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LIA 福振凡 🇺🇳🇨🇳🇺🇸 @fuzhenfan.bsky.social University of Chicago alum
United Nations contractor
Human Rights Campaign, Trevor Project, and the Chicago Board of Elections contributor, et al.
Views are my own | Not my employer
Personal account
Hainan -> Chicago
Meg Younger @megyounger.bsky.social Neuroscientist with too many plants.
Assistant professor @bu-biology.
she/her
youngerlaboratory.org
Niko Sirmpilatze @nikosirmpilatze.com London-based neuroscientist 🧠 & research software engineer 💻 developing free and open-source tools for studying brains & behaviour, @neuroinformatics.dev @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social at UCL.
Committed to open, collaborative, and reproducible science.
Victor Ajuwon @victorajuwon1.bsky.social Postdoc in the Comparative Cognition Lab, Cambridge Psychology Department working on cognition and curiosity in cuttlefish🐙 and other animals. Formerly DPhil student at Oxford Biology. https://vajuwon.weebly.com
Deryk Tolman @deryktolman.bsky.social Behavioural ecology and coevolution. I like cuckoos. He/Him
Drew Schreiner @schreinerdrew.bsky.social learning | neuroethology | basal ganglia | birdsong | decision-making | natural history | Current K99 Postdoc Rich Mooney @Duke | PhD Christina Gremel @UC San Diego
On the faculty job market 2026-27: https://drewschreiner.github.io/
Jeremiah Cohen @jeremiahycohen.bsky.social Professor of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota
Shreya Dube (they/them) @neuroshreya.bsky.social 🇮🇳🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈. LIDo DTP scholar, Interested in Evolutionary Developmental/ Comparative Neuroscience, Welfare, Avians, and the environment! MRes Neuroscience at University of St. Andrews, previously at Newcastle University
Josie McPherson @josiemcpherson.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Edinburgh studying individuality in behaviour in frogs 🐸🐸
Utsab Majumder @utsabmajumder.bsky.social Graduate student @uniklinikbonn @DAAD_Germany I Formerly @iiscbangalore | Khorana Scholar'19 @WinstepF @Harvard | @Presiuniv, Kolkata
Victor Nieto @victorenc.bsky.social PhD student @princetonneuro 🧠🐒
MSc EvoBio MEME 🇸🇪🇫🇷🇩🇪, BSc Genomics LCG 🇲🇽
George Hodgson @ghodgson.bsky.social Postdoctoral fellow interested in sociality, social cognition and animal behaviour. Fond of fish, molerats and trees 🐄
Katie West @katw3st.bsky.social EEB PhD Student @ Indiana University | Saltz Lab | Interested in social networks, microclimates, communication, and genetics 🪰🐒🦀🐕 🐬🦧| NSF IRES Grad
International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org Promoting the study of the neural bases of behavior.
@ibrahimtastekin.bsky.social @ibrahimtastekin.bsky.social 
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
Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social Award Winning Editorial Cartoonist, Toronto Star, and National Treasure
Department of Experimental Psychology @oxexppsy.bsky.social News and updates from the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.
Benjamin Nicholas @benjaminnicholas.bsky.social Conductor of the Choir of Merton College, Oxford and the Oxford Bach Choir.
Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com Philosopher & Historian of Biology 🇲🇽 • Postdoctoral Fellow @theramseylab.bsky.social (@clpskuleuven.bsky.social) • https://www.alejandrofabregastejeda.com • https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262052825/the-organism-environment-pairing/ • #philsci #HPS #philsky
James Webb 🔴 Gallery @webb-telescope.bsky.social Regular posts of images related to the James Webb Space Telescope.
This account is not associated with NASA. Posts are sourced from esawebb.org/images and www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope
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Petros Ligoxygakis @petrosligoxygakis.bsky.social Studying host-pathogen interactions, immunity beyond infection. Prof of Innate Immunology at Oxford University and Fellow/Tutor at Hertford College. #Innate Immunity #Drosophila
Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social Drosophila enthusiast. Assistant Professor of Mol Bio and Biochem. Runner. Reader. Uses brain to think about brains. All around curious person.
Jason Shepherd @jasonsynaptic.bsky.social 🇿🇦🇳🇿🇺🇸Neuroscientist/amateur virologist. Professor and Director of the Molecular Biology Graduate Program, University of Utah. Molecular mechanisms of memory, repurposed transposons, and virus-like intercellular signaling. Personal views.
www.shepherdlab.org
Irene Miguel-Aliaga @irenemiguel-aliaga.bsky.social Eternally asking questions.
Likes guts.
Has guts.
And a lab at the Francis Crick Institute @thecrick.bsky.social
https://www.crick.ac.uk/research/labs/irene-miguel-aliaga
Andrew Straw @andrewstraw.bsky.social I'm a Professor in the Faculty of Biology at the University of Freiburg, Germany. I'm fascinated by visual navigation in insects. We study this and also develop tools to help us with that. https://strawlab.org/
Sophie Caron @thecaronlab.bsky.social Je me souviens, Drosophila edition
🧪,🧠,🪰,🔥🧘🏻♀️&💗
Associate Professor
School of Biological Sciences
University of Utah
www.thecaronlab.com
Adam Hantman @adamhantman.bsky.social Husband, dad, neuroscientist, Governing Board member of Raynor Cerebellum Project, sailor, outdoor enthusiast, struggling athlete. 
Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social Books and Archives since 1683.
Website: orkneylibrary.org.uk
Linktree: linktr.ee/orkneylibrary
Paul Katz @pkatz.bsky.social Seaslug neuroethologist at UMass Amherst
Shubham Rathore Ph.D. MSc. @shubhamtr.bsky.social Neuroethologist interested in visual system development and sensory integration across time scales 🦟🪲🐜🕷️🐞🐁
Ph.D. : Buschbeck lab @ University of Cincinnati
Prev. at : Hattar lab @ NIMH / NIH
Postdoc : Reiser lab @ Janelia Research Campus
muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social Need a content writer? Award-winning columnist seen in Truthdig, Nation, Guardian, Rolling Stone, NBC, TNR. Host of the "It's Christmastown" Hallmark movies podcast with David Roth & "Quaid in Full" with Sarah Bunting. He/Him. Fl.
https://linktr.ee/mobute
Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social Award-winning home tank for all things #zebrafish! Connect with us at https://linktr.ee/zebrafishrock 🐟🎸
Natural History Museum, London @nhm-london.bsky.social We’re the museum looking deeper into the Earth’s past to shape a new future where both people and planet thrive.
Protecting the planet, it’s in our nature. 🌍
Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social Professor of Energy & Climate Policy at University of Oxford
Energy Programme Leader at ECI, University of Oxford
Senior Research Fellow at Oriel College, Oxford
Senior Associate Institute for Sustainability Leadership, University of Cambridge
Philipp Brand @pbrand.bsky.social PI of Evolutionary Neuroscience and Behavior Group at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research.
Evolution of behavior, neural circuits, chemical senses, and speciation.
he/him
https://brain.mpg.de/brand
Ian Rankin @ianrankin1.bsky.social Author, Inspector Rebus (and other stuff). Edinburgh-based. More usually pub-based.
Javier Apfeld @javierapfeld.bsky.social Aging scientist. Worm expert. Community-engaged teacher. Lab at Northeastern University. I watch worms die to learn how to live.
Lab: apfeldlab.mystrikingly.com
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-9897-5671
Constantin Pape @cppape.bsky.social Group leader @ Uni Göttingen for Computational Cell Analytics and @ MPINAT for Machine Intelligence in the Life Sciences. AI for biology and medicine with a focus on microscopy.
https://user.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/~pape41/
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com Release the bats
Mark Plitt @markplitt.bsky.social Postdoc @ UC Berkeley | Jane Coffin Childs Fellow | brains, memory, synapses | new(ish) dad | lover of all animal facts
Kit D. Longden @theflyside.bsky.social Neuroscience: flies, vision, and mitochondria.
Drosophila Connectomics Group, Cambridge University &
Visiting Scientist, Francis Crick Institute
Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA) @aria-research.bsky.social Empowering scientists to reach for the edge of the possible
www.aria.org.uk
Ann Clemens @annmclemens.bsky.social neuroscientist, principal investigator, interested in natural behaviour & social brain ontogeny. kinshiplab.org
@vannestlab.bsky.social @vannestlab.bsky.social 
Karina Piotrowska @kari223.bsky.social PhD student @ Waddell lab, Uni of Oxford
Interested in nicotinic modulation of dopaminergic circuits 🪰
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Dr. Paula Piechotta MdB @paulapiechotta.de Ärztin im Bundestag. | Leipzig | Bündnis 90 | MD MSc | Haushalt & Ostdeutschland. | Für Nazis: Frau Dr. Piechotta.
Ineos Oxford Institute for antimicrobial research @ineosoxford.bsky.social Bringing together the best of research and industry to overcome one of the biggest threats facing humanity.
Fred Schwaller @fredschwaller.bsky.social News editor at Nature.
www.fredschwaller.com
Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social Prince Philip Professor of Ecology & Evolution
@camzoology.bsky.social
I like brains.
www.shmontgomery.co.uk
Edan Foley @edanfoley.bsky.social Studying zebrafish intestinal biology at the University of Bath with an interest in sex and mucosal immunity. Trying to import the oxford comma to Britain. she/her 🐠 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🎶
Dr. Sam Fabian, FRES @stfabian.bsky.social Zoologist and photographer. BBSRC Fellow at the University of Oxford. Tell me about bugs.
William Nourse @wnourse.bsky.social A postdoc working at the intersection of NeuroAI, Robotics, and Neuromorphic Computing.
Mike Nitabach @mnitabach.cryptoanarchy.network Professor at Yale School of Medicine; Associate Director of Yale MD/PhD Program; Amateur Perfumer; Retired Attorney; Court-Appointed Special Advocate Volunteer, CASA-NYC. 🧪🧪🧪 🦅🦅🦅🏈🏈🏈
https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/michael-nitabach/
Steve Waycott Wildlife Photography 🍁 @stevewaycott.bsky.social Hubby, daddy, lawyer, photographer on Canada's east coast. This account is mostly filled with wildlife and nature photography by yours truly, with maybe a bit of snark here and there. If this is your vibe, welcome aboard!
Oxford Academic @academic.oup.com The official account for Oxford Academic, featuring Oxford University Press's academic news and insights.
Animal Behavior Society @animbehsociety.bsky.social We promote and advance the scientific study of animal behavior and publish the journal Animal Behaviour. Website: http://animalbehaviorsociety.org.
Enrique Arribas-Garde @garde24.bsky.social Theoretical physicist researching radiofrequency electromagnetic fields and exposure (RF-EMF). Fascinated by magnets since childhood. Físico teórico investigando la exposición a campos electromagnéticos de radiofrecuencia. Amante de los imanes desde niño.
Dennis Goldschmidt (he/him) @golddenn.bsky.social Computational Neuro-Drosophilist at the FMI Basel / Felsenberg Lab.
Armin Lak @laklab.bsky.social Neuroscientist investigating neuronal bases of learning. Prof at Oxford University. www.laklab.org
Museum of Natural History, University of Oxford @morethanadodo.bsky.social A stunning Victorian building home to 7 million objects. Free entry, open 10-5 every day.
Neuron @cp-neuron.bsky.social Neuron publishes ground-breaking research papers, reviews & commentary across neuroscience and is a premier intellectual forum for the neuroscience community.
https://www.cell.com/neuron/home
Marla Feller @mfeller.bsky.social Neuroscientist, retinal circuits, neuro development. UC Berkeley
http://fellerlab.squarespace.com/
Georg Keller @georgkeller.bsky.social Neuroscientist studying the mechanisms of psychiatric treatments.
apredictiveprocessinglab.org
Karl Deisseroth @deisseroth.bsky.social neuroscientist, psychiatrist, writer
optogenetics.org
karldeisseroth.org
https://www.amazon.com/Projections-Story-Emotions-Karl-Deisseroth/dp/1984853694
Alex Schier @schierlab.bsky.social Schierlab. Biozentrum Basel. Development. Behavior. Zebrafish. Curious.
Mariana Wolfner Lab @wolfnerlab.bsky.social We study the reproductive and developmental processes that occur around fertilization in Drosophila at Cornell University. All posts by the lab.
wolfnerlab.wixsite.com/wolfnerlab
Simon Sprecher @simon-sprecher.bsky.social Professor in Neurobiology at University of Fribourg @unifr @unifrBiology bringing #neurogenetics from #Drosophila to #Cephalopods and #Cnidaria -View are my own
@rachel-cox.bsky.social @rachel-cox.bsky.social 
Peter Dearden @peterkdearden.bsky.social Geneticist, evolutionary biologist, evolution and development. Working mainly on insects, but also big green budgies and snails. Co Director of Genomics Aotearoa, Deputy Director of Bioprotection Aotearoa. Snarked on Substack.
Damian Dowling @dk-dowling.bsky.social Evolutionary ecologist at Monash University, interested in mitochondrial contributions to eco-evolutionary processes, life history, sex differences and climate adaptation.
eric lai @lucksmith.bsky.social study small RNAs/APA/splicing/m6A/Notch. neural development+behavior; genomic conflict+evolution.
http://www.mskcc.org/lai
also, indie rock and glassblowing.
Ryusuke Niwa @ryuniwa.bsky.social Professor, Physiological Dynamics, TARA, Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan / Drosophila / Parasitoid wasps / X: TsukubaNiwaLab / 丹羽隆介
Perrimon Lab @perrimonlab.bsky.social Dr. Norbert Perrimon's lab at Harvard Medical School researches functional genomics, cell circuitry, and tissue homeostasis in Drosophila melanogaster.
https://perrimon.med.harvard.edu/
Alberto Sanz @albertosanzmon1.bsky.social A scientist researching aging. Passionate about unlocking all forms of knowledge. Championing technology as a catalyst for human progress.
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
@gavislab.bsky.social @gavislab.bsky.social 
Giorgio Gilestro @giorgio.gilest.ro Associate Professor at Imperial College London.
https://lab.gilest.ro | lab website, science blog
https://giorgio.gilest.ro | politics and science comms
https://drosophila.social/@giorgiogilestro | mastodon
Irem Sepil @iremsepil.bsky.social Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow at Biology, Uni of Oxford. Fly botherer. Evolutionary biologist interested in reproductive ageing, paternal effects, life-history; mum of two; Turkish; she/her
Jiwon Shim @shimlab.bsky.social My lab studies hematopoiesis and immune cell functions using #Drosophila.
https://shim.snu.ac.kr
@tennessenlab.bsky.social @tennessenlab.bsky.social 
Bing Zhang @bingzhang.bsky.social Been there, seen it.
Mia Levine @levine-lab.bsky.social Associate Professor @ Penn Biology, Penn Epigenetics Institute, Penn Center for Genome Integrity.
We combine evolutionary genetics and cell biology to study how DNA repeat evolution perturbs and preserves genome integrity.
Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social Professor, Department of Biology, Wilfrid Laurier University 🇨🇦
Evolutionary Genetics & Behavioural Ecology #DrosLife #ScienceDoughnuts #JournalKlatch
ORCID: 0000-0002-8708-2728
Fly Journal @fly-journal.bsky.social An international peer-reviewed journal for Drosophila research. Aiming to be the go-to resource for Drosophila researchers, and a forum for the interests of the Drosophila community.
Editor-in-Chief: Howy Jacobs
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/kfly
Neha Agrawal @nehaagrawal.bsky.social Group Leader, University of Edinburgh
Tissue Homeostasis, Metabolic organs, Hormones, Growth, Cell Death, Obesity, #Drosophila, #DevBio, #CellBio, #Genetics
https://biology.ed.ac.uk/agrawal
@minorukoyama.bsky.social @minorukoyama.bsky.social 
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
Oxford Biology @biology.ox.ac.uk Exploring the breadth and diversity of life on Earth 🌍 Updates on research & teaching at @ox.ac.uk. Merged from Departments of Plant Sciences and Zoology August 2022
www.biology.ox.ac.uk
University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk Welcome to our official account 👋 Follow for the latest news, research and updates about life at Oxford.
Shai Israel @shaisrael.bsky.social Research associate in the Parnas Lab at Tel Aviv University
BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social Bryan William Jones
Neuroscientist
Vision Neuroscientist
Connectomics / VolumeEM
Photographer / #Leica
Professing at Pitt
In the data
bryanwjones.com
ORCID 0000-0001-5527-6643
Mikkel Roald-Arbøl @roald-arboel.com Thinking about what brains are doing and how they ended up doing it.
🇩🇪 Postdoc in @sleeblab.bsky.social
🪲 Quantitative ethology, neuroethology and behavioural ecology
🔧 Developing open science software (mostly #rstats) and hardware
Department of Neuroscience, University of Copenhagen @neuroscience-ucph.bsky.social The Department of Neuroscience at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
We aim to conduct high-quality research on brain function, brain diseases, and their treatments.
Learn more here: https://in.ku.dk/
Takahisa Date @tdate.bsky.social Postdoc in Bidaye lab at Max Planck Florida | Formerly in Nose lab at UTokyo | Neurobiology | Drosophila locomotion
Kamaldeep Singh @kamaldeepsingh.bsky.social Postdoc @ Waddell lab, University of Oxford | PhD - TIFR Mumbai | ex Fulbright Scholar @Yale.edu, ASAPbio Fellow
Scott Waddell @scottishwaddell.bsky.social Neurobiologist. Learning. Memory. Motivation. Dopamine. 
Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social VP for Research, T.H. Smoot Professor
Depts Chemical and Biomolecular Engn, Pathology, Oncology, INBT
Johns Hopkins University
3D multi-omic, CAR T therapy, cell migration and mechanics
Lab: https://wirtzlab.johnshopkins.edu