Nate Bethea @inthesedeserts.bsky.social before you get mad at me and reply to my posts, please bear in mind that I don't live in America. I am part of @trashfuture.bsky.social @lionsledbydonkeys.bsky.social and I am 1/2 of secondhomesband.com
November Kelly @postoctobrist.bsky.social podcastress. she/her but they/them if you’re mad at me. Trashfuture/Well There’s Your Problem/Kill James Bond/No Gods No Mayors/Be Gay Solve Crimes available wherever podcasts are sold
TRASHFUTURE @trashfuture.bsky.social Podcast about the bad times
trashfuture.co.uk
No Gods No Mayors Podcast @nogodsnomayors.com @postoctobrist.bsky.social, @mattielubchansky.com, and @raaleh.bsky.social cover every mayor, in order. nogodsnomayors.com
The Ramsey Lab @theramseylab.bsky.social The Ramsey philosophy of biology lab at KU Leuven, Belgium.
https://www.theramseylab.org • #HPbio #philsci #philsky #evosky #paleosky #cogsci #AI
Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
Anna Thomas @annathommy.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/annarosethomas
Jin Hao Li @jinhaoli.bsky.social Is this how we heal? 
Madeleine Brettingham @littlemaddles.bsky.social Writer. Performer. Amateur fencer.
Legend, Soho Theatre, 29-31st Oct: https://sohotheatre.com/events/madeleine-brettingham-legend
About: www.madeleinebrettingham.com
Substack: https://madeleinebrettingham.substack.com
Miyauna M.N. Incarnato @sciwithmiy.bsky.social PhD candidate @ UNL | inverts, eco-evo-devo, genetics, understanding organismal resilience to global change 🌊🌡️🧬 🔬🧂|
also: writer, baker, avid reader of political/social theory and vintage magazines, locavore living👩🏽💻📚👩🏽🔬🌈
Tom Ballard @tomcballard.bsky.social “Funny” “man”.
My special IT IS I is out now on @800pgm. Watch THE REFERENDUM SPECIAL on Sunday Oct 13th. Co-host of the Serious Danger podcast.
linktr.ee/tomballard
@mrnishkumar.bsky.social @mrnishkumar.bsky.social 
Paddy Young @paddyisyoung.bsky.social 
GregDaviesComedian @gregdaviescomedian.bsky.social Gregdavies.co.uk
@gregdavies on instagram
Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social Thief of Joy: A Comedy Special NOW ON YOUTUBE
Host of The Downside Podcast
If I have to post on another one of these things I’m gonna kms
Sofie Hagen @sofiehagen.bsky.social Comedian. Author. Podcaster.
sofiehagen.com/newsletter for hot goss straight to your inbox.
Pierre Novellie @pierrenovellie.bsky.social Stand up, co-host of BudPod w/ Glenn Moore, BUTTON BOYS w/ Glenn and Sarah Keyworth, read my comedian’s guide to autism book, listen to my Radio 4 show
Ed Campbell @edcmpbl.bsky.social I make content your ex-boyfriend would like / politicsJOE journalist
Glue Factory @gluefactorypod.bsky.social Comedy podcast from Milo Edwards, Pierre Novellie, Olga Koch and Riley - new episodes every Wednesday!
https://linktr.ee/gluefactorypod
Grace Jarvis @gracejarvisohno.bsky.social I am a stand-up comedian and that is okay
https://linktr.ee/gracejarvis
Kaiser Lab @clocksevolution.bsky.social Evolution x Ecology x Biological Clocks x Intertidal:
focus on lunar rhythms in development & reproduction of marine insects.
+ Genomics | MolBio | Behaviour | ChemEcol | Biodiversity | SciCom
bit.ly/KaiserLab
@mpi-evolbio.bsky.social @maxplanck.de
Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social Just a bunch of crabs in a trench coat, but also a professor of marine biology. My social media does not represent my employer. No AI. Please bring croissants 🥐
https://linktr.ee/rebeccarhelm
Michael Hiller @hillermich.bsky.social Prof. of Comparative Genomics @ Senckenberg Frankfurt; Genomics, Evolution, Comp Bio & the Phenotype-Genotype Question.
https://hillerlab.com
The EMBO Journal @embojournal.org Non-for-profit publication of research in molecular, cell & organismal biology - as part of @embopress.org
Fast-fair-transparent / Open Access / Open Science
A. Murat Eren (Meren) @merenbey.bsky.social Professor of Ecosystem Data Science at @hifmb.bsky.social studying the ecology and evolution of microbes through high-resolution 'omics and #anvio
Drew Sauve (he/him) @sauvedrew.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Ontario Tech University #NewPI & #NewParent
Applied Quantitative Genetics
Conservation Biology | Evolutionary Ecology | Forensics
https://sauvelab.github.io/
Rachel C Thayer @rcthayer.bsky.social Evolution of structural color in butterflies🦋🌈 Reproductive functional evolution 🧬 Postdoc | UC Davis
🌐 sites.google.com/view/rachelcthayer/welcome
Biology Open @biologyopen.bsky.social Facilitating rapid review for accessible research - an online only, #OpenAccess @biologists.bsky.social peer reviewed journal for research across all aspects of the biological sciences.
The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social Not-for-profit publisher of Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology, Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open. Host of community sites the Node, preLights and FocalPlane. Supporting biologists and inspiring biology.
Andrew Carroll @acarroll.bsky.social Product lead Genomics Google Research
Stu West @stuwest.bsky.social Evolution. He/him/his. Views not my own. 🐵🦄🏳️🌈👨🔬🍜
Frank Venter @vfrank.bsky.social 🇿🇦 in 🏴 | Postdoctoral Researcher at Edinburgh Uni | Parasitology, Coinfection, and Drug Resistance | Views are my own
Eleanore Ritter (she/her) @eleanoreritter.bsky.social Postdoc in Andrea Sweigart's lab at UGA. Fascinated by plant reproductive modes and genome/epigenome evolution.
PhD work in grapevine (mostly) 🍇 Currently working in monkeyflowers 🌼 Lifelong lover of all plants 🌿
Opinions expressed are solely my own.
Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social Writer, actor, audiobook narrator, notorious tryhard 
Nicolas Di-Poi @nicolasdipoi.bsky.social Ecological and Evolutionary Developmental Biologist on craniofacial tissues in reptile models 🐍🦎🐢🐊
Research Director @helsinki-biotech.bsky.social (https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/vertebrate-evolution-development-and-regeneration)
Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social Cell biologist excited about autophagy, quality control, evolution, and membrane trafficking. Reads and thinks about academic mentoring, equality & diversity. https://ydagdas-lab.github.io/Lab-Website/
Guy Leonard @guyleonard.eurosky.social Bioinformatician w/ Tom Richards & Team at @oxfordbiology.bsky.social
Homebrewer. WSET Beer Level 2.
Rejoiner 🇪🇺🤝🇬🇧
AI is not 'inevitable', resist its uncritical adoption.
I unfollow everyone who hypes/uses genAI/LLMs/agentic coding.
@johnlrichards.bsky.social @johnlrichards.bsky.social 
Markella Moraitou @markella-morait.bsky.social PhD student
@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
(via 🇬🇷 🇸🇪 🇵🇹 🇹🇹 🇪🇸) studying oral microbiome evolution using museum specimens 💀
#evolution #museomics #microbiome #genomics
Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social Bestselling author of THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War; THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series; C Street; THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; & SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE. AI stole them all. Professing @ Dartmouth. That's not my cat.
Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com Maker of stuff that makes you laugh.
www.ifycomedy.com
Hugh Possingham @hugepossum.bsky.social Birdwatcher, conservation scientist and mathematician
Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social Soc of Work + Platform Labor | Head of Sociology, University of Edinburgh | https://workersobservatory.org | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society
Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social Pulitzer-winning investigative journo at New Yorker. Documentaries at HBO. Ex-diplomat. Bad lawyer. Disused phd. Tips: ronan_farrow@newyorker.com.
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com
David Wengrow @davidwengrow.bsky.social Professor of Comparative Archaeology at UCL | co-author, New York Times bestseller #TheDawnOfEverything | working on a sequel #TheThirdFreedom | media enquiries: MFlashman@janklow.com
Josie McPherson @josiemcpherson.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Edinburgh studying individuality in behaviour in frogs 🐸🐸
Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social Writer, journalist, researcher, trade unionist
Defector @defector.com The last good website.
Financial Times @financialtimes.com The best of FT journalism, including breaking news and analysis.
https://www.ft.com
The users this account follows are verified FT staff or contributors.
Michael Habig @michaelhabig.bsky.social Group leader at Kiel University interested in Fungal Genomics, Accessory Chromosome and Horizontal Chromosome Transfer. Interaction between fungi and animals.
https://fungal-evolutionary-genetics.de/
nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of Decoder, cohost of The Vergecast. I am in love with spectacle.
Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social Professor of Computational Cognitive Science | Dept. of Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence | @Iris@scholar.social on 🦣 | http://irisvanrooijcogsci.com | she/they 🏳️🌈
Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social Linguist, Cognitive Scientist, Occasional AI Researcher, Immigrant in NYC, Co-Author w/ Ingeborg Glimmer of 'Why We Fear AI' - out now: https://bookshop.org/a/114797/9781945335174
ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com anthropologist [no longer] yelling at engineers. feral.
signal -> @ali.01
Germán Hernández-Alonso @germanha.bsky.social Postdoc at The University of Edinburgh, UK. Evolution| PopGenomics| Vertebrates| aDNA 🧬
Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social Freelance journalist and researcher. Author ‘La fortezza automatica. Se l’IA decide chi può varcare i confini’ (Bollati Boringhieri, 2025). I publish 'Fragile', a newsletter on AI, democracy and society, every Monday.
Dr. Catherine Scott @cataranea.bsky.social No-longer-a-professional arachnologist/behavioural ecologist/natural historian; current research-admin type & luddite. I also knit, sew, & have strong opinions. Pronouns: she or they
Abstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social (sometimes-computational) linguist, AI/ML unenthusiast, Luddite, they/he
I periodically auto-delete my old posts and likes
https://linktr.ee/abstract_tesseract
Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social Professor at University of Glasgow in beautiful Scotland. Views obviously my own and not medical advice or representative of my employers. Hate injustice and worried about the future of healthcare (and humanity)! ☮️
Michael Barany @mbarany.com Historical and cultural theories about maths and science theories. Fields Medal killjoy. Scotland enjoyer. formerly @mbarany on birdsite and intermittently @mjb@mathstodon.xyz on fediverse
Srravya @srravya.bsky.social researching data work, AI production networks
interested in critical data/AI studies, tech + labour, feminist STS, HCI
currently research fellow, planetary AI project @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social Socialist, antifascist, writer in various places, geriatric millennial, GQ's 9th Worst Dressed Man in 2016. He/him. YouTube channel http://bit.ly/33iARb3 🏳️🌈
Juliette Rowsell @julietterowsell.bsky.social Reporter at @timeshighered.bsky.social covering employment issues, pensions and job cuts ✍️ juliette.rowsell@timeshighereducation.com ✉️
Gina Helfrich @ginahelfrich.bsky.social Centre for Technomoral Futures @ U of Edinburgh. PhD in Philosophy, Grad Cert in Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies.
Texan. Feminist.
I’m on Mastodon and encourage you to be there, too: techpolicy.social/@ginahelfrich
Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social Queer-owned and woman-led independent community bookshop. 🏳️🌈 An unapologetically activist, intersectional, feminist, antiracist, lgbtq+ community space.
Find us at https://lighthousebookshop.com/
Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
Roller derby athlete
https://alex-hanna.com
Book: thecon.ai
Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k
🇪🇬Ⲛⲓⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ
🏳️⚧️ she/هي
📸 @willtoft.bsky.social
Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
Alice Ross @alice-ross.bsky.social Linguist, anarchist, reader, overthinker, cat enthusiast. PhD student at CSTR, University of Edinburgh: I research speech technology and its social impacts.
ייִדיש אויך מעגלעך.
https://alice-ross.github.io/- A Adam Lopez @adamlopez.bsky.social
ICE must be destroyed 🏳️⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social Host of It Could Happen Here (and sometimes Behind the Bastards) for Cool Zone Media. Proud iHeart Podcast Union member Ending every post(?) with Moreover, ICE must be destroyed She/Her
Zeerak Talat زیرک طلعت (they/them) @zeerak.bsky.social Thinking about content moderation, equity, machine learning, and natural language processing.
Now: Chancellor's Fellow (~Asst. Prof) @technomoralfutures.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
Past: MBZUAI, SFU, Uni of. {Sheffield, CPH}
Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, FRSE. Co-Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and BRAID @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2016) and The AI Mirror (2024). Views my own. Humble servant to Carol and Puffin. She/her.
Claudia González-Márquez @gonzalezmarquez.bsky.social Teaching and Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence, Data and the Rule of Law @ University of Edinburgh
NeuroAI Legal Scholar https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/people/dr-claudia-gonzalez-marquez
Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social Part of the University of Edinburgh’s Futures Institute, our work aims to unify technical and moral knowledge to serve the goals of sustainable, just & ethical innovation.
Find us here: https://www.technomoralfutures.uk/
Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social Professor of Molecular Microbiology, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Editor at Microbial Genomics & mBio, Scouse, interested in Streptomyces, Evolution, Antibiotics, AMR, microbiology, Phage, herpetology, Cricket, EvertonFC
Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social Your least favourite person's least favourite award-winning journalist✨
Follow for short-form videos on issues that matter! 💅
SUBSCRIBE: rachelgilmore.substack.com/
https://linktr.ee/rachel_gilmore
Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social Anarchism. A Very Short Introduction (https://tinyurl.com/54r98nv6), Constitutionalising Anarchy with Ruth Kinna (https://tinyurl.com/4y9pn3v4 coming soon). Uni Exeter, UCU, HEC Rep. UCU Commons. DM me re anything UCU UK-wide HE. I’m your rep. #ynwa
Aline Muyle @aline-muyle.bsky.social CNRS researcher at ISEM in Montpellier, France.
I study plant genomics and epigenomics, with a focus on sex chromosome and mating system evolution.
https://sites.google.com/view/muyle-lab
https://instats.org/seminar/analysis-of-dna-methylation-20
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”
Johannes Debler @jwdebler.bsky.social Molecular Biologist / part time Bioinformatician, Nanopore enthusiast, Sci-Fi fiend, Wingsuit pilot
Pankaj Dhakad @pankajd.bsky.social Postdoc at UC Davis
Bioinformatics | Evolutionary genetics | Molecular evolution
Gregor Gorjanc @gregorgorjanc.bsky.social Managing and improving populations using data science, genetics and breeding: @HighlanderLab, @RoslinInstitute, & @TheDickVet.
https://www.ed.ac.uk/roslin/highlanderlab
Lior Pachter @lpachter.bsky.social Bren Professor of Computational Biology @Caltech.edu. Blog at http://liorpachter.wordpress.com. Posts represent my views, not my employer's. #methodsmatter
Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social trailcams
no AI ever
Maud Tenaillon @maudtenaillon.bsky.social Eco-evo geneticist with special interest on human-plant interactions. @CNRS @Paris-Saclay. Mom in Science.
@ideevl.bsky.social @ideevl.bsky.social https://www.ideev.universite-paris-saclay.fr/
Arnaud Le Rouzic @arnaudlerouzic.bsky.social CNRS researcher (IDEEV, Université Paris-Saclay, France).
Evolutionary genetics, theoretical quantitative genetics, systems biology.
Associate editor at J. Evol. Biol.
Bridge to my Mastodon account: @arnaudlerouzic.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Man Carrying Thing @mancarryingthing.bsky.social Books
Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org is this the one that wins
Katy @katyboots.bsky.social Postdoc with @HelenWeavers @BristolBiochem 🔬 PhD with @FelipeKTeixeira @GeneticsCam
Interested in stress responses, translational regulation, development 🪰
EdinburghMinute.com @edinburghminute.com The Edinburgh Minute newsletter. Read by 30,000+ locals. Get smarter about Edinburgh with a quick curation of news, culture & communities @ 7am daily 📬 Proudly subscriber-supported.
Written by Michael MacLeod along with thousands of local contributors.
Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social Greens Senator for NSW. Living and working on unceded Gadigal land.
Authorised by David Shoebridge, Australian Greens, Canberra ACT 2600
Wellcome Sanger Institute @sangerinstitute.bsky.social We are a world leader in genomics research. We apply and explore genomic technologies to advance the understanding of biology and improve health 🧬
https://www.sanger.ac.uk/
Frances Swift @francesswift213.bsky.social PhD student | Evolutionary biology 🦋
Shravan Raghu @shravanraghu.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Edinburgh studying phytoplankton responses to warming
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social Just a soul whose intentions are good | she/her 🇱🇹🇦🇺 Insta- ifyouseeamy/pyjamapolitics
aremeikis@thenewdaily.com.au
Sophie Rae Lichterman @whysophiewhy.bsky.social Dog Mom to Anderson & Truman, Head of Creative & Managing Executive Producer at Cool Zone Media. She/Her.
https://www.coolzonemedia.com/
e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online cyberbullying elon musk since 2015, author of "ludicrous: the unvarnished story of tesla motors" (2019) and "elon take the wheel" (dec 2026, preorders now open), cohost of the autonocast, program director for the ride ai summit, occasional shark/frog
Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social Cell adhesion, cytoskeletal regulation, Wnt signaling & wherever science leads us + wildflowers & my own idiosyncratic views. First gen college grad
Diversity, equity & Inclusion are core American Values
https://peiferlab.web.unc.edu