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.)
Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social Illustrator & cartoonist | Guardian & Prospect (full scripts in alt text) | graphic novels | children’s books | WFC | My stuff: https://linktr.ee/stephencollinsart
Ann Leckie @annleckie.com Author of the award-winning Ancillary Justice. Lives in St Louis.
Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social A Pole in Hong Kong. Posts about Museums, Pterosaurs and History of Palaeontology 🦴 Dinosaur Doodler 🦖
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science 👁️ https://olivia.science
🍃 https://metatheory.space
associate professor of computational cognitive science · she/they · cypriot/kıbrıslı/κυπραία · σὺν Ἀθηνᾷ καὶ χεῖρα κίνει
Jitu Mayor Lab @jitumayorlab.bsky.social We study mechanisms of plasma membrane organization and endocytosis. Managed by enthusiastic lab members!
satyajitmayorlab.wixsite.com/cellularinterfaces
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.
Anjiolina Nakaya @anjiolina.bsky.social
John C. Baez @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social Mathematical physicist
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.
Fraser MacLeod @fmacleod.bsky.social Postdoc in the Baum lab at the MRC-LMB, studying the diversity and behaviour of Asgard archaea
Ajay Narendra @pipilika.bsky.social Professor of Neuroethology, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Kaiser Lab @clocksevolution.bsky.social Evolution x Ecology x Biological Clocks x Intertidal:
focus on lunar rhythms in development & reproduction of marine insects.
+ Genomics | MolBio | Behaviour | ChemEcol | Biodiversity | SciCom
bit.ly/KaiserLab
@mpi-evolbio.bsky.social @maxplanck.de
Timothy O'Leary @timothyoleary.bsky.social Neuroscientist
Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social Algorithmist
https://moultano.wordpress.com/
Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social Scientist, citizen, mom, and occasionally athletic
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
Toni Gabaldón @tonigabaldon.bsky.social
The Ramsey Lab @theramseylab.bsky.social The Ramsey philosophy of biology lab at KU Leuven, Belgium.
https://www.theramseylab.org • #HPbio #philsci #philsky #evosky #paleosky #cogsci #AI
Alex Bisson @archaeon-alex.bsky.social 🇧🇷🇺🇸Evolutionary Cell Mechanobiology of Archaea.
Associate Professor at Indiana University.
Standing tall on the shoulders of tiny (salty) bugs.
Lab Website: bissonlab.com
Laura Tovini @ltovini.bsky.social Chromosome focused | Couldn't live without: coffee buddies, music, challenges
Marco Fumasoni @marcofumasoni.bsky.social Biologist | Group leader of the Genome Maintenance and Evolution lab @gimminstitute.bsky.social | Previously @IGC, @harvardmcb.bsky.social and @ifomresearch.bsky.social | https://fumalab.github.io/
Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social Situationist Cybernetics. I make films with and against AI to see what isn’t there. Gates Scholar, Cambridge Digital Humanities. Affiliated Researcher, Machine Visual Culture Research Group (Max Planck Institute). Aim to be kind. cyberneticforests.com
🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social @Swilua
"An inspiration to bog witches everywhere"— @jermsguy "Ms Frizzle IRL”— @ElleMaeGal “The funniest person I know on Bluesky"—@cstark “Cranky and Annoyed"— @washingtonpost she/fae kerrycoran.com
Ru Gunawardane @ru-gunawardane.bsky.social Director of the @alleninstitute.bsky.social for Cell Science
Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo @multicellgenome.bsky.social How did single cells become animals? We study animal's closest unicellular relatives to reconstruct the origin of animal life. #Multicellularity
https://www.multicellgenome.com
Milton Tan @mtanichthys.bsky.social Fish biodiversity, genomics. Illinois Natural History Survey Asst Research Scientist. Also aquarium fish hobbyist and plant parent. Profile pic: With a tamandua knifefish. He/him
Joseph W. Brown @josephwb.bsky.social Comp. evol. biol., fake ornithologist, LFHCfs, Luddite, CSH
I get down methodically
Without regard to my soul
tinyurl.com/G00gleSch0lar
HHGG bot: @whalepetunias.bsky.social
pfp: Chickens exposed to natural beard hair on a mannequin
hdr: socks & sandals
Phil Hugenholtz @xrefugee13.bsky.social Microbiologist
Fabien Burki @fburki.bsky.social Exploring the great microbial eukaryote diversity and evolution, one protist at a time. I’m fascinated by this question: how have #plastids evolved? #ProtistsOnSky | Associate Prof at Uppsala University. My lab: https://www.burki-lab.net/
Michael Poulsen @michaelpoulsenucph.bsky.social Professor in the Evolution of Microbial Symbiosis and Deputy Head of Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen. Views are my own. He/him 🏳️🌈
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-poulsen-5804b926/
https://www.socialsymbioticevolution.com/
James Gahan @jgahan.bsky.social Associate Professor and ERC Starting Awardee at University of Galway! I work on early animal evolution with a particular interest in gene regulation and chromatin!
https://gahanlab.com
https://chromosome.ie/groups/gahan/
🏳️🌈🇮🇪 He/Him
Amelia Rotaru @ameliarotaru.bsky.social Professor of microbial physiology and biochemistry, University of Southern Denmark.
Working on interspecies interactions, electroactive metabolisms, methane cycle
#electromicrobiology
Lab website: https://rotarulab.com/
Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social NeuroCyto lab 🤹🏻 Institute of NeuroPhysiopathology at CNRS & Aix-Marseille Université 🧠 Neuronal cell biology 🦠 Super-resolution microscopy 🔬 Come for science 👨🏻🔬 Stay for some cooking, sneakers and bike adventures 🥘 👟🚴
Guillaume Jacquemet @guijacquemet.bsky.social Associate Prof at Abo Akademi University, Turku, Finland.
Cell biologist interested in microscopy and image analysis. My opinions are my own.
cellmig.org
Thijs J. G. Ettema 🦠🔬🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺 @ettema.bsky.social Professor of Microbiology @ WUR 🇳🇱 | Evolutionary microbiology | Exploring the Tree of Life | Archaea aficionado | Symbiotic interactions | husband, father, cat-person, eternal house renovator, secretly a Jedi knight
Anja (she/her) @anja1.bsky.social symbiosis, tree of life, biodiversity
Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: empireofai.com. ai reporter. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The Atlantic. formerly WSJ, MIT Tech Review, KSJ@MIT. email: http://karendhao.com/contact.
Elphege Nora Lab at UCSF @elphegenoralab.bsky.social Our laboratory seeks to understand how chromosome structure relates to genome functions
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/
Sarah Bagby @scbagby.bsky.social Environmental microbiologist at Case Western. She/her. https://bagby-lab.github.io/, https://emerge-bii.github.io/
Simon Bayly @simonbayly.bsky.social Reformed chemist 👨🔬 IP licensing and spinouts at the Francis Crick Institute. Also post about cycling 🚲 Opinion my own etc.
Alex Plum @alex-plum.bsky.social Physics PhD Candidate
w/ @mattiaserra.bsky.social @UCSD
Dynamical Systems | Information Theory | Origins
alexplum.com
Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social Professor of Algorithmic and Microbial Genomics at the University of Bath (UK). Pangenomes, drug resistance (esp TB), data structures for DNA search, plasmid evolution, global microbial surveillance. Open Data, reproducibility. https://zam-iqbal-lab.org/
Andrew Krause @blindmath.bsky.social Chronically-Ill Nearsighted Mathematician and Amateur Human.
Co-creator of VisualPDE.com (irony!)
(he/him)
https://www.andrewkrause.org
Krishna Melnattur @melnattur.bsky.social Asst Prof at Ashoka Univ | ex: Staff Scientist at WUSTL neuroscience | sleep scientist | lover of things that love dew
melnatturlab.weebly.com
Justo P. Castaño 🔬🧬🧫 #SinCienciaNoHayFuturo @justocastano.bsky.social Father, husband, scientist. Cell Biology Professor. IMIBIC - UCO
Editor in Chief Endocrine Oncology @endocrineoncology.bsky.social
Biomedical research: hormones & cancer, RNA splicing
Pancreatic Cancer, Neuroendocrine tumors NETs 🦓
Always with a smile 😃
Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social How cells stick to things and move around, microscopy, cats, garden bugs, forays into machine learning, occasional political snark. Asst Prof University of Bath, UK 🏳️🌈
Alejandro Manzano Marín @amanzanom.bsky.social Senior Scientist 👨🏽🔬 @dome-vienna.bsky.social, @univie.ac.at
🇲🇽🇪🇺(🇦🇹🇫🇷🇪🇸) Symbionts, bacteria, insects, leeches, viruses, bioinformatics, evolution, genomics. Opinions are my very own.
#SymbioSky
https://besymblab.univie.ac.at/
Chaitanya Gokhale @gokhalecs.bsky.social Professor of Theoretical Biology at the University of Würzburg
Alex Crits-Christoph @acritschristoph.bsky.social Computational microbiologist
I like to post about: microbial genomics, microbial ecology, evolution, micro+plant biotechnology, climate, symbiosis, virology, ag, sci publishing and policy
Amelia Cervera 🍉 @ameliacervera.eurosky.social Ribozymes, transposable elements, circRNA, viruses, plant biology
💖💜💙♀️🌱
Every fraction of a degree counts
Trans rights are human rights⎥ Black lives matter
Posts in ENG/ESP
🧭 València, Spain
Banner by @jaythechou.bsky.social
Paul Gardner @ppgardne.bsky.social Bioinformatics, RNA, benchmarking & educating to fund kayaking and fishing. Ōtepoti/Dunedin, Aotearoa/New Zealand. From Whāngārā.
Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social Japan. ALife & Astrobiology researcher https://lanasina.github.io/
Research @ Sony CSL, Associate Prof. National Institute for Basic Biology.
talking dog insta @iikocookie
🚫 I block empty profiles
Emily Furlong @emfurlong.bsky.social Group Leader and Lecturer at the Australian National University | researching bacterial thiol redox pathways and virulence factors | community builder | storyteller | views my own | she/her
Matt Beckman @daphsci.bsky.social Bikes, sweat, sandwiches, dogs, guitar, gardening, science, Daphnia.
Amelia Eisch 🧪🧠👩🔬 🐁 @eisch.bsky.social Philadelphia Neuroscience Professor obsessed w/dentate gyrus, mentoring, unsweet soymilk. Opinions & bad jokes are mine not my employer’s. She/her/cat.
https://sites.google.com/view/eischlab
Pics: 75% my smiling face, desk, laptop, blue sky with clouds
Dimple Notani @dimplenotani.bsky.social Associate Professor, NCBS, Bangalore. Interested in signaling driven gene regulation, enhancers, genome organisation, RNA
Christian Mosimann @chrmosimann.bsky.social Johnson Chair/Professor of Pediatrics, Peds DevBio @ CU Anschutz:
#zebrafish, #devbio, lateral plate mesoderm, heart disease, #evodevo, imaging, transgenesis, et al.
#MobileOfficeViews | #AlwaysBeWriting | guitars | Colorado | #SwissAbroad 🧪
John McBride @john-mcbride.bsky.social Scientist studying the evolution of proteins and music (so far, separately).
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=PYTwBWIAAAAJ
https://github.com/jomimc
Megan Sorensen @messorensen.bsky.social Interested in the evolution of endosymbiosis, especially those that photosynthesise. And more broadly in evolutionary microbiology, symbiosis, organelles and protists.
Assistant Professor at CeMESS, University of Vienna.
Alex Palazzo @ribonucleicacids.bsky.social Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Toronto. Studies mRNA processing, mRNA nuclear export, mRNA translation, genomic evolution, junk DNA, junk RNA.
https://www.palazzolab.com/
Daniel Brady Mills @danbmills.bsky.social Lecturer in Biosphere-Geosphere Interactions, University of Leeds
www.danielbradymills.com
Brian Camley @diffusiveblob.bsky.social Computational biophysics, cell motility, collective motion, soft matter, horses, cats. Associate Prof at Johns Hopkins Physics+Biophysics departments.
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/
Kapadia Lab @kapadia-lab.bsky.social Group leader in the Physical Sciences of Life @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social, interested in systems biology, cell transitions, information processing in cells, and single-molecule biophysics. Previously @crick.ac.uk | @biomcgill.bsky.social | @utoronto.ca
Ben Monreal @benmonreal.bsky.social Nuclear, particle, and astrophysics experimentalist at Case Western. Posting about physics, climate, urbanism, Cleveland. See also:
https://bmonreal.github.io/personal.html
https://www.project8.org/
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social Science and global health reporter for The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/by/apoorva-mandavilli
Signal: amnyt.91
Fran Bottanelli @franbottanelli.bsky.social Solver of GTPases molecular puzzles | Membranes | CRISPR | STED super-res |Accidental immunologist | Academic mother of 2 cheeky monkeys | Assistant prof at FU Berlin. | Head of the Nanoscale Membrane Dynamics Lab
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
preLights @prelights.bsky.social A preprint highlights service run by the biological community and supported by The Company of Biologists (@biologists.bsky.social).
Annual Reviews @annualreviews.bsky.social A nonprofit organization that synthesizes and integrates knowledge for the progress of science and the benefit of society.
https://www.annualreviews.org
Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social Climate, extinction, and biodiversity scientist at the University of Maine researching Earth’s past for a better future. Writing and podcasting for the planet. Chaotic good professor. She/her.
Joanna Masel @joannamasel.bsky.social Theoretical biologist and advisor to data scientists at the University of Arizona. Mostly theoretical population genetics and molecular evolution, but I've also published in biochemistry, infectious disease, aging, economics, education. Opinions are my own
Yamuna Krishnan @krishnanyamuna.bsky.social Organelle maniac, DNA devotee, RNA fanatic, Biology addict. 👩🏽🔬🧬🦠🧪🔬 ORCID: 0000-0001-5282-8852
https://krishnanlab.uchicago.edu/
Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social Study genetic conflicts professionally. Try to avoid conflicts in personal life (with mixed results).
Fred Hutch Basic Sciences,
UW Genome Sciences,
HHMI.
Posting in a personal capacity. My posts don’t reflect my employers’ opinions.
Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social "There are no answers; only choices."
– S. Lem
I choose one [o] or two-cell [8] organisms and dissonant music.
Professor of Biochemistry @ UW-Seattle. Any coincidence of my opinions with my employer's is coincidental.
Avinash ಅವಿನಾಶ್ @tnavinash.bsky.social Biochemist turned high school science teacher.
Grill Lab @ MPI-CBG @grill-lab.bsky.social From embryos to equations and back.
We study how physical principles shape life, from collective DNA–protein interactions to mesoscale processes within cells and tissues.
Tweets by Grill Lab members.
https://grill-lab.org
Monica Bettencourt-Dias @monicabettencourt.bsky.social Scientist & Communicator. Fascinated by cells across scales - 🌎, 🔬and ⏳. PI @GIMM, EMBO member. Former Director @IGC, PD @Cambridge University, PhD @UCL/IGC. My motto: "Science from all for all". Mom of 2 wonderful girls. Views are my own.
Pratik Kumar @dyechemist.bsky.social Assitant Professor ncbsbangalore.bsky.social Making dye based molecular tools for imaging, cell biology and proteomics. Previously @hhmijanelia.bsky.social @stonybrooku.bsky.social, IISER-Kolkata, and JNCASR. Lab news: DyeCraftLab.com
Uma Ramakrishnan @uramakri.bsky.social Wondering, Exploring, and Wandering.
Conservation genomics, Disease ecology.
Professor at NCBS TIFR.
Living Physics Lab @livingphysics.org Biological theory | “Cell learning” | Function spaces | Projection operators | Manifolds | Dynamics | Behavior | Evolution
livingphysics.org
Cambridge, UK
Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize, Royal Society’s Trivedi Prize. 2025 best book for FT, Guardian, BBC History & Smithsonian.
Views own. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/309254/vanished-by-qureshi-sadi
Sylvain Gabriele @sgabriele.bsky.social Associate Professor at University of Mons
Mechanobiology & Biomaterials group
https://www.cellmechanobiology.com
André Nadler @nadlerlab.bsky.social Chemist in a CellBio place. Fan of lipids & membranes
Steve Desch @deschscoveries.bsky.social Professor of astrophysics / planetary science / meteoritics at Arizona State University.
Emily Josephs @emjo.bsky.social Plant evolutionary genetics. She/her. East Lansing, Michigan.
Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com Philosopher & Historian of Biology 🇲🇽 • Postdoctoral Fellow @theramseylab.bsky.social (@clpskuleuven.bsky.social) • https://www.alejandrofabregastejeda.com • https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262052825/the-organism-environment-pairing/ • #philsci #HPS #philsky
Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social You know... the weird one.
Tera Levin @teralevin.bsky.social Assistant professor of Biological Sciences at Pitt, studying evolution, genes, and microbes. Same as @tera_levin in the other place. #NewPI She/her
Ben Larson @blarson.bsky.social Protists, microscopy, biophysics, evolution. Interested in how cells control shape and movement https://www.benlarson.org
Natura in minimis maxima
Asst Prof, RPI | Postdoc, UCSF, Wallace Marshall | PhD, UCBerkeley, Nicole King | BA, Physics, Reed College
@koseskalab.bsky.social @koseskalab.bsky.social
EcoEvoRxiv @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social A free pre-print and post-print service for ecology, evolution, and conservation. Run by @sortee.bsky.social.
Server: https://ecoevorxiv.org
Instructions & FAQ: https://sortee.github.io/ecoevorxiv/
@wbialek.bsky.social @wbialek.bsky.social Interested in #physics of life. Theorist but some of my best friends are experimentalists.
Pavan Kumar | ಪವನ ಕುಮಾರ @pvnkmrksk.bsky.social Makes insects play video games. ಬಿಡಿಸುಗ
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.
Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com