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
Jana Stewart @loveyouleafyou.bsky.social She/Her soil microbial ecologist🔬 I like env DNA, drones, field experiments🌿🦘🦠 currently working on fire management with Bushfire Natural Hazards Research Centre
if you aint dirty you aint here to party📚postdoc Centre for Ecosystem Science,UNSW
Profile Books @profilebooks.bsky.social Independent publisher of inventive books, fearless writing and powerful voices. Our authors include Mary Beard, Shoshana Zuboff and Francis Fukuyama.
@michellemoffitt.bsky.social @michellemoffitt.bsky.social 
Susie Grigson @susiegriggo.bsky.social Postdoc @ DOE JGI Berkeley Lab 🇺🇸 | Former PhD Student @ Flinders University 🇦🇺 | #bioinformatics #viruses #AI 🦠💻🧬 | she/her
https://github.com/susiegriggo
ASM @aussocmic.bsky.social The official Bluesky account for the Australian Society for Microbiology.
Simon Tierney @biol-si.bsky.social evolutionary ecologist at large
Western Sydney University @westernsydneyu.bsky.social Official account for Western Sydney University.
CRICOS Provider No: 00917K
Katherine Helliwell @kehelliwell.bsky.social Algae enthusiast, Associate Professor @UniofExeter, joint appointment @thembauk
Algal ecophysiology | signalling | microbiome | molecular microbiology | diatoms!
@olliemorton.bsky.social @olliemorton.bsky.social Uncommon fondness for crispy M&Ms.
Cathrin Machin Space Art @cathrinmachin.bsky.social Space Artist & Telescope Operator 🚀
Grab my 2026 Calendar here 👇
https://catmachin.com/products/2026-calendar
Morgan Denman | Space-Focused Designer & Illustrator @morgandenman.bsky.social • Space-focused graphic designer and illustrator
• Sr. Graphic Designer for NASA HQ
• Freelance Mission Patch Designer
• Cancer Survivor
• Opinions are my own
http://bio.site/morgandenman
Vicky Paints Space @vickypaintsspace.bsky.social Space Artist using genuine space dust.🌌
Occasional Astrophotographer.🔭✨️
📍England
VHSpaceArt.com
Lucy Harper @lucyharper.bsky.social Chief Exec., Applied Microbiology International www.appliedmicrobiology.org @amiposts.bsky.social (my views, not theirs) Scientist, strategist, charity leader, parent, spouse, pianist, yogi, runner and cat lover. She/her/hers.
WSU Science Librarian @wsusciencelib.bsky.social Western Sydney University
School of Science
MARCS
Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment
Elaine Luo @oceanmicrobes.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University
Microbial ecology 🚢 oceanography 🌊 viruses 🦠 metagenomics 🧬 first-gen 🎓
https://sites.google.com/stonybrook.edu/luo-lab
PeakFlowSpace @peakflowspace.bsky.social Navigating life with Adult ADHD 🌟 Raising awareness and sparking conversations for all kinds of ADHDers. We built PeakFlowSpace to help ADHD minds find get organized and focused. Check it out 👇
https://peakflowspace.com/
#ADHDLife #ADHDHacks
Anita Anand @anitaanand.bsky.social I present programs on TV and Radio, write history books and present a podcast called Empire with William Dalrymple. NOT IN THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT!
Amanda Frick @amandaafrick.bsky.social 99% AR grade imposter syndrome
Dr Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social Die Virenjägerin! 🏹🧬!
Using programming & phylogenetics, I study & track viruses. Co-developer of Nextstrain, based at Swiss TPH & Uni Basel.
Founder of CoVariants.org, co-founder of @pathoplexus.org
I like 🐈 & 🛫
@firefoxx66@mstdn.science
Kat Holt @katholt.bsky.social Scientist… pathogen genomics & antimicrobial resistance, computational biology & infectious disease epidemiology.
Co-Director LSHTM AMR Centre @lshtmamrcentre.bsky.social
holtlab.net | klebnet.org | typhoidgenomics.org | amr.lshtm.ac.uk
Duncan MacCannell @drm.bsky.social Molecular #epidemiology & #publichealth. Pathogen #genomics, #microbiology, #emerginginfections, #AMR, (bio)tech #biosurveillance and #opendata.
Personal account. Opinions/dad jokes are my own.
🦅 Low productivity public sector employee.
🔬🦠🧬🖥️💉🌻🍩🐸🥪
Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social Head of the School of Infection, Inflammation & Immunology @ Uni Birmingham. Proud Scot. Oversaw a few Covid PCR tests
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
Robert Petit @rpetit3.bsky.social Public health bacterial genomics, bioinformatic workflow development, and training. Bactopia (https://bactopia.github.io). @ Wyoming Public Health Laboratory
Peter van Heusden (he/him) 🗿 @pvanheus.bsky.social #bioinformatics at @SANBI_SA, building bioinformatics workflows for (Pan-)African PH. health & justice! married. @pvanheus@mstdn.science
Dutchscientist (the real one) @dutchscientist.bsky.social Microbiologist @ Vet School, genomics/pathogens. Views, compliments and rants are my own. ORCID: 0000-0003-0203-1305. Am trying to avoid getting politics in my mentions, science and cats OK!
Finlay Maguire @finlaym.bsky.social Ast Prof CS+Epi at Dalhousie/Pathogenomics Bioinformatics Lead at Shared Hospital Lab (Sunnybrook): infectious disease genomic epidemiology (AMR/SC2/Zoonoses) & socially-focused collab data science (he/him)
Kai Blin @kblin.bsky.social Microbiology PhD, co-author of antiSMASH, Open Source geek, views are my own. @kblin@scholar.social
Áine O'Toole @aineotoole.bsky.social Virus evolution, bioinformatics & phylogenetics. Researcher at University of Edinburgh. 
Simon Harris @simonrharris.bsky.social Senior Program Officer in the Genomic Epidemiology and Modelling team at The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Pathogen genomics and bioinformatics.
John Lees @johnlees.bacpop.org Pathogen informatics and modelling http://bacpop.org
(Research group leader at EMBL-EBI - http://ebi.ac.uk/research/lees/)
Conor (Conchúr) Meehan @conmeehan.bsky.social Researching WGS/Epi/Taxonomy of pathogenic mycobacteria and evo of microbiomes. Irish-born, Nottingham-working. Call me Conchúr if you can pronounce it. He/They
https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/science-technology/conor-meehan
Alison Mather @alisonmather.bsky.social Epidemiology, microbial (meta)genomics, antimicrobial resistance, One Health, Professor of Microbial Genomic Epidemiology at Quadram Institute Bioscience & University of East Anglia.
Phil Ashton @flashton.bsky.social Genomic epidemiologist at the Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance at Oxford. How can microbial genomics improve health in high infectious disease settings?
Colman O'Cathail @colmanoc.bsky.social ENA Project Lead & Product Owner @ebi.embl.org | Bioinformatics services and infrastructure | @enasequence.bsky.social
Keith Jolley @kjolley.bsky.social Bioinformatician in the Department of Biology, University of Oxford.
Working on microbial genomics | Developer of @PubMLST.org and BIGSdb | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0751-0287
Tom Connor @tomrconnor.bsky.social Public health genomics and big computers working in Wales. Parent of two small children. Gamer, foodie, geek. Also likes cats. Views my own.
Aldert Zomer @aldertzomer.bsky.social Associate Professor at Utrecht University, Infectious Diseases & Immunology. (meta)genomes, AMR, zoonotic pathogens. Cookie and cake connoisseur.
publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=nl&user=VHHhpoAAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
Eva Heinz @evaheinz7.bsky.social Fighting mental health stigma and toxic research culture. Proud to support https://twloha.com/.
And when life gives you lemons, make a G&T.
She/Her 
Rob Kingsley @drrobkingsley.bsky.social Professor of Microbiology @uniofeastanglia and Group Leader @TheQuadram, Norwich, UK - genomics, AMR, host-pathogen interactions, phage, microbiome
Editor Communications Biology
Tim Dallman @tdallman.bsky.social Senior Technical Officer @WHO - Pathogen Genomics & Bioinformatics
Sandra Reuter @sandrareuter.bsky.social Microbiology/Bacterial Genomics by day. Infection prevention & control. Interested in CRE/CPE, AMR, plasmids, and transmissions of bugs in all sorts of settings. Would do lots of things for cake. Starting to enjoy running. Internationalist.
Freiburg/German
Inês Mendes @inesmendes.bsky.social Senior Bioinformatics Scientist @ Theiagen Genomics
PhD in Microbial Bioinformatics
Martin Hunt @martibartfast.bsky.social Bioinformatician
Ruth E. Timme @ruthtimme.bsky.social Public health scientist in pathogen genomic surveillance . twin mama . botanist by training . birder . (tweets are my own)
Andries van Tonder @andriesvt.bsky.social Senior Teaching Associate/Research Associate in Genetics & Veterinary Medicine @ University of Cambridge
Jen Guthrie @jenlguthrie.bsky.social Assistant Prof @WesternU | Adjunct Scientist @PublicHealthON | Canada Research Chair in Pathogen Genomics and Bioinformatics | Epidemiology | TB | AMR | MRSA
@kevinlibuit.bsky.social @kevinlibuit.bsky.social 
Helena, PhD 🏳️⚧️ @hexylena.bsky.social postdoc in clinical genetics. bioinformagician casting the spells that make the servers work 🧙🪄
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9760-8992
The sanctioned action is to Cut. Hunting the good stuff. Better living through harm reduction.
she/they/ ▓ ▓
Wytamma @wytamma.bsky.social Enjoying the little things like antibodies, ion channels and pip installs - technical biologist building tools and studying diseases ❤️🐢 
Matthew Croxen @mcroxen.bsky.social public health 🦠 genomics | associate professor | personal account (opinions my own) | 🎸⚽📷♨️🥷 he/him. 🇨🇦 ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽.
Natacha Couto @natachacouto.bsky.social Scientist, One Health, AMR, Genomics
Chris Kent @chris.primalscheme.com PhD student in the Quick Lab with @articnetwork.bsky.social
Jess Chen @drjesschen.bsky.social Mom, wife, birder, bike commuter, and microbial bioinformatician.
Geoff Winsor @glwinsor.bsky.social PhD candidate and database developer (bioinformatics, Pseudomonas Genome Database) at SFU. Exposome-microbiome interactions, data integration, bacterial genomics, genome annotation.
Claire Gorrie @clairegorrie.bsky.social Postdoc with MDU @dohertyinstitute @unimelb
Interested in bacterial genomics and bioinformatics, particularly re: AMR transmission in hospitals.
Views my own. She/her.
Andrea Telatin @telatin.bsky.social Head of bioinformatics at the Quadram Institute - https://github.com/telatin/
Mitchell Sullivan @mjsull.bsky.social Microbinfie
Theiagen Genomics @theiagen.bsky.social Transforming public health and infectious disease surveillance through the innovative implementation of #NGS and #bioinformatics technologies.
Sage Wright @sagewright.bsky.social Bioinformatics and cats
Meaghan Kall @kallmemeg.bsky.social Epidemiologist, public health trainee, mom, wife. Formerly @UKHSA. Disability advocate. Born 🇺🇸 Migrated 🇬🇧. 🏳️🌈 Personal account.
Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social Infectious diseases & genomics. Immunologist in (voluntary) exile. Minimal sarcasm. Fierce HOA (Hater of Acronyms). Personal account - opinions expressed are my own and not those of my employer.
Theo Sanderson @theo.io researching viral pathogen genomics at @lshtm.bsky.social, building @pathoplexus.org | theo.io / sandersonlab.org
Cornelius Roemer @corneliusroemer.bsky.social Studying SARS-CoV-2 evolution @nextstrain @biozentrum
Studied Physics @Cambridge Uni, then learned about computers
Dr. Amy Lee @minisciencegirl.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ SFU MBB | Systems Biology of Host-Pathogen | Vaccinology | Neonatal Sepsis | Pathogen Genomics | Loves data, food & art.
Erin Young @erinyoung.bsky.social Public Health #Bioinformatician. Wants to sequence ALL THE THINGS. Personal account with alternative spellings and grammar structures. She/her
Nabil-Fareed Alikhan @happykhan.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy Admin for @mstdn.science. #bioinformatician. Interested in #microbiology and #genomics.
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mstdn.science/@happykhan, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Chaoran Chen @chaoranchen.de Scientific software engineer at ETH Zurich, founder of GenSpectrum.org, co-founder of Pathoplexus.org, always looking for recommendations for board games 🎲 and books 📚
Gerry Tonkin-Hill @gerrythill.bsky.social Group leader at Peter Mac & the Doherty Institute in Melbourne, Australia
microbial genomics, statistics, machine learning
Liz Batty @lizbatty.bsky.social Crisp-loving nerd and swim headphones influencer. Bioinformatician and molecular microbiologist focused on tropical diseases. Live in Bangkok, do a podcast, drink coffee, go to the beach.
Adam Witney @aawitney.bsky.social Reader in Bioinformatics. Interested in infectious diseases, bioinformatics and genomics
Danny Park @dannyjpark.bsky.social I use genomics to study the evolution and spread of human pathogens and lead pathogen genomic analytics at the Broad Institute.
Also: @dpark@mstdn.science
ORCID: 0000-0001-7226-7781
GitHub: dpark01
David Aanensen @daanensen.bsky.social genomics, public health, the web, epidemiology and all the bits in between.- K karinlag.bsky.social @karinlag.bsky.social
Dr. Kelly O. @drkfo.bsky.social Chief Scientist for Next-Generation Sequencing & Bioinformatics at The Utah Public Health Laboratory
🌟 SEQUENCE ALL THE THINGS! 🌟
I oversee all the sequencing and data analysis for infectious disease pathogens for the state. All opinions are my own!
Kelsey Florek @k-florek.net Infectious Disease Genomics and Data Scientist @ Wisconsin State Laboratory
#publichealth, #genomics, #infectiousdiseases, #openscience, #opendata
Personal account, art and opinions are my own.
Noah Hull @noahhullphd.bsky.social Global public health practitioner, all things NGS, bioinformatics, random 🐶s, and, wastewater
📜: UWyo (BSc - MolB; PhD - infect disease epi; ScD [h.c.], and UAB MPH-Epi)
Mountain West located, but missing the ocean. Views, albeit bad ones, are my own
Sean Skunk-Cabbage (Chou-Puant) ⚓ @moldybasil.bsky.social Distressed of Conscience
Biking, walking, and taking the bus in Providence Rhode Island | Dense housing advocate | I think about plywood boats and mushrooms he/him
Ask me about systematics or plant diseases
Olin Silander @osilander.bsky.social DNA
Andrew Rambaut (🐏🎀) @arambaut.bsky.social Virus evolution | genomic epidemiology| virus origins | phylogenetics | BEAST | ARTIC Network
University of Edinburgh
http://beast.community
http://artic.network
Jessica Blair @jessicamablair.bsky.social Professor of Antimicrobial Resistance. Institute of Microbiology and Infection, University of Birmingham. Director University of Birmingham Doctoral School. Editor in Chief of npj Antimicrobials and Resistance. - M Meera Chand @meerac.bsky.social Infectious diseases, microbiology, virology, public health and particularly emerging infections & genomics @UKHSA
Luis Pedro Coelho @luispedrocoelho.bsky.social Content creator for Elsevier, NPG, and others
Microbiome researcher
Based in Brisbane
Marco Galardini @mgalactus.bsky.social Computational biologist with a taste for microbiology. Associate professor at Twincore, MHH and HZI
Wikipedia wanderer
Lab website: https://www.microbial-pangenomes-lab.org/- A Angie Hinrichs @angieshinrichs.bsky.social Working on the UCSC Genome Browser since 2002, SARS-Cov-2 phylogenetics since 2020. Opinions my own not employer's. she/her
Fiona Brinkman @fionabrinkman.bsky.social Microbe-loving bioinformatics and genomics professor aiming to better control infectious diseases, and support health, in a sustainable way. Also a Mum.
Bede Constantinides @bede.im Research fellow at the University of Birmingham interested in infectious disease informatics. Also cycling, photography, active travel. https://bede.im
Nicole Wheeler @nwheeler443.bsky.social 
Sam Horsfield @samuelhorsfield.bsky.social Postdoc @ University of Neuchâtel, Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics 🦠 Working on methods to study pathogen evolution and epidemiology using pangenomics 🧬 https://samhorsfield96.github.io/my-website/ 🌐
Peter Menzel @pmenzel.bsky.social Bioinformatics Scientist at Labor Berlin | Clinical Bioinfo | menzel.tech | github.com/pmenzel | ❤️#rstats
Abraham Gihawi @abrahamgihawi.bsky.social UEA Research Fellow - Bioinformatics - Cancer (meta)genomics since 2017.
Opinions are mine alone.
Scott V. Nguyen @scottnguyen.bsky.social I study cells and love watching supercells. Senior biocurator at the ATCC.
Mat Beale @typemat12.bsky.social Microbial (meta)genomics researcher @sangerinstitute
interested in genomic epidemiology and evolutionary dynamics of STIs/NTDs/AMR in complex samples. Views my own.
https://www.sanger.ac.uk/person/beale-mathew/
Hall Lab @halllab.bsky.social Prof Lindsay Hall’s research group at University of Birmingham & Quadram Institute. Early life microbiota (we love Bifidobacterium!), and influence of diet, host and pathogens.
Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social The Laboratory of Computational Metagenomics led by Nicola Segata
**We are hiring, get in touch if interested!**
http://segatalab.cibio.unitn.it/
Moderator @svetlanaup.bsky.social
Ryan Wick @rrwick.bsky.social Bioinformatician at the Centre for Pathogen Genomics at the University of Melbourne
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
Karel Břinda @brinda.eu ‖ Permanent Researcher / INRIA Start. Faculty @ INRIA Rennes 🇫🇷 ‖
BioInfo/CompBio: algorithms, genomics, pathogens & rapid diagnostic of antibiotic resistance《 https://brinda.eu | https://github.com/karel-brinda 》