Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social forever virologist but not a working one. past researcher. PCR guy. past lab manager. husband. dad. reader. writer. fixer. bad typist. learner. australian.
#MasksWork
https://virologydownunder.com/
Chris Brooke @christopherbrooke.bsky.social Viral evolution, immunity, and infection biology. Professor at University of Minnesota. brookelab.org
James Hay @jameshay.bsky.social Research Fellow at the Pandemic Sciences Institute, University of Oxford. Using maths and stats to understand infectious disease dynamics, mostly viral kinetics and serology. https://hay-idd.github.io/
Hensley Lab @scottehensley.bsky.social dad, viral immunologist, professor
Zachary Susswein @zsusswein.bsky.social I spend entirely too much time thinking about GAMs
https://github.com/zsusswein
Carly Anne York, PhD @biologycarly.bsky.social Biology Professor🦑 Science Communicator🧬
Author of The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog
https://carlyanneyork.wixsite.com/website
KC @achkc.bsky.social Former CDC Epidemiologist & EIS fellow | Global Health | Applied Epidemiology | Tropical & Infectious diseases | Medicine | Humanity ☮️
ISRV Epidemiology Group @isirvepi.bsky.social The ISRV Epidemiology Group aims to promote the scientific understanding of how respiratory viruses spread in populations.
The Neotoma Paleoecology Database @neotomadb.bsky.social Supporting global-change research and education via open, community-curated data and services for paleoecological and paleoenvironmental data. https://www.neotomadb.org
Suprabhath Kalahasti @suprabhathk.bsky.social PhD Candidate (Lab : https://www.evmodelers.org/) | Infectious Disease Modelling | L'école doctorale Pierre Louis de Santé Publique | Sorbonne Centre for Artificial Intelligence (SCAI)
Combining #deeplearning with mathematical models of infectious diseas
Climate.us @climate.us We are an independent, nonprofit successor to Climate(.)gov, safeguarding public access to trusted climate data, tools, and information.
Donate: https://www.climate.us/donate
Daniel Kaiser @kaiserdaniel.bsky.social Post-doctoral research at UVA Biology with Dr. Nicholas Landry.
Ask me about my cats 🐈⬛️🐈
ICPSR Summer Program @icpsrsummer.bsky.social Training in stats, data analysis, and quantitative methods. Scholarships and TA positions available!
Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social Paradigmatically promiscuous scientist. Ankylosaur enthusiast. Modeler of cultural evolution and related topics. Anti-fascist. Professor at UC Merced, external prof at the Santa Fe Institute and CSH-Vienna.
Web: https://smaldino.com/wp/
Philippa Matthews @pippa-matt.bsky.social Infectious Diseases Prof working across continents & disciplines.
#HBV #hepatitis research
@Crick.ac.uk @UCL.ac.uk @uclh.bsky.social
https://www.crick.ac.uk/research/labs/philippa-matthews
🦠🧬🧪🩺🌍🇿🇦🇰🇪🇺🇬🇪🇺
#globalhealth #NHS #IDSky #MedSky #HepSky #European
Sonia Altizer @saltidog.bsky.social Ecologist, insect enthusiast, horse person, gardener, academic mom
Dr Dionne Argyropoulos @dionnecargy.bsky.social Population geneticist and epidemiologist 💻🧬| Post-doc at @wehi-research.bsky.social | @rladiesmelb.bsky.social | Full time eurovision diva | she/her
About me: https://dionnecargy.github.io/about/
gaia.eco - Biodiversity Studio @gaia.eco 🪸 Monitor species. Restore nature.
🌍 Data, KPIs, analytics and reports
🔎 Open up https://gaia.eco
Health Policy Watch - Global health news reporting @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social Independent global health news written by experienced journalists. Non-profit media company with HQ in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Helen Meier @helenmeier.bsky.social Epidemiologist and research faculty @ SRC, Institute for Social Research, Univ. Michigan. Kindness is contagious.
Sonja Lehtinen @sonjalehtinen.bsky.social Bacterial ecology, evolution and epidemiology | Mathematical and statistical modelling | Genomics | AMR. Assistant professor at the University of Lausanne. https://wp.unil.ch/evolutionaryepidemiology
Joe Hilton @joebhilton.bsky.social Research fellow in mathematical modelling at the Manchester Centre for Health Economics. Not an economist, possibly a mathematician. Personal account.
https://jbhilton.github.io/
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/joseph-hilton
Lia Merivaki_Ph.D. @liamerivaki.bsky.social Election science, info integrity, AI & Democracy, Public Policy. Director of Foley Institute @ Wazzu.
US Elections team @ The Carter Center.
Non-resident fellow @ Center for Democracy & Technology.
Team #voteredu 🗳️😷🇬🇷 🇺🇲
Global Society for Infectious Disease Dynamics (GSIDD) @gs-idd.bsky.social GSIDD aims to serve the global community of researchers, practitioners, and educators in infectious disease dynamics.
Profile managed by @edmhill.bsky.social & @bansallab.bsky.social.
🔗: https://www.gsidd.org
@nitanother.bsky.social @nitanother.bsky.social Infectious diseases. Also, cheese and kneecaps.
Joel Winterton @joelwinterton.bsky.social PhD Student @ DAMTP, Cambridge.
charles-spillane.bsky.social @charles-spillane.bsky.social Chief Scientist of Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
International Conference on Computational Social Science @ic2s2.bsky.social The 12th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) will be held in Burlington, Vermont July 28-31 2026
Website: https://ic2s2-2026.org/
MONID - Modeling Network for Severe Infectious Diseases @monid-mod.bsky.social Modellierungsnetz für schwere Infektionskrankheiten (MONID) - ein vom BMFTR gefördertes Forschungsnetzwerk. Hier postet die MONID-Koordinierungsstelle: https://monid.net/impressum
Web: https://monid.net
Lucila Alvarez Zuzek @luzuzek.bsky.social Interdisciplinary physicist • Researcher @chub-fbk.bsky.social 👩🏼💻 • Interested in human social behavior, complex systems and network science 🕸️ ella | she | her • in 🇮🇹 from 🇦🇷
Thuy Nguyen @vinalotys.bsky.social Associate editor with Nature Communications focused on genomic and molecular epidemiology of pathogens.
*The views expressed are my own. They have not been reviewed or approved by Springer Nature*
jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social https://jimiadams.github.io/ • sociologist • social network researcher • still not quite sure which way is up • tsundoku enthusiast • cyclist/swimmer • quick block trigger • no, I will not subscribe to your substack
Nicholas Landry @nwlandry.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of Virginia | TGIR Postdoctoral Fellow at @vcsi.bsky.social | PhD in Applied Math from CU Boulder | https://landry-lab.github.io | networks ∩ contagion ⋃ inference ⋃ open software. Views my own.
Alex Perkins @talexperkins.bsky.social Ann and Daniel Monahan Collegiate Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame. Research on the ecological and epidemiological dynamics of mosquito-borne and other infectious diseases.
Alessandro Vespignani @alexvespi.bsky.social Networks & data, computational epidemiology, complex systems
NetSci 2026 @netsciconf.bsky.social Official account of the 2026 International School and Conference on Network Science in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. June 1-5, 2026. Official hashtag: #NetSci2026
netsci2026.com
ESCAIDE @escaide.eu European Scientific Conference on Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology organised by #ECDC.
#ESCAIDE2026 → 18-20 November in Stockholm and online!
Find out more → escaide.eu
Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org Evolutionary biologist, runner, writer, gay. Not necessarily in that order. LAX and elsewhere
Signal @jbyoder.82
Also ecoevo.social/@jby, jbyoder.org
Nextstrain @nextstrain.org Real-time tracking of pathogen evolution
Daniel Citron @dtcitron.bsky.social Applied mathematics for epidemiology | Infectious disease modeling | Digital data for health | HIV | Malaria
Opinions my own
YY Ahn @yyahn.bsky.social Prof @ School of Data Science, University of Virginia. Formerly at IU. Networks, data science, and machine learning. https://yyahn.com
🚲🚲🚲
Andrew Park @andrew-w-park.bsky.social I teach and research the ecology and evolution of host-parasite interactions
Meagan Fitzpatrick @meagancfitz.bsky.social Infectious disease epidemiologist and mathematical modeler
@elicolosi.bsky.social @elicolosi.bsky.social Post-doc @DONDENA Research Centre, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy
Lara Schramke @laraschr.bsky.social PhD Researcher at Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine
NTDs | schistosomiasis | migrant health | epidemiology
Jennifer Reich @jenniferreich.bsky.social sociologist, parent, writer, book series editor, usually adequately caffeinated
Diego Silva @dsilvaphd.bsky.social Associate Professor, Sydney Health Ethics, University of Sydney. Interested in ethics & politics of health. (Bioethics. Public health.) And I consume too much sports. (he/him) 🇨🇦🇺🇾🦘🌏
Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social Founder & CEO of @standupforscience.net
Standupforscience.net substack.com/@sciencefightclub
PhD in Clinical Psychology
"Colette is brass knuckles...w/ spikes tipped in poison"
“Delusional broad”
"Lady Switchblade"
“Ditsy socialist liberal”
Krishna Balasubramaniam @krishsubramaniam.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Conservation & Animal Behaviour @ARU-biology.bsky.social. Interests: 🐵 behaviour, human-wildlife interactions & 🦠, not to mention🦕 📸 🎥 📖 🍳🏏 ⚽️ &🍺 (he/him)
VIGILANT_EU @vigilant-eu.bsky.social The VIGILANT project is funded by #HorizonEurope and develops broad spectrum antivirals for pandemic preparedness. Find more information at https://linktr.ee/VIGILANT_EU
Jessica Metcalf @jessmetcalf.bsky.social Demographer working on evolutionary ecology, infectious disease dynamics, vaccination
The Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data @data4sdgs.bsky.social Mobilizing data for people + planet. The Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data. #Data4SDGs
Collin Schwantes @collin-schwantes.bsky.social Statehood for dc
Mostly on: https://fosstodon.org/@collinschwantes
Open science, OSS, R, FAIR, Ecology
Jason Yeung @jayeung12.bsky.social MD-PhD candidate @utmbhealth interested in viruses and data science | Former ballet dancer using publicly available dance data for advocacy
https://jason-yeung.netlify.app/
https://datapointesguide.com/
Lakshmi Krishnan, MD, PhD @thelakshmik.bsky.social Doctor, Writer @Georgetown | Director @GUMedHum | ✍🏽 Book on Diagnosis & Detection | 🦋 #medhum #histmed #healthequity
http://www.lakshmi-krishnan.com
Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social Anti-carnage. Overtonologist.
https://drugmonkey.wordpress.com/
Open Research and Public Engagement Roadmap @engagedroadmap.bsky.social Co-Creating Ireland's Public Involvement in Open Research Roadmap
ENGAGED is building a national roadmap to shape public involvement in open research in Ireland. We believe that research can and does play an important role in tackling societal challenges.
KFF Health News @kffhealthnews.org A national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues; a core program of @KFF.org.
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/
Andrew Stokes @astokespop.bsky.social Associate Professor at Boston University; Population Health, Demography, Sociology
Maria Glymour @mariaglymour.bsky.social Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology at Boston University School of Public Health
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
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
Deepta Bhattacharya @deeptabhattacha.bsky.social Professor of Immunology at University of Arizona studying immune responses to infections and vaccines. 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.
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
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 🍉🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com Health contributor/reporter at Guardian US, contributing editor at the New Republic, freelance elsewhere. Arctic obsessive and book enthusiast.
Send me your secrets:
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Email: melodyschreiber@proton.me
Newsletter: notadoctor.news
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
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 🐈 & 🛫
@firefoxx66@mstdn.science
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
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
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
He/Him
Jesus Gomez-Gardeñes @gomezgardenes.bsky.social Physicist. Full Professor at University of Zaragoza & GoThAM Lab @gotham-lab.bsky.social.
Research on Dynamical Systems and Complex Systems applied to Evolution, Epidemics, Social Behaviors, Sync & much more
Website: http://complex.unizar.es/~jesus/
Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social Surgeon, Writer ("Being Mortal," "Checklist Manifesto"), and formerly led Global Health @USAID.
Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social Emergency Medicine Doc | Mom | Health Services Research | Public Health
Preserving a modicum of peace where I can. If engagement is not respectful, I will block.
Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social Who decides in health? | Health Equity | AI Governance | HIV | Community Participatory Research | Physician | Founder, Health Justice & The Grounded Innovation Lab
@akinfe.bsky.social's life partner | she/her(s)/yeye
#MedSky #BlackMedSky #QueerSky
The Carlson Lab @ Yale @carlsonlab.bsky.social We work on planetary problems. Currently: counting climate change-related deaths; pandemic risk assessment in a changing biosphere; data, science, and vaccine access during public health emergencies. 👉 carlsonlab.bio
Steph N. Seifert, PhD @stephseifertphd.bsky.social PI of the Molecular Ecology of Zoonotic and Animal Pathogens Lab
Co-PI, Viral Emergence Research Institute
Interested in virology, evolution, ecology, and still cares about diversity and equity in STEM
she/her
Ashwini Ramesh @ashwini-ramesh.bsky.social https://ashwini-ramesh.com · smitten by parasites, poetry, and the musings that lie in between· incoming Hutchinson Postdoc Fellow at Yale.
Infectious disease · Withinhost Coinfection · Coexistence · Community Ecology · Niche Theory for Coinfection
EEID forum @eeidforum.bsky.social Connecting folks that are interested in host-parasite interactions
NIH Vigils @nihvigils.bsky.social We commemorate and mourn the losses resulting from cuts to funding, programs, and people that have been both discriminatory and indiscriminate. We gather every Saturday at 10 am at the Medical Center Metro station at NIH in Bethesda. Opinions are our own.
Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social Health Equity Scientist, Bethesda Declaration signer, work at NIH, speak in my personal capacity, photo: AP/Jose Luis Magana
Also on:
https://www.instagram.com/jmnorton
https://www.tiktok.com/@jennajmn
https://linktr.ee/declarationsofdissent
T Revathe @revathe.bsky.social Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow @ the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior | PhD @ JNCASR, India | sociality, learning, allomaternal care, culture | Asian elephants & great apes | she/her
Anti-fascism, Anti-imperialism, Anti-colonialism, Anti-caste
Dr Emily Grossman 🧬✍️🎤✊🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️♾️🐱 @dremilygrossman.bsky.social Award-winning science communicator, bestselling author, TV personality & co-founder of Scientists for XR - making STEM fun, fighting misinformation & advocating for diversity.
AuDHD, she/her
2x TEDx speaker, 4x cat lover
www.emilygrossman.co.uk
@YaleEMD @yaleemd.bsky.social The Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at @YaleSPH. Posting about research, news, and all things infectious disease epidemiology 👩🔬🦠🔬🌎
Anne Rimoin @annerimoin.bsky.social Infectious Disease Epidemiologist. Science Communicator. Professor. Gordon-Levin Endowed Chair in Infectious Diseases & Public Heath @UCLAFSPH. Director/Founder #UCLADRC @UCLA_CGIH Insta: @annerimoin
Linsey Marr @linseymarr.bsky.social Engineering professor at Virginia Tech with expertise in air pollution, airborne microbes, nanotechnology. Avid recreational athlete.
Gabriella Veytsel @gabriella-veytsel.bsky.social Postdoc in TB genomics | Utah | UGA | UW. Epidemiology, phylodynamics, infectious disease 🦠🦝💧
John Kubale @johnkubale.bsky.social Infectious disease epidemiologist and research assistant professor at the University of Michigan @icpsr.bsky.social. Cat dad, data nerd, and Cincinnati sports fan. he/him
Infectious Disease Modelling Utrecht @idmutrecht.bsky.social 
Narmada Venkateswaran @narmadavenka.bsky.social she/her | Geography PhD Student at UNC-Chapel Hill | Interested in geographies of zoonoses, mobility, and pandemic preparedness | Views are my own
Shark Bay Dolphin Research Project @sb-dolphins.bsky.social Protecting the dolphins of Monkey Mia and Shark Bay, Australia through research | led by Georgetown University, University of Queensland, and Texas A&M University
Molly McEntee @mhfmcentee.bsky.social Postdoc at UC Santa Cruz | PhD @sb-dolphins.bsky.social
Civic Action Hub of Maryland @civicactionhubmd.bsky.social A small and mighty group of Maryland residents providing information and community in the service of civic action to fight fascism at https://civicactionhubmd.com
jgyou @jgyou.bsky.social Assistant professor of Statistics and Complex systems at UVM.
Lab: https://joint-lab.github.io
Grant C. McDonald @gcmcdon.bsky.social Sex, conflict, sociality, evolution, plovers. Associate Professor UVMB. Budapest. (he/him)
Guillaume Fournié @gfournie.bsky.social Veterinarian and epidemiologist at INRAE, UMR EPIA, France | Hon. Royal Veterinary College, UK
Michael Mina MD,PhD @michaelmina.bsky.social Epidemiologist, Immunologist, Physician
Previously professor at Harvard Med and Public Health
I work hard to provide clear communications around science/medicine that experts and non-experts can understand