Kutand Alkım Bayer @kutandalkim.bsky.social IZTECH-Chemistry, I like to be Polymath(learning different subjects), Polygot(interested in the learning different languages) comments and opinions are my own RT≠ is not endorsement (he/him)
Superbugs 🦠🔬🏫🧒🏽 @superbugs.bsky.social The microbial world in, on and around us • Health, disease, infection, hygiene, antibiotics, vaccines • Education, engagement, pop-up shops, escape rooms • Games, stories, info, activities, fun • English, Cymraeg, Gàidhlig, Gaeilge
www.superbugs.online
Geneva Health Files @genevahealthfiles.bsky.social Investigating power & politics in the capital of global health. https://newsletter.genevahealthfiles.com/
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info Public health experts resisting harmful policies, fighting disinformation, and defending public health from within CDC.
Not official CDC—but close enough for transmission.
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Ricardo Rivero H. 💻🧬 @ricardoriveroh.bsky.social Wet lab Biotechnologist by training, Computational Biologist by choice.
Interested in Viral Evolution, Genomic Epidemiology and AI for Biology.
opinions are my own🧬
ricardoriveroh.com
Sociedade Brasileira de Virologia @sbvirologia.bsky.social The Sociedade Brasileira de Virologia (SBV), founded in 1986, represents and brings together professionals/students who work in virology in Brazil.
https://www.sbv.org.br/index.php
Rachel Lowe 🌺 @drrachellowe.bsky.social ICREA Research Professor | Global Health Resilience Group Leader at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center | Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Emilie Finch @emiliefinch.bsky.social Postdoc @Cambridge_Uni doing infectious disease modelling | Interested in arboviral dynamics, immunity, climate & forecasting | Previously @LSHTM
Shan-Lu Liu @shanluliu.bsky.social President, American Society for Virology; Distinguished University Professor, The Ohio State University 
Austin Richardson @agdr.org Harry Tuttle of Bioinformatics
Edyth Parker @edythparker.bsky.social Pathogen Genomic Epidemiologist at the Institute of Genomics and Global Health (ACEGID); I will be tedious and dignified on here. 🇿🇦
Ian Goodfellow @ian-goodfellow.bsky.social Research Scientist at DeepMind. Opinions my own. Inventor of GANs. Lead author of http://www.deeplearningbook.org . Founding chairman of www.publichealthactionnetwork.org
Rachel Colquhoun @rmcolq.bsky.social Bioinformatics for metagenomics and viral sequence data
RdRp Summit @rdrpsummit.bsky.social A discussion-centric event that aims to foster reproducibility, collaboration & interoperability in omics-derived RNA virus discovery. 2nd RdRp Summit - May 11 & 12 2025. RdRp.io
Alex Sundermann, DrPH @sundermannaj.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Epidemiology @ Pitt Public Health | Outbreaks, Genomic Epidemiology, Public Health 🕵🏼♂️ | DrPH, CIC, FAPIC | Hubs & Dad of 2
https://www.publichealth.pitt.edu/directory/alexander-sundermann
The Lancet Infectious Diseases @thelancetinfdis.bsky.social The Lancet Infectious Diseases is the leading clinical infectious diseases journal for peer-reviewed research and review, comment, and news.
🌐 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/home
Global Virus Network @globalvirusnews.bsky.social A global non-profit network of expert virologists advancing pandemic preparedness through education and training, research, and global health strategies and solutions that inform policy, foster alliances, and combat misinformation.
Richard Neher @neher.io 
Craig Spencer MD MPH @craigspencer.bsky.social ER Doctor | Ebola Survivor | Public Health & Humanitarian Response | Historical Determinants of Public Health at Brown School of Public Health | Member Council on Foreign Relations | Emmy Award Winner 🏆
Scripps Research @scripps.edu Scripps Research is one of the world's largest, private, non-profit biomedical research organizations. We are Science Changing Life.
Guy Baele @guybaele.bsky.social Associate Professor - Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation - Rega Institute, KU Leuven, Belgium
Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social Historian of bugs & drugs: interested in #microbes #antibiotics #vaccines #phages; author of: Pyrrhic Progress (2020), Bearing Witness (2021), Typhoid (2022), Fear & Fever (2024) - Associate Professor INSERM (CERMES3, Paris): https://www.bugsdrugs.org/
PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org A leading life science journal that champions inclusive, high-impact research across all disciplines—from molecules to ecosystems. We offer innovative formats and collaborative editorial support to ensure your work achieves its full scientific impact.
Tanja Stadler @tanjastadler.bsky.social Full professor for Computational Evolution at ETH Zürich
Genomic Surveillance Unit (Wellcome Sanger Institute) @gsugenomics.bsky.social We improve global human health by accelerating the use and impact of genomic surveillance. Based at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in the UK.
IAS - the International AIDS Society @iasociety.bsky.social IAS convenes, educates and advocates for a world in which HIV no longer presents a threat to public health and individual well-being.
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
Outbreak News Today | Robert Herriman | Substack [Unofficial] @outbreaknewstoday.substack.com.web.brid.gy Outbreak News Today is an online newsblog magazine which focuses on news, information and podcasts about infectious diseases and […]
🌉 bridged from 🌐 https://outbreaknewstoday.substack.com/: https://fed.brid.gy/web/outbreaknewstoday.substack.com
Daniel Goldhill @influenzal.bsky.social Scientist. Lecturer in Virology at RVC. Likes experimental evolution, influenza, coronaviruses, desserts. Main life goal: never running a western blot.
The Sato Lab (Kei Sato) @systemsvirology.bsky.social Professor, Division of Systems Virology, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo
Founder, The Genotype to Phenotype Japan (G2P-Japan) Consortium
Representative Director, G2P-Japan Association
Lab website: https://x.gd/1Z1lW
MRC-LMB Cell Biology Division @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social Our aim is to understand the biological organisation of cells and organisms, and the molecular mechanisms underlying their function. https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/research/cell-biology/
Ziheng Yang Lab @zihengyang.bsky.social Ziheng Yang's Lab at UCL (CLOE) | Computational Molecular Evolution
Website: http://abacus.gene.ucl.ac.uk/
BPP GitHub: https://github.com/bpp/
PAML GitHub: https://github.com/abacus-gene/paml
PAML discussion group: https://groups.google.com/g/pamlsoftware
Matthew Hahn @3rdreviewer.bsky.social Population geneticist
phyloseminar.org @phyloseminar.bsky.social A free online seminar about phylogenetics.
Alexis Stamatakis @stamatak.bsky.social ERA Chair at Institute of Computer Science FORTH
Research Group Leader Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies
Full Professor at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Crete lab: https://www.biocomp.gr/
Heidelberg Lab: http://www.exelixis-lab.org/
Tom Phillips @tomphillips.bsky.social Latin America correspondent for the @guardian based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 🇧🇷 via London 🇬🇧, Beijing 🇨🇳 and Mexico City 🇲🇽 Say hello: tom.phillips@theguardian.com
Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social SMBE fosters communication among molecular evolutionists and advances the field.
🔗 smbe.org
💬 smbe2026.org • sites.google.com/view/gene-cultureco-evolution
👥 @smbe-idea.bsky.social
📙 @molbioevol.bsky.social • @genomebiolevol.bsky.social
Altmetric @altmetric.com We measure the attention that research outputs receive from policy documents, mainstream news outlets, Wikipedia, social media and online reference managers. We detect sentiment of Bluesky/X posts.
Come for the attention to research. Stay for the memes.
Marius Gilbert @mariusgilbert.bsky.social Professeur ordinaire (ULB)
https://spell.ulb.be/person/marius-gilbert/
Vice-recteur à la recherche et à la valorisation
Vice-recteur à la culture et à la médiation scientifique,
Chroniqueur, Le Soir
https://www.lesoir.be/358546/dpi-authors/marius-gilbert
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social Personal account
Evolutionary biologist, senior scientist at CNRS/Sorbonne Université
Interests: origins and control of infectious diseases and conspiracy theories; diversity in science; scientific publishing
https://www.normalesup.org/~fdebarre/
EN & FR
Etienne Simon-Loriere @simonlorierelab.bsky.social Group leader in the Virology Department at Institut Pasteur
Jesse Shapiro @bjesseshapiro.bsky.social Macrobe qui aime les microbes
http://www.shapirolab.ca/
Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social Prof Operational Research , @UCL_CORU, passionate about health care, women in STEMs, defending liberal democracy (!). Member of @independentsage, posts personal. https://www.trumpactiontracker.info/
Claire Guinat @claireguinat.bsky.social Research fellow at INRAE (DVM, MSc, PhD) #epidemiology #phylodynamics #animal infectious diseases 🦠🐔🐮🐷🧬
Noémie Lefrancq @noemielefrancq.bsky.social Phylogenetics 🧬 , infectious disease dynamics 🦠 & modelling 💻 #IDSky #IDModelling
Postdoctoral fellow @ETH Zürich (in Basel)
Previously @Cambridge_Uni and @institutpasteur
Simon Cauchemez @scauchemez.bsky.social Professor of infectious disease epidemiology and modelling at Institut Pasteur, Paris. Transmission, epidemic dynamics and forecasting, seroepidemiology, vaccines and NPIs, respiratory and vector born diseases, zoonoses, Public Health. #IDSky
Mahan Ghafari @mghafari.bsky.social Molecular evolution of pathogens | Wellcome Trust Fellow @biology.ox.ac.uk | Independent Investigator Data Analytics & Epi Group @psioxford.bsky.social | MedSci Fellow @lincoln.ox.ac.uk | Oxford DTP & Zoology alum | https://users.ox.ac.uk/~univ4613/
Leen Delang @leendelang.bsky.social Virologist studying arboviruses, mosquito vectors and antiviral therapies.
Associate professor @KU Leuven, Belgium
Roman Biek @rbiek.bsky.social Infectious disease ecology, zoonoses, pathogen evolution, molecular epidemiology | University of Glasgow
the great outdoors, aikido, and searching for the perfect beat…
Chris Wymant @chriswymant.bsky.social Infectious disease epidemiology w stat/math modelling, genomics. Senior researcher at the Pandemic Sciences Institute, Oxford. Likes global & one health, sustainability; animals count too. Vegan, flyingless. Views own. https://github.com/ChrisHIV/teaching
Spyros Lytras @spyroslytras.bsky.social Head of the Antigen Evolution and Design lab @antigenevo.bsky.social at Institut Pasteur 🇫🇷
💻🦠🏳️🌈
Christophe Fraser's Group @christophraser.bsky.social Posts from the research group of Christophe Fraser, Professor and Head of Data, Epidemiology and Analytics at the Pandemic Science Institute, University of Oxford. Infectious disease epidemiology & evolution: HIV, COVID, outbreaks, AMR.
Edinburgh Infectious Diseases @uoe-eid.bsky.social The network based at the University of Edinburgh for infectious disease researchers.
https://edinburgh-infectious-diseases.ed.ac.uk/
Will Harvey @willharv.bsky.social Virus evolution and epidemiology 🦠🧬💻
Simon Frost @sdwfrost.bsky.social Principal Data Scientist @ Microsoft Premonition, Professor of Pathogen Dynamics @ LSHTM, Co-Founder and Principal Data Scientist @ DIOSynVax. Interested in all things infectious!
Sebastien Calvignac-Spencer @scs22.bsky.social Infectious disease ecology and evolution, pathogen genomics, environmental DNA, ancient DNA/RNA
European Virus Bioinformatics Center @evbc.bsky.social Bringing together the excellence of virology and bioinformatics.
Tools: http://bit.ly/evbctools
Impressum: https://evbc.uni-jena.de/impressum/
Stephane Guindon @stephaneguindon.bsky.social Computational geneticist, curious in all things related to evolution, ecology and science in general | #CNRS researcher | https://stephaneguindon.github.io
Infectious Diseases @infectiousdz.bsky.social Infectious diseases and their global story
Michelle Wille @duckswabber.bsky.social Avian influenza & avian virome ecology | "Expert in Ducks" | (she/her) | michellewille.com
Philippe Lemey's lab @lemeylab.bsky.social Tweets sometimes by Philippe Lemey, but usually by other (mysterious) lab members. Lab website: https://rega.kuleuven.be/cev/ecv
David Quammen @quammen.bsky.social Author and journalist. The Song of the Dodo, Spillover, The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, The Tangled Tree, Breathless, and other books. Most recently, The Heartbeat of the Wild. Bunch of magazine work since 1981.
Kara Woo @karawoo.com software engineer | #rstats | PDX | she/her
Hensley Lab @scottehensley.bsky.social dad, viral immunologist, professor
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
Science News @scinews.bsky.social Science News from Academic Journals etc.
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
Science Magazine @science.org Cutting-edge research, news, commentary, and visuals from the Science family of journals. https://www.science.org
Erik Reis @reisevs.bsky.social Virologist. Arboviruses | BSL-3 | postdoctoral antiviral researcher.
UFMG/Brazil
American Society for Virology @amersocvirology.bsky.social The American Society for Virology is committed to growing and supporting a diverse and inclusive community of virologists, to promote research and education on viruses, and to foster engagement and open communication of discoveries.
Vasilakis Lab @vasilakislab.bsky.social Our focus is to understand the mechanisms that allow zoonotic, sylvatic arthropod-borne viruses to jump species boundaries and cause disease. Shared lab account
Mauricio L Nogueira @mauriciolnogueira.bsky.social MD/PhD Virologist in Brazil. 
Isabella Eckerle @eckerleisabella.bsky.social Director, Geneva Centre for Emerging Viral Diseases - Virologist, MD, DTM&H. Interests: Emerging viruses, coronaviruses, diagnostics, translational research for better preparedness for epidemic & pandemic viruses.
Views are my own.
Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @epiellie.bsky.social Epidemiologist and science communicator | newsletter: epiellie.substack.com | cohost @casualinfer podcast | Causal inference for public health #epitwitter | Canadian in US 🇨🇦 | she/her/Dr
Jemma Geoghegan @jemmageoghegan.bsky.social Professor at University of Otago, NZ; Webster Chair in Virology; Rutherford Discovery Fellow. I like viruses and evolution. 
Prof. Akiko Iwasaki @virusesimmunity.bsky.social We study antiviral immunity and viral disease pathogenesis. We are developing mucosal vaccine strategies to prevent infection and transmission. #COVID19 #longCOVID #vaccines 
Carolina Lucas @carolilucas.bsky.social Assistant Professor YaleIbio |ImmunoVirus❤️ | Alum @Virusesimmunity lab | #womeninSTEM
Sebastian Lequime @lequimelab.eu Associate prof @gelifes.bsky.social @rug.nl | virus ecology and evolution | arboviruses | arthropods | epidemiology
🇫🇷 in 🇳🇱
Data editor at the Journal of Evolutionary Biology
https://lequimelab.eu/
Tulio de Oliveira @tuliodna.bsky.social Professor of medical research leading global genomics surveillance. Director CERI at Stellenbosch University and KRISP at UKZN, South Africa. Views my own.
Rafa Lopes @rafalpx.bsky.social Researcher on drivers of epidemic dynamics
Postdoc at @nathangrubaugh.bsky.social & @colincarlson.bsky.social labs
I like maps!
Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social physician-scientist, author, editor
https://www.scripps.edu/faculty/topol/
Ground Truths https://erictopol.substack.com
SUPER AGERS https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Super-Agers/Eric-Topol/9781668067666- W @worobey.bsky.social @worobey.bsky.social
Rob Lanfear @roblanfear.bsky.social phylogenetics, molecular evolution, some genomes, kids, dogs, and eclectic hobbies none of which I am much good at but I think for me that's the point
Pathoplexus @pathoplexus.org An open-source pathogen sequence database dedicated to equitable sharing, transparent governance, & empowering global public health.
pathoplexus.org
John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com
📝 ft.com/jbm
Aris Katzourakis @ariskatzourakis.bsky.social Viruses, Evolution, Education, Trade Unions, things like that. Prof at Uni of Oxford, NEC member for UCU. Posts mine, reposts not.
Bill Hanage @billhanage.bsky.social Refugee from Twix. Arsenal fan and Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Opinions my own.
Anderson F. Brito @andersonfbrito.bsky.social 🦠 Virology・💻 Bioinformatics・📈 Public Health
Scientific Coordinator @todospelasaude.bsky.social・Affl. Member @ABCiencias
Past: UnB/USP・PhD @ImperialCollege・Postdoc @yalesph.bsky.social
Santiago Elena @sfelena.bsky.social Virology, evolution, genomics, systems biology, and computational biology. All at once.
Alexei Drummond @alexeidrummond.bsky.social Professor of Computational Biology, University of Auckland. Atheist, Rock climber, Trail runner. Co-creator of BEAST1 and BEAST2. Founder of Geneious. 
Chantal Vogels @chantalvogels.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Yale School of Public Health | Medical Entomology 🦟 | Arbovirology 🦠 | Genomics 🧬 | 🇳🇱 |
www.vogelslab.com
Björn Meyer @bmeyer.bsky.social Virologist ☣ | Trying to understand why viruses tick the way they do - then, now and in future | 🇩🇪🇪🇺🇺🇳
@themeyerlab.bsky.social 
Simon Dellicour @sdellicour.bsky.social F.R.S.-FNRS Research Associate at the University of Brussels (Spatial Epidemiology Lab - SpELL, https://spell.ulb.be/) and Visiting Professor at the University of Leuven (Evolutionary & Computational Virology lab, https://rega.kuleuven.be/cev/ecv)
Moritz Kraemer @mugkraemer.bsky.social Scientist & Prof @UOxford
https://kraemerlab.com/
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/pandemic-genomics
https://www.psi.ox.ac.uk/ 
WHO @who.int The World Health Organization (WHO) is the United Nations’ health agency, championing Health For All.
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David Welch @welchdavid.bsky.social Phylo, dynamics, epidemiology, data sci, computational biology
University of Auckland
Also building urban cohousing in Auckland, NZ as Cohousing Projects. See cohaus.nz
Verity Hill @viralverity.bsky.social Wellcome ECA Fellow at the Centre for Virus Research, University of Glasgow
Phylodynamics for public health
https://viralverity.github.io
She/her
Kate Grabowski @kategrabowski.bsky.social Originally from Luzerne County, PA now in Baltimore. Infectious diseases epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University with a focus on HIV epidemic dynamics and control in Africa. Mom of two humans and one dog. Penn State grad.