Antigen Evolution & Design Lab @antigenevo.bsky.social We study how pathogen antigen proteins evolve and use this knowledge to improve how we design vaccines and therapeutics 💻 💉 🧬
@pasteur.fr 🇫🇷
Lab Head 🧑🦱 @spyroslytras.bsky.social
https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/antigen-evolution-and-design/
Spyros Lytras @spyroslytras.bsky.social Head of the Antigen Evolution and Design lab @antigenevo.bsky.social at Institut Pasteur 🇫🇷
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UKVF.bsky.social @ukvf.bsky.social UK Virome Forum | 5 - 6 October 2026 | ARC Glasgow, UK
Bringing together researchers from across the UK using genomics to study viral communities in animals, humans, and the environment 🦠
Registration and more details: tinyurl.com/ukvf-2026- L Heng Li @lh3lh3.bsky.social Associate Professor
DFCI & HMS
Kasia M Parfitt @kasiamparfitt.bsky.social Senior Postdoc in the Oxford Vaccine Group (CoI-AI project) & Departmental Lecturer at the University of Oxford | Interests in microbial population biology & genomics | ECM Forum Co-Chair for Microbiology Society 🦠
One Health Genomics Edinburgh @onehealthgenomics.bsky.social A community of University of Edinburgh researchers seeking genome knowledge for human, animal, plant and ecosystem health.
onehealthgenomics.ed.ac.uk
Ed Hutchinson @socialinfluenza.bsky.social Virologist | Professor of Sneezy Diseases | studies influenza @ MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research | occasionally draws things | (he/him)
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/infectionimmunity/staff/edwardhutchinson/
rani – Resilience Action Network International @rani.co 🌏 rani (Resilience Action Network International) is a global advocacy network to build societal resilience to health, climate, and economic shifts.
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Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security @centerforhealthsecurity.org We work to protect people’s health from the consequences of epidemics and disasters. RTs are not endorsements.
https://centerforhealthsecurity.org/
James Plunkett @jamestplunkett.bsky.social Interested in more human ways to govern our lives together, and how technology can help. Blog: https://medium.com/@jamestplunkett 🏳️⚧️
Dr Claire Smith @drclairesmith.bsky.social Associate Professor @UCLchildhealth studying epithelial, neutrophil and mucosal responses to respiratory virus infections including influenza, RSV and SARS-COV2.
Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu President of the @ec.europa.eu
Mother of seven. Brussels-born. European by heart. 🇪🇺
Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social Calm the FUD down
NCSC UK @ncsc.gov.uk We are the National Cyber Security Centre – part of the UK’s intelligence & cyber agency GCHQ. We help to make the UK the safest place to live and work online.
Dr Rosena Allin-Khan MP @drrosena.bsky.social 🌹 Labour MP for Tooting
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📧 rosena@drrosena.co.uk "Rosena" rhymes with "tenner" (she/her)
Promoted by Tooting Labour Party, at 89 Bickersteth Road, SW17 9SH
The Institute for Fiscal Studies @theifs.bsky.social Official account for Britain’s leading independent economic research institute. https://ifs.org.uk/
UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social UK in a Changing Europe is an academic think tank providing impartial, research-based analysis of the critical issues facing the UK.
https://ukandeu.ac.uk/
Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social In the culture wars, I want to be the bit on Christmas Day where they all knocked it on the head for a bit and played football.
The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk Lifting the curtain on the biggest stories in the UK, U.S. & beyond.
With Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel & Lewis Goodall. Listen on Global Player.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com UK news editor, Financial Times. I write some of the headlines. I also wrote a book, How to Love Animals. https://www.ft.com/henry-mance
Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social Professor of Economics and Public Policy, King's College London; Senior Fellow, UKICE. Immigration, economics, public policy. Personal views only; usual disclaimers apply. https://jonathandportes.github.io/
Ed Feil @edfeil.bsky.social Bacterial genomes and whatnot. University of Bath.
Róisín Boggan @roisinboggan.bsky.social Host-pathogen genetics 🧬🧫
@sangerinstitute.bsky.social and University of Cambridge
she/her🏳️🌈
EMBL-EBI @ebi.embl.org EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) provides open biological data resources and tools, and performs basic research in computational biology. https://www.ebi.ac.uk/
Yale School of Public Health @yalesph.bsky.social Linking Science & Society | Official account of the Yale School of Public Health
Royal Society for Public Health @rsph.bsky.social We are an independent charity working to build a healthier future in the UK and across the world.
Visit our website: rsph.org.uk
TARGetAMR @target-amr.bsky.social TARGetAMR is a UK-based research network funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) with the primary goal of using genomics to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social Our Planet. Decoded.
🎙️ Counting The Earth podcast: https://tinyurl.com/CTEarthpodcast
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk Husband, father and Mayor of the greatest city in the world. He/Him.
Tami Lieberman @contaminatedsci.bsky.social Associate Professor, MIT
Still thinking about the 10^9 mutations generated in your microbiome today.
Website: http://lieberman.science
Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social SMBE fosters communication among molecular evolutionists and advances the field.
🔗 smbe.org
💬 smbe2026.org • sites.google.com/view/gene-cultureco-evolution
👥 @smbe-idea.bsky.social
📙 @molbioevol.bsky.social • @genomebiolevol.bsky.social
Alexey Markin @alexey-markin.bsky.social Staff Bioinformatics Scientist at Karius
Formerly at USDA flu-crew
Phylogenetics
🦠Virus evolution
https://markin-alex.github.io
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
Respiratory Microbiomes @resp-micro.bsky.social We are a respiratory microbiome research group at the University of Birmingham in the Department of Microbes, Infection and Microbiomes. Run by Dr Mike Cox 🏳️🌈. Lab website is here www.lungmicrobiome.org
Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com Publishing the best of biotech science and business. Find us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram. Part of @natureportfolio.nature.com.- W @worobey.bsky.social @worobey.bsky.social
Robertson Lab @davidlrobertson.bsky.social Viruses, evolution, computational biology & other stuff, David L Robertson @robertson_lab (in the other place) based at @cvrinfo.bsky.social, the University of Glasgow.
Martin Enserink @martinenserink.bsky.social Deputy news editor, Science magazine. Infectious diseases, global health, scientific integrity, science policy. Based in Amsterdam. Cat lover.
The Royal Society @royalsociety.org The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.
https://royalsociety.org/
Antoni Wrobel @agwrobel.bsky.social Structural biologist and group leader at the Oxford Biochemistry Department. Interested in principles and molecular mechanisms underlying viral evolution and host changes.
The Sato Lab (Kei Sato) @systemsvirology.bsky.social Professor, Division of Systems Virology, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo
Founder, The Genotype to Phenotype Japan (G2P-Japan) Consortium
Representative Director, G2P-Japan Association
Lab website: https://x.gd/1Z1lW
Peter Simmonds @psimmond.bsky.social Virologist, interested in virus evolution and innate immunity (and how they are linked). A member of the ICTV and striving to bring greater virus community engagement and understanding of virus taxonomy.
https://www.utu.fi/en/people/peter-simmonds
Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr 👩🔬 The Institut Pasteur is a leading global biomedical research institute.
🔬 Explore with us the frontiers of biomedical research
🧪 Follow us to uncover groundbreaking discoveries
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Rogier van Doorn @hrvd.bsky.social Director of Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Hanoi
Professor of Infectious Diseases at University of Oxford
Views are my own
Jessica Neil @jessneil26.bsky.social Virologist at the Doherty Institute studying coronaviruses and influenza viruses for pandemic preparedness
Christian Drosten @cdrosten.bsky.social Head of Virology at Charite - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
Carla Mavian @cmavian.bsky.social Evolutionary Virologist, Director One Health Programme at Stellenbosch University and Assistant Professor, Associate Director of International Relations and Surveillance Emerging Pathogens Institute at University of Florida
Mert Erdin @merterdin.bsky.social Virologist 🦠 | Virus Evolution | One Health 🌍
PhD in virus evolution
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Helsinki
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.
Seth Bordenstein @symbionticism.bsky.social Scientist, Huck Professor: Microbiome, Virome, Symbiosis, Evolution, Genetics, Phylosymbiosis, Holobiont, Wolbachia, Phage | Director of One Health Microbiome Center @psumbiome.bsky.social | SciEd: @wolbachiaproj.bsky.social | @holobiontbiology.bsky.social
Sebastian Duchene @sebduchene.bsky.social 🦠🧬💻
Researcher in infectious disease evolution
Group leader at Instiut Pasteur, Paris
https://research.pasteur.fr/en/member/sebastian-duchene-garzon/
Keen swimmer 🏊🏼♂️, runner 👟, and beach lover 🌊🤿🏖️
Views are my own
Emerging Infections Research Group @emerginginfections.bsky.social Emerging Infections Reasearch Group🦠🔬🧪🦇🐁🦟
University of Helsinki 🇫🇮
Department of Virology
Prof. Tarja Sironen
www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/emerging-infections-research-group
Heather Hendrickson @drhhnz.bsky.social #Evolution, #Microbiology, and #Phages. Associate Professor, University of Canterbury, Christchurch NZ. Adaptable Phage Solutions Co-Science Lead.Views my own. |She| Her|.
hendricksonlab.co.nz
Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social A legacy of discovery. A future of innovation.
Canadian BioGenome Project 🇨🇦 @canadianbiogenome.bsky.social The goal of the Canadian BioGenome Project is to produce high-quality reference genomes 🧬 for all Canadian species 🌎
Sequencing Canada's Biodiversity 🌿🦋🐍🧬🐢🦌🐸🌳🐿🐙🦈🦦
Learn more: https://linktr.ee/canadianbiogenome 
SecureBio, Inc. @securebio.org 
Alasdair Munro @apsmunro.bsky.social NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in Paediatric Immunology and Infectious Diseases
University of Southampton and Southampton Children’s Hospital UK
alasdairmunro.substack.com 
Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre.bsky.social Prof of EBM @UniOxford, author, Bad Science person, more... I run http://bennett.ox.ac.uk making tools+papers from data http://OpenSAFELY.org http://OpenPrescribing.net
Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author. FRSL. FRHistS. WTF. #Empireworld #EmpireLand #TheBoyWithTheTopknot #MarriageMaterial. New book on George Michael, Tonight the Music Seems So Loud, published by Picador, out now. https://shorturl.at/qhPlJ
ESCAIDE @escaide.eu European Scientific Conference on Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology organised by #ECDC.
#ESCAIDE2026 → 18-20 November in Stockholm and online!
Find out more → escaide.eu
Alexei Drummond @alexeidrummond.bsky.social Professor of Computational Biology, University of Auckland. Atheist, Rock climber, Trail runner. Co-creator of BEAST1 and BEAST2. Founder of Geneious. 
Solid Evidence @solidevidence.bsky.social Molecular virologist, sewage sage and wastewater wizard.
https://lung.fish
Marc Johnson
Professor
Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social GBE publishes leading original research at the interface between evolutionary biology and genomics.
🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe
🏠 @official-smbe.bsky.social
🤝 @molbioevol.bsky.social
#genome #evolution #science #biology #societyjournal
Rob Lanfear @roblanfear.bsky.social phylogenetics, molecular evolution, some genomes, kids, dogs, and eclectic hobbies none of which I am much good at but I think for me that's the point
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
David Cleary @bacterioskeptic.bsky.social Scientist (pathogen genomics). Husband, dad, music miserablist and egg chasing.
Charlene Rodrigues @cmcrodrigues.bsky.social Infectious disease paediatrician | Assistant Professor microbial genomics | ID and bacterial genomics | Vaccine enthusiast | Public health genomics
https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/rodrigues.charlene
London, UK
Ed Cunningham-Oakes @edcoakes.bsky.social 📍 Liverpool
👨🏾💻 Bioinformatics and EDI
💭 Microbiome and Genomic Diagnostics
🏋🏾♂️ Powerlifter
Views and typos my own
Thomas Christie Williams @thomascwilliams.bsky.social Respiratory paediatrician and researcher. Interested in vaccine preventable diseases, childhood infections, viral evolution. 
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.
Jason Andrews @jasonandrews.bsky.social infectious diseases physician + Prof @Stanford
tuberculosis, typhoid, diagnostics, genomic epidemiology, carceral health
https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/jason-andrews
John Bonnewell, MD, MSc @johnbonnewellmd.bsky.social Chief of ID, Dir. of Clin Micro, Dir. of Antimicrobial Stewardship: Roswell Park Comp Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY. Brown IM alum, Duke ID/Micro alum, former Fogarty Global Health Fellow. Research: sepsis, febrile illness, BSIs. Expressed views are my own.
NEJM.org @nejm.org Welcome to the official Bluesky account for the New England Journal of Medicine. Follow for high-quality, peer-reviewed research and clinical content from the world’s leading medical journal, online at NEJM.org.
Follow @ai.nejm.org for medical AI content.
The Public Health Informatics Institute @phinformatics.bsky.social Nonprofit | program of The Task Force for Global Health | affiliate of Emory University. Committed to empowering health agencies to use information effectively to improve health outcomes worldwide.
phii.org
Emma Doughty @emmadoughty.bsky.social Genomicist 🧬 at the intersection of bioinformatics 💻, epidemiology🫂 and global public health 🌍
Daniel Grint @danieljgrint.bsky.social Associate Prof of Medical Statistics @lshtm.bsky.social | TB and HIV treatment trialist | Electronic health records analyst | Running shoe geek
Wes Rogers @wesmd.bsky.social Infectious Diseases MD at NYU
#IDSky
Formerly fellow at WCM
Antibiotic Steward | Amateur Classicist
Pronomina: is/eius/ei/eum/eo
BEACON @beaconbio.bsky.social Biothreats Emergence, Analytics & Communications Network (BEACON): open source surveillance program based at @buceid.bsky.social in partnership with @bostonu.bsky.social @buhaririinstitute.bsky.social & @bostonchildrens.bsky.social Healthmap
beaconbio.org
Training in Public Health (TiPH) Podcast @tiph-podcast.bsky.social A podcast panoramic of what it means to work in Public Health - Hosted by Josh Howkins and Kazim Beebeejaun
Listen to podcast: https://linktr.ee/tiph.podcast
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/
Molecular Biology and Evolution @molbioevol.bsky.social MBE publishes fresh insights into the patterns and processes that impact the evolution of life at molecular levels.
🔗 academic.oup.com/mbe
🏠 @official-smbe.bsky.social
🤝 @genomebiolevol.bsky.social
#evobio #molbio #science #biology #societyjournal
Prof Tom Solomon CBE @runningmadprof.bsky.social Academic Vice President, RCP
Director, The Pandemic Institute
Professor of Neurology, University of Liverpool & Walton Centre NHS
Data & Statistical Science for Health, LSHTM @lshtm-dash.bsky.social Bringing together data science expertise across LSHTM to tackle the biggest global health problems.
Nick Davies @ngdavies.bsky.social Infectious disease modeller, associate professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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.
@maudsalmona.bsky.social @maudsalmona.bsky.social PharmD PhD. Associate prof Virology. @hopitalsaintlouis.bsky.social & Université Paris Cité
Bede Constantinides @bede.im Research fellow at the University of Birmingham interested in infectious disease informatics. Also cycling, photography, active travel. https://bede.im
zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
Ellison Institute of Technology @eit.org Translating scientific discovery into real world impact 🌍
www.eit.org
@dianeashiru.bsky.social @dianeashiru.bsky.social Lead Pharmacist, AMR;
Deputy Chief Scientist;
Honorary Professor of #PharmaceuticalPublicHealth
#ESPAUR, #Antibioticguardian, Mum. #FRPharmS (consultant). #TEDx x2
UkPharmResearch starter pack https://go.bsky.app/L297FYc
Prof. Calum Semple @profcalumsemple.bsky.social I enjoy working with incredible people to mitigate the impact of severe infections and outbreaks of public health interest. https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/malcolm-semple
@wswelfare.bsky.social @wswelfare.bsky.social 
Ant Underwood @bioinformantics.bsky.social Head of Bioinformatics at Broken String Biosciences.
https://www.brokenstringbio.com/
Still love microbial bioinformatics. Now working in the cell and gene therapy space. Keen Python and Nextflow coder
Emma Wall @dremmacbw.bsky.social Clinician Scientist
#infectiousdisease
#COVID19
@TheCrick
@UCLHResearch
@uclh
@HTropDis
@UCLInfectImm
Passionate about health & vaccine equity
The Pandemic Institute @thepandemicinst.bsky.social A Liverpool-based, global-facing collaboration founded by seven local partners, preparing the world for emerging infections and pandemics. Visit our website for more information on funding calls and partnerships.
https://www.thepandemicinstitute.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
International Pandemic Preparedness Secretariat @ippsecretariat.org The IPPS is an independent and time-limited entity established to support the delivery of the #100DaysMission for diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines 🧪💊💉
Learn more: ippsecretariat.org