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The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now.
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Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social Correspondent on the Daily Show. Standup Comic & Emmy-nominated writer. Listen to the Josh Johnson Show podcast on Spotify + Apple
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social 1. Writer (https://www.adamsharp.me/)
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Katy Stephenson @kstephensonmd.bsky.social Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Infectious diseases doc and scientist at Center for Virology and Vaccine Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. #IDsky
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Robyn Hall @viroepivet.bsky.social Canberra, Australia. Discoverer of things. Board certified veterinary virologist, epidemiologist, veterinarian, disease ecologist, bushwalker, greyhound mum, amateur astronomer. 🦠🐄🐇🐔👩⚕️🥾🐾🌌
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.
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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
Marisa Donnelly, PhD @marisadonnelly.bsky.social Your Local Epidemiologist in New York https://yourlocalepidemiologistny.substack.com/ 🗽Wastewater Epi @ Biobot 💩, CDC EIS Alum 🕵🏼♀️ NYC-based 🌇 views are my own 🩵
Those Nerdy Girls @thosenerdygirls.bsky.social A team of women & non-binary scientists & clinicians here to empower people to better navigate science & health info. Creators of Dear Pandemic.
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Alexandra Phelan 余雪莲 @alexandraphelan.bsky.social Associate Professor, Global Health Law, Johns Hopkins
- Senior Scholar, Center for Health Security
- Director (Policy), Institute for Planetary Health
International law, infectious diseases, pandemics, equity, solidarity & justice
Crystal Watson @crwatson.bsky.social Deputy Director of the Center for Outbreak Response Innovation #CORI
Deputy Director, Region 3 PHPR Center Associate Professor JHU CHS @centerforhealthsecurity.org
Public health and #decisionscience
Matt Watson @bioandbaseball.bsky.social #Biosecurity, #Biodefense, #Biotech, Pandemic Preparedness
DaemonSky @dsky.bsky.social Biosecurity, outbreaks, apocalypses, language & conspiracy. Former Fed. Intellectual magpie. Dogs, SciFi, nerdery. Views my own.
Lindsay Wiley @lindsaywiley.bsky.social Law prof at UCLA. Posting about health law, policy & ethics, public health, global health, social & legal epidemiology
Søren Neermark @sneermark.bsky.social Works with preparedness | Passionate about emergency response, infectious diseases, OSINT & geopolitics 🌍 | Fun fact: Я люблю лакрицю і намагаюся вчити українську (I love licorice and I'm trying to learn Ukrainian)
Angela Huttner @angelahuttner.bsky.social Infectious diseases MD (Geneva University Hospital, Switzerland), editor-in-chief at CMI Communications, ESCMID's open-access journal, co-host of Communicable, CMI Comms/ESCMID podcast.
#IDSky #MedSky #AMR #UTI
Martin Enserink @martinenserink.bsky.social Deputy news editor, Science magazine. Infectious diseases, global health, scientific integrity, science policy. Based in Amsterdam. Cat lover.
David Lim @davidlim.bsky.social Health reporter @POLITICO covering Covid-19 and the FDA. Prescription Pulse co-author.
Andrew Gregory @andrewgregory.com Editor, Health @theguardian.com
Dr Alison Peel @alibat.bsky.social 🦇 disease ecologist & veterinarian, Horizon Fellow at Sydney Uni, using One Health approaches to study #viralspillover from bats #TeamHB7 She/her.
Isaac Bogoch @isaacbogoch.bsky.social Infectious Diseases physician and scientist, with thoughts on Infectious Diseases, Tropical Medicine, HIV Prevention, Public Health, Biosecurity, and Global Health issues.
Tulio de Oliveira @tuliodna.bsky.social Professor of medical research leading global genomics surveillance. Director CERI at Stellenbosch University and KRISP at UKZN, South Africa. Views my own.
Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org Our World in Data is a free, nonprofit website with a mission to increase understanding of the world’s largest problems and drive informed action to solve them. Based out of Oxford University (@ox.ac.uk), founded by @maxroser.bsky.social.
Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca 🚑 Providing medical care where & when it’s needed.
🥼 Fournir des soins médicaux humanitaires là où les besoins sont les plus grands.
Independent. Neutral. Impartial. | Indépendant. Neutre. Impartial.
doctorswithoutborders.ca | medecinssansfrontieres.ca
Merle Eisenberg @merleeisenberg.bsky.social Asst. Prof. History, Oklahoma State U.
Vice-Chair, OK State Faculty Council
PhD, Princeton University
Middle Ages & Late Antiquity | Pandemics & Plague | Environmental
Podcast: infectioushistorians.com
Also: Arsenal | UConnWBB | Mets | Vikings
Shana Gadarian @sgadarian.bsky.social Professor, Political Science | Syracuse University, Maxwell School | American politics, political psychology | Co-author of Anxious Politics and Pandemic Politics
Fever: Global Histories of (a) Disease @feverprojecthd.bsky.social The ERC project lead by Stefanie Gänger, with Yijie Huang, Teresa Göltl, Jenny Sure, and Lea Trigilia at Heidelberg University explores the history of fever in societies within or tied to the Atlantic World.
https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/en/fever-project
Pandemic Center at Brown University’s School of Public Health @pandemiccenter.bsky.social Working to stop pandemics, biological emergencies and the harms they pose to health, peace, security, and prosperity.
A Pandemic Podcast @apanpod.bsky.social Discussing the ongoing global pandemic in round table discussions to bring greater understanding to current research, best practices, and community care.
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social Sociologist/demographer specializing in mortality, racial inequity, Covid-19. Avid theater-goer, inconsistent powerlifter, and erstwhile operator of an all-volunteer bookstore. Preschool parent. Living not-quite-car-free in Minneapolis. she/her
Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social Critical histories of science and medicine, science studies, postcolonial endeavours. New book on modern excrementalities: Spectacles of Waste (Polity). Writing mostly on disease ecologies and planetary health now. Living on Wangal country.
Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social Haligonian, Medievalist, Author, Historian of Medicine, Science, and Religion. Dad to kids and cats. Playing piano, MTG, D&D, BG3
Carine van Rhijn🟥 @carinevanrhijn.bsky.social Historian of things early medieval at Utrecht University.
Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social Professor. Attorney, historian, public health ethicist. Always all ways public health. Jiujitsu🟤, Star Wars, Batman, Coffee. #LegalEpi #Stigma #PHLaw #PHEthx #Disability #HistPubHealth (all opinions mine) H/h/h. ✡️
Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social Epidemiologist. AIDS Activist. Dog lover. New Haven.
Cindy Ermus @cindyermus.bsky.social Mom; Wilson Assoc Prof in History of Medicine; Dir of medical humanities; Series Ed for France Overseas, U Neb Press; cofounder ageofrevolutions.com; FRHistS; NEH Fellow 2022.
Book: Great Plague Scare of 1720 (Cambridge 2023).
Views my own.
Society for Epidemiologic Research @societyforepi.bsky.social Established in 1968 to foster epidemiologic research, the Society for Epidemiologic Research is the oldest and largest general epidemiology society in North America.
Hampton Gaddy @hggaddy.bsky.social Demographer | PhD student @lseechist.bsky.social | Incoming postdoc @magdalenoxford.bsky.social | Usually working on the 1918 flu | he/him | https://hggaddy.github.io/
Courtney E. Thompson @cethompson.bsky.social #histmed #histSTM #emohist #bodyhist | Assoc. prof. at Mississippi State | Osiris Editor | #AnOrganofMurder | #ACalculusofCompassion | Winnie & Gigi #pupdates | extremely online
Emily Webster, PhD, MSc @emilywebz.bsky.social Assistant Professor in the History and Philosophy of Health and Medicine at
Durham University. #Epidemics #Environment #Health past and present.
Jacob Steere-Williams @steerewilliams.bsky.social Historian of disease and the environment. College of Charleston. New book in the works on all things disinfection and the Anthropocene
Dr. Cecília Tomori @drtomori.bsky.social 🇭🇺🇺🇸 Anthropologist/Public Health Prof breastfeeding, lactation, MNCH, reproduction, public health, health policy, equity, justice 🤱🏾🤱🏽🤱 posts - my own. https://nursing.jhu.edu/faculty-research/faculty/directory/cecilia-tomori/
Dr. Jim Downs @jimdowns.bsky.social Author of Author of Maladies of Empire & Sick from Freedom; Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation; Gilder Lehrman NEH Prof at Gettysburg College; https://www.jimdownsofficial.com
Andrew Wehrman @profwehrman.bsky.social History professor at CMU and author of "The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution" Vaccination is patriotic.
New book project(!) tentatively titled: Afterlife and Liberty: New York City’s Doctors’ Riot of 1788
Guido Alfani @guidoalfani.bsky.social Economic historian & Historical demographer at Bocconi University, Milan. Affiliated scholar of the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, NY.
Working on the history of inequality and social mobility and on the history of pandemics & other catastrophes
Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social Historian of medicine, gender, & politics. Executive Editor Emerita, @nursingclio.
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-nursing-clio-reader/9781978838598/
Forthcoming Book: Doctoring the West: Women Physicians & the Politics & Practice of Medicine
Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir @kristjana.bsky.social Epidemiologist, infectious diseases & global health. Feminist, lottery immigrant 🇮🇸🇺🇸, nerd. She/her.
Associate Prof at University of Iceland via University of Washington.
Goddamnit, you've got to be kind.
Rachel Singer @rachelbsinger.bsky.social Environmental historian of first-millennium Britain/Ireland and Merovingian Gaul.
PhD Candidate at Georgetown researching infectious disease, rebel nuns, and disaster.
Philly sports fan and weird rescue animal enthusiast by night.
rachelbsinger.com
Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social Chancellor's Fellow at Uni of Edinburgh (STIS & CBSS)
Author of 'Mapping AIDS' (CUP), co-author of 'Sulphuric Utopias' (MIT)
PI at the Epidemy Lab (ERC): http://epidemy.org
Flurin Condrau @fcondrau.bsky.social Professor of the history of medicine @uzh_en in Switzerland; interested in #HistSTM, #histmed. Co-editor of Social History of Medicine; using BlueSky in personal capacity.
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
Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social Quick! Somebody call an anthropologist! Assoc prof @ Northwestern. MedAnthro. African studies. Pop culture. Politics. She/her. book: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816692439/hiv-exceptionalism/
Jules Skotnes-Brown @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social Historian of animals, health, science, and colonialism. PI of 'Conserving Global Health: Biodiversity Protection and the Prehistory of Planetary Health' (Wellcome Trust), University of Liverpool: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/jules-skotnes-brown
Robin Wolfe Scheffler @biohistorian.bsky.social Historian of biology, medicine, and beyond at MIT
Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social Historian of bugs & drugs: interested in #microbes #antibiotics #vaccines #phages; author of: Pyrrhic Progress (2020), Bearing Witness (2021), Typhoid (2022), Fear & Fever (2024) - Associate Professor INSERM (CERMES3, Paris): https://www.bugsdrugs.org/
Gregg Mitman @greggmitman.bsky.social Historian of science, medicine, and environment.
Prof at UW-Madison, LMU Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. ERC Advanced Grant: fragmentsoftheforest.com.
Chasing ecologies and power across viral divides.
Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social Assistant Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. PhD from Stanford. Natural history and medicine in the early modern Mediterranean. Forthcoming book: A History of Uncertainty.
Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social Epidemics, environments, and state power in the USSR. Currently: Research Fellow in Global Health History at the University of Leeds. 🇨🇦 in 🇬🇧. PhD from New York University (2025)
Center for Microbial Dynamics and Infection @cmdi.bsky.social Our team of researchers at GeorgiaTech investigate mechanisms and consequences of microbial community dynamics both in the environment and during infection. https://sites.gatech.edu/cmdi/
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.
Elizabeth O'Brien @eobrien.bsky.social Associate Professor at UCLA, Department of History
Historian of medicine, gender, race, and Mexico
Book: Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770–1940
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469675879/surgery-and-salvation/
Elizabeth Toon @eblucyclio.bsky.social #histmed (women's health, prev & #healthcomm); tweets #scicomm #medhum #sts. Avid knitter, coffee drinker, cat lover. She/her.
Suman Seth is Mortal & Measuring @alltoosuman.bsky.social Historian of Science and Medicine. Author of Mortality and Measurement: Race-Medicine, Statistics, and Empire (Cambridge, 2027); Difference and Disease: Race, Medicine, and the 18th Century British Empire (CUP, 2018); Crafting the Quantum (MIT, 2010).
Alex Parry, Ph.D. @safetyworkhstm.bsky.social Historian of home injuries, public health, and product safety at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Former Ph.D. student and graduate worker organizer at Johns Hopkins. Still frustrated and/or over-caffeinated.
Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him
📷 Canon R6mkii + RF 800mm
Edyong.me
Mircea T. Sofonea @mtsofonea.bsky.social 🦠 Epidemiologist @umontpellier.bsky.social & Nîmes Univ Hosp (FR).
Research head of @institutexposum.bsky.social.
🔎 respiratory viruses, emerging infectious diseases, pandemic preparedness. #EpiSky #IDSky
www.linkedin.com/in/mircea-t-sofonea-20b91b77
Tom Peacock @peacockflu.bsky.social Virologist - Influenza and Coronaviruses
Michelle Wille @duckswabber.bsky.social Avian influenza & avian virome ecology | "Expert in Ducks" | (she/her) | michellewille.com