Alexander Harms @aharms485.bsky.social Bacteriophages, dormant bacteria, and bacterial immunity. Assistant Professor of Molecular Phage Biology at ETH Zürich.
Life Science Zurich @lifesciencezurich.bsky.social Connecting life sciences in Zurich: research, education, innovation, and science outreach at UZH & ETH Zurich. 🌱🔬✨
https://www.lifescience-zurich.uzh.ch/en.html
Innovative Genomics Institute @innovativegenomics.bsky.social Using genome engineering to solve humanity’s greatest problems in health, climate & sustainable agriculture. UC Berkeley, UCSF, UC Davis, UC San Diego. https://innovativegenomics.org/
Rohan Sachdeva @archaeaologist.bsky.social Rohan Sachdeva is a computational microbiologist who uses (meta)genomics and an (un)healthy dose of caffeine at the Innovative Genomics Institute.
Shuai Wang @wshuai.bsky.social Postdoc at IGI @UC Berkeley | Metagenomics | Bioinformatics | Algorithm | Human genome
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/
Miina Rautiainen @miinaraut.bsky.social Professor of remote sensing @AaltoUniversity
Forests & peatlands. // Kaukokartoituksen professori Aalto-yliopistossa.
Dorentina Humolli @humollidorentina.bsky.social PhD student studying phage-host interactions at ETH Zürich | Lab of Molecular Phage Biology
Avni Malhotra @avnimalh0tra.bsky.social Food and science (but not food science). Views my own.
Ben Bond-Lamberty @benbondlamberty.bsky.social Forest ecologist & carbon cycle scientist at @PNNLab, open data & R proponent, mentor, editor. I know how to do a blind hem stitch.
Svetlana Dodonova @dodonova-sveta.bsky.social Group leader @EMBL Heidelberg | Archaea | Chromatin | Cryo-EM and cryo-ET | Evolution | Structure
Dan Portik @dportik.bsky.social Industry bioinformatics scientist. Long-read metagenomics & methylation, and previously phylogenomics & frog/lizard evolution.
🦠 🐸 🦎 🧬
Free time: climbing 🧗, curling 🥌, and plants 🪴🌵.
André Carvalho Araújo @andreamcaraujo.bsky.social figuring out how alive deserts are 🏜️🦠
@dome-vienna.bsky.social
Luis E. Valentin-Alvarado @luisvalentin.bsky.social HFSP Research Fellow studying microbes, mobile DNA & RNA-guided immune systems.
WET HORIZONS @wethorizons.eu Improving wetland knowledge and developing tools to enhance protection and restoration of Europe’s wetlands. Focused on biodiversity.
https://www.wethorizons.eu/ 
Reinier Egas @raegas.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher | Biotechnologist | Anaerobic microbiology | Methanotrophs | aSRB | Microbial Physiology group @cuwelte.bsky.social
Apratim (Appy) Mukherjee @mukherja.bsky.social Postdoc in the Mir Lab at UPenn/CHOP. Interested in all things transcription and microscopy 🔬
Cornelia Welte @cuwelte.bsky.social Professor in Microbial Physiology in NL, methane microbes & biodegradation, science mom, she/her
@abalmer.bsky.social @abalmer.bsky.social 
Gemma Murray @gemmamurray.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist interested in bacterial pathogens and genomes. Research Group Leader at UCL. Member of UCL Genetics Institute and UCL Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research.
Petra Pjevac @ppjevac.bsky.social Microbiologist, JMF UniWien
Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social Prof @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social Connecting pathogen evolution with public health outcomes. #Shigella and #AMR enthusiast. Views own. http://gen.cam.ac.uk/baker-group also www.pdu.gen.cam.ac.uk also @pducambridge.bsky.social
Jana Stewart @loveyouleafyou.bsky.social She/Her soil microbial ecologist🔬 I like env DNA, drones, field experiments🌿🦘🦠 currently working on fire management with Bushfire Natural Hazards Research Centre
if you aint dirty you aint here to party📚postdoc Centre for Ecosystem Science,UNSW
Lucy van Dorp @lucyvandorp.bsky.social UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Group Leader in Microbial Genomics at UCL Genetics Institute @ugiatucl.bsky.social.
Reconstructing the evolution of us and our pathogens past, present and future using large-scale genomics.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucbpvan
Sarah Frampton, PhD @sarahframpton.bsky.social Postdoc at University of Southampton
| Cancer immunology genomics | Nanopore technology | Bioinformatics |
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
Jake Barber @jakenbarber.bsky.social Evolutionary Biologist
Using Experimental Evolution to look at mutational biases in bacteria!
Research Gate Profile: https://t.co/xhw63knBCj
email: jakebarber42@gmail.com
Rob Moran @prob91.bsky.social co-founder of ContamClub • plasmid fan • purveyor of artisanal bioinformatics
Caleb Lareau @caleblareau.bsky.social assistant professor @mskcancercenter.bsky.social
clareaulab.com
Paula Ramiro-Martínez @paularamiro.bsky.social Predoctoral researcher at evodynamics lab in Madrid.
Bacterial and plasmid evolution 🫧🧬💻
Pam Engelberts @pam-engelberts.bsky.social Post doc @cmrqut.bsky.social with a love for imaging, baking, and nature
Part of BrisJAMS @brisjams.bsky.social and ISME ECSC @isme-microbes.bsky.social
Siân Owen @sianowen.bsky.social Microbiologist & phage phanatic! Enthusiastic explorer of microbial genomes.
PI at the Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health
Asst Prof @albany.edu
Currently obsessed with plasmid-dependent phages
www.wadsworth.org/research/laboratories/owen
Rob Edwards @linsalrob.bsky.social Bioinformatician and microbiologist at Flinders University in Adelaide. @linsalrob on all your socials
Henry Janse van Rensburg @henryjvr.bsky.social Postdoc at Aarhus University. Fascinated by the interaction between plants and microbes. My research focus is on the genetic components of plants governing their interaction with microbes.
Justin Stewart @thecrobe.bsky.social Ecology and evolution of plant-microbe symbiosis. Mapping fungal diversity and carbon. Postdoctoral Fellow at SPUN
Vikki Slade MP @vikkislademp.bsky.social Lib Dem MP-Mid Dorset & North Poole
Love to read, walk my crazy dog & investigate my family history.
Passionate about climate, children & community development
Promoted by the Liberal Democrats 66 Buckingham Gate SW1E6AU
https://linktr.ee/VikkiSlade
Lucas Le Brun @microbiolucas.bsky.social PhD Student in Soil Environmental Microbiology
@meebangor.bsky.social at Bangor Uni, UK
Carbon storage - C cycle - SOM - Omics
Phil Brailey-Crane @pretzellebites.bsky.social Postdoc at UGA studying AMF! I like mycorrhizae, quilting, horror movies and my cats! 🏳️🌈🍉 he/him
Giulia Borgomaneiro @gborgo.bsky.social PhD Student @MEG, CNR-IRSA Verbania & University of Insubria, Varese (Italy)
Focused on antimicrobial resistance in freshwater ecosystems, particularly in remote and understudied environments.
Research Elements @reselements.bsky.social Web development, data management and visualizations. Consulting services for scientific and r&d communities. https://www.researchelements.org/
Hayley Beth Free @hayleybethfree.bsky.social Recently completed PhD researching transposable elements in frogs 🧬🐸
Oxford Brookes University, University of Oxford, ZSL & QMUL
🌈
Open to postdoc opportunities!
Member of SMBE IDEA Task Force @smbe-idea.bsky.social
www.linkedin.com/in/hayley-beth-free
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell @kurzgesagt.org Sciency videos made with love, a lot of time and after effects.
Links to our videos, shop, website & more: linktr.ee/kurzgesagt
European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu European Research Council, set up by the EU, funds top researchers of any nationality, helping them pursue great ideas at the frontiers of knowledge. #HorizonEU
Alexander Price @pricelesssci.bsky.social Assistant professor at the Wistar Institute studying Gene Regulation |
Virologist interested in all things RNA and DNA.
Laura White @laurakwhite.bsky.social Colorado RNA biologist & tRNA enthusiast exploring the wild frontiers of nanopore direct RNA sequencing at the intrepid venn diagram of northern blots & machine learning.
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.
Katherine Helliwell @kehelliwell.bsky.social Algae enthusiast, Associate Professor @UniofExeter, joint appointment @thembauk
Algal ecophysiology | signalling | microbiome | molecular microbiology | diatoms!
David Eccles 🌻🇵🇸7x🩹🛡️ @gringene.org Neurodivergent freelance bioinformatician, cuddler of data, and theoretical geneticist, with a love for Free Software and the hacking thereof. Rangitāne o Wairau. He/they.
https://ko-fi.com/gringer
Website: https://www.gringene.org
Gretel Waugh @gretelwaugh.bsky.social Microbial generalist 🦠 | Keen freediver & birdwatcher | Reluctant #Rstats enthusiast | she/her
George Bouras @gbouras13.bsky.social Bioinformatics @ Adelaide University
- phages, microbes and more
Daniel Tamarit @danieltamarit.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist studying archaeal and bacterial genomes | Assistant Prof @BinfUtrecht.bsky.social 🇳🇱
Angela Nobbs @superstreps.bsky.social Associate Professor in Molecular Microbiology, Univ Bristol; Study how microbes (esp. streptococci) stick to us, to each other + their effects on health and disease
Lindsay Broadbent @lindsaybroadbent.bsky.social Lecturer/ group leader at The University of Surrey investigating respiratory viruses, lung disease and innate immune responses 🦠🔬
Institute of Microbiology and Infection @imibirmingham.bsky.social The Institute of Microbiology and Infection within the University of Birmingham is home to world-class research, from model-organism biology to translational bacteriology
ReisnerLab @reisnerlab.bsky.social Research laboratory at Cambridge University. Our work focuses on artificial photosynthesis to make renewable fuels.☀️☀️PhD-run account.
Courtney Herms @courtneyherms.bsky.social Molecular microbial ecology & beneficial microbiomes & plant-microbe interactions. PhD University of Copenhagen. Currently on break in Spain. Swim bike run
Guillaume Méric @gmeric.bsky.social 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇦🇺 (he/him) | www.mericlab.com
Microbiome(s) and population health, host-microbe & pathogen genomics 🦠🧬
- Associate Professor (University of Bath);
- Clinical affiliate (Baker Heart & Diabetes Institute)
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
Marjon de Vos @lizscurious.bsky.social Cares about tiny things in a larger context
Assoc. prof @uniGroningen
Microbiology, ecology, evolution
#AMR, #UTI
microbecoevo.com
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
Robin Rohwer @robinrohwer.bsky.social Microbial ecology and evolution. Special love for freshwater lakes & long-term time series 🌊🌊🌊 ➡️ ⏳⏳⌛ ➡️ 🧬🖥️ ➡️ 📈📊📝
postdoc @ UT Austin working remotely from the Pacific Northwest
(views my own)
robinrohwer.com
V. Celeste Lanclos, Ph.D. @vclanclos.bsky.social Bioinformatics Scientist @Biotech | Postdoc @ UC Berkeley Coates Lab | PhD @USC Thrash Lab. Gimme the 'omics and untamed environmental buggers. Bay Area, CA.
Greenlab Zürich @greenlabzh.bsky.social Students, technicians, postdocs and lab workers at @ethzurich.bsky.social and UZH doing our part to make scientific research more sustainable 🧪🌱 https://www.greenlabzurich.uzh.ch/en.html
Amanda Heidt is at ESA26! @scattercushion.bsky.social 🏜️ Southwest National Parks Editor, SFGate |✨ Freelance Science Journalist |👩🔬 Once-Upon-A-Time Scientist | 📰 Clips in Nature, Science, The New York Times, Nat Geo, NPR, et al. | Signal: aheidt.16 | 🏳️🌈 She/Her | amandaheidt.com
Universitat Pompeu Fabra @upf.edu Una universitat compromesa a donar resposta als reptes globals i a desenvolupar talent en un entorn culturalment estimulant.
CSIC @csic.es Cuenta del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, el mayor organismo público de investigación de España.
www.csic.es
Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (IBE) @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social We work to understand the evolutionary mechanisms that generate biodiversity and to promote its conservation. Joint research centre of @csic.es and @upf.edu.
The Tired Scientist @thetiredscientist.bsky.social don’t tell me you aren’t
✉️ you can also dm me your fav sci memes to post here
Christian Kost @kostchristian.bsky.social Experimental ecology and evolution | microbes | evolution of metabolic interactions | cooperation | bacterial multicellularity.
David Schnettler @davidschnettler.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich. Interested in all aspects of protein engineering and evolution. 
Ricardo León-Sampedro @rleonsampedro.bsky.social | Microbial ecology & evolution
| Plasmids, genetic invasion, and antimicrobial resistance
| IPLA-CSIC
| RicardoLeonSampedro.com
Sara Mitri @saramitri.bsky.social Microbial ecology and evolution | Professor at University of Lausanne | Theory | Experiments | Egyptian
Javier del Campo @fonamental.bsky.social Group leader at @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social (@csic.es - @upf.edu) & Adjunct at @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social. Microbial Ecology & Evolution 🔬🌍🧫🧬 🪸 @pr2-database.bsky.social Coordinator #corals #symbiosis #protists
del Campo Lab @delcampolab.bsky.social Microbial Ecology and Evolution Lab at IBE Barcelona led by @fonamental.bsky.social. Studying marine animal holobionts🦠🪸🌊
vilhelmiina haavisto @vilhelmiinah.bsky.social phd student at eth zürich and enthusiastic science writer | she/her | 🌈 | sciencebyvilhelmiina.wixsite.com/vilhelmiina
Macarena Toll-Riera @mtoll8.bsky.social 
Karthik Anantharaman @karthik-a.bsky.social Associate Professor at UW-Madison. Interested in Microbial and Viral Ecology, Computational Biology, Biogeochemistry, Sulfur Metabolism 🦠💻 Hero to a toddler • Metalhead • Views mine
Trevor Lithgow @trevor-lithgow.bsky.social Keen on discoveries in bacterial cell biology and bacteriophages, working to impact AMR. Fan of the ocean. Opinions my own.
Josh Steele @joshasteele.bsky.social I live with a menagerie and with humans. I study environmental microbiology in the coastal zone and in sewage. I also have hobbies I sometimes do. Views are my own.
Cassandra Koh 🦟🔬🧪 @cassandrakoh.bsky.social Mosquito and Virus Ecology Lab Lead, Institut Pasteur, FR.
PI of project MULTITUDES 🇪🇺
She/her
🇮🇩
#Mosquito #Virome #OneHealth #Arbovirus
A. Murat Eren (Meren) @merenbey.bsky.social Professor of Ecosystem Data Science at @hifmb.bsky.social studying the ecology and evolution of microbes through high-resolution 'omics and #anvio
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/
Alex Crits-Christoph @acritschristoph.bsky.social Computational microbiologist
I like to post about: microbial genomics, microbial ecology, evolution, micro+plant biotechnology, climate, symbiosis, virology, ag, sci publishing and policy
Florian Trigodet @floriantrigodet.bsky.social Computational microbiologist. Senior scientist at the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity, Oldenburg.
Working in Meren lab.
Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦 @martinsteinegger.bsky.social Developing data intensive computational methods • PI @ Seoul National University 🇰🇷 • #FirstGen • he/him • Hauptschüler
Lucy Weinert @lucyweinert.bsky.social Evolutionary genomics of bacteria
Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org Microbiology Society: A world in which the science of #microbiology provides maximum benefit to society | microbiologysociety.org
lnk.bio/microbiosoc
Camille Marchet ⚡ @camillemrcht.bsky.social Researcher in @BonsaiSeqBioinfo
Lille, France. Bioinformatics, data-structures & DNA/RNA.
Eddie Bowley @eddache.bsky.social I make videos sometimes (he/him)
Antoine Hocher @ahocher.bsky.social Group Leader, Molecular mimicry / chromatin evolution / engineering
Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge. Wellcome Trust CDA fellow
https://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/research/research-groups/hocher-group
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
Chris Rinke @chrisrinke.bsky.social Professor of Microbiology @ University of Innsbruck, Austria
Honorary Associate Professor @ The University of Queensland, Australia
Environmental OMICS (E-OMICS) team lead
http://www.rinkelab.org
(former twitter/x account: @ChristianRinke )
We Are RLadies+ @weare.rladies.org Rotating Curator for the @rladies.org community💜
🔗 https://guide.rladies.org/rocur/
This week’s curator: TBA
RLadies+ @rladies.org Promoting diversity in the #RStats community via meetups, mentorship and global collaboration! 200+ groups worldwide.
#RLadies
Archana Anand @archanand.bsky.social Global Change Microbiology; Phage-host interactions; Nature based solutions; Assistant Professor @SFSU, Former Postdoc @columbia @stanford MSc PhD from @HKUniversity BEng @NUSingapore @Natgeo explorer
Lab: theanandlab.com
Project: phagepathways.com
Tae Seok Moon @taeseokmoon.bsky.social YouTuber, traveler, director of an NSF global center, Full professor at JCVI, EBRC Council Member, SynBYSS Chair, Moonshot Bio founder, EFB Executive Board Member, and editor of 10 journals, including the New Biotechnology Editor-in-Chief.
Christina Birnbaum, PhD 🍃 @christinabirnbaum.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Terrestrial Ecology @soaes-unisq.bsky.social @unisq.bsky.social | Lead Convenor of @esaplantsoilecol.bsky.social
Plant-soil Ecology Special Interest Network | she/her, own views
https://sites.google.com/site/birnbaumchristina/home
Jonathan Coxhead @4130chromo.bsky.social Head of #Genomics Core Facility at NCL 🧬 Single-Cell 🧬 Spatial-Transcriptomics 🧬 Next-Generation Sequencing 🧬 MTBing 🚵🏻♂️ Dad & Husband 👨👩👧👦 | ⚽🔴⚪ SAFC 🎫 | 🦋 own views.
Eduardo Rocha @epcrocha.bsky.social Scientist, genomics, evolution, microbiology, computational biology, Institut Pasteur/CNRS, Paris
Stephen Garrett @stephenrgarrett.bsky.social EMBO Postdoctiral Fellow in the Whitney lab at McMaster University, working on interbacterial warfare and phage defense