Natasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social Writer, feminist.
Out now: Feminism for a World on Fire (Virago)
Previous books: Living Dolls, Before the Light Fades, A Quiet Life
Hon Professor Centre for Climate Justice, QMUL
Founder Women for Refugee Women
natashawalter.co.uk
James and Liz's Solar Panels @solar.jamesomalley.co.uk Daily updates on the solar generation in @jamesomalley.co.uk and @lizlutgendorff.bsky.social's house, based on code and entirely ripped off from @edent.tel's solar.bots.edent.tel.
Tamsin Edwards @flimsin.bsky.social Professor of Climate Change, King's College London. Climate science, communication, recovering/managing ME/CFS. 🏳️🌈 🇦🇶 🧊
Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social Historian of science; Principal Curator of Science @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social & Hon Fellow, STIS, Uni of Edinburgh. President @bshsnews.bsky.social #histSTM. Views own.
Formerly known as @beckyfh
https://teleskopos.wordpress.com/profile
Paul Pharoah @paulpharoah.bsky.social Jack of some trades, master of none: public health, epi and genetics mainly. Arsenal supporter, hiker. Live in LA. If home is also where the heart is England, South Africa, Papua New Guinea. Photos are my own. Views expressed are my own.
Dr Alex Lathbridge @lathbridge.bsky.social Science journalist and audio documentary maker 🎧
PhD in biochemistry and coding 👨🏿🔬👨🏿💻
Lapsed scientist and addicted to storytelling
www.alexlathbridge.com
Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz Vapid Response Unit. Tired dad. Writer, not always about tech. Gadget editor at ft.com/htsi
Also, multi-faceted musical human. Perform with Scritti Politti, Cardiacs, Lost Crowns, Sweet Billy Pilgrim, Spearmint, others. More info at rhodri.biz
Kirsten Amy @kirstenp.bsky.social Writer (agency copywriter plus own nonsense). Owned by a spaniel. Sussex.
Substack: https://inbetweengirl.substack.com/
Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social Author and Professor of Maths and Public Engagement.
Books -
Math(s) of Life and Death
How to Expect the Unexpected
You Don't Know What You're missing
https://tinyurl.com/37rx2yuv
He/Him
Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way.
Lives with epilepsy.
Chris Curtis MP @chriscurtis94.bsky.social Proud Milton Keynesian and Labour MP for MK North. Can't spell, views my own.
Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social Study genetic conflicts professionally. Try to avoid conflicts in personal life (with mixed results).
Fred Hutch Basic Sciences,
UW Genome Sciences,
HHMI.
Posting in a personal capacity. My posts don’t reflect my employers’ opinions.
Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social Professor of Algorithmic and Microbial Genomics at the University of Bath (UK). Pangenomes, drug resistance (esp TB), data structures for DNA search, plasmid evolution, global microbial surveillance. Open Data, reproducibility. https://zam-iqbal-lab.org/
Adrian Bradley @ade-bradley.co.uk Broadcast Journalist, podcast producer and audiophile. Produce podcasts for lots of different outlets. Often found reporting on Eurovision on the news. Love theatre, otters and jazz hands. He/him
Evan Davis @evanhd.bsky.social The bloke who presents the BBC Radio 4 PM programme as well as the Bottom Line. And Dragons Den on BBC1. I try to be reasonable, but it is sometimes a struggle.
Brian Clegg @brianclegg.bsky.social Science author and communicator - editor of the www.popularscience.co.uk review site.
Jim Martin @jimspim.bsky.social Publishing Director, Bloomsbury. Pop-science, natural history. Gonzo editor; zoo-LOL-ogist; supplier of bookish news, animal facts, regular swearing. Views my own.
Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social Your favourite archive's favourite archive.
We're the archives and local studies library for the historic county of Buckinghamshire, England, and the home of Buckinghamshire History Festival.
Website: buckinghamshire.gov.uk/culture-and-tourism/archives/
Michael Dnes @roadscholar.bsky.social Head of transport policy at Stonehaven consulting. Ex-civil servant who used to play with roads, trains, e-scooters, parking apps and a lot of government plumbing. May have made your driving test harder, and threw some cones in your way at least once
Natasha Loder @natashaloder.bsky.social Health Editor, The Economist.
free words: overmatter.substack.com/subscribe
James Tapper @jamestapper.bsky.social Journalist at The Observer / observer.co.uk
I write about science, health and other things.
Edward Latto @ted-bio.bsky.social Singer Instruments - BD manager.
Views expressed here are my own and subject to revision upon receipt of new data.
Kathryn Paige Harden @kph3k.bsky.social Psychology & behavior genetics. Author of THE GENETIC LOTTERY (2021) and ORIGINAL SIN (2026). Speaking as an individual.
Jon Turney @jonturney.bsky.social Writer & editor, past lives in science policy, sci-comm etc. Retirement pastimes include managing climate anxieties. New writing at UKjazznews.com and @theartsdesk.bsky.social
jonturney.wordpress.com
See also https://bristoljazzlive.co.uk
Alejandro Montenegro @aemonten.bsky.social Molecular Biologist (aemonten.github.io) 丨Chief Editor @ CSH Protocols (cshprotocols.cshlp.org) 丨Head of the Integrity in Publishing Group at CSHL Press 丨Chair "Molecular Biosystems Conference" (molbiosystems.com) 丨(Oxford) Comma King 丨Central Dogma Police
Norwegian Embassy in Washington @norwayinusa.norway.no Official Bluesky Account of the Norwegian Embassy in Washington, D.C.
Polly Mackenzie @pollymackenzie.bsky.social Co-founder and CEO, Zinc Innovation Partners - helping turn science into real-world change. Fomerly Demos, UAL, MMHPI, No10. Adviser at Future Governance Forum, Family Business UK, Door10 Recruitment. Writes at https://howtorunacountry.substack.com/
Charlie Swanton @charlesswanton.bsky.social Cancer Evolution and Genome Instability Lab Francis Crick Institute. Views my own
Jonathan Pettitt @genotripe.bsky.social Gene Supremo and Worm Wizard
aberdeenwormlab.org
Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social Writer, podcaster and former diplomat.
Buy my book👇
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If you don't want to buy my book, you could buy me a coffee👇
https://ko-fi.com/snellarthur
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com
Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social I write novels (eg The Power, new novel is The Future), I make games (eg Zombies, Run!), unorthodox Jew. not-getting-into-pointless-arguments-on-the-internet is an act of revolution. However complex you think things are, they're more complex than that
Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social Chris Coates, purveyor of niche drivel: https://substack.com/@oddthisday
Hello Bio @hellobio.bsky.social 🔬 Affordable life science tools you can really trust - hellobio.com
Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social Medicinal chemist / chemical biologist, author of “In the Pipeline” at http://science.org/blogs/pipeline. derekb.lowe@gmail.com and on Signal at Dblowe.18
All opinions are mine; I don’t speak for my employer in any way.
GSK @gsk.bsky.social We discover, develop and deliver medicines and vaccines to create value for patients and shareholders.
Anne Carpenter @drannecarpenter.bsky.social Dedicated to drug discovery, enthralled by science. 5 kids. She. SAB Recursion. Founder SyzOnc. Lab at Broad Institute. Opinions my own.
Sue Keogh @smkeogh.bsky.social Communications Consultant in Cambridge | Agency Founder | Enterprise Nation adviser | Podcast host, speaker | FRSA, FCIM, NED
#communications #marketing #digital
sookio.com and @sookio everywhere
Max Carnage @doktorg.bsky.social Assimilating
Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social FT opiner. "Sinecured oaf", “mutton-headed fellow”-two satisfied readers. Globalisation/trade/econ/snark. Cestrian, Londoner, Brit, European. RT≠👍 Views own. alan.beattie@ft.com. Sign up to my FT Trade Secrets newsletter https://www.ft.com/trade-secrets.
commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social Scottish and sweary and not even sorry. Taking an eternity to write a book. You can stick your ai up your airse.
Also run @theskylark.bsky.social
Hayley Gullen @hayleygullen.com “This Might Surprise You: A Breast Cancer Story” is available to buy now! https://linktr.ee/ThisMightSurpriseYou
Rep: Julia Silk at Greyhound Literary.
insta: HayleyGullen
www.hayleygullen.com
Cancer Research UK City of London Centre @cruk-cityoflondon.bsky.social A world-class hub for research into cancer biotherapeutics.
We foster collaboration between scientists at King's College London, University College London, Barts Cancer Institute (QMUL) and The Francis Crick Institute.
https://www.colcc.ac.uk/
Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social Journalist and podcaster. Politics, social affairs and a little bit of Britpop. Once Independent, now independent.
Find me in The i Paper, The New World, Obs, The Lead, Yahoo and on Oh God, What Now? & The Bunker pods
https://muckrack.com/hannah-fearn
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social I had a marvellous time ruining everything.
Professor of Genetics @UCL, Public Humanities Fellow @SAS. Ex-President of @Humanists_UK Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷×
@kbjmanagement
adamrutherford.com
Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social Interested in UK housing policy, planning, economics, housebuilding, energy, social policy. Cambridge based.
Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social Fragments of life in messages from old postcards, curated by Tom Jackson. BOOK: http://amzn.to/34rIDhp POD: http://Apple.co/2xNqQ8D AGENT: http://morgangreencreatives.com
Laurie Winkless @lauriewinkless.bsky.social Physicist & science storyteller. 📚#1: SCIENCE AND THE CITY 📚#2: STICKY. Words in other places. Irish in Aotearoa New Zealand. Massive science nerd, biz owner, enthusiastic, outspoken, equity-minded, multi-crafter. She/her. #ToitūTeTiriti #FreePalestine
Swift Science Writing @swiftsciencewriting.co.uk Freelance writing, consultancy, evidence, editing and data analysis. Fuelled by Yorkshire tea ☕️
Pete Wilton @petewilton.bsky.social #Science & #PublicHealth PR @lshtm.bsky.social. #Writing, #Books #History. Author of Spectrum of #Misinformation newsletter with news, analysis & practical advice: https://the-spectrum-of-misinformation.ghost.io Views model's own.
Alistair Strathern MP @alistrathern.bsky.social Hitchin’s Labour MP | Standing up for our towns & villages.
Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social Former politico, comment writer, spread betting dealer, editor, now think tanker, consultant, former baker of overly dense loaves.
Kate Allen @kateallen.ft.com Weekend News Editor, the Financial Times @financialtimes.com.
I did write the headline.
Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social Historian of Biology and Medicine. Science is culture, and long live the Humanities. Director of @manchstm.bsky.social. Lapsed biochemist. Immigrant. Urban cyclist (& motorist). Owned by dog. More lucky than smart. 0 attention span. Here privately. He/him.
Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social Professor Emeritus (University of Manchester), writes on biology, history of science & French Resistance. Most recent book: a biography of Francis Crick. Now writing THE IDEA OF HEREDITY.
Link to publications: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8258-4913
Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social Founder of Tax Policy Associates Ltd. Tax realist. @danneidle on Twitter
Steve Parks @steveparks.me Geeking out about writing, entrepreneurship, journalism, food, tech — or ideally a combination.
European, living/writing in France & running a business in UK.
https://www.steveparks.me
Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social DEI hire. Prof of Primary Care, Uni of Oxford. Researching digital health/ inequities, covid prevention (masks/ air quality). Wild swimmer. Mum to Rob (marine bio) & Al (doc). She/her. https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=QDCqsJwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Darren Wilkinson @darrenjw.bsky.social Professor of Statistics, Bayesian, computational systems biologist and functional programmer, https://darrenjw.github.io/
Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social Scientist and science writer from New Zealand.
BioinfoTools on Twitter.
Traveller. Cycle touring.
More later - I really need to get to that eh? 😄
Mrs Quent @quarkquent.bsky.social
Shane McCracken @shane.mccracken.org.uk Project Director - http://imascienti.st Creating equality of opportunity in STEM & careers enrichment for school students. Wearer of orange jacket at conferences.
@sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social Swearing, feminism, lefty, eco, argumentativeness, home education, science, public engagement with science. Occasional pedantry.
And maybe some menopause jokes.
I failed to copy over my contacts from the other place. I’ve not ditched you on purpose.
Stephanie Merritt/SJ Parris @stephmerritt.bsky.social Author & journalist. Sunday Times #1 best-selling Giordano Bruno series. Reviews for The Observer. Sometimes on the radio. Rep’d by Jonny Geller/Curtis Brown 📚🗞️🎙️✍🏼
Tom Churcher @thomaschurcher.bsky.social Infectious disease epidemiologist focussing on mosquitoes & other blood-suckers. Malaria. Prof @ Imperial College London @mrc-outbreak.bsky.social.
Margaret Harris @drmlharris.bsky.social Award-winning science journalist at Physics World magazine @physicsworld.bsky.social. Also available as @DrMLHarris@mastodon.social. All views on science, politics, history, nonsense, etc. my own.
Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, author (NOMAD CENTURY; TRANSCENDENCE; ANTHROPOCENE https://bit.ly/3QR898d) Human-Earth system science https://WanderingGaia.com
depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social hi i'm @annierau.bsky.social i love wikipedia! dm submissions if you want :-)
Mary Elizabeth Sutherland @meharpist.bsky.social I'm Nature's Deputy Editor for ecology, evolution and social science and handle papers in cog neuro, psych, and a variety of behavioral and social sciences. When I'm not working, I'm a mom (and sometimes even try to find time to play my harp or ski).
@womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social The original & only WomensArt created/ curated by art historian/author PL Henderson to celebrate/promote women in the arts.
Real art...real artists...No AI
Images © to respective owners
Carmina Biryana @carmenego.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️🍉🌻 Trade union rep, chair of Conway Hall Ethical Society, weirdly optimistic for someone with chronic TMJ. Pronouns are She/They but "Glorious Majesty" is also fine.
Sylvia Erhardt @erhardtlab.bsky.social Centromeres, Repetitive RNAs, Epigenetic inheritance and everything chromatin-related. Professor @ kit.edu/. Love my girls and running hills. She/Her. Personal account (views are mine).
The Abundance Agenda @abundancepod.com A podcast about growth and progress, hosted by @jamesomalley.co.uk and @mjrobbins.bsky.social.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
https://abundancepod.com
Andrew Hunter Murray @andrewhunterm.bsky.social Author (A Beginner’s Guide To Breaking And Entering OUT NOW); No Such Thing As A Fish co-host, Private Eye joke-writer, Naked Week host. Agents are RCW (books) and The Agency (showbiz bébé).
DcTurner @dcturner.bsky.social Award-winning animator, indie gameDev, guitarist.
www.dcturner.co.uk
Life Science Network @lifesciencenet.bsky.social A platform for life sciences. Publications, research protocols, news, events, jobs and more. Sign up at https://www.lifescience.net.
Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social Economics writer. Author.
Expect history, economics, finance and other stuff. Some cricket.
Wrote Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through.
Blood and Treasure, on the economics of war, out now.
Andrew Bennett @droojb.bsky.social trying to scale progress, quickly | @andrewjb_ on twitter
Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social Director of Language & Genetics at Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen.
Tracing the complex connections between genes, brains, speech & language.
Website: https://www.mpi.nl/people/fisher-simon-e
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3132-1996
Dr Kat, Epidemiologist @epidemiologistkat.bsky.social Epidemiologist at University of Illinois Chicago, misinformation debunker, data nerd, Chicagoan, scientist for the resistance
Ed Holloway @edholloway.net CEO at the Macular Society, Trustee at the Association of Charitable Organisations
Interested in social impact, health, disability and tech
Posting in a personal capacity
Rachel Parris @rachelparris.bsky.social Comedy, Music, Improv, Writing.
Latest book “Introducing Mrs Collins” out Nov 6 / available to pre-order now
Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social Medieval Military Medicine-from the Late Middle Ages to the Early Sixteenth Century
Available at Pen & Sword Books and Amazon
www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Medieval-Military-Medicine-From-the-Late-Middle-Ages-to-the-Early-Sixteenth-Century-Hardback/p/61863
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social Professor in Science and Technology Studies, UCL @stsucl.bsky.social. Science policy, responsible innovation, emerging technologies. Book https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-32320-2. Responsible AI UK (www.rai.ac.uk)
Kristoffer Bach Falkenberg @falkenbeer.bsky.social Molecular biologist gone Fermentation scientist. Brewing CO₂ into carbon negative chemicals at Again. Passionate about #sustainability #motorsport and #homebrewing. Opinions are entirely my own.
Alan Worsley @alanworsley.bsky.social Lives in Vancouver.
Science Communications
@cancerconnector.bsky.social @cancerconnector.bsky.social
Pritesh Mistry @mustbemistry.bsky.social A curious mind and a dose of skepticism |
digital technologies & innovation @ The King's Fund I Innovation Catalyst | #healthcare #healthtech blogger (views own)
Peter Johnson @pwmjohnson.bsky.social Oncologist and lymphoma specialist. National Clinical Director for cancer at NHSE. Chair, Cancer Goal, Office for Life Sciences. University of Southampton.
Wendy Bickmore @wbickmor.bsky.social Scientist at University of Edinburgh. Director of MRC Human Genetics Unit but posting in my own capacity.
MadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social Neuro and Developmental biologist. PostDoc at day. Supervillain at night. He/him #BlackLivesMatter #TransRightsAreHumanRights
@mads100tist@mastodon.social
Ansa Biotechnologies @ansabio.bsky.social We’re on a mission to end the headaches of ordering synthetic DNA and give researchers what they really want: reliable DNA, on time, exactly as ordered. #DNASynthesis 🧪
ansabio.com
Brendan Miller @brenkjm.bsky.social I make "The Ideas that Explain the News" on YouTube - using concepts from social sciences to explain the news at a deeper level.
https://brendanmiller.substack.com/
I like chatting politics/books/meeting people - message if you fancy coffee!
DNA Script @dnascript.bsky.social Revolutionizing biological research with enzymatic DNA synthesis technology. Our SYNTAX® DNA printer and advanced enzymatic methods produce longer, more complex DNA sequences for groundbreaking research applications.
https://www.dnascript.com/
Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com He of the eponymous law. FRSA. Good at writing and sums. Degrowther, and not a fan of capitalism. Your pal. The Eye of Sauron, but for headlines. Made by socialism and immigration, which seems to annoy people. Come for the headlines, stay for the Gramsci.
Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social Senior editor at New Scientist
Ternfortheworse @ternfortheworse.bsky.social Bad Place refugee
Torie Bosch @thekibosch.bsky.social Opinion editor at STAT. Send your conversation-starting medicine/life sciences opinion pieces my way! https://www.statnews.com/first-opinion-submission
Dr C @emmacroager.bsky.social Public health person interested in prevention, evidence, policy, research. I have skills. I run. https://t.co/JjGYQaT5Wp.
Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social Mostly complaining about politics and structural biology. At the end of everything, hold on to anything.