James Ball @jamesrball.com Political editor @ The New World
Opinion @ The i Paper
Fellow @ Tech Policy Press
Fellow @ Demos
PhD researcher @ UCL Laws
newsletter @ techtris
Latest book: The Other Pandemic – How QAnon Contaminated The World. 🏳️🌈
https://www.jamesrball.com/
Matthew Kavanagh @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social Prof of Global Health and Law, Director, Center for Global Health Policy & Politics
Georgetown University
https://ghpp.georgetown.edu/profiles/matthew-m-kavanagh-phd/
Justin Ling @justinling.ca Uh-oh!!!!!!! Columnist/journalist @thestar.com, sometimes @wired.com, @foreignpolicy.com
Newsletter: www.bugeyedandshameless.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JustinLing
Signal: JustinLing.42
Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social Cell adhesion, cytoskeletal regulation, Wnt signaling & wherever science leads us + wildflowers & my own idiosyncratic views. First gen college grad
Diversity, equity & Inclusion are core American Values
https://peiferlab.web.unc.edu
Joachim Frank @joachim123.bsky.social Scientist, 2017 Chemistry Nobel Prize (math and computational methods underlying cryo-EM of biological molecules), fiction writer, photographer, gardener.
Climate change, science education, fight of fascism
franxfiction.com and joachimfranklab.org
Taylor Nichols, MD MS @tnicholsmd.com I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others
Humanist | Emergency+Addiction Medicine | Health policy and advocacy | Health technology and innovation | Views my own (he/him)
Arthur Dent aka Matt Browne @arthurcdent.bsky.social Australian, professor, statistician, Senior podcast co-host. “The heart and soul of Decoding the Gurus”. I really do know where my towel is
Chris Kavanagh @ckava.bsky.social Cognitive Anthropologist/Social Psychologist. Norn Irish in Japan. Junior co-host of Decoding the Gurus. Interested in conspiracism, extremism, & religion/ritual psychology.
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.
Jessica Malaty Rivera, MS @jessicamalaty.bsky.social Infectious Disease Epidemiologist & Science Communicator
Tracking Pandemics & Infodemics @bsph-chs
DrPH student @JohnsHopkinsSPH
Prev COVID Tracking Project #SciComm Lead & Podcast Host
#MakingScienceMakeSense on @instagram
Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social Husband, Father, Grandfather, Datahound, Dog lover, Fan of Celtic music, Former NIGMS director, Former EiC of Science, Stand Up for Science advisor, Shananigator, Pittsburgh, PA
NIH Dashboard: https://jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.github.io/index.html
Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social ER doctor at Brigham and Women's in Boston, Harvard Medical School.
Words in: NY Times, WaPo, Atlantic, Slate, CNN. I'm also "editor-in-chief" of MedPage Today and write "Inside Medicine" on Substack:
https://insidemedicine.substack.com/subscribe 
Astrid Iversen @akiversen.bsky.social Likes Virology & Immunology & Evolution & Epidemiology; tweets mine, retweets not.
Professor of Virology and Immunology, University of Oxford; views my own
Druv Bhagavan @druvbhagavan.bsky.social Eternal Student 🩺🔬 | BME | 🫀👨🏿🔬 | Tinker, Tenor, Doctor (to be), Scientist | Health Policy & Advocacy | Obligate Archivist | Busy, Tired, Surviving | Opinions ⊆ {Mine} ⋂ {¬⚕️ Advice} | L/F/RT ≠ Endorse | 時々日本語
Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com Health contributor/reporter at Guardian US, contributing editor at the New Republic, freelance elsewhere. Arctic obsessive and book enthusiast.
Send me your secrets:
Signal: melodyschreiber.06
Email: melodyschreiber@proton.me
Newsletter: notadoctor.news- N Nuno R. Faria @nfaria.bsky.social
Andrew Tan @andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social 
Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social Professor of law at UC Law San Francisco. Writes about vaccines law and policy. Vaccine Advocate. Mom of two.
Michael G. Constantinides @mikerobe.bsky.social Associate professor @scripps.edu studying host-microbe interactions 🇺🇸🇬🇷🇨🇾
https://www.constantinideslab.com
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social Blue in Arizona, forged in the Burgh.
1elizabethtjacobs1@gmail.com
@defendpublichealth.bsky.social
https://www.defendpublichealth.org
Torsten Seemann @torstenseemann.bsky.social Professor @ University of Melbourne, Australia
Microbial bioinformatics, genomics, software, clinical and public health microbiology
https://tseemann.github.io
Dr Kathleen Millen @neurodevkathy.bsky.social Tweets about dev biol, neurodev genetics, random cool science + life; usually with typos, so many typos
Maggie Fox @maggiefox.bsky.social Journalist. Health, science, tech in plain English and in context. Truth is not liberal bias. Facts matter, but stories stick. maggie.34 on Signal maggiefox.com
https://www.scientificamerican.com/author/maggie-fox/
onehealthtrust.org podcast host
Stefan Pöhlmann @snpoehlm.bsky.social Viruses & Proteases, Head of Infection Biology Unit, Deutsches Primatenzentrum, @primatenzentrum.bsky.social, Decoding viral entry, Tracking SARS-CoV-2 variants, https://linktr.ee/snpoehlm, Views are my own
Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social Health Equity Scientist, Bethesda Declaration signer, work at NIH, speak in my personal capacity, photo: AP/Jose Luis Magana
Also on:
https://www.instagram.com/jmnorton
https://www.tiktok.com/@jennajmn
https://linktr.ee/declarationsofdissent
Josette Schoenmakers @josetteschoenma.bsky.social 
Mark Histed @markhisted.org Lincoln liberal, 2nd inaugural enthusiast.
Information processing in networks. Brains, models, lasers.
Prev: media policy for democracypolicy.network. All views are my own.
linktr.ee/markhisted
neuro: 🧠 /🧪
Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net Computational biology and superresolution microscopy. Tech and politics nerd. Progressive. Somerville, MA
Signal: BioTurboNick.24
Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social Founder & CEO of @standupforscience.net
Standupforscience.net substack.com/@sciencefightclub
PhD in Clinical Psychology
"Colette is brass knuckles...w/ spikes tipped in poison"
“Delusional broad”
"Lady Switchblade"
“Ditsy socialist liberal”
Peter Miller @tgof137.bsky.social 
Simon Delagrave, PhD @delagrave.bsky.social Biotech R&D scientist, entrepreneur, & consultant. Fan of science & democracy. Working for a better future. Opinions mine. 🇨🇦🇺🇸
Ed Hollox @edhollox.bsky.social Professor of Genetics at U of Leicester. Genome structural variation.
"Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done." Views my own.
Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social Climate change, global health security, science diplomacy, and good bad futures • Yale • carlsonlab.bio • viralemergence.org • he/they
Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org Science belongs in politics. Nature-poker, cephalopods fan, conservationist, climate hawk, evolution fan. PTA dad. he/him
Build parks and community!
City council member in Lake Forest Park, WA since 2026 https://joshforlfp.com
Michael Pollard @kmichaelpollard.bsky.social Assoc. Prof Scripps Research working on how non-biological exposures lead to autoimmunity.
Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist (Multicellularity & social evolution). Prof. at Georgia Tech & Director of the QBioS PhD program.
https://ratclifflab.biosci.gatech.edu/
Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social Epidemiology and global health security policy.
thepandemiccenter.org
Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social Professor at UC Davis
Work: phylogenomics & microbiomes; wildlife and aquatic microbiology; #openscience;
Other: #birds; baseball; T1D
Lab phylogenomics.me
Pics jonathaneisen.smugmug.com
Links linktr.ee/jonathaneisen
TED go.ted.com/6WPm
Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news THE LEGEND OF SKOKIE coming April 2027. Author of GANGSTERS OF CAPITALISM and THE BIG TRUCK THAT WENT BY. Subscribe to my newsletter: http://theracket.news | Signal: jmkatz.18 | @KatzOnEarth on TikTok & Insta | Avi by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social
Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social Prof Operational Research , @UCL_CORU, passionate about health care, women in STEMs, defending liberal democracy (!). Member of @independentsage, posts personal. https://www.trumpactiontracker.info/
Greg Folkers @gregfolkers.bsky.social Washington, D.C.
Debunk the Funk with Dr. Wilson @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social Ph.D. Molecular biologist, industry scientist, debunker of anti-vaccine nonsense.
Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social He/Him. Dad. Journo tracking dark money and attacks on public health. JD, ADHD, occasional cartoonist.
Co-founder of Accountability Journalism Institute. Accountabilityjournalism.org
Signal: walkerbragman.44
Reporting: https://www.importantcontext.news
Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social Prof & Lab Head in NYC. 100% research: cell division, genome integrity, cancer.
Curious to a fault. Also πολύτροπος. Talking here for me alone. I listen to the finest worksong. Like/repost = bookmark/news, not agreement/endorsement.
Carlos M Morel @cmmorel.bsky.social Senior scientist and former President @ http://portal.fiocruz.br. Former Director @ http://tdr.who.int. My tweets are personal opinions. Retweets are not endorsements
Steven Pergam, MD, MPH @pergamic.bsky.social Transplant ID Doc and IP Director @Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center/ Faculty @UWMedicine. #InfectionPrevention #TxID #vaccines #prevention #protection #medtwitter
Posts/comments are my own and not reflective of my institutions.
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
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.
Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social Professor of Biology & Institute for Health Computing, U of Maryland; explores how viruses impact human & environmental health;
'Asymptomatic' (JHU Press - https://bit.ly/asymptomatic_book)
&
'Science Matters' (https://substack.com/@joshuasweitz)
jepekar @jevp.bsky.social 
Steve Griffin @profstevegriffin.bsky.social Professor of Cancer Virology, University of Leeds.
Co-Chair, Independent SAGE
Alexandra Phelan 余雪莲 @alexandraphelan.bsky.social Associate Professor, Global Health Law, Johns Hopkins
- Senior Scholar, Center for Health Security
- Director (Policy), Institute for Planetary Health
International law, infectious diseases, pandemics, equity, solidarity & justice
Dave Baltrus 🦦 @surtlab.bsky.social Professor at UArizona interested in genome rummaging, microbial evolution, and occasional tales about having backyard farm animals.
“I’m something of a scientist myself”
Baltrus(at)Arizona.edu
Rob Lanfear @roblanfear.bsky.social phylogenetics, molecular evolution, some genomes, kids, dogs, and eclectic hobbies none of which I am much good at but I think for me that's the point
Spyros Lytras @spyroslytras.bsky.social Head of the Antigen Evolution and Design lab @antigenevo.bsky.social at Institut Pasteur 🇫🇷
💻🦠🏳️🌈
Nsikan Akpan @monscience.bsky.social Highly melanated | YNWA | CNN Weather senior editor | Big Picture Science contributor | PhD pathobiologist
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
Nathan Lo @nathanlo.bsky.social Stanford physician-scientist | Infectious diseases, epidemiology, modeling, and public health | Views mine | Lo Lab: http://profiles.stanford.edu/nathan-lo
Mike the Mad Biologist and Trump's Dumpster Beef Inspector @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social I'm a biologist, mad as in angry. Pro-D.C. statehood since 1969.
@mikethemadbiologist@mastodon.online
www.mikethemadbiologist.com
🧪
Peter Staley 🇺🇦 @peterstaley.bsky.social AIDS & 🏳️🌈 rights activist; PrEP4All; TAG & ACT UP NY alum; Fall 2016 Harvard IOP fellow; subject in How to Survive a Plague; Author, NEVER SILENT: https://a.co/d/8lPyQjQ
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
The Sato Lab (Kei Sato) @systemsvirology.bsky.social Professor, Division of Systems Virology, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo
Founder, The Genotype to Phenotype Japan (G2P-Japan) Consortium
Representative Director, G2P-Japan Association
Lab website: https://x.gd/1Z1lW
Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social I love vaccines, animals, and my wife, who set up this profile.
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/we-want-them-infected/
Marinos Kallikourdis, PhD @kallikourdis.bsky.social NatSci/Immunol(Cambridge). AssocProf of Pathology, Head of Adaptive Immunity Lab@Humanitas, Milan. Developing cardio-immunotherapies.- Z @zhihuachen.bsky.social @zhihuachen.bsky.social
Tyler Starr @tylernstarr.bsky.social protein biochemistry and evolution | viruses and antibodies | faculty @uofubiochem.bsky.social
starr.biochem.utah.edu
Andrew Routh @andrewrouth.bsky.social Molecular virologist | Deep-sequencer | Institute Investigator at Scripps Research |
Co-founder and CSO at ClickSeq Technologies | 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 | He/him | Dad
Andy Pekosz @andrewpekosz.bsky.social interested in respiratory viruses, primary cell cultures, virus evolution, cocktails, craft beer and soccer...order changes daily!
Raphaëlle K @raph-klitting.bsky.social Researcher/Virologist - Emerging Viruses Unit -
National Reference Center for Arboviruses
Main interests:
🦠 Emerging virus genomics (arbos+), ecology, 🍫, environmentalism, blobs, nature sports, filling boxes (or anything that can contain stuff)
Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social Facts & strategy, in an authoritarian takeover.
Rightwing billionaires want to privatize NIH and use it to control universities.
We work to cure diseases like cancer.
Pers views. #science #medicine
Katy Stephenson @kstephensonmd.bsky.social Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Infectious diseases doc and scientist at Center for Virology and Vaccine Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. #IDsky
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.)
Peter Daszak @peterdaszak.bsky.social President www.naturehealthglobal.org.
Protagonist of https://www.blame-documentary.com/
Board member https://www.accountabilityjournalism.org.
Member @nam.edu.
Zoologist. Parasitologist. Ecologist.
British. American. Ukrainian.
Federico Gueli @siamosolocani.bsky.social Variant Spotter SC2 .
Katherine J. Wu @katherinejwu.com staff writer at The Atlantic, covering science. former microbiologist / forever cat enthusiast. (she/her) SIGNAL: @katherinejwu.12
Noam Ross @noamross.net Computational disease ecologist. Executive Director of @ropensci.org. Co-director and founder @grantwitness.org. Brooklynite. One Health, open science, democracy, #RStats, cities, civics, bikes, fun, love, progress + justice. he/him
Infectious Diseases @infectiousdz.bsky.social Infectious diseases and their global story
Sam Gregson @badboyofscience.bsky.social Uni of Cambridge and LHC physicist (Graduated)
Science communicator and YouTuber
The Bad Boy of Science
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/badboyofscience
Verity Hill @viralverity.bsky.social Wellcome ECA Fellow at the Centre for Virus Research, University of Glasgow
Phylodynamics for public health
https://viralverity.github.io
She/her
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
Colm Atkins, PhD @atkinscolm.bsky.social Assistant Research Professor, Daniels Lab, Rutgers. AAUP-AFT Local 6323. Socialism, dogs, virology, books, music, sports. he/him. New Brunswick, NJ. http://colmatkins.com/
Kelsey Florek @k-florek.net Infectious Disease Genomics and Data Scientist @ Wisconsin State Laboratory
#publichealth, #genomics, #infectiousdiseases, #openscience, #opendata
Personal account, art and opinions are my own.
Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social "There are no answers; only choices."
– S. Lem
I choose one [o] or two-cell [8] organisms and dissonant music.
Professor of Biochemistry @ UW-Seattle. Any coincidence of my opinions with my employer's is coincidental. 
BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social Physician Scientist MDPhD
Infectious Diseases
Academic Medicine
Global Health
Science Communicator
Posts are my opinions, not my employer's and not medical advice
I bet on myself and double down
https://substack.com/@bktitanji
Brian DeViteri @bsbeamer.bsky.social Video Producer & Motion Graphics Artist, Photographer, Videographer, Patiently waiting to be replaced by AI. Lots of NJ News, Health and Pro-Vaccines. One of the 30M living with a rare disease. Typos and opinions are my own.
Lander Lab @landerlab.bsky.social CryoEM at Scripps Research
Rebecca C Christofferson @rchristo.bsky.social Virologist/epi. Jazz, 🐈, puns. Oxford comma for evah. Views mine alone and do not represent any organizational affiliations. RT/like != endorse. I stand w Ukraine. Twitter: RC_Epi
Solid Evidence @solidevidence.bsky.social Molecular virologist, sewage sage and wastewater wizard.
https://lung.fish
Marc Johnson
Professor
Rupert Beale @bealelab.bsky.social Group Leader, Cell Biology of Infection Lab @thecrick; Nephrologist @Royal Free Hospital. Own views etc. 
Martha Nelson @martha-nelson.bsky.social NIH | National Library of Medicine| pathogen evolution | genomic epidemiology | zoonoses | pandemic risk
Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social Scripps Research Professor. HHMI Investigator. Nobel Prize Physiology or Medicine 2021. Opinions are my own and do not reflect those of my employer.
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
Cadhla Firth @cadhlafirth.bsky.social Molecular and evolutionary biologist studying zoonotic disease emergence.
Alejandra Mendoza @thepenkpanther.bsky.social Assistant professor @scrippsresearch. Immunologist. Interested in how cellular networks shape immunity and tissue functions. (she/her). http://themendozalab.org
Sri Narasimhan @snarasimhan.bsky.social Scientist and Deputy Editor, Cell at Cell Press
All things science with a love for #microbes, #immunology & #metabolism #sciencesky #womeninSTEM - Opinions and posts are my own. 🇺🇸🇮🇳
https://www.cell.com/cell/editors-and-staff
Anna C. Fagre @annafagre.bsky.social 🦠 PI, Comparative + Integrative Pathogen-Host Ecology Research (CIPHER) Lab, Iowa State University Vet Med
🦇 veterinary epidemiology, arboviral ecology, diagnostic microbiology, wildlife health🔬
🎨 🎵multi-media synthesis ✂️🎹
🏳️🌈 she/they
Allison Neitzel @alineitzelmd.bsky.social whowhatwhy.org/author/allison-neitzel/
@pardissabeti.bsky.social @pardissabeti.bsky.social 
Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social