izzylakis.bsky.social @izzylakis.bsky.social Microbiologist by day, birder at heart
Joy O’Brien @joyobrien.bsky.social PhD candidate in @jaytlennon lab IU Bloomington |
DoD SMART scholar | permafrost microbial ecology & virospores |
Emma Bueren @emmabueren.bsky.social researching viruses in 🦠 bacterial spores, 🐝 bees, and 🐸 amphibians! postdoc-ing it up.
handle is @EmBueren at the acursed place
Chanelle Zap @sharksandwrecks.bsky.social Just a girl living the dream she didn't know she had and making the best of things!
Coast Guard analyst, dog lover, scuba diver and archaeologist at heart.
Kira Ruiz-Houston @kiraruizhouston.bsky.social PhD Student, SciMed-GRS 🧬, Microbiology Doctoral Training Program (MDTP) 2025 Cohort 🧫🦠| Dept. of MMI, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ryan Cook @ryancook94.bsky.social Viral ecologist with Evelien Adriaenssens at The Quadram | All things phage (but mostly viromes) | Formerly at Uni of Nottingham with Andy Millard | All opinions my own.
Tatta Bio @tattabio.bsky.social Building genomic intelligence
Metagenomic datasets, genomic language models, SeqHub
Our research: https://tatta.bio
Analyze your sequences on https://seqhub.org
Andre Cornman @ancornman1.bsky.social Building ML models for genomics at tatta.bio
Checkout gaia.tatta.bio protein search!
Vivek Mutalik @vivekmutalik.bsky.social Dad, Teacher, Artist, Gardener and Scientist.
Change is the only permanent thing in the world. This moment will pass. It has to.
Ps.
All I post is my personal opinion
Mike Tisza @miketisza.bsky.social In a sequence gaze daze
Bfx in HTX 🧬🖥️
Opinions my own 🦐
https://tiszalab.github.io/
Greg Dick @greatlakesgreg.bsky.social Director of the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research & the Great Lakes Center for Freshwaters and Human Health; Professor, University of Michigan Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences and School for Environment and Sustainability
Emmanuele Severi @emmseveri.bsky.social Research Fellow at Northumbria University: phage, synthetic biology, sialic acid, transport proteins. He/him.
AnniZLab: [🦠, 🧬 , ✨] @annizlab.bsky.social A microbiologist 🦠& bioinformatician 🧬 uncovering diverse microbial mechanisms via AI ✨. A rising assistant professor @NTU Singapore. With data in the cloud, the sky is the limit! Check out our lab website :) https://genomiverse.net/
Wilhelm Lab at the University of Tennessee @tn-marine-micro.bsky.social Viruses, bacteria, algae, and an unusual fondness for water.
Anne Chevallereau @annechevallereau.bsky.social Group leader @CNRS, @MMSB (Lyon, France) studying how viruses interact and evolve with other MGE and with their host #bacterial_immunity #sociovirology #phages #Pseudomonas.
Cathy Hernandez @cathyhernandez.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina | bacteria x (pro)phage x environment | hdzlab.com
Phage Directory @phagedirectory.bsky.social Making it easier to use, share & study phages. By Jess & Jan
Capsid & Tail Newsletter: http://phage.directory/capsid
Podovirus Podcast: http://shorturl.at/PDNIy
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 
Susie Grigson @susiegriggo.bsky.social Postdoc @ DOE JGI Berkeley Lab 🇺🇸 | Former PhD Student @ Flinders University 🇦🇺 | #bioinformatics #viruses #AI 🦠💻🧬 | she/her
https://github.com/susiegriggo
Axel Visel @axelvisel.bsky.social Genome Scientist. Studies how DNA makes humans, mice, plants, microbes. At Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and Joint Genome Institute. Views are my own.
Jim Shaw @jimshaw.bsky.social Postdoc at Dana-Farber and Harvard Med with Heng Li (@lh3lh3.bsky.social). Prev: UBC / UofT.
I like thinking about biological sequence analysis and its applications to metagenomics / microbial genomics.
https://jim-shaw-bluenote.github.io
Duncan Kountz @dkountz.bsky.social Anaerobic microbial metabolism and biochemistry. Postdoc in Schuller Lab (SYNMIKRO, Uni Marburg).Fmr Pioneer Fellow at U Michigan. PhD: Balskus lab (Harvard) UG: Krzycki lab (Ohio State)
Laura Suttenfield @lcatherines.bsky.social postdoc with @baym.lol at Harvard Medical School | UIUC, UMass Amherst alum
Lotta Purkamo @microecolotta.bsky.social Senior scientist @Geological Survey of Finland
#geomicrobiology #microbialecology #C_cycling #biogeochemistry #climatechange #groundwater #astrobiology #WomenInSTEM #heavymetal #birbwatching 
Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social Environmental microbiologist and CRC at UWaterloo. Tangent-prone story teller and compulsive frisbee chaser. Views are my own. 
Nathaniel Scott @diderm.com M.S. Student, Microbiology @ UMass Amherst
Studying hydrogen metabolism of deep-sea sulfur-reducers in the Holden lab.
Morgan Sobol @msobol.bsky.social Assistant Professor #newPI, Texas State University. Microbial EcoEvo ◊ Astrobio ◊ ‘Omics. Interested in unraveling Earth-life coevolution. https://sobollab.wp.txstate.edu/
🌎🔭🧬🦠🧫
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.
Anita Anand @anitaanand.bsky.social I present programs on TV and Radio, write history books and present a podcast called Empire with William Dalrymple. NOT IN THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT!
Empire: World History @empirepoduk.bsky.social Podcast on empires and world history 🌎
A Goalhanger production with Anita Anand and William Dalrymple
William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social Scottish historian & art historian; @EmpirePodUK.bsky.social podcaster & Jaipur Lit Fest co-director. Visiting Fellow at All Souls, Oxford. Writes the occasional book.
Sean Eddy @cryptogenomicon.bsky.social Professor, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Harvard University
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org Explore groundbreaking news and research from PNAS, one of the world's most-cited scientific journals. Discover its sibling journal, @pnasnexus.org, both official research journals of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Visit www.pnas.org for more info.
Holly Rucker @hollyrucker.bsky.social PhD candidate at UW-Madison // interested in astrobiology, geobiology, isotopes, and Precambrian Earth
Karen Lloyd @karenlloyd.bsky.social Subsurface microbiologist/biogeochemist, runner, laugher, wife, parent, TED speaker, Wrigley Prof. at U. Southern California, she/her, got a book coming out in May 2025 called INTRAterrestrials: Discovering the Strangest Life on Earth
The Banfield Lab @banfieldlab.bsky.social Located at the University of California-Berkeley at the Innovative Genomics Institute.
Purveyors of Microbial Ecology, Bioinformatics, & Nanogeoscience.
Reposts or likes≠endorsements.
https://www.banfieldlab.com/
Florian Trigodet @floriantrigodet.bsky.social Computational microbiologist. Senior scientist at the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity, Oldenburg.
Working in Meren lab.
Ben J Woodcroft @benjwoodcroft.bsky.social Yet another microbial bioinformatician, group leader, dad
github.com/wwood https://research.qut.edu.au/cmr/team/ben-woodcroft/
Coalition for Life Sciences @c4lifesciences.bsky.social https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/OMB-2026-0034-0001
Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com Nature Microbiology publishes the latest research and commentary in all areas of microbiology.
https://www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/
Benjamin Wolfe @benwolfe.bsky.social Associate Professor Tufts University
Ecology/evolution of microbes in food systems. Constant gardener. 
Angel J Hernández Viera @angeljhv.bsky.social Graduate student at UW-Madison in the lab of Charlie Mo (@molabuw.bsky.social) studying CRISPR and phage resistance in staphylococci. 🇵🇷🌴
@katiekliermicrobe.bsky.social @katiekliermicrobe.bsky.social 
Liana Theodoridis @lianatheo.bsky.social PhD student researching bacteriophages in the gut microbiome
Elena Garncarz Rehborg @ejgrehborg.bsky.social Graduate student in the Zamanian lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison! Worms are cool 🪱
#MDTP #OnWisconsin 
Tristan Caro @tacaro.bsky.social Microbiologist and geochemist | Postdoc @ Caltech | Formerly @ CU Boulder, NASA, Berkeley | Enjoys isotopes, dataviz, ceramics
SeppeKuehnLab @seppekuehnlab.bsky.social Physics and biology of microbial communities. Structure, function, evolution. Center for the Physics of Evolving Systems. Dept. of Ecology and Evolution. UChicago. @NITMB, @CLS. kuehnlab.org
Kristen DeAngelis 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🍉 @kristenobacter.bsky.social Scientist, mom, & dog mom. She/they. Trans rights are human rights. Long covid survivor. Pissed about the climate crisis. Tell your dog I said hi
UW–Madison Department of Bacteriology @uwbact.bsky.social Research and education in modern microbiology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
Max Wilkinson @maxewilkinson.bsky.social keen on reverse transcription | also keen on spliceosomes | cryoEM dabbler
Assistant Member @MSKCC
Formerly post-doc @MIT
Formerly-formerly PhD @MRC_LMB
Formerly formerly-formerly Otago Uni
Kiwi 🥝 🇳🇿
https://wilkinsonlab.bio/
Evelien Adriaenssens @evelienadri.bsky.social Group Leader @ Quadram Institute. Phages, viromes and taxonomy with a side of gaming and yarn arts. EDI & Athena Swan lead. Ally.
Christina Hazard @christinahazard.bsky.social CNRS Researcher | Group Leader | Soil Microbial and Viral Ecology and Biogeochemical Cycling | https://soilmicrobes.fr/ | @soilmicrobes.bsky.social
Vivian Nguyen @vivian-nguyen.bsky.social MD/PhD student @ UW-Madison 🧫 😊
@wilmeslab.bsky.social @wilmeslab.bsky.social 
RevathyKrishnamurthy @revathykri.bsky.social Phage biologist| Research Scientist| Mother of two curious minds | Views my own & repost are not endorsements.
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.- P Shawna Reed @profpathogen.bsky.social Primarily-Teaching + Research Mentor @ Quinnipiac University in CT. Microbial Pathogenesis, Cell Bio, rickettsia. All posts and conversations here are my own.
Jennifer Goff, PhD @jlgoff.bsky.social Assistant Professor at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry 🌳 | President of CNY ASM | BS @ Georgia Tech, PhD @ Rutgers, Postdoc @ University of Georgia I Environmental microbiology | jenniferlgoff.com | I am not an institutional spokesperson
Dinesh @dineshkb.bsky.social Grad student at UW Madison | Environmental viruses, phage ecology, data science
Mike Ingram For Everyone @electmikeingram.bsky.social 
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
Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com NYT columnist. Signal: carlzimmer.51
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/carlzimmer/
Web: http://carlzimmer.com
[This account includes a tweet archive]
CJ @caseygriffin.bsky.social Eternal enthusiast
David Hopping @shimloaf.bsky.social PhD Student at the University of Illinois
play, improvisation, learning, junk, and in-betweens
"Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind."
@nnadig.bsky.social @nnadig.bsky.social Graduate student | Microbiology Doctoral Training Program | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Jason Peters lab | Pathogens | Antibiotic Resistance | CRISPR
George O'Toole (he/him/his) @geiselbiofilm.bsky.social Elmer R. Pfefferkorn, PhD, Professor of Microbiology & Immunology at the Geisel School of Medicine, EiC of the Journal of Bacteriology; Bacterial Biofilms, Surface Sensing, c-di-GMP Signaling, Polymicrobial Communities & Gut Microbiota in Cystic Fibrosis
Soil Microbial Ecology Group @soilmicrobes.bsky.social Hazard & Nicol Labs. We aim to understand soil microbial interactions - prokaryotes, fungi, viruses, their contribution to biogeochemical cycling & mitigating their impact or harnessing their potential for reducing climate change. https://soilmicrobes.fr/
Ananya Venbakkam @ananya-ven.bsky.social PhD student at UW Madison
Williams Lab
Ben Chapman @benchapmanmagic.bsky.social Politics guy professionally, boardgame guy unprofessionally -- in Seattle.
GEMS Institute @gems-bii.bsky.social We are an NSF Biology Integration Institute located at UofIllinois, IU Bloomington, and NYUniversity studying multi scale symbioses.
Ashley Eng @ashyeneng.bsky.social Microbiology PhD candidate at UC Berkeley. Microbial ecology. Communities first 🧬🌿🤩 she/her.
co-organizer with @snapcoalition.org.
Zhongyi_Cheng | 程中一 @zycheng.bsky.social Research Assistant at Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences | Rhizosphere microbiology🪴 | Soil contamination 🏭 | Soil viral ecology🦠 | Ph.D in Zhejiang University👨🎓
Website: https://chengzhongyi8.github.io/
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
✨
kacarlab.org
Aditya Kumar Pal @adityaresearchlife.bsky.social PhD student at UW Madison MDTP
https://linktr.ee/myresea
Youtuber
Photographer
Alex Dobrila @alex-dobrila.bsky.social Graduate Student in Hryckowian Lab at UW-Madison | Microbiology Doctoral Training Program | Views are my own | He/Him
@hlemery.bsky.social @hlemery.bsky.social 
UW Madison Microbiology Doctoral Training Program @uwmadisonmdtp.bsky.social Official Bluesky account for the UW Madison MDTP 
Gareth (Gary) Trubl @gtrubl.bsky.social Dad; Staff scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Lab; first generation PhD; He/Him pronouns; I study climate change, soil viruses, ecology, microbial ecophysiology, biogeochemistry, and astrobiology using meta-omics combined with stable isotope probing
David Waite @davewaite.bsky.social Microbial ecologist and bioinformatician. Interested in phylogenomics, and viral evolution. I also play way too many TTRPGs.
Carli Roush @phagephan.bsky.social Ph.D. candidate at Georgia Tech studying bacteriophages, among other larger things
B.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale
she/her
Artem Babaian @rnalab.bsky.social Computational Virologist |
The Laboratory for RNA-Based Lifeforms |
Molecular Genetics / Donnelly Centre @ UofT 🇨🇦
#Bioinformatics #Virology #Genetics #Biology
Katy Brown @thekatybrown.bsky.social Postdoc in computational genomics studying RNA viruses at Cambridge. She/Her https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8400-6922
Aude Bernheim @audeber.bsky.social PI at Institut Pasteur
Evolution, immunity, genomics, microbiolgy.
Into immunity in bacteria and its conservation in eukaryotes.
Advocate for more inclusive sciences
https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/molecular-diversity-of-microbes/
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)
Brooke Propson @bprops.bsky.social Temporarily Not Soil™️ | Ph.D. candidate @ UW-Madison Soil Science | NSF GRFP fellow | studying microbial mechanisms mediating C fluxes in forests | she/her
Heidi Aronson, PhD @heidi-aronson.bsky.social Postdoc in the Coates Lab @UCBerkeley, PhD from the Amend lab @USC and the Macalady lab @PSU | #Geomicrobiology | #Astrobiology | #Sulfur | #Phosphorus | #Extremophiles | Microbial metabolism | Cultivation
Steven Robbins @stevenjrobbins.bsky.social Do my science @ace_uq studying coral reef microbiomes. Data wrangler, meta-omics and long-read wonk, clean energy enthusiast, Saganist zealot, collector of weird zoology facts, other nonsense.
Alex Probst @alexjprobst.bsky.social Professor for Microbiology at Research Alliance Ruhr, Uni-DUE, #ERCSyg awardee, member of CRC RESIST
#microbiome #omics #microscopy #ecophysiology
Free time: Dad, weight training, cs2, nature, bbq, board games, pottery
Luis Pedro Coelho @luispedrocoelho.bsky.social Content creator for Elsevier, NPG, and others
Microbiome researcher
Based in Brisbane
Luis E. Valentin-Alvarado @luisvalentin.bsky.social HFSP Research Fellow studying microbes, mobile DNA & RNA-guided immune systems.
Ute Hentschel @utehentschel.bsky.social Professor of Marine Microbiology at GEOMAR. A particular interest in marine animal-microbe symbioses.
Nicole Dubilier @nicoledubilier.bsky.social Director Max Planck Institute Marine Microbiology
Head of Symbiosis Department
https://www.mpi-bremen.de/en/Department-of-Symbiosis.html
Prof at Uni Bremen, MARUM
symbiosis, microbiome, marine microbiology
Mónica Medina @momedinamunoz.bsky.social Mom. Coral reef scientist and environmentalist. Host-microbe interactions. Anthropocene coral holobionts. Diversity in STEM advocate. Former fencer. Diver. Sailor wannabe. medinalab.org, redcientificacol.org 🇨🇴, diversifyoceansciences.org, spawnwatch.org
Daan Speth @daanspeth.bsky.social Computational microbiologist. Senior scientist at @cemess.bsky.social, @univie.ac.at.
Microbial ecology, mostly of nitrogen cycle microbes, and data driven physiology.
Maintainer of the GlobDB genome database https://globdb.org
Christian R Voolstra @reefgenomics.bsky.social Dedicated Marine Scientist, Reef Genomicist, Computer/Musiq/Travel lover, Dad of 3, Professor of Genetics of Adaptation in Aquatic Systems, President International Coral Reef Society (ICRS), Scientific Coordinator Tara Pacific Expedition
Titus Brown @titus.idyll.org I am not a deep man, but I have many shallows. ctbrown@ucdavis.edu, http://ivory.idyll.org/blog/.
Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com Systems Microbial Ecologist | Microbial Cultivation | F1 & IndyCar fan. Metalhead. Studying microbes in Desert Soil and nearshore Marine Sediments.
Blog: uncultured.carinilab.com
Web: CariniLab.com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-carini/
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.