Nicole M. Baran, Ph.D. @nmbaran.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Biology at Davidson College | Evolution & development of songbird social behavior, neuroendocrinology, & comparative genomics | STEMinist | Mostly here for the reading recommendations. (she/her) 🐦🧠🧬🌎🔬🌿🎺
Frank W. Lewis @frankwlewis.bsky.social Associate editor at SignalCleveland.org, Philly expat, dog guy, whatever Gotham needs me to be. Go Birds. 🦅
Alicia Calvo-Villamañán @aliciapcv.bsky.social | CRISPR, Plasmid Biology, Bacterial EcoEvo & AMR | Sci-Illustrator |
Postdoc at the Evolutionary Biology lab (Gordo lab), Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine @gimminstitute.bsky.social
| She/Her | From 🇪🇸&🇵🇹 | 💜🍉
Ricky Wolff @rwolff.bsky.social Ecology and evolution of the human gut microbiome in Nandita Garud's lab at UCLA
Lilian Caesar @liliancaesar.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma. Ecology and Evolution of host-microbiome interactions in social bees https://liliancaesar.com/
Hannah Reich @hannahgreich.bsky.social Asst Prof SUNY ESF + #newPI of the PhycoSymbiosis Lab + NEAS President. Phycophile, microbe enthusiast, cat person, swammer, #NeurodiverseSquad 🧪🌊🪸🧫🐈🏊🏽♀️
https://phycosymbiosis.weebly.com/
Eli Mehlferber @emehlferber.bsky.social Postdoc in Sam Brown’s lab at GaTech. Broadly interested understanding why bacteria end up where they are, especially in the context of opportunistic pathogens. All done through the context of “big data” genomics and ML.
Jing Qian @jingqian.bsky.social 📖PhD Candidate in Integrative Physiology @colorado.edu
🔬Olm Lab @mattolm.bsky.social
🦴Human Anatomy Lab TA
🌵Homepage: https://jing-qian-98.github.io
🍼Infant gut microbiome & immune development
Haider Manzer @haidermanzer.bsky.social Postdoc in the Zackular lab at CHOP. PhD from the Doran Lab. Interested in early life host-pathogen interactions. BWF PDEP Fellow. He/Him.
Yaxi Wang @yaxiwang.bsky.social Incoming Assistant Professor of Microbiology at The Ohio State University | Mougous Lab member | Texas A&M alumnus | Fascinated by Patescibacteria and intermicrobial interactions
Dr Natasha Fisher-Pearson @natashafp.bsky.social Recent PhD grad studying the gut microbiome and unconventional T cells at the University of Oxford.
#microbiome #bioinformatics #metagenomics #immunology #archaea
Oxford Centre for Microbiome Studies @oxmicrobiome.bsky.social Driving microbiome insights. Original research and supporting collaborations.
https://www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/ocms
https://www.linkedin.com/company/oxmicrobiome
University of Oxford
Michael Daniels @microbedaniels.bsky.social Postdoc at University of Vienna | PhD from ETH Zürich. Investigating the interactions between bacteria and hormones.
Investigating interactions between hormones and human gut bacteria
@yuhanghu.bsky.social @yuhanghu.bsky.social PhD student in harry sokol's lab - microbial interaction, inflammatory bowel disease
Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social Light Microscopy Manager at Brandeis University. I help people do cool science. Lover of all
things microscopy & microbiology 🔬🦠
John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social Reporter. Podcasts: Gabfest/Whistlestop/Navel Gazing. Contributor, The Atlantic. Author, The Hardest Job In the World: The American Presidency
Https://www.johndickerson.com
Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social I co-host #VibeCheckPod. Also, I teach creative writing at Harvard Medical School.
BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World.
My next book HOME OUT THERE comes out in May.
I live in Cambridge, MA. 🦃
@vanessasperandio2.bsky.social @vanessasperandio2.bsky.social 
@idsog.bsky.social @idsog.bsky.social 
Michael Poulsen @michaelpoulsenucph.bsky.social Professor in the Evolution of Microbial Symbiosis and Deputy Head of Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen. Views are my own. He/him 🏳️🌈
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-poulsen-5804b926/
https://www.socialsymbioticevolution.com/
Anyi Mazo-Vargas @anyimv.bsky.social Assistant Professor at @DukeBiology. #NewPI #EvoDevo, gene regulation, adaptive traits, #Wnt signaling 🦋. 🧬🔬🧪. She/her/Ella
Shreenidhi PM @shreenidhi.bsky.social Postdoc at UToronto studying host-parasite interactions
Owen Hale @owenfhale.bsky.social Grad student working with @megbehri.bsky.social on bacterial evolution
Megan Behringer @megbehri.bsky.social Assistant Professor @VanderbiltU BioSci ⚓️ | Dog mom 🐕and sunset appreciator 🌅| Experimental evolution of microbes in stressful and structured environments 🧫🧪 | microbial epimutations 🧬|
Richard Leggett @richardmleggett.bsky.social Bioinformatics/Nanopore/Metagenomics person at the Earlham Institute. This is my (unofficial) work related account - I do inane non-work stuff elsewhere!
https://www.earlham.ac.uk/leggett-group
Paul Rainey @paulbrainey.bsky.social Evolutionary geneticist working with microbes. Absorbed by the curiosity of science and ideas. Department of Microbial Population Biology, MPI for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany & ESPCI, Paris, France.
Iris Irby @irisirby.bsky.social PhD Candidate in the Brown Lab at Georgia Tech | mobile genetic element enthusiast 🧬 | NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis Conference @mmpconference.bsky.social The 32nd Annual MMPC, hosted by the University of Minnesota on Sept 25-27, 2026. Co-chairs Anna Tischler @annatischler.bsky.social and Julia Willett @jlewillett.bsky.social. Website: https://mmpc2026.umn.edu/
Javad Sadeghi @microbial-ecology.bsky.social 🌎 Postdoctoral Researcher | Microbial Manipulation Lab, University of Toronto
🌿 Microbial ecology & evolution | Host–microbe interactions | Climate adaptation
🌐 https://javadsadeghi.wixsite.com/javadsadeghi
Christina Burch @c1burch.bsky.social Professor of Biology
University of North Carolina
Dominic Skinner, PhD 🧬 @dom-genomics.bsky.social Industry Scientist in SD | Sequencing + Cells
🦠 Postdoc @jcvi.org
🧠 PhD @utah.edu
Ruby Costigan @rcostigan.bsky.social Scientific Editor at Cell Reports, mostly microbiology & plant bio 🦠🌱
Feel free to reach out if you have submission enquiries or questions about editorial careers
Views my own
She/her
🌈
Project Drawdown @projectdrawdown.bsky.social 🌍 The world’s leading guide to science-based climate solutions.
Visit www.drawdown.org to learn more
Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social - Executive Director, Project Drawdown drawdown.org
- Climate scientist, working on solutions
- Passionate about science, communication, and hope
- Minnesota based, Maine born
- Personal account / My views
smitten kitchen @smittenkitchen.bsky.social triumphant home cooking, est. 2006
three cookbooks + one audiobook + newsletter
glad you’re here
smittenkitchen.com
Nate Brought @usfreepressspain.bsky.social 86-47
Former Director, NIH Exec Sec
Claire E Albright @clairealbright.bsky.social Anaerobic Microbiologist | Sustainable Biotech Interest
PhD Candidate
The Kozik Lab @ University of Michigan
Beatriz Baselga-Cervera @beabasel.bsky.social Evolutionary microbiologist and experimentalist with a focus on freshwater microbial interactions. Mother, Dog lover, swimmer, fantasy reader (she/her)
Asher Leeks @asherleeks.bsky.social We study social evolution in viruses.
Assistant Professor @zoology.ubc.ca & @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social
asherleeks.com
Uehling lab @uehlinglab.bsky.social We are a mycological research lab at Oregon State University studying evolution of fungi and fungal symbioses. more at Uehlinglab.com Go Beavs
Becca Satterwhite @satterwhite.bsky.social Evolutionary microbiologist 🧪🧫🧪 Postdoc at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, co-advised by Dr. Vaughn Cooper and Dr. Kathy Shair
Emma Carlson @emmajoycarlson.bsky.social PhD candidate at #UMichEEB. ZE^3 Lab. I’m an inside biologist.
Former gopher, current wolverine.
@miloj.bsky.social @miloj.bsky.social 
Everyone's least favorite lab mate @kepatitis-c.bsky.social I much prefer the sharpest of criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses
- Johannes Kepler
“It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.”
-Andrew Jackson
Sophie Jean Walton @sophiejwalton.bsky.social (soon to be) NYU postdoc with Joy Bergelson. evolutionary ecology, genomics, and (plant) microbiomes :) she/her
https://sophiejwalton.github.io
Shreyas Pai @theshreyaspai.bsky.social Systems Biology PhD Student @Harvard, Labs of Michael Desai @mmdesai.bsky.social & Michael Baym @baym.lol | Trinity College Cambridge Alum | Evolution & Microbes
Shaul Pollak @envsysmicro.at Assistant Professor
Environmental Systems Microbiology.
Genetics, Genomics, Evolution, Ecology
w: https://www.envsysmicro.at
@dome-vienna.bsky.social
@cemess.bsky.social
@univie.ac.at.
Sayantan Datta @sayantandatta.bsky.social QBioS PhD student in the Ratcliff Lab, GeorgiaTech
IISER Pune '22 (BS-MS Biology)
Sarah Svensson @campy-bara.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de Formerly at the Shanghai Institute Formerly known as Pasteur. Vibrio, Campy, Helicobacter, sRNAs, ecospecies 🇨🇦
Santiago Elena @sfelena.bsky.social Virology, evolution, genomics, systems biology, and computational biology. All at once.
Saheli Saha @sahelis.bsky.social 
Richard Neher @neher.io 
QinQin Yu @qinqinyu.bsky.social Pathogen evolution and transmission, science writing, and outreach. Researcher at Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen.
https://qinqin-yu.github.io/
Pia Sen @pia-sen.bsky.social PhD student at GW: microbial ecology of phages and phage defense in Antarctic deserts, volcanoes, and hot springs 🧫🌋
🎓UT Austin 2020
Paloma Rodera @palomarodera.bsky.social PhD Student in the Plasmid Biology and Evolution (PBE) and Evolution of Microbiomes and Mobile Genetic Elements (EMMGE) labs.
Bioinformatician and Biologist hybrid 💻🧬
Olivia Kosterlitz @oliviakosterlitz.bsky.social Studying the effects of horizontal gene transfer (specifically conjugative plasmids) on the ecology and evolution of bacterial communities. Currently a NSF postdoctoral fellow with Eva Top @ UIdaho
Noah Houpt @noahhoupt.bsky.social Evolutionary ecology PhD candidate at Yale University, Patriots fan, and obligately bipedal lobe-finned fish. (he/him)
Nkrumah Grant @nkrumahgrant.bsky.social Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Nanami Kubota @nanamikubota.bsky.social Postdoc in the Turner Lab at Yale University. Phage diversity, evolution, and competition. Donnelley Postdoctoral Associate. New Yorker, first-gen US immigrant, & cat lady. she/her
🔗 nanamikubota.com
Michelle Hays @mjhays.bsky.social 2022 HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow: Excited for genetics, evolution, yeast, parasites, genetic conflict, inclusive science. she/her #firstgen
Michael Hochberg @mkhochb.bsky.social University of Montpellier - Santa Fe Institute. Working these days on intelligence in biological and artificial systems. Website https://mehochberg.wixsite.com/blog/academia
Meike Wortel @meikewortel.bsky.social Evolutionary Systems Biologist @ SILS University of Amsterdam
https://www.meikewortel.com/
Megan Phillips @meganphillips.bsky.social Staph aureus evolution + genomics | PhD candidate @ Emory University | Population Biology, Ecology, & Evolution | 🧬💻🦠🍄 | Mastodon 🦣 @meganphillips@mstdn.science | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0781-3325
Louis-Marie Bobay @lbobay.bsky.social Associate Professor. NC State. Microbial Genomics, Evolution, Bioinformatics.
Lionel Guy @lionelguy.bsky.social Evolutionary microbiologist. Host adaptation, endosymbionts, Legionella. Associate prof at Uppsala University.
https://www.uu.se/en/department/medical-biochemistry-and-microbiology/research/guy-lionel
Lauren Hemara @hemara.nz 🦠 Postdoc in the Microbiome Manipulation Lab @ University of Toronto
🥝 Previously studying plant pathogen evolution with everyone's favourite P. syringae pathovar - Psa! ✨
🌿 hemara.nz
Laura Suttenfield @lcatherines.bsky.social postdoc with @baym.lol at Harvard Medical School | UIUC, UMass Amherst alum
Kiseok (Keith) Lee @kiseokmicro.bsky.social How can we understand & design robust community functions?
Postdoc: UDel, Aditya Kunjapur lab
PhD: UChicago, Seppe Kuehn lab
Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=&user=UcMtC88AAAAJ
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kiseokkeithlee/
Kendal Tinney @kendalt.bsky.social Microbiologist and fan of phages 🦠🧬 🧫
PhD candidate in the Barber lab at UOregon.
(She/They)- A Katherine Ennis @agroecologista.bsky.social UC Berkeley Postdoc interested in the ecological and evolutionary impacts of bacteria-phage interactions.
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
Kasie Raymann @kasieraymann.bsky.social Assistant Professor. Department of Plant and Microbial Biology. North Carolina State University. Microbial Ecology and Evolution. Honey bee microbiome. Experimental evolution. 
Kai Trepka @kaitrepka.bsky.social MD/PhD student at UCSF studying the gut microbiome and colorectal cancer treatment
Julie Pourtois, PhD @juliepourtois.bsky.social Postdoc in Biology at UMD, College Park
Jose A Escudero @jaescudero.bsky.social Scientist interested in #integrons, antimicrobial resistance and the molecular basis of adaptation. Working at at CNB-CSIC.
Jónína Sæunn Guðmundsdóttir @jsaeunn.bsky.social Postdoc in the field of #microbiology investigating #antibioticresistance at UiT - The Arctic University of Norway 👩🏼🔬🧫 She/her
John Lees @johnlees.bacpop.org Pathogen informatics and modelling http://bacpop.org
(Research group leader at EMBL-EBI - http://ebi.ac.uk/research/lees/)
John Dennehy @drjdennehy.bsky.social We are the resistance, not because we chose to be, but because we have no other choice.
John Barton @jpbarton.bsky.social Viruses, evolution, immunity, statistical physics | https://bartonlab.github.io
Joel Sachs @sachslab.bsky.social Evolutionary Ecologist. Mutualism & symbiosis. Gardener. Dad. Husband. Dog walker. Department Chair. #BlackLivesMatter #Ally
Joao Ascensao @joaoascensao.bsky.social Postdoc @ Harvard with Michael Desai | Genotype-phenotype maps & evolutionary dynamics
https://joaoascensao.github.io/
Jiayue Yang @stjarnaa.bsky.social Grad student of Whitaker Lab at UIUC studying CRISPR ecology and evolution in archaea metapopulations ♨️
Jerónimo Rodríguez-Beltrán @jerorb.bsky.social We study Antibiotic Resistance Ecology and Evolution · Ramón y Cajal University Hospital · Madrid · www.evodynamicslab.com
Tatiana Ruiz-Bedoya @tatianaruizb.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist, curious to see what is happening here.
Postdoctoral fellow at the Desai and Baym labs, interested in infectious diseases, evolutionary genetics, and mountains. Santandereana. 🇨🇴
Tapan Goel @tgoel.bsky.social Postdoc in the @weitz_group at UMD College Park. Working on eco-evolutionary models of phages and their hosts. UCSD Physics PhD. he/his
Sungbin Lim @sungbin.bsky.social Doctoral Researcher at MPI for Evolutionary Biology
Microbiologist, Experimentalist
Interested in Microbiology, Evolution, Open Science practice, History & Philosophy of Science🧑🔬🔍
Honour McCann @honour.bsky.social Max Planck Research Group Leader // Plant pathogen emergence and evolution // http://instagram.com/honourmccann // Opinions my own etc
Haim Ashkenazy @haimashkenazy.bsky.social Postdoc in WeigelWorld @PlantEvolution, @MPI_bio. Evolution of Plant-Microbe-Microbe interactions, molecular evolution, and comparative genomics
Emma Derrick @emderrick.bsky.social PhD candidate in the Shapiro lab at McGill studying the evolution of aquatic microbial communities
David Pollock @genomesevolve.bsky.social Evolutionary and Mathematical Biology, sequence structure and function, genomes evolve, statistical theory and knowledge, empirical-theoretical interface, communication of evolutionary genetics, collaboratives, the mind-body problem, humanism
David Guttman @dguttman.bsky.social Evolutionary genomics of bacteria pathogens with particular interest in Pseudomonas syringae, plant-microbe interactions, and effector function and evolution.
Clare Abreu @clabreu.bsky.social Assistant professor of biology @ NYU. Studying microbial ecology and evolution, changing environments, mathematical modeling. abreulab.org
Caitlin Billiot, PhD @microcait.bsky.social Postdoc in the Peijun Ma Lab at St. Jude | UAB Microbiology PhD | LSU alum | Uma' seyah | Views are my own
Bhaskar Kumawat @kumawatb.bsky.social PhD Candidate | Evolution/Complex Systems, University of Michigan | kumawatb.com
Bernadeta Dadonaite @bdadonaite.bsky.social Associate Researcher @ Fred Hutch.
Aline Cuénod @alinecuenod.bsky.social Postdoc at ETH Zürich
@austenrowell.bsky.social @austenrowell.bsky.social 
@lisabono.bsky.social @lisabono.bsky.social 
Iris Jia @tongqiu.bsky.social Graduate student at UW Genome Sciences. Currently studying evolution of tiny little things