Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social Views my own, but you can borrow them if you feel so inclined. Anti-disease. Negentropy hunter. Kosmotropophile. Big Nerd Energy. “A homework person.” Fun at parties. Antibody hoarder. “Problematically literate.” he/him
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.
Andrew Dalby @ardalby.bsky.social He/him. Recovering academic. Bioinformatics and data science expert, working on influenza evolution and cancer genetics and Bayesian/pragmatic approaches to statistics. Now living in Spain and exploring a new life in Asturias. Crypto = instant block.
Philippe Le Mercier, ViralZone @viralzone.bsky.social Virologist
Sebastian Lequime @lequimelab.eu Associate prof @gelifes.bsky.social @rug.nl | virus ecology and evolution | arboviruses | arthropods | epidemiology
🇫🇷 in 🇳🇱
Data editor at the Journal of Evolutionary Biology
https://lequimelab.eu/
Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org Our World in Data is a free, nonprofit website with a mission to increase understanding of the world’s largest problems and drive informed action to solve them. Based out of Oxford University (@ox.ac.uk), founded by @maxroser.bsky.social.
Mellanie Fontes-Dutra @mellziland.bsky.social Biomédica, Virologista e Neurocientista, Pesquisadora sobre Saúde e Clima 🧪, Professora e Divulgadora Científica #DCBR | Ela/Dela | 🇧🇷 | #DefendaoSUS
✉️ dutra.mellanie@gmail.com
Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social Virologist. PI working at but not speaking for USask. Co-EiC of Vaccine. 🇺🇸 in 🇨🇦. Emerging viruses, pathogenesis, zoonosis, host responses, dogs, football, off-color language, transcriptomic chaos. Opinions my own.
Jim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social Modern Landscape Painter
JimMusil.com
Inès Levade @ilevade.bsky.social Spécialiste clinique en santé publique.
Virus - bacteria - genomics - epi - bioinformatics
My opinion are my own
@hossaenaayele.bsky.social @hossaenaayele.bsky.social Computational microbiologist in training 🧬👩🏾🔬 | AHA predoctoral fellow
MSc Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases @umanitoba | PhD Epidemiology candidate @uthealthhouston
George @giorgioyo.bsky.social Chicago - Bioinformatics - Student - Human
@lbartels7.bsky.social @lbartels7.bsky.social 
Learn Dirt @learndirt.bsky.social 🌱 Grow Food 🌎 Heal the Planet
🐝 For gardeners learning to grow regeneratively ♻️
📚 FREE knowledge + community on our website! ↙️
https://learndirt.com/
Simeon Nthuku @simeonnthuku.bsky.social PhD Student, Centre d’Immunologie et des Maladies Infectieuses.
Working on host-microbiome interactions.
Scott C Anderson @scottcanderson.bsky.social Scientist and science writer. Author of The Psychobiotic Revolution with the brilliant scientists John Cryan and Ted Dinan. I write for Psychology Today and New Scientist. Find me at scottcanderson.substack.com
Ramiro Logares @ramalok.bsky.social Scientist @icmcsic.bsky.social #Barcelona: aquatic microbes, ecosystems, genomics, evolution, AI, bioinformatics & SciFi 🇪🇸🇦🇷 https://log-lab.barcelona
Adrià Auladell @adriaula.bsky.social Bioinformatics and marine microbial ecology. Right now focused mainly protists + metatranscriptomics! Open science. He/Him/His.
SAME18-BCN @same18-bcn.bsky.social 🌊 Official account of the conference #SAME18 – Aquatic Microbiomes on a Changing Planet 🌍
👉 Website: https://same18barcelona.com/
📍 Hosted at the PRBB, Barcelona @prbb.org
🗓️ September 28 – October 3, 2025
Organization at @icmcsic.bsky.social
Greg Bedwell @gbedwell.bsky.social Protein chemist, computational biologist, and general data enthusiast. Big fan of good food, sports, travel, and books.
Jon Bråte @jonbrate.bsky.social Viruses. Bioinformatics. Evolution. Researcher at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health- H Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum.bsky.social Journalist & historian of medicine; humanist, wannabe surfer.
www.markhonigsbaum.com
https://open.substack.com/pub/markhonigsbaum
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
Eddie Holmes @eddieholmes.bsky.social Virus spotter. You're twistin' my melon man.
Michelle Wille @duckswabber.bsky.social Avian influenza & avian virome ecology | "Expert in Ducks" | (she/her) | michellewille.com
Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social Husband, Father, Grandfather, Datahound, Dog lover, Fan of Celtic music, Former NIGMS director, Former EiC of Science, Stand Up for Science advisor, Shananigator, Pittsburgh, PA
NIH Dashboard: https://jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.github.io/index.html
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Michele Hornish @hornish.bsky.social Red-state Democrat helping Democrats fight everywhere; co-founder and ED of Every State Blue. Champion of grassroots action. Recovering lawyer. Gardener. Painter. I've been told I smile too much.
Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social I cover infectious diseases for STAT (www.statnews.com). 2020 Polk winner. Nieman '11. She/her. I write about H5N1 (in all species), Covid, polio, flu, Ebola, RSV, mpox, STIs. Send me news tips on Signal: HBranswell.01
Andrew Page @andrewjpage.bsky.social Microbial Bioinformatics scientist. Host the MicroBinfie and The Bioinformatics Lab Podcasts. CTO at Origin Sciences
Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social Professor of Algorithmic and Microbial Genomics at the University of Bath (UK). Pangenomes, drug resistance (esp TB), data structures for DNA search, plasmid evolution, global microbial surveillance. Open Data, reproducibility. https://zam-iqbal-lab.org/
Nick Loman @pathogenomenick.bsky.social Public health (meta)genomics & bioinformatics, Prof @unibirmingham.bsky.social, Director @imibirmingham.bsky.social & @climb.ac.uk
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
Torsten Seemann @torstenseemann.bsky.social Professor @ University of Melbourne, Australia
Microbial bioinformatics, genomics, software, clinical and public health microbiology
https://tseemann.github.io
Kat Holt @katholt.bsky.social Scientist… pathogen genomics & antimicrobial resistance, computational biology & infectious disease epidemiology.
Co-Director LSHTM AMR Centre @lshtmamrcentre.bsky.social
holtlab.net | klebnet.org | typhoidgenomics.org | amr.lshtm.ac.uk
Duncan MacCannell @drm.bsky.social Molecular #epidemiology & #publichealth. Pathogen #genomics, #microbiology, #emerginginfections, #AMR, (bio)tech #biosurveillance and #opendata.
Personal account. Opinions/dad jokes are my own.
🦅 Low productivity public sector employee.
🔬🦠🧬🖥️💉🌻🍩🐸🥪
Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social Head of the School of Infection, Inflammation & Immunology @ Uni Birmingham. Proud Scot. Oversaw a few Covid PCR tests
Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social Prof @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social Connecting pathogen evolution with public health outcomes. #Shigella and #AMR enthusiast. Views own. http://gen.cam.ac.uk/baker-group also www.pdu.gen.cam.ac.uk also @pducambridge.bsky.social
Robert Petit @rpetit3.bsky.social Public health bacterial genomics, bioinformatic workflow development, and training. Bactopia (https://bactopia.github.io). @ Wyoming Public Health Laboratory
Peter van Heusden (he/him) 🗿 @pvanheus.bsky.social #bioinformatics at @SANBI_SA, building bioinformatics workflows for (Pan-)African PH. health & justice! married. @pvanheus@mstdn.science
Dutchscientist (the real one) @dutchscientist.bsky.social Microbiologist @ Vet School, genomics/pathogens. Views, compliments and rants are my own. ORCID: 0000-0003-0203-1305. Am trying to avoid getting politics in my mentions, science and cats OK!
Josh Quick @scalene.bsky.social UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, University of Birmingham
Matt Loose @minomatt.bsky.social Sequencing, adapting and exploring genomes.
https://linktr.ee/matt.loose
Jonathan Jacobs @bioinformer.bsky.social UofArizona #Aggie > UofMaryland PhD > NIH/NCI PostDoc > > > ATCC #Genomics, #Bioinformatics, Data Authenticity, #BioSecurity. 🎲♟️👾🎮 🎸 🧪 🧬 🖥 🦠🚀🏎️ he/him.
https://bioinformer.substack.com
Lee Katz @lskatz.github.io Co host of the Micro Binfie podcast
Finlay Maguire @finlaym.bsky.social Ast Prof CS+Epi at Dalhousie/Pathogenomics Bioinformatics Lead at Shared Hospital Lab (Sunnybrook): infectious disease genomic epidemiology (AMR/SC2/Zoonoses) & socially-focused collab data science (he/him)
Kai Blin @kblin.bsky.social Microbiology PhD, co-author of antiSMASH, Open Source geek, views are my own. @kblin@scholar.social
Áine O'Toole @aineotoole.bsky.social Virus evolution, bioinformatics & phylogenetics. Researcher at University of Edinburgh. 
Simon Harris @simonrharris.bsky.social Senior Program Officer in the Genomic Epidemiology and Modelling team at The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Pathogen genomics and bioinformatics.
John Lees @johnlees.bacpop.org Pathogen informatics and modelling http://bacpop.org
(Research group leader at EMBL-EBI - http://ebi.ac.uk/research/lees/)
Conor (Conchúr) Meehan @conmeehan.bsky.social Researching WGS/Epi/Taxonomy of pathogenic mycobacteria and evo of microbiomes. Irish-born, Nottingham-working. Call me Conchúr if you can pronounce it. He/They
https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/science-technology/conor-meehan
Alison Mather @alisonmather.bsky.social Epidemiology, microbial (meta)genomics, antimicrobial resistance, One Health, Professor of Microbial Genomic Epidemiology at Quadram Institute Bioscience & University of East Anglia.
Phil Ashton @flashton.bsky.social Genomic epidemiologist at the Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance at Oxford. How can microbial genomics improve health in high infectious disease settings?
Colman O'Cathail @colmanoc.bsky.social ENA Project Lead & Product Owner @ebi.embl.org | Bioinformatics services and infrastructure | @enasequence.bsky.social
Keith Jolley @kjolley.bsky.social Bioinformatician in the Department of Biology, University of Oxford.
Working on microbial genomics | Developer of @PubMLST.org and BIGSdb | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0751-0287
Tom Connor @tomrconnor.bsky.social Public health genomics and big computers working in Wales. Parent of two small children. Gamer, foodie, geek. Also likes cats. Views my own.
Aldert Zomer @aldertzomer.bsky.social Associate Professor at Utrecht University, Infectious Diseases & Immunology. (meta)genomes, AMR, zoonotic pathogens. Cookie and cake connoisseur.
publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=nl&user=VHHhpoAAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
Eva Heinz @evaheinz7.bsky.social Fighting mental health stigma and toxic research culture. Proud to support https://twloha.com/.
And when life gives you lemons, make a G&T.
She/Her 
Rob Kingsley @drrobkingsley.bsky.social Professor of Microbiology @uniofeastanglia and Group Leader @TheQuadram, Norwich, UK - genomics, AMR, host-pathogen interactions, phage, microbiome
Editor Communications Biology
Tim Dallman @tdallman.bsky.social Senior Technical Officer @WHO - Pathogen Genomics & Bioinformatics
Sandra Reuter @sandrareuter.bsky.social Microbiology/Bacterial Genomics by day. Infection prevention & control. Interested in CRE/CPE, AMR, plasmids, and transmissions of bugs in all sorts of settings. Would do lots of things for cake. Starting to enjoy running. Internationalist.
Freiburg/German
Inês Mendes @inesmendes.bsky.social Senior Bioinformatics Scientist @ Theiagen Genomics
PhD in Microbial Bioinformatics
Martin Hunt @martibartfast.bsky.social Bioinformatician
Ruth E. Timme @ruthtimme.bsky.social Public health scientist in pathogen genomic surveillance . twin mama . botanist by training . birder . (tweets are my own)
Boas van der Putten @boasvdp.bsky.social EUPHEM fellow/bioinformatician at RIVM, NL
Andries van Tonder @andriesvt.bsky.social Senior Teaching Associate/Research Associate in Genetics & Veterinary Medicine @ University of Cambridge
Jen Guthrie @jenlguthrie.bsky.social Assistant Prof @WesternU | Adjunct Scientist @PublicHealthON | Canada Research Chair in Pathogen Genomics and Bioinformatics | Epidemiology | TB | AMR | MRSA
@kevinlibuit.bsky.social @kevinlibuit.bsky.social 
Helena, PhD 🏳️⚧️ @hexylena.bsky.social postdoc in clinical genetics. bioinformagician casting the spells that make the servers work 🧙🪄
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9760-8992
The sanctioned action is to Cut. Hunting the good stuff. Better living through harm reduction.
she/they/ ▓ ▓
Wytamma @wytamma.bsky.social Enjoying the little things like antibodies, ion channels and pip installs - technical biologist building tools and studying diseases ❤️🐢 
Matthew Croxen @mcroxen.bsky.social public health 🦠 genomics | associate professor | personal account (opinions my own) | 🎸⚽📷♨️🥷 he/him. 🇨🇦 ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽.
Natacha Couto @natachacouto.bsky.social Scientist, One Health, AMR, Genomics
Chris Kent @chris.primalscheme.com PhD student in the Quick Lab with @articnetwork.bsky.social
Jess Chen @drjesschen.bsky.social Mom, wife, birder, bike commuter, and microbial bioinformatician.
Geoff Winsor @glwinsor.bsky.social PhD candidate and database developer (bioinformatics, Pseudomonas Genome Database) at SFU. Exposome-microbiome interactions, data integration, bacterial genomics, genome annotation.
Claire Gorrie @clairegorrie.bsky.social Postdoc with MDU @dohertyinstitute @unimelb
Interested in bacterial genomics and bioinformatics, particularly re: AMR transmission in hospitals.
Views my own. She/her.
Andrea Telatin @telatin.bsky.social Head of bioinformatics at the Quadram Institute - https://github.com/telatin/
Mitchell Sullivan @mjsull.bsky.social Microbinfie
Theiagen Genomics @theiagen.bsky.social Transforming public health and infectious disease surveillance through the innovative implementation of #NGS and #bioinformatics technologies.
Sage Wright @sagewright.bsky.social Bioinformatics and cats
Meaghan Kall @kallmemeg.bsky.social Epidemiologist, public health trainee, mom, wife. Formerly @UKHSA. Disability advocate. Born 🇺🇸 Migrated 🇬🇧. 🏳️🌈 Personal account.
Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social Infectious diseases & genomics. Immunologist in (voluntary) exile. Minimal sarcasm. Fierce HOA (Hater of Acronyms). Personal account - opinions expressed are my own and not those of my employer.
Theo Sanderson @theo.io researching viral pathogen genomics at @lshtm.bsky.social, building @pathoplexus.org | theo.io / sandersonlab.org
Cornelius Roemer @corneliusroemer.bsky.social Studying SARS-CoV-2 evolution @nextstrain @biozentrum
Studied Physics @Cambridge Uni, then learned about computers
Dr. Amy Lee @minisciencegirl.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ SFU MBB | Systems Biology of Host-Pathogen | Vaccinology | Neonatal Sepsis | Pathogen Genomics | Loves data, food & art.
Erin Young @erinyoung.bsky.social Public Health #Bioinformatician. Wants to sequence ALL THE THINGS. Personal account with alternative spellings and grammar structures. She/her
Aaron Quinlan (he/him) @aaronquinlan.bsky.social Origins and consequences of genome mutation; software for genomic discovery.
Prof. and Chair of Human Genetics at U. of Utah.
https://www.genetics.utah.edu/
http://quinlanlab.org
Nabil-Fareed Alikhan @happykhan.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy Admin for @mstdn.science. #bioinformatician. Interested in #microbiology and #genomics.
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mstdn.science/@happykhan, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Chaoran Chen @chaoranchen.de Scientific software engineer at ETH Zurich, founder of GenSpectrum.org, co-founder of Pathoplexus.org, always looking for recommendations for board games 🎲 and books 📚
Gerry Tonkin-Hill @gerrythill.bsky.social Group leader at Peter Mac & the Doherty Institute in Melbourne, Australia
microbial genomics, statistics, machine learning
Liz Batty @lizbatty.bsky.social Crisp-loving nerd and swim headphones influencer. Bioinformatician and molecular microbiologist focused on tropical diseases. Live in Bangkok, do a podcast, drink coffee, go to the beach.
Adam Witney @aawitney.bsky.social Reader in Bioinformatics. Interested in infectious diseases, bioinformatics and genomics
Danny Park @dannyjpark.bsky.social I use genomics to study the evolution and spread of human pathogens and lead pathogen genomic analytics at the Broad Institute.
Also: @dpark@mstdn.science
ORCID: 0000-0001-7226-7781
GitHub: dpark01
David Aanensen @daanensen.bsky.social genomics, public health, the web, epidemiology and all the bits in between.- K karinlag.bsky.social @karinlag.bsky.social
Dr. Kelly O. @drkfo.bsky.social Chief Scientist for Next-Generation Sequencing & Bioinformatics at The Utah Public Health Laboratory
🌟 SEQUENCE ALL THE THINGS! 🌟
I oversee all the sequencing and data analysis for infectious disease pathogens for the state. All opinions are my own!
Kelsey Florek @k-florek.net Infectious Disease Genomics and Data Scientist @ Wisconsin State Laboratory
#publichealth, #genomics, #infectiousdiseases, #openscience, #opendata
Personal account, art and opinions are my own.
Noah Hull @noahhullphd.bsky.social Global public health practitioner, all things NGS, bioinformatics, random 🐶s, and, wastewater
📜: UWyo (BSc - MolB; PhD - infect disease epi; ScD [h.c.], and UAB MPH-Epi)
Mountain West located, but missing the ocean. Views, albeit bad ones, are my own