Alvaro Sanchez @asanchezlab.bsky.social CSIC Professor and Principal Investigator of the Quantitative Biology group at IBFG in Salamanca. Previously at Yale EEB, CNB-CSIC. Our group works on building predictive models of biological teams. More information at www.sanchezlaboratory.weebly.com
@shuanger.bsky.social @shuanger.bsky.social 
Poppy Hesketh Best @pjhesbes.bsky.social Infectious disease and environmental microbial genomics, just all things bugs and viruses.
Megan Frederickson @mfrederickson.bsky.social 
Nature Communications @natcomms.nature.com Nature Communications is an open access journal publishing high-quality research in all areas of the biological, physical, chemical, clinical, social, and Earth sciences.
www.nature.com/ncomms/
Sara Imari Walker @saraimari.bsky.social Professor @ASU @sfiscience
Julie Pourtois, PhD @juliepourtois.bsky.social Postdoc in Biology at UMD, College Park
STCmicrobeblog @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social A blog that aims to share appreciation for the width & depth of microbial activities.
Posts by Christoph, not necessarily the opinion of all team members of Small Things Considered (STC) https://smallthingsconsidered.blog/
Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social Former Vibrio, current System Biology PhD candidate in Michael Baym's Lab at Harvard Medical School. she/her
"The agreement of the results seems to show that light and magnetism are affections of the same substance" (James Maxwell 1865)
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.
Jubyeong Chae @juby0812.bsky.social Chemist
izzylakis.bsky.social @izzylakis.bsky.social Microbiologist by day, birder at heart
Stu West @stuwest.bsky.social Evolution. He/him/his. Views not my own. 🐵🦄🏳️🌈👨🔬🍜
Tami Lieberman @contaminatedsci.bsky.social Associate Professor, MIT
Still thinking about the 10^9 mutations generated in your microbiome today.
Website: http://lieberman.science
Jeffrey Marlow @jjmarlow.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Biology at Boston University ::: Science Journalist / Communicator ::: National Geographic Explorer
Alvaro San Millan @sanmillan.bsky.social Plasmid biology, antimicrobial resistance plasmidlab.es
James McInerney @jomcinerney.bsky.social Writing a book about horizontal gene transfer and non treelike evolution. Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Biology. Pangenomes. https://profmcinerney.substack.com/ 🇮🇪 https://mol-evol.github.io/
Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com Nature Microbiology publishes the latest research and commentary in all areas of microbiology.
https://www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/
Sullivan Lab at OSU @sullivan-lab.bsky.social We develop new ways to “see” and understand viruses in the laboratory and in nature.
Shai Bel (The Mucus Man) @mucusman.bsky.social The Bel Lab, boldly going where no one else bothers to. Associate professor @uwmadisonmmi.bsky.social. Opinions are my microbiota's.
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
Claudi Bockting @clbockting.bsky.social Professor of Clinical Psychology in Psychiatry
@amsterdamumc
| Co-Director
@UMH_UvA
| 🔬 #depression research, urban #mentalhealth, #complexity in #psychology
Andrea L Graham @grahammunology.bsky.social Wild immunologist who never forgets the parasites. Advocate for justice. Mate of cryptozoologist. Daughter, sister, niece, aunt, wicked stepmother, & world’s first Grandrea. Marching for the ERA since age 6. True.
John Spear @spearmicrobe.bsky.social Professor, Colorado School of Mines: Environmental Microbiology; Geobiology; Life in Extremes; Environmental Policy; Climate Change. ORCiD: 0000-0002-4664-7438
https://people.mines.edu/jspear/
Asher Leeks @asherleeks.bsky.social We study social evolution in viruses.
Assistant Professor @zoology.ubc.ca & @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social
asherleeks.com
Megan Phillips @meganphillips.bsky.social Staph aureus evolution + genomics | PhD candidate @ Emory University | Population Biology, Ecology, & Evolution | 🧬💻🦠🍄 | Mastodon 🦣 @meganphillips@mstdn.science | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0781-3325
Kiseok (Keith) Lee @kiseokmicro.bsky.social How can we understand & design robust community functions?
Postdoc: UDel, Aditya Kunjapur lab
PhD: UChicago, Seppe Kuehn lab
Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=&user=UcMtC88AAAAJ
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kiseokkeithlee/
@miloj.bsky.social @miloj.bsky.social 
Stephen Dolan @stephenkdolan.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Clemson University. Fascinated by all things microbiology.
https://www.thedolanlab.com/
Emma Derrick @emderrick.bsky.social PhD candidate in the Shapiro lab at McGill studying the evolution of aquatic microbial communities- A Katherine Ennis @agroecologista.bsky.social UC Berkeley Postdoc interested in the ecological and evolutionary impacts of bacteria-phage interactions.
Tiffany Taylor @taylorlabgroup.bsky.social Professor of Microbial Ecology and Evolution at the Life Sciences Department at the University of Bath. Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow. Children's author evolution/genetics. Mum.
https://tiffanybtaylor.wordpress.com/
Rowan Green @rowancallumg.bsky.social Postdoc studying viral social evolution with @asherleeks.bsky.social | previously @mermanchester.bsky.social | mutagenesis | bacteria | viruses | big R nerd 🧬🦠💻
🏳️⚧️ He/Him
Simplifying Complexity @bhcomplexity.bsky.social A podcast that explores the underlying principles of complex systems - systems that defy our rational view of the world. By Sean Brady
https://omny.fm/shows/simplifying-complexity/playlists/podcast
IceLab @icelabumu.bsky.social Integrated Science Lab, Umeå University, Sweden. Home of Stress Response Modeling at IceLab.
Connecting researchers across disciplines for the love of launching and landing new ideas.
https://icelab.se/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/icelab-umea/
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org Explore groundbreaking news and research from PNAS, one of the world's most-cited scientific journals. Discover its sibling journal, @pnasnexus.org, both official research journals of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Visit www.pnas.org for more info.
PLOS Global Public Health @plosglobalpublichealth.org Supporting a mission to make work of the highest methodological and ethical rigor openly available to the researchers, policy experts, and clinicians who depend on it to tackle urgent health crises and advance health equity.
Network Science Society @netscisociety.bsky.social Official account of the Network Science Society.
To serve and represent the research community on network science.
netscisociety.net
Lab of Interdisciplinary Physics @liphlab.bsky.social Department of Physics, University of Padova, Italy
Our research spans from statistical mechanics ⚛️ to the organization of the brain 🧠 and the functioning of ecosystems 🌎
🔗 liphlab.com
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
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.
Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr 👩🔬 The Institut Pasteur is a leading global biomedical research institute.
🔬 Explore with us the frontiers of biomedical research
🧪 Follow us to uncover groundbreaking discoveries
🌍 Join a community passionate about progress and open science
Complexity Digest @cxdig.bsky.social Networking the complexity community since 1999.
Official news channel of the @cssociety.bsky.social
Edited by @cgershen.bsky.social
Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social Exciting stuff on complexity, theoretical biology, artificial intelligence, linguistics, neuroscience and their intersections.
#complexitycat
complexitycat.org
AnniZLab: [🦠, 🧬 , ✨] @annizlab.bsky.social A microbiologist 🦠& bioinformatician 🧬 uncovering diverse microbial mechanisms via AI ✨. A rising assistant professor @NTU Singapore. With data in the cloud, the sky is the limit! Check out our lab website :) https://genomiverse.net/
Conference on Complex Systems @css-conference.bsky.social The 2026 edition of the Conference on Complex Systems will take place in Binghamton, USA. The event will take place during October 9–16 2026.
ccs26.cssociety.org
NICO @nicoatnu.bsky.social The Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO) incubates innovative collaborations that leverage complexity, networks, and data science.
Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist (Multicellularity & social evolution). Prof. at Georgia Tech & Director of the QBioS PhD program.
https://ratclifflab.biosci.gatech.edu/
Eric Libby @elibbyscience.bsky.social I am a mathematical biologist interested in microbial evolution and the evolution of complexity. My base is in IceLab at Umeå University in Sweden.
bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social 
The Banfield Lab @banfieldlab.bsky.social Located at the University of California-Berkeley at the Innovative Genomics Institute.
Purveyors of Microbial Ecology, Bioinformatics, & Nanogeoscience.
Reposts or likes≠endorsements.
https://www.banfieldlab.com/
Iris Jia @tongqiu.bsky.social Graduate student at UW Genome Sciences. Currently studying evolution of tiny little things
Joe Bondy-Denomy @jbdsf.bsky.social 
Aude Bernheim @audeber.bsky.social PI at Institut Pasteur
Evolution, immunity, genomics, microbiolgy.
Into immunity in bacteria and its conservation in eukaryotes.
Advocate for more inclusive sciences
https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/molecular-diversity-of-microbes/
Balaji @bala-ji.bsky.social Senior Scientist of Coastal and Marine Ecology Division at GUIDE. Oceanography and Marine biologist.
Brett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social Professor of microbial ecology and evolution at Univ of Texas Austin.
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.
Pilhofer Lab 🦠❄️🔬 @pilhoferlab.bsky.social Microbial cell-cell interactions | contractile injection systems | cytoskeleton | evolution | multiscale imaging | ETH Zürich
- run by lab members -
SMTPB @smtpb.bsky.social Account for the Society for Modeling & Theory in Population Biology, a professional scientific society focused on mathematical models and theory-based research in population biology.
smtpb.org
Julian Catchen @jcatchen.bsky.social associate professor, dept. of evolution, ecology, & behavior, UIUC. computational biologist and population genomics practitioner. 
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
Jesse Shapiro @bjesseshapiro.bsky.social Macrobe qui aime les microbes
http://www.shapirolab.ca/
Everyone's least favorite lab mate @kepatitis-c.bsky.social I much prefer the sharpest of criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses
- Johannes Kepler
“It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.”
-Andrew Jackson
Richard Lenski @relenski.bsky.social Evolving better E. coli for 75,000 generations. Prof at MSU, but opinions my own. (Ok, I also speak for billions -- er, TRILLIONS -- of E. coli.)
Website for LTEE: the-ltee.org
Banner pic from NYC, shared by Darwin. (The microbiologist, not the other one.)
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/
Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social archaea, methane, microbial ecophysiology, single cell activity, next generation physiology & boardgames / for evidence-based decision-making / I don’t mince words / posts reflect personal views / www.environmental-microbiology.com
Daniel Cooney @danielcooney1.bsky.social Applied mathematician at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Interested in evolutionary game theory, differential equations, and modeling biological and social systems.
Mike Blazanin @mikeblazanin.bsky.social Postdoc with @kayla-king.bsky.social and @sarperotto.bsky.social at UBC. Bacterial evolution with C. elegans, phages, and bacterial communities. Modeling and experimental evolution. Microbial and computational methods.
https://mikeblazanin.com/
Marshall Abrams @marshall0i.bsky.social Philosopher of science, occasional scientist. Phil of:
ev biol, probability, modeling, stat inference. Book: Evolution and the Machinery of Chance. Activity here as private citizen, not as rep of nor supported by employer. https://marshallalmostsurely.com
Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social Microbial evolution / University of Manchester
Kasie Raymann @kasieraymann.bsky.social Assistant Professor. Department of Plant and Microbial Biology. North Carolina State University. Microbial Ecology and Evolution. Honey bee microbiome. Experimental evolution. 
Haim Ashkenazy @haimashkenazy.bsky.social Postdoc in WeigelWorld @PlantEvolution, @MPI_bio. Evolution of Plant-Microbe-Microbe interactions, molecular evolution, and comparative genomics
Sungbin Lim @sungbin.bsky.social Doctoral Researcher at MPI for Evolutionary Biology
Microbiologist, Experimentalist
Interested in Microbiology, Evolution, Open Science practice, History & Philosophy of Science🧑🔬🔍
Gina Lewin @ginalewin.bsky.social Assistant Prof at Case Western studying microbial interactions in the oral and vaginal microbiomes (and beyond!). Also find me outside, baking, coloring, or sleeping.
thelewinlab.com
Doran Goldman @goldmandoran.bsky.social UW-Madison Microbiology PhD candidate in the @molabuw.bsky.social, studying phage infection in microbial communities. Microbial ecology & evolution. Fan of birds, books, bacteriophages, and Beckett.
Heather Hendrickson @drhhnz.bsky.social #Evolution, #Microbiology, and #Phages. Associate Professor, University of Canterbury, Christchurch NZ. Adaptable Phage Solutions Co-Science Lead.Views my own. |She| Her|.
hendricksonlab.co.nz
Marine Biological Laboratory @mblscience.bsky.social The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), founded in 1888, is an international center for research & education in biology & ecology in Woods Hole, MA. www.mbl.edu
ESEB 2025 Congress @eseb2025.bsky.social Welcome to the ESEB 2025 Congress, set to take place in Barcelona. This congress marks another milestone for the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), which has been organising biennial conferences since 1987. Join us! We are waiting for you.
Eduardo Rocha @epcrocha.bsky.social Scientist, genomics, evolution, microbiology, computational biology, Institut Pasteur/CNRS, Paris
Sorek Lab @soreklab.bsky.social The Sorek Lab
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
https://www.weizmann.ac.il/molgen/Sorek/
Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social Professor, USC Marine and Environmental Biology, microbe hunter. Dad, husband. he/him. Not a bot. thethrashlab.com @the.thrash.lab
Ellinor Alseth @ellinoralseth.bsky.social Eco-evo with microbes. I happen to like fjords, I think they give a lovely baroque feel to a continent. The University of Tromsø. Opinions my own. She/her
Becca Satterwhite @satterwhite.bsky.social Evolutionary microbiologist 🧪🧫🧪 Postdoc at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, co-advised by Dr. Vaughn Cooper and Dr. Kathy Shair
S Otto @sarperotto.bsky.social evolution & math = a super interesting job
Pia Sen @pia-sen.bsky.social PhD student at GW: microbial ecology of phages and phage defense in Antarctic deserts, volcanoes, and hot springs 🧫🌋
🎓UT Austin 2020
Paloma Rodera @palomarodera.bsky.social PhD Student in the Plasmid Biology and Evolution (PBE) and Evolution of Microbiomes and Mobile Genetic Elements (EMMGE) labs.
Bioinformatician and Biologist hybrid 💻🧬
Nkrumah Grant @nkrumahgrant.bsky.social Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Michael Baym @baym.lol Associate Prof @HarvardMed. Microbial evolution, antibiotic resistance, mobile genetic elements, algorithms, phages, molecular biotech, etc. Find me under “floating dumpster fire”
Lukas Hafner @lukashafner.bsky.social Biologist lost somewhere between the scales | Biology x ML
Postdoc@Kishony Lab, Technion
previously
@BIU, Institut Pasteur
@Learning Planet Institute
@Shore Lab, University of Geneva
@LostInTranscrip on Twitter
Laura Suttenfield @lcatherines.bsky.social postdoc with @baym.lol at Harvard Medical School | UIUC, UMass Amherst alum
Katherine Xue @ksxue.bsky.social Assistant prof at UC Irvine. Ecology and evolution in microbial communities, and occasional writing.
https://kxuelab.com
Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social Prof @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social Connecting pathogen evolution with public health outcomes. #Shigella and #AMR enthusiast. Views own. http://gen.cam.ac.uk/baker-group also www.pdu.gen.cam.ac.uk also @pducambridge.bsky.social
Jana Huisman @jhuisman.bsky.social HFSP Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT | Mobile genetic elements and microbial communities
Tapan Goel @tgoel.bsky.social Postdoc in the @weitz_group at UMD College Park. Working on eco-evolutionary models of phages and their hosts. UCSD Physics PhD. he/his
Shreyas Pai @theshreyaspai.bsky.social Systems Biology PhD Student @Harvard, Labs of Michael Desai @mmdesai.bsky.social & Michael Baym @baym.lol | Trinity College Cambridge Alum | Evolution & Microbes
Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social Emergence, Networks & Complexity | Collective Behavior(s) from Cells to Societies 🧬🦠🧠🌇
Prof. @UniPadova, Galileo's University | Lab: @comunelab.bsky.social | Web: https://linktr.ee/manlius
Thoughts at manlius.substack.com
Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social The premier research center for #ComplexSystems #science.
santafe.edu
linktr.ee/sfiscience
Sierra Bedwell, MS @bedwellbacteria.bsky.social Microbial ecologist, sci-comm coordinator, and PhD candidate working for the GEMS Biology Integration Institute. BS @MontanaState, MS @UofIllinois.
Lover of space, soil, skiing and symbiosis.
All views are my own.
Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social Professor of Biology & Institute for Health Computing, U of Maryland; explores how viruses impact human & environmental health;
'Asymptomatic' (JHU Press - https://bit.ly/asymptomatic_book)
&
'Science Matters' (https://substack.com/@joshuasweitz)
Stephen Beckett @beckettstephen.bsky.social Computational ecology. Viruses and microbes. Oceans. Bipartite networks. Dad. Scientist @UofMaryland Dept. Biology, and Institute for Health Computing. Searching learning & coffee converting. More about me: https://sjbeckett.github.io