James Jaggard @jamesjaggard.bsky.social Neuroscientist - Simons foundation fellow - Instructor @Stanford
๐ปโฝ ๐งโพโ๏ธ #FirstGen
Carlo Camilloni @carlocamilloni.bsky.social Associate professor at the University of Milano.
Biophysics and computational structural biology.
https://compsb.unimi.it
Developer @plumed.org
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9923-8590
Joby Joseph @badjoby.bsky.social Neuroscience, Intra individual variability, Olfactory coding, learning and memory, neural coding
@luigi-spagnolo.bsky.social @luigi-spagnolo.bsky.social
American Medical Journal @americanmedicaljournal.com AMJ: #1 open access destination for HCPs. Peer-reviewed journals & diverse content hub. Interviews, podcasts, webinars, infographics.
๐: https://www.emjreviews.com/en-us/amj/
ESRS @esrs.bsky.social We are an international scientific non-profit organisation promoting all aspects of #SleepResearch #SleepMedicine. Making Sleep trendier than caffeine. โ
Kit D. Longden @theflyside.bsky.social Neuroscience: flies, vision, and mitochondria.
Drosophila Connectomics Group, Cambridge University &
Visiting Scientist, Francis Crick Institute
Alex Stark @alex-stark.bsky.social Scientist at IMP in Vienna. Excited about gene expression regulation and its encoding in our genomes - enhancers, transcription factors, co-factors, silencers, AI.
Kaiser Lab @clocksevolution.bsky.social Evolution, ecology & biological clocks - with a focus on lunar rhythms
in development & reproduction of the marine insect Clunio.
+ Genomics | Biodiversity | Behaviour | NeuroBio | MolBio | SciCom
bit.ly/KaiserLab
@mpi-evolbio.bsky.social @maxplanck.de
Vienna BioCenter PhD Symposium 2026 @vbc-phd-symposium.bsky.social 4th-6th Nov 2026
https://linktr.ee/vbcphdsymposium26
Alejandro Fรกbregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com Philosopher & Historian of Biology ๐ฒ๐ฝ โข Postdoctoral Fellow @theramseylab.bsky.social (@clpskuleuven.bsky.socialโฌ) โข https://www.alejandrofabregastejeda.com โข https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262052825/the-organism-environment-pairing/ โข #philsci #HPS #philsky
CAJAL Training @cajal-training.bsky.social The advanced #neuroscience hands-on #training hub based in Europe
Julie Seibt @jseibt.bsky.social Neuroscientist interested in the sleeping synapses
Ammon Perkes @alltheperkes.bsky.social Computational ethologist working in the Laskowski Lab at UC Davis. Ask me about vision based animal tracking.
Other topics may include rock climbing, DnD, and parenting. My silly little posts are not an endorsement of the current state of the world.
Atanas Stankov @neuronasko.bsky.social CUNY neuro PhD candidate. Prev. at UMich[visiting student]/Stanford/ETH Zurich & UZH/UIUC. Opinions are my own.
Open science: democratize and fund science bottom-up, not just top-down. Neuroscience needs more brains doing the job ร la Solar Punk.
@stramerlab.bsky.social @stramerlab.bsky.social
Casey Bergman @caseybergman.bsky.social Dad, bioinformatician, ex-expat. Currently working on transposon bioinformatics & infectious disease genomics.
Lewis Collins @drlewisac.bsky.social Microscopist and facility manager at University of Northampton. Background in entomology, neuroscience, behaviour, circadian, genetics, cancer, Evo Devo... Bit of everything.
Views are my own, probably down a microscope
Alex Whitworth lab @labwhitworth.bsky.social Research group at the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, University of Cambridge. Interested in all things neurodegeneration, mitochondrial dysfunction, in vivo genetics, Drosophila, mitophagy, mtDNA, calcium, gut-brain axis etc
Mara Duncan @mcduncanlab.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Michigan. I post photos of my cat and garden, and helpful tips for running a lab. Thoughts my own.
Dan J. Hayman @danjhayman.bsky.social Using Drosophila to investigate the role of RNA splicing in ageing
Vivensa Foundation ECR Fellow at the Unviersity of Sheffield, hosted in the Simons Lab. PhD in ncRNAs in ageing from the Young Lab at Newcastle University with CIMA.
Kyra Campbell @kyracampbelllab.bsky.social Developmental-biologist, Drosophililst and Fly Cancer Modeller. Fascinated by cells polarising, moving, building tissues and breaking tissues..
@alanaeclose.bsky.social @alanaeclose.bsky.social
Sergio Hidalgo Sotelo @sergiohidalgo.bsky.social ๐จ๐ฑ Neurobiologist. Assistant Professor at WSU. Seasonal Brain lab http://SeasonalBrain.com
Gabriel Aughey @gabrielaughey.bsky.social Neurobiologist at UCL. Interested in neurological disease, genetics, behaviour, and development.
Eric Joyce @ericjoyce.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Penn Epigenetics Institute
3D Genome structure and function
https://ericjoycelab.com/
Timothy Saunders @timesaunders.bsky.social Professor at Warwick Medical School interested in how complex shape emerges during embryo development. Will work on anything that can be imaged live :)
@filipepts.bsky.social @filipepts.bsky.social
Geoff Findlay @geofffindlay.bsky.social Drosophila evolutionary and reproductive geneticist at Holy Cross. Seattle sports fan. MD spouse, preschool dad, SCOTUS junkie.
Troy Shirangi @troyshirangi.bsky.social shirangilab.com
Drosophila Genomics Resource Center @dgrc.bsky.social https://dgrc.bio.indiana.edu/Home
https://www.youtube.com/@drosophilagenomicsresource4461
Account managed by DGRC Associate Directors:
Arthur Luhur and Daniel Mariyappa.
Luca Valzania @valzanial.bsky.social
Ceazar Nave @ceazarnave.bsky.social UCLA Postdoc- Drosophila Sleep/Chronobio
๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ฌโฐ๐ชฐ๐จโ๐จโ๐งโ๐ฆ๐ต๐ญ
Secombe @secombe-lab.bsky.social We love all things related to KDM5, chromatin and transcription. Interested in understanding the basis of KDM5-induced neurodevelopmental disorders using Drosophila and human iPSC models. ๐ฆ๐บ๐บ๐ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ | secombelab.org |
Jungsu Kim @jungsukim77.bsky.social Alzheimer, APOE, Actin, Txn factors, Immune, Tau, miRs, Drugs | Single cell & Spatial omics, Proteomics, QTL | ASO, siRNA, AAV | Mouse, iPSC, Drosophila, Zebrafish | Microglia, Astrocytes, Oligodendrocytes https://medicine.iu.edu/faculty/41977/kim-jungsu
Lempradl Lab @lempradllab.bsky.social The Lempradl Laboratory traces the impact of metabolic changes across generations to develop ways to predict and prevent disease.
#Drosophila
@bogdanlab.bsky.social @bogdanlab.bsky.social
Aurel A. Lazar @aalazar.bsky.social Focus on the molecular architecture and functional logic of the Drosophila brain, building interactive computing tools for the Fruit Fly Brain Observatory, computing w/ fruit fly brain circuits, creating neuroinformation processing machines.
Jeff Sekelsky @jeffsekelsky.bsky.social Sarcastic geneticist & mentor, UNC Biology. I โค๏ธ chromosomes. Card-carrying member of Genetics Society of America. Green Bay Packers owner.
Classenlab @classenlab.bsky.social Studying collective cell behaviour.
Interested in regeneration, detection of aberrant cells and tissue mechanics.
(run by the Classenlab collective)
Priscilla Akyaw @abenaakyaw.bsky.social Science apprentice, Postdoc @Vale lab ,#Drosophila #infection,#transmission, #immunity, and #evolution. Saturday is for football โฝ๏ธ Still #MUFCโค
Kriti Gupta @kritigupta.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Scientist l Drosophila Ageing l University of Glasgow
Jia Chen @chenjiajiachen.bsky.social Postdoc in Daniel St Johnston lab, fruitfly gastroenterologist.
Simon Lowe @satlowe.bsky.social Drosophilist at UCL IoN, mostly developmental movement disorders and critical periods
@kateocg.bsky.social @kateocg.bsky.social Connecting neurons and genes in flies
Alessio Vagnoni @alessiovagnoni.bsky.social Cell biologist. Interested in neurons, intracellular trafficking, ageing, and other things. Posting mainly about science.
www.vagnonilab.com
Rouven Ziegler @rouvenziegler.bsky.social Looking for Postdoc Positions
Neuroscience | Drosophila | Electrophysiology | in vivo imaging | adaptive decision-making | sensory processing | neuronal circuits | riding waves
Sweta Agrawal @hokuba.bsky.social Insect neurobiologist who โค๏ธ flies, fungi, fiber, and fbooks. Campaniform nut. Assistant prof @ UBC Zoology
Maike Kittelmann @maikekittelmann.bsky.social Senior Lecturer @ Oxford Brookes University, love to explore morphology in all sorts of organisms with microscopy.
Cheng Huang @huangchengwashu.bsky.social Assistant Professor. Department of Neuroscience @WashU. Studying dopamine in learning and movement with long-term voltage imaging in flies.
sites.wustl.edu/huanglab/
Jacob Kagey @6mileflyguy.bsky.social Professor and chair University of Detroit Mercy. Fly-CURE.
Gaynor Ann Smith @gaynorasmith.bsky.social Neuroscience researcher - cell biologist - mitochondriac - fruit fly wrangler- studies neurodegenerative diseases. Senior Lecturer (Assistant Prof.) at Cardiff University.
Denise Montell @denisemontell.bsky.social Scientist, teacher, mentor, mom, yogini, jogger, reader...we study how cells move, build, maintain, and repair tissues. Our fruit fly work has unexpectedly led us to an improved cancer immunotherapy we call RaceCAR-M.
McCabe Lab @mccabelab.org Research in our laboratory is directed towards understanding the biology of motor system circuits & synapses in tandem with exploiting these insights to ameliorate motor system neurodegenerative diseases including ALS, FTD & SMA https://mccabelab.org
Rob Waterhouse @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social Director, Environmental Bioinformatics Group at SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics @sib.swiss. Chair, European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA, @ergabiodiv.bsky.social). #biodiversity #genomics www.rmwaterhouse.org
Ariel Chipman @chipman-lab.bsky.social Arthropod Evo-Devo biologists based at the Hebrew University. Interested in body-plan evolution (especially segments and tagmata), the evolution of complexity and the evolution of diversity.
Author of text-book: Organismic Animal Biology
Maroun Bou Sleiman @marounbs.bsky.social Multidisciplinary ๐จ๐ญ&๐ฑ๐ง scientist interested in understanding the complexity of biology with the help of data, theory, and computation. PhD from EPFL๐จ๐ญ. BS and MS from AUB๐ฑ๐ง.
Publications: https://scholar.google.ch/citations?user=GbAusvkAAAAJ&hl=en
Nikki Link @nikkilink.bsky.social Fly neuro and disease. Assistant professor. Department of neurobiology. University of Utah.
Nichole Broderick, PhD @nabroderick.bsky.social microbiologist. entomologist. immunologist. Lover of science, especially at its intersections. Asst Prof of Biology at Johns Hopkins. @nabroderick elsewhere.
Stefan Harmansa @morphomechanics.bsky.social Developmental biologist with an interest in the mechanics of growth and shape generation. PI at LSI Exeter (UK) | Previously Lecuit Lab (Marseille, France) and Affolter Lab (Basel, Switzerland) |
https://lsi.exeter.ac.uk/groups/harmansa-group/
Dr. Anton Windfelder @windfelder.bsky.social I am a comparative immunologist interested in the functional and multimodal imaging of insects as alternative animal models for biomedical research.
https://www.windfelder-lab.com ๐๐ฆ
Neil Tsutsui @neiltsutsui.bsky.social Personal account
Professor-UC Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy, & Management
Director-UCB Central Sierra Field Stations
President-El Cerrito Democratic Club
ADEM Delegate-CA Dem Party
Insect behavior & genetics.
Wildland protection & management.
Isabel Almudi @isabelalmudi.bsky.social Associate professor at the University of Barcelona. Biologist interested in insects evodevo
https://www.mayflyecoevodevo.com/
James Pearce @jamescpearce.bsky.social #NC3Rs funded training fellow in the Wakefield lab at Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter. Developing genetic tools for Galleria mellonella ๐. Co-director of Galleria mellonella Research Centre @gmrc.bsky.social /@gmrcUK - https://gmrcuk.org
Katherine Parys @liquidanbar.bsky.social Entomologist. Ecologist. Photographer. Maker of things. Posts are my own thoughts/opinions.
Ian McGough ๐ช๐บ๐ฎ๐ช๐ชฐ @ianmcgough.bsky.social Group Leader @BabrahamInst Cambridge. Interested in #MorphogenSignalling #CellBio #Wnt #Hedgehog #BMP #Drosophila ๐ชฐ
Rich Meisel @richmeisel.bsky.social Professor of evo | eco | devo | geno | bio | info
Thinking bout ๐ชฐ๐งฌ๐จโ๐ป
https://linktr.ee/richmeisel
Rebecca Tarnopol @tarnopol.bsky.social Pushing flies at UC Berkeley, soon UCSF | Functional evolutionary geneticist, interested in toxins/insects/microbes
http://tarnopollab.org
Cintia A. Oi @cintiaoi.bsky.social Biologist, Postdoc @UCL, Scientific associate @NHM, passionate about nature, science and especially wasps
Ella Preger ๐๏ธ @ella-pbn.bsky.social Developmental Biology, Transcriptional Regulation, Evolution.
Fitz-James Lab @fitz-james-lab.bsky.social Molecular biology lab based at the Department of Biology, University of Oxford. Researching insect epigenetics and epigenetic inheritance.
Christopher Wheat @chriswheat.bsky.social Ecological & Evolutionary Functional Genomics, mostly butterflies. Biology Professor, Stockholm University.
Emily Hornett @bolinabug.bsky.social Evolutionary geneticist interested in natural selection, diversity drivers & response to environmental change
Insect-microbe interactions | genomics | environmental stress | colour patterns | Wolbachia | symbionts | male-killing | ladybird | butterfly
Arthropod Abbey (Abigail Hayes) @arthropodabbey.bsky.social Entomologist working to understand evolution + adaptation of arthropod phenotypes ๐ฆ Non-binary + disabled in STEM ๐งช๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธโฟ B.S. @St Mary's College of California โฉ Ph.D. in Entomology @ WSU โฉ NSF Postdoctoral Fellow @ UConn โฉ Postdoc @ UVA โฉ Faculty @ VCU
Scott P. Egan @scottpegan.bsky.social Evolutionary Biologist & Scientific Naturalist | Associate Professor | Director, E4 Initiative | @RiceUniversity #science #biology #evolution #speciation #entomology #biodiversity #genomics #discovery
Lab website: https://scottpegan.com
Leah Houri-Zeevi @leahhouri.bsky.social Postdoc in the Leslie Vosshall lab, Rockefeller University.
A molecular biologist mixing neuroscience, evolution, and immunology.
Random thoughts & interesting papers
Hina Kosakamoto @kosakamotohina.bsky.social PhD at UTokyo (Miura lab)โ 1st Postdoc at RIKEN (Obata lab) โ 2nd Postdoc at Champalimaud Foundation (Ribeiro lab). Interested in mechanisms of amino acid sensing and adaptive behavior.
Jenny Regan @jennyregan.bsky.social Biologist researching innate immunity across the life course in Drosophila ๐ชฐ Macrophages | guts | infection | sex differences | ageing | intervention.
Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh
David L. Stern @gallseeker.bsky.social Biologist
A little obsessed by aphid galls
Run a little lab @stowersinstitute.bsky.social
Provide unsolicited advice to improve your science (or any) talk at howtogiveatalk.com
Neal Silverman @nsilvermanlab.bsky.social Innate Immunologist of fruit flies and beyond. Professor of Infectious Diseases & Immunology at UMass Chan.
Chris Potter @chrispotter.bsky.social Drosophila and mosquito olfaction sensory neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins; likes combining neuroscience and genetics. Professor and Co-Director of Neuroscience Training Program.
https://potterlab.johnshopkins.edu
Danny Miller, MD, PhD @danrdanny.bsky.social CODA. Dad. Interested in genetics, long-read sequencing, and ultramarathon running. Assistant Professor at University of Washington. The command line is my happy place. https://millerlaboratory.com
Bernard Kim @bernardkim.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Princeton EEB. Popgen, evolution, genomics, and large-scale biodiversity datasets. Mostly working on Drosophila for now.
Tomas Dolezal @tomasdolezal.bsky.social Biologist studying metabolism in immunity and development of fruit flies.
Isabelle Busseau @isab19.bsky.social French CNRS researcher - Drosophila genetics - gene regulation mediated by small RNA
David Duneau @dduneau.bsky.social #newPI #JEDI studying what explain the differences in susceptibility to infection among individuals (Sex? Pathogen behavior? Environment? Stochasticity?)
Immunity/infection/sex dimorphism/plastic pollution/Droso/human
Fellow at University of Lisboa(Ce3c)
Nicolas Buchon @nicobuchon.bsky.social Associate Prof at Cornell interested in Host/microbe interactions, Gut Homeostasis, Stem Cell Biology, Innate Immunity, Vector Biology etc.
https://buchonlab.com/index.html
flyroom.net @flyroom.net Modern stock management for Drosophila research labs โ track stocks, plan crosses, and collaborate across institutions. Made by @giorgio.gilest.ro
https://www.flyroom.net
Jan M. Ache @jan-ache.bsky.social
Kirsty Grainger @kirstygrainger.bsky.social By day: enabler of research & cheerleader of people. By night: sweary embroidery, speedcubing, books, parkrun. University of Bath (ex-UKRI). She/her
Jean-Rรฉmi King @jeanremiking.bsky.social Researcher in Neuroscience & AI
CNRS, Ecole Normale Supรฉrieure, PSL
currently detached to Meta
Martin Schrimpf @mschrimpf.bsky.social NeuroAI Prof @EPFL ๐จ๐ญ. ML + Neuro ๐ค๐ง . Brain-Score, MIRAGE, TopoLM. Previously: PhD @MIT, ML @Salesforce, Neuro @HarvardMed, & co-founder @Integreat. go.epfl.ch/NeuroAI
Marios Chatzigeorgiou @mchatzigeorgiou.bsky.social Neurobiologist, Group Leader @msarscentre.bsky.social
https://www.chatzigeorgioulab.com/
Andrew Porter @retropz.bsky.social Research Integrity and Training Adviser at the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute
Interested in improving #ResearchIntegrity & #ResearchCulture with training, #TeamScience & promoting #OpenResearch
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3353-7002
Yann LeCun @yann-lecun.bsky.social Professor a NYU; Executive Chairman at AMI Labs..
Researcher in AI, Machine Learning, Robotics, etc.
ACM Turing Award Laureate.
http://yann.lecun.com
mj @malthusjohn.bsky.social Philosophy & History of Science, Complex Systems, Knowledge Management. Networks, Harmony, Co-Evolution, Autopoiesis, Neurodiversityโพ๏ธAuDhD.
Ecology, Digital Revolution ~> Information Paradigm.
Theorist, .. wait!- come back, there's more..
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Marcin J. Suskiewicz @msuskiewicz.eurosky.social Structural biologist and biochemist. CNRS researcher at CBM Orlรฉans @cbm-upr4301.bsky.social. Interested in protein modifications & interactions. Also husband, dad of 3, friend, โง. Personal website: msuskiewicz.github.io
graemefawcett @graeme.fawcett.social Bioinformatics platform engineer, trace lover, audit aficionado
Wonderfully weird from tip to tail.
"""
With YAML, Markdown and a bit of Ruby I can build you my universe
"""
--- they, as a promise
I've done two things well in my life - ๐๐๐ฉท
Robin Bisson @robinbisson.bsky.social UK News Editor, @resprofnews.bsky.social.
Mostly #researchpolicy, #researchfunding, #highered.
British Journalism Awards finalist.
Once likened to Tintin.
Also into rivers.
Tip? robin.bisson@clarivate.com
Duncan Sproul @sproullab.bsky.social Group leader at MRC Human Genetics Unit, University of Edinburgh. Interdisciplinary research on disease #epigenetics. Part-time solo dad. Occasional music and climbing.
https://institute-genetics-cancer.ed.ac.uk/research/research-groups-a-z/sproul-group