Jim Elser @drlimnology.bsky.social limnologist | Director - Flathead L Bio Station | Bierman Prof of Ecology - U Montana | Emeritus ASU |Adjunct Professor- NCSU | Director - Sustainable P Alliance | Member - NAS | opinions mine
Caitlin O’Hara @caitlinohara.bsky.social www.caitlinohara.com
Yorkshire-born photojournalist in the Sonoran desert with juntosphoto.com
🦂🏜️🪲🦇❤️🔥 🌵🦉
Alexandre Champagne-Ruel @alexchampagne.bsky.social NASA Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathis Group @ Arizona State University.
Agnostic life-detection strategies, complexity and origins of life. 🧬📡
Also maintains the OoL digest: https://buttondown.com/ooldigest
🌎 https://alexandrechampagne.io
Armando Mastrogiovanni @armandomatt.bsky.social Literature, philosophy, science & politics. Writing a book about astrobiology.
Laura Eme @lauraeme.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist interested in the origin and early diversification of eukaryotes. Phylogenetics/(meta)genomics. Protists & Archaea. Reseach Director at Uni Paris-Saclay (France)/Associate Prof. Uni of Rhode Island (USA)
Marina Fernández Ruz @marina-f-ruz.bsky.social PhD student at Astrobiology Center CSIC-INTA in Madrid, Spain.
Physics of complex systems applied to the origins of life.
Berta Verd @bertaverd.bsky.social Evolution of developmental processes.
Associate Professor @OxfordBiology & Fellow @JesusOxford.
@SteventonLab, @CRGenomica & #embryo17 alumna.
Working mother.
L. Felipe Benites @lfelipeb.bsky.social Mino Postdoctoral Fellow at the @setiinstitute.bsky.social | Gardener and Evolutionary Biologist | Astrobiology | Virus evolution | Children's book author | Experimental musician | Brasileiro.
https://lfbenites.com/
Carolyn Porco @carolynporco.bsky.social Voyager & Cassini! AAS Carl Sagan Medal 2010. Asteroid Porco 7231. Inaugural NatGeo Eliza Scidmore Award. Living my best life.
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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me Researcher & entrepreneur | Co-founder @cosmik.network | Building @semble.so | collective sensemaking | https://ronentk.me/ | Ecosystem building @atproto.science @cairos.network | Prev- Open Science Fellow @asterainstitute.bsky.social
Prachee Avasthi @pracheeac.bsky.social Co-founder & CSO @ArcadiaScience. Head of Open Science @AsteraInstitute. Immigrant. she/her
Still post frequently on X (@PracheeAC)
Artemy Kolchinsky @artemyte.bsky.social Researcher studying nonequilibrium thermodynamics, information theory, origin of life, complexity. Currently at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain
Sam Nastase @samnastase.bsky.social assistant professor of psychology at USC丨he/him丨semiprofessional dungeon master
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com Original news, reviews, analysis of tech trends, and expert advice on the most fundamental aspects of tech.
The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social Dedicated to helping neuroscientists stay current and build connections. Subscribe to receive the latest news and perspectives on neuroscience: www.thetransmitter.org/newsletters/
Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social Chief Science and Strategy Officer, openRxiv. Co-Founder, bioRxiv and medRxiv.
Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net We mobilize the fight for science and democracy - because science is for everyone! 🧬🧪🌎
Donate here: https://bit.ly/SUFS_GIVING
Learn more ⬇️
https://linktr.ee/standupforscience_bluesky
David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social Astrobiologist, Author, Musician. 👽🎸❤️🚀
Sagan Medalist, PEN winner, AAAS fellow.
Former Senior Scientist for Astrobiology Strategy at NASA.
There’s an asteroid named after me (22410 Grinspoon) which is better than having one with your name on it…
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de Official account of the Max Planck Society. Devoted to basic #research in #physics #astronomy #chemistry #biology #earthsciences #materialscience #mathematics #socialsciences and the #humanities; Imprint: https://www.mpg.de/imprint
Ruthanna Emrys @r-emrys.bsky.social Author of A Half-Built Garden, Winter Tide, and Deep Roots. Freelance consultant on science policy, policy science, and the future of democracy, governance, and networks. Queer Jewish parent, foodie, cognitive science nerd, collective decision-making wonk.
Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social Science fiction. Fantasy. The universe. And related subjects.
https://beacons.ai/reactormag
ISHPSSB2025 @ishpssb2025.bsky.social ISHPSSB Porto Meeting, 20-25 July, 2025 [Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology] https://ishpssb2025.icbas.up.pt/ #hpbio #philsci #histstm #histsci #philbio #hbio #sts
Joshua Grochow @joshuagrochow.bsky.social Research: TheoryCompSci, pure math, complex systems
Other: climate; covid; equity, inclusion, & accessibility
Assoc. Prof. @ CU Boulder Comp. Sci. & Math
Views my own
@joshuagrochow@mathstodon.xyz (& prev twitter)
https://home.cs.colorado.edu/~jgrochow
Chris Adami @chrisadami.bsky.social Professor at Michigan State University. Trying to understand how the universe works, including people and animals. And plants and microbes. So, pretty much everything. (he/him)
Tomás Ryan @tjryan.bsky.social Neuroscientist| Professor at Trinity College Dublin | CIFAR Fellow| P.I. of Ryan Lab at Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience.
@tjryan.bsky.social
@blamlab.bsky.social @blamlab.bsky.social 
Naftali Weinberger @dagophile.bsky.social Interested in all things causal modeling. Ongoing projects on causal analyses of discrimination and on causation in dynamical systems.
Jitka Čejková @jitkac.bsky.social Enjoying Life and ALife.
Associate Professor at University of Chemistry and Technology Prague.
Droplets as Liquid Robots.
Books R.U.R. and the Vision of Artificial Life, #Robot100 and #Krakatit100.
@berggruen.org @berggruen.org 
Nicolas Berggruen @nicolasberggruen.bsky.social Co-Founder of Berggruen Institute, Noema Mag
Co-author of #RenovatingDemocracy (http://amzn.to/2CBhxJ3)
A believer that ideas can make a better world. #IdeasMatter
www.nicolasberggruen.com
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
Get the paper delivered to your door: membership.theonion.com
Join The Onion Newsletter: https://theonion.com/newsletters/
The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org Since 01996: Long Now is a non-profit organization fostering long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years.
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine @nationalacademies.org Providing expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Non-partisan. Non-profit. https://nationalacademies.org
Christopher Michel @christophermichel.com Photographer and explorer. Usually found with a camera, a dog, or a boarding pass.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Thomas F. Varley @thosvarley.bsky.social Dual PhD: Complex Systems & Computational Neuroscience - Postdoc at UVM in the Vermont Complex Systems Institute.
Information theory, synergy, and emergence.
Connoisseur of collapse phenomena 
Big Think @bigthink.com Learn from the world’s biggest thinkers. Curious / Thoughtful / Open / Constructive. Changing media with @freethinkmedia.
SXSW @sxsw.com Helping creative people share ideas and achieve their goals since 1987. SXSW 2027: March 15–21 | Austin, TX
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social Author of The Wildcraft Drones (2026 @stelliform.press), The Cursed Blade of Wek (2027 @neonhemlock.bsky.social) and numerous science fiction and fantasy short stories, with more on the way. Newsletter, events & stuff: tkrex.wtf
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/
Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social All views and opinions expressed are my own.
Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social Australian philosopher. Emeritus Bertrand Russell Professor & Emeritus Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge. Early roles in @cser.bsky.social and
@cfi-cambridge.bsky.social. More: prce.hu/w
Henry Gee 亨利·纪 @endofthepier.bsky.social Author, @nature Editor. DISCLAIMER: Reposts aren’t Endorsements. Personal views needn't reflect those of my employer as they don’t know where they’ve been. Personal website https://henrygeewriter.blogspot.com
Alison Gopnik @alisongopnik.bsky.social Cognitive scientist, philosopher, and psychologist at Berkeley, author of The Scientist in the Crib, The Philosophical Baby and The Gardener and the Carpenter and grandmother of six.
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social journalist and lawyer based in Portland, OR.
Josh Bongard @doctorjosh.bsky.social Robots. AI. Xenobots. meclab.org
Buzz Baum @buzzbaum.bsky.social In search of a platform that widens and deepens our understanding of the world. Less re-posting, more reading. Listening more, talking less. My opinions are my own. Some of them aren’t even mine.
Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social Cilia and cell motility enthusiast, basal cognition, weird organisms esp protists and larvae, how do living systems compute?
Professor of Cellular & Biophysical Dynamics, Living Systems Institute, Exeter (past: DAMTP, Cambridge)
www.micromotility.com
Liedewij Laan @liedewijlaan.bsky.social Scientist, mother of 3, art lover, physics of life, (bottom-up) synthetic biology, evolution, philosophy of science, TU Delft, www.tudelft.nl/laanlab, founder BiBB https://www.betainbestuurenbeleid.nl/nl/about-us
Brugues Lab @brugueslab.bsky.social We combine soft matter physics, biophysics and cell biology to uncover physical principles of cellular organization @ Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life, Dresden
Campàs Lab @campaslab.bsky.social Physics of Embryonic Self-Organization and Morphogenesis. Tweets by Otger Campàs (Professor, Chair of Tissue Dynamics and Director
at the Physics of Life Excellence Cluster of TU Dresden)
Bhamla Lab @ Georgia Tech @bhamlalab.bsky.social Curiosity driven science in physics of life and frugal innovations for planetary scale challenges
https://bhamla.gatech.edu/
Prakash Lab at Stanford @prakashlab.bsky.social Curiosity Driven Science
Isabella Graf @isabellagraf.bsky.social Group leader at EMBL Heidelberg, previously: Postdoc at Yale with Ben Machta, PhD at LMU Munich with Erwin Frey; Theoretical Physicist by training & interested in Physics of Life
Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social TLM is an initiative to build a network for researchers interested in theory and modelling of biological phenomena. We are on X (old twitter) @TLM_Cambridge, @TLM_Cambridge@mstdn.science. Or follow our website for more details: tlmcambridge.blog
Martin Loose @nartimsoole.bsky.social Interested in protein self-organization. We rebuild the bacterial cell division machinery and small GTPase networks in vitro. https://looselab.ist.ac.at
Manuel Thery @manuelthery.bsky.social cytoskeleton self-organization / shape, patterns and symmetry / minimal and artificial cells / biophysics teacher @ ESPCI ParisTech
www.cytomorpholab.com
Rita Mateus @ritamateus.bsky.social Group Leader @MPI-CBG and @POL, TU-Dresden. Dev Biologist mixing it up w/ Physics. Want to know how organs grow! also obsessed with structural colors | ritamateus.com
Zwicker Group @zwickergroup.bsky.social Theoretical biophysics group at MPI-DS, Göttingen. We study the spatiotemporal organization of soft matter in cells, tissues, and synthetic systems; see www.zwickergroup.org
Shiladitya Banerjee @shilabanerjee.bsky.social Living Matter Theory @ Georgia Tech
http://shiladitya-banerjee.com
NordenLab @nordenlab.bsky.social How do organs form from cells to tissue? Zebrafish and organoids; live imaging; quantitative biology; theory. Comments by Caren Norden
Alessandro De Simone @desimonelab.bsky.social Physical principles of regeneration in zebrafish. Assist. Prof. @Genevunige. Passionate of zebrafish scales, bone morphogenesis and signalling dynamics. #SciComm and Improv theatre. https://tinyurl.com/23str3yn
Hallou Lab @halloulab.bsky.social Group of Adrien Hallou @kiroxford.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk
Biophysics & spatial biology of cell fate decisions & tissue dynamics
Alumnus @cam.ac.uk & @normalesup.bsky.social
Franco-British Young Leader 2024 🇨🇵🇬🇧
Roux Lab, Geneva @rouxlab.bsky.social A mix of physics and biology, understanding shapes in biology, from molecules to tissues.
http://www.orelrouxlab.org
Edouard Hannezo @ehannezo.bsky.social Professor of Biophysics -
@ISTAustria Using physics to understand biological questions, such as how embryos grow!
Jesse Veenvliet @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social proud papa | group leader team stembryo @ MPI-CBG Dresden | re- and deconstructing (st)embryos | #stembryogenesis | solves problems in lab & climbing hall | views mine
Timothy Saunders @timesaunders.bsky.social Professor at Warwick Medical School interested in how complex shape emerges during embryo development. Will work on anything that can be imaged live :)
Yanlan Mao @yanlanmao.bsky.social Professor of Developmental Biophysics.
Crossing all disciplines, through science, art and food | UCL | LMCB | IPLS
www.tissuemechanicslab.com
Science communication and #SciArt via www.datascaperealities.com
Loves hiking, glamping and sourdough baking
Armita Nourmohammad @thearmita.bsky.social physicist, interested in biology --- Assoc. Prof. immunobiology, biomedical Engineering & Physics @Yale Center for Systems and Engineering Immunology
Nigel Goldenfeld @nigelgoldenfeld.bsky.social Theoretical physicist at UCSD researching condensed & living matter, fluid mechanics, statistical mechanics.
Bad at staying in my lane. Interested in everything.
https://guava.physics.ucsd.edu/~nigel/
Iain Couzin @icouzin.bsky.social FRS. Director, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and Center for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour at the University of Konstanz, Germany. 🏴
Levayer Lab @levayerr.bsky.social Epithelial cell death, cell extrusion, self-organisation, mechanotransduction and many other things
Paul Francois @pfrancois.bsky.social Professor Université de Montréal, Physics of Living Systems, Machine Learning, etc…
https://www.francoisresearch.org/
Alice Pyne @alicepyne.bsky.social UKRIFLF & professor of biophysics at the University of Sheffield. High-resolution #AFM and #biophysics studies of #DNA structure and function www.pyne-lab.uk 🔬🧬 she/her
Scott Coyle @cellraiser.bsky.social signaling systems and protein circuitry. reimagining what cells can be. fun posts only. Assistant Professor:
@uwbiochem | Postdoc: @stanford @prakashlab | Ph.D.:
@ucsf Wendell Lim @CDI_UCSF
Fabian Fröhlich @frohlichlab.com Dynamics of Living Systems (https://www.frohlichlab.com) group leader @thecrick.bsky.social Understanding signalling & cell state dynamics through mathematical modelling and machine learning.
Nico Schramma @nicoschramma.bsky.social PostDoc medicalbiochemistry.nl (Amsterdam Medical Center van Buul Lab)
Coordinator vascularimmunology.nl
PhD Fluidlab.nl
Biophysics of Endothelium & Immune cells, Chloroplasts, Bioluminescence, Active Glass
tinyurl.com/gscholar-schra
nicoschra.github.io
Nicoletta Petridou @nicolettapetridou.bsky.social Biologist inspired by physics | Group Leader, Developmental Biology Unit, EMBL Heidelberg
Mazi Jalaal @mazi1.bsky.social Associate Professor,
Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam
DAMTP, University of Cambridge
In love with physics ⚛️ math 🧮 biology 🦠 & basketball 🏀 HipHop DJ at night 🎧
fluidlab.nl
Andrea Giometto @andreagiometto.bsky.social Assistant professor @CEECornell. Physics of Evolving Living Matter. Studying how mechanics and spatial structure affect microbial ecology and evolution.
Matilda Backholm @matildabackholm.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Soft Matter Physics at Aalto University, Finland | Forces and flow in mesoscale living, fluid, & soft matter | ERC StG laureate & Research Council of Finland Fellow | EPL co-editor
aalto.fi/living-matter
Theoretical Biophysics @theobiophysics.bsky.social Theoretical Biophysics, Quantitative Biology
https://sites.google.com/view/theoreticalbiophysics/theoretical-biophysics
Our podcast
https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/theobiophysics
An online seminar series
https://sites.google.com/view/popdyn/home
Levental Lab @leventallab.bsky.social laboratory on structure and functions of living membranes lab at University of Virginia ; also posts occasional nonsense - views our own, not UVA
www.levental-lab.com
Suraj Shankar 🏳️🌈 @surajshankar.bsky.social Asst. Prof. in Physics
LSA Collegiate fellow
University of Michigan
Previously JF at Harvard & PhD at SU
he/him
https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/shankar-lab/
How function emerges collectively in soft, active, living matter? | Physics, maths, & biology
Gordon Berman @gordonberman.bsky.social Assoc. Prof at Emory studying the physics of animal behavior
Saverio E. Spagnolie @sespagnolie.bsky.social Professor of Mathematics; Chemical & Biological Engineering, UW-Madison. I dig biological fluid dynamics, soft matter physics, and numerical methods. APS DSOFT Vice Chair. Vijayanagara (GMT Games).
https://people.math.wisc.edu/~spagnolie/
Dr. Allyson Sgro @allysonsgro.bsky.social How do cells work together and make decisions when people have so much trouble? Group Leader @HHMIJanelia. My views are mine, not my employer’s. She/They 🏳️🌈
Jennifer Rieser @jenniferrieser.bsky.social Asst. Prof. of Physics @ Emory | Experimental soft matter physicist interested in interactions between animals and soft substrates. Website: rieserlab.org- T Thierry Mora @thierrymora.bsky.social Theoretical biophysics. ENS-PSL / CNRS
Shashi Thutupalli @stpalli.bsky.social Scientist, Associate Professor at the Simons Centre for the Study of Living Machines, NCBS Bangalore and ICTS, Bangalore.
Broadly interested in the origins and organisation of living systems.
Bangalore — Toronto — Göttingen — Princeton — Bangalore
Biophysical Paris @parisseminar.bsky.social Thread reporting the #seminar of #biophysics and quantitative biology #qBio available in #Paris
Managed by http://maximeardre.eu
Roberto Cerbino @cerbino.bsky.social Soft matter and biophysics @univie.ac.at. Born in Italy. Welcomed by Austria. On Bluesky to find another Twitter now that Twitter is no more.
Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social Evolutionary cell biology / evolution of morphogenesis / animal origins / choanoflagellates @institutpasteur.bsky.social
https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/evolutionary-cell-biology-and-evolution-of-morphogenesis/
Adrian Jacobo @adrianjacobo.bsky.social Group Leader @biohub.org. PhD in Physics turned into a quantitative biologist/zebrafish aficionado. Husband and father. https://www.biohub.org/jacobo/
Living Physics Lab @livingphysics.org Biological theory | “Cell learning” | Function spaces | Projection operators | Manifolds | Dynamics | Behavior | Evolution
livingphysics.org
Cambridge, UK
Claire Dessalles @clairedessalles.bsky.social Postdoc @RouxLab.bsky.social investigating topological defects and morphogenesis. PhD was on tensile stresses and endothelial cells.
Abhishek Shrivastava @shrivastavalab.bsky.social Associate Professor, Arizona State University
Bacterial motility, T9SS, Microbiome