Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social The "starfish guy"(but also a little about a lot of marine invertebrates, #echinoday #echinoderms. Kaiju, comics enthusiast. Marine scientist, taxonomist, deep-sea researcher. Statements/posts made here are my own & DO NOT REPRESENT HOST organizations
Diversify Microbiology @diversifymicro.bsky.social A resource for symposium organizers, award committees, search committees to identify microbiologists who might diversify their pool. See the list at http://bit.ly/diversifymicro
Add your name at https://diversifymicrobiology.github.io/
Lilian Caesar @liliancaesar.bsky.social Postdoc at Newton Lab (@IUBiology) -> incoming Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma, August 2026. Ecology and Evolution of host-microbiome interactions in social bees https://liliancaesar.com/
Giulia Ghedini @giuliaghedini.bsky.social Group Leader Monash University. Community ecologist interested in phytoplankton, biodiversity, environmental change, evolution. giuliaghedini.com
Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz Professor, researcher, author. Prez, Assoc of Internet Researchers (AOIR), gay lady into synths, computers, music, film.
Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (YUP 19), and Meta stole it to train its LLM.
Carol Robinson @carolrobinson8.bsky.social Professor of Marine Sciences at the University of East Anglia. Own views. https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/carol-robinson 
BIO-Carbon @biocarbon-nerc.bsky.social The BIO-Carbon Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) strategic programme exploring how marine life helps the ocean store carbon 🌊
Michael Sauer @michlwien.bsky.social Industrial Microbiologist, beardiful outdoor enthusiast, happy to jump into cold mountain lakes, looking for strange plants and striving to foster equality and diversity. Concerned with the Green Transition. A voice for science, particularly microbiology!
Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social 
Manuel Ares-Arroyo @aresarroyom.bsky.social Ramón y Cajal Fellow | Head of Biology of Mobile Genetic Elements Unit | Fisabio Foundation | Plasmids, MGEs, AMR, bacteria evolution
Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org The official Bluesky account of the Nobel Prize.
Celebrating the work and discoveries that have had the greatest benefit to humankind.
Snorre Sulheim @sulheim.bsky.social SNSF postdoc fellow in Mitri lab @UNIL
Pablo Catalán @the100footpole.bsky.social I teach math at UC3M and do research, now trying to focus on antibiotic resistance.
Do much good, avoid all evil, that is the teaching of all Buddhas.
Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social Energy, emissions, & climate
CICERO Center for International Climate Research, Oslo, Norway
https://cicero.oslo.no/en/employees/glen-peters
Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social Prof. Most tweets about R. “Polisci, it’s all about what’s going on.”
http://arelbundock.com
Tristan Caro @tacaro.bsky.social Microbiologist and geochemist | Postdoc @ Caltech | Formerly @ CU Boulder, NASA, Berkeley | Enjoys isotopes, dataviz, ceramics
Wenying Shou @shougroup.bsky.social A busy scientist & a busy Mom
George Schaible @quantaofgeorge.bsky.social PhD / postdoc at UC Santa Barbara / marine microbiology / building methods and techniques to study microbial dark matter / Erdos # = 5
https://microbialquanta.com/
Tatsuya Nobori @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social Group Leader at The Sainsbury Laboratory, studying plant-microbe interactions.
https://noborilab.org
Karna Gowda @karnagowda.bsky.social faculty @ OSU Microbiology & Biophysics | gowdalab.org
Etienne Bacher @etiennebacher.bsky.social PhD in economics from LISER, Luxembourg, now Research Software Engineer for @palaeoverse.bsky.social at @es-ucl.bsky.social. Mostly here to talk about #rstats
https://github.com/etiennebacher
Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social Digital humanities, data science, AI, eating, professor of Data & Decision Science and English. Coauthor #DataFeminism w/ @kanarinka. PI #AIAInetwork. Views my own.
Rob Patro @robp.bsky.social Professor of CS @ University of Maryland. Proud Rust advocate! I ♥ science & compiled, statically-typed programming languages! Views are my own. Tech stack: https://github.com/rob-p/tech-stack.
Jason Stajich @hyphaltip.bsky.social I study evolution in fungi using genomics at UC Riverside. He/him.
Tongva, Cahuilla, Serrano lands
http://lab.stajich.org/
Sarah E Woodward @sewoodward.bsky.social Marie Curie Postdoctoral fellow at Oxford with Emma Slack | Fulford JRF at Somerville College | Infection ecology, immune-pathogen interactions, and science outreach | she/her 🇨🇦
Matt Baker @phatmattbaker.bsky.social A/Prof🔬👨🔬 @UNSW 🦁🇦🇺 || #synbio #evobio #biophysics || #fencing 🤺🇳🇿NZL.
Anna Olina @annaolina.bsky.social Postdoc in Westra lab, University of Exeter, Cornwall, UK
Interested in host-MGE and MGE-MGE interactions.
💛Temperate phages!
Luis Pedro Coelho @luispedrocoelho.bsky.social Content creator for Elsevier, NPG, and others
Microbiome researcher
Based in Brisbane
Jie Deng @jie-eco.bsky.social Theoretical ecologist @ox.ac.uk
sites.google.com/view/dengjie
HMMER @hmmer.bsky.social Biosequence analysis using profile hidden Markov Models.
HMMER is managed by EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI).
Maria Rebolleda-Gomez @mrebolleda.bsky.social 
Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social Chief Science and Strategy Officer, openRxiv. Co-Founder, bioRxiv and medRxiv.
Adam Phillippy @aphillippy.bsky.social Finished a human genome @ NHGRI, working on a few hundred more @ Johns Hopkins University 👨💻
Lab: https://genomeinformatics.github.io
The RESISFORCE Network 🇳🇴🇨🇦🇮🇳🇧🇷🇺🇲 @resisforce.bsky.social Resistome network lead:
Professor Fernanda Petersen
University of Oslo
Siobhán O'Brien @siderophile.bsky.social Assistant Prof @ Trinity College Dublin. Microbial Ecology & Evolution. Eurovision fanatic. Mammy of two party animals. Probably awake. 🇮🇪
Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social Biostatistician. Baritone. He/Him.
Product of more than one country.
May contain nuts.- I Ilnam Kang @ilnamkang.bsky.social https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2815-1735
MEEhubs @meehubs.bsky.social A hub-based global conference on Microbial Ecology and Evolution.
August 3-5, 2026
Abstract submission and registration will be announced soon.
James Orr @jamesaorr.bsky.social DECRA fellow at the University of Queensland | microbial ecology, theoretical ecology, multiple stressors, community dynamics | https://jamesaorr.github.io
Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci Personality psych & causal inference @UniLeipzig. I like all things science, beer, & puns. Even better when combined! Part of http://the100.ci, http://openscience-leipzig.org
Ophelia Venturelli @oventurelli2.bsky.social Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social Medicinal chemist / chemical biologist, author of “In the Pipeline” at http://science.org/blogs/pipeline. derekb.lowe@gmail.com and on Signal at Dblowe.18
All opinions are mine; I don’t speak for my employer in any way.
Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social Asst. Prof. / #newPI MICOlab @USFCMS studying interactions btwn marine microbes. ❤️ radiolarians, phytoplankton, bacteria. PhD from @oistedu. she/her.
https://micolab-usf.github.io/home/
School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology @soest.hawaii.edu World-class research and academic institution focused on informing solutions to some of the world’s most vexing problems.
📍University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
🌎 https://www.soest.hawaii.edu
Erik Bakkeren @erikbakkeren.bsky.social Canada Research Chair II and Assistant Professor at University of Calgary 🇨🇦 | Understanding and editing microbiomes using ecology | Mountain and trail runner🏃♂️⛰ | Postdoc in 🇬🇧, PhD in 🇨🇭 (he/him)
https://erikbakkeren.com/
Ashley Shade, Ph.D. @ashley17061.bsky.social Director of Research, CNRS | Microbial Ecologist | incoming EIC for American Society for Microbiology journal #mSystems | ERC #MicroRescue
Sophie Jean Walton @sophiejwalton.bsky.social Stanford Biophysics PhD Student with Dmitri Petrov and Ben Good. evolution, ecology, genomics, microbiomes, biophysics :) she/her
https://sophiejwalton.github.io
John McEnany @johndmcenany.bsky.social Biophysics PhD candidate and SF resident, studying models of microbial evolution and ecology with Ben Good at Stanford
https://tinyurl.com/jdmcenany
Glen Dsouza @nonresidentdesi.bsky.social Assistant Professor@ASU | Microbial behaviour and interactions at the Microscale
https://www.microbialeco.systems/
Andreas Schmittner @andreasschmittner.bsky.social Climate scientist, ocean, ice, biogeochemistry, paleo, modeling 🌦️🌎🌊❄️🌡️🥼🔬💻🦖
Wilhelm Lab at the University of Tennessee @tn-marine-micro.bsky.social Viruses, bacteria, algae, and an unusual fondness for water.
Jeffrey Barrett @jeffbarrett.eu Professor of Computational Predictive Medicine, University of Helsinki. Posts about genomics, returning to academia after 10 years in industry, and the great outdoors.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social Understanding and protecting the planet since 1903.
📍UC San Diego
Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social Climate & Environmental Activist for Collective Benefits |💙 Trees |Inspiring & Driving SDGs 2030 |MSc in Climatology & Biogeography |Seeking a PhD Scholarship.
David Berry @davidberry1.bsky.social Prof. at University of Vienna, Center
for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science, Division of Microbial Ecology
Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social Historian: Mughal & colonial India and Hindustani music, FRAS FRHistS. Head of Music @ KCL. Musicians at risk 🇦🇫 Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly (work in progress). Whippet owner. Immigrant. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/katherine-butler-schofield
Laura K. Jennings @laurakjennings.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Montana State University
🔬Microbiology professor tackling drug-resistant bacteria💊 | Biofilm polysaccharides🦠| Bacterial epigenetics🧬| Vaccines💉 #Bacterialpathogenesis
Lab Website: laurakjennings.wixsite.com/jenningslab
Sarah Bagby @scbagby.bsky.social Environmental microbiologist at Case Western. She/her. https://bagby-lab.github.io/, https://emerge-bii.github.io/
Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social Scientist, citizen, mom, and occasionally athletic
Elo Lab @elolab.bsky.social The Elo Lab develops computational data analysis tools and mathematical modelling methods for biomedical research.
Come visit our website!
:: https://elolab.utu.fi ::
PhotoMicrobes (Allahverdiyeva Lab) @photomicrobeslab.bsky.social At Turku University in Finland, the lab led by Prof. Y. Allahverdiyeva explores the core of #photosynthesis — how it works, how it's regulated, and how it can be used in #biotechnology and a circular economy. Website: http://www.utu.fi/photo-microbes 
Ethan Freedman @ethanpfreedman.com Just be cool, man.
Reporter: science, nature, agriculture, climate. Bylines at Scientific American, PopSci, Sierra, Slate, Fatherly, etc.
He/Him. RTs =/= Endorsement. Opinions solely mine. Old posts delete en masse.
Chicago
www.ethanpfreedman.com
Takuji Usui | 薄井拓路 @usuitakuji.bsky.social EEB Fellow at UofT. Incoming AProf at Yale EEB! Species ranges, Species interactions, Eco-evolutionary dynamics, Global change 🦆🌱. 🏴🇯🇵 in 🇨🇦. he/him. https://takujiusui.github.io/
Paul Bürkner @paulbuerkner.com Full Professor of Computational Statistics at TU Dortmund University
Scientist | Statistician | Bayesian | Author of brms | Member of the Stan and BayesFlow development teams
Website: https://paulbuerkner.com
Opinions are my own
Paul Rainey @paulbrainey.bsky.social Evolutionary geneticist working with microbes. Absorbed by the curiosity of science and ideas. Department of Microbial Population Biology, MPI for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany & ESPCI, Paris, France.
Jen Herman 🌪️ @jukebarosh.bsky.social Mostly Bacillus | unpublished data | hypotheses | wild ideas | sand-outta-box | who wants 2 bet? | 🧠🔥🐳 | Zinc ♡ | No one important | www.hermanlab.com |
Suckjoon Jun’s lab at UCSD @junlab.bsky.social We study quantitative microbial cell physiology.
https://jun.ucsd.edu
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
-African Proverb
Djordje Bajić Lab @dbajic.bsky.social A community of researchers studying communities of microbes.
TU Delft, Department of Biotechnology
djbajic.github.io 
Florian Altermatt @florianaltermatt.bsky.social Full Professor of Aquatic Ecology University Zurich & @eawag.bsky.social | Kuratorium Forum Biodiversity | Founding Director https://biodiversitaet.uzh.ch/en.html | all & beyond #biodiversity, #eDNA & #AquaticEcology | Like=interesting
www.altermattlab.ch
Turun yliopisto - University of Turku @utu.fi We build a sustainable future with multidisciplinary research, education and collaboration. Follow our latest news!
utu.fi
Katherine Xue @ksxue.bsky.social Assistant prof at UC Irvine. Ecology and evolution in microbial communities, and occasional writing.
https://kxuelab.com
Mary Peltola @marypeltola.com Fisherman. Alaskan. Running for U.S. Senate to unrig the system and put Alaska first.
Fish, Family, Freedom. 🐟❤️🇺🇸- M Mike Sieracki @msier.bsky.social Biological oceanographer, bicyclist, father, leader
Martha Gledhill @grouchymartha.bsky.social Marine bioinorganic chemist/biogeochemist at GEOMAR in Kiel. 
christoph_STCmicrobeblog @christophstc.bsky.social 72, PhD, micro- + molecular biology. associated blogger @STCmicrobeblog. opinions my own.
Amir Mitchell @amitchell.bsky.social Systems biologist trying to disentangle host-drug-microbiome interactions | PI at UMass medical school | hoping to keep the BS to a minimum (not always successful)
https://mitchell-lab.umassmed.edu
Clare Abreu @clabreu.bsky.social Assistant professor of biology @ NYU. Studying microbial ecology and evolution, changing environments, mathematical modeling. abreulab.org
Juan Díaz-Colunga @jdiazc9.bsky.social I play basketball & videogames and do research. Not necessarily in that order. #RyC Group Leader at IPLA-CSIC.
https://msb-lab.github.io/en
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social I had a marvellous time ruining everything.
Professor of Genetics @UCL, Public Humanities Fellow @SAS. Ex-President of @Humanists_UK Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷×
@kbjmanagement
adamrutherford.com
Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social Canadian critical media studies scholar and podcaster interested in the meanings we make of perpetual tech promises. Bilingue. Focused on the environment. I typo a lot.
😷🏳️🌈
🎙️ thedatafix.net
📝 heliotropejournal.net
Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com Writer, web developer and consultant based in Hveragerði, Iceland. Lapsed Interactive Media Academic. Webby Tech Stuff and webby book stuff.
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/
https://softwarecrisis.dev/
Borja @borfebor.bsky.social Microbiologist turned into molecular clock enthusiast.
Now at LMU Munich
Antony Dodd @antdodd.bsky.social circadian rhythms | cell signalling | plants and microbes | @microclockerc.bsky.social | Head of Cell and Developmental Biology @ John Innes Centre UK | Views my own.
Mo lab @molabuw.bsky.social We study how bacteria protect themselves from viruses:
https://molab.bact.wisc.edu/
Meaghan Castledine @mcastd.bsky.social NERC IRF 🦠 all things PHAGE and microbial communities 🧫🔬 I also have a dog and enjoy nerdy things 🧝🏻♀️
Dr Tommy Ryan-Keogh @tjryankeogh.bsky.social Ocean biogeochemist based at the Southern Ocean Carbon-Climate Observatory, South Africa
Loïs Maignien, PhD. @loimai.bsky.social PI Microbial Ecogenomics Group at Brest Univ. 🇫🇷
https://maignienlab.github.io/
Jitka Polechová @polejit.bsky.social evolutionary ecology, eco-evolutionary dynamics, eco-evo feedback, population genetics, evolutionary genetics, species' range & niche limits, speciation, evolution of genetic variance and genetic architecture 🧬 🧪 🌱 🐟 🦠 🦤 🌏 💻 @univie.ac.at
Verena @viralemergence.org 🦠 Yale-based, NSF-funded Institute for pandemic prediction.
💻 How we do it: data, biology, AI, and team science.
⚖️ Why we do it: scientific discoveries and global health security.
➡️ See more at viralemergence.org.
Kate Laskowski @katelaskowski.bsky.social Assoc Prof at UC Davis. Senior Editor at Am Nat.
Developmental drivers of individuality in the Amazon molly. Nature through nurture and a lot of noise. Really into random effects.
Walter Andriuzzi @walterandriuzzi.bsky.social Former child who wanted to study nature. Senior Editor at Nature Ecology & Evolution (formerly at Nature Communications). Postdoc Colorado State University (2015-2018). PhD University College Dublin & Wageningen University. Needs writing, hiking, espresso.
The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social Not for profit organization founded by the R Core Team to provide support for the R project. A reference point for interaction with the R development community.
Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social Climate scientist, juggler. Bikes etc. Blogging at https://www.realclimate.org - data visualization, explainers, and debunking.
Patrick Rafter @oceanandclimate.bsky.social Ocean, carbon cycling, and climate: yesterday, today, and tomorrow
Andrew Dickson @agdco2.bsky.social Marine chemist & animal lover
Ken Johnson @montereyken.bsky.social Ocean scientist building a global biogeochemical sensor array to observe ocean health and changes in chemical cycling. http://soccom.org, https://go-bgc.org
Isabel @isabelott.bsky.social Evolutionary & population biology of vector-borne viral disease systems. 🦟 genetics PhD candidate in NC.
Arbovirologist, orthobunyavirus wonk, feral reference librarian, & public health advocate. 80s mosquito. Coaster-sized earrings. (she/her) 🏳️🌈
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.