Chris McDonald MP @chrismcdonaldmp.bsky.social MP for Stockton, Billingham and Norton
Ben Shave @ben-shave.bsky.social I work at the House of Commons. Currently: Science, Innovation and Technology select committee. Previously: Public Accounts and Brexit committees.
Apart from that, I'm mostly being a dad and cycling. My views.
Sarah Whalley @drsarahwhalley.bsky.social 🌿 Acting Head of Research Strategy & Policy at Queen's University Belfast & Co-Chair of ARMA Insights EWG
📬 Posts: H.E. strategy & policy
🙏Values: anti-racism & inclusivity; motivated to build thriving research environments
🎤All views my own (she/ her)
Olivia Rudgard @oliviarudgard.bsky.social Bloomberg Green reporter in the UK. How do we live now?
Writing about people, money, climate.
Mostly reporting, but any stray opinions are my own.
Stories: https://t.co/eIuIZiReQn
David Barber @davidbarber.bsky.social Director UCL Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Distinguished Scientist at UiPath
Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social I cover science and culture at Ars Technica. Former science editor, Gizmodo. Ex-vangelical. Rodeo fan. Married to @seanmcarroll, servant to two cats: Ariel and Caliban. Baltimore, MD. She/her.
Jessica Simor KC @jmpsimor.bsky.social Barrister, environment, energy, public law, human rights. Visiting Prof LSE & Goldsmiths.
Elena Simperl @elenasimperl.bsky.social Academic at King's College London, co-director of the King’s Institute for AI, director of research at the Open Data Institute. Working on the sociotechnicalities of data. Views my own.
Michael Le Page @mjflepage.bsky.social Award-winning reporter at New Scientist who clings to the belief that good journalism mattters. I write about life on Earth, inc climate ☀️, food 🍱, CRISPR 🧬 and biomed 💊
My bio & stories: https://www.newscientist.com/author/michael-le-page
Prof Jim Wild @jim-wild.bsky.social President of the Royal Astronomical Society, Professor of Space Physics at Lancaster University and lover of all things spacey. Fell-runner, EV enthusiast, film/soundtrack geek and curry fan. My own views etc.
Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social Epigenetic Inheritance, Neuroscience & anything biology-related
https://www.odedrechavilab.com/
q.e.d: https://www.qedscience.com
Organizer of “The Woodstock of Biology”
TED: https://shorturl.at/myFTY
Huberman Lab Podcast: https://youtu.be/CDUetQMKM6g
21 Group @21group.bsky.social The 21 Group campaigns against the complaisant acceptance of bullying by UK Universities. We provide support for those experiencing bullying in academia.
Robert Francis @birdhistory.bsky.social Writing about birds in people history and people in bird history
birdhistory.substack.com
Paul Jump @pauljump.bsky.social Features and opinion editor of @timeshighered.bsky.social
Rob Larter @polarrobs.bsky.social Polar marine scientist. UK Science Lead in Science Coordination Office of International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration. Views are my own.
On Mastodon @PoLaRobs@fediscience.org
Hannah Ritchie @hannahritchie.bsky.social Deputy Editor, Our World in Data
Senior Researcher, University of Oxford
Climate, energy, environment, all things data.
Laura Howes @laurahowes.bsky.social Editor (she/her) @cenmag.bsky.social into biomolecules, drug discovery, and biotech. Also beer, skiing, and the joys of being an immigrant in Germany. All views expressed here are absolutely mine, especially when they're right. DM for Signal.
Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com Zooarchaeologist. 🏺
Museums & Heritage Researcher. 📜
Science Communicator & Writer. 🧪
Chinese-American Immigrant in the UK.
She/Her/她. All views my own. 🏳️🌈♿️
https://dralexfitzpatrick.carrd.co/
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social
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
Alexander Kasprzyk @amkasprzyk.bsky.social https://kasprzyk.work
Algebraic Geometry • Combinatorics • Mirror Symmetry • Machine Learning
Mathematician at the University of Warwick.
Editor-in-Chief for “Experimental Mathematics”.
Member of EPSRC’s Math Strategic Advisory Team.
Jon Butterworth @jonbutterworth.bsky.social Physics prof @UCL, researcher @CERN, author
Thorwald Stein @thmstein.bsky.social I study (physical) clouds and thunderstorms for a living. 🇳🇱🏳️🌈🌦️
👨🏻🏫 University of Reading
🏡 Poole, Dorset, UK
These words are my own (and sometimes not) and do not represent my employer or hometown.
Nivedita Sarveswaran @neuroniv.bsky.social Postdoc in pain genetics & nociceptor biology @TheCIMR | via @biokent @UCLQSIoN @YaleMed | 🇦🇺🇬🇧🇱🇰
Simon Williams @si-wills.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Associate | Quantum Computing Applications for Theoretical Physics
Philippa Grand @philippagrand.bsky.social Head of Publishing @lsepress.bsky.social. Non profit open access publishing for the social sciences. Find out more about publishing with us at https://press.lse.ac.uk.- M Mark Sullivan @marksullivanastro.bsky.social Professor of Astrophysics and Associate Dean (Research) at University of Southampton
Simon Blackburn @simonrblackburn.bsky.social Combinatorics, Algebra, Cryptography. Professor of Pure Mathematics at Royal Holloway University of London. Maths enthusiast. Cat enthusiast. Woking Rail Enthusiast.
Ben Yong @bymyong.bsky.social "Estimable" Sir Jonathan Jones KC
Associate Prof in Public Law, Durham Law School. Looks at how legislatures and govt works. https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/benjamin-y-yong/
Mastodon: @bymyong@mstdn.social
Jonathan Pritchard @pritchardjr.bsky.social Bewildered vagabond and student of the stars. Professor of uncertain opinions. Radio cosmologist at MPIfR.
(Opinions mine, not employers)
Lucien Heurtier @lucienheurtier.bsky.social Theoretical Physicist at King's Coll. London @KCL_Physics #cosmology, #particles, #Universe, #darkmatter, #blackholes. Write fast, the Universe expands...
https://lheurtier.github.io/index.html
Tara Shears @tarashears.bsky.social Particle Physicist, own views.
Saloni Krishnan @salonikrishnan.bsky.social Prof @ UCL | I study brains, language, learning and development | I also like cocktails and beaches
www.ncodelab.com- R Richard Brierley @rtbrierley.bsky.social I am an editor at Nature Physics. Opinions are my own
Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social Prince Philip Professor of Ecology & Evolution
@camzoology.bsky.social
I like brains.
www.shmontgomery.co.uk
Sam Gregson @badboyofscience.bsky.social Uni of Cambridge and LHC physicist (Graduated)
Science communicator and YouTuber
The Bad Boy of Science
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/badboyofscience
Sue @tartanmog.bsky.social Caring chocoholic green socialist. Staff to a mature rescue cat. Passionate about books, education & good coffee. Trying to be polite to those with different political views. Sorry but DMs not accepted.
Matt Hutchings @matthutchings.bsky.social Head of Molecular Microbiology @johninnescentre.bsky.social. Streptomyces natural products. Drummer, husband, dad, Norwich City ST holder.
www.jic.ac.uk/people/matt-hutchings
Streptomyces strains & resources @ http://streptomyces.org.uk
Alan Goddard @alangoddard.bsky.social Professor of Biotechnology at Aston Uni. Interested in all things membranes and biotech. All opinions my own (not sure anyone else would want them).
Matthew Freeman @mjafreeman.bsky.social Cell Biologist. Membrane proteins, rhomboids, signalling, inflammation, cancer, unknome...
Head, Dunn School of Pathology, @UniofOxford
And other stuff
Conor Fitzpatrick @fitzparticle.bsky.social Particle physicist (he/him)
Margaret Harris @drmlharris.bsky.social Award-winning science journalist at Physics World magazine @physicsworld.bsky.social. Also available as @DrMLHarris@mastodon.social. All views on science, politics, history, nonsense, etc. my own.
Arran Reader @arranreader.bsky.social Lecturer, University of Stirling ~ Brains / bodies / movement.
Jamie Blaza @jnb-lab.bsky.social PI of York Bioenergetics Lab in YSBL/ Department of Chemistry, University of York. Interested in biophysical methods to explore bioenergetics and microbiology, especially in tuberculosis
lab website : bioenergetics.site
ORCID: 0000-0001-5420-2116
Ken Rice @kenrice.bsky.social Interested in #scicomm, in particular about astronomy and climate change. Professor of Computational Astrophysics and Head of Institute for Astronomy, Univ. of Edinburgh. Views own, of course.
Paul Hoffman @paul-hoffman.bsky.social Reader in Psychology, University of Edinburgh. Working on the neuroscience of semantics, language and aphasia.
Blandine @blandinep84.bsky.social French-british Biomedical scientist at the University of Liverpool, working on osteoarthritis research.
Martin Humphries @martinhumphries.bsky.social Professor of Biochemistry, University of Manchester. Career interest in mechanisms of cell-matrix adhesion. Current interest in mechanosensing in pancreatic cancer and vascular dementia.
Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social Astronomer Royal for Scotland, Professor of Astrophysics, Edinburgh University. Author of How to Design a Universe. @astronomerroyal on insta (She/her)
😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social ACADEMIC PERSON
@UoNComputerSci, @UniOfNottingham, @TheOfficialMRL +
@HorizonDER
❑ RESEARCH COMBINES HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (#HCI) + ETHNOMETHODOLOGY (#EMCA)
Karla Holmboe @karlaholmboe.bsky.social Professor of Developmental Science at the University of Bristol. Investigating executive functions in infancy and early childhood. Obsessed with longitudinal research.
Dr Dave Clements @davecl.bsky.social Astrophysicist at Imperial College. Extragalactic astronomy, observational cosmology, astrobiology. Writes science fiction. Not speaking for anybody. Science for Fiction podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/7HzQoyNyNI115W3kgqZAku?si=jK0XQYAyS1ubvzD76spbEg
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.
Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social Cellular microbiologist, #UTI host/pathogen interactions, lab head at University College London, novelist, broadcaster, writer, pundit, sci comm, musician, gardener, Editor of LabLit.com, all things geek-chic. M7HZT on ham radio. More at jennyrohn.com
Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social نسرين العلوان🧿💚
Public Health Professor MBE
Southampton
Not afraid of my voice
Posting my personal views not those of any organisation
Reposts not necessarily endorsements
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
M Oliver
Christian Zierhut @zierlab.bsky.social Genome Stability and Innate Immunity Lab at the Institute of Cancer Research, London
https://www.zierhutlab.org/
Lewis Collins @drlewisac.bsky.social Microscopist and facility manager at University of Northampton. Background in entomology, neuroscience, behaviour, circadian, genetics, cancer, Evo Devo... Bit of everything.
Views are my own, probably down a microscope
@davidroper2.bsky.social @davidroper2.bsky.social Professor of Biochemistry at U.Warwick, UK. bacterial cell walls, cell division, antibiotic discovery and resistance mechanisms. I’m on
here for science just like @davidroper2. Views my own.
His name is Gus if you are wondering…
Giorgio Gilestro @giorgio.gilest.ro Associate Professor at Imperial College London.
https://lab.gilest.ro | lab website, science blog
https://giorgio.gilest.ro | politics and science comms
https://drosophila.social/@giorgiogilestro | mastodon
Paul Anastasiades @panastasiades.bsky.social Neuroscientist at University of Bristol. Cortical circuits, PFC, interneurons, dopamine, brain development.
https://www.anastasiades-lab.org
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
Ed Hollox @edhollox.bsky.social Professor of Genetics at U of Leicester. Genome structural variation.
"Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done." Views my own.
Tobias Warnecke @tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social Molecular evolution, chromatin, archaea and oddball biology. Associate Professor @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social Fellow @trinityoxford.bsky.social
Adrian Liston @labliston.bsky.social Professor of Pathology at the University of Cambridge. Equalities Fellow, Welfare Tutor and Director-of-Studies at St Catharine's College. Educator, scientist, immunologist, daddy. Founder and CSO of Aila Biotech Ltd.
Heather Ferguson @drheatherferg.bsky.social Prof of Medical #Entomology & Disease Ecology @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social & Visiting Scientist Ifakara Health Institute, Tanzania. #Malaria #Mosquito #NTDs #GlobalHealth #Equity
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/bohvm/staff/heatherferguson
Duncan Sproul @sproullab.bsky.social Group leader at MRC Human Genetics Unit, University of Edinburgh. Interdisciplinary research on disease #epigenetics. Part-time solo dad. Occasional music and climbing.
https://institute-genetics-cancer.ed.ac.uk/research/research-groups-a-z/sproul-group
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?
Ewan St. John Smith @psalmotoxin.bsky.social 👨🏻🔬& 👨🏻🏫🏳️🌈Neuroscientist in Cambridge UK interested in the neurobiology of pain and everything to do with naked mole-rats. 🏃🏻♂️, 📖 & 🤘
Mill_lab @cilialab.bsky.social Group at MRC HGU using genetics, cell biology and lots of imaging to unlock the mysteries of mammalian #cilia. #cilia. #centrioles #cytoskeleton #RareDisease www.cilialab.co.uk
Pradeepa Madapura @pradeepmadapura.bsky.social Scientist/Professor of Chromatin & Genome Regulation, Blizard Institute, @QMULepigenetics; views are my own. https://www.madapuralab.net/home
Richard Alexander @richardalexander.bsky.social Astrophysicist at the University of Leicester | Dad | Cyclist | Exiled Scot
https://rdalexander.github.io
Prof Stephen Serjeant @stephenserjeant.bsky.social Astronomy Prof at Open University. 26.2. #RejoinEU, £➡️€. Views not OU’s and often not even mine. He/him
🐘 https://mas.to/@stephenserjeant
🧵 https://www.threads.net/@prof.stephen.serjeant
ORCID 0000-0002-0517-7943 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0517-7943
John Stott @jpsastro.bsky.social Astrophysicist at Lancaster University. Mainly galaxy evolution, environment and feedback. Recent foray into machine learning and icebergs.
Christopher Berry @cplberry.bsky.social Gravitational-wave astrophysicist. University of Glasgow Senior Lecturer. Science, education, LEGO & cake. May contain traces of nuts
🐘 https://mastodon.online/@cplberry
📚 https://cplberry.com
Peter Coles 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social Theoretical astrophysicist specializing in the Universe and all that surrounds it. Based in Ireland. Personal account. Call me old-fashioned but I don't like fascists. He/him/his.
Blog: telescoper.blog
Martin Bourne 🏳️🌈 @astromartin.bsky.social Astrophysicist (at least in theory) and beagle dad! (he/him)
UKRI Hawking Fellow & Senior Lecturer at University of Hertfordshire.
Views are my own.
instagram.com/quee1896
John Towse @jntowse.bsky.social Cognitive science, research rigour, interesting interdisciplinary spaces (gambling harm, behavioural science in security, metascience)
Work: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1183-5508
Preferably outdoors in the NW of England.
DMs disabled.
Mark H Johnson @markhjoh.bsky.social Professor of Experimental Psychology at Cambridge; Developmental cognitive neuroscience; Interactive Specialization & brain development; Neurodiversity and brain plasticity; University leadership
Graeme Beale @midfyffe.bsky.social Works in @RESAS in the Scottish Government. Head of the Strategic Research Programme - Rural/Environment. Quaker. Writer of sub-par cat poems and other things.
Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social #NewPI interested in #immune #evolution, host #pathogen interactions, and #ScientificPublishing @ University of Exeter, UK. He/him. 🇨🇦
Dr_Aust_PhD @draustphd.bsky.social Grumpy old lab scientist (retd.), Uni teacher & centrist dad. Irked by trendy nonsense, own waistline, hair 📉 etc. NOT a medic - other ½ of NHS doctor. Long-ago 70s punk rock fan/ guitarist. 2 kids & now no dog (RIP). Personal views.
Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social Spread too thinly. Toronto. Originally from UK. Cancer biology researcher at Sinai Health. Also Prez of the Terry Fox Research Institute.
Cian O'Donnell @cianodonnell.bsky.social Computational neuroscientist.
Senior Lecturer at Ulster University in the Great City of Derry, Northern Ireland.
"not articulate enough"
https://odonnellgroup.github.io
Marc Dionne @marcsdionne.bsky.social Innate immunity, bacterial infection, physiology, microbiology, Drosophila. Poorly focused. Still angry. Professor, Department of Life Sciences and Centre for Bacterial Resistance Biology, Imperial College London.
TJ McCorvie @allostericstate.bsky.social Revealing the hidden world of shape shifting enzymes using Cryo-EM. Senior research associate at Newcastle University, UK. Currently working as part of Recon4IMD https://www.recon4imd.org Views are my own.
Aidan Maartens @aidanmaartens.bsky.social Scientific writer at the Sanger Institute. Formerly at Development journal, lapsed flypusher (Gurdon Institute, University of Sussex). Creative writing MA at UEA. Likes novels and gardens, lives in Cambridge. Immigrant.
Stephen Royle @steveroyle.bsky.social I'm into chord changes and cell biology.
Professor - University of Warwick. Director - The Company of Biologists. Views are my own and not those of any organisation I am associated with.
Mastodon: @steveroyle@biologists.social
Lab: https://roylelab.org
David Fisher @dfishstats.bsky.social Principal Research Fellow, MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, London. Medical statistician and meta-analysis methodologist. profiles.ucl.ac.uk/6604
Likes: cycling, hiking, maps, maths, whimsy. 90s-00s sad indie kid. Leftie woke blob adjacent.
Dr Cinzia Yates 🇮🇲🏴 @manxinwales.bsky.social Research Development professional, Ethnomusicologist (Celtic/trad music), probably definitely autistic, Manx traddy/muso, feminist lefty (but not loony), Xennial, Welsh Indy, punk, with a soft spot for cats. Hiraeth for Ellan Vannin. Afraid for humanity...
Vladimir Volkov 🇺🇦 @vladimirvolkov.bsky.social Reader in Biochemistry @QMUL. Interested in #biophysics #cryoET #multivalency. I post preprints.
he/him
volkovlab.com
Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social Conservation, curator in charge of birbs, island hopper, runner, connoisseur of fine teas, biscuit fiend, v left, queer af, Erdős–Bacon = 8, he/him.
[🏳️🌈🇨🇦🐧 and some 🇦🇺🇵🇳]
📍 Tring & Milton Keynes, UK
https://linktr.ee/albnd
Arto Maatta @artom.bsky.social Birding, moths, and general interest in nature. A retired Cell Biologist.
Dan Bose @danbose.bsky.social scientist (enhancers, eRNAs, IDRs and chromatin), Group Leader; bike-fettling, bird-watching, sword dancing, accordion-botherer
www.bose-lab.org
@danbose@biologists.social
Chris Wallace @chr1sw.bsky.social Using statistics and genomics to understand causal mechanisms and potential treatments for chronic immune mediated diseases.
R, emacs, rake.
CITIID and MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge, UK.
https://chr1swallace.gitlab.io
Prof Anthony Isles @profantisles.bsky.social #Neuroscience 🧠 | #ImprintedGenes 🧬 | #preclinical models 🐭🧫| MURIDAE lead @mrcmousenetwork.bsky.social | Cardiff University | posting in a personal capacity, mostly about science
https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/islesar1
Manav Pathania @manavpathania.bsky.social Unravelling the biology of brain tumours like #DMG #DIPG #glioma in children and young people. CRUK Career Establishment Award recipient 🏳️🌈🇮🇳🇭🇰🇲🇾🇸🇬🇺🇲🇬🇧
https://www.pathanialab.com
Silvia Paracchini @silparacchini.bsky.social Prof of Neurogenetics & Genomics @St Andrews and Bonn; interested in cognition, neurodevelopment, dyslexia and handedness. Co-Chair of the @sldnetwork.bsky.social. Made in Italy.
https://neurogenetics.st-andrews.ac.uk/
Dan Brierley @drdanbrierley.bsky.social Gut-Brain Neuroscientist (mostly focused on the brain end) | Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Dale Fellow | Group leader of UCL Gut-Brain Neurophysiology & Ingestive Behaviour lab | http://brierley-lab.org
Ana Viñuela @anavinuela.bsky.social Computational Biologist interested in genomics of age related diseases, T2D and more. Digo (más) tonterías en español. Lecturer at University of Dundee, UK.
🇪🇸->🇳🇱->🇬🇧->🇨🇭->🇬🇧->🏴
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3771-8537
Anastasia Christakou 💙 @christakou.bsky.social Professor of Neuroscience 👩🎓
own views 🐙 anastasia.christakou.org
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4267-3436
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