Matt Herdman @mherdman.bsky.social Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow in the Govers Lab, KU Leuven, working on cell cycle progression in Bacteroides. Former DPhil student, Dunn School, University of Oxford.
Lianet Noda @lianetn.bsky.social PI - Noda Lab - Hebrew University. Interested in enzymes and pathways, their evolution, and utilization for a sustainable future. 
Sara Mitri @saramitri.bsky.social Microbial ecology and evolution | Professor at University of Lausanne | Theory | Experiments | Egyptian
Jiyu Xie @jiyuxie.bsky.social PostDoc of Nanjing Agricultural University, mainly study on Bacterial-Fungal Interactions.
Xinming Xu @xinmingxu.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher at Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL)🇳🇱
Plant microbiome👩🏻🔬& Bioinformatics👩🏻💻 specialist
Photographer🎞️
MicroClock ERCSyG @microclockerc.bsky.social MicroClock is an ERC Synergy project dedicated to developing Bacillus subtilis as a clock model system for the study of circadian clocks in bacteria; PIs: Martha Merrow, Antony Dodd, and Ákos T. Kovács
https://microclock.org
Agata Starosta @agatastarosta.bsky.social Molecular bacteriologist. Group leader at Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw
Martin Černý @bacillus.bsky.social Unaccomplished PhD student investigating structure of RNA polymerase of B. subtilis | NMR, Cryo-EM | Protein Structure and Dynamics group | CEITEC, NCBR | Masaryk University | rock climbing | DnD 5e enthusiast | boardgame nerd | coffee advocate
Christian Loyo @christianloyo.bsky.social Postdoc at Fred Hutch | MIT Biology PhD 🦫 | UW-Madison Alum 🧀 | Interested in all things microbes! | Chicano 🇺🇸🇲🇽 | He/Him
Jen Herman 🌪️ @jukebarosh.bsky.social Mostly Bacillus | unpublished data | hypotheses | wild ideas | sand-outta-box | who wants 2 bet? | 🧠🔥🐳 | Zinc ♡ | No one important | www.hermanlab.com |
@pbbeauregard.bsky.social @pbbeauregard.bsky.social Full professor, Biologie at Université Sherbrooke, Maman de 2, love all things bacteria, geek lvl 20, pour la science fondamentale et collaborative
Reindert Nijland @reindertn.bsky.social Associate professor Molecular Marine Ecology at Wageningen University. I sequence anything, anywhere, to understand changing marine ecosystems. Main focus on the North Sea.- J Jo Fothergill @jojofoth.bsky.social
James Connolly @ruamicro.bsky.social MRC Career Development Fellow at Newcastle University. Studying how pathogens control their genes
Jarno Mäkelä @jmakela.bsky.social Assist. Prof. of Biophysics at Aalto Univ. | Temperature adaptation | Super-resolution microscopy | Single molecule tracking | #ERCStG
https://www.aalto.fi/en/department-of-neuroscience-and-biomedical-engineering/single-molecule-dynamics-in-cells
Caro Kobras 🐍 @carokobras.bsky.social BBSRC Fellow | University of Birmingham | Junior Research Fellow at Linacre College, Oxford | Investigating antibiotic resistance & tolerance, and better ways to kill pathogens 🧫
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=L2mEVzEAAAAJ
Emma Denham @gingermicrobe.bsky.social Running my lab of unruly 🧫🦠, trying to unravel the world of noncoding RNA and building a sustainable bioconcrete by day 🧬🧱
🍰🐎🧶 tea/gin, courgette 👩🌾 at all other times🦒😴👩🦰and OliCat😽💉
Kumaran Ramamurthi @ramamurthilab.bsky.social Scientist studying protein localization in bacteria. We also design artificial bacteria to deliver chemotherapeutics to #cancer cells. All views are my own.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=t9UM04YAAAAJ&hl=en
Sorek Lab @soreklab.bsky.social The Sorek Lab
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
https://www.weizmann.ac.il/molgen/Sorek/
Aaron Whiteley @aaronwhiteley.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. Microbiologist. All-around nerd.
http://colorado.edu/lab/aaron-whiteley/
Séamus Holden 🔬🦠🧫 @seamusholden.bsky.social Professor of Microbial Biophysics, University of Warwick. Interested in all things bacterial cell envelope, cell biophysics and super-resolution microscopy. https://holdenlab.github.io/
Jamie Hall @jpjhall.bsky.social microbiology // evolution // mobile genetic elements
🏫 University of Liverpool, UK
🦠 www.andthemicrobes.org
💻 www.jpjhall.net
Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org How do you do, fellow squids? 🌊 We're your frondly Aquarium with a mission to inspire conservation of the ocean. https://www.montereybayaquarium.org
Susanne Gebhard @gebhardlab.bsky.social Molecular Biotechnology and Microbiology at JGU Mainz, Germany. Loving the positivity of Gram+ bugs and the wonderful things they get up to 
Tatiana Dimitriu @tatianadimitriu.bsky.social @royalsociety University Research Fellow in St Andrews. Bacterial evolution, mobile genetic elements & defence systems, antibiotic resistance, social interactions. 🇫🇷 with some 🇷🇴 and 🇺🇦 roots. She/her- B Boo Tseng Lab @btsenglab.bsky.social Lab of Dr. Boo Shan Tseng at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, studying bacterial biofilm formation and stress response
Jose Bengoechea @josebengoechea.bsky.social Working on innate immunity & host-pathogen interactions. Finding new ways to treat infections by antibiotic resistant bacteria. All views are my own.
Prof Cynthia Whitchurch FAA🏳️🌈 @cwhitch.bsky.social Microbiologist, interested in alternate bacterial lifestyles - cell wall deficiency, biofilms, AMR
Marco Galardini @mgalactus.bsky.social Computational biologist with a taste for microbiology. Associate professor at Twincore, MHH and HZI
Wikipedia wanderer
Lab website: https://www.microbial-pangenomes-lab.org/
Julia Willett @jlewillett.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Micro & Immuno at U Minnesota. Bacterial interactions/biofilms/uncharacterized genes/T7SS. I like wine, traveling, and the LA Kings. She/her.
Patricia Bernal @pbernalt6ss.eurosky.social Group Leader & Associate Professor of Microbiology at Universidad de Sevilla. I am interested in Microbiology, Pseudomonas putida, T6SS, biocontrol and scicomm
Website: personal.us.es/pbguzman
📍University of Seville
Ronan McCarthy @ronanmccarthy.bsky.social Professor at Brunel University of London. Into all things Antibiotic Resistance, Drug Discovery, Biofilms and Signalling
Christina Faherty @christinafaher1.bsky.social Bacterial geneticist 🧫 🦠 🧬 focusing on #Shigella, #enteric #pathogens & #phage. Using host signals & #organoids to study #pathogenesis. Assist Prof at USUHS. Views my own. https://medschool.usuhs.edu/profile/christina-faherty-phd
Catrin Moore @catrinm.bsky.social Global health researcher working on antimicrobial resistance @AMR and antibiotic exposure
Renske van Raaphorst 🟥 @vrrenske.bsky.social microbiologist <3 microscopes
vanraaphorstlab.nl
Kate Beckham @kshbeckham.bsky.social Royal Society University Research Fellow | NUAcT Fellow @ Newcastle University
Investigating mycobacterial transport systems
#structuralbiology #microbiology
Instagram @kshbeckham
lab website : https://beckham-lab-newcastle.github.io/
Biophysical Paris @parisseminar.bsky.social Thread reporting the #seminar of #biophysics and quantitative biology #qBio available in #Paris
Managed by http://maximeardre.eu
The Experimentalist @theexperimentalist.bsky.social We write stories behind scientific #discoveries, science #outreach, feature #scientists, and #academiclife | Get in touch for Improv for Scientists workshops
https://www.theexperimentalist.org/
Dr Laura Nolan @drlauranolan.bsky.social PI at SCELSE and Asst/Prof at NTU Singapore. Researching biofilm development and bacterial interactions. Views my own, repost not an endorsement. She/Her.
Henrik Strahl @henrikstrahl.bsky.social Microbiology Prof at the Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology, Newcastle University. Research focus on antibiotics, AMR, bioenergetics and bacterial cell envelopes, 🇫🇮
Mariana Pinho @pinholab.bsky.social Full Professor at ITQB NOVA. Microbiologist. Microscopist. Bacterial Cell Biologist. Mother of 3.
Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social Scottish Literature, Regionalism, Romanticism, Enlightenment, Book History
Prof Amy Cain @flamycain.bsky.social ARC Future Fellow Macquarie University, School of Natural Sciences 🇦🇺 she/her | Functional 🧬,💊discovery, Synbio, 🐛, ♻️| Ex-@sangerinstitute @VertexPharma @Mlw_Programme
Hall Lab @halllab.bsky.social Prof Lindsay Hall’s research group at University of Birmingham & Quadram Institute. Early life microbiota (we love Bifidobacterium!), and influence of diet, host and pathogens.
David Clarke @cleverflick.bsky.social Head of School of Microbiology at University College Cork. Likes bacteria (in general) and Man Utd. 
Malcolm White @mfwhite2.bsky.social Molecular microbiologist at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. My scientific interests include: CRISPR, antiviral defence, cyclic nucleotide signalling, archaea, nucleases.
MicrobesNG @microbesng.bsky.social Microbial sequencing made simple.
Whole Genome Sequencing + Metagenomics: http://microbesng.com
PlasmidSeq: http://plasmidsng.com 😊
Gavin Thomas (he/him) @gavinhthomas.bsky.social Microbiologist @UniofYork. Former EiC of @MicrobioSoc
#MicrobioJ. Transporters, Staph, BO & skin microbiome. CSO
@morfdb.bsky.social York Knavesmire Harrier & EBOR orienteer. 
Phill Stansfeld @pstansfeld.bsky.social Professor of Computational Biochemistry. School of Life Sciences & Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick. Molecular Modeller of Membrane Proteins, Bacterial Biogenesis & Antimicrobial Resistance.
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.
Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social An unofficial bot of BBC News (UK).
RSS: http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/uk/rss.xml
code: https://gitlab.com/tmaehara/bluesky-newsbots
maintainer: @tmaehara.bsky.social
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/
The New York Times @nytimes.com We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Not a subscriber? Your first month is now free in our app. https://nytimes.onelink.me/Xpht/zbx4nci9
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
Stephen Fry @stephenfry.bsky.social Grazer and nibbler at the outer edges of new social media platforms
Gemma C. Atkinson @gemmaatkinson.bsky.social Lecturer & group leader in Lund University. Computational microbiologist, mostly working on toxin-antitoxin systems, ribosomes and bacterial defence against phages. Director of the LU-Fold protein structure prediction infrastructure of LU.
Atkinson-lab.com
Alison Low @alow.bsky.social Post-doctoral scientist at Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh. Microbiology, E. coli, phage, UTI, O157:H7
Ian Monk @ianmonknz.bsky.social Molecular Microbiologist at the Doherty Institute, University of Melbourne. All things Staph, Listeria, Enterococci, Phages and Sport.
Henry McSorley @henrymcsorley.bsky.social I use parasites to mess with the immune system. Reader at University of Dundee. I also like bikes and cats. 
Jay Hinton @jayhinton.bsky.social Salmonella admirer & Prof of Microbiology - Working on Salmonella bloodstream infections (iNTS) in sub- Saharan Africa context. Functional genomics. T1D.
John Helmann @johnhelmann.bsky.social Professor at Cornell Univ. Bacillus subtilis physiology and stress responses (metal homeostasis, redox stress, antibiotic resistance & cell envelope). EIC of Mol Microbiol.
Claudia Hemsley @chemsley.bsky.social Molecular Biologist | Microbiologist with an interest in gene-regulation and pathogenesis. Currently in Dundee 🏴 Favourite bugs are #Pseudomonas #Coxiella #Burkholderia #UPEC
Views are my own.
@ViollierPat @viollierpat.bsky.social Works on sweet bugs & drugs: glycosylated flagella
& genetics of antibiotic susceptibility
@UniversityofGeneva
🦠 #glycotime
Olaya Rendueles @olayarendueles.bsky.social Microbial evolution & ecology, focus on surface structures (capsules) and HGT (#plasmids #phages), mostly in #Klebsiella #MicroSky
From #Asturias 🇪🇸 living in 🇫🇷
@CNRS
christoph_STCmicrobeblog @christophstc.bsky.social 72, PhD, micro- + molecular biology. associated blogger @STCmicrobeblog. opinions my own.
Wiep Klaas Smits (ExpBac/CMAT) @smitslab.bsky.social Assoc. prof. at LUMC/@unileiden. Cdiff, DNA replication, AMR, microbiome, anaerobes. Clostpath Steering committee. Education officer ESGCD. Previously: @unigroningen and @mitofficial. https://sites.google.com/view/expbac-lumc/homepage
Centre for Microbial Interactions @norwichmicro.bsky.social News and opportunities from over 100 microbiology research groups at Norwich Research Park, UK - one of the world's leading sites for microbiology expertise.
https://www.cmi-norwich.ac.uk
Laurie Belcher @lauriebelch.bsky.social OrthoFinder
Evolution of cooperation
University of Oxford
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=e3c1TdffPOcC
Lucy Crouch @lucyicm.bsky.social 🦠Scientist 🧪loves gut microbes and CAZymes.
Sir Henry Dale fellow at the IMI, University of Birmingham. 
Kenny Gillen @kennygillen.bsky.social Infrastructure, Research Computing, Bikes, active travel and diving.
Gail McConnell @gailmcconnell.bsky.social Professor of Biophotonics at the University of Strathclyde. Develops new optical microscope & Mesolens instrumentation & methods for biomedical imaging 🔬
PlasmidsNG @plasmidsng.bsky.social Rapid turnaround, full length plasmid sequencing - £10 a plasmid.
Powered by ONT's V14 chemistry & R10.4.1 flow cell
Based in Birmingham, England
plasmidsng.com
Andy Kempchinsky @ampersandy.bsky.social PhD Student at UZH/USZ🇨🇭
Focusing on visualising microbes to understand spatial host-microbe interactions.
More microbiologist than your average engineer; more engineer than your average microbiologist. Bad at both! 🏳️🌈
Sam "The Mug Guy" Horrell @drhorrell.bsky.social Scientist 🧑🔬, structural biologist 🧬, X-ray Crystallographer 💎, Synchrotron Mug Enthusiast ☕, D&D 🎲 and MTG player 🧙, bird dad to Nori and Kili 🦜🦜
He/Him
John Atack @sciencyatackjohn.bsky.social Shiny-headed microbiologist - bacterial gene regulation, vaccines, host-pathogen interactions. Passed on his genes twice. Fond of dark ale.
Daniel Plaza Sáez @dplazasaez.bsky.social Passionate Microbiologist 🦠🔬 |
PhD @Cambridge_Uni |
ex member Molecular Microbiology (Salmond Lab) at @Cambiochem.bsky.social |
Enthusiastic drummer 🥁 and keyboardist
🎹
Giusy Mariano @giusym1990.bsky.social Group Leader/MRC Fellow at the University of Glasgow
Website: marianolab.com/home
Ramon Garcia Maset @microberamon.bsky.social Research fellow at Oxford 🦠🧫 interested in UTIs, organoids, host-pathogen interactions, microfluidics, biofilms and AMR.
Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social Professor at UC Davis
Work: phylogenomics & microbiomes; wildlife and aquatic microbiology; #openscience;
Other: #birds; baseball; T1D
Lab phylogenomics.me
Pics jonathaneisen.smugmug.com
Links linktr.ee/jonathaneisen
TED go.ted.com/6WPm
Tiffany Taylor @taylorlabgroup.bsky.social Professor of Microbial Ecology and Evolution at the Life Sciences Department at the University of Bath. Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow. Children's author evolution/genetics. Mum.
https://tiffanybtaylor.wordpress.com/
Claire Turner @claireyt.bsky.social Wellcome Career Development Fellow, University of Sheffield and the Florey Institute working on streptococci. #SpyLab #StrepA
Sara Henderson @microsara.bsky.social Microbiologist interested Staphylococcal molecular biology @UniBradford. Spends a lot of time jumping into sandpits and running in circles @Skyrac @YeovilO. Actually Autistic.
Rebecca Corrigan @corrigar.bsky.social Ad Astra Fellow at UCD, formerly Henry Dale and Lister Institute Senior Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield
Kimberly Kline 🏔 @kimingeneva.bsky.social Professor, University of Geneva. We study Enterococcal biofilms, pathogenesis, and AMR. Formerly @KimInSingapore 🌴.
https://kimberlyklinelab.com/
Antony Dodd @antdodd.bsky.social circadian rhythms | cell signalling | plants and microbes | @microclockerc.bsky.social | Head of Cell and Developmental Biology @ John Innes Centre UK | Views my own.
Dr Katherine Duncan @kateduncan.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, Newcastle Uni UK
We study the chemical language of bacteria (& what influences it) for antibiotic discovery
http://www.medicinesfromthesea.com
Editor Microbiology, Young Academy of Scotland, EAB RSC NatProdRep & EAB ACS JNatProd
MEEhubs @meehubs.bsky.social A hub-based global conference on Microbial Ecology and Evolution.
August 3-5, 2026
Abstract submission and registration will be announced soon.
Jay T Lennon @jaytlennon.bsky.social microbiology | ecology | evolution | biodiversity | lennonlab.github.io
Kendra Rumbaugh @kendrarumbaugh.bsky.social Microbiologist interested in polymicrobial interactions, biofilms and wound infections at Texas Tech Medical School, Surgery Dept.
Lars Dietrich @laahrs.bsky.social I love bacteria.
Biofilm metabolism & antibiotic tolerance dietrichlab.com
Biological Sciences, Columbia University
(a yawn is a silent scream for coffee)
Matthew J Shepherd @matthewjshepherd.bsky.social Bicentenary Fellow @manchester.ac.uk within @mermanchester.bsky.social - Understanding opportunistic pathogen evolution - AMR, pathogenesis, niche transitions 🧫🧬 Former Fellow @wiko-berlin.bsky.social
Dr. Sara L Middleton @saralilplants.bsky.social Open Science educator 📚| PhD in plant trait ecology @ Oxford Uni 🌱 | Editorial Board @plantperspectives.bsky.social 🌿 | Founder & Filmmaker 🎥 | 💚 Fabaceae, Crinoids, Outreach, Slow Scholarship | AuDHD | She/her. Own views
saralilmiddleton.com
Heidi Arjes, PhD @heidiarjes.bsky.social
Microbe enthusiast - harnessing microbes for good
Crafting extraordinaire - once upon a time I kept up with www.craftimism.com
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social Biologist @ The Sainsbury Lab; passionate about plant pathogens & evolution; open science advocate; loves travel, food and sports; nomad and hunter-gatherer. Web http://kamounlab.net | Medium https://medium.com/@kamounlab | GetGenome http://getgenome.net
Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾 @janelangdale.bsky.social Plant developmental biologist; Airedale terrier owner; most relaxed by the ocean. langdalelab.com
All views expressed are my own and do not represent any of the institutions I am associated with.
Luke Allsopp @lukeallsopp.bsky.social Senior Lecturer Imperial College London
Microbiology Bacteriology Scientist Biofilm Bacteria Nature T6SS and bacterial competition
Tom McLean @tommclean.bsky.social Structural Biochemist. Research Officer at WEHI. Future DECRA Fellow at Monash.