Wikimedia South Africa @wikimediaza.bsky.social Wikimedia ZA is a non-profit organisation dedicated to championing free and open knowledge.
Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social Immunologist & science communicator based at UoM fascinated by our immune response to threats (pathogens, pollution) & microbiome & how this exposome affects health. Also quite likely to share random dog and nature pics 🧪👩🔬 #AcademicSky #SciCom
Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com Nature Portfolio’s high-quality products and services across the life, physical, chemical and applied sciences is dedicated to serving the scientific community.
Pam McMillan @pammc7.bsky.social Love dogs, books, and coffee.
Lise Jamieson @lisejamz.bsky.social Biostatistician, health economist, modeller, R enthusiast, HIV/TB research nerd. Crochet addict.
City of Cape Town @cityofct.bsky.social The City's social media is online from 07:30 - 17:00 Mon - Thurs, 07:30 - 16:00 on Fri and 10:00 - 14:00 on Weekends & Public Holidays. This is not.
Tim Fish @timfish.bsky.social I love my dog, Arsenal, the Proteas, books, podcasts, food and music.
Senior Legal Adviser, Economic and Social Rights, Disability Rights at International Commission of Jurists.
Hennie van Vuuren @hennievanvuuren.bsky.social Open Secrets | Open Sesame Stop: graft/grift/greed. For secure messaging and tipoffs - pls contact me on Signal.
www.opensecrets.org.za
Alastair Otter @alastairotter.bsky.social Editor of The Outlier, data communications and visualisation expert. theoutlier.co.za
Janet Heard @janetheard.bsky.social South African Journalist
Wessel van Rensburg @wildebees.bsky.social Digital policy strategist and creative technologist. Special interest, European digital sovereignty.
Also geopolitics, innovation, industrial policy.
Location: Den Haag 🇳🇱 From: 🇿🇦
Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com FT columnist, BBC journalist, author, host of Cautionary Tales, professional nerd.
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Peter Bruce @psb29.bsky.social Former South African print editor now columnist and fumbling podcaster. Ex FT, ex Financial Mail, ex Business Day. Springboks, Tottenham Hotspur 🙈, Real Madrid. Liberal. Homeboy.
amanda strydom @amandas.bsky.social Senior Programme Manager @ Code for Africa
Synthetic media ethics, journalism & info manipulation research
Some cats & some books
Wishful thinker
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Mandy Collins @mandycollins.bsky.social Former journalist, current content writer, life coach, author, mother, dog wrangler, reader, tea lover, baker, DIYer, needlewoman, procrastininja. Not always in that order. Depends on the day. www.reddoorink.com and www.mandycollinscoaching.com
Gerhard Kemp @gerhardkempicl.bsky.social Professor of Law, UWE Bristol, UK; Institute for Justice & Reconciliation, Cape Town. #internationalcriminallaw
Marianne Thamm @mariannethamm.bsky.social Human, mother, dog lover, legal alien
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
https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
UCT Law Faculty @uctlaw.bsky.social This is the official account of the University of Cape Town Faculty of Law - sharing information about the law, access to justice, legal debates, the constitution and other key law-focused concerns.
Jason Brickhill @jason-brickhill.bsky.social Advocate | Academic | constitutional law, human rights, strategic litigation | ed-in-chief @SA-ConLaw.bsky.social- S @samsole.bsky.social @samsole.bsky.social
Freedom of Expression Institute @fxinstitute.bsky.social Advances and defends the right to free expression, a free media and access to accurate information. Expression spans speech, art, academia and protest.
Brenden Nel @brendennel.bsky.social SA rugby journalist — 3 decades covering the Springboks. Host of Talking Boks podcast, with Nick Mallett and Gavin Rich. youtube.com/@BrendenNel
Serial traveler, tends to get lost in good music.
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Thala Msutu @thalamsutu.bsky.social RugbyBits podcast 🏉
Jon Cardinelli @joncardinelli.bsky.social Rugby writer
SuperSport Rugby @ssrugby.bsky.social
Murray Kinsella @murraykinsella.bsky.social Rugby 🏉
Angela @j-beanz.bsky.social Democratic supporter. Dog mom. Fed up with the impact of Trump's policies on our people. I love my blue state.
Patricia Donnellan, MPH 🇺🇦📎 @stpaulsbay.bsky.social Patricia Donnellan, MPH | Found the unifying cause of chronic disease: rs5522-driven inflammation. Cured my own 29-yr CFS. Proving it’s fluid, not fat—from Long COVID to Maternal Mortality. 🧬
www.beyondbloodtests.org
Health Justice Initiative @hji-sa.bsky.social www.healthjusticeinitiative.org.za
The Health Justice Initiative (HJI) is a South African non-profit organisation working to address systemic health inequities and injustices in SA and beyond.
European Medical Journal @emjreviews.com #1 open access destination for healthcare professionals globally.
🔗 emjreviews.com
Redi Tlhabi @reditlhabi.bsky.social Award winning broadcaster, author, moderator. South African. http://racialequity.atlanticfellows.org. http://ModerateThePanel.Com. Ex BBC, Aljazeera. MA: IR
Tomasz Kalinowski @t-kalinowski.bsky.social Software Engineer at Posit PBC.
I mostly post about R, Python, and Deep Learning.
Github: https://github.com/t-kalinowski
Sourya Shrestha @souryashrestha.bsky.social Infectious disease modeler | tuberculosis | pathogen interaction | global health |
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CIDRI-Africa @cidri-africa.bsky.social The Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Africa at the University of Cape Town supports high-quality biomedical research with a focus on HIV & TB
Lucy Gilson @lucygilson.bsky.social Health Policy and Systems researcher
Harvard Epidemiology @harvardepi.bsky.social The official account of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Department of Epidemiology | Our YouTube: http://goo.gl/3JZ4wR
IAC - the International AIDS Conference @aidsconference.bsky.social The International AIDS Conference is the premier global platform to advance the HIV response. AIDS 2026 took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and virtually from 26-31 July 2026. Stay tuned for information about AIDS 2028.
Unitaid NGO Delegation @unitaidngos.bsky.social The NGO Delegation to the Unitaid Board represents organizations working in HIV, TB and Malaria (Re-posts do not = endorsement)
PLOS Global Public Health @plosglobalpublichealth.org Supporting a mission to make work of the highest methodological and ethical rigor openly available to the researchers, policy experts, and clinicians who depend on it to tackle urgent health crises and advance health equity.
Nature Reviews Immunology @natrevimmunol.nature.com Bluesky account for the journal Nature Reviews Immunology https://www.nature.com/nri/ Skyquakes from the editors.
Children's Institute, University of Cape Town @childrensinstitute.bsky.social Advancing #ChildrensRights through interdisciplinary and child-centred research, evidence-based advocacy, and education. An applied research unit of the University of Cape Town. ci.uct.ac.za | uct.ac.za
Helene-Mari van der Westhuizen @helenemari.bsky.social 🇿🇦 Medical doctor & postdoctoral researcher based at Oxford University. Loves talking about TB, lectures in global health.
Magdel @magdeldp.bsky.social Copy editor. Words matter. She/her.
Unitaid Communities Delegation @unitaidcommunities.bsky.social The Communities Delegation to the Unitaid Board represents people living with and affected by HIV, TB and Malaria and those co-infected with HIV and HCV.
GNP+ @gnpplus.bsky.social We advocate for a world where every person w/HIV has treatment & thrives w/dignity. Committed to rights & inclusive policies. Co-Exds:
@floriako & @SboNkosiZA.
https://gnpplus.net
Just Treatment @justtreatment.org We campaign to put patients and the #NHS before profit. ✊
Health-e News @health-e.bsky.social
Global Health Strategies @ghs.bsky.social We believe in the power of advocacy & communications to ↑ health & wellbeing around the 🌍, leaving no one behind. Views = ours. Posts from all offices.
Gavi @gavi.org Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance helps vaccinate half the world’s children against deadly and debilitating diseases. #VaccinesWork #ForOurFuture
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social The @jhu.edu Bloomberg School of Public Health
https://publichealth.jhu.edu/
LSE Health Policy @lsehealthpolicy.bsky.social Official account for the Department of Health Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
➡️ lse.ac.uk/health-policy
Access to Medicine Foundation @accesstomedicinefoundation.org We seek to transform the #healthcare ecosystem by mobilising companies to expand access to their essential healthcare products in #LMICs.
To learn more, visit https://accesstomedicinefoundation.org/
Jeremy Farrar @jeremyfarrar.bsky.social Not the Doctor.
Freelancer, wanderer, and Chicagoland.
World Health Summit @worldhealthsummit.bsky.social 🌍The leading platform for global health.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration @fda.gov Yes, it’s really us!
Our posts are FDA-approved!
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Centre for Epidemic Preparedness & Response, LSHTM @lshtmcepr.bsky.social Bringing together global expertise, knowledge, research and teaching to help humanity adapt faster to outbreaks of disease.
Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) @mmv.org A leading global health partnership working to reduce the burden of malaria. We discover, develop and deliver new antimalarial medicines.
Wemos @wemos.org Wemos is an international civil society organization driving structural change to achieve global health justice.
www.wemos.org
CEPI @cepi.net Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI). Working to end epidemics & pandemics by developing new vaccines for a safer world. #100DaysMission
Center for Science in the Public Interest @cspinet.org The Center for Science in the Public Interest is your food and health watchdog. 🍐🍅🍇
President: @drpeterlurie.bsky.social
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/cspi_nutritionaction
amfAR @amfarofficial.bsky.social amfAR advances scientific discovery to improve global health, with a primary and enduring commitment to ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic. www.amfAR.org
O'Neill Institute @oneillinstitute.bsky.social Innovative legal and policy solutions to the world's most pressing health concerns. Based at Georgetown Law
Center for Reproductive Rights @reprorights.org For 30 years, we have used the power of law to advance reproductive rights as fundamental human rights around the world.
Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org We are a global public health organization partnering with governments to build resilient public health systems and advance solutions for chronic disease, injuries & climate health threats.
IHME @ihmeuw.bsky.social Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) healthdata.org || Research institute at UW quantifying global health challenges & developing the Global Burden of Disease study: http://healthdata.org/gbd
USFDA @usfda.bsky.social
KFF Health News @kffhealthnews.org A national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues; a core program of @KFF.org.
Coalition PLUS @coalitionplus.bsky.social ONG internationale de lutte contre le VIH | Global NGO against HIV | ONG global contra el VIH
Dr Christos Christou @drchristou.msf.org Surgeon & Humanitarian Leader | Refuse to accept inhumanity as the default.
The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response @theindpanel.bsky.social The Independent Panel, with Co-Chairs @HelenClarkNZ and HE Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, continue to work towards a world where a pandemic as devastating as COVID-19 never occurs again.
www.TheIndependentPanel.org
@omoldenhauer.bsky.social @omoldenhauer.bsky.social www.datastrategies4change.eu
European AIDS Treatment Group @eatgroup.bsky.social Organising and leading for person-centred prevention, treatment and care for people living with or affected by HIV & associated infections in WHO Europe
eatg.org
STITCHES Medicine - the Best of Medical Research @medicine.stitches.today From the experience of @stitches.today, we bring you the best papers in medicine, daily in your inbox - for free!
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Partners In Health @pih.org A social justice & global health organization striving to make health care a human right for all people, starting with those who need it most #InjusticeHasACure
Learn more about work: https://www.pih.org/
The Lancet Microbe @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social The Lancet Microbe is an #OpenAccess journal publishing innovative and practice-changing research and opinion in clinical #microbiology
🌐 thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/home
Society for Epidemiologic Research @societyforepi.bsky.social Established in 1968 to foster epidemiologic research, the Society for Epidemiologic Research is the oldest and largest general epidemiology society in North America.
MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis @mrc-outbreak.bsky.social @WHO.int Collaborating Centre for infectious disease modelling. Follow us for research on pandemic preparedness, global health analytics, vaccines, therapeutics and pathogen genomic epidemiology @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
Manuel Martin @mksjm.bsky.social Health/social justice. Policy. Sometimes a medical doctor.
Fatima Hassan @fatimahassan.bsky.social HJI FOUNDER - DIRECTOR
rOpenSci @handle.invalid We are a community that fosters a culture that values open and reproducible research using shared data and reusable software. We develops #RStats based tools and […]
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Melissa Fourie @melissafourie.bsky.social Working for environmental rights, climate justice and a just transition in Africa. Africa Regional Director at FILE Foundation.
Jo-Ann Passmore @mucosal-group.bsky.social Reproductive health for women Africa
Lionel @spiindoctor.bsky.social Research Scientist. Houston, TX.
Research interests: Complexity Sciences, Matrix Decomposition, Clustering, Manifold Learning, Networks. https://www.lionelyelibi.com/
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scikit-learn @scikit-learn.org Machine learning in Python • Open Source
https://scikit-learn.org
Anthropic @anthropic.com We're an Al safety and research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable Al systems. Talk to our Al assistant Claude at Claude.ai.
Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social (Unofficial) Hacker News Bot with top stories updates.
Jobs from YC startups @whois-hiring.bsky.social
Creator @ykravchuk.bsky.social
Sayash Kapoor @sayash.bsky.social CS PhD candidate at Princeton. I study the societal impact of AI.
Website: cs.princeton.edu/~sayashk
Book/Substack: aisnakeoil.com
Julia Language @julialang.org Julia is a high-level, dynamic programming language built for technical computing.
Official Bluesky account of the Julia Language Project
#JuliaLang
aidsmap @aidsmap.bsky.social aidsmap became part of HIV charity Terrence Higgins Trust in 2025. Under Terrence Higgins Trust’s stewardship, the work of aidsmap continues to build on NAM’s legacy and serve the diverse needs of the HIV community.
Nature Reviews Disease Primers @natrevdiseaseprimers.nature.com Nature Reviews Disease Primers publishes Primers - introductory reviews on diseases and disorders - across all medical specialties. Check back each week!
OptaJoe @optajoe.com 1 - The official BlueSky page for Stats Perform’s English football coverage, brought to you by OptaJoe. Illuminating.
Michael Gorman @michaeltgorman.bsky.social Nova Scotia-based reporter covering provincial politics. Posts non-work photos at www.michaelgorman.xyz
Suerie Moon @sueriemoon.bsky.social Professor of Practice Intl Rel/PolSci & Director @gvagrad-ghc.bsky.social. Teach, research, write on global governance & health, outbreaks, innovation & access to medicines.
https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/faculty/suerie-moon
Peter Welsh @peterwelsh68.bsky.social Green Party Member. NHS Worker. Wells. Somerset. Green Runner. Late Rosette Adopter. Hot Fuzz Superfan.
Ben Coles @bencoles.bsky.social Rugby writer. Now for @observeruk.bsky.social and freelance.
Give me your pitches and ideas: bencolessport@gmail.com
OptaJonny @optajonny.optajoe.com