Pontus Skoglund @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social Ancient DNA, evolution, and the human past. Senior group leader leading the research of the Ancient Genomics lab at the Francis Crick Institute. http://www.skoglundlab.org
Linda Koch @linkonrg.bsky.social Chief Editor @ Nature Reviews Genetics (@natrevgenet.nature.com)
Half 🇩🇪, half 🇫🇷, raised in 🇵🇹, now in 🇬🇧.
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Roberta Kwok @robertakwok.bsky.social Author of LOST IN CURIOSITY: Field Notes From Scientists' Adventures into the Unknown (available now from Sourcebooks): https://www.robertakwok.com/book. MIT Knight Fellow '20. Bylines in NYT, NewYorker.com, Nature, Audubon, etc.
Ross Otto @arossotto.bsky.social a psychology research and teaching guy at McGill
research interest, mild-mannered personal interests
otto.lab.mcgill.ca
Aaron Derfel @aaronderfel.bsky.social I'm an investigative journalist at the Montreal Gazette. You can also find me on Mastodon at mas.to/@aderfel and Telegram at t.me/AaronDerfel.
My bio: https://www.concordia.ca/faculty/aaron-derfel.html
Helen Pearson @helenpearson.bsky.social Author of BEYOND BELIEF (2026) | Senior Editor at Nature | Honorary Professor of Practice at UCL | science journalist, author, speaker
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
c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social Molecular biologist from Texas, here to share my meanderings on nature, science, history, politics, and zombies. Long threads a specialty.
Genes & Development @genesdev.bsky.social G&D publishes high-quality research in molecular biology, cancer biology, development, neuroscience and related fields. In addition, G&D also publishes comprehensive Review Articles, Perspectives and Outlooks written by leading scientists.
Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social Professor at UC Davis
Work: phylogenomics & microbiomes; wildlife and aquatic microbiology; #openscience;
Other: #birds; baseball; T1D
Lab phylogenomics.me
Pics jonathaneisen.smugmug.com
Links linktr.ee/jonathaneisen
TED go.ted.com/6WPm
Doudna Lab @doudna-lab.bsky.social News from Jennifer Doudna's lab at UC Berkeley, Innovative Genomics Institute. Tweets from lab members and not Jennifer Doudna unless signed JD. Tweets represent personal views only.
doudnalab.org
Genome Research @genomeresearch.bsky.social A leading peer-reviewed genomics journal. https://genome.cshlp.org
Submit: http://submit.genome.org
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.
Krystal Tsosie @kstsosie.bsky.social Indigenous geneticist & bioethicist.
Thinking about who owns DNA—and who benefits.
Data sovereignty, genomics & AI ethics.
Daniel MacArthur @dgmacarthur.bsky.social Genomics, big data, open science, diversity. Director of the Centre for Population Genomics, focused on building a more equitable future for genomic medicine. Opinions my own.
Tuuli Lappalainen @tuuliel.bsky.social Professor at KTH, NY Genome Center, SciLifeLab, working on functional genomics and human genetics.
Nature Reviews Genetics @natrevgenet.nature.com Publishing reviews and commentaries across the fields of genetics and genomics. Part of Springer Nature and Nature Portfolio.
https://www.nature.com/nrg/
Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social physician-scientist, author, editor
https://www.scripps.edu/faculty/topol/
Ground Truths https://erictopol.substack.com
SUPER AGERS https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Super-Agers/Eric-Topol/9781668067666
Paul Knoepfler @stemcells.bsky.social Professor at UC Davis studying cancer & stem cell epigenomics. I also do outreach and blog The Niche http://ipscell.com Also stem cell YouTube channel http://cutt.ly/vcsev4J STAT column https://www.statnews.com/category/lab-dish-paul-knoepfler/
Dr. Céline Gounder @celinegounder.com MEDICINE / INFECTIOUS DISEASES / EPIDEMIOLOGY / JOURNALISM
🔹 Editor-at-Large for Public Health at @KFFhealthnews.bsky.social
🔹 Medical Correspondent for CBS News
🔹 Prof/Doc at NYU Grossman School of Medicine & Bellevue Hospital
HHMI @hhmi-science.bsky.social We invest in scientists at all career stages who make discoveries that advance human health for decades to come.
Will Francis @zcosini.bsky.social Literary Agent with Janklow & Nesbit. Awaiting Silent Tristero’s Empire
Usha Lee McFarling @usha.bsky.social I direct the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT. Working hard to advance science journalism and support its practitioners at a time they are needed more than ever.
Katie Palmer @katiepalmer.bsky.social Health tech correspondent at STAT News (www.statnews.com)
Share tips: katie.palmer@statnews.com
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David States MD PhD @statesdj.bsky.social Chief Science/Medical Officer Angstrom Bio, Austin, TX COI: Our company is developing high throughput diagnostics
@statesdj@genomic.social
@statesdj@bsky.social
Pengyao Jiang @pyjiang.bsky.social New AP at MechofEvolution of ASU. PhD @Uchicago EE. postdoc at Kelley__Harris lab. Evolution, mutation rate, robustness, yeast, fly, genetics, and genomics. https://pyjiang.github.io opinion of my own
Mikkel Heide Schierup @mikkelschierup.bsky.social population genetics, evolution, fertility, speciation, sex chromosomes, spermatogenesis, mutation, Neanderthals
Inigo Martincorena @imartincorena.bsky.social Scientist. Group leader at the Sanger Institute, Cambridge UK. Somatic mutation and selection in normal tissues, cancer and ageing.
laliggett @laliggett.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow studying somatic mutation, CHIP, and leukemogenesis at Boston Children's, Broad Institute, and Harvard Med. (@la_liggett on Twitter)
Matthew Neville @mattneville.bsky.social Postdoctoral scientist @ MGH/Broad/Harvard. Sperm sequencing, de novo mutation, prenatal screening.
Alinikula lab @shmgroup.bsky.social Somatic hypermutation of immunoglobulin genes drives the production of protective antibodies. But how does the mutation machinery know where to hit?
Research team lead by Jukka Alinikula at the University of Turku.
Anshul Vasisht @anshul-v.bsky.social Research assistant at the Sanger Institute, Cambridge UK. Asking chromosomes why are you unstable? Investigation under progress...
Liz Enyenihi @lenyenihi.bsky.social G2 Harvard-MIT MD-PhD program | Somatic mutations in neurodegeneration in Chris Walsh lab | 🇩🇲 🇳🇬
Vinayak (Vinay) Viswanadham, PhD @vinayakvsv.bsky.social Postdoc and previously PhD and MMSc at @harvardmed.bsky.social @harvard.edu; previously undergrad at @berkeleyengineer.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social. I study somatic mutations in cancer, brains, and gene editing. Views my (he/him/his) own
Chuling Ding @c-ding.bsky.social Posdoc @Wellcome Sanger Institute
Somatic mutations in lung diseases
Constantijn Scharlee @cscharlee.bsky.social Affiliated researcher Broad Institute (Getz lab), ex-EMBL-EBI (Coorens group), medical student at KU Leuven. Somatic mutations, oncology, digital pathology. 🇧🇪🇳🇱
Zinan Zhou @zinan-zhou.bsky.social Postdoc in the Walsh lab at BCH. Incoming Assistant Professor, Dept. of Neurology & Center for MND, UChicago. Studying somatic mutations in neurodegeneration.
Sofie Lundgren @sofielundgren.bsky.social M.D./Ph.D at the University of Helsinki. Hematology, immunology, rogue T cells, somatic mutations.
Maya Talukdar @mayatalukdar.bsky.social G3 @ Harvard/MIT MD-PhD Program studying sex differences, somatic mutations, neuro, & their intersections with Chris Walsh and David Page! #BillsMafia
Cora Olpe @coraolpe.bsky.social Postdoc in neural stem cell biology
Passionate science communicator, keen swimmer and crochet enthusiast
Adult neurogenesis, somatic mutations, neurodegeneration
Antoranlab @antoranlab.bsky.social Cancer, somatic mutations, Epithelioid models and cell competition
Nick Chavkin @nickchavkin.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Pediatric Cardiology - Seattle Children’s Research Institute - University of Washington. Cardiovascular Biology, Endothelial Cells, Age-Related Somatic Mutations, Cell Cycle, Heart Failure.
Tijs van Lieshout @magiduck.bsky.social PhD student within the Functional Genomics group (Franke lab), University Medical Centre Groningen. Interested in gene networks, sequence-based models and non-coding somatic mutations
Bartomeu Colom @bartomeucolom.bsky.social Senior Scientist @altoslabs, previously @sangerinstitute.bsky.social. Stem cells, somatic mutations & cell competition in aging and early cancer. Views are my own.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=o5vRhIAAAAAJ
Hunter Shain @shainlab.bsky.social UCSF, Department of Dermatology. Part of HTAN. Cancer, genomics, melanoma, cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma, dermatology, somatic mutations, tumor evolution, spatial transcriptomics, single-cell
Frédéric Rieux-Laucat @frl-lab.bsky.social The Immunogenetics of Pediatric Autoimmune Diseases Lab @institut Imagine (https://www.institutimagine.org/fr), focuses on Primary Immune Deficiencies and Dysregulations (PIDDs)
#Autoimmunity
#Immunology
#Genetics
#mutations (germline and/or somatic)
Alex Hoischen @ahoischen.bsky.social Genomic technologies: WES/WGS, long-read sequencing, optical genome mapping, somatic mutations;
Immuno-genomics: rare diseases; immunodeficiencies; inborn errors of immunity; clonal hematopoiesis
https://shorturl.at/MxQ7O
https://www.immuno-genomics.com
Ian Watson Lab @ianwatsonlab.bsky.social Melanoma Research Lab @ Goodman Cancer Institute, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Biochemistry and Human Genetics Department at McGill University
Will Foulkes @willfoulkes.bsky.social Clinical and Lab Cancer Genetics. Chair Dept Human Genetics, McGill. “I saw no need to paint the sky”.
McGill Human Genetics Student Society @mcgill-hgss.bsky.social Welcome to the McGill Human Genetics Student Society! We’re your window into groundbreaking research, innovative projects, and the vibrant voices of our academic community.
McGill Human Genetics @mcgill-hg.bsky.social McGill University Department of Human Genetics is committed to training scientists, genetic counsellors, medical students, and medical specialists in various areas of medical genetics.
https://www.mcgill.ca/humangenetics/
Guillaume Bourque @guilbourque.bsky.social Prof in Human Genetics at McGill, Director of Bioinformatics at the McGill Genome Center and Director of @C3Genomics
https://computationalgenomics.ca/BourqueLab/
Alex Diaz-Papkovich @alexandr.bsky.social Statistician and mathematician. Postdoc working on population genetics at the Data Science Institute at Brown University. UWaterloo, Carleton, and McGill alum. Skeets are my own. He/him.
https://github.com/diazale
Uku Vainik @ukuvainik.bsky.social Professor of behavioral genetics with my own twins. I mix behaviour and genetics at Tartu & McGill to understand obesity. I also mix global music as a DJ.
Satoshi Yoshiji, MD, PhD @satoshiyoshiji.bsky.social Assistant Prof & PI at McGill University (@mcgill.ca) using human genetics & multi-omics for drug discovery | Endocrinologist | PhD at McGill & KyotoU | Visiting Scholar at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard & MGH
Twitter: https://x.com/satoshiyoshiji
Nature Medicine @natmed.nature.com Nature Medicine is a research journal devoted to publishing the latest advances in translational and clinical research for scientists and physicians.
www.nature.com/nm
Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology @natrevclinonc.nature.com The latest clinical diagnostic, treatment & personalized medicine advances & more from Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, a reviews journal.
Saheli Sadanand @sahelisadanand.bsky.social Deputy Editor at Nature Medicine | Handling & overseeing research in #Oncology #Immunology #Immunotherapy #InfectiousDiseases | Fan of vaccines, 🦖 & democracy | Views all mine
Daniel Engber @engber.bsky.social Senior editor, The Atlantic
Sarah Zhang @sarahzhang.bsky.social eukaryote, also a staff writer at the atlantic
Charles Piller @charlespiller.bsky.social Investigative reporter @sciencemagazine. Before: investigations for @statnews @sacbee_news @latimes. cpiller@charlespiller.com - Signal: cpiller.01 - Author of the book "Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer's"
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics @molgen.mpg.de The Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin. We want to understand how the genome works and how it is regulated, especially during embryonic development & disease. Imprint: https://www.molgen.mpg.de/impressum
Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social #societyjournal (ESEB), covering #evolution across all organisms
#genetics #genomics #selection #lifehistory #evodevo #popgen #theory #speciation #morphometrics #phylogenetics #phylogeography
https://academic.oup.com/jeb
http://jevbio.net
Nature Genetics @natgenet.nature.com Nature Genetics is a monthly journal publishing high impact research in genetics and genomics. Part of @natureportfolio.bsky.social
Repost/like=interesting/relevant, not necessarily endorsement.
Eric Turkheimer @ent3c.bsky.social Behavior genetics, clinical psychology, Mets. Occasional politics.
Substack (free): https://ericturkheimer.substack.com/
Book Is Out! Understanding the Nature-Nurture Debate
https://shorturl.at/Ce2hf
Electronic Version: https://shorturl.at/Fq2jv
Jacob Schreiber @jmschreiber91.bsky.social Studying genomics, machine learning, and fruit. My code is like our genomes -- most of it is junk.
Assistant Professor UMass Chan
Previously IMP Vienna, Stanford Genetics, UW CSE.
Antonio Regalado @antonioregalado.bsky.social Journalist covering biotechnology for MIT Technology Review. Scoops about new methods in genetics and cell biology. The "playing God" beat. Gene editing, gene therapy, ancient DNA, synthetic embryos, cloning, etc.
Wellcome Sanger Institute @sangerinstitute.bsky.social We are a world leader in genomics research. We apply and explore genomic technologies to advance the understanding of biology and improve health 🧬
https://www.sanger.ac.uk/
Hao Zhu Lab at UT Southwestern @haozhulab.bsky.social Physician-scientist at Children's Research Institute at UT Southwestern. Focused on #LiverCancer and organ regeneration.
Shannon Palus @shanpalus.bsky.social Features editor at Slate with a special interest in science and health. Writer and runner.
Emily Sohn @emilysohn.bsky.social Journalist covering health, science, environment, adventure. Writing a book about creatures adapting to disruption. Bylines: National Geographic, NYT, Outside, Nature, bioGraphic, more. http://tidepoolsinc.com
Katherine J. Wu @katherinejwu.com staff writer at The Atlantic, covering science. former microbiologist / forever cat enthusiast. (she/her) SIGNAL: @katherinejwu.12
Heidi Ledford @heidiledford.bsky.social Reporter for Nature, mostly covering biology and medicine.
Probably has more Nature publications than you😁.
hledford.01 (Signal) and heidiledford (@proton.me)
Hannah Waters @hanner.bsky.social senior editor @quantamagazine.org covering biology | former climate editor at Audubon | send story tips and pitches: hwaters@quantamagazine.org | quantamagazine.org/biology
work portfolio: hanjeanwat.com/about
Sarah Karlin-Smith @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social Research Director at Public Citizen's Access to Medicines program.
Former journalist covering intersection of pharma, health policy & politics.
On Signal at SarahKarlinSmith.34
Views are mine.
Sarah Laskow @slaskow.bsky.social senior editor at the Atlantic. I think a lot about climate, disease, animals, plants, risk, kids, New York City, and sometimes other cities too
Quinn Eastman @qeastman.bsky.social Interested in sleep/neuroscience. Author of "The Woman Who Couldn't Wake Up." Technical editor/communications for Emory Dept of Human Genetics- H Ira Flatow @heyira.bsky.social Host and founder of Science Friday, 500 public radio stations, podcasts. Avid science nerd, geek bread baker, orchid, caretaker. Awful poker player.
Nels Elde @elearlybird.bsky.social Evolutionary genetics and cell biology. And co-host of This Week in Evolution: www.microbe.tv/twievo/ Elde lab: cellvolution.org Opinions: my own, not employers
Susan Cosier @susancosier.bsky.social Science and environmental journalist based in Chicago. Words in Science, Scientific American, WSJ, New York Times for Kids, National Geographic, etc. https://susancosier.com/, susancosier.22 on Signal
Riverhead Books @riverheadbooks.bsky.social We’re a publisher dedicated to extraordinary, ground-breaking, unique fiction and non-fiction writers and their work.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/privacy/
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
Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social Freelance writer, editor, columnist & consultant. Formerly at Scientific American, Washington Post, National Geographic, Slate, Smithsonian & Science. Past president of National Association of Science Writers. Birder.
Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of Becoming Earth (Random House) ✵ Contributing writer, New York Times Magazine ✵ Naturalist, wildlife gardener & photographer, baker ✵ 🇱🇧🇺🇸🏳️🌈 ✵ Surname rhymes with neighbor ✵ https://www.ferrisjabr.com
Katharine Gammon @kategammon.bsky.social Science, health, tech, environment journalist writing for The Guardian, The Atlantic, Nautilus, Forbes and others. Living by the beach.
Katharinegammon.com
Jaime Green @jaimealyse.bsky.social Author of THE POSSIBILITY OF LIFE (2023), AT HOME IN THE STARS (2029) | series editor of THE BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE AND NATURE WRITING || she/her || jaimegreen.net
Julia Belluz @juliabelluz.bsky.social Health journalist, contributing opinion writer @nytimes Formerly @voxdotcom, @MIT Knight Fellow etc. Book: https://tinyurl.com/yx2kmsp4
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: NYT Bestselling “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Jeffrey Townsend @jeffreytownsend.bsky.social Elihu Professor of Biostatistics @yalesph.bsky.social--Evolutionary biology of cancer, infectious disease, and fungi; sometimes running.
Mike McConnell @mikemc43.bsky.social Neuroscientist, brain mosaicist, single cell enthusiast, and stem cell fan advocating for patient-centered research to improve the lives of those living with rare neurological diseases.
David Quammen @quammen.bsky.social Author and journalist. The Song of the Dodo, Spillover, The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, The Tangled Tree, Breathless, and other books. Most recently, The Heartbeat of the Wild. Bunch of magazine work since 1981.
Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social Journalist and author. Ex-Business Insider, ex-Wired. Hosted a podcast about an Alien TV show. Wrote a book about booze and a book about colors.
Signal: @jetjocko.15
https://adam-rogers.net
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
Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com Climate journalist based in NYC. Only speaking for myself. If the NYT has no haters I'm dead.
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Rebecca Boyle 🌕 @rboyle31.bsky.social Journalist, selenophile, hiker, Coloradan. Friend of dogs, foe of AI. I speak for the Moon.
Life is short but sweet for certain.
Author of award-winning national bestseller OUR MOON!
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