Chris Wyatt @chris-wyatt.bsky.social Scientist, open source developer
Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net Engineer at Posit, technical lead for quarto.org
Touching grass by learning Brazilian music. feet in Minneapolis, heart in some random Brazil beach town I don't even know yet
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Alison Criss @alisoncrissuva.bsky.social Professor and Vice Chair of Microbiology, Immunology, & Cancer Biology, University of Virginia. Chair, Mechanism Discovery Unit, American Society for Microbiology. Fascinated by neutrophils & Neisseria.
Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social Founder & CEO of @standupforscience.net
Standupforscience.net substack.com/@sciencefightclub
PhD in Clinical Psychology
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Anthropic @anthropic.com We're an Al safety and research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable Al systems. Talk to our Al assistant Claude at Claude.ai.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social Professor of Genetic Medicine at the University of Chicago. Decoding the human microbiome. http://BlekhmanLab.org
Information Charlottesville @infocville.bsky.social This is one of two outlets run by Town Crier Productions, a one-person information outlet that seeks to put out as much information out about local and regional government as possible. Longtime Charlottesville journalist Sean Tubbs is the person behind it.
Vic Weigman @aeneas-vic.bsky.social Always on the lookout for relevant information about Data in Life Science
The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social A podcast about the fight against car culture. Hosted by Sarah Goodyear & Doug Gordon.
Our new book, "Life After Cars" is out now.
https://www.lifeaftercars.com/
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theskepticsguide.org
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Jonathan Carroll @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy #rstats primarily but learning #haskell, #julia, #rust, #python, #APL, #lisp, and many others
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Rachel O'Neill Lab @roneilllab.bsky.social Genetics & Genomics Lab at University of Connecticut, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology. https://roneill.lab.uconn.edu/
Elinor Karlsson @elinork.bsky.social Scientist & artist. Prof at UMass Chan Med School & Broad Institute. Rice U alum. Founder of Zoonomia & DarwinsArk.org. Wants your dog’s DNA. And your cat’s! 🇸🇪🇳🇿🇺🇸
Fernando Villanea @fervillanea.bsky.social He/Him. Associate Professor of Anthropology at CU Boulder. Population genetics of Neanderthals and other people. Opinions are my own. Latino in STEM 🇨🇷
Hans-Rudolf Hotz @hrhotz.bsky.social Molecular Biologist turned Bioinformatician working in the Computational Biology facility at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel
Open Science, Training/Mentoring, #UseGalaxy, Bioconductor
Patricia Palagi 🐙🐱🦒-🇨🇭🇧🇷 @ppalagi.bsky.social Director of the SIB Training Group at the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. A passionate advocate for bioinformatics training and effective training practices. Animal lover with a special affection for cats and dogs.
Natalie Linton @nlintonepi.bsky.social Infectious disease epidemiologist and modeler, AIxBio researcher.
Jaime Yassif @jaimeyassif.bsky.social NTI | bio Vice President, biophysicist. Working to strengthen biotech governance, biosecurity & pandemic preparedness. Formerly US Health & Human Services and Dept of Defense, Federation of American Scientists, Chatham House, Open Phil, UC Berkeley
Tom Inglesby @t-inglesby.bsky.social Director @bsph-chs.bsky.social
Epidemics, public health, biosecurity, policy, and preparedness.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-inglesby-93b51582/
Gigi Gronvall @ggronvall.bsky.social Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering. 1st Hopkins prof to be a Marching Raven! gigigronvall.com
SecureBio, Inc. @securebio.org 
Seth Donoughe @donoughe.bsky.social AI+Bio researcher, working to make sure new tech makes the world better.
Also interested in predictive biology, qbio, morphogenesis, evolution, embryos, wings, eggs, dataviz, generative art, illustration
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Nuclear Threat Initiative @nti.org A nonprofit, nonpartisan global security organization focused on reducing nuclear, biological, and emerging tech threats imperiling humanity.
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.
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
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.
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Future of Life Institute @futureoflife.org We work on reducing extreme risks and steering transformative technologies to benefit humanity.
Learn more: futureoflife.org
Americans for Responsible Innovation @americans4ri.bsky.social AI policy advocacy in the public interest.
ARI is leading the charge for a policy framework that mitigates risks, promotes innovation, and leaves no one behind.
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
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
Dr. Giovanna J. Gutierrez (she/hers) AIGP FHCA @gjgutierrez.bsky.social Responsable AI advocate, AI Safety (Frontier AIxCBRN risks) and AI governance, problem-solver, world traveler, Le Wagon, AllWomen.tech data scientist, LSHTM alumni, former World Health Organization epidemiologist, EPIET EUPHEM 2010
Centre for the Study of Existential Risk @cser.bsky.social Cambridge University interdisciplinary research centre dedicated to the study and mitigation of risks that could lead to human extinction or civilizational collapse.
CSIS Wadhwani AI Center @ai.csis.org CSIS's Wadhwani AI Center conducts research on the governance, geopolitics, and national security implications of AI
www.csis.org
David Manheim @davidmanheim.alter.org.il Humanity's future can be amazing - let's make sure it is.
Visiting lecturer at the Technion, founder https://alter.org.il, Superforecaster, Pardee RAND graduate.
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.
CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social The Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, University of Minnesota.
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Kathryn Paige Harden @kph3k.bsky.social Psychology & behavior genetics. Author of THE GENETIC LOTTERY (2021) and ORIGINAL SIN (2026). Speaking as an individual.
DTM @thedtm.bsky.social News, commentary, analysis, and stray thoughts from the editor of https://www.charlottesvilledtm.com/
Chris Mungall @cmungall.bsky.social Berkeley Lab, Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology division. #GeneOntology #MonarchInitiative #AllianceGenome #NationalMicrobiomeDataCollaborative #OBOFoundry.
@nickschurch.bsky.social @nickschurch.bsky.social 
Kevin Ushey @kevinushey.bsky.social $ /usr/bin/kevin: valid on disk
$ /usr/bin/kevin: satisfies its Designated Requirement
Software engineer at Posit. #rstats abjurations and conjurations.
Jonathan @jmcphers.bsky.social Software architect @posit.co. Also music, kids, books, bicycling, and goodness knows what else. Opinions my own. He/him
Luca Righetti @lucarighetti.bsky.social Research Open_Phil, co-host HearThisIdea. Views my own.
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Alex Kleinman @alex-kleinman.bsky.social Co-founder at Active Site
Forecasting Research Institute @research-fri.bsky.social We advance the science of forecasting to improve decision-making on high stakes issues. Co-founded by chief scientist Philip Tetlock. https://forecastingresearch.org/
Active Site @activesite.bio Measuring frontier AI in synthetic biology: activesite.org
Arjun Krishnan @compbiologist.bsky.social ML/AI methods & tools for using massive public data collections to gain insights into complex disease mechanisms.
Associate Professor & Group leader thekrishnanlab.org at the Dept. of Biomedical Informatics at CU Anschutz.
Saurav Sengupta @sauravsen.bsky.social Data Science PhD, UVA | MSDS'19 University of Virginia | @BITS_Pilani 2016 Alum
Simon Anders @s-anders.bsky.social physicist, bioinformatics / biostats researcher at University of Heidelberg
Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social Author of The Psychology of Software Teams: https://www.drcathicks.com/#book
she/her 🏳️🌈
Catharsis: https://catharsisinsight.com/
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social Husband, Father, Grandfather, Datahound, Dog lover, Fan of Celtic music, Former NIGMS director, Former EiC of Science, Stand Up for Science advisor, Shananigator, Pittsburgh, PA
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bioinfoblogs @bioinfoblogs.bsky.social An aggregated RSS feed providing daily updates of the latest posts from bioinformatics blogs.
Blog list: https://tinyurl.com/y29rzrph
Sharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social Author of Practical R for Mass Communication & Journalism
❤️ #RStats, writing & walkable/bikeable cities
Having fun with GenAI
Retired tech journalist
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Richard McElreath 🐈⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social Anthropologist - Bayesian modeling - science reform - cat and cooking content too - Director @ MPI for evolutionary anthropology https://www.eva.mpg.de/ecology/staff/richard-mcelreath/
Dr Charlotte Hammer @epihammer.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Cambridge University, Fellow of Downing College. Health security and infectious disease epidemiology focused on early detection of emerging & high-consequence infectious diseases. Systems & communities.
https://idea-epilab.github.io
VivienM @vivienm.bsky.social Journalist. Nature journals and blog, pieces also in New Scientist, The Economist, Science, Lancet. Science, tech; arts and culture on occasion. Ex-MIT KSJ fellow; sr producer at arte. Articles, podcasts, videos. https://www.vivienmarx.com Signal: vam.60
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
Dave Graham @davegraham.bsky.social Agonist | Technologist | Writer | Photographer | Technical Marketing | aquietlittlerebellion.com
Dino Grandoni @dinograndoni.bsky.social Washington Post reporter covering wildlife, biodiversity and other environmental issues
https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/dino-grandoni/
Eli Sugarman @elisugarman.bsky.social Personal account. Trust and safety/philanthropy/cyber/tech policy. All views are my own and not those of my employer. Following and re-blueskying(?) =/= endorsement. 
helen @blueheel18.bsky.social biochemist, swim coach, environmentalist, animal lover
Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social UVA's Library research center+community lab for practicing interdisciplinary+experimental scholarship around creative+critical tech—informed by digital humanities, spatial tech, SJ, & more
💜🏳️🌈 People > projects.
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David Keyes @dgkeyes.com I teach people to use R @rfortherestofus.com
alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social NYT-bestselling fantasy author in charlottesville va
Douglas Taylor @douglastaylor.bsky.social Population Genetics, Molecular Evolution, especially in plants. @UVABiology
Bart Deplancke @bartdeplancke.bsky.social Professor in Systems Biology & Genetics @EPFL, opinions my own; Single Cell Omics / Gene Regulation / Transcription Factor / Stem Cells / Regulatory Variation / ML / Imaging / Adipose Biology / Microfluidics
https://www.epfl.ch/labs/deplanckelab
Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social Scientist and science writer from New Zealand.
BioinfoTools on Twitter.
Traveller. Cycle touring.
More later - I really need to get to that eh? 😄
Colossal Biosciences @itiscolossal.bsky.social Putting the FUn in FUnctional de-extinction
This account is run by interns at Colossal 🐘🤝🦣
Ellumigen @ocean-genomics.bsky.social Ellumigen is the Intelligent Transcriptome company. We supply insights and evidence that enable data-driven decisions, provide confidence in the underlying biology, and increase the probability of technical and clinical success at every step.
Dr. Arun Sethuraman @arunsethuraman.bsky.social Computational evolutionary biologist. Professor & Chair of Biology @sandiegostate.bsky.social, athlete, insomniac, writer, singer, polyglot, polymath, @out.com ‘25 Out100 honoree. He/him. 🏳️🌈🇮🇳🇺🇸🐞🌱🐢🧬🏋🏾♂️🎤✍🏾 www.sethuramanlab.com Views are mine alone.
UVA School of Data Science @uvadatascience.bsky.social The official account of the UVA School of Data Science: Committed to teaching and practicing responsible data science for the common good.
datascience.virginia.edu
Tom Hartvigsen @tomhartvigsen.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Data Science at UVA developing responsible machine learning and NLP methods for ever-changing environments. https://www.tomhartvigsen.com/
YY Ahn @yyahn.bsky.social Prof @ School of Data Science, University of Virginia. Formerly at IU. Networks, data science, and machine learning. https://yyahn.com
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Mona Sloane @monasloane.bsky.social Sociologist of #AI • University of Virginia Faculty • Series Editor University of California Press • Tech Editor Public Books • Fellow NYU IKP & UVA DTD • Host of Co-Opting AI Series • Director Sloane Lab • monasloane.org
Jon Kropko @jonkropko.bsky.social Associate Teaching Professor at UVA School of Data Science. Co-founder and co-lead of Code for Charlottesville. Civic tech researcher. Views are mine.
Teague Henry @teaguerhenry.bsky.social Asst Prof @ UVA Psychology and School of Data Science. Networks, neurons, and complex systems models of psychopathology.
Lane Rasberry @bluerasberry.bsky.social Wikipedia editor, data science, barista @ Chinchilla Café
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Aaron Martin @sixfouronea.net Assistant Professor of Data Governance at UVA
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Project: http://digitalsovereigntyobservatory.org
jess reia • 何杰茜 @jhereia.bsky.social data justice, tech policy, cities & nighttime governance | asst prof of data science & public policy / writer | they•them 🏳️⚧️ | 🇧🇷🇨🇦🇺🇸
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org Evangelist for the study of evolution in action by everyone.
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Alex Gates @complexgates.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Data Science @UVA. Network Science, human behavior and the emergent constraints of the organizations and ecosystems we build.
Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social (Unofficial) Hacker News Bot with top stories updates.
Jobs from YC startups @whois-hiring.bsky.social
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Curtis Kapsak @curtiskapsak.bsky.social Bioinformatics Scientist @theiagen.bsky.social
Likely swimming in a sea of pathogen genomes 🏊🧬 or riding my bike 🚴
Public Health | Infectious Diseases | Bioinformatics | Software Dev
Lorena A Barba @labarba.bsky.social Engineering professor, computational scientist, jazz buff, techie, academic writer & font geek. Faculty director of the GW Open Source Program Office.
https://lorenabarba.com
www.linkedin.com/in/lorenabarba
R Consortium @rconsortium.bsky.social The central mission of the R Consortium is to support to the R Foundation and key organizations developing, maintaining, distributing R software through the identification, development and implementation of infrastructure projects.
Laurie Winkless @lauriewinkless.bsky.social Physicist & science storyteller. 📚#1: SCIENCE AND THE CITY 📚#2: STICKY. Words in other places. Irish in Aotearoa New Zealand. Massive science nerd, biz owner, enthusiastic, outspoken, equity-minded, multi-crafter. She/her. #ToitūTeTiriti #FreePalestine
Nic Rawlence @nicrawlencenz.bsky.social Associate Professor, palaeoecologist, and science communicator @Otago Ancient Ecology Lab Mātai Hauropi Tawhito using ancient DNA and palaeontology to reconstruct past ecosystems.
Dariia Mykhailyshyna @dariia.bsky.social Ukrainian, Economist, Postdoctoral Researcher at KSE, organizer of Workshops for Ukraine series, #RStats
https://sites.google.com/view/dariia-mykhailyshyna/main
Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social 🏛Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield 🎓PhD Evolutionary Biology🏝Islands 🐘Elephants🦣Mammoths🦷Teeth ⚒️1/4 of TrowelBlazers 📰EiC Open Quaternary 🎥🎙Presenter. Expcet typos.
Alyssa Brown @machinesentience.bsky.social Comms at UVA Data Science. MA in Media Studies student at UVA researching 1970s Pong clones. Regal Unlimited pass holder and sci-fi enthusiast. Boldness is All 🚀✨
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