Dr Mircea Zloteanu 🌺🌞🍃 @mzloteanu.bsky.social Lecturer Psych & Crim @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social | Deception Detection; Emotions; JDM | Open Science; R; Bayes | UKRN ReproTea & StatsTea | #statstab | 🇷🇴 🇬🇧🌍
Stats blog: https://mzloteanu.substack.com/
Solomon Kurz @solomonkurz.bsky.social Clinical psychology researcher | applied statistics geek | so called #RStats influencer
Luca Dalen Espseth @bestmedbart.bsky.social He/him/daddy
Fuck the (gender) police
Master i kjønn, lektor i biologi
Forfatter
Queerfeminist og antifascist
The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org The Carpentries: Software Carpentry, Data Carpentry and Library Carpentry. An open global community teaching the skills and perspectives to turn data into knowledge
William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
Richard Lenski @relenski.bsky.social Evolving better E. coli for 75,000 generations. Prof at MSU, but opinions my own. (Ok, I also speak for billions -- er, TRILLIONS -- of E. coli.)
Website for LTEE: the-ltee.org
Banner pic from NYC, shared by Darwin. (The microbiologist, not the other one.)
Titus Brown @titus.idyll.org I am not a deep man, but I have many shallows. ctbrown@ucdavis.edu, http://ivory.idyll.org/blog/.
Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social Virologist. PI working at but not speaking for USask. Co-EiC of Vaccine. 🇺🇸 in 🇨🇦. Emerging viruses, pathogenesis, zoonosis, host responses, dogs, football, off-color language, transcriptomic chaos. Opinions my own.
Adam Phillippy @aphillippy.bsky.social Finished a human genome @ NHGRI, working on a few hundred more @ Johns Hopkins University 👨💻
Lab: https://genomeinformatics.github.io
The Lancet Microbe @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social The Lancet Microbe is an #OpenAccess journal publishing innovative and practice-changing research and opinion in clinical #microbiology
🌐 thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/home
Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social Hymowitz Family Professor of Global Health & Professor of Public Policy at Duke University. Director of the Center for Policy Impact in Global Health. DJ at WXDU (Thursdays, 4-6pm ET, wxdu.org). TIME columnist. He/him. Tallest Jew on Earth.
BF Francis Ouellette @bffo.bsky.social Bioinformatics 🧬🖥️🧪
#DATABASE OUP Editor-in-Chief;
#PLOS Comp Biol Education Sect. Editor;
#OpenScience #OpenAccess #OpenData;
friend of @jxtxfoundation.bsky.social,
@abinstitute.bsky.social, @mon-bug.bsky.social
- I am 🇨🇦
Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com NYT columnist. Signal: carlzimmer.51
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/carlzimmer/
Web: http://carlzimmer.com
[This account includes a tweet archive]
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social Personal account
Evolutionary biologist, senior scientist at CNRS/Sorbonne Université
Interests: origins and control of infectious diseases and conspiracy theories; diversity in science; scientific publishing
https://www.normalesup.org/~fdebarre/
EN & FR
Joanna Masel @joannamasel.bsky.social Theoretical biologist and advisor to data scientists at the University of Arizona. Mostly theoretical population genetics and molecular evolution, but I've also published in biochemistry, infectious disease, aging, economics, education. Opinions are my own
Helena Bioinformatics @helena.bio Clinical variant classification platform. Rare disease germline interpretation, ACMG/AMP. Sofia, Bulgaria.
Founder: Vladimir Mitev (ORCID 0009-0001-8013-6850).
helena.bio
Tiffany Timbers @tiffanytimbers.bsky.social Associate Professor of Teaching in Statistics, Master of Data Science program Instructor, UBC, Vancouver, Canada | she/her
BEACON @beaconbio.bsky.social Biothreats Emergence, Analytics & Communications Network (BEACON): open source surveillance program based at @buceid.bsky.social in partnership with @bostonu.bsky.social @buhaririinstitute.bsky.social & @bostonchildrens.bsky.social Healthmap
beaconbio.org
@pha4ge.bsky.social @pha4ge.bsky.social 
Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social Infectious diseases & genomics. Immunologist in (voluntary) exile. Minimal sarcasm. Fierce HOA (Hater of Acronyms). Personal account - opinions expressed are my own and not those of my employer.
Scott Cunningham @scottcbusiness.com Content strategist for AI, cloud, Web3, and technical brands. I turn complex ideas into clear messaging, content systems, and social growth. Building with GPT, Notion, Dalle3, Make, Claude, and Lovable.
Visit my website: https://scottcbusiness.com/
Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social Jorts the cat.
Jean helps me.
Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social Epidemiologist/mathematician. Professor at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Author of The Rules of Contagion and The Perfect Bet. Views own.
New book Proof: The Uncertain Science of Certainty available now: proof.kucharski.io
Wei Shen 沈 伟 @shenwei356.bsky.social Associate professor of Bioinformatics at Chongqing Medical University, China. Lab: https://mbio.info
Bram van Dijk 🏳️🌈 @bramvandijk.bsky.social Assistant professor at Utrecht University (Theoretical Biology). Simulating microbes, mobile elements, horizontal gene transfer, and whatever else happens on a grain of sand | 🏳️🌈 | he / they | thevirtuallaboratory.com
Martin Hunt @martibartfast.bsky.social Bioinformatician
Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social *THE* Naijamerican PhD-holding, World Fantasy, multi-Hugo, Nebula, Eisner Award-winning, New York Times bestselling rudimentary cyborg writer, nnedi.com
Christopher Horn, PhD @chrish935.bsky.social Doing bioinformatics @ the CDC.
Rodrigo O. Polo @ropolo.bsky.social Bioinformatician @ Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Nick Sanderson @nickdsandy.bsky.social Bioinformatician interested in infection and immunity. Direct from sample sequencing for diagnostics. MMM group, NDM, Oxford University 
Josefina Campos @jocampos.bsky.social Molecular #epidemiology and #publichealth. Pathogen #genomics #emerginginfections
Stefanie Lutz @steffilutz.bsky.social Microbial ecologist in the group of @mvanderheijden.bsky.social at the University of Zurich and Agroscope working on #plant-microbe interactions, #microbiomes, #mycorrhiza, #soil #biodiversity, #sustainable #agriculture, #pesticides. #NatGeoExplorer.
Rachel Colquhoun @rmcolq.bsky.social Bioinformatics for metagenomics and viral sequence data
Joep de Ligt 🧬 PhD @joepdel.bsky.social Lead data @HartwigMedicalFoundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Honorary fellow @OtagoUniversity. Active in the field of Bioinformatics and Genetics with a focus on human diseases. Lover of nature and (book) nerd. he/him
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0348-419X
PLOS Global Public Health @plosglobalpublichealth.org Supporting a mission to make work of the highest methodological and ethical rigor openly available to the researchers, policy experts, and clinicians who depend on it to tackle urgent health crises and advance health equity.
Timi Adediran @timi-the-epi.bsky.social -Post-doctoral fellow at University of Michigan
-Interest in hospital epidemiology, health disparities, antibiotic-resistant pathogens, infection control and genomic epidemiology
Marc Niebel @marcniebel.bsky.social Bioinformatician & Clinical Scientist. Sports enthusiast. Opinions are my own
Lucy Dillon @lucydillon.bsky.social Research fellow in the Creevey lab, QUB. Studying AMR, microbiomes, and microbial genomics 🧬 using bioinformatics 👩🏼💻
Ammar Aziz @aaziz.bsky.social 
Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us FIeld guide. Quartermaster. Associate Professor and Research Dean at UVA School of Data Science. Views my own.
Web: https://datascience.virginia.edu/people/stephen-turner
Newsletter: https://blog.stephenturner.us
Guillaume Méric @gmeric.bsky.social 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇦🇺 (he/him) | www.mericlab.com
Microbiome(s) and population health, host-microbe & pathogen genomics 🦠🧬
- Associate Professor (University of Bath);
- Clinical affiliate (Baker Heart & Diabetes Institute)
Peter van Heusden (he/him) 🗿 @pvanheus.bsky.social #bioinformatics at @SANBI_SA, building bioinformatics workflows for (Pan-)African PH. health & justice! married. @pvanheus@mstdn.science
Tom Connor @tomrconnor.bsky.social Public health genomics and big computers working in Wales. Parent of two small children. Gamer, foodie, geek. Also likes cats. Views my own.
Kat Holt @katholt.bsky.social Scientist… pathogen genomics & antimicrobial resistance, computational biology & infectious disease epidemiology.
Co-Director LSHTM AMR Centre @lshtmamrcentre.bsky.social
holtlab.net | klebnet.org | typhoidgenomics.org | amr.lshtm.ac.uk
Pathoplexus @pathoplexus.org An open-source pathogen sequence database dedicated to equitable sharing, transparent governance, & empowering global public health.
pathoplexus.org
Nextstrain @nextstrain.org Real-time tracking of pathogen evolution
Andrew Rambaut (🐏🎀) @arambaut.bsky.social Virus evolution | genomic epidemiology| virus origins | phylogenetics | BEAST | ARTIC Network
University of Edinburgh
http://beast.community
http://artic.network
SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics @sib.swiss The SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics is an internationally recognized non-profit organization dedicated to biological and biomedical #DataScience.
We provide essential resources, expertise and services and represent Swiss bioinformatics.
Vitalik Buterin @vitalik.ca 
@hamesjadfield.bsky.social @hamesjadfield.bsky.social 
Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com Almost certainly one of the ecologists of all time.
AI/ML, biodiversity monitoring, viral emergence, open science, methodological anarchism
he/they
🧪 https://epic-biodiversity.org/
Maria Nattestad 🧬💻 @omgenomics.com Co-founder OMGenomics Labs. Creator of Circa https://circa.omgenomics.com, Ribbon, YouTube.com/omgenomics. Worked on DeepVariant+DeepConsensus at Google.
Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz R, data, 🐕, 🍸, 🌈. He/him.
ARTIC network @artic.network Putting genomic surveillance at the heart of outbreak response. Funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Gates Foundation.
Sam J Wilson @samjwilsonphd.bsky.social Virologist. Professor. Cambridge, UK
https://www.immunology.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-sam-wilson
https://tinyurl.com/samjwilsonscholar
Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com Genetically overexposed. Human-human hybrid. Firecracker factory in a blender.
Huge, cold, and covered in corpses.
92
6.622⨉10¹
Dr Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social Die Virenjägerin! 🏹🧬!
Using programming & phylogenetics, I study & track viruses. Co-developer of Nextstrain, based at Swiss TPH & Uni Basel.
Founder of CoVariants.org, co-founder of @pathoplexus.org
I like 🐈 & 🛫
@firefoxx66@mstdn.science
@luizirber.bsky.social @luizirber.bsky.social 
Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social Head of the School of Infection, Inflammation & Immunology @ Uni Birmingham. Proud Scot. Oversaw a few Covid PCR tests
Global Alliance for Genomics and Health @ga4gh.org GA4GH sets standards and frames policies to expand genomic and health data use within a human rights framework.
https://www.ga4gh.org
Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social Programmer, infosec, co-founder of TurtleSec, parent, bi 🏳️🌈, NB, she/they, Norwegian 🇳🇴 dyslexic with no edit
Anti-Fascist ✊
Trans rights are human rights 🏳️⚧️
Giving up is collaboration.
🐘: https://social.vivaldi.net/@Patricia
🏡: https://patricia.no
Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social physician-scientist, author, editor
https://www.scripps.edu/faculty/topol/
Ground Truths https://erictopol.substack.com
SUPER AGERS https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Super-Agers/Eric-Topol/9781668067666
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
Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦 @martinsteinegger.bsky.social Developing data intensive computational methods • PI @ Seoul National University 🇰🇷 • #FirstGen • he/him • Hauptschüler
Matt Vaughn @yakshavers.social Product Manager, HPC at AWS // Allergic to Jargon Monoxide // Opinions mine alone- J Jason Merkin @jasonmerkin.bsky.social dad and scientist. wrestler and cyclist. probably too sarcastic for my own good.
Kat Steinke @microbiologikat.bsky.social They/them. Microbiologist/bioinformatician (MSc) working at Odense University Hospital, quadball player, all-around nerd. Chronically unable to stick to one language. Opinions, terrible puns etc. all my own
Inês Mendes @inesmendes.bsky.social Senior Bioinformatics Scientist @ Theiagen Genomics
PhD in Microbial Bioinformatics
Sam Wilkinson @biowilko.bsky.social Bioinformatician, CLIMB-TRE dev, CLIMB-COVID admin. Likes food, movies, music, and writing code.
He/Him.
Mat Beale @typemat12.bsky.social Microbial (meta)genomics researcher @sangerinstitute
interested in genomic epidemiology and evolutionary dynamics of STIs/NTDs/AMR in complex samples. Views my own.
https://www.sanger.ac.uk/person/beale-mathew/
Matthew Croxen @mcroxen.bsky.social public health 🦠 genomics | associate professor | personal account (opinions my own) | 🎸⚽📷♨️🥷 he/him. 🇨🇦 ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽.
Bede Constantinides @bede.im Research fellow at the University of Birmingham interested in infectious disease informatics. Also cycling, photography, active travel. https://bede.im
Mitchell Sullivan @mjsull.bsky.social Microbinfie
Holly Nichols @holly-nichols.bsky.social 🦟🦠Microbiology PhD candidate at UW-Madison | Interested in the mosquito microbiome, symbiosis, and public health | (she/her)
Dr. Kelly O. @drkfo.bsky.social Chief Scientist for Next-Generation Sequencing & Bioinformatics at The Utah Public Health Laboratory
🌟 SEQUENCE ALL THE THINGS! 🌟
I oversee all the sequencing and data analysis for infectious disease pathogens for the state. All opinions are my own!
Lars Barquist @lbarquist.bsky.social Assistant prof @ UofT, associated scientist @ Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research. Pathogen systems biology / informatics / functional genomics. Coastal New Hampshirite. Drink Moxie.
Leighton Pritchard @widdowquinn.bsky.social Computational biologist. Views/opinions mine, not my employer's. Repost != agreement. Not green, just pleasant. Fabian. =﹥÷
I can’t see DMs because of the Online Safety Act.
Olin Silander @osilander.bsky.social DNA
Michelle Wille @duckswabber.bsky.social Avian influenza & avian virome ecology | "Expert in Ducks" | (she/her) | michellewille.com
Kyle MacLea 🦠 @kmaclea.bsky.social I study microbes (#Bacteria, #Phages) but love the whole #TreeOfLife @UofNH
@UNHManchester associate professor #MicrobialGenomics #ScienceEd (he/him/his)
Pathogen Dynamics Unit @pducambridge.bsky.social Infectious Disease Research Unit at the University of Cambridge working on the emergence, spread, and control of pathogens. See more at: www.pdu.gen.cam.ac.uk Member starter pack: https://go.bsky.app/7PFMyLu
Marit Hetland @genomarit.bsky.social Bioinformatician at Stavanger University Hospital & PhD candidate at University of Bergen looking at Klebsiella genomics (and sometimes other bugs).
Senter for digitalt liv Norge @digitaltliv.bsky.social Senter for digitalt liv Norge, DLN – et nasjonalt senter for bioteknologisk forskning og innovasjon – Centre for Digital Life Norway
Robert Petit @rpetit3.bsky.social Public health bacterial genomics, bioinformatic workflow development, and training. Bactopia (https://bactopia.github.io). @ Wyoming Public Health Laboratory
Michael Payne @mjohnpayne.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow at University of Sydney.
Microbial genomics, Bioinformatics and Python!
Etienne Simon-Loriere @simonlorierelab.bsky.social Group leader in the Virology Department at Institut Pasteur
Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.com Assistant Professor at Tufts Medicine studying microbes, brains, and the immune system 🚽🦠🧠
Fermenter, gardener, Zen Buddhist. Ask me about #julialang!
🎙️: https://audiommunity.org
🌎: https://bonhamlab.bio
💻: https://GitHub.com/kescobo
Michael Baym @baym.lol Associate Prof @HarvardMed. Microbial evolution, antibiotic resistance, mobile genetic elements, algorithms, phages, molecular biotech, etc. Find me under “floating dumpster fire”
Sean Eddy @cryptogenomicon.bsky.social Professor, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Harvard University
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Ewan Birney @ewanbirney.bsky.social Director of EMBL-EBI. I have an insatiable love of biology. Consultant to ONT and Cantata (Dovetail)
Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info Public health experts resisting harmful policies, fighting disinformation, and defending public health from within.
Not official CDC—but close enough for transmission.
Proudly #AltGov
Tips? signal altCDC.99, email altCDCtips@proton.me or DM
AltFDA @altfda.altgov.info OG AltGov. that’s now here. ANTIFA General.
Theiagen Genomics @theiagen.bsky.social Transforming public health and infectious disease surveillance through the innovative implementation of #NGS and #bioinformatics technologies.
Heikki Sørum @heikkisorum.bsky.social 
Radovan Bast @radovan.xyz theoretical chemist turned research software engineer - CodeRefinery, open science, research, software, data, computing, teaching, oceanography, computational geometry, baking, occasional 8-bit stuff - he/him - https://radovan.xyz/
ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ @drmowinckels.io Staff scientists / RSE @LCBC_UiO & @LifebrainEU. She/Her.
PhD Cognitive Neurosciences 🧠
@rladies.org Global Team.
#Rstats #Nerd 🌈🏳️🌈
https://Drmowinckels.io
Rebecca A. Gladstone @becctococcus.bsky.social Microbial population genomics | opportunistic pathogen ecology | AMR, vaccines, and prevention. I study why some bacterial lineages move from colonisation to disease. UiO. Often outdoors in Norway.
Andrew Page @andrewjpage.bsky.social Microbial Bioinformatics scientist. Host the MicroBinfie and The Bioinformatics Lab Podcasts. CTO at Origin Sciences