Hypothesis Fund @hypothesisfund.bsky.social Nimble funding for nimble minds.
www.hypothesisfund.org
Kaçar Lab at UW-Madison @kacarlab.bsky.social Past, Present and Future of Life
Here and Elsewhere
PI: Betül Kaçar
Account managed by lab members.
Latest paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-72133-0
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kacarlab.org
Rogier Braakman @rogierbraakman.bsky.social Studying metabolic evolution, microbial macroevolution, biospheric self-organization, and the feedbacks between Earth and life. Dad, Husband, Scientist.
https://rogierbraakman.com/
Willow Coyote-Maestas @willowcoyote.bsky.social Associate Professor at @UCSF_BTS | @HHMINEWS HGF | | Loving membrane proteins every day https://www.wcoyotelab.com
Bianca Jones Marlin, PhD @bjmarlin.bsky.social Neuroscientist at #Columbia #ZuckermanInstitute | #HHMIFHS | Mom & Beau studying parents and offspring | Science that serves humanity.
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
Yemini Lab @yeminilab.bsky.social At the Yemini Lab (www.yeminilab.org), we study the development and evolution of a whole nervous system at the level of each individual neuron.
Dr. Karmella Haynes @drkhaynes.bsky.social Epigenetic bioengineer (academic), consultant for bold science, writing coach. My stream: science thoughts with random food pics #academicwriting #synbio #epigenetics http://drkarmellahaynes.com
Paul Turner Lab @paulturnerlab.bsky.social Experimental evolution of viruses for basic science and evolutionary medicine at Yale Ecology & Evolutionary Biology.
Tweeting papers & news from our group. Acct managed by lab members.
Jay Shendure @jshendure.bsky.social shendure lab |. krishna.gs.washington.edu
Prakash Lab at Stanford @prakashlab.bsky.social Curiosity Driven Science
Kyle G Daniels @sciencekyle.bsky.social Assistant Professor @Stanford University Genetics. Synthetic Biologist // Real Human 🧬 🔬 💻 🏳️🌈 🏊🏾♂️
@betulland.bsky.social @betulland.bsky.social 
Paul Rowley @drpaulrowley.bsky.social A biologist studying toxin production by fungi. I work with bacterial, yeast, viral, and human experimental systems.
Annie Rowe @electromicrowe.bsky.social Scientist, pug wrangler, I think mushrooms are beautiful. 
Xiaowei Zhuang's Lab @zhuanglab.bsky.social Xiaowei Zhuang's Lab at Harvard University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Sepideh Dolatshahi, PhD @sdolatshahi.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at UVA
https://www.dolatshahilab.com/ 
Priya R Banerjee @priya-r-banerjee.bsky.social Associate Prof. at U Buffalo; learning how macromolecular phase transitions program cellular functions; single-molecule biophysics; disordered proteins; origin of life and RNA.
Laboratory webpage: https://www.banerjeelab.org/
Steven Banik @stevenbanik.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Stanford University Dept. of Chemistry and Sarafan ChEM-H | Chemical biology, synthetic biology | Small molecules, large molecules, biological mechanisms
Yani Bellini Saibene @yabellini.bsky.social I share my experience teaching computational skills and building welcoming communities of practice for programming scientists | rOpenSci Community Manager |
R-Ladies Project Lead | 30 Years in Education | 24 Years as Researcher | Spanglish | #RStats
Vanessa Fairhurst @vanessafairhurst.bsky.social Head of Community at PREreview.org.
Working to make the scholarly research eco-system more equitable.
Previously involved in building community at Crossref and INASP.
Malvika Sharan @malvikasharan.bsky.social #OpenScience, Commons and Communities. 🇮🇳🇩🇪🇬🇧
https://malvikasharan.github.io
Emma Karoune @ekaroune.bsky.social Open Researcher, Data Professional, Community Builder, Archaeobotanist.
Work at The Alan Turing Institute
Working on The Turing Way, People in Data, Clinical AI Interest Group, Open Phytoliths, Hidden REF.
Ginny Hendricks @ginsta.bsky.social Human, Crossref person, posts about open metadata and open infrastructure for scientific research and scholarly integrity. Also gardening and general North London capers.
Julia Stewart Lowndes @juliesquid.bsky.social Openscapes lead, marine ecologist, kinder & open data science advocate, #rstats RLady, dog lover, auntie
Reshama @reshamas.bsky.social • Statistician
• Data science / Open Source: @dataumbrella.org
• Videos: https://youtube.com/@dataumbrella
Miriam Krause @mirk47.bsky.social science, books, geekery (she/her)
owner of @catalystbooks.bsky.social, day job with @umnchemistry.bsky.social, formerly @sustainablenano.bsky.social
47 is about Pomona College and I refuse to abandon it
Malika Ihle @malikaihle.bsky.social LMU Open Science Center coordinator
@lmu-osc.bsky.social
former Reproducible Research Oxford coordinator
cofounder of the Society for Open Reliable and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology
@sortee.bsky.social
she/her
Holly Bik @hollybik.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Georgia + Associate Director of UGA Institute of Bioinformatics. Marine Biology, Polar Science, Deep-Sea Worms (nematodes!), Environmental Genomics, and Science Writing. Views are my own. http://www.hollybik.com
Lara Muffley @muffley.bsky.social Director of Program Operations (Variant Effects Portfolio) CMAP, CAVA and the Atlas of Variant Effects Alliance | she/her 🏳️🌈
https://fowlerlab.gs.washington.edu/people
https://brotmanbaty.org/research/atlas-of-variant-effects 
Gabriela Mejias @gabioshka.bsky.social 👩🏾💻 she/her
🛠️ building programs that advance #OpenScienceHardware @opensciencehw.bsky.social
Amanda French @amandafrench.net PhD in English Lit. Villanelle = poetic form, not serial killer. Currently @ror.org at @crossref.bsky.social. Formerly COVID Tracking Project and THATCamp. Views my own. Folk, Americana, roots, oldtime, bluegrass. https://amandafrench.net
Toby Hodges @tobyhodges.carpentries.org he/him
Director of Curriculum at The Carpentries. Views my own. Sorry I haven't replied to your email.
"I only know that hearts made of stone will rarely sail far and may never reach home" - Chuck Ragan
Lena Karvovskaya @karvovskaya.bsky.social I am community manager with background in linguistic research. I am passionate about community, collaboration and inclusion. Currently, I am community coordinator of The Thematic Digital Competence Centre (TDCC) for the Natural & Engineering Sciences (NES)
Camille S. @camisanti.bsky.social I train and support folks who lead STEM communities | runner🏃🏻♂️midfielder ⚽️ pup butler 🐾 | 🏳️🌈
Anna van 't Veer @annaveer.bsky.social Assistant prof @ Leiden University, the Netherlands. Researcher, teacher and Open Science Community manager to further responsible research methods and research(er) integrity in Psychology, Neuroscience and beyond. 
Krithika Venkataraman @kritvenks.bsky.social currently:
Human Cell Atlas Civic Science Fellow
previously:
Scientific Officer, Simons Foundation 🧠👩🏻🔬
The Rockefeller University - Vosshall Lab Ph.D. 🦟 + Civic Science Associate RockEDU 👩🏻💻 // Smith College 👩🏻🎓
she/her
views = personal
Joyce Yu @joyceyu.bsky.social #SciComm & community engagement | PhD @theCrick | she/her | Views my own
Can also be found running, playing the violin or baking sourdough bread
Liz Weinberg @eaweinberg.bsky.social Science communicator, writer, & community coordinator; queer nature nerd. Author of UNSETTLING: SURVIVING EXTINCTION TOGETHER & at work on a book about urban animals. She/they.
Tim Bonnemann @planspark.bsky.social Community architect/builder/special ops. Founder and chief vibe coder (stealth). San José, CA. Wannabe trail runner. German native. Vive l’Europe! Skeets my own, etc. #opensource #community #criminaljustice #learningspanish
Angelique Trusler @angeliquetrusler.carpentries.org Associate Director of Community, The Carpentries #openscience Avid traveller. Views my own.
Parmvir K Bahia @parmvir.com Neuroscientist | Communicator | Podcaster | CEO Scientists Inc & artha science media | Freelancer | Nerd
Creating meaningful connections with science
📍London | Tampa | parmvir.com
married to @cancerevo.org
#InclusiveSciComm #WomenInSTEM #chronicallyIll
Sara King @sarasrking.bsky.social Lapsed archivist, ex-curator, unofficial historian, time traveller. Boundary spanner.
Sarah Smaga, Ph.D. @sarahsmaga.bsky.social Biophysical Society/AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow.
Views are my own. she/her
Reinier Prosee @reinierprosee.bsky.social preLights Community Manager @biologists.bsky.social
Community builder 🧑🤝🧑, ECR and preprint advocate 🏆, publishing professional, scientist 👨🔬, communicator, open-minded, passionate 🔥, enthusiastic, explorer, runner 🏃♂️, foodie, global citizen 
Tilo Mathes @tilomat.de science, technology, and bicycle enthusiast. serving the world of science for a sustainable future. working on product and open source for integrated research infrastructure with RSpace. views my own. (he/him).
Stefanie Butland @stefaniebutland.bsky.social 
Rihan Hassad @rihanh.bsky.social Building community to promote and advance neuroscience research and education @NYULangone @NYULH_Neuro. 🐝 Pro-kindness; science+ health advocate; team #cat
stella @misostellar.bsky.social 📍🇺🇸
💓🐕
🚫 pay discrimination
@akornward.bsky.social @akornward.bsky.social 
Jody Peters @jpeters7.bsky.social 
Matt Fisher @mfisher87.bsky.social He/him 🏳️🌈. Research software engineer @ UC Berkeley Schmidt Center for Data Science and Environment. Open Science / open source enthusiast. Nature lover 🌱🐕🌵🦌🌼🐦. Music lover 🎶🎹🥁🎵. Tinkerer 🛠️.
github.com/mfisher87
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.
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
Tami Lieberman @contaminatedsci.bsky.social Associate Professor, MIT
Still thinking about the 10^9 mutations generated in your microbiome today.
Website: http://lieberman.science
Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social Assoc Prof @CSUSM | 🦠⇄🦠 MGEs & coastal metagenomes | #BlueSoup 🥣🧬 🧫 | R1→Biotech→PUI | Protective mama bear of students | She/Her
Elisa Granato @prokaryota.bsky.social Sci-Comm | Researcher @kurzgesagt.org | she/her 🦠🧫🔬 | Tell your cat I said PSPSPSPS
Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org Evangelist for the study of evolution in action by everyone.
Pitt Prof | ASM President|EvolvingSTEM | biofilms | EvMed | genomics entrepreneur (@SeqCoast.bsky.social, @midauthorbio.bsky.social)| exercise addict ~ swim bike run
Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social Professor of Microbiome Ecology at Institute of Biology, Leiden University
Bacillus subtilis, biofilms, plant microbiome, bacteria-fungi interactions and circadian clock within @microclockerc.bsky.social #ERCSyG
https://linktr.ee/atkovacs
Dave Baltrus 🦦 @surtlab.bsky.social Professor at UArizona interested in genome rummaging, microbial evolution, and occasional tales about having backyard farm animals.
“I’m something of a scientist myself”
Baltrus(at)Arizona.edu
Tera Levin @teralevin.bsky.social Assistant professor of Biological Sciences at Pitt, studying evolution, genes, and microbes. Same as @tera_levin in the other place. #NewPI She/her
Dr. Dawn Bowdish @msmacrophage.bsky.social Professor of Medicine, McMaster University
Executive Director of the Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health
Board of Directors Lung Health Foundation
#macrophages #aging #respiratoryinfections #vaccinations #immunity #inflammation #scicomm
Nichole Broderick, PhD @nabroderick.bsky.social microbiologist. entomologist. immunologist. Lover of science, especially at its intersections. Asst Prof of Biology at Johns Hopkins. @nabroderick elsewhere.
Erin Goley @goleylab.bsky.social Bacterial cell biologist.
K.T. Elliott @ktelliottmicro.bsky.social bacterial geneticist, associate professor, mom. enjoy: science, dogs, gin, books, vaccines, chocolate, old bay, the US Constitution & Bill of Rights
Eliza_coli @eliza-coli.bsky.social Microbiologist now #Illustrator; Give #Science clarity, impact & pictures; Portfolio lizawolfson.co.uk ⭐commissions open from JAN 2026⭐ #SciArt #Microbiology #scicomm she/they 🏳️🌈
Bristol, England · https://campsite.bio/eliza_coli
Buck Samuel 🪱🦠🧬🔬 @microbeminded.bsky.social organismal biologist & geneticist | PI at med school in Houston | amazed by microbial superpowers | he/him
#microbiome #Celegans #spacebiology #firstgen 🧫 🦠 🧪 🧬
GS: https://bit.ly/goog-schol-buck-sam
ORCID: 0000-0002-4347-3997
Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social Professor of Molecular Microbiology, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Editor at Microbial Genomics & mBio, Scouse, interested in Streptomyces, Evolution, Antibiotics, AMR, microbiology, Phage, herpetology, Cricket, EvertonFC
Black Microbiologists Assoc (Black In Micro) @blackinmicro.bsky.social Increasing Visibility. Facilitating Connection. Moving Microbiology Forward. Get connected today
Connect with us: linktr.ee/blackinmicro
Contact: admin@blackinmicrobiology.org
Mark O. Martin @markowenmartin.bsky.social Microbial evangelist and podcaster. Husband, father, moderate. Emeritus Associate Professor after June 2026. Looking for what is next that sparks microbial joy.
Brian Stevenson Ph.D. spirochete lab @bstevensonlab.bsky.social Mostly about bacterial gene/protein regulation & function, esp. with Borrelia burgdorferi and Lyme disease. Professor at U Kentucky, views are my own. He/him
Lab= http://microscopist.net/Stevenson_Lab.html
UK= https://medicine.uky.edu/users/bstev0
John F. Cryan @jfcryan.bsky.social VP Research & Innovation, University College Cork @ucc.ie @uccresearch.bsky.social |PI @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social |Prof Dept. Anatomy & Neuroscience |MRIA @ria.ie|
Stress, Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis, Brain-Body Interactions, Research Policy
Mark Mandel @markjmandel.bsky.social Bacterial geneticist focused on microbe-animal communication. Professor UW-Madison. Messages are my personal views.
Carolyn Ibberson @cbibberson.bsky.social Microbiologist 🧫🧪 | Microbe-Microbe interactions in infection | Mom of 👧🏼👦🏼🐶| Asst. Professor at UTK | Views my own 
Christina Faherty @christinafaher1.bsky.social Bacterial geneticist 🧫 🦠 🧬 focusing on #Shigella, #enteric #pathogens & #phage. Using host signals & #organoids to study #pathogenesis. Assist Prof at USUHS. Views my own. https://medschool.usuhs.edu/profile/christina-faherty-phd
Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social One of the greatest discoveries in microbiology came from contamination. Join the club and share yours here 🦠🧫 Merch ➡️ https://www.contam.club
Shai Bel (The Mucus Man) @mucusman.bsky.social The Bel Lab, boldly going where no one else bothers to. Associate professor @uwmadisonmmi.bsky.social. Opinions are my microbiota's.
https://bellab.mmi.wisc.edu/
Binning Singletons @binningsingletons.com Get more out of large conferences with our Mentoring and Networking program.
https://binningsingletons.com/
https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/msphere.00643-19
Kimberly Kline 🏔 @kimingeneva.bsky.social Professor, University of Geneva. We study Enterococcal biofilms, pathogenesis, and AMR. Formerly @KimInSingapore 🌴.
https://kimberlyklinelab.com/
Rauf Salamzade @raufs.bsky.social Interested in microbial ecology & evolution.
Views are only my own. (he/him, 🇺🇸, 🌎)
https://github.com/raufs
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=OBPpZq4AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
Gemma Reguera 🌎 @microgem.bsky.social Professor of Microbiology and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Development at Michigan State University. Editor in Chief of Applied and Environmental Microbiology (AEM). Views are my own.
Joe Zackular @joeyzacks.bsky.social Associate Prof at UPenn & Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Co-Director of Center for Microbial Medicine (https://tinyurl.com/2xve6jfp) at CHOP
We study host-pathogen interactions, C. diff, Enterococcus, gut microbiota, mRNA vaccines.
zackularlab.org
Professor Lesley Hoyles @bugsinyourguts.bsky.social And all this science I don't understand, it's just my job five days a week.
Professor of Microbiome and Systems Biology @ Nottingham Trent University. 🏳️🌈
Working predominantly on the human gut microbiota.
All views my own.
Lindsay Kalan @lkalan.bsky.social Associate Professor at McMaster university interested in microbes and how they interact with each other and with us. #MicroSky #IDSky #Microbiomesky #secmet 🇨🇦🧫🧬⚗️
Daria Van Tyne @dariavantyne.bsky.social Microbiology, evolution, and bacteriophages. University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Sarah Bagby @scbagby.bsky.social Environmental microbiologist at Case Western. She/her. https://bagby-lab.github.io/, https://emerge-bii.github.io/
Igor Brodsky @brodskyigorlab.bsky.social Innate immunity/host-pathogen interactions. Husband, father, former Soviet immigrant. Opinions my own.
Hall Lab @halllab.bsky.social Prof Lindsay Hall’s research group at University of Birmingham & Quadram Institute. Early life microbiota (we love Bifidobacterium!), and influence of diet, host and pathogens.
Manuela Raffatellu @manuelar.bsky.social From Sardinia to California - Professor at UCSD - Love microbes. Find me by the ocean or at my Pilates studio
Cara Haney @carahaney.bsky.social Associate Professor. Pseudomonas-host interactions, the plant microbiome, how good microbes turn bad. Pitt BioSciences
John Helmann @johnhelmann.bsky.social Professor at Cornell Univ. Bacillus subtilis physiology and stress responses (metal homeostasis, redox stress, antibiotic resistance & cell envelope). EIC of Mol Microbiol.
Marnix Medema @marnixmedema.bsky.social Professor of Bioinformatics at Wageningen University and Leiden University. Natural product discovery, microbiomes, method development.
Gina Lewin @ginalewin.bsky.social Assistant Prof at Case Western studying microbial interactions in the oral and vaginal microbiomes (and beyond!). Also find me outside, baking, coloring, or sleeping.
thelewinlab.com
Andreas Peschel @andreaspeschel.bsky.social Professor of Microbiology at the University of Tübingen, studying Staphylococcus biology and pathogenicity
Mariana Byndloss @maribyndloss.bsky.social 🇧🇷 🇺🇸 DVM/PhD | Host-microbiota metabolic interactions | Associate Professor | HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar | Mom | Dog lover | Views are my own
hostmicrobe @hostmicrobe.bsky.social Scientist working at the intersection of immunology, microbiology and genomics. Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Institute for Infectious and Zoonotic Diseases at UPenn.
Victor J. Torres @torreslab.bsky.social Scientist fascinated by infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions and bacterial infections. Views my own 🇵🇷 #CienciaBoricua #MacFellow #MRSA
Typas Lab @typaslab.bsky.social Systems Microbiology @EMBL, combining high-throughput approaches & mechanism in bacteria, antibiotics, microbiome, infection, species diversity, cell envelope
https://www.embl.org/groups/typas/