@katejuergens.bsky.social @katejuergens.bsky.social Virology PhD Candidate at Harvard University
Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
Views my own
Rachel Reid @rachelrosereid.bsky.social Post Doc at Uni of Glasgow testing alterative hypotheses of ageing in wild crickets
PhD looking at the impacts of urbanisation on avian health
Vildan Acar @vildanacar.bsky.social PhD student at the University of East Anglia. Studying cognition and gut microbiota in wild tits.
Chuen @chuenlee.bsky.social Ecologist, Microbiomes, Bioinformatics
Postdoc at University of East Anglia
Eloise Newman @eloisenewman.bsky.social DPhil student at University of Oxford • Interested in social networks, behavioural ecology and microbiomes 🌱🦜 www.eloisenewman.co.uk
Ewan Pakula @ewanpakula.bsky.social MbyRes biological sciences, interested in theoretical population ecology
Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social A.v.Humboldt professor at the University of Mainz. Evolutionary ecologist. Runs a research group that once prompted the description "in this [coffee] room there's almost always someone who is at least partially fun". (Which we then translated into Latin.)
BES Evolutionary Ecology Group @bes-evolecol.bsky.social Highlighting the existence, diversity and vibrancy of the evolutionary ecology research community.
Join our committee! https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/evolutionary-ecology-group-vacancies/
10kLepGenomes @10klepgenomes.bsky.social | COST Action CA23122 |
Towards the generation and analysis of 10,000 genomes to address biodiversity loss, climate change, and evolution in European Lepidoptera🦋🧬
🌐 https://10klepgenomes.eu
Rowan J. Schley @rschley.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist enthralled by the superlative diversity of life in the tropics.
Speciation | Hybridisation | Genome evolution | Biogeography | Ecology
Danai Papageorgiou @danaipapageorgiou.bsky.social Behavioural ecologist interested in the social life of animals. Emmy Noether Group Leader at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Associate Editor in ProcB.
https://danaipapageorgiou.weebly.com/
David J Allen @virologydavid.bsky.social Virologist
🎓Associate Professor at University of Surrey
🧑🏻🔬 #RNAviruses #virusemergence #diagnostics #virushost
Also me: 🏊♂️🥘🗺🎧📖📷 | He/him 🏳️🌈
Personal account, own views
Jessica Foley @jessicafoley14.bsky.social Postdoc at Tufts University studying sociality and ageing in fruit flies (previously 🦋). Evolution of ageing, insect neurobiology, and creative science communication. she/her
Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA) @aria-research.bsky.social Empowering scientists to reach for the edge of the possible
www.aria.org.uk
Axel O.G. Hoarau, MSc PhD @axel-hoarau.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher - University of Pennsylvania
Wildlife disease ecology 🦠🦌🦇
Cédric Moisy @cedric-moisy.bsky.social Research scientist 🍇🖥️🌱🦠🔬
Plant Pathology | 3D+t imaging | MRI | Xrays tomography | IA | Image Analysis 🔎☢️🧲
Trunk diseases | Fungal Pathogens | Genetics | Molecular Biology | Grapevine | Breeding & Selection
French Wine and Vine Institute, France 🇫🇷
Lee Henry @henrylabsymbio.bsky.social Exploring endosymbiosis at Queen Mary University of London. Associate professor. Symbiosis, ecology, evolution, microbiology http://henry-lab.co.uk
UKVF.bsky.social @ukvf.bsky.social UK Virome Forum | 5 - 6 October 2026 | ARC Glasgow, UK
Bringing together researchers from across the UK using genomics to study viral communities in animals, humans, and the environment 🦠
Registration and more details: tinyurl.com/ukvf-2026
@labofshort.bsky.social @labofshort.bsky.social 
C. Brandon Ogbunu @cbo.bsky.social Scientist + Humanist + Pugilist.
"Tip your hat; pop the chain; short Joe Louis; then wipe his nose with the hook. It's that simple." (c) Brother Naazim Richardson
https://linktr.ee/chike98
Irish Coleen Asin @icaasin.bsky.social PhD student at UTokyo
🧐 curiosity-driven
🧬🦟🦠 here for the viruses, mosquitoes, and everything in between
Lera Miles @leramiles.bsky.social Nature and climate. Work @unepwcmc.bsky.social on nature-based solutions for climate change mitigation. She/her. Sheffield/Cambridge. Views my own.
Corrado Minetti @konradphd.bsky.social Epidemiology lecturer at the Open University, UK. Vector-borne diseases, molecular and genomic epidemiology, parasites. #LSTM and #ECDC #EUPHEM alumnus. Views are my own.
Moritz Schüssler @moritzschussler.bsky.social Post-Doc in Marco Binder lab @DKFZ Heidelberg. Host-pathogen interaction of Anelloviruses with special interest in nucleic acid sensing.
Kirsty MacLeod @kjmacleod.bsky.social Behavioural and evolutionary ecologist, lecturer in Bangor, Wales - sociality, life history, stress, thermal ecology, mostly in reptiles macleodlab.weebly.com
@hcastelan.bsky.social @hcastelan.bsky.social PhD in science interested in the evolutionary dynamics of viruses, metagenomics
https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=HlIT1ekAAAAJ&hl=en
@khlile.bsky.social @khlile.bsky.social 
flyroom.net @flyroom.net Modern stock management for Drosophila research labs — track stocks, plan crosses, and collaborate across institutions. Made by @giorgio.gilest.ro
https://www.flyroom.net
Casey Bergman @caseybergman.bsky.social Dad, bioinformatician, ex-expat. Currently working on transposon bioinformatics & infectious disease genomics.
Crispin Holloway @crispinhollway.bsky.social Technician, Life Sciences, University of Sussex.
Old Twitter account: https://x.com/CTRH?t=EBuuvj96ffsMe7z-dHrezw&s=09
Jana Batovska @mozztacular.bsky.social Research scientist interested in mosquitoes, infectious disease, nanopore seq and metagenomics. Views are my own.
Mike Mwanga @mmwanga.bsky.social Bioinformatics | Virus evolution| Epidemiology | Data Visualization
Dr. Wen-Juan Ma | 马文娟 @wenjuanma84.bsky.social Evolution, Ecology & Genomics | ERC-StG FROGWY | Assistant Professor | AE: JEB, Heredity |🇨🇳🇳🇱🇨🇭🇬🇷🇳🇱🇺🇸🇧🇪 | chasing two toddlers| runner | #newPI
Ella Sieradzki @sieravirus.bsky.social Assistant professor @ Aarhus University | ERC starting 2024 | Microbial/viral ecology | crazy cat lady |
@EMG_Lyon @jemersonmicro @UCBerkeley @Firestone_lab @BanfieldLab @JedFuhrman 🇮🇱🇺🇦
Szymek Drobniak @szymekdr.bsky.social evolution & ecology: colour, quant gen, meta-analysis, biostatistics | designer | writer+poet | R | sci comm+sciart | analog photography | birds 🦆🦉||UNSW Sydney & JU Kraków | he/him 🏳️🌈🇪🇺🇵🇱🇦🇺 szymekdr.wordpress.com Pubs: https://bit.ly/SzymekDrScholar
Alison Pischedda @alisonpischedda.bsky.social Assistant Prof at #PUI
Evolution | Behavior | Genetics | Flies | Coffee | Cats.
#FirstGen, she/her, 🇨🇦🇺🇸. Opinions my own.
pischeddalab.com
Thorsten Müller @thmllr.bsky.social Biochemist fascinated by visualizing biological processes with the finest spatiotemporal detail; Understand the human immune system to guide novel approaches for combating viral infections and cancer; Postdoc at Cissé Lab / MPI-IE
Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social 🎙️ Critically Speaking with Dr. Therese Markow:
A podcast at the intersection of science and society.
Listen at https://pulselink.bio/criticallyspeakingpodcast
Eileen Furlong @eileen-furlong.bsky.social Head of Genome Biology Dept @EMBL,
Scientist, Principal investigator, Professor
Exploring genome regulation during development,
and everything to do with enhancers.
3D genome, chromatin topology,
cell_fate, embryonic Development,
Single Cell genomics
Stije Leopold 🦠🔬💊 @stijeleopold.eurosky.social Infectious Disease Physician and Clinical Researcher #EmergingInfections #AcuteRespiratoryViruses #AdaptivePlatformTrials #DrugRepurposing #100DaysMission #UniversityofOxford #MORU Views are my own https://www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/team/stije-leopold
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.
Fernando Rossine @fernpizza.bsky.social Professionally playing with plasmids!
Postdoc-ing until someone here scouts me for a PI position ;)
Princeton EEB -> Harvard Medical School -> Soon ETH Zürich!
Sam J Wilson @samjwilsonphd.bsky.social Virologist. Professor. Cambridge, UK
https://www.immunology.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-sam-wilson
https://tinyurl.com/samjwilsonscholar
Anyi Mazo-Vargas @anyimv.bsky.social Assistant Professor at @DukeBiology. #NewPI #EvoDevo, gene regulation, adaptive traits, #Wnt signaling 🦋. 🧬🔬🧪. She/her/Ella
openRxiv @openrxiv.bsky.social Nonprofit advancing discovery through rapid, free sharing of scientific communications. New home of bioRxiv and medRxiv.
Gerardo Fracasso @gfracasso.bsky.social Evolutionary Biologist mainly interested in host-(ecto)parasite interactions, ecology and behaviour.
Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow (UKRI Funding Guarantee) working on HosTiLyme project...of birds, ticks and their microbiome!
Abheepsa Nanda @abheepsa.bsky.social Currently PhD student at Yale EEB
Previously Master's in Ecology and Evolution @ethz.ch | IISc 2019-23
Microbial ecology and evolution with a sprinkle of math
Dr Rachael Miller (Harrison) @drrmiller.bsky.social Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow, University of Exeter | Cognition & Conservation | Comparative Psychology | @themanybirds.bsky.social Co-Founder | 🪶🐦👶🐵🧠 | Website: www.drrachaelmiller.com
Pat Heslop-Harrison @pathh.bsky.social Professor in Agricultural Genetics, University of Leicester, UK. 
Rachel M. Wheatley @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social Evolutionary microbiologist interested in AMR & microbiomes 🦠 UKRI Future Leaders Fellow & Group Leader @ Queen’s University Belfast. she/her. Ex-GB athlete 🇬🇧
Nick Wybouw @wybouw.bsky.social Evolutionary geneticist working on endosymbiosis, herbivory, and reproductive isolation - Wybouw Lab @ Ghent University
Maayan Levy, PhD @maayanlevy.bsky.social Assistant Prof. at Stanford & Innovation Investigator at @arcinstitute.org | Studying metabolites and their impact on physiology and disease 🦠🧪
www.arcinstitute.org/labs/levylab
Mera L🪬 @mlicc1701.bsky.social Virologist in progress. Duke University 💙😈 alumn, current Regional Biocontainment Lab research analyst. Forever repping the Sheahan Lab at CVRG (y'know, at that other blue 🩵🐏 school). Pop punk millennial. she/they. ✡️•🏳️🌈•🖖 Views are my own, not Duke's.
Aaron Embry @aaronembry01.bsky.social Graduate Student at UTSW - Co-Mentors @AltoLab_Neal , @GammonLab / Arboviruses 🦟 Bacterial Effectors 🦠 Innate Immunity
Felix Streicher @virolicious.bsky.social Postdoc @ Charité Berlin | arboviruses & innate immunity | Uni Heidelberg / Institut Pasteur Paris / BIF alumnus | 🇩🇪🇰🇪🇨🇴🇫🇷
Butterfly Conservation @savebutterflies.bsky.social The official account for UK wildlife charity Butterfly Conservation. Saving butterflies, moths and our environment. 🦋
https://butterfly-conservation.org/
Cover photo 📷: Pale Tussock by Julia Martin
Chelsea Higgins @chelseahiggins.bsky.social Evolutionary Ecologist & Geneticist interested in multi-host pathogen systems, from 🐌 to 🦠🦟. Current PhD Candidate at UBC, studying the impact of climate on the evolutionary ecology of arboviruses
she/her | Views are my own
Chen Zhang | 🇨🇳 🇯🇵 🇳🇱 🇺🇸... @alex03-cz.bsky.social Microbiologist | Molecular Microbiology | Eco-physiology | Virology | Microbiome | Co-Evolution 4 Fit
https://scholar.google.nl/citations?hl=en&user=4cUcmfMAAAAJ
Steve Portugal @sjportugal.bsky.social Scientist. Physiologist, Zoologist, Ornithologist - Assoc Prof at The University of Oxford. Associate Ed at RSocPublishing 🏳️🌈🇪🇺🐦🎾
Katharine Kite @katharinekite.bsky.social Ecologist - keen on things watery, fresh & salt #seabirds #waders #cetaceans #pollution - 1st priority #ClimateEmergency #EcologicalEmergency
ISI - ICMUB's department of chemistry for health @icmub-isi.bsky.social ICMUB (institut de chimie moléculaire de l'Université de Bourgogne)
Université Bourgogne Europe / CNRS / Dijon, France
https://icmub.ube.fr/
Angela Cassidy @angecass.bsky.social Undisciplined scholar. Researching science, society+policy; humans-animals-environments; #OneHealth #microbes #STS #HistSTM #scicomm.
Author, 'Vermin, Victims and Disease: British Debates over Badgers and Bovine TB'
Denise Wawman @denisewawman.bsky.social Bird ringer. Birder. UK Hippoboscidae Recorder (flat flies/louse flies/keds). Former NHS GP, studying flat flies & keds role as vectors and avian diseases. Bird related side projects. Natural history. Based in Oxford and on Exmoor.
Hiroshi Arai @haraipapilio.bsky.social I am a postdoctoral researcher studying insects and microorganisms
Mark Brown @markjfbrown.bsky.social Bees, ants, parasites, and pollinator conservation for work. Professor and Director of the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge University. Nature, opera, fantasy novels, family, and reading for play 🐜 🐝 🦠 🏳️🌈
Max Reuter @maxreuter.bsky.social Evolutionary geneticist at University College London, Editor-in-Chief @JEvBio.bsky.social
Cristian Román-Palacios @cromanpa.bsky.social Asst Prof @ University of Arizona. I study macroevolution, phylogenetics, and biodiversity loss using large datasets. PI @ datadiversitylab.github.io. Photography, pottery, self-hosting, and Latin American history on the side
Seth Bordenstein @symbionticism.bsky.social Scientist, Huck Professor: Microbiome, Virome, Symbiosis, Evolution, Genetics, Phylosymbiosis, Holobiont, Wolbachia, Phage | Director of One Health Microbiome Center @psumbiome.bsky.social | SciEd: @wolbachiaproj.bsky.social | @holobiontbiology.bsky.social
Leon Müller @leo-theo.bsky.social PhD Student - Working on social immunity @unibt @steigerlab | Molecular Biologist at heart | burying beetles & zebrafish | Talk to me about movies and games
https://linktr.ee/leonmllr
Victoria Peechatt @vpeechatt.bsky.social PhD graduate assistant at the University of Nevada, Reno studying chemically mediated plant - caterpillar - natural enemy interactions 🌱🐛🪰🦠
(she/hers)
writer | dancer | philomath
Greg Albery @gfalbery.bsky.social Behavioural ecologist studying a hotter and sicker world. Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin // he/him // www.gregalbery.me
Ben Ashby @bnashby.bsky.social Professor in Math @ SFU, British Columbia | Scientific Director of PIPPS | Research: Eco-evolutionary theory ecoevotheory.com | Fun: hiking, biking, running, hockey...
Emily B. Smith @emilbsmith.bsky.social 5th year PhD candidate in the Morran Lab at Emory University. Evolutionary theory, experimental evolution, mating system evolution, evolution of sex, host-parasite interactions, coevolution, coinfections, C. elegans. Looking for post-docs opportunities.
Dr. Aurelia Strauß @aureliastrauss.bsky.social Behavioural Ecologist | MSCA fellow @ UCalgary & Exeter | Guest researcher @ RUG | Career advisor @ EthoGes
Brendah Nyaguthii @bnwild.bsky.social Kenyan—Born and raised| Bsc and Msc in Wildlife Management and Conservation—University of Eldoret| Phd student, Farine Lab| Australian National University
I study the social behaviour of white-winged choughs (Corcorax melanorhamphos)
Peter Grindrod @petergrindrod.bsky.social Research Leader in Meteoritics & Planetary Science @NHM_London. Occasional cricket bat maker. he/him
Hollie French @holliefrench.bsky.social Postdoc at School of Biodiversity, One Health & Vet Med, University of Glasgow. Wildlife pathogen genomics 🦇 🦝 + disease ecology
Nanopore - Phylogenetics - Landscape epidemiology
Diego Soler-Tovar @dsolert.bsky.social DVM, MSc, PhD (c). Interested in Disease Ecology, Biogeography, and Zoonoses. Assistant Professor at @agrosalle @unisalle Tolkien, Batman and Star Wars Fan.
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
brackneylab @brackneylab.bsky.social virus-vector interactions, mosquitoes, ticks dengue
Alain Kohl @alainkohlvirology.bsky.social Chair in Virology and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
Arboviruses, emerging viruses, viruses of parasites!
Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social Epidemiology PhD, MPH --- interested in infectious disease dynamics and novel surveillance systems
Andreas Prokop @poppi62.bsky.social Using #Drosophila to decipher the cell biology of #neurons during development and #neurodegeneration - #scicomm initiative - https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/andreas.prokop
Nicolas Galtier @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social Molecular evolution and publication ethics at ISEM (CNRS Montpellier)
Katie Millar @katiemillar.bsky.social PhD Researcher of the Medfly microbiota at UEA.
• Researching host-microbe symbioses in Tephritid flies.
• Love statistics, modelling and programming #RStats.
García Knight Lab @levelab.bsky.social Laboratorio de Enfermedades Virales Emergentes. Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Pathoplexus @pathoplexus.org An open-source pathogen sequence database dedicated to equitable sharing, transparent governance, & empowering global public health.
pathoplexus.org
Steve Russell @steverus.bsky.social Life-long fly biologist, vinyl junkie, Head, Department of Genetics in Cambridge
Nardus Mollentze @nardusmollentze.bsky.social 
Torre Lavelle @torrelavelle.bsky.social PhDing sph.yale.edu & viralemergence.org. Climate change, emerging infectious diseases, biodiversity loss. Probably thinking about dogs
Erica McAlister @flygirlnhm.bsky.social Dipterist, Entomologist, presenter, author, museum lover
Principal Curator, Flies and fleas, Natural History Museum, London, UK
The Royal Society @royalsociety.org The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.
https://royalsociety.org/
Riccardo Pianezza @rpianezza.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at Gregor Mendel Institute, Vienna. Transposable elements, bioinformatics, genome evolution
Nancy Moran @nancy-moran.bsky.social Research biologist and lover of nature, mostly bacteria, insects and (lately) birds
Hailey Robertson @haileyrobertson.bsky.social PhD student @yalesph.bsky.social studying viruses, vectors, and climate change | Yale Planetary Solutions Fellow | NSF Graduate Research Fellow | https://viralemergence.org | Previous: Georgetown, Talus Analytics, USC | (she/her)
Judy Li (李静迪) @jingdi.bsky.social Passionate about wildlife microbiomes and disease emergence. NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow 🇨🇦UBC Zoology with @kayla-king.bsky.social, PhD 🇬🇧Oxford Zoology, BS 🇨🇳NPU. #poetry #art #coding #hiking lovers. #FirstGen #OpenScience. She/Hers.
Greg Walter @gmwalter.bsky.social Ecological and evolutionary genetics, mainly with plants
Lecturer & ARC Future Fellow, University of Tasmania
Otherwise cycling, camping and birding!
Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social Assoc Prof, Evolutionary Genomics, Quantitative/Population Genetics, Yeast, Experimental Evolution, Hybridization, @Stockholm University https://stelkenslab.com/
Jo Rhodes @drjorhodes.com Yoga bunny. Cake guru. Scientist by day. Assistant Professor at @unibirmingham.bsky.social
Interested in fungal ‘omics and One Health, evolutionary biology and popgen, epidemiology and promoting women in STEM
🏳️🌈