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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Infectious Disease Tracker @hmpxvt.bsky.social Infectious disease news.
Sharing reports on outbreaks, from bird flu to Ebola.
Now on Substack :)
https://outbreakanalyst.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.
Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net Raising kids & bread & grant money. Cleaning data & diapers & fish. EA (bed nets, not light cone). Social scientist. typos. twitter.com/ryancbriggs
Sarah Zhang @sarahzhang.bsky.social eukaryote, also a staff writer at the atlantic
Michael Baym @baym.lol Associate Prof @HarvardMed. Microbial evolution, antibiotic resistance, mobile genetic elements, algorithms, phages, molecular biotech, etc. Find me under “floating dumpster fire”
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
Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social Infectious diseases & genomics. Immunologist in (voluntary) exile. Minimal sarcasm. Fierce HOA (Hater of Acronyms). Personal account - opinions expressed are my own and not those of my employer.
Stephanie M. Lee @stephaniemlee.bsky.social Senior writer at @chronicle.com, writing about scholarship, scholars, and society. stephanie.lee@chronicle.com / Signal: stephaniemlee.07 / stephaniemlee.com / San Francisco
Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social Epidemiologist + Statistician | Clinical Research Facility - University College Cork | UCC School of Public Health | #ClinicalTrials #Epidemiology #Statistics #RStats
Posts not for everyone ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Views mine -> https://statsepi.substack.com/
Dr Duncan Robertson @duncanrobertson.bsky.social Policy & Strategy Analytics academic at Loughborough University; Member, Independent SAGE; Fellow, St Catherine's College, Oxford.
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 🐈 & 🛫
@firefoxx66@mstdn.science
Aris Katzourakis @ariskatzourakis.bsky.social Viruses, Evolution, Education, Trade Unions, things like that. Prof at Uni of Oxford, NEC member for UCU. Posts mine, reposts not.
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
Josh Trebach, MD @jtrebach.bsky.social ER doc. Toxicologist. 🏳️🌈 I post about poisons & cats & fighting misinformation. Posts/DMs = my own (not employer’s) & not medical advice. contact = ToxTrebach@gmail.com
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
Eddie Holmes @eddieholmes.bsky.social Virus spotter. You're twistin' my melon man.
Adam Feuerstein✡️ @adamfeuerstein.bsky.social Reporter at STAT. The Harry Kane of biotech. Dog ❤️er. Polk Award winner. Said one analyst: The likes of Adam Feuerstein attack viciously.
Meaghan Kall @kallmemeg.bsky.social Epidemiologist, public health trainee, mom, wife. Formerly @UKHSA. Disability advocate. Born 🇺🇸 Migrated 🇬🇧. 🏳️🌈 Personal account.
Tom Peacock @peacockflu.bsky.social Virologist - Influenza and Coronaviruses 
Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social Demographer, former tweeting statistician and female data lad. Attempting to make a difference in public health analysis at DHSC. I ran the UK's covid dashboard. Now seen running parkruns. DMs not available. She/her 🍉🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Björn Meyer @bmeyer.bsky.social Virologist ☣ | Trying to understand why viruses tick the way they do - then, now and in future | 🇩🇪🇪🇺🇺🇳
@themeyerlab.bsky.social 
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
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.
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.
Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social 
Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social Biostatistician. Baritone. He/Him.
Product of more than one country.
May contain nuts.
Deepta Bhattacharya @deeptabhattacha.bsky.social Professor of Immunology at University of Arizona studying immune responses to infections and vaccines. Views my own.
Katelyn Jetelina @kkjetelina.bsky.social Epidemiologist, lover of the ocean and ice cream. Mom of two toddlers. Founder of “Your Local Epidemiologist”. https//yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
Stuart McDonald @actuarybyday.bsky.social Analysis of health and mortality data.
Actuary. Partner at LCP.
Chair of the CMI.
MBE for services to Public Health.
Brian Wasik @brianrwasik.bsky.social Virologist. Evolutionary biologist.
Colin Angus @victimofmaths.bsky.social Professor of Alcohol Policy in the Sheffield Addictions Research Group (@SARG-SCHARR), graph drawer, data botherer, cake eater, incompetent cyclist and intermittent birder.
Nick Mark, MD @nickmark.bsky.social Intensivist, pulmonologist | Husband, Dad² | made www.OnePagerICU.com & www.criticalcaretime.com | passionate about innovation in medicine & novel forms of medical education |
Michelle Wille @duckswabber.bsky.social Avian influenza & avian virome ecology | "Expert in Ducks" | (she/her) | michellewille.com
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.
Maria Glymour @mariaglymour.bsky.social Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology at Boston University School of Public Health
Jason McLellan @mclellanlab.bsky.social Structural virology / Structure-based vaccine design
mclellanlab.org
Professor of Molecular Biosciences
The University of Texas at Austin
Opinions are my own and not the views of my employer
Paul Mainwood @paulmainwood.bsky.social 
Lee Crawfurd @leecrawfurd.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Global Development
https://www.cgdev.org/expert/lee-crawfurd
@jacobtref.bsky.social @jacobtref.bsky.social blog.jacobtrefethen.com
OpenAI Foundation
science!
Justin Sandefur @justsand.bsky.social Development economist, worrying about economic growth these days. https://www.openphilanthropy.org/about/team/justin-sandefur/
Stéphane Helleringer @shelleringer.bsky.social Demography and epidemics
Marco Piani @marcopiani.bsky.social Physicist by training, silly by choice. Views my own.
Mike Famulare @famulare.bsky.social epistemologically promiscuous
Professional: systems epidemiologist, see Google Scholar.
Personal: learning to be a man in this life and not the last.
Blog: famulare.github.io
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/
Dr Joel C Miller @joelcmiller.bsky.social Mathematical Biologist specializing in infectious diseases and network science.
Leo Bastos @leosbastos.bsky.social Public health researcher at Fiocruz 🇧🇷
Associate professor at IMPA Tech 🇧🇷
Bayesian statistician 📈
Infectious diseases modeller 🦠🦟
Father of 3 boys (be nice).
Theo Sanderson @theo.io researching viral pathogen genomics at @lshtm.bsky.social, building @pathoplexus.org | theo.io / sandersonlab.org
Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social Medicinal chemist / chemical biologist, author of “In the Pipeline” at http://science.org/blogs/pipeline. derekb.lowe@gmail.com and on Signal at Dblowe.18
All opinions are mine; I don’t speak for my employer in any way.
Andrew Stokes @astokespop.bsky.social Associate Professor at Boston University; Population Health, Demography, Sociology
Thomas House @tah-sci.com Professor of Mathematical Sciences, working mainly on epidemiology although partial to a bit of non-commutative algebra, social science and basic biology.
https://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/thomas.house/about.html
Daniel Westreich @epidbydesign.bsky.social Epidemiologist, writer, bon vivant. Professor @UNC (opinions my own); co-PI of STAR Cohort; "Morpheus of the Table 2 Fallacy.” He/him.
1Day Sooner @1daysooner.bsky.social 1Day Sooner leads campaigns in science, policy, and bioethics to stop the world’s most harmful infectious diseases. We advocate for volunteers who participate in high-impact medical studies, including human challenge studies. www.1daysooner.org 
Hensley Lab @scottehensley.bsky.social dad, viral immunologist, professor
Natalie Dean, PhD @nataliexdean.bsky.social Associate Professor of Biostatistics at Emory Rollins School of Public Health
Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social ER doctor at Brigham and Women's in Boston, Harvard Medical School.
Words in: NY Times, WaPo, Atlantic, Slate, CNN. I'm also "editor-in-chief" of MedPage Today and write "Inside Medicine" on Substack:
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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.
Tom Wenseleers @twenseleers.bsky.social Professor @KULeuven - evolutionary biology, theoretical biology & biostatistics (#Rstats). Social insects & microorganisms. Social evolution, self organisation, chemical ecology, statistical machine learning. https://bio.kuleuven.be/eeb/tw/research
Max Roser @maxroser.bsky.social — Founder of Our World in Data
— Professor at the University of Oxford
Data to understand global problems and research to make progress against them.
Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social Journalist. Contributing Ed, Scientific American. Senior Fellow, Emory Univ Center for the Study of Human Health. Books: BIG CHICKEN, SUPERBUG, BEATING BACK THE DEVIL. Stories: https://authory.com/marynmckenna. Location: points on the 44th parallel.
Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @epiellie.bsky.social Epidemiologist and science communicator | newsletter: epiellie.substack.com | cohost @casualinfer podcast | Causal inference for public health #epitwitter | Canadian in US 🇨🇦 | she/her/Dr
Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social science journalist. author. molecular biologist. curious.
interested in #microbes, #misinformation and all things #blue
contributing correspondent at @science.org
co-host of @pandemia.bsky.social
2024 KSJ fellow at MIT
Signal: kakape.93
Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social DEI hire. Prof of Primary Care, Uni of Oxford. Researching digital health/ inequities, covid prevention (masks/ air quality). Wild swimmer. Mum to Rob (marine bio) & Al (doc). She/her. https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=QDCqsJwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social Award-winning public health reporter at KFF Health News. Bylines at Nature, New York Times, National Geographic & more. AmyM@kff.org Signal: AmyMaxmen.25 www.amymaxmen.com & https://kffhealthnews.org/news/author/amy-maxmen
Health Nerd @gidmk.bsky.social Epidemiologist. Research Fellow. Doctor of Spreadsheets. Writer (Slate, TIME, Guardian, etc). PhD, MPH. Host of senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him. Find my writing on Substack and Medium.
Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev Co-founder & editor, Works in Progress. Writer, Scientific Discovery. Podcaster, Hard Drugs. Advisor, Coefficient Giving.
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Podcast: https://harddrugs.worksinprogress.co
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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social Collector of social media sites. Infectious disease epidemiologist. Writes about vaccine hesitancy, science misinfo, zombies. Probably somewhere on a trail. Views own etc.
Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social I cover infectious diseases for STAT (www.statnews.com). 2020 Polk winner. Nieman '11. She/her. I write about H5N1 (in all species), Covid, polio, flu, Ebola, RSV, mpox, STIs. Send me news tips on Signal: HBranswell.01
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
Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com Scientist, science communicator, public health & climate justice advocate
Biology PhD from Cambridge
WHO Fides member, Grist 50 Fixer, Creative Change alum
New Yorker/Aussie
Opinions my own
https://instagram.com/luckytran
http://linktr.ee/luckytran
Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way.
Lives with epilepsy.
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.
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
Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com Health contributor/reporter at Guardian US, contributing editor at the New Republic, freelance elsewhere. Arctic obsessive and book enthusiast.
Send me your secrets:
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Email: melodyschreiber@proton.me
Newsletter: notadoctor.news
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 . 
Jason Kindrachuk @kindrachukjason.bsky.social Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in emerging viruses, U.Manitoba. Expert in the emerging zoonotic viruses with a focus on WHO priority pathogens. All views expressed are my own
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.
Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social Epidemiologist. AIDS Activist. Dog lover. New Haven.
Jason Nickerson @jwnickerson.bsky.social Respiratory Therapist 🫁
Trail runner and adventurer🏃♂️
Public health, emerging infectious diseases, health systems researcher focusing on older adults ☣️
Humanitarian aid worker and former Humanitarian Representative to Canada for MSF 🌍
Unknown Legend
Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social Science and global health reporter for The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/by/apoorva-mandavilli
Signal: amnyt.91
David Fisman. @dfisman.bsky.social Notorious pro-vaxxer and pro-masker. Famously unfair to pathogenic viruses, bacteria, fungi, and the Toronto Star.
Weary of all these death threats with so little follow-through.
https://www.dlsph.utoronto.ca/faculty-profile/fisman-david-n
Gabriele Pollara @gpollara.bsky.social Infectious Diseases doctor (at UCLH) and academic (at UCL). Research focuses on host-pathogen interactions in TB, leprosy and UTIs. What are the immune, epithelial and stromal cell responses involved, and could they be targets for host-directed therapies?
Deisy Ventura @deisyventura.bsky.social Professora Titular da FSP/USP - PPG Saúde Global e Sustentabilidade
COI: casada com @lfcampos.bsky.social
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 🛟🩺📉📈🧪
DGBassani @dgbassani.bsky.social Widower dad of 3. Problem-solver living an unsolvable problem. Fatuity loather. Epidemiologist learning about complexity and networks. https://www.dlsph.utoronto.ca/faculty-profile/bassani-diego-g/ and https://www.isi.it/people/diego-bassani/ graphstate.co
Julia Raifman, ScD @juliaraifman.bsky.social Evidence-based posts about public health & equity. All views are my own and without AI.
Mike Murphy @mjamurphy.bsky.social I'm an applied economist interested in how we get better at interacting with natural systems. You can find out more about my research at mjamurphy.com
Personal account, only Scottish football takes guaranteed correct
Liz Highleyman @lizhighleyman.bsky.social Freelance medical journalist. Science editor for @pozmagazine.bsky.social, Hep & CancerHealth. Words for aidsmap, Slate, Bay Area Reporter. Research beagle adopter.
Prof Devi Sridhar @profdevisridhar.bsky.social Professor & Chair of Global Public Health, Edinburgh Uni. Certified Level 3 Personal Trainer. Views own.
Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social I love vaccines, animals, and my wife, who set up this profile.
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/we-want-them-infected/
Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social forever virologist but not a working one. past researcher. PCR guy. past lab manager. husband. dad. reader. writer. fixer. bad typist. learner. australian.
#MasksWork
https://virologydownunder.com/
Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social Associate Professor of public health at Muhlenberg College. History, ethics, epidemiology, sports, injury prevention.
Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social Medical Geographer & Health Services Researcher \ Wife & Mother \ Avid Reader, Foodie, & Gardener \ Cal, UChicago, & UIUC alumna \ Personal account \ Not actually a Lego
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.
Leonel Campos @lfcampos.bsky.social Médico infectologista (CRM/SP 149049 RQE 50657), entusiasta da promoção à saúde que trabalha com cuidados intensivos.
Saúde, política e cultura.
COI: married to @deisyventura.bsky.social
lorenagbarberia.bsky.social @lorenagbarberia.bsky.social Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of São Paulo All views expressed are my own.
Elaine Hernandez @emhernandez.bsky.social Inequities in health are ubiquitous. I study the processes that create and perpetuate them.
Medical sociology (PhD), health policy (MPH), & health demography.
Personal account
Onisillos @onisillos.bsky.social Professional non-stupid person, massive nerd, and Editor-in-Chief of a very good microbial journal.
(Illustration by David S. Goodsell, RCSB Protein Data Bank. doi: 10.2210/rcsb_pdb/goodsell-gallery-028)
David Scales @tnfalpha.bsky.social Hospitalist, sociologist @WeillCornell studying information environments, contested illness, medical communication
Co-founder, Health for Palestine
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