Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social music ∙ geekery ∙ media and comms ∙ more random musings than you can handle ∙ DC vibe checks & street photography ∙ somehow has a PhD ∙ opinions all mine ∙ once called "the bus passenger" by People Magazine
Vinny Costa @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social Neuroscientist (PhD) exploring how the primate 🧠 learns and decides, while exploiting the consumption of 🍕 and 🥯
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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social Nuclear historian. Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology. Visiting researcher at Nuclear Knowledges program, Sciences Po (Paris). Author of THE MOST AWFUL RESPONSIBILITY (2025). Creator of NUKEMAP. Blogging at https://doomsdaymachines.net.
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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 🏳️🌈
@elizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social Former NIH Program Official for 22 years. Now fighting to defend science.
Awais Aftab @awaisaftab.bsky.social Psychiatrist with philosophical interests | Conversations in Critical Psychiatry (Oxford University Press, 2024) | Psychiatry at the Margins www.psychiatrymargins.com
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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social AI and cognitive science, Founder and CEO (Geometric Intelligence, acquired by Uber). 8 books including Guitar Zero, Rebooting AI and Taming Silicon Valley.
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Michelle Marneweck @mmarneweck.bsky.social Entertained by the neural control of skilled action. Assistant Professor | Dept. of Human Physiology | University of Oregon | https://pages.uoregon.edu/mmar/
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AAHD is dedicated to ensuring health equity for children and adults with disabilities through policy, research, education and dissemination at the federal, state and community level.
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social Author of four books and the CULTURE STUDY newsletter. PhD in celebrity gossip. My dogs are named Steve and Beverly.
Theresa Kim, PhD, MS @tyk314.net NIA, Ex-PCORI, HSR (UMD), BioStats (UW). AMSTAT 2027 HPSS Chair and 2026 Fellow. Human to @parrishpets.bsky.social. Here as a private citizen. BD Signer. RT Speaker. Reposts &❤️≠endorsements.
I-75 Scientist @flscitriguy.bsky.social “He’s just this guy, ya know”
Former Neuroscientist who traveled along I-75.
focused on biomed fellowships & trainee development.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org Lincoln liberal, 2nd inaugural enthusiast.
Information processing in networks. Brains, models, lasers.
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Nina Friedman @ngfriedman.bsky.social PhD student with UMD & NIH
Studying how neurons learn
Bethesda Declaration Organizer; UAW 2750
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Cara @picsuresque1.bsky.social Community-Based Intervention and Clinical Trials Expert. Reducing fraud, waste, and inefficiency by shortening the clinical trials pipeline and bringing behavioral healthcare to ALL Americans. Neurodiversity Ally. #SDOHareReal
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Manolis Maragkakis @manolis-maragkakis.bsky.social Stadtman Principal Investigator @NIH / NIA. Computational Genomics, RNA, Aging, Stress Response, Senescence. Posts are my own. maragkakislab.com
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Kat Mayer-Barber,PhD @mayerbarber.bsky.social Cellular mucosal immunologist- lung- 🫁 innate immunity and inflammtion @IRP/NIAID/NIH - views my own
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Katie Sandlin @kmsandlin.bsky.social Manager of Education & Career Development Programs @AAI.org
DOGEd from NIH/NHGRI Education Outreach Specialist
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Jonny Nixon-Abell @abelljonny.bsky.social Group Leader @TheCIMR. Organelle Interactions and dynamics in neurons. Wellcome CDA Fellow. prev: @NIH, @UCL, @HHMIJanelia. 🧠+🔬 (AbellJonny on X)
https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/staff/dr-jonathon-nixon-abell
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
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Luke Stoeckel @lstoeckel.bsky.social Here for the chips. I embrace meaning, irrationality, nonlinearity, and complexity as defining features of humanity. I don’t understand speed walking.
Michael F. Chiang @michaelfchiang.bsky.social Director, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health
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Kaitlyn Hajdarovic, Ph.D @khajdarovic.bsky.social Neuroscientist studying the neural circuits of glucose homeostasis.
Cats, embroidery, labor unions
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Nate Brought @usfreepressspain.bsky.social 86-47
Former Director, NIH Exec Sec
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Lax @laxvid.bsky.social All things microbiota for now but a generalist in computation and genomics
2-3 sketches a day keeps it away
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Alt National Cancer Institute (NIH/NCI) 🧬 @alt-thenci.bsky.social The official "Resistance" team of the National Cancer Institute at NIH.
A CAR-T for the collective conscience—because unchecked lies metastasize. We carry forward NCI’s mission to tell the truth about cancer research.
Rachel Bainbridge, PhD @drbrainbridge.bsky.social Biologist. Loudmouth. Weirdo. 
Alt The National Institute on Aging @altthenia.bsky.social We are the official resistance scientists of the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health. Aging doesn't discriminate, and we're coming for all of you! We want to see our siblings, Alt CMS and Alt NINDS, too!
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Storm @firewitchstorm.bsky.social Poly, pan, agender, switch. they/them
Keeper of the cats
Dr. Rabbithole @drrabbithole.bsky.social Scientist, mom, creator, nerd.
"held under these smothering waves, by your cold and thick-veined hand. But one of these days, I'm gonna wriggle up on dry land" -John Darnielle
Signer of the Bethesda Declaration.
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Mariah Hoye @mariahhoye.bsky.social Scientific Program Manager in the NINDS Office of Research Quality
Loves high-quality research, particularly in neuroscience and RNA biology
Working to change the culture of science
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The Long-Nosed Bandicoot @longnosebandicoot.bsky.social A fed-up involuntarily former Fed. All views expressed here are my own, not my employer's.
Save Health Research @savehealthresearch.bsky.social Friendly fired and off-duty NIH staff fighting for cures. A 27 UNIHTED Partner.
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Ed Clayton @edcclayton.bsky.social Executive Director, Princeton Quantum Initiative.
@sjh65.bsky.social @sjh65.bsky.social Neuroscientist & long-time academic | Once an NIH Program Officer (until I wasn’t) | Standing up for science, justice & truth
Ronna Popkin @ronnapopkin.bsky.social Medical Sociologist and Sexpert Bureaucrat. Reproductive, Sexual, Adolescent, and LGBTQI+ Health. Comments, likes, and posts are mine, not my employer’s.
ImmigrantsAreUS @immigrantsareus.bsky.social Human. Scientist, husband, (father)^2. Immigrant and polyglot. Futebol is my religion. Bethesda Declaration co-signer. Proudly anti-fascist. All posts are my own. "Let their rule hold not through me!" Solzhenitsyn
Laura Machlin @lmachlin.bsky.social Clinical psychologist & Program Officer PCORI | Previously NICHD | Postdoc Harvard | PhD UNC Chapel Hill
Tara Fischer @tarafisch.bsky.social Molecular Cell Biologist. Organelles + immunity + neurodegeneration 🔬🧫🦠 Science + Labor 🤝 Thoughts are my own and up for debate.
Hannah E @hannahev07.bsky.social Bethesda Declaration signer. Resister. Science believer. Peer Wellness Lead for 27uNIHted
Science and Freedom Alliance - SAFA @safa-science.bsky.social An organization of scientists and allies, incl @ NIH NSF affected by the Great Science Collapse of 2025.
We work to chart a new course for vibrant US science and academia, backed by democracy and supported by the public.
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MagnoliaBouton @magnoliabouton.bsky.social 🩷 Love will win.
🔬🧬All things to support students, trainees & ECRs.
🩷 Doing what I can to keep research integrity & decency in STEM alive!
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@chousylvia.bsky.social @chousylvia.bsky.social Health communication and misinformation researcher, Bethesda Declaration signer, views are my own.
Matthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social Cognitive Neuroscientist | Assistant Prof at VU Amsterdam | Active vision, memory, imagery | Multi-task studies, fMRI, eye tracking | https://matthiasnau.com
Elizabeth Sypek @elizabethis.bsky.social Views are my own. Living in a dumpster fire.
David M Morens @davidmmorens.bsky.social Epidemiologist, Virologist, Medical Historian
Senior Associate, Dept Epidemiology publichealth.jhu.edu
Retired, Senior Advisor to the Director, NIAID, NIH
Former: Virology Branch Chief, CDC; President Am Epidemiol Soc;
Chairman ACAV
ALLSTRIKE @allstrike.bsky.social An Anti-authoritarian all originals Punk Rock Band in the DMV.
Fight Fascists
Punch Nazis
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Joanna Dabrowska @dabrowska-lab.bsky.social Scientist by nature, Mom by science. In love and hate relationship with neuropeptides.
Center for Neurobiology of Stress Resilience and Psychiatric Disorders @RFU @rfubrainsci.bsky.social
https://www.rosalindfranklin.edu/academics/faculty/joanna-dabrowska
Mark Garner @markgarner.bsky.social U.S. born, Canadian by ancestry and by choice. A scientist, a self-defrocked academic in the biotech industry. Silicon Valley and NIH veteran. Classical music aficionado, Opera-phile, Bibliophile. Man kann Deutsch sprechen, et on peux parler Français.
I-270, Exit 1 @i270exit1.bsky.social Bethesda Declaration signer. Science advocate.
"... government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” Abraham Lincoln
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@hellabores92.bsky.social @hellabores92.bsky.social Scientist, Mother, Gardener. Views expressed are my own.
shademar @shademar.bsky.social Scientist watching the world burn from Tahoe. PhD in neuro stuff from Cal. NIH alum. Retired I guess. Have MS and at war with my brain in general. Weather obsessed. A goblin.
Creators show me your creations! Alt text if possible plz
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Evan Serge @evanserge.bsky.social Current Angeleno, former East Coaster. Current public health person, recovering advertising person. Good at doing laundry and maybe walking, not good at everything else.
Paul L. Maurizio @mauriz-io.bsky.social Bioinformatics Scientist, NIH/NIAID, Vaccine Research Center
Susan Czajkowski @suscz.bsky.social Behavioral Scientist, Retired NIH Branch Chief & Program Director, Mom, Grandma, & proud Bethesda Declaration supporter!
Anirban Banerjee @banirbn.bsky.social PI of lab in the areas of protein lipidation and transition metal transport and homeostasis. Interested in how nature does chemistry. Opinion my own and does not represent anyone else.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
The American Academy of Pediatrics @ameracadpeds.bsky.social We're 67,000 pediatricians committed to the optimal physical, mental, and social health and well-being for all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.
Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social Climate scientist, formerly NASA, currently Project Drawdown. Former astrophysicist, current Earth supremacist. Author of HUMAN NATURE, best book of 2025 according to both Scientific American and my dad https://shorturl.at/aJRYb
Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com Professor & department head, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. I study higher ed finance, accountability, and financial aid. Washington Monthly rankings data editor. Dad, gardener, and baker. Personal account.
https://robertkelchen.com/
AZ Faust @azfaust.bsky.social Mostly about grants. Some about education. 
Unbreaking @unbreaking.org How the administration is breaking the government and what that means for all of us. All of our content is free to republish and remix. https://unbreaking.org/
Ann Leckie @annleckie.com Author of the award-winning Ancillary Justice. Lives in St Louis.