Dominic Stalder @triommatidium.bsky.social PhD student in the Vorburger-Lab @ Eawag / ETHZ
evolutionary ecology | host-microbe interactions | defensive symbiosis | aphids | Williamhamiltonella defendens 🦠
Paul Turner Lab @paulturnerlab.bsky.social Experimental evolution of viruses for basic science and evolutionary medicine at Yale Ecology & Evolutionary Biology.
Tweeting papers & news from our group. Acct managed by lab members.
Megan Worsley @sparrowweaver.bsky.social PhD student in behavioural ecology @ U of St Andrews :-) 🪹🦜
Luis Teixeira @lmvteixeira.bsky.social Host-Microbe Interactions lab.
#Drosophila, #Wolbachia, #microbiota, and #viruses.
Católica Biomedical Research Centre.
Medical School, Universidade Católica Portuguesa.
Portugal.
SymbNET - a EUHorizon2020 Twinning
network on Host-Microbe Symbiosis
Alison Gould @algould.bsky.social Marine biologist | Microbiologist | Evolutionary ecologist
Host-microbe interactions | #TeamFish
Assistant Professor at Temple University
Research Associate at Cal Academy
https://gouldlab.squarespace.com
Karina Xavier Lab @karinaxavierlab.bsky.social Microbiologist working on Quorum Sensing, microbiota and microbe-host interactions. Working at Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine - GIMM, Oeiras, Portugal
Peter Mulhair @petermulhair.bsky.social BBSRC fellow at Liverpool Uni - insect adaptation to freshwater environments, comparative genomics and gene evolution.
I enjoy genomes, bioinformatics, and moths.
Treasurer for Systematics Association systass.org
He/Him 🇮🇪
🔗 http://petermulhair.com
Oleksandr Maistrenko @omaistrenko.bsky.social Genomics, symbiosis, evolution.
MicroHealth consortium
Ukrainian School in Evolutionary Biology
Postdoc University of Amsterdam; NIOZ 🇳🇱; EMBL🇩🇪; North Dakota State University🇺🇲, Fulbright Program; Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine🇺🇦
Flora Vincent @floravincent.bsky.social Group Leader at EMBL spying on the social life of marine microbes and pushing for more inclusive sciences | Tara Oceans | Plankton Manifesto
https://www.embl.org/groups/vincent/
https://planktonmanifesto.org/
Rebecca J Hall @drrebeccajhall.bsky.social Royal Society University Research Fellow | University of Manchester | Evolution, symbiosis, metabolism
Kayla King, Ph.D. @kayla-king.bsky.social Prof & Canada Excellence Research Chair | UBC Zoology, M&I | Evolution, ecology, host-pathogen, biodiversity | #firstgen | she/her/hers
Junxia(Julia) Zhang @junxia97.bsky.social I started my PhD in Liverpool in October 2024. My PhD research focuses on the role of root exudates in plant invasions, and how they affect competing native plants in the native and introduced regions.
Gordon Bennett @symboevo.bsky.social Study of insects, symbionts, evolution, etc. Parent, educator, and other things.
Nazree Zainurin @nazreezainurin.bsky.social 
Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social GBE publishes leading original research at the interface between evolutionary biology and genomics.
🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe
🏠 @official-smbe.bsky.social
🤝 @molbioevol.bsky.social
#genome #evolution #science #biology #societyjournal
Lukasz Lukomski @akknumi.bsky.social Research technician at Liverpool University. Rodents, parasites, ecology, diseases. Photography, planes and travel. Low skilled queue-jumper.
Bunny hugger.
Anyi Mazo-Vargas @anyimv.bsky.social Assistant Professor at @DukeBiology. #NewPI #EvoDevo, gene regulation, adaptive traits, #Wnt signaling 🦋. 🧬🔬🧪. She/her/Ella
MERMan Research Group (University of Manchester) @mermanchester.bsky.social Microbial Evolution Research at The University of Manchester
https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/merman/
Justin Stewart @thecrobe.bsky.social Ecology and evolution of plant-microbe symbiosis. Mapping fungal diversity and carbon. Postdoctoral Fellow at SPUN
Microbiome @microbiomej.bsky.social A family of open access journals that seek to unite investigators conducting microbiome research in environmental, agricultural, and biomedical arenas🦠
Research and Partnerships team, UoL @livunirpteam.bsky.social Our team works with the academic community and external collaborators to: advance new research initiatives, facilitate cross-sector partnerships, support bid development, elevate research outputs, fuel interdisciplinary research, and more
Germán Bonilla-Rosso @germusthermophilus.bsky.social 🦠🧪🖥🧬microbial ecology & evolution | agricultural microbiomes | food security | metabolism | 🐝🌺 host-microbe interactions | functional -omics | bioinformatics | salsa | philosophy | equality | UNAM | mSystems / mBio
polyimmigrant! 🇲🇽🇸🇪🇦🇺🇨🇭
University of Liverpool - PGR Development @uolpgrdevelopment.bsky.social Part of The Academy at the University of Liverpool.
Posts about training & development activities, resources & news for PhD students and beyond.
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/researcher/pgr-development/
Danielle Rutkowski @daniellerutkowski.bsky.social PhD candidate at UC Davis studying the interactions between bees and fungi 🐝🦠
🏳️🌈 she/her/hers 
Felipe H Santiago-Tirado @felipehst.bsky.social Happy scientist at the University of Notre Dame. Be happy and enjoy life! This is my personal account and nothing here represents my lab's or employer's views...
Lab website: https://fungilab.nd.edu/
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
Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist (Multicellularity & social evolution). Prof. at Georgia Tech & Director of the QBioS PhD program.
https://ratclifflab.biosci.gatech.edu/
Haley Womack @haleyrwom.bsky.social PhD student at DU - Nichols lab | Currently utilizing freshwater sponges for a curiosity in immune mechanisms and host-microbe interactions
Spencer Nyholm @spencernyholm.bsky.social University of Connecticut
Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology
Symbiosis
EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social Posts about jobs, conferences, etc. from the Evolution Directory (EvolDir) mailing list https://evoldir.net, run by the European Society for Evolutionary Biology @eseb.bsky.social
Benjamin Wolfe @benwolfe.bsky.social Associate Professor Tufts University
Ecology/evolution of microbes in food systems. Constant gardener. 
The University of Manchester @manchester.ac.uk A proud Manchester institution with teaching, research and social responsibility at the heart of everything we do. 
University of Liverpool @liverpooluni.bsky.social One of the UK’s leading research institutions and a centre of world-class teaching and learning. Posting weekdays 9am – 5pm.
https://liverpool.ac.uk
https://linktr.ee/livuni
Marisa Isabell Keller @maelschermarisa.bsky.social Postdoc | she/her | Hansen group | University Copenhagen | Bork group alumna
Scientist decoding the Human and Microbiome Relationship via Computational Biology 👩💻
A lover of music 🎶🎷 and the call of the wild 🌿🏔️
Earth BioGenome Project 🌍 @ebpgenome.bsky.social 🧬 Sequencing biodiversity. Securing its future.
The Earth BioGenome Project (EBP) is a global moonshot for biology working to sequence, catalog, and characterize the genomes of Earth’s eukaryotic biodiversity.
🌍 Follow us:
linktr.ee/earthbiogenomeproject
Mia Croft (she/they) @miacroftento.bsky.social PhD Researcher @newcastleuni.bsky.social @ForagingEcology.bsky.social investigating impacts of artifical light at night on ecological networks, using eDNA and nutritional analysis 🧬🔬🌿🐛🐜🪲🦗🦋🪳🐝🐞🕷
Takeshi Morita @takeshimorita.bsky.social Itching to understand why mosquitos always find and bite me 🦟 | Assistant Professor @fiu.bsky.social 🐆 | PhD @berkeleymcb.bsky.social🧸 | Postdoc @rockefelleruniv.bsky.social🗽 | https://www.moritalaboratory.org
Min Khant Han @baldbiologist.bsky.social PhD student at UGA | Bik Lab | Marine Nematode Symbiosis | UCI Alum
Tiktok: @bald_biologist
Instagram: @bald_biologist
@emilyvansyoc.bsky.social @emilyvansyoc.bsky.social 
Dr. Grace Deitzler @dna-heligrace.bsky.social Research Project Manager at the One Health Microbiome Center @ Penn State. Former Harvard postdoc. Professionally interested in microbial ecology, scicomm, artsci, and microbiomes. Personally interested in books, baking, painting, cats, and fungi.
Cheryl Keller @cherylkeller.bsky.social Director, Huck Genomics Research Incubator at Penn State; DNA 🧬sequencing, genomics and gene regulation, hematopoiesis; hEDS, triathlete
Emily Hornett @bolinabug.bsky.social Evolutionary geneticist interested in natural selection, diversity drivers & response to environmental change
Insect-microbe interactions | genomics | environmental stress | colour patterns | Wolbachia | symbionts | male-killing | ladybird | butterfly
Hiroshi Arai @haraipapilio.bsky.social I am a postdoctoral researcher studying insects and microorganisms
UK Research and Innovation @ukri.org The UK’s largest public funder of research. Our mission is to advance knowledge, improve lives and drive growth.
#FundedByYou
Also autoposting to @news.ukri.org, @funding.ukri.org, @blogs.ukri.org and @events.ukri.org. Topic specific feeds coming soon!
Nancy Moran @nancy-moran.bsky.social Research biologist and lover of nature, mostly bacteria, insects and (lately) birds
Eve Maunders @evemaunders.bsky.social Exploring the secrets of sponge symbionts | Molecular microbiologist in the Degnan Lab, University of Queensland
Jun B. Cai @junbcai.bsky.social PhD Candidate, Weis lab, Oregon State University | Interested in cellular and molecular mechanisms of cnidarian-algal symbiosis 🪸
Website: https://symbioticjun.squarespace.com
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation @moorefound.bsky.social We foster path-breaking scientific discovery, environmental conservation, and preservation of the special character of the Bay Area.
The Symbiosis Courses Alumni Network @symbiosisalumni.bsky.social This Network connects alumni of the three international Summer Schools on Symbioses: Host-Microbe Symbioses (Portugal), ECODIM (Chile) and Molecular and Cell Biology of Symbiosis (MBL, Massachusetts, USA). Supported by @moorefound.bsky.social
🍁 Alex Smith 🍁 @alexsmithants.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of #Biology at UofG, Guelph, ON, Canada. Inspired by the #Biodiversity in ACG, Costa Rica. #Ecology, #Evolution, #Entomology
Opinions my own & oh so rarely overlap with my employer.
he/him
www.malexsmith.com
www.youtube.com/@Alex_Smith_Ants
Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social Entomologist and Photographer in Austin, Texas.
https://www.alexanderwild.com
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
Brandon Claridge @ichsofna.bsky.social Ph.D. entomologist/ ichneumonid taxonomist/ owner of Claridge Traps. See ichsofna.org for AI/web tools to help with ichneumonid identifications in North America. Need Malaise traps or light sheets for insect collecting? Visit claridgetraps.com
Aimee McKinnon @aimeeemac.bsky.social Senior Research Scientist / Adjunct Research Fellow
Entomopathogenic fungi | symbioses & endophytes | microbiomes & ecology | Biocontrol Science 💚🪰🪲🐝🌿🌾🍄🍄🟫
Kristal Watrous @melittophile.bsky.social Bee biologist, entomologist, pollination ecologist, unabashed nature nerd.
Jesse Huisken @jessehuisken.bsky.social PhD candidate in the Rehan Lab. York University. Evolution, social behaviour, behavioural ecology, social insects, pollinators.
@elizabethmcgraw.bsky.social @elizabethmcgraw.bsky.social 
Al Darby @acdarby.bsky.social Applied biologist studying host-microbe interactions - from insect bacterial symbionts to human viruses. Co-director of the Centre for Genomic Research, which hosts the NERC NEOF facility at the University of Liverpool. 3D printing, Star Wars and rugby fan
Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social Microbial evolution / University of Manchester
Michael Orr @mcorr.bsky.social Stuttgart Naturkundemuseum. Bee Systematics, Natural History, and everything in between. Focused on Anthophorinae (Apidae). He/Him.
Margarita Lopez-Uribe @mmlopezu.bsky.social 
iBartomeus @ibartomeus.bsky.social Ecology, pollination, networks, rstats & other personal stuff...
www.bartomeuslab.com
Alek Erickson @alekerickson.bsky.social Developmental/stem cell biologist, group leader in the Department of Molecular Biosciences, the Wenner-Gren Institute, at Stockholm University. We study embryonic tissue patterning and shaping.
also: music and strategy games
Damien Gergonne @damsgergonne.bsky.social PhD. Post-doc researcher at Stellenbosch University 🇿🇦
#Evolutionarybiology, #Socialinsects, #Termites #Wasps 🧬
Singer/guitarist at Little Havana 🎸
PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org A leading life science journal that champions inclusive, high-impact research across all disciplines—from molecules to ecosystems. We offer innovative formats and collaborative editorial support to ensure your work achieves its full scientific impact.
Carlos M Herrera @cmhmaliani.bsky.social Organism-centered evolutionary ecologist addict to Natural History. Posts mainly on natural history, pollination, epigenetics and conservation
See https://t.co/l8Vx6d4tdN for more
Tatsuya Inagaki @tatsuyainagaki.bsky.social Ph.D. / Termite and gut microbes/ Postdoctoral fellow / Cornell University / he/him 🏳️🌈
https://tatsuyainagaki.wixsite.com/japanese
Jillian Lewis @jillianlewis.bsky.social UConn PhD candidate studying microbes + squid eggs 🦑
Scientist by training, swamp thing by nature
she/her 🍄🧶🥘🐸🧪🗺🌌🪻🧬🔬
Jay Evans @jaydevans.bsky.social Bee lover and civil servant scientist. Bee research at https://tinyurl.com/bdh73yj5 and less formally www.beesfoundintranslation.org. Www.beenome100.org
Views are my own.
Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social Scientific journal publishing research, overview and commentary across all of biology. All of it!
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/home
Part of CellPress @cellpress.bsky.social
Entomological Society of America @entsocamerica.bsky.social Sharing insect science globally.
ESA is the world's largest organization serving insect scientists.
Need to identify an insect? Visit http://entsoc.org/insect-id
Tadashi Fukami @fukamit.bsky.social Community ecologist at Stanford University
https://profiles.stanford.edu/tadashi-fukami
Pat Schloss @patschloss.bsky.social Papa to 9 microbes, mackerel snapper, shepherd, master of sucking. I want to help you learn the skills you'll need to succeed in science. 
Royal Entomological Society @royentsoc.bsky.social The Royal Entomological Society plays an international role in communicating insect science and connecting entomologists.
Follow our publications @respublications.bsky.social
ASM @asm.org ASM is a global community shaping the future of the microbial sciences to tackle some of the world's most pressing challenges.
Microbes Make Our World.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org Explore groundbreaking news and research from PNAS, one of the world's most-cited scientific journals. Discover its sibling journal, @pnasnexus.org, both official research journals of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Visit www.pnas.org for more info.
Science Magazine @science.org Cutting-edge research, news, commentary, and visuals from the Science family of journals. https://www.science.org
Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com Nature Microbiology publishes the latest research and commentary in all areas of microbiology.
https://www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/
Lily Khadempour @khadlily.bsky.social Assistant Prof at Rutgers Newark and PI of the Khadlab.com. Studying insect-microbial symbiosis and microbial ecology. she/her
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.
Hassan Salem @hassansalem.bsky.social Biologist and Group Leader at the John Innes Centre, UK | ERC Investigator | EMBO Young Investigator | Symbiosis, genomics & development | www.mutualisms.net
Alejandro Manzano Marín @amanzanom.bsky.social Senior Scientist 👨🏽🔬 @dome-vienna.bsky.social, @univie.ac.at
🇲🇽🇪🇺(🇦🇹🇫🇷🇪🇸) Symbionts, bacteria, insects, leeches, viruses, bioinformatics, evolution, genomics. Opinions are my very own.
#SymbioSky
https://besymblab.univie.ac.at/
Microbiome Virtual International Forum @microbiomevif.bsky.social • a free recurring bite-sized alternative to multi-day #microbiome conferences •
➡️ Every month, a new event... join #MVIF community!
https://www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US
Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social Professor of Microbiome Ecology at Institute of Biology, Leiden University
Bacillus subtilis, biofilms, plant microbiome, bacteria-fungi interactions and circadian clock within @microclockerc.bsky.social #ERCSyG
https://linktr.ee/atkovacs
Prof. Ruth Ley FRS @microbiome.bsky.social Director of Department of Microbiome Science at MPI Biology Tübingen Germany. Also known as Leylab.com.
Christian Kost @kostchristian.bsky.social Experimental ecology and evolution | microbes | evolution of metabolic interactions | cooperation | bacterial multicellularity.
Noah Fierer @noahfierer.bsky.social Microbial ecologist
https://www.fiererlab.org/
Sergio López-Madrigal, PhD @lopezmadrigals.bsky.social Host-Microbe interaction scientist #Wolbachia #Drosophila. PostDoc @ Indiana University Bloomington 🇺🇸 Previously @ Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia 🇵🇹 INSA de Lyon 🇫🇷 and Universitat de Valencia 🇪🇸
Mark Mandel @markjmandel.bsky.social Bacterial geneticist focused on microbe-animal communication. Professor UW-Madison. Messages are my personal views.
Jessica Buchser @microbial.bsky.social ▪️PhD student @ PSU
▪️Gene regulation 🧬
▪️Structural biology
Filip Husnik @filiphusnik.bsky.social Associate Professor at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) 🇯🇵 previously 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇨🇿
evolution | cell biology | symbiosis | genomics | microbiology | marine science
https://www.oist.jp/research/research-units/ecbsu/
Derrick Kamp @kampamycin.bsky.social they/he | Visualizing host-microbe interactions | Postdoctoral Fellow at UT Austin | derrickkamp.com
Tobias Engl @tcsengl.bsky.social Evolutionary biology, chemical ecology, symbiosis, 🐞🐝🦠🏳️🌈
@MPI_CE
Avery Russell @draverbee.bsky.social #RussellLab studies #bees #behaviour #microbes & #flower #evolution @MissouriState https://therusselllab.net/
| #PUI | #SciComm #DiversityInSTEM #BLM #WomenInSTEM #Humanities | he/him
Shawn Christensen @pollenmicrobes.bsky.social Microbiologist, chemical ecologist.
I study the bugs of bugs and their drugs.
(bee bacterial symbionts make antifungal compounds)
He/him ✊🏼🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Philipp Engel @pengellab.bsky.social Microbiologist at UNIL Switzerland, interested in Microbiota-host interactions, symbiosis, evolution and genomics, and social bees
engelbeelab.com
Conference on Beneficial Microbes @benmicrobesmtg.bsky.social The Conference on Beneficial Microbes. Since 2001, a meeting focused on host-microbe interactions. #BeneficialMicrobesMtg #BeneficialMicrobes10
Irene Newton @chicascientifica.bsky.social Professor at Indiana University, Department of Biology. Interested in all things microbial symbiosis related & these days, a lot of MGEs