Sarah K Walsh @sarahkwalsh.bsky.social Post Doctoral Research Associate with Ed Hutchinson at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research currently investigating biosafe methods to study H5N1 (she/her)
Miranda @mfn42.bsky.social PhD student working on avian influenza | Interested in all things viruses & antiviral immunity | she/her 🔬🧬🦠
Maude Jacquot @maudejacquot.bsky.social Researcher | Molecular epidemiology & evolution | Disease ecology | Transmission dynamics & spatial epidemiology | Molluscs
@sarah-c-hill.bsky.social @sarah-c-hill.bsky.social 
Cinema Swirl @cinemaswirl.bsky.social A podcast about not having seen any films.
linktr.ee/cinemaswirl
Dr. Rowan Durrant @rowandurrant.bsky.social Postdoc at the University of Glasgow | virus phylogenetics and evolutionary modelling | she/her
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
Nídia S. Trovão, PhD @nidiatrovao.bsky.social Lead of GEEP at NIH/FIC | Phylodynamics | Bayesian inference | Viral evolution | Disease ecology | Views are my own
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/
David Pascall @davidandthebees.bsky.social Statistician, allegedly. Evolutionary biologist, actually. Noted shoebill fan.
Dr Jim Caryl @jimcaryl.bsky.social Distiller & bottler of #science. Once a biochemist, now a specialist generalist #researchimpact, #biotech #consultant, & #photographer. Based in central Scotland. Left brain: jimcaryl.me | Right brain: thecaryls.co.uk
Fernando Capelastegui @fcapelastegui.bsky.social Epidemiologist and biologist 📈🧬🦠. PhD Student @RoyalVetCollege.
Interested in avian influenza, zoonosis and emerging disease
Nicole Gottdenker @gottdenk.bsky.social Disease ecologist and wildlife pathologist studying impacts of anthropogenic environmental change on infectious diseases. Music, nature, and art lover. She_her_hers. Anti- fascist.
Swannay Brewery @swannaybrewery.com Making beer in Orkney.
www.swannaybrewery.com
Dan Liu @danliu1.bsky.social Computational biologist | Bioinformatics, virus-host interactions, LLMs 🦠 💻
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
Read at lrb.co.uk
Try the LRB for just £6: lrb.me/social
Elly Gaunt @gauntlab.bsky.social Virology lab at Roslin Institute, UK. Particular fondness for influenza and rotaviruses. Also here for bad puns, peated whisky and ultramarathon chat.
Dr Edward Hill @edmhill.bsky.social Researcher in mathematical epidemiology & infectious disease modelling.
Affiliations: Civic Health Innovation Labs (CHIL) @livunichil.bsky.social, @thepandemicinst.bsky.social, @livuni-phps.bsky.social, @livuni-iph.bsky.social, @liverpooluni.bsky.social.
Henrik Salje @hsalje.bsky.social Infectious Disease Epidemiologist at University of Cambridge 
Noémie Lefrancq @noemielefrancq.bsky.social Phylogenetics 🧬 , infectious disease dynamics 🦠 & modelling 💻 #IDSky #IDModelling
Postdoctoral fellow @ETH Zürich (in Basel)
Previously @Cambridge_Uni and @institutpasteur
Chris Banks @banks.ac 💻 Computer Scientist, 📈 Computational/Mathematical Modeller, 🦠 Infectious Disease Modeller,🔬Research Fellow / Core Scientist, 🐑 Roslin Institute, 🏰 University of Edinburgh, 🌄 Mountaineer, 🚲 Cyclist, 🤓 Geek.
🔗 https://banks.ac/
Maciej F Boni @maciekboni.bsky.social Professor of Biology, Temple University's Institute for Genomics and Evolutionary Medicine, Department of Biology, Sunny Philadelphia, USA
Jessica Metcalf @jessmetcalf.bsky.social Demographer working on evolutionary ecology, infectious disease dynamics, vaccination
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
Pedro Vale @pfvale.bsky.social Ecology & Evolution of Infection Dynamics lab, Edinburgh, UK https://pedrovale.bio.ed.ac.uk/
Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social Britain's best-selling news and current affairs magazine with a unique mix of jokes and investigative journalism.
Website: https://private-eye.co.uk
Subscribe: http://subsonline.co.uk
Barry Glendenning @barryglendenning.bsky.social Journalist and broadcaster. Brixton via Birr.
https://t.crdtg2.com/331727/5165?aff_sub5=SF_006OG000004lmDN
Heather Ferguson @drheatherferg.bsky.social Prof of Medical #Entomology & Disease Ecology @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social & Visiting Scientist Ifakara Health Institute, Tanzania. #Malaria #Mosquito #NTDs #GlobalHealth #Equity
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/bohvm/staff/heatherferguson
Christina Faust @clfaust.bsky.social landscape disease ecologist @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social
Barbara Mable @bmable.bsky.social Evolutionary geneticist, plants, animals, microbes
Claire Guinat @claireguinat.bsky.social Research fellow at INRAE (DVM, MSc, PhD) #epidemiology #phylodynamics #animal infectious diseases 🦠🐔🐮🐷🧬
All The Right Movies @alltherightmovies.com The story of Hollywood one film at a time. Details provided in our making of stories are direct from cast/crew or 3+ sources. Podcast, book, socials, newsletter - everything ATRM at linktr.ee/alltherightmovies
Mark Kermode @kermodemovie.bsky.social LAST aisle seat on the left.
Emphasis on the FIRST syllable.
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. 
Emma Thomson @emcat1.bsky.social I am clinical professor of infectious diseases at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research and professor of emerging viruses at LSHTM. I study emerging viruses in Uganda and the UK.
Francesco Baldini @baldini-francesco.bsky.social Studying biting insects to support global health
Reader @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk
Visiting Scientist at #IfakaraHealthInstitute
Researcher at #VectorsGlasgow
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/bohvm/staff/francescobaldini/
https://francescobaldini.wordpress.com/
Fergus Chadwick @fergusjchadwick.bsky.social Observation processes in ecology and epidemiology. Lecturer in Statistics at University of St Andrews. Views own. He/him.
Arvid Ågren @arvidagren.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist. Assistant Professor CCLCM/CWRU.
The Gene’s-Eye View of Evolution(OUP 2021) and The Paradox of the Organism (HUP 2025).
www.arvidagren.com
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/
Louise H. Moncla @lhmoncla.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Pathobiology at the University of Pennsylvania. We use trees to study RNA virus evolution and transmission, with a focus on avian influenza. viruses, sequencing, phylogenetics, pop gen. She/her
https://lmoncla.github.io/monclalab/
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
Marc Suchard @msuchard.bsky.social Striving to provide better evidence to improve health globally! Professor, Departments of Biostatistics, Computational Medicine and Human Genetics, UCLA
Jemma Geoghegan @jemmageoghegan.bsky.social Professor at University of Otago, NZ; Webster Chair in Virology; Rutherford Discovery Fellow. I like viruses and evolution. 
Charlotte Houldcroft @virologyhouldcroft.bsky.social Virology with a side-order of human evolution.
Sam Wilkinson @biowilko.bsky.social Bioinformatician, CLIMB-TRE dev, CLIMB-COVID admin. Likes food, movies, music, and writing code.
He/Him.
Gage Moreno @gagekmoreno.bsky.social Postdoc in the Sabeti Lab. Interested in the genomic epidemiology, evolution, and pathogenicity of RNA viruses 🦠🏳️🌈 - M Marc Lipsitch @mlipsitch.bsky.social Professor of Epidemiology Harvard Chan SPH, Director, @ccdd-hsph.bsky.social. Views my own.
Tijani Sulaimon @tijanis.bsky.social Infectious disease modeller at LSTM, working on spatial models of VBDs. 
Rowland Kao @rowlandkao.bsky.social University of Edinburgh, Roslin Institute & School of Physics
& Astronomy. Interested in Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Modelling; Complex Networks;
All views expressed here are my own.
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
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
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.
Eddie Holmes @eddieholmes.bsky.social Virus spotter. You're twistin' my melon man.
Theo Sanderson @theo.io researching viral pathogen genomics at @lshtm.bsky.social, building @pathoplexus.org | theo.io / sandersonlab.org
Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social Epidemiologist/mathematician. Professor at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Author of The Rules of Contagion and The Perfect Bet. Views own.
New book Proof: The Uncertain Science of Certainty available now: proof.kucharski.io
Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social Virologist. PI working at but not speaking for USask. Co-EiC of Vaccine. 🇺🇸 in 🇨🇦. Emerging viruses, pathogenesis, zoonosis, host responses, dogs, football, off-color language, transcriptomic chaos. Opinions my own.
Björn Meyer @bmeyer.bsky.social Virologist ☣ | Trying to understand why viruses tick the way they do - then, now and in future | 🇩🇪🇪🇺🇺🇳
@themeyerlab.bsky.social 
Nick Loman @pathogenomenick.bsky.social Public health (meta)genomics & bioinformatics, Prof @unibirmingham.bsky.social, Director @imibirmingham.bsky.social & @climb.ac.uk
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/
Sarah Cobey @cobey.bsky.social Professor at U. Chicago. Computational epidemiology, evolution, influenza, SARS-CoV-2, vaccines, and B cells. Infectious disease dynamics across scales.
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.
Gytis Dudas @evogytis.bsky.social PI @ Vilnius University Life Sciences Center 🦠🧬🌳🌍🐾📈.
Enthusiast of orthomyxos (& other (-)ssRNA viruses), RNA virus discovery, evolution & ecology, genomic epidemiology, data-vis, matplotlib.
EMBO installation grantee.
evogytis.github.io
Marion Koopmans @marionkoopmans.bsky.social Virologist, into emerging viral infections, one health, climate and health. Head viroscience department ErasmusMC, Rotterdam NL. Backup for the ex-bird platform. ORCHID 0000-0002-5204-2312; https://pure.eur.nl/en/persons/marion-koopmans . 
Michelle Wille @duckswabber.bsky.social Avian influenza & avian virome ecology | "Expert in Ducks" | (she/her) | michellewille.com
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.
Cornelius Roemer @corneliusroemer.bsky.social Studying SARS-CoV-2 evolution @nextstrain @biozentrum
Studied Physics @Cambridge Uni, then learned about computers
Andrew (Andy) Broadbent @drandybroadbent.bsky.social Research Scientist, Veterinarian, Assistant Professor- microbiology, virology, immunology - views my own 🦠🔬🧬🐾🏳️🌈🇬🇧- M Meera Chand @meerac.bsky.social Infectious diseases, microbiology, virology, public health and particularly emerging infections & genomics @UKHSA
Thushan de Silva @thushan-desilva.bsky.social Physician Scientist | Professor of Infectious Diseases University of Sheffield | Principal Investigator MRC Unit The Gambia | Respiratory Viruses | Strep A | Vaccines and Immunity
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/smph/people/clinical-medicine/thushan-de-silva
Antonia Ho @drtoniho.bsky.social Professor of Infectious Diseases @UofGlasgow @CVRinfo & Honorary Consultant. Interests #epidemiology #respiratoryviruses #ARI #GlobalHealth 🦠🧬. Also 🐶! Views are my own. #IDSky #EpiSky #DogSky
David Bhella @dbhella.bsky.social Professor of Structural Virology and Associate Director at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (CVR). Director of the Scottish Centre for Macromolecular Imaging. CryoEM, viruses, music, field archery, scicom and pix of our toy poodle.
Jon Mifsud @jonathonmifsud.bsky.social Postdoc @ KU Leuven | Virus evolution 🧬👨💻
Chris Illingworth @chrisillingworth.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at the MRC University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research.
Giuditta De Lorenzo @serdelor.bsky.social Italian virologist, studying viruses and cells at AreaSciencePark and ICGEB (Trieste - IT), previously Research Associate at the Centre for Virus Research (Glasgow - UK)
https://areasciencepark-rit.gitlab.io/virology/giuditta.delorenzo/#about
Connor G G Bamford @connorggbamford.bsky.social Scientist and educator interested in viruses, immunity and evolution. Currently group leader and lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast. Member of MicroSoc Virus Division, and Young Academy Ireland.
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.
Robertson Lab @davidlrobertson.bsky.social Viruses, evolution, computational biology & other stuff, David L Robertson @robertson_lab (in the other place) based at @cvrinfo.bsky.social, the University of Glasgow.
Stuart Neil @tetherin.bsky.social Virologist, comparative virus/host interactions of HIV, Flu, Ebola and SARS CoV-2
Unashamed fan of loud shouty music. Not left-wing, not right-wing, not too fond of historical or present day fascists.
Nathan Grubaugh @nathangrubaugh.bsky.social Professor of Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health. Studies 🦟🦠 🧬transmission, evolution, and emergence. PI of http://dengue-lineages.org. Will sequence for 🍺.
Lab website: https://grubaughlab.com/
Robert de Vries @rpdevrieslab.bsky.social Virologist turned glycoscientist... Associate Prof @ Utrecht University Chemical Biology & Drug Discovery
Spyros Lytras @spyroslytras.bsky.social Head of the Antigen Evolution and Design lab @antigenevo.bsky.social at Institut Pasteur 🇫🇷
💻🦠🏳️🌈
Kieran Lamb @kieranlamb.bsky.social 🏴Postdoc @CVRinfo
📊Viral mutational signatures
🧬Protein language models
Divya Venkatesh @divyav.bsky.social Research Fellow @oxfordbiology.bsky.social · Viruses and their various hosts · Currently studying avian flu 🦠 in seals 🦭 · Miscellanea · Tangents off tangents
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
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
Áine O'Toole @aineotoole.bsky.social Virus evolution, bioinformatics & phylogenetics. Researcher at University of Edinburgh. 
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/
Andrew Rambaut (🐏🎀) @arambaut.bsky.social Virus evolution | genomic epidemiology| virus origins | phylogenetics | BEAST | ARTIC Network
University of Edinburgh
http://beast.community
http://artic.network
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/ 
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)
Bloom lab @jbloomlab.bsky.social Lab studying molecular evolution of proteins and viruses. Affiliated with Fred Hutch & HHMI.
Opinions are my own and do not reflect those of my employer.
https://jbloomlab.org/
Dr Sjúrður Hammer @sjurdur.bsky.social Faroe Islander Seabird ecotoxicology, biodiversity and invasive species. Hoarder of bird skulls, feathers & eggshells. Natural history books and taxidermy are my love languages. University of Aberdeen and Glasgow alumni - Menieres
2003 🇫🇴🏴🇩🇰🏴🇫🇴2017- W @worobey.bsky.social @worobey.bsky.social
Tom Peacock @peacockflu.bsky.social Virologist - Influenza and Coronaviruses 
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
Hensley Lab @scottehensley.bsky.social dad, viral immunologist, professor
Ed Hutchinson @socialinfluenza.bsky.social Virologist | Professor of Sneezy Diseases | studies influenza @ MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research | occasionally draws things | (he/him)
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/infectionimmunity/staff/edwardhutchinson/
The Royal Society @royalsociety.org The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.
https://royalsociety.org/