio1.bsky.social Synthetic Biologist - Foundry Theorist
foundrytheory.substack.com
stay humble biodesigners
Pablo Ivan Nikel @pabnik.bsky.social Professor DTU Biosustain · Proud PI @labnikel.bsky.social · SynBio · Metabolic Engineering · @novo-nordisk.bsky.social Ascending Investigator & Distinguished Innovator · He/him🏳️🌈
Louise Horsfall @lehorsfall.bsky.social engineering biology for a more circular economy 
Akos Nyerges @akosnyerges.bsky.social #SyntheticBiology | #Genome Design & Genetic Code Engineering | Protein, RNA, DNA #DirectedEvolution |
Principal Investigator at Harvard | Our website:
https://engineeringbio.science
Paul Jaschke @pauljaschke.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Synthetic Biology, Macquarie University | Engineering phage & microbes to discover and create new biology.🇨🇦🇦🇺 👨👩👦👦 🦠🧬
Jacob Hepkema @jhepkema.bsky.social Postdoc in Lars Velten's lab @crg.eu, working on gene regulation in haematopoiesis using ML techniques
https://jacobhepkema.github.io
Olivier Borkowski @oborkowski.bsky.social Tenured Scientist in Synthetic Biology
(INRAE, Paris Area, France)
#CellFree ⦁ #SynBio ⦁ #Bioengineering ⦁ #Microbiology
https://sites.google.com/view/olivierborkowski
Kathrin Lang @klanglab.bsky.social Prof for chemical biology at ETH Zurich
Interested in: genetic code expansion - chembio tools - bioorthogonal chemistries - PTMs - Ub in all its shades - protein engineering
Harris Wang @harriswang.bsky.social Chair and Professor of Dept. of Systems Biology | Columbia University | Synthetic Biology | Microbiome | Genome Engineering
http://wanglab.c2b2.columbia.edu
Drew Endy @drewendy.bsky.social “I seem to be a verb”
René Inckemann @reneinckemann.bsky.social interested in plant #synbio,
Postdoc @stanford in the Brophy lab,
alumni @mpi_marburg @erblabs,
@gasb_synbio steering
@igemmarburg instructor 2018-2024
Victor de Lorenzo (CNB, Madrid) @vdlorenzo.bsky.social Synthetic Biology with a Southern European flavour for a new partnership with the Living World https://vdl-lab.com/ http://seva-plasmids.com/
Centre for Synthetic Biology @TUDarmstadt @synbio.bsky.social Centre for Engineering-based Synthetic Biology
@TUDarmstadt
Francesca Ceroni @ceronifranci.bsky.social Senior Lecturer @ Chemical Engineering Department, Imperial College London
(views are my own)
Frances Arnold @francesarnold.bsky.social Engineer/scientist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2018
I love evolution, enzymes, protein engineering, AI
Linus Pauling Professor at Caltech
Di Michele Lab @dimichelelab1.bsky.social Lorenzo Di Michele's research group at @cebcambridge.bsky.social University of Cambridge (and also a bit at Imperial College). Working on DNA/RNA nanotechnology and Synthetic Cells
Aditya Kunjapur @kunjapur.bsky.social Thomas Willing Early Career Assoc. Professor, U. Delaware | #Synbio with newer-to-nature building blocks |
Formerly @Texas @MIT @HMS
www.kunjapurlab.org
Max Fürst @maxfus.bsky.social Asst. Prof. Uni Groningen 🇳🇱
Comp & Exp Biochemist, Protein Engineer, 'Would-be designer' (F. Arnold) | SynBio | HT Screens & Selections | Nucleic Acid Enzymes | Biocatalysis | Rstats & Datavis
https://www.fuerstlab.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7720-9
Benjamin Maier @bdmaier.bsky.social SysBio PhD Student in the Petsalaki Group (Whole Cell Signalling) at EMBL-EBI and Cambridge University (Churchill College) | 🇩🇪 BS | 🇸🇪 MS | https://benjamindominikmaier.github.io/.
Highlighting preprints for preLights: https://shorturl.at/8MPdH
Simon Dürr @simonduerr.eu Assistant Professor UAS at HES-SO Valais-Wallis 🇨🇭 🤗 HF Fellow. Working on AI, Protein Design and Open Science. Creator of bioicons.com
Kieran Didi @kdidi.bsky.social 🧪 Research Scientist @nvidia and PhD student @Oxford staring at proteins all-day
🧑💻 Website/Blog: https://kdidi.netlify.app/
🤖 GitHub: https://github.com/kierandidi
📚 Prev. Cambridge/Heidelberg
Di Jiang @dijiang319.bsky.social Senior editor @science.org. Molecular biology, #DNA, #RNA, #gene regulation, #epigenetics, nuclear biology, #chromatin biology, 3D #genome, #synbio, #CRISPR and gene editing, other bacterial immune systems, and #AI in all these
aL @alxin.me Postbac at NIMH Machine Learning, comms assistant at CCDD. Previously TA at Harvard Stats.
Michael Booth @drmikebooth.bsky.social Associate Prof of ChemBio+OrgChem at UCL Chemistry, Royal Society URF, chemistry, DNA/RNA, synthetic biology. Coeliac. Dad. 🎸 boothlab.uk
Tom Ellis @proftomellis.bsky.social Synthetic Biology & Synthetic Genomics @ Imperial College London and the Sanger Institute. Bilingual in English and DNA. Views are either my own or my microbes'
Thomas Gorochowski @chofski.bsky.social Synthetic biologist, programmer of cells, and lover of all things visual. Wakes up in the morning to learn some of natures secrets and do a spot of fly fishing.
Jason Kelly @jasonrkelly.bsky.social co-founder and CEO at Ginkgo Bioworks
Former Chair of National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology
Elisa Granato @prokaryota.bsky.social Sci-Comm | Researcher @kurzgesagt.org | she/her 🦠🧫🔬 | Tell your cat I said PSPSPSPS
Sebastian S. Cocioba @atinygreencell.bsky.social Flower Designer at Neoplants 🌺
Researcher at Binomica Labs
Degreeless Heathen
Petunia and Snapdragon Breeder
Open Lab Notebook: http://tinyurl.com/ATGCFFE
Raffael Schumann @raffael.bsky.social Currently on my PhD journey at the University of Cambridge. Synthetic Biologist in the Chin Lab at MRC LMB. Previously at ETH Zürich and Harvard University.