Ryan Hisner @ryanhisner.bsky.social Teacher. Learner. Investigating mysteries of SARS-CoV-2 evolution. LongDesertTrain on another platform.
Lilith Grace Toitū Te Tiriti @lilithgrace.bsky.social Me again. What’s one more social medium? Chronically ill artist who also writes. Loves cats, jokes, social justice, clouds. She/her. Aotearoa. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ally.
dread pirate roberts @dreadpiraterobbers.bsky.social Canadian Socialist in Alberta
I <3 paying taxes so you can watch Heated Rivalry & see a doctor.
#LandBack #EveryChildMatters #freepalestine #firetheUCP #StandUpForScience
Kevin Champagne-Jorgensen @kcjorgensen.bsky.social Postdoc in the Gommerman lab at the University of Toronto. Fascinated by microbiota-neuro-immune communication | PhD from McMaster University. @kcjorgensen on Twitter.
kororā @davejac.bsky.social Mostly warhammer dwarves and space wolves and bikes with occasional chemistry trains soil and groundwater contamination waste policy and Waikato rugby nationalism frequently defeated by the nespresso machine
he/him
Kirikiriroa, Aotearoa/New Zealand
Mike Gemmell @vitexlucens.bsky.social Apanthropist. Father. Papa. Knitter. Pupuhi. PhD. Botanist. Pākehā. This sound does not subscribe. Tenei haruru kaore ohauru https://soundcloud.com/detunedradio
Jonathan Marshall @jmarshallnz.bsky.social Statistician in Papaioea, Aotearoa. #rstats, #datascience.
Tania @tkdunedin.bsky.social Quite fond of (in no particular order) DNA, food, cycling, crafting, reading and some other things. She/her.
Jennifer Ward @jenospeno.bsky.social Tāmaki Makaurau based, ex-filmo, trying to live sustainably in the city & celebrating Te Rimutahi, the new civic space at 254 Ponsonby Road 💚. 254ponsonbyrd.org.nz
Born at 317ppm.
Lone Bacterium 🌻 @lonebacterium.bsky.social Perennially burnt out internet goblin. Research-adjacent. Anti-hype.
she/her
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
Peter Forbes @heliconiuscydno.bsky.social
David Welch @welchdavid.bsky.social Phylo, dynamics, epidemiology, data sci, computational biology
University of Auckland
Mike Bunce @buncedna.bsky.social Genetics, eDNA, biodiversity - aspires to make a difference via science. Views expressed are my own.
Karen James @kejames.bsky.social Environmental geneticist & outdoorswoman into eDNA, botany, evolution, space, sci-comm, skiing, Outlander & kindness • auntie • cat mom • she/her
“I would teach my feet to fly”
Banner art by @truelovebirch@bsky.social
📍Unceded Wabanaki land (aka Maine)
KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social
I'm a Wikimedian and I run the NZThesisProject from Ōtepoti Dunedin in Aotearoa New Zealand. OpenRefine, Wikidata, Wikipedia... all the Wikis!
Inventor of WikiWashiTape. According to skuas, I am too big to carry away and too alive.
Carl Mesarich @carlmesarich.bsky.social Molecular Plant Pathologist and Associate Professor at Massey University, New Zealand | Effector Biology | Apple Scab | Tomato Leaf Mould | Kauri Dieback |
Alexei Drummond @alexeidrummond.bsky.social Professor of Computational Biology, University of Auckland. Atheist, Rock climber, Trail runner. Co-creator of BEAST1 and BEAST2. Founder of Geneious.
Cilla Wehi @cillaw.bsky.social FBES. Here for isotopes, curiosity, community. Also human ecological relationships. Biologist. Director Te Pūnaha Matatini national centre of research excellence in complex systems, AoNZ. Hapainga te reo Māori. https://priscillawehi.com
Neil Gemmell @profgemmell.bsky.social Geneticist. Pure + applied science mostly with a biodiversity bent. Inordinately fond of 🧬 🐟 🦭 🐋 and beer. Gaffs/typos due to lack of coffee, time, and/or mind-altering parasites. Eternal optimist. Rebel just for kicks.
Jana Sperschneider @jsperschneider.bsky.social Senior Research Scientist @ CSIRO. Bioinformatics, genomics, plant-pathogen interactions. EffectorP, machine learning, RNA. https://people.csiro.au/s/j/jana-sperschneider
Rob Lanfear @roblanfear.bsky.social phylogenetics, molecular evolution, some genomes, kids, dogs, and eclectic hobbies none of which I am much good at but I think for me that's the point
Simon J. Greenhill @simongreenhill.bsky.social I study how languages and cultures evolve. Primarily with phylogenies and other assorted computational methods. Based at @Biology_UoA. Never met a language phylogeny or a cultural phylogeny I didn't like. #phylolinguistics
Tammy Steeves @testeeves.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Prof at UC in Aotearoa New Zealand 🇳🇿 #WearsManyHats #JugglesManyBalls incl Conservation Genomics #ConSERTeam🧬 IUCN SSC Conservation Translocation Specialist Group🕊️ PI @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social #KindnessInScience🔬 Opinions are my own.
Miranda @mfn42.bsky.social PhD student working on avian influenza | Interested in all things viruses & antiviral immunity | she/her 🔬🧬🦠
Josette Schoenmakers @josetteschoenma.bsky.social
Joep de Ligt 🧬 PhD @joepdel.bsky.social Lead data @HartwigMedicalFoundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Honorary fellow @OtagoUniversity. Active in the field of Bioinformatics and Genetics with a focus on human diseases. Lover of nature and (book) nerd. he/him
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0348-419X
Delphine. A. @coalescent.bsky.social Evolutionary Biologist (PhD), with a significant interest in island biology 🏝 (Main tools: Phylo and Pop Genetics) - Paris, France.
🙆♀️ Not an AI. Just one dumb woman.
Catherine Grueber @cegrueber.bsky.social Conservation biologist at The University of Sydney using population genetics, statistics and collaboration to help preserve biodiversity. Views my own.
Ceridwen (Crid) Fraser @ceridwenfraser.bsky.social Scientist, dreamer, kelp-lover. Evolution, biogeography, ecology; marine, Antarctic... sometimes even terrestrial and freshwater. Professor in marine science at the University of Otago, in beautiful Aotearoa.
Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social Scientist and science writer from New Zealand.
BioinfoTools on Twitter.
Traveller. Cycle touring.
More later - I really need to get to that eh? 😄
KoBettyAhau ♥️🤍🖤 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @kobettyahau.bsky.social Chic cat lady - ngai Aotearoa ahau. Social Justice is my bag she/her #NZ/Aotearoa 🇳🇿
Caren Wilton @carenwilton.bsky.social Editor, writer, oral historian. Pākehā living in Wairarapa, Aotearoa. She/her. Old lefty bisexual feminist. Cats, gardens, art, books, knitting, human rights. Kia kaha te reo Māori, toitū te Tiriti. Covid isn't over. AI is a scam.
Meera @gruntleme.bsky.social Late-model Gen X. Ecologist (especially fond of plants and insects), teacher, abolitionist. Transplant from Singapore to Duwamish land (Seattle). Not sure how much I will be here.
(She/her)
Susan T @susanmicro.bsky.social Clinical Microbiologist 🧫🦠
Tāmaki Makaurau 💚💚
Cat lady 😏
Aotearoa NZ
Nathan Kenny @spiralcleavage.bsky.social Kia ora! Lecturer at the University of Otago, Rutherford Fellow. Interested in 🐚🦕🪱🦂🧽 & 🧬. More: http://idealabotago.com
Shaun Hendy @hendysh.bsky.social Physicist, complex systems, ex-COVID modeller, he/him
Author of "The Covid Response" https://www.bwb.co.nz/books/the-covid-response
James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social Ebikes, data, medicines, behaviour change, communication, wine, food.
Alleged health psychologist. 🇳🇿 in 🇮🇪
Lead of @iscycle.bsky.app
www.ajamesgreen.com
www.iscycle.ie
Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles @siouxsiew.bsky.social The other “Susie” Wiles AKA NZ’s “COVID lady/Pink Terror”. Microbiologist & science communicator, lover of bioluminescence & Lego. Becoming slightly obsessed with reusable period products despite being perimenopausal. She/her.
Jemma Geoghegan @jemmageoghegan.bsky.social Professor at University of Otago, NZ; Webster Chair in Virology; Rutherford Discovery Fellow. I like viruses and evolution.
disgraced wellness blogger @dryobbo.bsky.social Dinosaur.
Sophie Fern @sophiefern.bsky.social I read poetry to rare lizards.
Sarah @destructokea.bsky.social
She/her, pākehā, ngai Aotearoa.
Veronika Meduna @veronikameduna.bsky.social Sci/env/health editor The Conversation | writer Science, Nature, Eos, Guardian, Nautilus, NZ Geographic, NZ Listener | Books Science on Ice http://bit.ly/2YsvVxv Towards A Warmer World http://bit.ly/3ObP2Er
Kate @knhannah.bsky.social Feminist/co-captain Team Hannah. Here for hope & justice-building. While it gets better, I'll make dinner. She/her.
These are most definitely my personal opinions.
Dacia Herbulock @quarrion.bsky.social Director of Science Media Centre New Zealand
Carlos Cordero @felisnigelus.bsky.social
Rhys White @rhystwhite.bsky.social Scientist | Turning #Genomics into intelligence | Tracking pathogen evolution, diversity, & spread | Welsh expat in New Zealand | Formerly The University of Queensland
Te Ara Paerangi Com - Research Advocacy Capability @te-ara-paerangi.community We are a community of people working together for a better collective future using research, advocacy, and capability building. We are based in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Come join us. https://te-ara-paerangi.community
Posts are my own opinions - not of any org
Sarah Shering @sazp.bsky.social Real life human, living in Aotearoa since 2018.
Shima @shima4life.bsky.social Island dweller
Bart Janssen @bjjanssen.bsky.social Husband, Plant developmental biologist, property of one cat, WoW player, wine drinker
@bjjanssen@mastodon.nz
Google Scholar: https://tinyurl.com/y9reuqeb
ORCID 0000-0002-5871-2831
Sage Anastasi @sageanastasi.bsky.social Pākehā, dream avatar of gender magic. PhD student working on political & social polarisation, trying to make data scientists read Laclau. Opinions mine. he/him 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Mastodon, where I am not active but there are DMs: @sageanastasi@mastodon.nz
EchoingTales @echoingtales.bsky.social 🎶 They're so pretty with their button-up shirts
They're so pretty, it hurts 🎶
Morag McKenzie @moragmck.bsky.social Woke, cat loving feminist. Tangata Tiriti. Maker from Ōtepoti, Aotearoa.
Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social Ko Māwhera te kāinga. Ko Kevin tōku ingoa. Ex-Retired, Pākehā, gay, vegetarian, conservationist, public health advocate. Chief of Staff for the Green Party co-leaders’ office in Parliament, but this is my personal account.
Darryl Carey @darrylcarey.bsky.social Kia Ora B’sky. I’m an architect & health designer in Tamaki Makaurau, Aotearoa. Politics, art, literature, design, music, cricket, whisky & craft beer will all do it for me. He/him
Bevan Weir @rhizobia.nz New Zealand mycology / bacteriology scientist at Manaaki Whenua working on 🍄 #fungi and 🦠 #bacteria taxonomy mostly using 🧬 on 🧫. Hobbies: #fountainpens, #cycling, #homebrew, #photography, and #archery website: https://rhizobia.nz/about
Sereana Naepi @sereananaepi.bsky.social Higher education researcher interested in how we can change our education and research systems to better serve everybody.
Nat Forsdick @natforsdick.bsky.social Conservation genomics researcher @ MWLR in Aotearoa New Zealand 🧬🐦🐸🐛🌿 | Bird Nerd & President @birdsnewzealand.bsky.social | Secretary @scboceania.bsky.social | pākehā | she/her 🏳️🌈 Opinions are my own.
www.researchgate.net/profile/Natalie-Forsdick/research
Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz Caffeinated Hypermediated Photographer. Sad devotion to Nikon, typefaces, Everton, Canucks, UK indie & NZ roots music. Results may vary depending on caffeine & alcohol intake. Toitū Te Tiriti. 323ppm
https://paullecomtephoto.nz
Oliver Maclaren @omaclaren.bsky.social I use mathematics, computation, statistics, & machine learning to help think about biology, engineering, & other things. University of Auckland, NZ. Research: http://tinyurl.com/ojmscholar, Teaching: https://tinyurl.com/ojmteaching
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
Health Nerd @gidmk.bsky.social Epidemiologist. Research Fellow. Doctor of Spreadsheets. Writer (Slate, TIME, Guardian, etc). PhD, MPH. Host of senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him. Find my writing on Substack and Medium.
Ed Yong @edyong209.bsky.social Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him
📷 Canon R6mkii + RF 800mm
Edyong.me
John Hart @farmgeek.bsky.social I’m quite fond of trees.
You can DM me the old fashioned way on farmgeek at gmail dot com
Whakaoriori Masterton, Aotearoa
Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social Scientist/nerd. Human to Lilja the floof. Allegedly pissed off too many men on twitter
Joanne Hewitt @joannehewittnz.bsky.social Interested in viruses especially those in poo!! Mainly norovirus, HAV, SARS-CoV-2, polio, rotavirus. Food and environmental virology. Wastewater surveillance. Love a good RT-qPCR & cell culture. Should read books. Reluctant parkrun runner. Wife & mum. NZ.
Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social Biostatistician. Baritone. He/Him.
Product of more than one country.
May contain nuts.
Anne Wyllie @annewyllie.bsky.social Kiwi. Pneumococcologist. "Spit Queen".
Dr Tara McAllister @taramcallister.bsky.social Māmā, gardener, scholar-activist, kairangahau, scientist, writer | Indigenous, Māori, Te Aitanga a Māhaki | Nōku anake ēnei whakaaro
Dr Jan Eldridge @astro-jje.bsky.social NZ theoretical astrophysicist studying exploding binary stars. Sci-fi addict, feminist, non-binary femme. Pronouns: she/her/they. All views my own.
Nicola Gaston @nicgaston.bsky.social Where do we go from here? The planet is a gunboat in a sea of fear
There is, however, such a thing as society
Richard Easther @rjme.bsky.social Father, husband, scientist, Kiwi diaspora returnee, prof @aucklanduni.bsky.social - opinions mine. He/Him
Science: https://cosmology.auckland.ac.nz
Blog: https://excursionset.com
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/excursionset
Farah @kiwifarah.bsky.social Data & longform journalist RNZ In Depth. Trying hard to get the word 'minging' in a headline. Failing. Email: farah.hancock@protonmail.com
Lew @lewsos.bsky.social Chopper of water, carrier of wood, reader of the fucking article
Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social Journalist, rider of bikes, cooker of food, seeker of joy. Dad-DJ. Cosmopolitan.
Emily Harvey @emilynz.bsky.social Enthusiastic about mathematical modelling, playing with data, maps, being in the wilderness, and evidence-informed policy.
Dr Lucy Stewart @lcsnz.bsky.social Fan of weird microbes, Pākehā nō Pōneke, dilettante crafter, co-President @nzscientists.bsky.social. All opinions my own etcetera.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7352-3329
Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social Digger for Herald Business and ICIJ. Disclaimer: Views my own yadda yadda. Signal 64211931011
Rob Cruickshank @bugblokenz.bsky.social Lecturer @UCNZ | entomologist | ex-librarian | museum junkie | phylogeny nerd | urban iNaturalist | nemophilist (woodland enthusiast) | bug hotelier | maker | cyclist | drummer | koumpounophobe | INFJ | born 322 ppm CO2 | he/him | there's other stuff too
Te Pūnaha Matatini @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social The Aotearoa New Zealand Centre of Research Excellence for complex systems. From complexity to possibility.
Michael Plank @michaelplanknz.bsky.social Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Canterbury, NZ. Fellow @royalsocietynz.bsky.social. Math modelling in biology and epidemiology. Bicycles make the world a better place. He/him
https://www.math.canterbury.ac.nz/~m.plank/
ᴀɴᴅʀᴇw вıԍԍs @biggsky.bsky.social NZ Dad, loves Melbourne, lived in Dubai, explored the Pyramids, camped the Gobi, walked a Great Wall, slinged in Singapore, toured Thailand & journeyed Japan...