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Ahmad Alomar @alomar95.bsky.social Microbiology PhD student at UOB | interested in understanding the evolutionary basis of antimicrobial resistance in enteric pathogens, alongside the philosophy and history of science.
Safi Rehman @safimicro.bsky.social Postdoc working on Salmonella infection biology in the Odendall Lab, at KCL, Department of Infectious Diseases.
Dave @davejeeping.bsky.social 🌞- N Nivi Pulavan @nivipulavan.bsky.social PhD Student in the Dimitriu Lab, University of st Andrews.
Donald Lee Chen @donaldlee678.bsky.social ✈️ Captain at Korean Air
📍 Based in Houston, Texas
Passionate about aviation and discovering new horizons.
Connecting the world, one flight at a time.
Junior Einsteins Science Club® @junioreinsteins.bsky.social Award-winning Science events for kids. Founded Ireland☘️ Scientist, Mum, speaker United Nations 🇺🇳 Fun, messy, screen-free hands-on, STEM fun Ireland 🇮🇪 UK 🇬🇧 Canada 🇨🇦 Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 Luxembourg 🇱🇺 Ukraine 🇺🇦 International Schools partnerships. Franchise.
PHTA Ltd @phtaltd.bsky.social The University of Birmingham's flagship facility dedicated to translational health and life sciences research. Category 2 wet and dry lab-office modules available now at the heart of Birmingham's health and life sciences district - www.phta.co.uk
Hubert Salvail @hubertsalvail.bsky.social Assistant Professor at University of Central Florida. Stressing bacteria, pesting pathogens and folding RNA. Foodie, music lover and traveller. Fier Québécois.
Vusumuzi Ngonidzashe Hove @vusumuzihove.bsky.social
Ph.D. Student, Pharmaceutical Sciences, @umaryland.edu School of Pharmacy 💊 | Medicinal Chemist👨🏾🔬🔬🧪| Oncology Researcher 💻🧬💉| @ubuffalo.bsky.social Alumnus🎓🦬 | @UBmenstennis🤘🏿🎾 | Zimbabwean Pro Tennis Player🎾🇿🇼 |#BillsMafia🏈🇺🇸
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Mehrzad Mohsseni Pour @drmehrzadmp.bsky.social M.D. | Master by Research in Microbiology and Infection, University of Birmingham
AMR-kleb/staph @s-rowe-conlon.bsky.social
Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social Professor of Translational Immunology • Infection & Immunity • Public Involvement and Engagement • Scientist and migrant • Superbugs
Rama Bhatia @drramabht.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Fellow with @bucknerlab.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social | Enthusiastic about microbial evolution & AMR | Crochet lover 🧶| She\Her| 🇮🇳🇬🇧
https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/multidefence/
https://priaan.etsy.com
Superbugs 🦠🔬🏫🧒🏽 @superbugs.bsky.social The microbial world in, on and around us • Health, disease, infection, hygiene, antibiotics, vaccines • Education, engagement, pop-up shops, escape rooms • Games, stories, info, activities, fun • English, Cymraeg, Gàidhlig, Gaeilge
www.superbugs.online
Giridhar Chandrasekharan @giridhar.bsky.social Post doctoral researcher at University of Illinois Chicago, Pharmaceutical science department.
@hobbslabmicro.bsky.social @hobbslabmicro.bsky.social
Digital Health Hub for Antimicrobial Resistance @dhh-amr.bsky.social Funded by The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
London Centre of Nanotechnology, UCL
www.digitalamr.org
Joana Sa Pessoa @jsapessoa.bsky.social Molecular microbiologist working on host-pathogen (K. pneumoniae) interactions at QUBelfast
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
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David Abuín Eichinger @davideichinger.bsky.social I enjoy playing with family, reading science fiction and history, gardening, board games, and hiking. I'm a father, husband, Navy veteran, and graduate student studying Robotics at George Mason University.
Mastodon: https://scicomm.xyz/@David
Antimicrobial Resistance and Microbiome Research @amr-research.bsky.social Antimicrobial Resistance and Microbiome Research Group, Maynooth University (Ireland). #antimicrobialresistance
Bevin McGeever - Research Consultant @bevin-mcg.bsky.social
Freya Allen @freyaallen.bsky.social Postdoc at the University of Birmingham | Evolution and AMR
UniLou @loolabelle4ever.bsky.social
Kyriaki Michailidou @kmichailidou.bsky.social Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Biostatistics at the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics (https://www.cing.ac.cy/en/about-us/biostatistics)
@chewapreecha.bsky.social @chewapreecha.bsky.social
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
Merve Suzan Zeden (Zeden Lab Galway) @mervesuzanzeden.bsky.social Research Ireland Pathway Research Fellow at University of Galway, #PhD from Imperial College London #microbiology #staphylococcus #AMR #ESKAPEs #metabolism #coffee #vegan #cypriot she/her
@roblaragione.bsky.social @roblaragione.bsky.social Professor of Veterinary Microbiology & Pathology, and Academic Lead for Strategic Partnerships, University of Surrey. Trustee for Humanimal Trust & Houghton Trust.
Miriam Hares @miribiome.bsky.social Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham focussing on the associations between the human gut microbiome and cognitive performance.
Phil Aldridge @wragbags.bsky.social Unemployed Microbiologist interested in #UTI #AMR and motility. I also swim (alot!). Views are my own...
Allison G @assemblerag.bsky.social Postdoc in the Banfield Lab @ UCBerkeley | PhD from McMasterU | Gut microbiome | Soil microbiome | Metagenomics | AMR
Amanda Rossiter-Pearson @amandarossiter.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Infection Biology and the Microbiome
Barbara Clough @babs-c.bsky.social Research Fellow in Chen Lab UoB, enjoying host-pathogen interaction, bacterial lipid remodelling, cell biology and imaging.
Harry Harvey @harryjharvey.bsky.social BRC Fellow at the University of Birmingham, studying oral biofilms and biomaterials! Fascinated by soils, fungi and all things microbes too! Terrain maker, fantasy reader, and LFC fanatic.
Rob Banes @rsb1213.bsky.social Scientist, artist, educator, chef, fisherman, outdoor enthusiast, bookworm, linguist, peacemaker, volunteer, etc. in no particular order.
Please don't ask because I will not date you, I will not send you money, and I will not be your disciple. Thanks.
Kévin Huguet @kevinhuguet.bsky.social Environmental & Molecular Microbiologist | Associate Professor @univlorraine.bsky.social, @LCPME_CNRS | Mobile Genetic Elements addict | HGT, Phenotypic Heterogeneity, AMR, Single Cell Analysis, Tn-seq
Jen L, PhD @drjkyl.bsky.social Executive Editor/Team Lead Open Access Science & Medicine Journals Sage Publishing
Opinions = mine
http://linkedin.com/in/jlovick-editor
#oncology #cancerresearch #medicine #biology #cardiology #neurology #microbiology #publichealth #healthcare
Charlie @charliejones17.bsky.social
AMIC @brunel-amic.bsky.social The Antimicrobial Innovations Centre (AMIC) at Brunel University, London | Focused on driving, understanding, and developing solutions to the antimicrobial resistance crisis | https://www.brunel.ac.uk/research/Centres/antimicrobial-innovations-centre
@thegeminipirate.bsky.social @thegeminipirate.bsky.social
MSK @janeadams70.bsky.social 🤷♀️Free Shrugs🤷♀️
****If you haven’t read what Project 2025 has in store for women-your wives, daughters, mothers, aunts-go read it!!!! You need to be informed and prepared****
UoB Advanced Research Computing delivering BEAR services @uob-bear.bsky.social Birmingham Environment for Academic Research (BEAR) is a suite of services for researchers (staff and students) including secure data storage, compute power, training, support and Research Software Engineers (RSEs). Oh and we love bears!
@danielsadot.bsky.social @danielsadot.bsky.social
Afifah Tasnim @afifahtasnim.bsky.social MRC DTP researcher at the Uni of Warwick working on natural product antivirals 🦠🧫💊
Timothy Hines @timothy-hines.bsky.social Film Director - 10 Days in a Madhouse (Christopher Lambert) Tomorrow's Today, (Kelly LeBrock), War of the World's The True Story, The Wilde Girls (Cali Scolari, Lydia Pearl Pentz, Teddy Smith) in theaters 2025, Annie Oakley, If You Only Knew.
Emma Doughty @emmadoughty.bsky.social Genomicist 🧬 at the intersection of bioinformatics 💻, epidemiology🫂 and global public health 🌍
LIFE Worldwide - fungal education @lifeworldwide.bsky.social Provider of global, free-to-access educational materials on fungal infections and medical mycology.
www.fungaleducation.org
www.microfungi.net
Ben Evans @benaevans.bsky.social
Yu Wan 万宇 @wanyuac.bsky.social Research fellow in medical bacteriology at the University of Liverpool in the UK, studying bacterial genomics, evolution, antimicrobial resistance, and infectious disease epidemiology using bioinformatics and computational biology.
Agnes Caruso @agnescaruso.bsky.social Geneticist, product manager & photographer #humangenetics #moleculardx #womenshealth #socialmedia. Opinions stated are my own. https://www.linkedin.com/in/agnieszkacaruso/
Luke Acton @lukeacton.bsky.social
Elze Hesse @elzehesse.bsky.social UKRI Future Leaders Fellow based at the University of Exeter, interested in understanding the ecology and evolution of public goods, cooperation and plant-microbe interactions in metal- polluted soils
Luis Bolaños @lbolanos68.bsky.social Postdoc
@UniofExeter
| Environmental microbiology | Views own | lbolanos68.github.io
Kerry J. Laing, PhD @kerryjl.bsky.social T cell immunologist, and erstwhile comparative immunologist, making the best of it. My NCBI: https://tinyurl.com/2uexwh74
#Scottish #FirstGen #WomanInSTEM
“Think of what is and don’t let what might have been distract you” — Robin Hobb
Zannah Salter @zannahdu.bsky.social Pathogen genomics, Ornithobacterium hominis, microbiome (and contamination of course!) at University of Cambridge
Aaron Pomerantz @aaronpomerantz.bsky.social Associate Director, Global Segment Marketing @ Oxford Nanopore Technologies - Microbiology, Infectious Disease, Synthetic Biology. The coolest discoveries are the ones you make. Tweets/views are my own.
Hugerth lab @h-mel.bsky.social Human molecular ecology lab at Uppsala University. Microbiota as a modifiable risk factor in women's health. Bloops by @luhugerth.bsky.social
@mntsrk.bsky.social @mntsrk.bsky.social
Hannah Tanner @microtanner.bsky.social Clinical scientist in microbiology (including virology)
Peter Coyle @pvcoyle.bsky.social Virologist Qatar - tracking the impact of respiratory virus waves and what we can glean from them. S Ed JMM.
Tony McChrystal @tonymac5.bsky.social Freshly parachuted in from the cesspit formerly known as Twitter. Still hoping Everton become less poo, loving science and all things biology.
Be kind or I'll batter yous all.
Dr. Dave Scott @greaterscott.bsky.social Structural biology and Biophysics at the University of Nottingham and Research Complex at Harwell (UK).
Academic and writer of papers and grants with modest success.
Happy collaborator and always available to chat science.
He/him.
Prof Cynthia Whitchurch FAA🏳️🌈 @cwhitch.bsky.social Microbiologist, interested in alternate bacterial lifestyles - cell wall deficiency, biofilms, AMR
Aram Swinkels @afswinkels.bsky.social
Joshua Newson @joshnewson.bsky.social Senior postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zürich. Microbiology, bacterial pathogenesis, host-pathogen interactions, antibiotic persistence, pathogen transmission. Aussie 🇦🇺 expat in Switzerland 🇨🇭. Formerly University of Melbourne.
Christophe Fraser's Group @christophraser.bsky.social Posts from the research group of Christophe Fraser, Professor and Head of Data, Epidemiology and Analytics at the Pandemic Science Institute, University of Oxford. Infectious disease epidemiology & evolution: HIV, COVID, outbreaks, AMR.
Nicole I. Jones @redleggirl.bsky.social PhD candidate studying Mycobacterium tuberculosis | Former Artillery Officer | Traded artillery rounds for sippy cups | Researching ways to outsmart one of humanity's oldest adversaries
@koribo.bsky.social @koribo.bsky.social
Mat Beale @typemat12.bsky.social Microbial (meta)genomics researcher @sangerinstitute
interested in genomic epidemiology and evolutionary dynamics of STIs/NTDs/AMR in complex samples. Views my own.
https://www.sanger.ac.uk/person/beale-mathew/
countmyvote @countmyvote.bsky.social Blue lifelong Democrat. Election tallys were tampered. They lied on the census. They staged fake assassination attempts. Save our democracy. #countmyvote
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here" (William Shakespeare, "The Tempest")
@turley20-mary.bsky.social @turley20-mary.bsky.social
Jamie Scriven @jamiescriven.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. Infectious Disease, University of Birmingham. Interests include Meningitis, Global Health, Immunology and Cycling
Robin May @robinmay9.bsky.social Professor at University of Birmingham, UK and Gresham College. Chief Scientific Adviser at the UK Food Standards Agency. Views very much my own (and occasionally someone else's too).
Mabi Behruznia @mabi-behruznia.bsky.social Research Fellow at UoB | Clinical Metagenomics
Rhiannon Lyon @rhiannonlyon.bsky.social Phage researcher at the University of Glasgow
@leahburgess.bsky.social @leahburgess.bsky.social
Hung-Ji Tsai @hjtsai.bsky.social Genome dynamics, drug resistance and host-fungal co-evolution at the University of Birmingham. 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇬🇧
Tsai Lab: https://sites.google.com/view/tsailab
Lilly Cummins @lillycummins.bsky.social she/her | Postdoc @ University of Oxford | bacterial evolutionary genomics, pangenomes, AMR | I believe in equality
Alejandra Ordonez @alejandra1909.bsky.social Research associate at @UoBbiosciences and PhD student at @BangorUni 👩🏻🔬 investigating oak microbial communities and #AcuteOakDecline 🧫🌳|🇨🇴 🇬🇧|✈️|🏊🏼
@stevebusby.bsky.social @stevebusby.bsky.social
Lucy Evans 🧫🦠👩🏻🔬 @biolucy.bsky.social Microbiology PhD student @ Uni of Birmingham, specialising in bacteriophage, AMR and the gut microbiome. Award winning disability campaigner 🏳️🌈 #ActuallyAutistic, #ADHD, she/her.
biolucy.co.uk
Marine C. Cambon @marccamb.bsky.social Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham 🇬🇧 working on synthetic communities of the oak microbiota and Acute Oak Decline 🌳🦠🍄🟫. She/her 🇫🇷
James McDonald @jamesemcdonald.bsky.social Prof. of microbial ecology at the University of Birmingham.
Decoding the tree microbiome 🌳🌲. He/him
Laura Hollis @laurahollis.bsky.social PhD Microbiology & Infection graduate, UoB | 🏳️🌈
Nick Loman @pathogenomenick.bsky.social Public health (meta)genomics & bioinformatics, Prof @unibirmingham.bsky.social, Director @imibirmingham.bsky.social & @climb.ac.uk
Institute of Microbiology and Infection @imibirmingham.bsky.social The Institute of Microbiology and Infection within the University of Birmingham is home to world-class research, from model-organism biology to translational bacteriology
Cara Press @presscara.bsky.social (she/her) Research Fellow @monashBDI in the Lithgow Lab. 👩🏼🔬
Chris Stewart @stewartlab.bsky.social Professor of Human Microbiome Research at Newcastle University.
Using 'omics and organoids to study diet-microbe-host interaction.
Microbiome; Microbiology; preterm infant; necrotising enterocolitis; inflammatory bowel disease; cancer.
He/Him
Maryse Berkhout @maryseberkhout.bsky.social Microbes & glycans 🤩 | Gut Microbial Ecology | Wageningen University, NL | https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=PhNYBVUAAAAJ&hl=nl&oi=ao
Uli Klümper @ulikluemper.bsky.social Microbial Ecologist @ TU Dresden
Focusing on Evolution, Ecology and Environmental dimensions of AMR & plasmids
Formerly @ DTU & UoExeter
He/him
@dllahr.bsky.social @dllahr.bsky.social Liberal scientist! Computational biology, software engineering, physical chemistry. Amateur astronomy.
Artistic slant @artisticslant.bsky.social Photographer , UBI enthusiast , Green energy . Please No DM .