Journal of Vertebrate Biology @jvertbiol.bsky.social A diamond 💎 open-access international journal for all fields of vertebrate zoology
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Published by @ivb-cas.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social and Czech Univ Life Sci
Fred Hutch Basic Sciences Division @basicsci.fredhutch.org Making Foundational Discoveries @fredhutch.org
fredhutch.org/basicsciences
Giacomo Gattoni @giacomogattoni.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher in the Tosches lab at Columbia Uni | PhD in the Benito-Gutiérrez lab at Cambridge Uni | #Embryo2022 | Interested in and enchanted by brain evolution 🧠
Ana Santacruz @anasaruz.bsky.social Scientist, fish - parasite fan | #cavefish | 🏳️🌈
Postdoc at the Rohner lab at @uni-muenster.de
Luis Vicente Normann @luis-v-n.bsky.social Interested in connecting micro- and macroevolution || Currently working on sex chromosomes (UV) in bryophytes || M.Sc. student Evolution, Ecology and Systematics at FSU Jena, Germany || Science Communicator
BC Genome Sciences Centre @bcgsc.ca Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre (GSC) is an international leader in genomics, bioinformatics, and genome technology innovation. 🧬
Alexus Roberts Hugghis, PhD @alexusrh.bsky.social Postdoc @unibern.bsky.social • functional morphology + macroevolution of 🐠 • #BlackAFinSTEM ✊🏾• Purdue + @ucdavis.bsky.social grad • Philippians 2 • she/her • views mine
Shaun Mahony @shaunmahony.bsky.social Studying gene regulation and transcription factor binding with machine learning. Assoc Prof at Penn State. 🇮🇪
Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social 25+ years of zebrafish. Hair cell toxicology research. Associate professor at the Universitat de Barcelona. Father of one. Photographer of birds
Dr. Kiki @drkiki.bsky.social Longtime podcaster, science communicator, birdbrain expert, curious person trying to be kind & spread joy.
This Week in Science podcast (TWIS.org)
https://kirstensanford.com
Signal: If you know me, find me there. Let's talk.
Bruce Stallsmith @laimosemion.bsky.social Freshwater fish ecologist, darter enthusiast, sci-fi fan, freakbeat promoter. Motorhead and the Ramones were cool too. #addOcean
Timo Rittweg @otolitimo.bsky.social Researcher at Thünen-Institute of Fisheries Ecology. I investigate fish life histories, migrations, diet and growth. Otolith nerd. Flyfisher, diver, and general fish enthusiast.
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ORCID: 0000-0002-9487-5718
Drew Anderson @andersonevolve.bsky.social 🧪 🐟 🐠 🧬 PhD in Evolution and Sexual Selection. Study fishes, behavior, genetics, genomics, and hormones. Own views. He/him. Handle is shared across social media
Webpage: andersonevolve.com
Brian Sidlauskas @briansidlauskas.bsky.social Ichthyologist at Tulane University with interests in systematics, evolution, conservation, morphometrics, and more. Also a dad, musician, gamer, and chef. Posts here are my own.
Jeanne McDonald @jeannexpression.bsky.social evolution, development, gene regulation🦋 postdoc in Reed lab & Mullen lab
Dr. Mike Booth @mikeboothlab.bsky.social Aquatic ecology | inland fishes | fish migration & dispersal | ecosystem engineers | Michigan Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
#TeamFish | he/his
Jim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social Modern Landscape Painter
JimMusil.com
RedPen/BlackPen @redpenblackpen.bsky.social Webcomic covering parts of science, peer review, data, academic careers, and puns. #science #scicomm #sciart
Comic/cartoon art shared under CC-BY-NC-SA-*NO_AI*
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Travis Seaborn @travisseaborn.bsky.social Assistant prof SNRS at NDSU. Landscape genetics and distribution (and other) ecology modeling endeavors. Conservation, climate change, and land use with disease sprinkles. Views own. He/Him
Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social Biodiversity and Conservation researcher at @ebdonana.bsky.social (Sevilla, Spain). Historical ecologist. Musician (kind of). Father of two
Craig D. Wells @craigdwells.bsky.social PhD Candidate at University of Idaho 🧬
Studying hybridization in Pacific Trout 🐟
He/him
Matt Gibson @mgstowers.bsky.social Biologist at the Stowers Institute studying cnidarian development, evolution and symbiosis.
Mike Schatz @mikeschatz.bsky.social Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University. http://schatz-lab.org
Mieke Roth 🟥 @miekeroth.com Animal scientist/scientific visualizer, Co-CEO of Anitomical bv., PhD candidate in 3d animal anatomy modeling
#VaccinesWork #Antifa
https://linkstack.miekeroth.org/
BrennanThePaleoDude @paleodudebrennan.bsky.social I make obscure prehistoric plushies! Cambrian & Mosasaur researcher. Director of The Vancouver Paleontological Society. Trilobite and Cambrian Obsessed. Canadian Fossil Hunter. FromTheShalePlushies
Emma Grae @emmagraeauthor.bsky.social Author • Scots Book of the Year 2022 • Books with Luath Press and Unbound • Stories in Liars’ League, the Honest Ulsterman and more • Journalist • Views my own
https://linktr.ee/emmagraeauthor
Igor Adameyko @adameykolab.bsky.social Neural crest biologist interested in broad and deep questions about clockworks of nature.
Phil Abitua @ohnolog.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UW studying, evo-devo, annual killifish, & cell type evolution.
Bren Miles @bren-miles.bsky.social Integrative Biology & Statistics at UC Berkeley '26 | He/Him |
Fish + Statistics + Macroevolution + Phylogenomics + more
Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social Paleontologist and professor at University of Edinburgh, dinosaur enthusiast and writer. Free born man of the USA. Immigrant. Husband & father. (views mine)
J Pardo @jdpardo.bsky.social Research Council of Lithuania Fellow at Vilnius University. Tetrapods in deep time: evolution, development, and paleontology.
Jaruwatana (Sodai) Lotharukpong @sodail.bsky.social ꙩ ꙫ ө ꚛ ꙮ ༗ :: complex multicellularity in brown algae :: doctoral researcher :: max planck institute for biology :: tübingen
https://lotharukpongjs.github.io/
PG Sanchez 🇵🇭🏳️🌈 (siya) @poljiology.bsky.social queer iskolar broadly curious about endless forms (and rhythms! and patterns!) of life in nature • in a journey of unlearning the master's tools • resists intellectual imperialism and epistemic violence • chooses to be in the periphery
Juliana Rodríguez-Fuentes @julianaxrf.bsky.social PhD student at University of Bern | Studying the phenotypic effects of chromosomal inversions 🐟 | she/her | COL ⛰️
Sarah McMenamin @mcmenaminlab.bsky.social The McMenamin Lab at Boston College studies the development of zebrafish fin shape!
https://sites.google.com/a/bc.edu/mcmenamin-lab/
Gideon Bradburd @gbradburd.bsky.social Assistant Professor at University of Michigan. Evolutionary biology, spatial population genetics, dad, he/him
@elizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social Former NIH Program Official for 22 years. Speaking in my personal capacity. Opinions expressed are my own.
Johnny Davila-Sandoval @johnnyds.bsky.social Postdoc for RTG "GönomiX" at UGöttingen, in collab with MPI-NAT and UMG. PhD Evo-Devo @Clark. All about embryos, neurons and evolution. 🇵🇪🏳️🌈 #embryo25
Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social Professor of Biology & Institute for Health Computing, U of Maryland; explores how viruses impact human & environmental health;
'Asymptomatic' (JHU Press - https://bit.ly/asymptomatic_book)
&
'Science Matters' (https://substack.com/@joshuasweitz)
Kiabugboy @kiabugboy.bsky.social http://patreon.com/Kiabugboy
Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net Michele Banks
Artist inspired by science
Friend to squirrels
https://www.etsy.com/shop/artologica/ 
Journal of Systematics and Evolution @journalsysevo.bsky.social Journal of Systematics and Evolution (JSE) is a bi-monthly international English language journal dedicated to the understanding of biodiversity and evolution. Find our latest issue here: https://www.jse.ac.cn/EN/current
The Art Institute of Chicago @artinstitutechi.bsky.social 5,000 years of art and culture in the ♥️ of Chicago. 
MSU College of Natural Science @msunatsci.bsky.social The College of Natural Science is home to biological, mathematical and physical sciences at Michigan State University.
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Guo Huang Lab @UCSF #Recruiting postdocs @guohuanglab.bsky.social Biologist studying tissue regeneration in development and evolution. Faculty at University of California San Francisco. Lab website: https://guohuang.ucsf.edu
Shayan Shamipour @shamipourshayan.bsky.social SNSF Ambizione junior group leader @UZH.
Fascinated by how embryos self-organize their shapes and patterns.
Postdoc @ Pelkmans lab | PhD @ Heisenberg lab.
Diego Rodriguez-Terrones @diego-rt.bsky.social I like science, left politics, concrete architecture and exotic plants. Postdoc at IMBA@Vienna studying Axolotl regeneration and transposons at Elly Tanaka's lab
Eugene Valkov @eugenevalkov.bsky.social mRNA regulation & decay | biochemistry | structural biology | molecular biology | cancer
All views are personal.
Google Scholar: tinyurl.com/EuValScholar
ORCID: 0000-0002-3721-1739
Justin Fay @justinfay.bsky.social Evolutionary genetics, University of Rochester
Albert Blanch-Asensio @ablanchasensio.bsky.social ▪️Postdoc at @CRG.eu (LinLab)
▪️Cell Fate Engineering
▪️Mammalian Synthetic Biology
▪️Stem Cell Biology
▪️Genome Engineering
▪️STRAIGHT-IN Dual platform
Kuan-Hao Chao @kuanhaochao.bsky.social Senior Deep Learning Scientist Illumina | CS PhD candidate at CS PhD student at @jhu.edu @jhucompsci.bsky.social
Teaching machines to learn biology 🧬💻
https://khchao.com/
Mikko Kolkkala @xcsci.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist, geneticist, conservationist & teacher
💚 All extant & extinct life forms
💜 Modern physics & all science
Rob DenBleyker @robdenbleyker.com a collection of ass brained posts written by your favorite stupid fucking idiot
Edward Marcotte @edwardmarcotte.bsky.social Systems & synthetic biologist, proteomics, bioinformatics; Professor of Molecular Biosciences @ UT Austin; Cofounder, Erisyon
Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social Professor at Univ of Washington @uwsafs.bsky.social I run models and synthesize data, love R graphics, and do research on the status of marine fisheries, fishing quotas, and blue whales @bluewhalenews.bsky.social
でんか @k-hermit.com 海洋生物観測所。海のちいさな生物を毎日投稿してます
▶︎磯の生物図鑑/ 水産増養殖/ 水族館への生体提供
▶︎著書：『ヤドカリ探索図鑑』『海のあかちゃん』...
▶︎Marine life in Japan. All Original content.
Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social The Biodiversity Heritage Library contains thousands of historical illustrations of flora and fauna. This unaffiliated bot shares random images from the collection.
James Stapley @discusfish.bsky.social Ichthyologist doing IT.
You could say I moved from fish into chips.
Cephalopods Daily @cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social 🐙🦑 Cephalopod Enthusiast 🇨🇦 iNaturalist Junkie 🦑🐙
Nature @nature.com Research, news, and commentary from Nature, the international science journal. For daily science news, get Nature Briefing: https://go.nature.com/get-Nature-Briefing
GGBN @ggbnoutreach.bsky.social The Global Genome Biodiversity Network is an international network of institutions preserving the genomic diversity of non-human life on Earth.
MAPHSA Project @maphsa.bsky.social Mapping the Archaeological Pre-Columbian Heritage of South America, a project funded by Arcadia 🌍 EN ES PT
http://www.upf.edu/web/maphsa
Luiza Saad @luiza-o-saad.bsky.social 🇧🇷 Researcher/Biological Science/Postdoctoral Fellow | Evolutionary developmental biology and regeneration of planarians and mollusks 🦑 🦪 🐚
Karthik Shekhar @karthikshekhar.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, UC Berkeley || PhD @ MIT || Undergrad @ IIT Bombay || Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Biophysics, Transport Phenomena
Thomas Thumberger & Team glyco @thomthum.bsky.social Ludo ergo sum.
Improving targeted genome editing to model rare diseases - part of @wittbrodtlab.bsky.social at COS Heidelberg
Check out: ✂️ CCTop https://cctop.cos.uni-heidelberg.de & ✏️ ACEofBASEs https://aceofbases.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/
Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social CABD, Centro Mixto CSIC-UPO-Junta de Andalucía. Unidad de excelencia María de Maeztu (2022-2025) Estudiamos el desarrollo de vertebrados, insectos y nematodos. Y con bacterias, levaduras,organoides y células
🔗 https://www.cabd.es/en/
@aggrc-lsuac.bsky.social @aggrc-lsuac.bsky.social 
Molecular Ecology @molecology.bsky.social Official account for the journals Molecular Ecology & Molecular Ecology Resources, publishing research that uses molecular techniques to address questions in ecology, evolution, behavior, and conservation. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1365294x
@luohaoxu.bsky.social @luohaoxu.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist at Southwest University
Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social I've worked on all of science, from T cells to B cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
The Rockefeller University @rockefeller.edu The Rockefeller University is a world-renowned center for research and graduate education in the biomedical sciences, chemistry, bioinformatics and physics.
@jpostlethwait.bsky.social @jpostlethwait.bsky.social 
Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social Vertebrate evolutionary biologist | Professor University of Michigan | Director & Curator UMMP | he/him/his
Andrew Rypel @andrewrypel.bsky.social School Director & Professor @auburnfisheries.bsky.social • 🧪 for Ecosystems, Fish, People & Ag https://sites.google.com/view/rypel-lab/home • ✍️ at TangledNature.com
aqmhd2026.bsky.social @aqmhd2026.bsky.social Official account of the 2026 Aquatic Models of Human Disease Conference (#AQMHD2026)
David Bapst @dwbapst.bsky.social Paleontologist, Graptolite Geek, R Programmer, creator of paleotree, Tabletop Roleplaying Game Nerd, Catcher of Pokémon, faculty senator. All comments are my trash opinion alone.
Department of Biology | San Francisco State University @sfstatebio.bsky.social Sharing research, creative activities and scholarship of students and faculty from the department of biology at San Francisco State University. This is our Official Account.
https://biology.sfsu.edu/
Lisandro Milocco @milocco.bsky.social Asst. Prof. and DDLS fellow
Dept. Zoology, Stockholm University and SciLifeLab
🇦🇷 -> 🇫🇮 -> 🇸🇪
Evo-devo and dynamical systems
https://lisandromilocco.github.io/
Mari Sepp @marisepp.bsky.social Evo-Devo neurobiologist | Associate Prof. at Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu | SFARI Fellow | EMBO Installation Grantee | Cerebellum development: how it evolved and how it goes wrong | sepplab.org
German Fish Model Research Meeting @germanfishmeeting.bsky.social We are thrilled to announce the 1st German Fish Model Research Meeting, taking place from September 16–18, 2026, at the Center for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg University, Germany.
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”
Paleo Nerds Podcast @paleonerdspod.bsky.social A paleontology podcast 🦖⛏️ hosted by Dave Strassman and Ray Troll. For paleo nerds by paleo nerds. 🔊 Listen now! https://www.paleonerds.com
@paveltomancak.bsky.social @paveltomancak.bsky.social 
Colin Gorrie @colingorrie.bsky.social English is weirder than you think. Every week I dig into the hidden history of everyday words: etymology, Old English, and the accidents that shaped how you speak. Linguistics PhD. deadlanguagesociety.com
Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com Publishing the best of biotech science and business. Find us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram. Part of @natureportfolio.nature.com.
Dan Aquarium 🏖️🌊🐠🐚 @danaquarium.bsky.social 💻🗞️ Jornalista
🌊🐟 Entusiasta da vida aquática
🌎📍 Brasil 🇧🇷
Genetics & Evolution (UNIGE) @genevunige.bsky.social Department of Genetics & Evolution at University of Geneva
https://genev.unige.ch/
Our Research topics cover a large variety of topics, such as developmental genetics and neurogenetics, regeneration, evo-devo, physics of biology or phylogenetics.
The Milinkovitch-Tzika lab @lanevol.bsky.social Our biologists, physicists, computer scientists & mathematicians investigate the evolution & development of Life’s complexity 🐊 🐍 🦎 @genevunige.bsky.social
Maria Antonietta Tosches @matosches.bsky.social Associate Professor @ Columbia University. Brain evolution, plasticity and regeneration. www.tosches-lab.com
Madison Adams @madison-adams.bsky.social Post-baccalaureate researcher at Louisiana State University studying fin and limb regeneration🐟 Igor Schneider lab @ischneider.bsky.social
Personal website:
madisonadamsbio.com
Rachael Morgan @rachaelmorgan.bsky.social Researcher - University of Bergen.
Ecophysiologist interested in the effects of temperature and hypoxia on fish.
KunzLab@LMU @kunzlab.bsky.social Passionately researching to understand the transport processes and genes required for proper chloroplast function and photosynthesis.
Simone Immler @immler.bsky.social Professor of Genetics & Reproduction, University of East Anglia
Founder and Scientific Director, Virilitas Labs
Patrice Pottier @patricepottier.bsky.social Postdoc at ANU and UNSW; @SORTEE board member
Global change biology 🌍🌡️🏭, ecophysiology, evidence synthesis, open science 🔓
I love all kinds of critters 🐠🦎🐸🪲🐝🦑🦈🪸
Opinions my own; he/him
Rafael D. Acemel @rdacemel.bsky.social RyC researcher at Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo (Sevilla/Spain). Trying to apply genomics to understand things about gene regulation and Evo-Devo.
Wouter Masselink @woutermasselink.bsky.social Dad | Husband | Scientist. (He/Him) Postdoc with Elly Tanaka @IMBA. Interested in the fundamental principles which control axis elongation and periodic pattern formation during axolotl tail regeneration.
Jennifer Clausen @jacsciart.bsky.social loves to draw fish
she/her
No AI
website: https://www.jacdraws.com/#/
email: clausenjenn@gmail.com
gaia.eco - Biodiversity Studio @gaia.eco 🪸 Monitor species. Restore nature.
🌍 Data, KPIs, analytics and reports
🔎 Open up https://gaia.eco
Jonathan Huie, PhD @jmhuie.bsky.social Postdoc at UC Irvine | Functional morphologist & evolutionary biologist | PhD from @GWBiology | Full time ichthyologist 🐠 & part time herpetologist🦎 | He/Him
jonathanhuie.com