Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social Theoretical Neuroscientist, Columbia University
Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social Founder of Liminal (LiminalCreations.com) & co-founder of Unbreaking (Unbreaking.org) Focused on turning knowledge into action. #science #communication #sensemaking #scicomm She/her. Married to Ed Yong.
David Ho @davidho.bsky.social Climate scientist; ocean carbon cycle and climate solutions. Professor @soest.hawaii.edu, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; Visiting Faculty, Arizona State University. https://linktr.ee/david_ho
Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social Professor. Attorney, historian, public health ethicist. Always all ways public health. Jiujitsu🟤, Star Wars, Batman, Coffee. #LegalEpi #Stigma #PHLaw #PHEthx #Disability #HistPubHealth (all opinions mine) H/h/h. ✡️
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Sallie Permar, MD, PhD @salliepermar.bsky.social Chairwoman and Nancy C. Paduano Professor of Pediatrics and Pediatrician in Chief at NewYork Presbyterian Komansky Children's Hospital. Lab research goal: Develop vaccines to prevent neonatal viral infections such as #HIV and #CMV
Anne Rimoin @annerimoin.bsky.social Infectious Disease Epidemiologist. Science Communicator. Professor. Gordon-Levin Endowed Chair in Infectious Diseases & Public Heath @UCLAFSPH. Director/Founder #UCLADRC @UCLA_CGIH Insta: @annerimoin
Michael Osterholm, PhD, MPH @mtosterholm.bsky.social Director, @cidrap.bsky.social
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CASW @sciencewriting.bsky.social Council for the Advancement of Science Writing. CASW organizes New Horizons in Science and other programs for science writers.
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Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social Prof of Demography & Population Health @oxforddemsci.bsky.social | Mortality, Epidemiology, Infections/Immunity, Biosocial science, COVID-19. | Science Communicator 🇺🇸 in 🇬🇧.
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Natalie Wolchover @nattyover.bsky.social Physics journalist at Quanta Magazine.
Isabella Eckerle @eckerleisabella.bsky.social Director, Geneva Centre for Emerging Viral Diseases - Virologist, MD, DTM&H. Interests: Emerging viruses, coronaviruses, diagnostics, translational research for better preparedness for epidemic & pandemic viruses.
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Anne Wyllie @annewyllie.bsky.social Kiwi. Pneumococcologist. "Spit Queen".
Anne Sosin @annesosin.bsky.social Public health pracademic at Dartmouth | Rural health equity & global health | Occasional writer | Opinions are my own. Still getting started here.
Dan Vergano @danvergano.bsky.social Director, Science Policy News at American Institute of Physics
Washington, D.C.
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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social Sci journo, author of Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains. Highly caffeinated. All bad takes mine. She/her
Brooke Jarvis @brookejarvis.bsky.social contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, writer for The New Yorker, Wired, and elsewhere, slowly writing a book
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Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of Becoming Earth (Random House) ✵ Contributing Writer, New York Times Magazine ✵ Gardener, baker, naturalist ✵ 🇱🇧🇺🇸🏳️🌈 ✵ Surname rhymes with neighbor ✵ https://www.ferrisjabr.com
Rick Berke @rickberke.bsky.social Co-founder & Executive Editor, STAT (www.statnews.com)
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Usha Lee McFarling @usha.bsky.social I direct the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT. Working hard to advance science journalism and support its practitioners at a time they are needed more than ever.
Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com Health tech / AI reporter @ STAT News
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Siri Carpenter @siricarpenter.bsky.social Co-founder, executive director, & EIC of
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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social Professing science journalism, directing NYU's SHERP. 62-time loser, 1-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction. Probably off chasing 🦋 somewhere.
Scott Becker @sjbecker.bsky.social CEO @aphl.org, public health prof, husband, girldad, Wheaten owner, proud UMD graduate, Jersey Shore native, he/him. Views are my own!
Placenta Lab @placentalab.bsky.social Dr. Shannon Bainbridge (She/Her) - Professor, Health Sciences @UOttawa. Wife, mom to 3 awesome girls, and big time admirer of the Placenta. Also really dig DOHAD and STEM. Oh, and cats.
Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social Collector of social media sites. Infectious disease epidemiologist. Writes about vaccine hesitancy, science misinfo, zombies. Probably somewhere on a trail. Views own etc.
Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social I’m the founding executive editor of Heatmap News, a contributing Opinion writer for The New York Times, and the cohost of the Shift Key podcast.
📍NYC
NPR @npr.org This is NPR 🎙️
Deborah Blum @deborahb.bsky.social Book author, toxicology journalist, fascinated by poison and murder (current book project), and, oh yeah, I'm the former director of the Knight Science Journalism program at MIT.
John Rennie @johnrennie.bsky.social Science writer/editor | Frmrly of Quanta Magazine, Scientific American, TWC's Hacking the Planet & more | Faculty: NYU SHERP. | Friend to those who have no friends; enemy to those who make me an enemy. (he/him) 🧪🥋🦮| JohnRennie.net
Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social charismatic megafauna at Defector
books How Far the Light Reaches & Dyke (geology)
newsletter Creatures NYC 🤙 https://buttondown.com/simbler/
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jane c. hu @janehu.bsky.social journalist, host of @citycastseattle.bsky.social, psychedelics reporter at The Microdose. always gets the name of the dog.
janehu.net
seattle.citycast.fm
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Elaine Hernandez @emhernandez.bsky.social Inequities in health are ubiquitous. I study the processes that create and perpetuate them.
Medical sociology (PhD), health policy (MPH), & health demography.
Personal account
Ed Yong @edyong209.bsky.social Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him
📷 Canon R6mkii + RF 800mm
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social science journalist. author. molecular biologist. curious.
interested in #microbes, #misinformation and all things #blue
contributing correspondent at @science.org
co-host of @pandemia.bsky.social
2024 KSJ fellow at MIT
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social Freelance writer, editor, columnist & consultant. Formerly at Scientific American, Washington Post, National Geographic, Slate, Smithsonian & Science. Past president of National Association of Science Writers. Birder.
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
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Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
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STAT @statnews.com Reporting from the frontiers of health & medicine.
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Emily Anthes @emilyanthes.bsky.social Science reporter at The New York Times, covering animal health and science • emily.anthes@nytimes.com Signal: emilyanthes.41
Jason Kindrachuk @kindrachukjason.bsky.social Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in emerging viruses, U.Manitoba. Expert in the emerging zoonotic viruses with a focus on WHO priority pathogens. All views expressed are my own
Jon Cohen @cohenjon.bsky.social Staff writer at Science, specializing in infectious diseases and immunology. Vaccine history geek. Hate outbreaks, love covering them. Serious surf addiction, occasional contributor to the incomparable Surfer's Journal.
Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social Views my own, but you can borrow them if you feel so inclined. Anti-disease. Negentropy hunter. Kosmotropophile. Big Nerd Energy. “A homework person.” Fun at parties. Antibody hoarder. “Problematically literate.” he/him
Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social Doctor, writer, Canadian Spice, lasso of truth, I speak for no one but me. 2X NYT bestsellers. More thoughts at TheVajenda.com
Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com NYT columnist. Signal: carlzimmer.51
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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
Sam Scarpino @scarpino.bsky.social Scientist. Director of AI + Life Sciences and Professor of Public Health, Health Sciences, & Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and Vermont Complex Systems Institute. scarpino.github.io
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.
Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @epiellie.bsky.social Epidemiologist and science communicator | newsletter: epiellie.substack.com | cohost @casualinfer podcast | Causal inference for public health #epitwitter | Canadian in US 🇨🇦 | she/her/Dr
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
Seth Mnookin @sethmnookin.bsky.social Journalist, science writer, director of sciwrite.mit.edu, cochlear implant user. Formerly: brain tumor patient
Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social Science and global health reporter for The New York Times
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Sarah Cobey @cobey.bsky.social Professor at U. Chicago. Computational epidemiology, evolution, influenza, SARS-CoV-2, vaccines, and B cells. Infectious disease dynamics across scales.
Bloom lab @jbloomlab.bsky.social Lab studying molecular evolution of proteins and viruses. Affiliated with Fred Hutch & HHMI.
Opinions are my own and do not reflect those of my employer.
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Lisa Gralinski @lisagralinski.bsky.social Virologist at UNC, travel and food lover.
The Menachery Lab @themenacherylab.bsky.social A coronavirus lab looking for low hanging pebbles and shiny fruit.
Emory University
Joshua B. Plotkin @jplotkin.bsky.social Annenberg Professor of Natural Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
http://evolution.sas.upenn.edu/
Eddie Holmes @eddieholmes.bsky.social Virus spotter. You're twistin' my melon man.
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.
Joshua Salomon @jsalomon.bsky.social Professor at Stanford. Probabilistic optimist.
#healthpolicy | #publichealth | infectious disease | decision science | simulation modeling | economic evaluation
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Mary-Margaret Fill, MD, MPH @mmfill.bsky.social Physician (IM/Peds). Epidemiologist. Mom. Wife. EIS ('15) and ELBI ('17) alum.
Public health, biosecurity & medicine.
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Julia Raifman, ScD @juliaraifman.bsky.social Evidence-based posts about public health & equity. All views are my own.
Marion Koopmans @marionkoopmans.bsky.social Virologist, into emerging viral infections, one health, climate and health. Head viroscience department ErasmusMC, Rotterdam NL. Backup for the ex-bird platform. ORCHID 0000-0002-5204-2312; https://pure.eur.nl/en/persons/marion-koopmans .
Holden Thorp @holdenthorp.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief of Science and Professor of Chemistry and Medicine at George Washington University. Opinions not those of AAAS. https://holdenthorp.substack.com/about #ActuallyAutistic
Jessica Metcalf @jessmetcalf.bsky.social Demographer working on evolutionary ecology, infectious disease dynamics, vaccination
Tom Peacock @peacockflu.bsky.social Virologist - Influenza and Coronaviruses
Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social Professor at UC Davis
Work: phylogenomics & microbiomes; wildlife and aquatic microbiology; #openscience;
Other: #birds; baseball; T1D
Lab phylogenomics.me
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Roby Bhattacharyya @roby-b.bsky.social ID doc (MGH), PI (Broad Institute), antibiotic resistance resister, sepsis immune profiler, COVID doc, husband, dad. Coffee, tennis, kindness, science, & sleep enthusiast. Here to learn, as that other place devolves. Views mine. | bhattacharyyalab.org
Jason L. Schwartz @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social Associate Professor of Health Policy and the History of Medicine, Yale School of Public Health. Vaccine policy, health policy-making, pharmaceuticals, FDA/CDC, etc. http://jschwartz.yale.edu
Katelyn Jetelina @kkjetelina.bsky.social Epidemiologist, lover of the ocean and ice cream. Mom of two toddlers. Founder of “Your Local Epidemiologist”. https//yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
Stephen Kissler @skissler.bsky.social Infectious disease epidemiologist / computer science professor @ CU Boulder. Trying to figure out how to keep us all healthy and fed.
Justin Lessler @justinlessler.bsky.social Faculty in Epidemiology at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Helps coordinate the COVID-19 Scenario Modeling Hub https://covid19scenariomodelinghub.org/
Linsey Marr @linseymarr.bsky.social Engineering professor at Virginia Tech with expertise in air pollution, airborne microbes, nanotechnology. Avid recreational athlete.
Shayla Love @shaylalove.bsky.social shayla-love.com
Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social Professor of law at UC Law San Francisco. Writes about vaccines law and policy. Vaccine Advocate. Mom of two.
Deepta Bhattacharya @deeptabhattacha.bsky.social Professor of Immunology at University of Arizona studying immune responses to infections and vaccines. Views my own.
Bill Hanage @billhanage.bsky.social Refugee from Twix. Arsenal fan and Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Opinions my own.
John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com
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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social Emergency physician & Dean of the Yale School of Public Health. Gun violence prevention researcher. Incorrigible optimist (because we can and do create change, together). Mom of two teens. GO BILLS. @meganranney at the other place 🛟🩺📉📈🧪
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Ilan Schwartz @germhuntermd.bsky.social ID doctor and fungal enthusiast. #IDSky community builder. #TxID, global health, MedEd. @idjclub.bsky.social
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Ellen Foxman @ellenfoxman.bsky.social Associate Professor, Immunologist, Physician-Scientist. Studying human immunology, innate immunity, host-virus interactions for better diagnosis, treatment, prevention. Opinions are my own.
Dr. Nahid Bhadelia @bhadeliamd.bsky.social Infectious diseases doc, Founding Director of BU Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases and Biothreats Emergence, Analytics & Communications Network (BEACON). Former Sr Advisor, Biden White House Covid Team. @buceid.bsky.social
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Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social ID Physician. Associate Professor. Global public health, pandemic preparedness and response, emerging infectious diseases (COVID-19, viral hemorrhagic fevers, mpox). Former WHO medical officer in Health Emergencies. Section editor PLOS GPH and OFID.
Craig Spencer MD MPH @craigspencer.bsky.social ER Doctor | Ebola Survivor | Public Health & Humanitarian Response | Historical Determinants of Public Health at Brown School of Public Health | Member Council on Foreign Relations | Emmy Award Winner 🏆
Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social Staff writer at The Atlantic. Cat guy, democracy defender. Actor for a day on Succession, Jeopardy champ. New Englander and curmudgeon.
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
Crystal Watson @crwatson.bsky.social Deputy Director of the Center for Outbreak Response Innovation #CORI
Deputy Director, Region 3 PHPR Center Associate Professor JHU CHS @centerforhealthsecurity.org
Public health and #decisionscience
Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social Emergency Medicine Doc | Mom | Health Services Research | Public Health
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Prof. Akiko Iwasaki @virusesimmunity.bsky.social We study antiviral immunity and viral disease pathogenesis. We are developing mucosal vaccine strategies to prevent infection and transmission. #COVID19 #longCOVID #vaccines
Dr. Syra Madad, DHSc @drsyramadad.bsky.social Epidemiologist 🦠 Biosecurity Advisor ☣️ Chief Biopreparedness Officer NYC Health + Hospital 🏥 Faculty Boston Uni CEID & NETEC 🧬 Fellow Harvard Belfer Center 🎥On Netflix, Discovery & History Channel 📝Write for NY Academy of Sciences
Zeke Emanuel, MD, PhD @zekeemanuel.bsky.social Penn professor, bioethicist, oncologist, and New York Times bestselling author of "Eat Your Ice Cream: Six Simple Rules for a Long and Healthy Life."
Stephanie M. Lee @stephaniemlee.bsky.social Senior writer at @chronicle.com, writing about scholarship, scholars, and society. stephanie.lee@chronicle.com / Signal: stephaniemlee.07 / stephaniemlee.com / San Francisco
Ed Belongia MD @belongia.bsky.social Vaccines & viruses | Epidemiology & public health | Former CDC & ACIP | Climate advocate | Dog walker & e-biker
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=X2F2it0AAAAJ&hl=en
Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Partner, New Enterprise Associates. Contributor CNBC. 23rd Commissioner of the U.S. FDA. Boards: Pfizer, Illumina, TempusAI, United Health
The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com Democracy Skies in Blueness
Saad B. Omer @saadomer.bsky.social Founding Dean, Peter O'Donnell Jr. School of Public Health at UT Southwestern | Gavi Board Member | Vaccine Researcher | Epidemiologist | Opinions my own.