Eli Mehlferber @emehlferber.bsky.social Postdoc in Sam Brown’s lab at GaTech. Broadly interested understanding why bacteria end up where they are, especially in the context of opportunistic pathogens. All done through the context of “big data” genomics and ML.
Iris Irby @irisirby.bsky.social PhD Candidate in the Brown Lab at Georgia Tech | mobile genetic element enthusiast 🧬 | NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Evolution Meetings @evolmtg.bsky.social Official account of the Evolution Meetings
Amy Zamora @amycrobes.bsky.social phage enthusiast 🦠 microbial marveler 😍 crunchy science gal 🌲🏔️ PhD at
@harvardmed
Marie Saitou @marie-saitou.bsky.social PI/Biologist (evolutionary genomics) at NMBU, Norway. Evol/Pop/Stat Genomics. Raised in UTokyo, UBuffalo, UChicago. Queer, ASD. ノルウェー生命科学大学でゲノム進化学の研究室を主宰しています。Hun/私
https://mariesaitou.github.io/saitou-lab-website/
Alexis Jaramillo Cartagena, PhD, D(ABMM) @alexclinmicro.bsky.social 🔬 Assistant Prof, Pathology @Duke | Director, Clin Micro Lab
🧫 Former Clin Micro Fellow @Memorial Sloan Kettering
👩🏻🔬 Former Postdoc @broadinstitute.org
🎓 PhD @The Rockefeller University
Focus: Diagnostics, AMR, Structural Biology
Paul Orwin @paulmorwin.bsky.social I guess we’ve found the new twitter!
Hates traitorous republican Magats, loves microbiology...and also sports, lots of sports
Smita Gopinath @gopinath.bsky.social Microbiologist and immunologist working on the vaginal microbiome. Sci-fi enthusiast.
Jiayue Yang @stjarnaa.bsky.social Grad student of Whitaker Lab at UIUC studying CRISPR ecology and evolution in archaea metapopulations ♨️
Ben Fry @benf549.bsky.social PhD Candidate @ Harvard Biophysics Program
ML for Small-Molecule Binding Protein Design
Polizzi Lab at Dana Farber Cancer Institute
benf549.github.io
🏳️🌈
Kendal Tinney @kendalt.bsky.social Microbiologist and fan of phages 🦠🧬 🧫
PhD candidate in the Barber lab at UOregon.
(She/They)
Sophie Jean Walton @sophiejwalton.bsky.social Stanford Biophysics PhD Student with Dmitri Petrov and Ben Good. evolution, ecology, genomics, microbiomes, biophysics :) she/her
https://sophiejwalton.github.io
Harvard Graduate Students Union - UAW Local 5118 @hgsuuaw.bsky.social 
David Bikard @dbikard.bsky.social Bacterial Immunity and Synthetic Biology enthusiast. Head of Lab at Institut Pasteur. Co-Founder of Eligo Bioscience.
Marie-Eve VAL @val-meve.bsky.social Microbiologist, plasmid biology, genome maintenance, DNA replication, Vibrio, Institut Pasteur - Paris 
Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social Scripps Research Professor. HHMI Investigator. Nobel Prize Physiology or Medicine 2021. Opinions are my own and do not reflect those of my employer.
Chen Zhang | 🇨🇳 🇯🇵 🇳🇱 🇺🇸... @alex03-cz.bsky.social Microbiologist | Molecular Microbiology | Eco-physiology | Virology | Microbiome | Co-Evolution 4 Fit
https://scholar.google.nl/citations?hl=en&user=4cUcmfMAAAAJ
Dr. Lauren E. Fuess @laurenfuess.bsky.social PI @ TX State leading the Symbiommunity Lab.
Eco-evo-immunologist interested in immune variation, host-symbiont dynamics
🐎 & 🐈 mom; Posts my own.
Jeffrey Townsend @jeffreytownsend.bsky.social Elihu Professor of Biostatistics @yalesph.bsky.social--Evolutionary biology of cancer, infectious disease, and fungi; sometimes running.
Britt Koskella @bkoskella.bsky.social Evo-ecologist (Assoc Prof at UC Berkeley) studying interactions among phages, microbiomes, and plants. Skeets (own view) about science, teaching, social justice, and politics. (profile pic unedited photo by my six-year-old son)
Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social evolutionsociety.org
Kranzusch Lab @kranzuschlab.bsky.social Harvard Medical School, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
https://kranzuschlab.med.harvard.edu
Paula Ramiro-Martínez @paularamiro.bsky.social Predoctoral researcher at evodynamics lab in Madrid.
Bacterial and plasmid evolution 🫧🧬💻
Allison Lopatkin, PhD @ajlopatkin.bsky.social Assistant prof at University of Rochester engineering genetic communication in microbial populations. Mountain enthusiast, passionate teacher
Brittany Charlton @britshmit.bsky.social Epidemiologist 📊 • Associate Prof at Harvard Med School & School of Public Health • Founding Director LGBTQ Health Center of Excellence • Views=own• Mom of 3 kiddos • she/her + 🏳️🌈
Elysa Ng 🌻 @elysa-ng.bsky.social 🇮🇩ID/ENG | she/her | Incoming @Georgetown Biology Neurodevelopment PhD Student | Tsai Lab Postbacc in Dev Bio @WashU ' 26 | @NotreDame '24 | interested in evolution and development biology | i also draw! | my thoughts are my opinions
Solid Evidence @solidevidence.bsky.social Molecular virologist, sewage sage and wastewater wizard.
https://lung.fish
Marc Johnson
Professor
Tiffany Zarrella @tiffzarrella.bsky.social assistant professor at georgetown | polymicrobial interactions | bacterial physiology | science educator | views my own
www.zarrellalab.org
Frank Santoriello @fsantoriello.bsky.social Microbial geneticist 🧬🧫| Princeton MolBio Postdoc with Bonnie Bassler
Artist 🎨🖊️ | I like to draw bacteria and dead things
Likes loud music, sci-fi/fantasy/horror, tattoos, and fermented foods.
he/him
https://www.franksantorielloart.com
Sonja Lehtinen @sonjalehtinen.bsky.social Bacterial ecology, evolution and epidemiology | Mathematical and statistical modelling | Genomics | AMR. Assistant professor at the University of Lausanne. https://wp.unil.ch/evolutionaryepidemiology- A @andrewmatthews.bsky.social @andrewmatthews.bsky.social
Cultivarium @cultivarium.bsky.social www.cultivarium.org
Chris Mancuso @mancusosci.bsky.social Engineering non-model microbes @ Cultivarium | soft spot for microbiomes and DIY tech | he/him
Amtrak @amtrak.com The all-new, high-speed NextGen Acela is here!
Book today: amtrak.com/nextgen-acela
Ira Zibbu @coolscootre.bsky.social Evolution enthusiast/ Computer Nerd/ Molecular wizard-in-training.
PhD student watching 80,000 generations of bacterial evolution @ Barrick Lab, Michigan State University.
Enjoyer of all things post-modern and in the zeitgeist.
Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social Newsletter: ScienceForEveryone.science
ecologist • entomologist • writer • entrant ornithologist
AAAS Policy Fellow 26-27 (DOI:USGS)
Research Associate, Natural History Museum of LA County
Professor of Biology, CSU Dominguez Hills
(he/him)
H.G.Modernism @hgmodernism.bsky.social Hi, I'm Hendry
bi-spectral
whimsical nerdcore
https://www.youtube.com/@HGModernism
Adam Mulkern @mulkern.bsky.social Postdoc, MacLean lab, experimental evolution | University of Oxford
Abheepsa Nanda @abheepsa.bsky.social Master's in Ecology and Evolution @ethz.ch | IISc 2019-23
Microbial ecology and evolution with a sprinkle of math
Incoming PhD student at Yale EEB!
Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh. RNA polymerase II mechanism, classic films, #classiccountdown once in awhile
Freya Harrison @friendlymicrobe.bsky.social Reader (Associate Professor) in Microbiology at the University of Warwick, UK.
Biofilm, chronic infection and ancientbiotics.
https://www.youtube.com/@BreakingBiofilm
Owen Hale @owenfhale.bsky.social Grad student working with @megbehri.bsky.social on bacterial evolution
Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social Microbial evolution / University of Manchester
GENEWIZ from Azenta Life Sciences @genewiz.bsky.social GENEWIZ from Azenta Life Sciences is a leading global multiomics service provider serving researchers worldwide through a suite of solutions including synthesis, Sanger sequencing, whole plasmid sequencing, and next generation sequencing.
Jeffrey Marlow @jjmarlow.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Biology at Boston University ::: Science Journalist / Communicator ::: National Geographic Explorer
Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social Climate change, global health security, science diplomacy, and good bad futures • Yale • carlsonlab.bio • viralemergence.org • he/they
Erin Green @erinrgreen.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UChicago Dept of Microbiology, studying Acinetobacter-host interactions and stress responses. Views my own. she/her
Cristian Román-Palacios @cromanpa.bsky.social Asst Prof @ University of Arizona. I study macroevolution, phylogenetics, and biodiversity loss using large datasets. PI @ datadiversitylab.github.io. Photography, pottery, self-hosting, and Latin American history on the side
Brian O'Meara @omearabrian.bsky.social I study diversification, species delimitation, trait evolution & similar questions, often using new methods. Also random coding projects. College prof living in Oak Ridge, TN, USA. Opinions my own. He/Him
Kaylin @kaylinchong.bsky.social PhD Researcher @HarvardOEB | @OxfordBiology alum | Evolutionary biologist (functional morphology, feeding, 3D imaging)
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.)
James T. Stroud @jameststroud.bsky.social Asst Prof @ Georgia Tech. Evolutionary ecology using lizards 🦎🦎🦎 most interested in connecting micro-scale processes to macro-scale patterns
Roby Bhattacharyya @roby-b.bsky.social ID doc (MGH), PI (Broad Institute), antibiotic resistance resister, sepsis immune profiler, COVID doc, husband, dad. Coffee, tennis, kindness, science, & sleep enthusiast. Here to learn, as that other place devolves. Views mine. | bhattacharyyalab.org
Thalia, PhD @thalia.bsky.social Microbiologist. Bibliophile. Hockey fan.
PhD -> Postdoc @ Brandeis University
✡️ she / they / Dr ✌🏼
researchgate.net/profile/Thalia-Sass
Chang Liu @chang-c-liu.bsky.social Prof. at UC Irvine developing specialized genetic systems for rapid evolution, protein engineering, and biology at large. Also at https://x.com/chang_c_liu
www.liulab.com
Karen Visick @microklv.bsky.social I am a microbial geneticist. I study Vibrio fischeri biofilm formation and host colonization.
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.
Journal of Molecular Evolution @jmolev.bsky.social The official Bluesky account of the Journal of Molecular Evolution, founded in 1971 by Emile Zuckerkandl. Current EIC: David Liberles.
https://link.springer.com/journal/239
Posts by editor @caraweisman.bsky.social (views her own)
Jacob Baker @microjacob.bsky.social Figures or it didn't happen.
Evan Qu @quevan.bsky.social PhD candidate in the MIT Microbiology Program (co2020). @Lieberman Lab @contaminatedsci.bsky.social. I study the ecology and evolution of skin microbes, like this one -> 🤏
Lukas Groschner @lukasgroschner.bsky.social Brains, biophysics, behaviour
https://www.groschner-lab.org
EvolvingSTEM program @evolvingstem.bsky.social http://evolvingstem.org, an authentic laboratory-based classroom curriculum based at the University of Pittsburgh that improves learning and builds occupational identity in STEM
@i-light-maka.bsky.social @i-light-maka.bsky.social 
Angel J Hernández Viera @angeljhv.bsky.social Graduate student at UW-Madison in the lab of Charlie Mo (@molabuw.bsky.social) studying CRISPR and phage resistance in staphylococci. 🇵🇷🌴
Felix M Key @keyfm.bsky.social Research Group Leader @mpiib_berlin.
#Genetics of clinical and ancient #microbes to understand the #evolution of #infectious #diseases and the #microbiome
mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/2003543/key-lab
DaganLab @daganlab.bsky.social Evolutionary microbiology research group, Kiel University, Germany
RCSB Protein Data Bank @rcsbpdb.bsky.social RCSB PDB (RCSB.org) promotes a structural view of biology. Funded by NSF, NCI, NIAID, NIGMS, NIH, and DOE
Allison M. Dennis @allisonmdennis.bsky.social Assoc Prof of ChemE @ Northeastern U
Design and Engineering of Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology for Imaging and Sensing (DENNIS) Lab www.thedennislab.com
Mary Munson @marymunson4.bsky.social Multidisciplinary research at UMass Chan focused on membrane trafficking. Striving to make academic science a more diverse, equitable, welcoming and inclusive place. President of the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB).
Opinions are mine
(she/her)
@wbialek.bsky.social @wbialek.bsky.social Interested in #physics of life. Theorist but some of my best friends are experimentalists.
Liz Tan @liztansposon.bsky.social PhD student in Dr. Andrew Camilli's lab studying cholera phage at Tufts University in Boston,MA! 
@mmdesai.bsky.social @mmdesai.bsky.social 
Madeleine Kline @mckline98.bsky.social MD/PhD student at HMS/HSPH infectious disease epidemiology, musician, climate advocate, runner, lover of baked goods and cute animals
Katy Lambert-Slosarska @katyls.bsky.social Marine microbiologist looking at rapid microorganism evolution through the lens of diversity-generating retroelements
PhD candidate in the Meren lab
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/
Julia Van Etten @couchmicroscopy.bsky.social New Assistant Professor of Biology at University of Maryland • Passionate about algae / protists + HGT + genomics + evolutionary biology + microscopy • vanettenlab.org #NewPI
Opinions are my own.
@harvardoeb.bsky.social @harvardoeb.bsky.social 
Mo lab @molabuw.bsky.social We study how bacteria protect themselves from viruses:
https://molab.bact.wisc.edu/
A. Murat Eren (Meren) @merenbey.bsky.social Professor of Ecosystem Data Science at @hifmb.bsky.social studying the ecology and evolution of microbes through high-resolution 'omics and #anvio
Alecia Rokes @aleciarokes.bsky.social PhD candidate in Vaughn Cooper's Lab at the University of Pittsburgh. she/her
Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org Evangelist for the study of evolution in action by everyone.
Pitt Prof | ASM President|EvolvingSTEM | biofilms | EvMed | genomics entrepreneur (@SeqCoast.bsky.social, @midauthorbio.bsky.social)| exercise addict ~ swim bike run
Neil Shubin @neilshubin.bsky.social Paleontologist. Developmental Biologist. Anatomist. Polar wanderer. Telling people that they are fish since 2008.
Charikleia Karageorgiou (Clio) @evobioclio.bsky.social Postdoc at @UBuffalo | Gokcumen Lab
Evolution, structural variants and population genetics.
PhD from @uab.cat | Inversion polymorphism.
https://biolevol.github.io/
Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social Professor of Molecular Microbiology, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Editor at Microbial Genomics & mBio, Scouse, interested in Streptomyces, Evolution, Antibiotics, AMR, microbiology, Phage, herpetology, Cricket, EvertonFC
Joaquin Nunez @jcbnunez.bsky.social I am an Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of Vermont. My lab works on fundamental questions of population genetics as well as ecological and evolutionary genomics.
https://www.jcbnunez.org/
Irene Newton @chicascientifica.bsky.social Professor at Indiana University, Department of Biology. Interested in all things microbial symbiosis related & these days, a lot of MGEs
Mark Bitter @markcbitter.bsky.social Postdoc at Stanford University.
Interested in pop. gen., adaptation, and a wholesome scientific community.
he/him
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
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
@miloj.bsky.social @miloj.bsky.social 
Sarah Svensson @campy-bara.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de Formerly at the Shanghai Institute Formerly known as Pasteur. Vibrio, Campy, Helicobacter, sRNAs, ecospecies 🇨🇦
Cara Weisman @caraweisman.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist; Lewis-Sigler Scholar (aka feral postdoc) @ Princeton.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=crObMO4AAAAJ&hl=en
Sayantan Datta @sayantandatta.bsky.social QBioS PhD student in the Ratcliff Lab, GeorgiaTech
IISER Pune '22 (BS-MS Biology)
Sam Brown @brownlab.bsky.social Evolutionary microbiologist. Bacterial social life, virulence, drug resistance.
QinQin Yu @qinqinyu.bsky.social Pathogen evolution and transmission, science writing, and outreach. Researcher at Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen.
https://qinqin-yu.github.io/
Paul Turner Lab @paulturnerlab.bsky.social Experimental evolution of viruses for basic science and evolutionary medicine at Yale Ecology & Evolutionary Biology.
Tweeting papers & news from our group. Acct managed by lab members.
Olivia Kosterlitz @oliviakosterlitz.bsky.social Studying the effects of horizontal gene transfer (specifically conjugative plasmids) on the ecology and evolution of bacterial communities. Currently a NSF postdoctoral fellow with Eva Top @ UIdaho
Luis Zaman @luiszaman.bsky.social Assistant Prof. at University of Michigan in Complex Systems and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. We study coevolution with phage and self-replicating computer programs! 
Katherine Xue @ksxue.bsky.social Assistant prof at UC Irvine. Ecology and evolution in microbial communities, and occasional writing.
https://kxuelab.com
Joao Ascensao @joaoascensao.bsky.social Postdoc @ Harvard with Michael Desai | Genotype-phenotype maps & evolutionary dynamics
https://joaoascensao.github.io/