Anders Andersson @doubleanders.bsky.social Professor at KTH, PI of the Environmental Genomics group at SciLifeLab. Working on ecology and evolution of microbes, and methods for it.
Emma Bell @emma-bell.bsky.social Senior Researcher at Stockholm University Baltic Sea Centre and SciLifeLab.
John Alroy @johnalroy.bsky.social Biodiversity and extinction researcher
Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social A.v.Humboldt professor at the University of Mainz. Evolutionary ecologist. Runs a research group that once prompted the description "in this [coffee] room there's almost always someone who is at least partially fun". (Which we then translated into Latin.)
Rod Page @rdmpage.bsky.social Expat Kiwi, emeritus Professor of Taxonomy at Glasgow University, inclined to say that something sucks at every available opportunity. Biodiversity informatics, phylogeny, knowledge graphs.
Yannick Woudstra @yannickwoudstra.bsky.social Evolutionary botanist working at Stockholm University, Sweden. My research interests are in the systematics of succulents, conifers, poppies and daisies (Asteraceae); urban ecology and evolution; asexual reproduction (apomixis); and evolutionary genomics.
Carl Simpson @glyptocrinus.bsky.social macroevolution CU Boulder
Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com NYT columnist. Signal: carlzimmer.51
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/carlzimmer/
Web: http://carlzimmer.com
[This account includes a tweet archive]
Valentina Peona @valentinapeona.bsky.social 
CGUE 2026 @cgue2026.bsky.social Comparative Genomics of Unicellular Eukaryotes
October 5-10, 2026 - Sant Feliu de Guixol (Spain)
#Eukaryotes #Protists #Microbiology #Genomics #EvolutionaryBiology #ComparativeGenomics #Protistology #CellBiology
Brittany Sprecher @bsprech.bsky.social Currently a postdoc at WHOI working on spatial proteomics in Mesodinium | passionate about protists, molecular bio, kleptoplasty, bioluminescence, fluorescence, microscopy & surfing 🔬🏄
Protistology UK @protistologyuk.bsky.social Home of Protistology UK
A learned society for anyone fascinated by Protists
Supporting research, teaching and early career scientists across the UK
www.protistology.org.uk
Bungo Akiyoshi @bungoakiyoshi.bsky.social Studying kinetochores in African trypanosome (kinetoplastid) and marine plankton (diplonemid) in Edinburgh
https://www.ed.ac.uk/biology/groups/akiyoshi
Sigrid Neuhauser @sigridneuhauser.bsky.social microbiology Prof @uniinnsbruck, interested in fungi, protists, plant and algal pathogens and environmental interactions. mushroom girl posting daily #fungifacts
@sigrid@mastodon.online, @gebirgsziege on Twitter (discontinued), @sigrid_neuhauser on Insta
Vinita @lamba14.bsky.social University of Arkansas | PhD student | Comparative genomics | Evolution | Antarctic fishes
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
Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social evolutionary genomics of maize and wild relatives. erstwhile ethnobotanist. purveyor of bad puns. dad. prof and HPC director at UC Davis. not actually a cool cow from 1994. rilab.ucdavis.edu. views, especially bad ones, mine only (he/him)
Brian O'Meara @omearabrian.bsky.social I study diversification, species delimitation, trait evolution & similar questions, often using new methods. Also random coding projects. College prof living in Oak Ridge, TN, USA. Opinions my own. He/Him
Since You Arrived @sinceyouarrived.world A memento mori for the internet age. The world has gained these things, and lost them, while you were looking.
sinceyouarrived.world
@grahbudd.bsky.social @grahbudd.bsky.social Professor of evolutionary palaeobiology in Uppsala University.
@socialprotist.bsky.social @socialprotist.bsky.social 
Nele M. Vollmar @nelemvollmar.bsky.social PhD fellow | studying past ocean environments using sedimentary ancient DNA @ NORCE Research AS @unibergen.bsky.social @bjerknes.uib.no | #sedaDNA #metabarcoding #paleoscience #micropaleontology | ❤️ #dataviz #ggplot2 #TeXLaTeX
Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social Asst. Prof. / #newPI MICOlab @USFCMS studying interactions btwn marine microbes. ❤️ radiolarians, phytoplankton, bacteria. PhD from @oistedu. she/her.
https://micolab-usf.github.io/home/
Amanda Adam Jansson @amandaadamjasson.bsky.social PhD Student - Uppsala University, Burki Lab
They/them
Protists, their plastids, evolution and ecology🌊
Maximilian Ganser @mhganser.bsky.social Mr. Tintinnid | Researching marine planktonic protists - Tintinnid ciliates
Postdoctoral researcher in the Protistology lab at the University of Salzburg (Austria) | https://www.plus.ac.at/?page_id=10733
Gina Fuller @gfullller.bsky.social Master’s in Marine Science student- University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez 🇵🇷 • MIC.Ro Lab 🔬 • Divemaster 🤿
🏳️🌈
microttlab.org
Kasia Piwosz @piwoszomonas.bsky.social Aquatic microbial ecologists. Favourite habitat: Baltic Sea. Favourite microbes: heterotrophic nanoflagellates, but also bacteria somehow. Associated prof. at National Marine Fisheries Research Institute (Gdynia).
Holly Moeller @mixotrophe.bsky.social Jersey girl, rain lover, chalkboard equation addict. Professor & eco-evo theoretician (Erdős # = 5) at EEMB, UCSB (#unicornjob🦄); external prof @ SFI. All good bugs photosynthesize. Tell your 🚲 I said "hi." she/her
Latest Foster 🐈⬛: #MeetCapone (adopted!)
@protistologyopen.bsky.social @protistologyopen.bsky.social News and everything regarding Protistology Open 2026 in Prague
Suzana (Su) Gonçalves Leles @suleles.bsky.social Life is better with ecology, ocean, microbes, food webs and modeling - new PI! The MMAR Lab - Marine Microbial Adaptive Responses themmarlab.com
Liam U. Taylor @liamtaylor.bsky.social (they/them)
Doherty Postdoc in Biology - Bowdoin College - BSS Kent Island
Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social Cell biologist excited about autophagy, quality control, evolution, and membrane trafficking. Reads and thinks about academic mentoring, equality & diversity. https://ydagdas-lab.github.io/Lab-Website/
Courtney Stairs @cstairs.bsky.social Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University || Anaerobes, mitochondria, evolution || #ERC_stg #tango2uppsala www.thelabupstairs.online
Sarah Hird, PhD @sarahhird.bsky.social Associate Professor at University of Connecticut studying evolution & bird microbiomes. More importantly: I’m an aspiring anti-racist, raging feminist & trying to ACT NOW on the climate crisis. Please read The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg et al.
Ramon Massana @rmassanam.bsky.social 
IPBES @ipbes.net Intergovernmental Platform on #Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services. Denialism/trolling/profanity may result in banning. Re-skoots ≠ endorsements.
www.ipbes.net
linktr.ee/ipbes
Anna Cho @choannaflagellate.bsky.social Postdoc in J. Wideman Lab @ ASU 
闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social Assist Prof at UIUC Plant Bio #NewPI. NSF Postdoc UConn EEB. PhD Harvard OEB. Erasmus MEME evobio alumna. She/Her. Lover of ALL plants.
🧪🔬🌱🌾
Development; Evolution; Evo-Devo; Microscopy; Meristems.
Lived in 🇨🇳🇯🇵🇸🇪🇫🇷🇩🇪🇺🇸
www.minyaaa.com
Wei Shen 沈 伟 @shenwei356.bsky.social Associate professor of Bioinformatics at Chongqing Medical University, China. Lab: https://mbio.info
Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social Evolutionary cell biology / evolution of morphogenesis / animal origins / choanoflagellates @institutpasteur.bsky.social
https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/evolutionary-cell-biology-and-evolution-of-morphogenesis/
Sally Warring @sallywarring.bsky.social Sequencing microscopic life one cell at a time @earlhaminst.bsky.social. Documenting microscopic life one pond at a time @pondlife_pondlife.
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Sina Majidian @sinamajidian.bsky.social Hiring PhDs/Postdocs CGRLab.github.io | Assistant Professor, Data Science and AI division, Chalmers & University of Gothenburg| SciLifeLab | Formerly at JHU-Langmead, UNIL-Dessimoz, WUR
Valentin Amrhein @vamrhein.bsky.social Ecology, conservation, statistics, reproducibility https://camargue.unibas.ch Retire statistical significance https://nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00857-9
depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social hi i'm @annierau.bsky.social i love wikipedia! dm submissions if you want :-)
Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social Eukaryotic Plankton Ecology and Evolution | Associate Professor @biosstation.bsky.social @arizonastateuni.bsky.social | ZoopGroup laboratory | Se Habla Español
https://bios.asu.edu/about/team-members/leocadio-blanco-bercial
Anne Walraven @annewalraven.bsky.social PhD student at Uppsala University | Member of the Burki Lab (https://burki-lab.net/anne-walraven/). Investigating the plastids in the marine Centrohelid Meringosphaera. Interested in symbiosis, evolution, protists.
The Ramsey Lab @theramseylab.bsky.social The Ramsey philosophy of biology lab at KU Leuven, Belgium.
https://www.theramseylab.org • #HPbio #philsci #philsky #evosky #paleosky #cogsci #AI
Vilde Bruhn Kinneberg @vildebruhn.bsky.social PhD research fellow, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo.
Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social Paleontologist. Evolutionary biologist. Punk rock enthusiast. Assistant Professor & Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology. OU | Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. Fossils, macroevolution, phylogenetic methods, biodiversity daveyfwright.wordpress.com
Ambika Nadkarni @biochembika.bsky.social Scientist and person
J. Chris Pires @jchrispires.bsky.social Professor passionate about student success & team science #firstgen #Brassica enthusiast walking Dogs of the Plant World
#Agriculture #Food #HigherEd #EduSky #Agsky #SciComm & more
#Soil #Crop #Science ; opinions mine
Sofia Papadopoulou @sofiapa.bsky.social Microbial Ecologist - PhD student at @uu.se 🇸🇪
Ella Thoen @ellathoen.bsky.social Researcher in fungal ecology
Pavel Skaloud @skaloud.bsky.social 🔬 Algal Speciation & Evolution Lab | Charles University
Focused on freshwater, terrestrial & symbiotic algae | speciation, biogeography & lichen symbiosis.
botany.natur.cuni.cz/skaloud/
Ross Waller @rosswaller.bsky.social Professor of Evolutionary Cell Biology, Director of Cambridge Biosciences BBSRC DTP, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge
Paul & Virginie - Centriole Lab @centriolelab.bsky.social Virginie Hamel & Paul Guichard Lab at University of Geneva
#cryoEM/ET❄️ and #UExM ⚗️ #ExpansionMicroscopy #TeamTomo
Genève, Suisse 🇨🇭
https://mocel.unige.ch/research-groups/guichard-hamel/overv
Phoebe Cohen @phoebefossil.bsky.social Answering big questions with tiny fossils. Paleontologist, earth scientist, liberal arts professor, opinion holder. She/her. @makeaplanetpod.bsky.social
Paddy Hooper @protistpat.bsky.social Scientist at Bactobio
Interested in environmental microbiology, microbial ecology, NGS, protistology.
Bob Muscarella @bobmuscarella.bsky.social Associate prof in plant ecology at Uppsala University, Sweden. Tropical forest dynamics, trait-based ecology, natural and anthropogenic disturbance...
Clara Ruiz-González @clararuizg.bsky.social Aquatic microbial ecologist at @ICMCSIC and @EMM_Barcelona
Diversity and function of the microbial inhabitants of freshwater and marine ecosystems. Currently interested in the microbial dimension of submarine groundwater discharge: macgnet.csic.es
Andrew Alverson @sinkingdiatom.bsky.social diatoms - evolution - phylogenetics; he/his
Felix Mikus @fmikus.bsky.social Postdoc @Dudin lab, UNIGE
Previously EMBL HD
Lots of microscopy of all different things. If it’s not big enough, make it bigger #UExM
Views my own
Daniel Tamarit @danieltamarit.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist studying archaeal and bacterial genomes | Assistant Prof @BinfUtrecht.bsky.social 🇳🇱
Brad Weiler @bradweilerdives.bsky.social Postdoc @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social and NOAA AOML Coral Program 🪸 | PhD from @delCampoLab | Coral Holobiont Function and Composition through Health and Disease 🔬🦠🧬
Leigh Anne Riedman @fossils.bsky.social Paleontologist, lover of early eukaryotic evolution, all of the protists, fan of the Proterozoic and I bake.
Flora Vincent @floravincent.bsky.social Group Leader at EMBL spying on the social life of marine microbes and pushing for more inclusive sciences | Tara Oceans | Plankton Manifesto
https://www.embl.org/groups/vincent/
https://planktonmanifesto.org/
Flora Rutaganira @frutag33.bsky.social Assist. Prof. @StanfordBiochem & @DevBioStanford | #NewPI
www.funrscience.com
UC Davis ➡️ UCSF ➡️ UC Berkeley ➡️ Stanford | my opinions (she/her)
💜👑🏀 |✌🏾🇷🇼🇨🇩🇺🇸
ORCID: 0000-0001-5587-1872
Ben Larson @blarson.bsky.social Protists, microscopy, biophysics, evolution. Interested in how cells control shape and movement https://www.benlarson.org
Natura in minimis maxima
Asst Prof, RPI | Postdoc, UCSF, Wallace Marshall | PhD, UCBerkeley, Nicole King | BA, Physics, Reed College
Zorimar Vilella-Pacheco 🇵🇷🧬🎨🌿 @biologaboricua.bsky.social 🇵🇷 Ciencia Boricua • 🧬 Exploring developmental plasticity.
https://zorimarvilella.wixsite.com/website
Julia Van Etten @couchmicroscopy.bsky.social New Assistant Professor of Biology at University of Maryland • Passionate about algae / protists + HGT + genomics + evolutionary biology + microscopy • vanettenlab.org #NewPI
Opinions are my own.
Israt Jahan @jahanisrat.bsky.social Multicellular and symbiotic evolutionary biologist. Postdoc at University of Oxford. PhD from WUSTL
Rayan Chikhi @rayanchikhi.bsky.social 
Simonetta Gribaldo @sgribaldo.bsky.social Evolutionary microbiologist. Head of lab at Institut Pasteur, Paris. Microbial diversity and evolution. Phylogenomics, Tree of Life, Envelopes, Methanogens.
https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/evolutionary-biology-of-the-microbial-cell/
Louis Bliard @lbliard.bsky.social Postdoc at Aarhus University. Social evolution, population ecology, ornithology. Data editor at Proc B.
Michelle Leger @freejakoba.bsky.social Eukaryotic evolution, protist diversity, mitochondrial evolution
At OIST, Japan with @filiphusnik.bsky.social; formerly at IBE, Barcelona with @multicellgenome.bsky.social and Dalhousie University with @andrewjroger.bsky.social
🏳️🌈She/her. Views my own
Raphael Gollnisch @rgollnisch.bsky.social Evolutionary genetics of calcifying protists
Postdoc at University of Oxford
Elena Litchman @elenalitchman.bsky.social Microbial community ecologist, professor at Michigan State University | Traits, temperature, biodiversity, resilience, microbiomes, harmful algal blooms
https://www.kl-lab.group
📷: Lake Michigan
@luohaoxu.bsky.social @luohaoxu.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist at Southwest University
Agnieszka (Aga) Lipinska @agalip.bsky.social Genome evolution, sex chromosomes, reproductive isolation and speciation in brown algae🌊
https://www.lipinska-lab.com/
Julian Vosseberg @julianvosseberg.bsky.social Postdoc at Wageningen University & Research
Lee Hsiang Liow （廖珕庠） @lhliow.bsky.social Macroevolution, paleobiology, Singapore-grown, US-developed scientist in Norway. Marine inverts, bryozoans. Natural History Museum & Centre for Planetary Habitability Oslo.
[Background photo is the Whanganui coast, North Island, NZ]
Iker Irisarri @ikeririsarri.bsky.social Digging genomes🔬to travel back in time 🦖 #Evolution #Phylogenomics #MajorTransitions Ramón y Cajal Researcher at MNCN-CSIC, Madrid
Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net Biologist. Better Posters book and blog. Academic hoaxes. Academic slop graphics. Home: http://DoctorZen.net. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4049-7034
Mark Ravinet @markravinet.bsky.social Ramen addicted evolutionary biologist working on genomics, ecology, speciation and adaptation in Passer sparrows. Associate Professor based in CEES/EVOGENE at the University of Oslo
Pierre Ramond @pierreramond.bsky.social I'm a postdoc studying Marine Microbial Ecology 🌊🦠📏🌍🧬
PS: I'm using this only for research 🥼
Julius Falck @julius-falck.bsky.social Research student.
Studying genomics of larks from a conservation perspective.
Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social Professor at the NYU School of Medicine (https://yanailab.org/). Co-founder and Director of the Night Science Institute (https://night-science.org/). Co-host of the 'Night Science Podcast' https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/night-science/id1563415749
Geoff McFadden @fad1.bsky.social Identified the apicoplast in 1996. Coasting ever since.
Ore Francis @orefrancis.bsky.social 
Henry North @henrylnorth.bsky.social Research Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge
Population genomics, invasive species, hybridization, adaptation, structural variation
Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social Professor, USC Marine and Environmental Biology, microbe hunter. Dad, husband. he/him. Not a bot. thethrashlab.com @the.thrash.lab
Morten Kam Dahl Dueholm @mkddueholm.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. Aalborg University 🇩🇰 Applied microbial ecology with focus on wastewater treatment, anaerobic digestion, and soil. HQ MAGs, transcriptomics, rRNA operon sequencing, culturomics, biofilms, EPS, and functional amyloids.
ignacio quintero @ignacioq.bsky.social CNRS Researcher at the Institut de Biologie de l’École Normale Supérieure, Paris.
website: https://ignacioq.github.io
Evolutionary processes using stochastic models (usually on phylogenetic trees).
Failed reincarnation of Montaigne.
Per Alström @peralstrom.bsky.social Ornithologist
Uppsala University webpage: https://www.uu.se/en/contact-and-organisation/staff?query=N99-636
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Per-Alstroem-2
ornithology, birds, mammals, evolution, speciation, conservation, ecology
Håvard Kauserud @drhyfe.bsky.social Professor in mycology at the University of Oslo, Norway. My account is a non-consistent mix of work-related stuff and other interests.
🇵🇸 #freepalestine
🇺🇦 #slavaukraini
Alex Mackintosh @thymelicus.bsky.social Population genetics | Uppsala 
Alejandro Rodríguez-Gijón @alejandrorgijon.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow at the @mncn_csic | Environmental microbiologist 🦠🧬 | #FirstGen | He/Him/Él 🏳️🌈
https://alejandrorgijon.github.io/
log[lab] @loglab-bcn.bsky.social We explore the ecology and evolution of aquatic microorganisms using omics and bioinformatics. #Barcelona 🇪🇸 🇪🇺 http://log-lab.barcelona Located at @icmcsic.bsky.social