J. Carlos R. Hernandez-Beltran @charly-evos.bsky.social Microbial experimental evolution (with a plasmid heart).
Modelling, microscopy, image analysis and whatever can be transform into code.
CGUE 2026 @cgue2026.bsky.social Comparative Genomics of Unicellular Eukaryotes
October 5-10, 2026 - Sant Feliu de Guixol (Spain)
#Eukaryotes #Protists #Microbiology #Genomics #EvolutionaryBiology #ComparativeGenomics #Protistology #CellBiology
Daniel Brady Mills @danbmills.bsky.social Lecturer in Biosphere-Geosphere Interactions, University of Leeds
www.danielbradymills.com
Max Lechte @maxlechte.bsky.social Using geology to better understand the ancient world and the origins of complex life. Research Fellow at the School of Geosciences, University of Sydney
Laura T. Wey @lauratwey.bsky.social Group Leader (Novo Nordisk Foundation Emerging Investigator / Academy Research Fellow) at the University of Turku, Finland. Previously at the University of Cambridge and the Australian National University. Bioelectricity in Plant Sciences.
Gatikrushna Mishra @krisgates03.bsky.social BS-MS @IISER TVM
Master's student at the Chavhan Lab for Understanding Evolution.
Trying to be better at stuff😄
🤔: Evolution. Multicellularity. Evo-Devo, Phenotypic Plasticity. Bio(phy/chem), Collectivity.
😌: Sci-Comm. Events. Quiz. Writing. Music. Movies
Abhinav Kannan @abhinavkannan.bsky.social Incoming PhD student @ Wodarz Lab-UC San Diego
prev: BSMS @ IISER Pune, MS thesis @ UCSD
//eco-evo-onco/evol. of multicellularity/immune system complexity//
enjoys iNaturalist, tennis, ice cream, discovering new music genres (in no particular order)
🏳️🌈✊🏽🏳️⚧️
Wenying Shou @shougroup.bsky.social A busy scientist & a busy Mom
Michael Sieber @michaelsieber.bsky.social Scientist @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social | Theoretical Biology | ecoevo.de
C5 EU Project @c5-project.eu EU-funded project engineering cyanobacteria and synthetic organelles to convert sunlight, water, and CO2 into bio-isoprene in a more sustainable way. Part of the Solar-to-X portfolio.
https://c5-project.eu
Author’s views only. Grant agreement 101223091
Engineering HR @engineeringhr.bsky.social Engineering Human Resources. A job board and career portal for engineers, researchers and developers. Our website: https://www.engineering.hr
Alexander Robertson @alexrob.bsky.social PhD candidate at UW Seattle. I study how interactions between viruses shapes their evolution. Also 📷, 🎹, 📽️, 🐦
Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social Emergence, Networks & Complexity | Collective Behavior(s) from Cells to Societies 🧬🦠🧠🌇
Prof. @UniPadova, Galileo's University | Lab: @comunelab.bsky.social | Web: https://linktr.ee/manlius
Thoughts at manlius.substack.com
Ronja Hulst @ronbaas.bsky.social PhD candidate at the evolutionary modelling Group at KU Leuven (@vandenberglab.bsky.social)
Hannah Waters @hanner.bsky.social senior editor @quantamagazine.org covering biology | former climate editor at Audubon | send story tips and pitches: hwaters@quantamagazine.org | quantamagazine.org/biology
work portfolio: hanjeanwat.com/about
Kunal Chaudhary @nomadicpython.bsky.social PhD candidate at CML, Leiden University.
Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social The Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) at the Institute of Philosophy (@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social) focuses on #logic and #philsci, with a concentration on the philosophies of the special sciences • https://hiw.kuleuven.be/clps #philsky
@marcolafortezza.bsky.social @marcolafortezza.bsky.social
Dr. Michelle Hauer @michelle-hauer.bsky.social From deep sea phage-microbe-host symbiosis to coastal fisheries conservation | Population genetics, genomics & geospatial modeling | Postdoc at U Washington & NOAA NWFSC | PhD, URI-GSO
Linea Muhsal @lineamuhsal.bsky.social Experimental ecology and evolution | multicellularity | evolution of cooperation | medical microbiology | microscopy
Deniz Akbulut @microbiodnz.bsky.social 👽🛸
Doctoral researcher investigating the evolution of DNA binding proteins at CAU, Kiel 🧬
VAAM YSN member and VAAM Young Ambassador 🦠
MSc. Molecular Biology and Evolution 🔬B. subtilis 🧫
BSc. Molecular Biology and Genetics 🧬
Sarah Guest @sarahmoeba.bsky.social Postdoc in the Fritz-Laylin lab, fascinated by obscure protists. Evolutionary Cell Bio research on amoebae & cytoskeleton. Sometimes art. she/her.
Kaumudi Prabhakara @kaumudi.bsky.social Interdisciplinary scientist interested in microbial communities.
Postdoc at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology
https://kaumudiprabhakara.github.io/
Formerly: postdoc at University of Chicago
PhD: Cornell University
Swagatika Dash @swagatika.bsky.social Pursuing PhD @kostchristian.bsky.social's lab.👩🔬 Microbial ecology and evolution| Survival strategies of soil bacteria| Bacterial cross-feeding interactions
Gaurav Athreya @gauravathreya.bsky.social maths, community & evolutionary ecology, evolution of cooperation. PhD-ing kokkonut in Mainz. amateur hiker and bread baker, professional stick insect parent. Previously: IISER Pune & the MPI for Evolutionary Biology
Benjamin Springstein @huepfkiesel.bsky.social Cyanos = green
Nicole Coots @nicolecoots.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher @UBC in Patrick Keeling's Lab || PhD earned @ASU in Gillian Gile's Lab || Interested in photosymbiosis, marine microbial ecology, and all things protists 🦠
The Life of Retaria Seminar Series:
https://thelifeofretaria.github.io/
Akansha Ganguly @akanshaganguly.bsky.social PhD student with @kalikaprasad.bsky.social, IISER Pune. Always ready for chai and random debates. Interested in cell behaviour, morphogenesis, and other existential questions.
Cyanofur (M Fillat lab. Unizar) @cyanofur.bsky.social We investigate the genetic regulation and physiology of cyanobacteria. Our research is focused in the identification of regulatory networks involving FUR proteins and the formation of biofilms.
Lizzy Wilbanks @lizzywilbanks.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ UC Santa Barbara
Marine microbes, multicellularity, metagenomics
The Social Fluids Lab @socialfluids.bsky.social We study socially transferred materials, metabolic division of labour, and the evolution of cooperation. Mostly ants, sometimes microbes, sometimes vertebrates.
PI = @adriatica.bsky.social, Lab is @camzoology.bsky.social at University of Cambridge.
The Ramsey Lab @theramseylab.bsky.social The Ramsey philosophy of biology lab at KU Leuven, Belgium.
https://www.theramseylab.org • #HPbio #philsci #philsky #evosky #paleosky #cogsci #AI
SPP2389 - Emergent Functions of Bacterial Multicellularity @spp2389.bsky.social From single cells to intricately constructed colonies - bacteria are multicellular wonders! An interdisciplinary research effort to unravel the intricate paths, regulation systems and structures behind the multifaceted forms of bacterial multicellularity
Physics of Life Dresden @poldresden.bsky.social We are the Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life (PoL) at TUD Dresden University of Technology @tudresden.bsky.social @dfg.de.
Our goal is to unravel the principles underlying the organization of living matter.
https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de
Deepsmita @deepsmitap.bsky.social Master’s thesis student under Dr N.G. Prasad
at EBL IISER Mohali. Host pathogen interaction and microbial evolution. Photography
Alberto Scarampi @scaralbi.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Orkun Soyer’s Lab, University of Warwick.
Interested in Cyanobacteria, microbial systems ecology, redox gradients and spatial structures
Angelo Victoria @gelomerase.bsky.social 🇵🇭 in 🇬🇧. I apply engineering biology to turn CO2 into useful stuff via photosynthesis. Currently exploring mechanisms of extracellular electron transfer.☀️ Postdoc at the University of Cambridge | PhD at the University of Edinburgh.
#synbio #cyanobacteria
Jo Herbert @microjo.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher in Environmental Microbiology - Schölmerich Lab | ETH Zürich🇨🇭| Metagenomics & ONT | 🧬 🧫🧪🔬| losing the ggplot 📊 | she/her
Erika Keil (she/her) @e-keil.bsky.social Interdisciplinary scientist | Following the light ☀️ through photophysical systems 🌱 | Passionate about science communication | MaMa group @ Charles University (Prague)
Vikram Alva @vikramalva.bsky.social Departmental Group Leader - Protein Bioinformatics @ Max Planck Institute for Biology - Tübingen @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social
Protein evolution // MPI Bioinformatics Toolkit // prokaryotic cell-surface proteins // prokaryotic histones
Djordje Bajić Lab @dbajic.bsky.social A community of researchers studying communities of microbes.
TU Delft, Department of Biotechnology
djbajic.github.io
Paul Rainey @paulbrainey.bsky.social Evolutionary geneticist working with microbes. Absorbed by the curiosity of science and ideas. Department of Microbial Population Biology, MPI for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany & ESPCI, Paris, France.
Andy Farr @andydfarr.bsky.social
Eva Stukenbrock @estukenbrock.bsky.social Group leader and professor at Kiel University, Germany.
Evolutionary biology, fungi, plant-microbe interactions.
ASM @asm.org ASM is a global community shaping the future of the microbial sciences to tackle some of the world's most pressing challenges.
Microbes Make Our World.
MPI for Evolutionary Biology @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social Max Planck Research Institute
Peter Godfrey-Smith @petergs.bsky.social
Lotte de Vries @lottedevries.bsky.social Assistant prof quantitative ecology @CML, she/her
Kai Tong @kaitong25.bsky.social Postdoc in Ahmad (Mo) Khalil's lab at Harvard University. Synthetic multicellularity | Understanding and engineering multicellularity via synthetic biology and experimental evolution.
Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social Palaeo and Marine Ecologist, Palaeontologist. Assoc. Prof @camzoology.bsky.social & @zoologymuseum.bsky.social at @cam.ac.uk PI @deeptimeecology.bsky.social She/Her
SUN-PERFORM @sunperform.eu An #HorizonEU project mixing nanotechnology and synthetic biology to improve light harvesting for sustainable fuel precursors. ☀️⛽️
Visit us at https://sunperform.eu/
Funded by the EU. Grant agreement ID 101172946.
Views are those of the authors.
Aniket Saraf @aniketsaraf.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher at Institut Pasteur | Cyanobacterial taxonomist and systematist 🔬🧬| Cricket 🏏 enthusiast
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=TBcWeeMAAAAJ&hl=en
Sam Dundon, PhD @serdundon.bsky.social Cell biologist and microscopist turned patent agent. It's a long story 👩🏻🔬🔬 Lover of fungi, sour beers, textile arts, cell biology, sci art. Now also a wrangler of a smol human.
Leonid Digel @leodigel.bsky.social Carlsberg Postdoctoral Fellow studying electric life using electron microscopy and electrochemistry. University of Cambridge. Former postdoc @CEMAarhus.
EMBLtrec @embltrec.bsky.social An expedition to study coastal ecosystems and their response to the environment, from molecules to communities
Román Zapién-Campos @romanzapien.bsky.social PostDoc University College London 📚 | ecology and evolution of microbes 🦠 | 🇲🇽🇬🇧 | romanzapien.github.io
Michelle Clay, PhD @microbigal.bsky.social Microbiologist | Director of Genomics Operations @SeqCoast.bsky.social | #bluesoup is best soup | mother to two bundles of chaos | she/her | opinions my own
David A. Russo @bluegreendr.bsky.social DFG Principal Investigator @ Uni Jena, cyanobacteria aficionado, passion for everything secreted #cyanobacteria #proteins #metabolites
Website: https://darusso.de/
Claudio Tennie @ctennie.bsky.social A PI of the HUMAN ORIGINS project (Tübingen, GER)
Humans, hominins & apes -> evolution of human cultural evolution
-> How did we get from an ape-like baseline to human cultural learning/ cultural cognition?
https://sites.google.com/view/claudiotennie
Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social Science journalist in Austria writing for Quanta, New Scientist, Scientific American, Science, and others. Signal: emc.7243623.
Get my newsletter about the forces that shape how research is done, shared, believed, and acted upon: www.reviewertoo.com
EvolvingSTEM program @evolvingstem.bsky.social http://evolvingstem.org, an authentic laboratory-based classroom curriculum based at the University of Pittsburgh that improves learning and builds occupational identity in STEM
E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social assist prof @ Uni Groningen • theoretical evolutionary ecologist working on life histories, cancer, aging & culture 👩🏻💻 • she/her 🏳️🌈 • https://yagmurerten.com/
Tara Oceans Science @taraoceans-science.bsky.social Highlights and sharing of the science and research from the Tara Oceans expeditions.
Publication list: https://t.co/TCbLXqT0oE
@pichugin.bsky.social @pichugin.bsky.social
European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu European Research Council, set up by the EU, funds top researchers of any nationality, helping them pursue great ideas at the frontiers of knowledge. #HorizonEU
@jguio007.bsky.social @jguio007.bsky.social Postdoc at Ducat lab @msudoeplantlab.bsky.social 👨🏻🔬🦠🇺🇲 | Board member of @uninfancia.bsky.social to defend #childrenrights in Spain and beyond👨👧👦🇪🇸🌐
✝️Mt 25:40✝️
Heermann Lab @heermann-lab.bsky.social The Heermann Lab is located at the JGU Mainz, Germany. Our research focusses on the bacterial communication, molecular mechanisms of bacteria-host interactions, bacterial biofilms and drug research.
The Night Science Podcast @nightsciencepod.bsky.social The Night Science Podcast explores the creative scientific process, with your hosts Itai Yanai (@itaiyanai.bsky.social) and Martin Lercher.
https://nightscience.buzzsprout.com/
http://youtube.com/@NightSciencePodcast
Jon from Stated Clearly @statedclearly.bsky.social I teach chemistry and evolutionary biology... on the internet.
Center for Electromicrobiology @cemau.bsky.social No one had ever imagined the existence of cable bacteria: life based on internal electric wires. We aim to unravel how this unique form of life functions.
Check out the Electromicrobiology Conference 2025 https://conferences.au.dk/electromicrobiology-2025
Mari Muñoz Marín @vesynech.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Córdoba studying vesicles and nanotubes in marine cyanobacteria. VESYNECH/INTERCYANO /UCOIMPULSA Projects
Oscar Silva @oscar-silva.bsky.social
Kaiser Lab @clocksevolution.bsky.social Evolution x Ecology x Biological Clocks x Intertidal:
focus on lunar rhythms in development & reproduction of marine insects.
+ Genomics | MolBio | Behaviour | ChemEcol | Biodiversity | SciCom
bit.ly/KaiserLab
@mpi-evolbio.bsky.social @maxplanck.de
IceLab @icelabumu.bsky.social Integrated Science Lab, Umeå University, Sweden. Home of Stress Response Modeling at IceLab.
Connecting researchers across disciplines for the love of launching and landing new ideas.
https://icelab.se/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/icelab-umea/
Jose L. Balcazar @balcjos.bsky.social Senior Researcher at
@icrawater.bsky.social💧
Focus on #microbiology, #AMR, #OneHealth, #biofilms, #phages, #metagenomics, and #bioinformatics
Cultivarium @cultivarium.bsky.social www.cultivarium.org
Eric Libby @elibbyscience.bsky.social I am a mathematical biologist interested in microbial evolution and the evolution of complexity. My base is in IceLab at Umeå University in Sweden.
Uli Klümper @ulikluemper.bsky.social Microbial Ecologist @ TU Dresden
Focusing on Evolution, Ecology and Environmental dimensions of AMR & plasmids
Formerly @ DTU & UoExeter
He/him
Peter Fineran @peterfineran.bsky.social Prof. and Head of Phage-host interactions (Phi) lab. Phage defences, counter-defences, CRISPR-Cas, toxin-antitoxin. FRSNZ / James Cook Fellow
Ian Marshall @ianpgm.bsky.social Associate Professor at Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Denmark 🇩🇰 working on microbial genomics, bioinformatics, cable bacteria, and other sediment microorganisms. https://www.au.dk/en/ianpgm@bio.au.dk/ 🇦🇺
Charles Ofria @ofria.bsky.social Prof of Computer Science and Ecology, Evolution & Behavior @ Michigan State University. I study the evolution of complexity, major transitions, genetic programming, artificial life, and algorithm design (and do lots of open source C++ development.)
Kaçar Lab at UW-Madison @kacarlab.bsky.social Past, Present and Future of Life
Here and Elsewhere
PI: Betül Kaçar
Account managed by lab members.
Latest paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-72133-0
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kacarlab.org
Amel Latifi @latifilab.bsky.social We explore the growth, differentiation, and time perception of cyanobacteria, and we are passionate about capturing their processes.
https://lcb.cnrs.fr/team/latifi/
@Aix-Marseille university @LCB_CNRS
@theobioarne.bsky.social @theobioarne.bsky.social
Guilhem Doulcier @gdoulcier.bsky.social Evolutionary Biologist.
Interested in major evolutionary transitions, collective structures, origins of multicellularity, nested evolutionary systems, and adaptive dynamics.
Postdoc @ iEES/Sorbonne, Paris
http://www.normalesup.org/~doulcier/
Danillo O. Alvarenga @danilloalvarenga.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen | Microbial ecology & evolution, molecular biology and bioinformatics | Focusing on #symbioses between #cyanobacteria and #plants, fighting #climatechange | Interested in science, art, culture and nature
Arnau Sebé-Pedrós @arnausebe.bsky.social Group leader CRG; Associate Faculty ToL Sanger Institute.
Genome regulation, chromatin, cell types, and evolution. https://www.sebepedroslab.org
MibiNet @mibinet.bsky.social MibiNet aims to understand microbial networking in its full complexity to explain how organelles evolve and how the microbiome functions.
https://www.sfb1535.hhu.de/
Khaled_Selim Lab @selimlab.bsky.social Microbial BioChem | Structural Biology | Cell Signaling | Institute of Phototrophic Microbiology @hhu.de
https://www.phototrophic-microbiology.hhu.de/en/
Transporters & Metabolism Coordination by #PII & #cdiAMP & #cdiGMP & #Ca2+ signaling #Cyanobacteria
Universität Kiel (CAU) @uni-kiel.de Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU)
🌐 https://www.uni-kiel.de
#️⃣ #UniKiel
TransEvo @transevo.bsky.social Graduate program studying the relevance of evolutionary principals to current societal challenges, e.g. the usage of antibiotics or anti-cancer drugs in medicine, of pesticides in agriculture, or human perturbation of the earth's ecosystems.
Kerstin Thriene @kerstinthriene.bsky.social University Jena
Wolfram Moebius @wolframmoebius.bsky.social Wants to know how the physical world shapes biological systems. Passionate about reducing academia's carbon footprint. https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/25980-wolfram-moebius
Dvir Schirman @dvirschirman.bsky.social @EMBOFellows postdoc in @johan_elf_ lab, @UU_University.
Chromosome organization in bacteria. Combining microscopy and large synthetic libraries to study genotype-to-phenotype.
alumnus of @TPilpel lab
Yi Yang @ohrp.bsky.social Environmental Microbiologist
Anaerobic microbiology
Organohalide-respiring bacteria OHRP
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3519-5472
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=6bry4AgAAAAJ&hl=en
Evolutionary Geobiology Consortium @evolgeobiol.bsky.social We're delving into evolution investigated through the lens of Chemistry, Physics, and Geobiology on scales from single-molecules to ecosystems.
https://www.evolutionary-geobiology.com/
Interested in joining, reach out!
Guim Aguadé-Gorgorió @guimaguade.bsky.social Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at ISEM Montpellier. Physicist studying complex biological systems - ecosystems, cancer, immune networks and microbial communities.
Maryse Berkhout @maryseberkhout.bsky.social Microbes & glycans 🤩 | Gut Microbial Ecology | Wageningen University, NL | https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=PhNYBVUAAAAJ&hl=nl&oi=ao
KreysingLab @kreysinglab.bsky.social Biophotonics, Biophysics & Innovation
@KITkarlsruhe