Ollie Metcalf @ollie333.bsky.social Birds, ecoacoustics, ecology, and conservation. Live in the UK. Postdoc at Lancaster University.
Tim Jones @timsbirding.bsky.social Birder. Freelance Ornithologist. Part time
Project Officer, Birds on the Edge, North York Moors NP @north_dove. York. @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social .
#vismig #waders #flightshot
Spurn Bird Observatory @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social 1 of the UK's premier bird observatories, with hostel style accommodation. Follow for bird news, events and much more. Map of area here http://bit.ly/spurnobs
Will Smith @willpjsmith.bsky.social I love science! I study toxin interactions in microbes. Dad of two @wellcometrust Sir Henry Wellcome Fellow | All views my own | he/him | 🏳️🌈
Lab website: https://willsmithlab.com/
Joshua Lynn @biogeo-josh.bsky.social I'm an ecologist at The University of Manchester and subject editor at Ecological Monographs and Nordic Journal of Botany. I mostly study plants, how they're distributed, what determines their traits, and how they interact with other organisms.
Neil Dixon @biotechdixon.bsky.social Microbial engineering enthusiast. Synthetic Biology. Sustainable Biotechnology. Closing the carbon loop.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9065-6764
https://dixonlab.org
Rachel M. Wheatley @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social Evolutionary microbiologist interested in AMR & microbiomes 🦠 UKRI Future Leaders Fellow & Group Leader @ Queen’s University Belfast. she/her. Ex-GB athlete 🇬🇧
Carlos Arellano-Caicedo @carellanoc.bsky.social Microbial ecologist
I'm interested in how microhabitats dictate microbial interactions and evolution. Microfluidics 💉 + microscopy 🔬
Jr group leader - University of Vienna
Pamela Ferretti @pamferretti.bsky.social Postdoc in the Blekhman lab at UChicago | Infant and breast milk microbiome | wild animal microbiome | antimicrobial resistance | microbial ecology | Member of @microbiomevif.bsky.social
https://pamelaferretti.net/
Matt Olm @mattolm.bsky.social Assistant Professor at CU Boulder
Studying the human microbiome
https://www.colorado.edu/lab/olm/
Bork Group at EMBL Heidelberg @borklab.bsky.social Computational biology lab focusing on microbiomes in the human gut and the environment
Homepage: https://www.bork.embl.de/
Mastodon: https://mstdn.science/@BorkLab
Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social The Laboratory of Computational Metagenomics led by Nicola Segata
**We are hiring, get in touch if interested!**
http://segatalab.cibio.unitn.it/
Moderator @svetlanaup.bsky.social
Hall Lab @halllab.bsky.social Prof Lindsay Hall’s research group at University of Birmingham & Quadram Institute. Early life microbiota (we love Bifidobacterium!), and influence of diet, host and pathogens.
Prof. Ruth Ley FRS @microbiome.bsky.social Director of Department of Microbiome Science at MPI Biology Tübingen Germany. Also known as Leylab.com.
Nichole Broderick, PhD @nabroderick.bsky.social microbiologist. entomologist. immunologist. Lover of science, especially at its intersections. Asst Prof of Biology at Johns Hopkins. @nabroderick elsewhere.
Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social Professor of Microbiome Ecology at Institute of Biology, Leiden University
Bacillus subtilis, biofilms, plant microbiome, bacteria-fungi interactions and circadian clock within @microclockerc.bsky.social #ERCSyG
https://linktr.ee/atkovacs
Bede Constantinides @bede.im Research fellow at the University of Birmingham interested in infectious disease informatics. Also cycling, photography, active travel. https://bede.im
Microbial Systems Ecology Lab @micsysecolab.bsky.social We study general principles that organise microbial systems, at ETH Zürich and Eawag | Posts by group members
https://mse.ethz.ch
Thomas Pradeu @pradeu.bsky.social CNRS Research Director, Philosophy of Science and Theoretical Biology. Works on Immunology, cancer, and microbiome. CNRS & University of Bordeaux, France.
Eloquent Science (Prof. David Schultz) @eloquentscience.com Univ. of Manchester Prof of Synoptic Meteorology, educator, scientist
Author: Eloquent Science: A Practical Guide to Becoming a Better Writer, Speaker, and Atmospheric Scientist
Free online climate course: "Our Earth: Its Climate, History, and Processes"
Ed Yong is offline @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
Edyong.me
Elisa Granato @prokaryota.bsky.social Sci-Comm | Researcher @kurzgesagt.org | she/her 🦠🧫🔬 | Tell your cat I said PSPSPSPS
Fernando T. Maestre @ftmaestre.bsky.social Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering #KAUST Husband, father, dryland ecologist & runner. PI #Maestrelab
Ashish Malik @ashish-malik.bsky.social Microbial Ecology | Soil Carbon | Land Use & Climate Change | Chancellor's Fellow at University of Edinburgh 🏴 | Global Citizen 🌏 | Green Politics | 🏳️🌈 he/him
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
Tim Foster @tfoster.bsky.social Interdisciplinary researcher interested in ag water management, climate adaptation and rural development. Reader in Water-Food Security at University of Manchester
Gareth Clay @garethclay.bsky.social Professor of Geography, University of Manchester. Wildfires and peatlands.
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/gareth.clay
Holly Langridge @ecology-holly.bsky.social Currently work in forest and soil ecology research at University of Bristol, but taking a break from science in 2025 to cycle to Asia.
Other interests: comedy, books, crafts, TV & film, travel, hiking.
She/her.
Raymond Kiu @raymondkiu.bsky.social Research Fellow with Hall Lab @halllab.bsky.social at the Institute of Microbiology & Infection @imibirmingham.bsky.social & Quadram Institute | Gut microbiome | Metagenomics | Microbial genomics | AMR 🧬🦠🇬🇧
🔗 https://linktr.ee/raymondkiu
Craig MacLean @craigmaclean.bsky.social Scientist working on antibiotic resistance, evolution, and mobile genetic elements. Prof at U.Oxford and Fellow of All Souls College
James McInerney @jomcinerney.bsky.social Writing a book about horizontal gene transfer and non treelike evolution. Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Biology. Pangenomes. https://profmcinerney.substack.com/ 🇮🇪 https://mol-evol.github.io/
Chris Mancuso @mancusosci.bsky.social Engineering non-model microbes @ Cultivarium | soft spot for microbiomes and DIY tech | he/him
Kate Lagerstrom @kate-lagerstrom.bsky.social Postdoc at Princeton 🐅
🧫 microbiomes | 🧬 genomics | 🦠 pathogens | 💊 AMR | 👣 human impacts | 🌎 OneHealth
Trustee for AMI http://appliedmicrobiology.org
Member @microbiomevif.bsky.social
Opinions = my own
UNL & Stanford 🎓
💻 http://kate-lagerstrom.github.io
Paul Turner Lab @paulturnerlab.bsky.social Experimental evolution of viruses for basic science and evolutionary medicine at Yale Ecology & Evolutionary Biology.
Tweeting papers & news from our group. Acct managed by lab members.
Marjon de Vos @lizscurious.bsky.social Cares about tiny things in a larger context
Assoc. prof @uniGroningen
Microbiology, ecology, evolution
#AMR, #UTI
microbecoevo.com
Mike Blazanin @mikeblazanin.bsky.social Postdoc with @kayla-king.bsky.social and @sarperotto.bsky.social at UBC. Bacterial evolution with C. elegans, phages, and bacterial communities. Modeling and experimental evolution. Microbial and computational methods.
https://mikeblazanin.com/
Anaëlle Fait @anaellefait.bsky.social Postdoc at ETH Zürich🇨🇭 w/ Prof. Alex Hall
Evolution of antibiotic resistance, nasal microbiome, Staphylococcus aureus
PhD with Prof. Hanne Ingmer 🇩🇰, MSCA alumni 🇪🇺
Obsess over: all of the animals, 🥐, 🧀, HP 📖
Rees Kassen @reeskassen.bsky.social Every which way but loose. Mostly #science and #evolution, also #sciencepolicy
Jamie Hall @jpjhall.bsky.social microbiology // evolution // mobile genetic elements
🏫 University of Liverpool, UK
🦠 www.andthemicrobes.org
💻 www.jpjhall.net
Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social Assoc Prof, Evolutionary Genomics, Quantitative/Population Genetics, Yeast, Experimental Evolution, Hybridization, @Stockholm University https://stelkenslab.com/
Greg Hurst @greghurst.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist, interested in the origins of biodiversity. Mostly research the evolutionary ecology of symbiotic interactions. Professor at U.of Liverpool, UK. Born at 332ppm.
Tiffany Taylor @taylorlabgroup.bsky.social Professor of Microbial Ecology and Evolution at the Life Sciences Department at the University of Bath. Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow. Children's author evolution/genetics. Mum.
https://tiffanybtaylor.wordpress.com/
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/
Tami Lieberman @contaminatedsci.bsky.social Associate Professor, MIT
Still thinking about the 10^9 mutations generated in your microbiome today.
Website: http://lieberman.science
Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org Evangelist for the study of evolution in action by everyone.
Pitt Prof | ASM President|EvolvingSTEM | biofilms | EvMed | genomics entrepreneur (@SeqCoast.bsky.social, @midauthorbio.bsky.social)| exercise addict ~ swim bike run
Maitreya Dunham @maitreya.bsky.social My lab works on genome evolution, using yeast genetics and genomics. Chair, Department of Genome Sciences at University of Washington.
Lab website: https://depts.washington.edu/dunhamlab/
Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social Microbiology, microbiome, antimicrobial resistance. Sometimes UK politics. Head of Research of the School of Infection, Inflammation and Immunology, University of Birmingham. Also Co-Director of @target-amr.bsky.social.
Alison Feder @alisonfeder.bsky.social Rapid evolutionary dynamics in viruses, cancer and bacteria. Assistant professor at UW Genome Sciences and Freeman Hrabowski Scholar at HHMI. federlab.github.io
Gavin Sherlock @gsherloc.bsky.social Geneticist whose lab does experimental evolution, using yeast as a model. Because being a footballer was never going to work out, due to lack of talent.
PI of SGD and CGD
ORCID: 0000-0002-1692-4983
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”
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/
Kayla King, Ph.D. @kayla-king.bsky.social Prof & Canada Excellence Research Chair | UBC Zoology, M&I | Evolution, ecology, host-pathogen, biodiversity | #firstgen | she/her/hers
Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social Microbial evolution / University of Manchester- C Kat Coyte @coytelab.bsky.social Ecology and evolution of microbial communities at the University of Manchester :) she/her
RaveenTank.bsky.social @raveentank.bsky.social Biophysicist interested in microbial communities, bespoke microfluidic fabrication, women’s health and all things glowy! Mum of two… send coffee please
Mike Bottery @mbottery.bsky.social Microbial Evolution - AMR - University of Manchester
Taoran Fu @taoranfu.bsky.social Eco-evo | Postdoc in Brockhurst group at University of Manchester
Microbiology | Pseudomonas | Quorum-sensing and defense system
Matt Jago @mattjago.bsky.social PhD student | University of Manchester
Looking at bacterial evolution in lots of different ways 🧪🧬. Member of @mermanchester.bsky.social
Stepan Denisov @stepadenisov.bsky.social Bioinformatics, molecular biology & evolution
The University of Manchester, UK
Xiaotong Zhang @xiaotong.bsky.social Microbial community dynamics, modelling, PhD student at the University of Manchester
Rebecca Lowry Palmer @bexlowrypalms.bsky.social mum of two+microbiologist. Navigating career in science post kids 👩🏽🔬
Currently - PDRA Manchester uni, MERMan research group - bacterial mutation rates and DNA repair 🦠
Personal projects underway - Bdellovibrio: evolution, ecology and agriculture 🌱
Fiona J Whelan @whelanfj.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, Lister Prize Fellow, & UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at U of Manchester. Bioinf, microbes, evol bio, running, cycling, & pub chats. she/her 🇨🇦. whelanlab.co.uk
Magdalena Kurteu @magdalenakurteu.bsky.social PhD student studying eco-evolutionary dynamics of hot spring microbial communities 🧫🧬🌋
She/Her 🏳️🌈- S Sophie Somerville @sophiesomerville.bsky.social Antimicrobial peptides🧪bacterial evolution🧬AMR 🦠
PhD student at Uni of Manchester
Norman van Rhijn @normanvanrhijn.bsky.social Wellcome Trust Fellow at University of Manchester | Fungal infections | AMR | Antifungal dual-use | Focused on Climate Change and Epidemiology
Freya Harrison @friendlymicrobe.bsky.social Reader (Associate Professor) in Microbiology at the University of Warwick, UK.
Biofilm, chronic infection and ancientbiotics.
https://www.youtube.com/@BreakingBiofilm
Jonathan Pomroy @jonathanpomroy.bsky.social ASWLA. North Yorks based wildlife and landscape artist. Gilling East studio. Writer. Naturalist. Swift and house martin conservation, author of On Crescent Wings. Birdscapes Art for Conservation award 2023. Website
https://jonathanpomroy.wordpress.com/
Colin Beale @cmbeale.bsky.social Ecologist, ornithologist & nature lover.
Professor of ecology & conservation at the University of York.
Author of 101 Curious Tales of East African Birds.
Chair of A Rocha UK.
Ashley Shade, Ph.D. @ashley17061.bsky.social Director of Research, CNRS | Microbial Ecologist | incoming EIC for American Society for Microbiology journal #mSystems | ERC #MicroRescue
Noah Fierer @noahfierer.bsky.social Microbial ecologist
https://www.fiererlab.org/
Franciska de Vries 🟥 @frantecol.bsky.social Prof. Earth Surface Science | climate/global change impacts on ecosystems | ❤️ soil biodiversity | nuchtere Fries & nearly English | columnist De Levende Natuur | runner | mum | she/her
Matthew J Shepherd @matthewjshepherd.bsky.social Bicentenary Fellow @manchester.ac.uk within @mermanchester.bsky.social - Understanding opportunistic pathogen evolution - AMR, pathogenesis, niche transitions 🧫🧬 Former Fellow @wiko-berlin.bsky.social
Rok Krašovec @rokkrasovec.bsky.social evolution admirer | mutation & drug resistance enthusiast | live-cell imaging fan
Rowan Green @rowancallumg.bsky.social Postdoc studying viral social evolution with @asherleeks.bsky.social | previously @mermanchester.bsky.social | mutagenesis | bacteria | viruses | big R nerd 🧬🦠💻
🏳️⚧️ He/Him
MERMan Research Group (University of Manchester) @mermanchester.bsky.social Microbial Evolution Research at The University of Manchester
https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/merman/
Danna Gifford @dannagifford.bsky.social PI and Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester. Microbial evolution.
https://dannagifford.com @MERManchester.bsky.social