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
Amélie Cabirol @acabirol.bsky.social PI @CBIToulouse | Interested in how gut bacteria influence cognitive functions in honeybees
@spottingthespot.bsky.social @spottingthespot.bsky.social - N nickystaes.bsky.social @nickystaes.bsky.social
eLife @elife.bsky.social The funder-researcher collaboration and open-access publisher for research in the life and biomedical sciences.
Follow @eLifeCommunity.bsky.social
Chris Krupenye @chriskrupenye.bsky.social Origins of the Social Mind • Apes • Dogs • Evolutionary Cognitive Scientist, Assistant Professor @JohnsHopkins • he/him
Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, NYU
Primatologist, Author of THE ARROGANT APE
https://www.cewebb.com
Laura Simone Lewis @laurasimonelewis.bsky.social Asst. Prof. in Psychological and Brain Sciences and Anthropology @ UC Santa Barbara | UC PPFP Fellow | Fascinated by great ape social cognition!
https://www.laurasimonelewis.com/
https://www.originsofmindlab.com/
Cyril C. Grueter @cyrilgrueter.bsky.social Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Oxford
Primate behavioural ecology and the evolutionary foundations of human nature 🐒🌿🌍📊
Ester Martínez @estermart.bsky.social 
Karyn Anderson @karynanderson.bsky.social PhD Candidate researching how primates use sex to navigate their complex social lives | Primate behavioural ecologist | University of Toronto | she/her 🏳️🌈🐒
Alessandra Mascaro @alessandramascaro.bsky.social PhD candidate || Comparative Cognition || Chimpanzees Wound Care and Animal Medication || Wildlife photographer 🌿✨
Katy Patras @katypatras.bsky.social Associate Professor, studies host-microbe interactions and women's health. Views are my own.
Conor Feehily @sligomicrobe.bsky.social Host-Microbiome Interaction | Vaginal Microbiome | Preterm Birth | Functional Genomics 
Francesco Beghini @fbeghini.bsky.social Associate Research Scientist at Yale | Metagenomics and Human microbiome | Microbial transmission & social microbiome
Sarah Lebeer @sarahlebeer.bsky.social Molecular Microbiologist, Bioscience engineer, Isala coordinator, microbiome, probiotics, https://isala.be
Aiswarya Prasad @aiswarya.bsky.social Microbial ecology and evolution | Microbes and metagenomics | Bee gut microbiome
PhD student
https://engelbeelab.com/
🐝,
DMF, University of Lausanne
FEMS Journals @femsjournals.bsky.social Not-for-profit microbiology journals from @femsmicro.org | Publish with purpose | https://academic.oup.com/fems-journals | #FEMSJournals | #OpenAccess | #PeerReview | #Microbiology | Published with Oxford University Press (OUP)
Cell Press @cellpress.bsky.social Cell Press partners with scientists across all disciplines to publish and share work that will inspire future directions in research. #ScienceThatInspires
bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social 
Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social Driving forward the field of applied ecology through a high-quality evidence base for scientists, managers and policymakers. A @britishecologicalsociety.org journal.
Caroline Tawk @caroline-tawk.bsky.social Microbiome research, Microbial communities, evolution, infection and diet. Postdoc at Helmholtz HZI. Researcher at Yale MSI Goodman lab. PhD Würzburg Vogel lab. AUB Alumnus.
Michael Zimmermann Lab @zimmermannlab.bsky.social We use high-throughput MS, bacterial genetics, gnotobiology & computational models to study metabolic interactions in microbial ecosystems
@EMBL
Homepage: https://www.embl.org/groups/zimmermann/
Mizrahi Lab @mizrahilab.bsky.social We are involved in understanding the ecological and evolutionary forces that shape microbial communities in nature.
Visit our website - lifewp.bgu.ac.il/wp/imizrahi/
Hall Lab @halllab.bsky.social Prof Lindsay Hall’s research group at University of Birmingham & Quadram Institute. Early life microbiota (we love Bifidobacterium!), and influence of diet, host and pathogens.
Nature @nature.com Research, news, and commentary from Nature, the international science journal. For daily science news, get Nature Briefing: https://go.nature.com/get-Nature-Briefing
Suvi Ruuskanen @suviruuskanen.bsky.social Assoc. Professor in Environmental Physiology, University of Jyväskylä,FIN. Eco-evo-physio, mol ecol, host-microbio, ecotox research, ERC grantee. Editor in Oecologia & J Avian Biol, NSO board member, EOU president-elect, president FIN Society for Env Sci
Nature Reviews Microbiology @natrevmicro.nature.com Exploring the wonders of microbiology with reviews and commentaries from across the field. Brought to you by your curious editors! 🔬✨
https://nature.com/nrmicro/
Prof. Ruth Ley FRS @microbiome.bsky.social Director of Department of Microbiome Science at MPI Biology Tübingen Germany. Also known as Leylab.com.
Jack A Gilbert @gilbertjacka.bsky.social Microbial ecologist: EIC for mSystems Journal, cofounder of http://biomesense.com; President for AMI (http://appliedmicrobiology.org); Father, Scientist, Pilot.
Tami Lieberman @contaminatedsci.bsky.social Associate Professor, MIT
Still thinking about the 10^9 mutations generated in your microbiome today.
Website: http://lieberman.science
Eloise Newman @eloisenewman.bsky.social DPhil student at University of Oxford • Interested in social networks, behavioural ecology and microbiomes 🌱🦜 www.eloisenewman.co.uk
Microbiome @microbiomej.bsky.social A family of open access journals that seek to unite investigators conducting microbiome research in environmental, agricultural, and biomedical arenas🦠
Chuen @chuenlee.bsky.social Ecologist, Microbiomes, Bioinformatics
Postdoc at University of East Anglia
Sean Rands @seanrands.bsky.social Behavioural ecologist @ University of Bristol, interested in the rules and mechanisms of behavioural/ecological interactions in a whole host of different systems. Easily distracted.
webby stuff: www.seanrands.com
Dr Alison Peel @alibat.bsky.social 🦇 disease ecologist & veterinarian, Horizon Fellow at Sydney Uni, using One Health approaches to study #viralspillover from bats #TeamHB7 She/her.
Andrew King @shoalgroup.bsky.social Professor of Animal Behaviour. www.SHOALgroup.org
Svetlana Ugarcina Perovic @svetlanaup.bsky.social • microbiome scientist @cibiocm.bsky.social
• global communication lead @microbiomevif.bsky.social
• international internship coordinator @bioconductor.bsky.social
• @nsurp.bsky.social mentor
✎ https://microbiomedigest.com/author/svetlanaup/
Rachel Nelson, PhD @rachelsnelson.bsky.social Postdoc @ NYU researching aging in Cayo Santiago macaques | PhD in human paleobiology from GWU
Worms Gone Wild Lab @wildwormslab.bsky.social Disease ecology lab at Arizona State University led by Dr. India Schneider-Crease studying geladas, kinda baboons, their parasites, & more! 🐒🦠🔬🪱
Columbus Zoo and Aquarium @visitcolumbuszoo.bsky.social Empowering People. Saving Wildlife. The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is home to more than 10,000 animals representing 600+ species.
ISME - International Society for Microbial Ecology @isme-microbes.bsky.social The International Society for Microbial Ecology is a non-profit association and owner of the ISME Journal and ISME Communications.
Next symposium #ISME20 in Auckland, New Zealand in August 2026. 
Jeffrey Marlow @jjmarlow.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Biology at Boston University ::: Science Journalist / Communicator ::: National Geographic Explorer
Sarah Worsley @sarahfworsley.bsky.social Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow @ University of East Anglia. Interested in the evolutionary ecology of host-microbe interactions. Microbiomes, phylosymbiosis, viromics, island populations.
Ashley Dungan, PhD (she/her) @symb10sis.bsky.social Conservation microbiome scientist | Using microbes to improve wildlife health, resilience & conservation outcomes | Host–microbe evolution | University of Melbourne, Australia
John F. Cryan @jfcryan.bsky.social VP Research & Innovation, University College Cork @ucc.ie @uccresearch.bsky.social |PI @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social |Prof Dept. Anatomy & Neuroscience |MRIA @ria.ie|
Stress, Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis, Brain-Body Interactions, Research Policy
ASAB Spring 2027 @asab-meetings.bsky.social ASAB Spring 2027 will take place in Portsmouth UK April 7-9. Account for up-to-date info about @asab.org's next upcoming meeting.
Simon Baeckens @simonbaeckens.bsky.social Asst. Prof. at UCLouvain 🇧🇪 // Head of the Animal Evolutionary Ecology lab // macro- to micro-evolution and lizard adaptations🦎
Zoë Goldsborough @zoegoldsborough.bsky.social Observer of animals | Mom | Minerva Fast Track Fellow leading Culture and Social Behavior group at MPI-AB | Passionate about animal ethics and welfare | She/her
https://zgoldsborough.wixsite.com/research
Katherine McVay, PhD @katherinemcvay.bsky.social Postdoctoral Associate at Duke with @amygoldberg.bsky.social | ev gen, conservation, and pathogens 🧬🐒🦠
https://katherinemcvay.weebly.com
Marianne Paisley (she/her) @mariannepaisley.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 PhD Candidate - Great Ape Wellbeing at University of Sussex. Using thermal imagery to assess wellbeing in gorillas & chimpanzees 🐵 PSGB Student Officer 🤓
Shannon Buttimer @shannonbuttimer.bsky.social Frog Doctor 🐸🎃🧬🔬🦠
I hang out with pumpkin toadlets and study the effects of climate change on amphibian skin microbiomes and disease.
Meg Crofoot @meg-crofoot.bsky.social 
@stn-wame.bsky.social @stn-wame.bsky.social 
Caterina Berardo ✨ @caterinaberardo.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Nottingham Trent University | infants and apes behaviour 🦧👶
Studying the effect of synchrony on social interactions 🫂
Research interests: animal behaviour and conservation 👀
Just a curious monkey 🐒 (she/her)
Geladas For Cooperation @geladasbridges.bsky.social Research project on the social behaviour of geladas in Ethiopia (PI: Elisabetta Palagi; co-PI: Bezawork Afework). Follow our scientific and social journey!
Joseph Feldblum @josephfeldblum.bsky.social Duke Evolutionary Anthropology
Social and reproductive behavior of chimpanzees and others
josephfeldblum.weebly.com
Judy Li (李静迪) @jingdi.bsky.social Passionate about wildlife microbiomes and disease emergence. NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow 🇨🇦UBC Zoology with @kayla-king.bsky.social, PhD 🇬🇧Oxford Zoology, BS 🇨🇳NPU. #poetry #art #coding #hiking lovers. #FirstGen #OpenScience. She/Hers.
Jérôme Benedetti @jeromebenedetti.bsky.social PhD student in the Engel Lab @ University of Lausanne, Switzerland | Studying host–microbe symbiosis in social bees and their gut microbiota 🐝🦠
Maria Elena Martino @memartino.bsky.social Ecology, Evolution & Microbiology. Wondering how microbes and animals evolve together 🦠🧫🐟🐚🌍
Associate Professor University of Padua
Alexandra (Sasha) Zhernakova @sashazhernakova.bsky.social Professor of genome and exposome, UMCG, Groningen, The Netherlands. Interested in microbiome, virome, early life, genetics, exposome, gut health
Francesco Asnicar @fasnicar.bsky.social Researcher at Dept. CIBIO (Univ. of Trento, Italy), previously postdoc @cibiocm.bsky.social, love music and play keyboards.
Animal Models for Social Dimensions of Health and Aging Network @animalsocaging.bsky.social Our NIA-funded Research Network supports research that integrates animal models into studies of social aging. We facilitate idea exchange among early-career researchers working on animal models and support projects in areas of network interest.
Erin Wessling @northernlimitpt.bsky.social Pan behavioral ecologist + conservationist | co-director of Moyen Bafing Chimp Project and the BonDiv Project | Coordinator for the Western Chimp Action Plan
Jeroen Stevens @jeroenstevens.bsky.social Teaching, research and advice about animal behaviour and welfare.
Passionate about primates, especially bonobos.
Reflecting about zoos and conservation.
Franziska Wegdell @franziswegdell.bsky.social Biologist - Ethologist
postdoctoral researcher @University of Tuebingen
studying the communication of BONOBOS
🔊🐵🎙
Raphaela Heesen @heesenr.bsky.social Comparative Behavioural Biologist @uni-konstanz.de | Comparative Joint Action Lab | communication, synchrony and emotions in humans & other primates | http://bit.ly/CJALab
Jolinde Vlaeyen @jolindevlaeyen.bsky.social PhD in Cognitive Science. Interested in social cognition across animals, specifically communication in primates ans cetaceans. She/her.
Lou Savigny she/her @lousvy.bsky.social PhD candidate exploring bonobo social learning and cultural processes | Utrecht University, Netherlands
She/her
International Journal of Primatology @intjprimatol.bsky.social The official journal of the International Primatological Society
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/
Cell Host & Microbe @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social The scientific editors of Cell Host & Microbe, a Cell Press journal, bring you the latest information and insights from the forefront of host-microbe research.
Samantha Fontaine @samanthafontaine.bsky.social Frog lady 🐸
NSF Postdoc fellow @ Kent State studying host microbiome interactions in ectotherms 🦠🦎
Gilles De Meester @gilles-de-meester.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at CREAF.
Interested in the ecology and evolution of cognition in reptiles and fish 🦎🐍🐟
Cincinnati Zoo @cincinnatizoo.bsky.social The #greenestzooinamerica is dedicated to creating adventure, conveying knowledge, conserving nature, and serving the community. Home of Fiona the hippo 🦛
Sally Bornbusch @sbornbusch.bsky.social Science + Art.
Animal Microbiome Scientist (aka Professional Turd Nerd). Artist. Forager. Fossil Hunter. And More!
Megan Petersdorf @meganpetersdorf.bsky.social new orleans 🎭 • postdoc • biologist • anthropologist • science communicator • studying the sex lives of monkeys 🐒 • she/her 🏳️🌈
DPZ Deutsches Primatenzentrum @primatenzentrum.bsky.social Feed der Deutsches Primatenzentrum GmbH (DPZ)- Leibniz-Institut für Primatenforschung. Posts über unsere Forschung über und mit Primaten: Gesundheitsforschung und Primatenkognition. Impressum: https://www.dpz.eu/impressum
Sonya Pashchevskaya @sonya-ofthejungle.bsky.social PhD student at LuiKotale Bonobo Project and Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior: networks in wild bonobos and immigrant females' integration
Bork Group at EMBL Heidelberg @borklab.bsky.social Computational biology lab focusing on microbiomes in the human gut and the environment
Homepage: https://www.bork.embl.de/
Mastodon: https://mstdn.science/@BorkLab
AmSoc Primatologists @aspvoice.bsky.social The American Society of Primatologists is a scientific organization promoting discovery & exchange of primate info. Follows/RTs not necessarily endorsements.
Dr. Erin R. Vogel @erinvogel.bsky.social Primatologist, ecologist, professor, working mom to 2 amazing kids, excited about anything to do with ecology🌏, diet and physiology, orangutans, peatlands, and Indonesia🇮🇩🦧
Alice Baniel @alicebaniel.bsky.social Researcher at IRD. Studying mandrill's socioecology and gut microbiome
https://evoanth.cnrs.fr/en/team-members/alice-baniel/
https://projetmandrillus.weebly.com/
EFP2026 @efp2026.bsky.social Check here for updates on the EFP 2026 conference, to be held in Montpellier, France, 29th June- 3rd July 2026.
Official website: https://www.alphavisa.com/efp/2026/index.php
Leonor García-Bayona @lgbacteria.bsky.social 🇨🇴 Assistant Professor at Stanford Microbiology & Immunogy. Gut microbiome sociomicrobiology and gene flow.
https://garciabayonalab.stanford.edu
Sara Vieira-Silva @saravsilva.bsky.social Microbiome & human health, Computational biology
Associate Professor @ UM JGU Mainz
Jelle Matthijnssens @jellematthijnssens.bsky.social 
Katie Guzzetta @ktguzz.bsky.social All things #Microbiota-#Gut-#Brain Axis!👩🔬💩 Postdoc w/ Prof. Randall Platt @ETH Zurich's BSSE🇨🇭 Formerly Hamilton College🇺🇲 ➜ APC Microbiome🇮🇪 ➜ Harvard Med🇺🇲
Universiteit Antwerpen @uantwerpen.be UAntwerpen is een jonge & dynamische onderzoeksuniversiteit met meer dan 20.000 studenten. Onderzoek en onderwijs zijn nauw met elkaar verbonden.
Bepaal mee de toekomst, kom studeren aan de Universiteit Antwerpen. https://www.uantwerpen.be
SciMingo @scimingo.bsky.social Science communication nonprofit, dedicated to supporting scientists in sharing their research and expertise beyond academia.
We organize the Vlaamse Scriptieprijs (Flemish Thesis Prize), PhD Cup & SciComm Academy. www.scimingo.eu
Dr Klara Wanelik @klarawanelik.bsky.social Host-microbe ecologist | Surrey Future Fellow @UniSurrey | Website: https://sites.google.com/view/kwanelik
Pauline VL @paulinococcus.bsky.social Postdoc at UAntwerp 🇧🇪 eDNA and microbiome 🦠🧬🐶🌏
One Health Microbiome Center @psumbiome.bsky.social The One Health Microbiome Center at Penn State University optimizes, accelerates, and disseminates long-lasting applications and knowledge on the microbiome. X: @psumbiome microbiome.psu.edu
Sergio Andreu-Sanchez @seandreu.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at @raeslab.org, former Groningen Microbiome Hub.
(meta)Genomics, bioinformatics
Devika @deb420.bsky.social #Host-microbe #microbe-microbe interactions | Female reproductive tract #microbiome | #Phage biology | #Postdoc @Boston Children’s Hospital + @Harvard Medical School at www.srnlab.com
Alum @Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology
Paul Cotter @pauldcotter.bsky.social PhD Microbiology. Head of Food Bioscience at Teagasc. PI APC Microbiome Ireland, Food Health Ireland
Co-founder & Head of Microbiology, SeqBiome.
Field Chief Editor Frontiers in Microbiology. Runner (2.57 marathon, 1.19 half)
Glanmire GAA
Husband & dad
Microbiome Virtual International Forum @microbiomevif.bsky.social • a free recurring bite-sized alternative to multi-day #microbiome conferences •
➡️ Every month, a new event... join #MVIF community!
https://www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US
Ruairi Robertson @ruairirobertson.bsky.social Lecturer in Microbiome Science, Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London. Studying host-microbiome interactions in early life
🍏Nutritionist
🔬Scientist
🎙️Public speaker
Doris @dorisvanbergeijk.bsky.social Excited about gut microbes, their metabolites, and human-microbe interactions | postdoc @RaesLab @KU Leuven | Board game enthousiast