UK Human Functional Genomics Initiative @uk-fgx.bsky.social We are an MRC & BBSRC funded UK Human Functional Genomics Initiative - creating global impact through open science
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net We mobilize the fight for science and democracy - because science is for everyone! 🧬🧪🌎
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Jess Byun @jessbyun.bsky.social PhD Candidate @ UNC-chapel hill
Allison Bean, MD, PhD @allisonbeanmdphd.bsky.social Asst Prof, Physician-Scientist @ Pitt Physical Medicine & Rehab, Bethel MSK Research Center. Musculoskeletal regenerative rehabilitation researcher and sports medicine physician. She/her.
Alejandro Brenes @ajbrenes.com Wellcome Early Career Fellow @edinuni-irr.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
| neutrophils single cell proteomics | road cyclist and aero bike enthusiast 🇨🇷🏴
Creator of the Immunological Proteome Resource @immpres.bsky.social
Neil Perkins @ndperkins.bsky.social Former professor of Gene Expression and Signalling, now retired and emeritus. Dog walker.
Gayani Senevirathne @gayani.bsky.social Evo-devo, anatomy, novelties, genetics,
HHW Postdoc; Early Career Whitman Fellow ‘26
@Harvard Capellini Lab
PhD from Shubin Lab @UChicago🧬
dr. Cindy G. Boer @curlygeneticist.bsky.social Assistant Professor Erasmus MC population genomics.
Research focus: genetics, functional genomics, microbiome, osteoarthritis, pain, ME/CFS, scientific integrity 
Dr. Kat Hubert @cripple-vs-stem.bsky.social Just a cripple navigating a postdoc in academia | Founder of #labdaptations ™️ | 🦓 | Researching skeletal stem cells in fracture repair🦴
https://labdaptations.com
Anthony A. Gatti @aagatti.bsky.social Dad | Husband | @McMasterU PhD | @StanfordRad & @WuTsaiAlliance Postdoc | @CIHR_IRSC Fellow | Runner. Biker. Adventurer. Big science geek. http://anthonygattiphd.com
@drmatthewgrol.bsky.social @drmatthewgrol.bsky.social 
Europe PMC @europepmc.org Europe PMC provides comprehensive access to life sciences literature from trusted sources. It's available to anyone, anywhere for free. https://europepmc.org/
WUTang Lab @simonytanglab.bsky.social Focused on investigating mechanisms of skeletal diseases. Ph.D., MSCI. Associate Prof Orthopedic Research at WUSM. 2024-2025 Chair of
@orsspinesection
Orthopaedic Research Society @orssociety.bsky.social The home of your global orthopaedic research community. Accelerating musculoskeletal discovery to improve health. #orthoresearch #ORSAmbassador #ORSSMC #ORSSML
Woojin Han @thewooj.bsky.social Assoc Prof at Icahn SOM at Mount Sinai NYC 🌆 | Bioengineering & biomaterials for muscle stem cell mechanobiology, disease modeling & therapy discovery🧑🏻🔬
https://www.woojinhanresearch.com
Taylor Lab @taylorlabncl.bsky.social Investigating molecular mechanisms associated with mitochondrial disease and disorders of autophagy 🧬
MitoStarsLab @richterlab.bsky.social We are dedicated to improving the life of patients with mitochondrial disease by understanding the mechanisms that underlie their untreatable maladies.
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/nuact/fellows/profiles/uwerichter/
Emma Scott @dremmascott.bsky.social Prostate Cancer UK research fellow
Newcastle University
Glyco-Immunology in the tumour immune microenvironment
Cells, Genes and Molecules - Newcastle @cgm-newcastle.bsky.social Bioscientists investigating life at the cellular, genetic, epigenetic, and molecular levels in health and disease. Research Theme in the Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University.
Rosanne Raftery @rmraftery.bsky.social Researcher interested in cartilage development, maintenance, and regeneration strategies for treatment of cartilage damage
Lecturer in Physiology at University College Cork
Audrey McAlinden @mcalinden-lab.bsky.social Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Wash U Medicine. Skeletal biologist. We like RNA, especially micro-sized. 🧬🦴🐈⬛ 🏴
Schroeder Arthritis Institute 🦴 @schroeder-uhn.bsky.social 🦴 The Schroeder Arthritis Institute are researchers, clinicians and educators focused on new treatments, diagnostic tests, and models of care for arthritis.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/schroederarthritisinstitute
Shouan Zhu @shouanzhu.bsky.social Studying osteoarthritis at Ohio University 
PacBio @pacbio.bsky.social Our mission is to enable the promise of genomics to better human health by creating the world’s most advanced sequencing technologies. 
Amanda Ali @amandality.bsky.social At the helm of the Ali Lab, studying all things osteoarthritis | Assistant Scientist/Professor @HFH+MSU | Postdoc @UHN | Postdoc @UWO | PhD @UofT | Guyanese-Canadian | Mama 
@daniellerux.bsky.social @daniellerux.bsky.social 
Irene Yang (she/her) @ireneyang.bsky.social Proud ♀ Biomed Engineer | Specialty Editor @BoneJointRes | Assistant Prof in Orthopaedic Engineering @westernu, Canada | Lab: @westlab.sky.social | Edinburgh & Oxford alum | Views my own
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9316-6787
WEST Lab @UWO @westlab.bsky.social Western Engineering for Spine and Trauma - Orthopaedic Biomechanics Research Lab,📍Victoria Hospital, London, ON, Canada, University of Western Ontario.
https://sites.google.com/view/westlab-wu
Jamie Collins @colljamie.bsky.social Biostatistician, SAS-lover, R-learner, outcomes researcher, she/her.
Biostatistician at Brigham and Women's/OrACORe
https://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/125364
Matt Harkey, PhD @mattharkeyphd.bsky.social 🦵 Researching why patients after knee injury are at 📈risk for arthritis 🧪
🔎 Early OA Detection •🩻 Ultrasound Imaging •⚙️ Biomechanics
Assistant Professor • Michigan State University 🏛️
Director • Athletic Injuries & Rehabilitation (AIR) Labs 
Helen @helendietmar.bsky.social Postdoc @ Heidelberg University Hospital, interested in cartilage & the extracellular matrix. Views are my own.
Always be kind. 
Emily Johnson @ejjohnson93.bsky.social Data Scientist at UoL's CBF, PhD (UK). Specialises in spatial transcriptomics and structural biology - also public engagement and outreach! I like board games, reading, needle felting, TTGs and generally all manner of nerdy hobbies... Views are my own
Tyne and Wear Metro @my-metro.bsky.social Real time travel updates. Page monitored day and night. Abusive posts will not be tolerated. Contact: customerrelations@nexus.org.uk 0191 2020 747.
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Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Journal @oacjournal.bsky.social Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, and Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Open - official journals of OARSI. Impact factor 9.
http://www.oarsijournal.com
Anne-Marie Malfait @jointsintheworld.bsky.social for the Chicago Center on Musculoskeletal Pain (C-COMP)
please see https://mskpain.center
Ewan Birney @ewanbirney.bsky.social Director of EMBL-EBI. I have an insatiable love of biology. Consultant to ONT and Cantata (Dovetail)
Emily Goldberg @dremilygoldberg.bsky.social Immunologist, metabolism enthusiast. Associate Professor. Woman in science
Lindsey Lammlin @zlammlin.bsky.social Post doctoral researcher studying PTOA🐭
Forneris Lab @UniPV @fornerislab.bsky.social The Armenise Harvard laboratory of Structural Biology at the University of Pavia, Italy. We study molecular recognition using #structuralbiology (#crystallography and #cryoEM).
http://fornerislab.unipv.it
Narbi Price @narbiprice.bsky.social Artist, curator, Gateshead UK.
www.narbiprice.co.uk 
Jen Westendorf @jwestendorf.bsky.social Bone and osteoarthritis researcher. humbled to be Chair, Dept Biochemistry & Molecular Biology@MayoClinic President@ASBMR. Views expressed are my own.
Nature Reviews Rheumatology @natrevrheum.nature.com Posts from the editors of Nature Reviews Rheumatology, the top review journal in the field, covering the latest advances.
http://www.nature.com/nrrheum/index.html
#Rheumsky #Medsky
Penn Rheumatology @pennrheum.bsky.social Penn Medicine's Division of Rheumatology, a national leader in diagnosis, treatment, and research in autoimmune diseases 
WashU Medicine Division of Rheumatology @washumedrheum.bsky.social Washu Medicine Division of Rheumatology applies a multidisciplinary approach to the understanding and advancement of research, education and medical care related to rheum.
Https://rheumatology.washu.edu
The American Journal of Human Genetics @ajhgnews.bsky.social Flagship journal of the American Society of Human Genetics
https://www.cell.com/AJHG/home
Editor-in-Chief: @kiranmusunuru.bsky.social
Farshid Guilak @farsh-g.bsky.social @ShrinersStLouis @wustlortho @washubme @washudevbio @wustlCRM @theNAMedicine @theNAEng @AcadofInventors @cytexortho @MyAOCConnect #racquetball
Chia-Lung Wu @chialungwu.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Orthopaedics-University of Rochester @ROC_CMSR | Proud dad of 3 cats/6 ducks & inspired by their unconditional love every day | Coffee addict
Frank Beier @beierlab.bsky.social Researcher working on skeletal biology & #osteoarthritis. Chair of Physiology and Pharmacology @westernu. Living with stage 4 #AdenoidCysticCarcinoma. Interested in environment, EDI, & other woke things.
www.westernconnect.ca/beier
Rachel Miller @rem7106.bsky.social Assoc Prof, Division of Rheumatology, Rush, Chicago Center on Musculoskeletal Pain.
Please see mskpain.center
Cell - a Cell Press journal @cp-cell.bsky.social Cell aims to publish the most exciting and provocative research in biology. Posts by Scientific Editors on the Cell editorial team. See the latest papers at https://www.cell.com/cell/
Helen Walden @hw1o9.bsky.social Scientist, Feminist, Mother, Drinker
Satanik Mukherjee @satanikm.bsky.social Post-doctoral researcher in Guilak Lab @WashU. PhD @ KU Leuven. Member of #ORSSMC. Co-chair of #CartilageGRS2025
Derek Mann @damann1.bsky.social Scientist, mentor, husband, father, grandfather, rugby fan, Man Utd supporter, cook, grateful cancer survivor researching cancer immunology.
Dr Emily Clarke @eclarkesci.bsky.social Uni of Liverpool. BSc (Hons). MRes. AFHEA. PhD. Post doctoral researcher @LabPeffers. Veterinary. Equine MSK conditions. Biologics. EVs. Omics. 🐎🔬
Grith Højfeldt @grithhojfeldt.bsky.social All things muscle - synthesis, breakdown, damage and regeneration.
Postdoc at @ismcopenhagen.bsky.social
Dr Ally Louks @drallylouks.bsky.social ✍🏻 Author 📚Literary Scholar 👩🏻🏫 Public Academic👃🏻Smell Expert 📖 UNDER YOUR NOSE: Spring 2027
Adam Byron @iamabyron.bsky.social Cell adhesion networks group leader #cancer #ECMatrix #proteomics #nucleus
#NewPI @thebyronlab.bsky.social University of Manchester
A personal account 🧬🧫 🎶🎹 📷🎨 🦅 🏏
Development @dev-journal.bsky.social Development is a leading research journal in the field of developmental biology, covering stem cells, regeneration, evo-devo, epigenetics, morphogenesis and more. @biologists.bsky.social
Sade Clayton @sadewill.bsky.social Bibliophile, scientist, dog mom
https://sadewill93.wixsite.com/sadewill
Dr Jolet Mimpen @joletmimpen.bsky.social Arthritis UK Foundation Fellow at NDORMS, University of Oxford.
🇳🇱 living in 🇬🇧
Interested in osteoarthritis pathophysiology & tendon biology.
The Royal Society @royalsociety.org The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.
https://royalsociety.org/
Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social Assistant Prof, @uoftnutrisci.bsky.social @uoftmedicine.bsky.social.
Experimental #Metabolism Researcher, #Dietitian.
Associate Editor, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
By way of: UC Berkeley, Baylor CoM, NIH, Cornell
Kcklatt.substack.com
Stefaan Verbruggen @docbruggsbunny.bsky.social Irish bioengineer, Lecturer in #MedTech at @QMULSEMS & @QMULCPM
Interested in musculoskeletal #mechanobiology & #metastasis (he/him) 🇮🇪🇪🇺🏳️🌈
https://www.theverbruggenlab.com/
KasiaWhysall @kasiawhysall.bsky.social Associate Professor, Vice Dean EDI University of Galway, researching microRNAs in muscle and ageing
OOEC_Oxford @ooec-oxford.bsky.social Research Group based at NDORMS, @universityofoxford.bsky.social and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre employing engineering to improve joint replacement. Home of the Oxford Unicompartmental Knee Replacement #orthosky #biomechanics #knees 
Science Magazine @science.org Cutting-edge research, news, commentary, and visuals from the Science family of journals. https://www.science.org
Frank Zaucke @fzaucke.bsky.social Head of a reserach lab at the University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University. Interested in the role of the #cartilage and #bone #extracellular #matrix in common and rare skeletal diseases, in particular #osteoarthritis and #osteogenesis imperfecta
David Wilkinson @dwilkinsonlab.bsky.social Protein biochemist interested in proteinases, ECM and osteoarthritis. University of Liverpool.
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/david-john-wilkinson
Genetics Society UK @gensocuk.bsky.social The Genetics Society was founded by William Bateson & Edith Rebecca Saunders in 1919 & is one of the oldest learned societies devoted to Genetics in the world.
Sarah Snelling @sarahsnelling.bsky.social University of Oxford | Transcriptomics | Musculoskeletal development, growth and pathology 🦴 | Sarcoma | Inflammation | Fibrosis | Biomaterials
Skier ⛷️, Runner, Mum and inept mountain biker 
Chao lab @gracechao.bsky.social Cell and tissue engineering laboratory at National Taiwan University, with particular interest in orthopedic and vascular mechanobiology and tissue engineering
Scott Dillon @dillonbonebio.bsky.social Northern Irish postdoc with Duer Lab, University of Cambridge. #Bone, #biomineralization, #ECMatrix biology, #electronmicroscopy, solid state #NMR. Views my own (he/him).
Prof Stephanie Dakin @dakinlabgroup.bsky.social Professor of Musculoskeletal Sciences interested in advancing understanding of inflammation and fibrosis, horse vet and horse crazy
Stephanie Cone, PhD @stephaniegcone.bsky.social Orthopaedic biomechanist
Tendon enthusiast
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Delaware
@callie-weber.bsky.social @callie-weber.bsky.social @StanfordMed Postdoc | @UMDBIOE PhD | @VandyBME alum
Cellular metabolism in bone regeneration 🧪
Abigail Mackey @abigailmackey1.bsky.social Clinical Professor of Muscle Physiology and Regeneration after Traumatic Soft-tissue Injury @ismcopenhagen.bsky.social
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2017-4580
#MyoBlue
Kayla Seymore @kseymore.bsky.social Postdoc, USC Biokinesiology & PT
PhD, University of Delaware BIOMS
Biomechanics, clinical rehab, tendons
Co-founder: Black Biomechanists Association
Kevin Baker @orthoengineer.bsky.social Husband | Father | Assoc. Scientist @hfhs-bjc.bsky.social, Assoc. Professor @ Michigan State CHM | Orthopaedic Research (mostly osteoarthritis and intervertebral disc degeneration) | All things: #Detroit, U.P., Great Lakes Freighters, Local Sports
Lauren Surface @lsurface.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UMich studying mysteries of the skeleton and cells. Dreaming of trees.
Margaret A. McNulty @drmamcnulty.bsky.social Comparative anatomist, medical educator #MedEd #vetmed, advocate for #OneHealth, ortho researcher, crazy horse girl 🦄, lover of animals and nature, hater of hypocrisy.
Hope Welhaven, PhD @thehopefulscie1.bsky.social PhD in Biochemistry | Postdoc UCSF ortho | #massspec meets #ortho | she/her
Amro Hussien @amrohussien.bsky.social HFSP/EMBO Fellow @MaxPlanck.de (Wickström Lab) | Prev. @ETHZ.ch, @UCL.ac.uk |
First-principles in: #Mechanobiology • #EpigeneticMemories • #Inflammation • #Tendon
Christopher J Hernandez @profhernandez.bsky.social Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery and Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences @UCSF and Bioengineering @UCBerkeley #bone #microbiome #biomechanics #mechanobiology #engineeredlivingmaterials
https://www.hernandezresearch.com
Blaine Christiansen @blainechristiansen.bsky.social Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Chair of Biomedical Engineering Graduate Group at UC Davis. Baseball dad, sports fan, brewery enthusiast, occasional bicyclist.
Thibaux Van der Stede @thibauxvanderstede.bsky.social Postdoc in molecular immunology and inflammation of musculoskeletal diseases @VIB-UGent Inflammation Research Center - Former PhD in muscle and exercise physiology @WimDerave lab
Kasia Pirog @kasiapirog.bsky.social Geneticist, cartilage biologist, mountaineer. Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University. All views my own. blogs.ncl.ac.uk/piroglab
The Sheyn Lab @sheynlab.bsky.social Orthopedic Stem Cell Research Lab of Dmitriy Sheyn, PhD develops disease models and stem cell therapies for #BackPain #Spine #Tendon #SportsMedicine #MSK
https://www.cedars-sinai.edu/health-sciences-university/research/labs/sheyn.html
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.
Craig M. Crews @craigmcrews.bsky.social 
María C. de Andrés @mcdeandres.bsky.social 
McAllister Lab @mcallisterlab.bsky.social Research group at Newcastle University led by Royal Society University Research Fellow Tom McAllister using chemical biology approaches to better understand protein glycosylation, escpecially 🟨
https://blogs.ncl.ac.uk/tommcallister/
Steve Clifford @profsclifford.bsky.social Childhood Cancer Research Prof | Director Newcastle University Centre for Cancer | Representing myself
Newcastle University @newcastleuni.bsky.social Official page for Newcastle University UK, a founding member of the Russell Group of Research intensive universities, and a Global Top 140 university. #WeAreNCL
Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social Population and evolutionary genetics @UCDavis. Posts, grammar, & spelling are my views only. He/him. #OA popgen book https://github.com/cooplab/popgen-notes/releases
Mark McCarthy @markmccarthy985.bsky.social Bluesky newbie. Twitter exile. Previously Professor of Diabetes in Oxford, now heading human genetics at Genentech. Living the California dream. Views my own. #YNWA
Jack B. Roberts @jackbroberts.bsky.social Vivensa Foundation ECR Fellow at Newcastle University
Gene Regulation | Osteoarthritis | Cartilage | Genetics
Troels Kjeldsen @tkjeldsen.bsky.social MSc, PhD, PostDoc. I do research in muskuloskeletal conditions with a primary focus on exercise-induced physiological changes in osteoarthritis
Helen French @hpfrench.bsky.social Chartered CORU-registered Physio, PhD. Associate Professor RCSI
Research: osteoarthritis, gluteal tendinopathy best-practice rehab and models of care, advanced practice,
Fulbright Scholar 2017-2018. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0300-4395