Steph Batalis @stephbatalis.bsky.social Biotech/Biosecurity Research Fellow at CSET Georgetown, PhD in biochem from Wake Forest. Lover of science storytelling and watermelon Jolly Ranchers. Views are my own.
Adam Hedgecoe @adamhedgecoe.bsky.social Director, Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data (WISERD). Ethnographer, historian(ish). STS, Genomics, research regulation (RECs/IRBs) 
Filippa Lentzos @filippalentzos.bsky.social Associate Professor of Science & International Security at King’s College London critically analysing health security threats, biosecurity & biorisk management
filippalentzos.com
Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social W. Ford Schumann Distinguished Visiting Professor in Democratic Studies, Williams College, 2026–2027. Assoc. Professor ArtHist, UMass Amherst. Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England (UPenn, frthcmng). https://sonjadrimmer.com/
Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social Metaphor hunter, linguist, social scientist, blogger
blog: https://makingsciencepublic.com/
also sorted into categories at https://wakelet.com/@bnerlich
https://bnerlich-lang.github.io/
ORCID: 0000-0001-6617-7827
Michael Koeris @koeris.bsky.social Director of the Office of Biological Technologies of DARPA
Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social Writing for @GlobeOpinion.bsky.social, speaking on @ms.now and #SistersInLaw. Snickers's scheduler. Believer in democracy, science and the rule of law. Upcycler. Expert thrifter. Typos are my love language. From Detroit, in Washington, of Boston.
Kevin Solomon @drksolomon.bsky.social Engineer, systems & synthetic biologist. Building a more sustainable future with engineered microbes. Professor at University of Delaware. My 'skeets' are my own. http://solomonlab.org
Benjamin Wakefield @bcwakefield.bsky.social • Senior Analyst & ELBI Dep. Director @bsph-chs.bsky.social • Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
• Working on Biosecurity, Health Security, CBRN, & Civ-Mil • Former Fellow at Chatham House & ELBI 2020 • UCL, Lboro & UTS Alum
• Views = my own
NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social I have never felt more politically homeless. Parody. Merch: https://tinyurl.com/msjjmwpt
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
Marc-Michael Blum @blumscientific.bsky.social Bio)chemist who tries to save the world from the bad guys messing around with chemical and biological weapons. Former Head OPCW Laboratory. Sometimes OF-4.
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.
Nuclear Threat Initiative @nti.org A nonprofit, nonpartisan global security organization focused on reducing nuclear, biological, and emerging tech threats imperiling humanity.
CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social The Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, University of Minnesota.
🔗 Our website: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/
📨 Daily News newsletter: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/newsletter
🎧 Latest podcast episode: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/osterholm-update
Watson School at Brown @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social The Watson School of International and Public Affairs seeks to promote a just and peaceful world through research and teaching on the world’s most pressing economic, political and social policy challenges.
Council on Strategic Risks @councilonstrategicrisks.org CSR is dedicated to anticipating, analyzing and addressing core systemic risks to modern security. We work on climate and ecological security, biological and nuclear security, and track emerging risks as new technologies disrupt across all domains.
STAT @statnews.com Reporting from the frontiers of health & medicine.
Explore all of our newsletters here: https://www.statnews.com/signup/
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
Michael Osterholm, PhD, MPH @mtosterholm.bsky.social Director, @cidrap.bsky.social
🎧 Host of the Osterholm Update podcast: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/osterholm-update
Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social I cover infectious diseases for STAT (www.statnews.com). 2020 Polk winner. Nieman '11. She/her. I write about H5N1 (in all species), Covid, polio, flu, Ebola, RSV, mpox, STIs. Send me news tips on Signal: HBranswell.01
Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social Epidemiology and global health security policy.
thepandemiccenter.org
Jackson du Pont @jacksondupont.bsky.social Currently Kings War Studies | Fmr @ CSRisks and Kerry Fellow @ Yale | focusing on how to bring lasting solutions to wicked problems | posts my own
Federation of American Scientists @scientistsorg.bsky.social Striving for a safer world since 1945
science policy | nuclear weapons | clean energy | STEM education | artificial intelligence | data privacy | much much more
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org The best thinking on existential threats since 1945. Nuclear risk, climate change, and disruptive technologies. We set the #DoomsdayClock. thebulletin.org
The Wilson Center @wilsoncenter.org Foreign policy think tank providing counsel and insights on global affairs.
Congressionally Chartered. Scholarship Driven. Fiercely Nonpartisan.
🌐 https://www.wilsoncenter.org/
Catherine Dill @catherinedill.bsky.social Formerly known as atomic_pickles, but still thinking about atomic pickles. Fancies: gardens, birds, mountains & rocks, satellites, Delftware, N95s. She/her. Only personal views reflected.
Alison Young @alisonannyoung.bsky.social Senior National Reporter Healthbeat.org + investigative reporter + author of Pandora’s Gamble: Lab Leaks, Pandemics, and a World at Risk. ayoung@healthbeat.org Signal: alisonyoungreports.48
80,000 Hours @80000hours.bsky.social You have 80,000 hours in your career.
This makes it your best opportunity to have a positive impact on the world.
https://80000hours.org
VERTIC @vertic.bsky.social Founded in 1986. The Verification Research, Training and Information Centre (VERTIC) supports the development, implementation and verification of international agreements as well as initiatives in related areas.
Dr. Syra Madad, DHSc @drsyramadad.bsky.social Epidemiologist 🦠 Biosecurity Advisor ☣️ Chief Biopreparedness Officer NYC Health + Hospital 🏥 Faculty Boston Uni CEID & NETEC 🧬 Fellow Harvard Belfer Center 🎥On Netflix, Discovery & History Channel 📝Write for NY Academy of Sciences
Sapana @sapana.bsky.social *Personal views here*. Dir @ U.S. Senate | Forever science diplomat, AAAS STPF alum, Tar Heel, aspiring chef, avid reader, globetrotter, space nerd. Views=mine; RT/F≠E
@mattyfield.bsky.social @mattyfield.bsky.social Biosecurity Editor at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Tips? Pitches? Email: mfield@thebulletin.org / Signal: mattfield.34 
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
Nicole Wheeler @nwheeler443.bsky.social 
Eric Brewer @ebrewer.bsky.social Deputy VP at Nuclear Threat Initiative. Previously Director for Counterproliferation at the National Security Council and Deputy National Intelligence Officer for WMD at the National Intelligence Council. Personal account/views my own.
Foreign Affairs @foreignaffairs.com A magazine of U.S. foreign policy and international affairs, founded in 1922. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/
Sign up for our newsletters here: http://foreignaffairs.com/newsletter
Dmitri Alperovitch @dmitri.silverado.org Geopolitics, Russia, China, Cyber
Chairman @silverado.org
Author of WorldOnTheBrink.com
Host GeopoliticsDecanted.com podcast
Founder Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS
Co-Founder CrowdStrike
@DAlperovitch elsewhere
Alexander Titus @alexandertitus.com Scientist, Sci-Fi Author, and Tech Nerd wandering the world. Obsessed with #biotech, #AI, and frontier tech.
Join me @ connectedideasproject.com for thoughts on tech, policy, and life.
nancy connell @nnconnell.bsky.social Scientist, cellist, democrat
It’s the Broligarchy, stupid!
Caitlin Rivers @cmyeaton.bsky.social Infectious disease epidemiologist @JohnsHopkinsSPH. Associate professor. Author of CRISIS AVERTED (Viking). Outbreak newsletter at forceofinfection.com
Gregory Koblentz @gregkoblentz.bsky.social I research, teach, and write about about the causes and consequences of the proliferation of nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological (CBRN) weapons to states and terrorists. Views are my own.
@ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social A focus on banning chemical and biological weapons (#CBW) and related issues.
beth semel @bethmsemel.bsky.social AI killjoy, prednisone hater, writing about voice analysis AI and the labor of technosolutionist listening in American mental healthcare | bethmsemel.com
Martha Lincoln @heavyredaction.bsky.social Medical anthropologist, Assoc. Prof. at SFSU. EIC at @jvietnamstudies.bsky.social. Studying online health influencers. “In the dark times/Will there also be singing?”—Bertolt Brecht
Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social disability & the American family - design & the biology of everyday life - theory for the world to come - anthropologist, americanist, polemicist -(he/him)
Heta Tarkkala @hetatarkkala.bsky.social PhD (STS). Studies non-quantifiable issues related to science, technology & society and data. Currently: (health) data & wastewater. Knits at conferences.
Nikhil Anand @liquidperson2.bsky.social anthropologist researching water, cities, climate justice and infrastructure. www.nikhilanand.info
Dr. Diane Tober @dianetober.bsky.social Anthropologist, Professor, author, filmmaker, examining reproductive technologies and body commodification. Author of Eggonomics: The Global Market in Human Eggs and the Donors Who Supply Them.
Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social Impossible archaeologist (space/Everest), space hab consultant, ancient Mediterranean, heritage | Prof at Chapman U | Fellow at USC | Explorers Club 50 | https://issarchaeology.org / http://brickmoonspace.com | He/him | Settler on unceded Tongva land (LA)
Andrew Whitehouse @anthrobirder.bsky.social Anthropologist at the University of Aberdeen. Likes birds. A lot. Does stuff on environmental anthropology, landscape, conservation, human-bird relations, sound, perceptions of ecological change.
https://andrewjwhitehouse.wordpress.com/
Nick Bingham @nickbi.bsky.social Geographer at The Open University, UK
thinking materialities :: with :: care
(not necessarily in that order)
Angela Cassidy @angecass.bsky.social Undisciplined scholar. Researching science, society+policy; humans-animals-environments; #OneHealth #microbes #STS #HistSTM #scicomm.
Author, 'Vermin, Victims and Disease: British Debates over Badgers and Bovine TB'
Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social Sociologist interested in STS, data, and the state. Assistant Professor of Communication and Sociology at Northeastern University. chunchengliu.com
Lars E.F. Johannessen @larsjohannessen.bsky.social Sociologist and Prof. in Knowledge, Expertise and Professions at Oslo Metropolitan University • Fellow at Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University • Digital culture • Qualitative methods • Theorizing • Microsociology • STS
Andreas Bischof @andreasbischof.bsky.social Sociologist with interest in Technology & Culture. Here for critical content on digital tech and data in people’s lifeworlds. Oh, and fun.
Website: https://andreasbischof.net
Current projects: https://mytuc.org/pwsh
Writings: https://mytuc.org/ppwn
Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social Psychiatrist. Neuroscientist. Philosopher.
#MentalHealth is an intrinsic part of #PlanetaryHealth.
Visit my website: https://www.greatlakespsychiatryandpsychotherapy.com/about
Joshua Earle, Ph.D. @cyborgapologist.bsky.social Ass Prof of STS @ UVA
Communications Director for Society for Philosophy and Technology
Phil Tech, Disability Studies, Med Hums, Bioethics, Hist of Eugenics, Transhumanism
I teach engineers what the stuff they build does to people.
David Ludwig @davidludwig.bsky.social Philosopher of science, mostly busy with transdisciplinary action research on environment/food/society. Assoc prof at Wageningen University, Netherlands. More here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LCzGlYMAAAAJ&hl=en
Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Seattle University. Author of The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life available from UC Press here:
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520342347/the-celluloid-specimen
Mara Dicenta @mdicenta.bsky.social animals, race & science | environmental knowledges | multispecies ethnography | feminist STS
Assistant Prof at William & Mary
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/
Jaime Landinez @jlandinez.bsky.social anthropologist (phd stanford) of science & environment
Tomás Criado @tscriado.bsky.social RyC Senior Research Fellow @uocuniversitat.bsky.social in Barcelona
anthropology · STS · embodied plurality · uncommoning urbanism · atmospheric care · ethnographic inventory · heat & shade · Department of Umbrology
tscriado.org · umbrology.org
Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social We are 4S, an international, nonprofit association focused on the social studies of science, technology and medicine (#STS). Next Annual meeting October 7-10, 2026.
David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social Sociology Professor. Author Digital Feudalism, Getting Signed, Streaming Culture and more. Editor Fast Capitalism 
Arne Maibaum @arnemaibaum.bsky.social Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology @TUBerlin / Sociology of technology / STS / HRI / he
https://linktr.ee/arnemaibaum
Jon Shaffer @jonshaffer.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology @UVM | STS | Med Soc | Social Movements | Previously Post-doc @BermanInstitute, Partners In Health
Personal Website: https://www.jonathanshaffer.net
MC Forelle @mcforelle.bsky.social Teaching STS, union organizer, film buff. Researching repair, waste, and cars (the EVs, the AVs, the oldies).
- they | them - 🌈 🇻🇪
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 
Mariel Garcia-Montes @marielgm.bsky.social 40% thinker, 60% doer. 100% altermundista. Sociotechnical researcher on data, privacy, and surveillance at MIT HASTS, Data + Feminism, Berkman Klein. I love creative uses of media and tech in the public interest. Cambridge, MA/Ciudad de México.
SJ Zanolini (李思捷) @plantmaize.bsky.social historian of diet & medicine in early modern China (#FirstGen), companion to a really good dog named Barktholomew (號小聃)
all views my own (君子不器)
Ernesto Castañeda @drernestocast.bsky.social Director, The Immigration Lab; & The Center for Latin American & Latino Studies; Full Professor, Sociology, American University, DC. Immigration and the politics of the possible. Author of multiple books & articles. Public scholar.
Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social Coming in early 2026: KEYWORDS/KEYIMAGES IN GRAPHIC MEDICINE
Current projects: #IllnessPolitics, chronic forms, & multi-modal pedagogies in action. Author of ILLNESS POLITICS & HASHTAG ACTIVISM, TREATMENTS, & INDIRECT ACTION.
Blogging at: lisadiedrich.org
Marcus Mann @drmann.bsky.social Purdue University assistant professor of sociology. Science, knowledge, and politics.
André Sarli, Revolusarli @revolusarli.bsky.social Sociologist of STS, also a lawyer, and a comic strip artist. Father of two. Brazilian, living in Indonesia
Oliver Kaplan @oliverkaplan.bsky.social Prof @JosefKorbelSchool.bsky.social @UofDenver
📚Books:
RESISTING WAR (2017)
SPEAKING SCIENCE TO POWER (2024) Nonviolent action | Research + Policymaking Ethics | @KorbelAsylum ⛷️🚵♂️🖖
linktr.ee/oliverkaplan
Dr Lucy Rycroft-Smith @ljrycroftsmith.bsky.social Researching, mathing, designing, writing, queering, drawing, talking, comedying, teaching, board gaming. Homerton College, Cambridge. Currently researching and talking about #AI and #education.
Phila M. Msimang @msimang.bsky.social Philosopher of race, biology, and related social issues.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Phila-Msimang
Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social assistant prof/senior postdoc criminology VUB/substitute lecturer KULeuven - research: digital & green criminology, surveillance, AI, youth justice, human rights
https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/rosamunde-elise-van-brakel
Kate Teltscher @kateteltscher.bsky.social Cultural historian and writer. Author of Palace of Palms, a Times and New Statesman Book of the Year.
https://kateteltscher.com/
Dr. S.A. Applin @anthropunk.bsky.social Applied Anthropologist researching how people promote, manage, resist, and endure change; and how they, algorithms, and ethics coexist. (Or not). Social Systems/Culture. Sometimes write for Fast Company. NYU/ITP alum
Dr. Aunchalee (ดร. อัญชลี) @anthrolactology.bsky.social Medical anthropologist. Biocultural lactation, human rights, bioethics, global health equity. Climate & Reproductive Justice. Novice Thai herbalist. she/they. Personal account.
Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com Historian @tulaneu.bsky.social
Lab Dog is out: www.labdogbook.com
Rotten Beauty is next: www.rottenbeauty.work
Website: brad.bolman.com
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/bolman
~Views expressed may not reflect those of my employer~
Nathalie Van Raemdonck @nathalievanraemdonck.com Social media networks and social norms, freshly minted PhD from Brussels University (VUB). Belgian living in Barcelona, internet night crawler, STS
Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social Researcher of AI @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
www.dangnguyen.digital
Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social Anthropology of infrastructures, environmental anthropology, and STS | Stockholm University | http://chakadojani.com
Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social The Cinema of Extractions (2025), Media Climates (2022), In the Studio (2020), Studios Before the System (2015)
Writing about Art, Media, Energy, Environment. Next book: oil, gas, and media culture in France+empire
Caltech Professor of Visual Culture
Jessica Caporusso @jesscapo.bsky.social PhD Candidate, York University (Tkaranto) | plants, people, and energy in/of the Indian Ocean (île Maurice) | Practitioner of sensory anthropology, speculative fiction, and the Oxford comma
Jeremy Hunsinger @buridan.bsky.social academic, researcher of the internet, writer, traveler...
STS, Critical Internet Studies, Critical University Studies, Critical Data Studies, Critical Theory, Interpretive methods, etc. #AoIR ista and leftist like Will Rogers
Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social Science & Technology Studies | History of Sci/Tech/Med | Qualitative Metascience | Medical Humanities.
Associate Prof at UW Madison.
🇨🇦 living in the 🇺🇸 married to a 🇩🇪.
Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social Co-director: https://www.ucc.ie/en/future-humanities/radicalhumanitieslaboratory/
Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social Professor @ Boston U, History & Philosophy of Science—esp Philosophy of Geosciences, Director Phi-Geo Research Group, Assoc @ Harvard U. Hist Sci, Radcliffe Fellow Alum. Settler, wife, & mother. 📸s my crappy phone.
Webpage: https://bokulich.org/
Emily Yates-Doerr @eyatesd.bsky.social anthropology professor (sts, food justice, nuclear history). author of Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm, UC Press. she/her
on sabbatical 2024-2025. 🌱🌱
Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social Ontario Research Chair in Science Policy
Obsessed with assets & assetization + into science & technology studies, political economy, economic sociology: https://keanbirch.net/
Jonathan Wald @jonathanwald.bsky.social Interdisciplinary scholar (STS, anthropology, philosophy) intersected in the ethical challenges of the climate crisis and engineering education.
Victor Toom @victortoom.bsky.social Trying to discipline a broad academic portfolio #climate #justice #adaptation #Caribbean #criticalmaterials #futuregenerations #forensics #genocide
https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=ASCCKkIAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Alona Bach @bachwards.bsky.social Archive haunter (where history of technology + Yiddish meet); theater-maker; rogue illustrator. Current postdoc @ Tenement Museum; PhD from MIT History/HASTS.
she/her | 📷: Der praktisher elektrotekhniker (1925)
STIS Edinburgh @stis-uoe.bsky.social Science, Technology, and Innovation Studies (STIS) at the University of Edinburgh.
https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/science-technology-and-innovation-studies