Patsy Kenefick Stinchfield, NP @patsykene.bsky.social Executive Director, NFID’s Measles Collaborative. Past President, NFID. “Retired” pediatric nurse practitioner, ID, IPC, vaccine geek, former ACIP voting member & NAPNAP liaison; democracy, safety, inclusion and nature lover; Nana best job ever💟
Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social Founder and Executive Director @protectdemocracy.org. Former Associate White House Counsel. Tweets my own.
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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social Staff writer for the Atlantic. Host of the David Frum Show webcast. Formerly ... quite a lot of things.
Washington DC and Wellington, Ontario.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social Recovering lawyer | Owned by a Pembroke Corgi | Host of Psycho Politics pod and contributor, @TheBulwark.com | Crappy pol | Trying to figure out Substack
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social Founder @democracydocket.com. Chair of Elias Law Group. My dog's name is Blue.
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control @ecdc.europa.eu We’re the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. We aim to strengthen EU’s defences vs infectious diseases. Here to promote public health.
Wudan Yan @wudan.bsky.social Narrative journalist, fact-checker, podcaster. Founder, Factual—a fact-checking agency
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Stacey Schultz-Cherry @ssclabquips.bsky.social Studies the pathogenesis and evolution of influenza and astroviruses in high risk populations in order to develop better therapies
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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social The Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, University of Minnesota.
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Grant Zasty @gzasty96.bsky.social Death Before Decaf | Amateur Pedestrian | UMN SPH 22 | He/Him
Marisa Donnelly, PhD @marisadonnelly.bsky.social Your Local Epidemiologist in New York https://yourlocalepidemiologistny.substack.com/ 🗽Wastewater Epi @ Biobot 💩, CDC EIS Alum 🕵🏼♀️ NYC-based 🌇 views are my own 🩵
Nina Thorsen @nlthorsen.bsky.social Former Oakland A's fan and bleacher drummer now part-owner of the Oakland Ballers and Oakland Roots, cold brew devotee, book hoarder, public radio lifer, (Sinister) Minnesotan in exile.
Sydney Redepenning, PhD @sydneyredepenning.bsky.social CIDRAP Researcher & Producer of The Osterholm Update Podcast.
Eurosurveillance journal @eurosurveillance.org Weekly, peer-reviewed scientific journal on infectious disease epidemiology, prevention & control 😷🩺🧪
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#PublicHealth
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Impact factor 2024: 7.8
James Wood @jw132.bsky.social Infectious Disease Epidemiologist
Working at Cambridge University
Tim Sheahan @timothysheahan.bsky.social PI in #virology working on #coronavirus and #hepacivirus pathogenesis and #antivirals at UNC Chapel Hill. Featured in GQ mag (what the hell?) for #COVID19. Almost over the hill but still love Minor Threat.
Caitlin Rivers @cmyeaton.bsky.social Infectious disease epidemiologist @JohnsHopkinsSPH. Associate professor. Author of CRISIS AVERTED (Viking). Outbreak newsletter at forceofinfection.com
Tulio de Oliveira @tuliodna.bsky.social Professor of medical research leading global genomics surveillance. Director CERI at Stellenbosch University and KRISP at UKZN, South Africa. Views my own.
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Peter Daszak @peterdaszak.bsky.social President www.naturehealthglobal.org.
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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social Husband to Renee. Father to Andrew and Eleanor. Grandfather to Winnie and Indy. Founder. Writer. Ad-maker. NYT #1 Bestselling author. Instrument-rated Beechcraft pilot. AgainstAllEnemies.net
Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social Staff writer at The Atlantic. Cat guy, Jeopardy champ. New Englander and curmudgeon. Speaker info: https://www.leighbureau.com/speakers/tnichols
Mark Hertling @markhertling.bsky.social Former soldier. Student of leadership & national security; Professor, author (“If I Don’t Return: A Father’s Wartime Journal”), speaker. Always looking for civility & new adventures.
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Prof Devi Sridhar @profdevisridhar.bsky.social Professor & Chair of Global Public Health, Edinburgh Uni. Certified Level 3 Personal Trainer. Views own.
Mike Stobbe @mikestobbe.bsky.social AP medical writer. Author of “Surgeon General’s Warning: How Politics Crippled the Nation’s Doctor”
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!
Alexandra Phelan 余雪莲 @alexandraphelan.bsky.social Associate Professor, Global Health Law, Johns Hopkins
- Senior Scholar, Center for Health Security
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International law, infectious diseases, pandemics, equity, solidarity & justice
Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social She/her. Award-winning health and science journalist. Investigative reporter at CIDRAP News. LizSzabo.30 on Signal. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/all-news
Ed Belongia MD @belongia.bsky.social Vaccines & viruses | Epidemiology & public health | Former CDC & ACIP | Climate advocate | Dog walker & e-biker
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social Hymowitz Family Professor of Global Health & Professor of Public Policy at Duke University. Director of the Center for Policy Impact in Global Health. DJ at WXDU (Thursdays, 4-6pm ET, wxdu.org). TIME columnist. He/him. Tallest Jew on Earth.
Louise H. Moncla @lhmoncla.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Pathobiology at the University of Pennsylvania. We use trees to study RNA virus evolution and transmission, with a focus on avian influenza. viruses, sequencing, phylogenetics, pop gen. She/her
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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 🏆
Jeremy Kamil @macroliter.bsky.social [He, him.] CMV virologist exploring how viruses
enter cells and other tricky mischief (lately, of the glycoimmune-centric variety). University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. My posts here are my own speech, not my employer’s. #LoveVirology #Glycotime
Ryan Hisner @ryanhisner.bsky.social Teacher. Learner. Investigating mysteries of SARS-CoV-2 evolution. LongDesertTrain on another platform.
Tom Peacock @peacockflu.bsky.social Virologist - Influenza and Coronaviruses
Mike Honey @mikehoney.bsky.social Data Visualisation and Data Integration specialist - Melbourne, Australia
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Josette Schoenmakers @josetteschoenma.bsky.social - W @worobey.bsky.social @worobey.bsky.social
WastewaterSCAN @wastewaterscan.bsky.social WastewaterSCAN monitors infectious diseases through municipal wastewater systems across the U.S. to inform local & national public health responses. https://www.wastewaterscan.org/en
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
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Tara Haelle @tarahaelle.bsky.social Science/health journalist • teacher • author • photographer 📷• kidlit • dog lover 🦮• rat mom 🐀• Texan • ADHD • neurodivergent • she/her
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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
Brian Wasik @brianrwasik.bsky.social Virologist. Evolutionary biologist.
Linsey Marr @linseymarr.bsky.social Engineering professor at Virginia Tech with expertise in air pollution, airborne microbes, nanotechnology. Avid recreational athlete.
Jasnah Kholin @jasnah.bsky.social HKer, nidovirologist. Revstar & MayaKuro fangirl. Will never watch a video. 一个健康的社會不該只有一種聲音. 解散警隊. ★ she/佢 ★
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.
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social Personal account
Evolutionary biologist, senior scientist at CNRS/Sorbonne Université
Interests: origins and control of infectious diseases and conspiracy theories; diversity in science; scientific publishing
https://www.normalesup.org/~fdebarre/
EN & FR
Matt Frieman @mattfrieman.bsky.social Alicia and Yaya Professor of Viral Pathogen Research, Center for Pathogen Research, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine. #virology #coronavirus #vaccines #Influenza Opinions are my own. FriemanLab.com
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
Gigi Gronvall @ggronvall.bsky.social Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering. 1st Hopkins prof to be a Marching Raven! gigigronvall.com
Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social CNN medical correspondent
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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
Andrew Rambaut (🐏🎀) @arambaut.bsky.social Virus evolution | genomic epidemiology| virus origins | phylogenetics | BEAST | ARTIC Network
University of Edinburgh
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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 .
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
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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Dr Neil Stone @drneilstone.bsky.social Infectious Diseases specialist doctor in London. Fungal disease researcher (UCL). Officially the 1st person to use word #Covid (according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Really). Personal views only.
Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social Inaugural Chair, Department of Global & Public Health, McGill University, Montreal & Canada Research Chair in Epidemiology & Global Health 🇨🇦
Tweets: own views. He/him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhukar_Pai
Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social Professor of law at UC Law San Francisco. Writes about vaccines law and policy. Vaccine Advocate. Mom of two.
Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social Professor, University of California, Riverside School of Public Policy. Public health scientist & sociologist keen on population health & community issues. Sometimes in the news, often for troubling and frustrating topics. Opinions my own. 🇺🇸 🇨🇦
Sarah Zhang @sarahzhang.bsky.social eukaryote, also a staff writer at the atlantic
Meaghan Kall @kallmemeg.bsky.social Epidemiologist, public health trainee, mom, wife. Formerly @UKHSA. Disability advocate. Born 🇺🇸 Migrated 🇬🇧. 🏳️🌈 Personal account.
Alexander Tin @alexander-a-tin.bsky.social Reported for CBS News in D.C. on federal public health. Raised in sunny Nevada. Decided to move overseas to be near family.
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.
Hilda Bastian @hildabast.bsky.social Scientist (PhD she/her), writer, cartoonist. 🦘
Tracking NextGen Covid Vaccines at https://vaxtracker.wordpress.com/
Personal newsletter: Living With Evidence https://hildabastian.wordpress.com/
Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social Epidemiologist. AIDS Activist. Dog lover. New Haven.
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
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 🛟🩺📉📈🧪
Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social CNN editor for climate and weather. Columnist at Star Tribune. Sometimes news at Science Friday. Nieman Fellow '15.
Previously: Science journalist with FiveThirtyEight, NYT Magazine, BoingBoing, mental_floss, and etc.
My views are not my employer's.
Eli Perencevich @eliowa.bsky.social doc, epidemiologist, and editor in Iowa City studying antimicrobial resistance and hand hygiene
ignore the noise, always forward
“You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened”-John Green
Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social Peds hematologist oncologist, mother, dreamer, pacifist, justice seeker. Retweeted by Wonder Woman #HemeSky #MedSky #CakeForBreakfast #IronMatters http://www.HCWvsHunger.org
David R. Martinez @davidmartinez.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Immunobiology and Microbial Pathogenesis at Yale School of Medicine. Hanna H. Gray Faculty Fellow of the HHMI. Scientist. Husband/Dad. Viral pathogenesis. Vaccines. Immunobiology. Above all, be kind.
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
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Michael Osterholm, PhD, MPH @mtosterholm.bsky.social Director, @cidrap.bsky.social
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Allison Neitzel @alineitzelmd.bsky.social whowhatwhy.org/author/allison-neitzel/
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.
Erik Karlsson @eakarlsson.bsky.social Emerging/endemic infectious diseases, mostly viruses. Pandemic Prevention. Early Warning. One Health. Science outside-the-box. Views my own. 🦠🧪🔬🐓🦇
Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social Science and global health reporter for The New York Times
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Signal: amnyt.91
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.
Paul Offit @pauloffit.bsky.social Infectious disease physician, co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine, author and grandfather. Author of "Tell Me When it's Over". Commentaries can be found on Pauloffit.substack.com.
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.
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/
Dr Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social Die Virenjägerin! 🏹🧬!
Using programming & phylogenetics, I study & track viruses. Co-developer of Nextstrain, based at Swiss TPH & Uni Basel.
Founder of CoVariants.org, co-founder of @pathoplexus.org
I like 🐈 & 🛫
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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social Author and Professor of Maths and Public Engagement.
Books -
Math(s) of Life and Death
How to Expect the Unexpected
You Don't Know What You're missing
https://tinyurl.com/37rx2yuv
He/Him
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.
Raj Rajnarayanan @rajlabn.bsky.social @Rajlabn in Twitter | My posts 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.
Saskia Popescu @saskiapopescu.bsky.social Infectious disease epidemiologist & global heath security strategist | GHSN CEO |UMB Asst Prof working in pandemic prep, biosurveillance, One Health, AMR, BW & biosecurity. ELBI & CFR ☣️
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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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Matthew Herper @matthewherper.bsky.social I write about medicine at STAT. This is biology's century. Every data point has a face.
Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social White House reporter at the Washington Post. Focused on politics, policy and public health. Democracy dies in darkness.
Find me on Signal: username dan_diamond.01
Nick Loman @pathogenomenick.bsky.social Public health (meta)genomics & bioinformatics, Prof @unibirmingham.bsky.social, Director @imibirmingham.bsky.social & @climb.ac.uk
JPWeiland @jpweiland.bsky.social Scientist+Engineer. Infectious disease modeler. Posts and spelling mistakes my own
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.
Views are my own.