Asher Leeks
We study social evolution in viruses.
Assistant Professor @zoology.ubc.ca & @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social
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Sociovirology
A collection of researchers who study social evolution in viruses.
@healthresearchbc.bsky.social
We are BC's health research agency. We inspire and connect curious, creative, and passionate minds to drive discovery and innovation in health research. https://healthresearchbc.ca/
@jbsilk.bsky.social
Evolutionary anthropologist, primate behavioral ecologist, and part-time baker.
@mariandm.bsky.social
PhD student, Georgia Tech; Based at U of Maryland Phage ecology, Computational biology
@shiraweingarten.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Microbiology at Harvard Medical School Viruses | Immunology | Ribosomes | Systems Biology #LoveVirology https://www.shiraweingartengabbay.com/
@tamanash.bsky.social
Helen Hay Whitney Foundation fellow in Harmit Malik lab at Fred Hutch | I study evolutionary adaptation | http://tamanashbhattacharya.wordpress.com
@cedricfeschotte.bsky.social
Prof at Cornell, currently visiting prof EPFL🇨🇭 #firstgen, immigrant 🇫🇷🇺🇸. Transposons, viruses, and all the cool stuff genomes are made of. https://www.feschottelab.com
@art-h-ropod.bsky.social
Retired palaeontologist and museum curator, admirer of arthropods, and all 'round nature nerd. Fiercely Canadian. Staunchly antifascist. 🇨🇦
@jmcelroy.bsky.social
Vancouver journalist. Currently decompressing after going to 52 countries in 52 weeks. Strives to tell unique stories. http://moremcbarges.ca http://instagram.com/justindmcelroy
@hitenmadhani.bsky.social
Gene regulation in health and disease | Professor/Vice-Chair @UCSF Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysic | via Stanford, UCSF and MIT | https://madhanilab.ucsf.edu
@jamespmcleod.ca
The Guardian newspaper once called me a "Guerrilla Satirist" and the premier of Newfoundland and Labrador once called me "an arsehole." Former journalist. Artist. Writer. Comms guy.
@rosvall-lab.bsky.social
Assoc Prof of Biology. Indiana U. Interested in: mechanisms of behavior + how they evolve. she/her. https://rosvall.lab.indiana.edu/
@jacanamama.bsky.social
Research on behavior, genomics, and evolution in birds. Often thinking about sex diversity and variation. Assistant Professor at Duke Biology
@floriantrigodet.bsky.social
Computational microbiologist. Senior scientist at the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity, Oldenburg. Working in Meren lab.
@martinsteinegger.bsky.social
Developing data intensive computational methods • PI @ Seoul National University 🇰🇷 • #FirstGen • he/him • Hauptschüler
@canadianbiogenome.bsky.social
The goal of the Canadian BioGenome Project is to produce high-quality reference genomes 🧬 for all Canadian species 🌎 Sequencing Canada's Biodiversity 🌿🦋🐍🧬🐢🦌🐸🌳🐿🐙🦈🦦 Learn more: https://linktr.ee/canadianbiogenome
@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)
@smubareka.bsky.social
Infectious diseases and virology, Sunnybrook Health Science Centre and Research Institute, University of Toronto. Studying viral zoonoses & One Health; Wild EPI. CIHR-PHAC Applied Public Health Chair. A keeper of Q. Quarantino (Born to be Alive)
@virology.bsky.social
Virologist | Principal Scientist - Group Leader | Adjunct Professor | Co-Lead, One Health, USask | My team investigates how highly pathogenic zoonotic viruses make us sick #LZCI | My views Laboratory website: https://banerjeelab.ca/
@abhuinya.bsky.social
PhD Student at https://banerjeelab.ca/ | #USask | Virology | Coronavirus biology and Gene regulation |
@thijskuiken.bsky.social
Professor of Comparative Pathology at Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. I study emerging viral diseases according to the One Health approach, and transformative change of society for a sustainable future.
@ubyssey.ca
UBC's student newspaper — established in 1918, independent since 1995. ubyssey.ca
@drceleste.bsky.social
Friendly neighborhood biology teacher working on better assessment and grading practices (UBC), interested in supporting unhoused youth, nutty bunny foster mom, fearless roller skater, reckless baker 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @ubc
@akshitg.bsky.social
Ecology and Evolution | Microbial Communities |Theory | Biophysics, Faculty member at ICTS
@pop-bio.bsky.social
A virtual seminar series covering research on population biology and theoretical ecology from the Asia-Pacific. We meet the last Thursday of every month at 1pm AEST, UTC+10. Subscribe to our seminar announcements: https://forms.gle/t8z3DNzb4Sga19v68
@shikharabhat.bsky.social
Theoretical evolutionary ecologist. Fond of math, coffee, natural history, and metal music. Kokkonut and PhD student at Uni Mainz, Germany. Past: BS-MS at IISER Pune, India. MS thesis at CES, IISc. Webpage: https://thepandalorian.github.io he/him
@sshekhr.bsky.social
Prof. Shashank Shekhar @EmoryUniversity, Atlanta, USA Biophysicist interested in Actin dynamics and ciliary flows. Departments of Physics, Biochemistry and Cell Biology. Lab website : www.shekharlab.org
@jwoodgett.bsky.social
Spread too thinly. Toronto. Originally from UK. Cancer biology researcher at Sinai Health. Also Prez of the Terry Fox Research Institute.
@aaas.org
Advancing science, serving society. One of the world’s largest general scientific societies and publisher of @science.org
@rockefellerfdn.bsky.social
Our mission—unchanged since 1913—is to promote the well-being of humanity throughout the world by #MakingOpportunityUniversal and sustainable.
@flatironinstitute.org
Advancing scientific research through computational methods and software tools. Centers: #FlatironCCA, #FlatironCCB, #FlatironCCM, #FlatironCCN and #FlatironCCQ
@pnas.org
Explore groundbreaking news and research from PNAS, one of the world's most-cited scientific journals. Discover its sibling journal, @pnasnexus.org, both official journals of the National Academy of Sciences. Visit www.pnas.org for more info.
@cziscience.bsky.social
@aspeninstitute.bsky.social
@kavliprize.bsky.social
The Kavli Prize honors scientists for breakthroughs in astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience – transforming our understanding of the big, the small and the complex. https://www.kavliprize.org/
@kavlifoundation.bsky.social
Advancing science for the benefit of humanity. #astrophysics #nanoscience #neuroscience #theoreticalphysics #scienceandsociety
@simonsfoundation.org
Advancing the frontiers of basic science through grantmaking, research and public engagement. Sign up for our newsletter: simonsfoundation.org/newsletter
@sloanfoundation.bsky.social
We fund research, engagement and education in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and economics. Based in NYC. More here: https://sloan.org/
@cohenjon.bsky.social
Staff writer at Science, specializing in infectious diseases and immunology. Vaccine history geek. Hate outbreaks, love covering them. Serious surf addiction, occasional contributor to the incomparable Surfer's Journal.
@devinl.bsky.social
@rachelnuwer.bsky.social
Freelance science journalist contributing to NYT, SciAm, Nature etc. Author of "Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking" (2018) and "I Feel Love: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World" (2023).
@jenncoughlan.bsky.social
Assistant Prof @ Yale EEB. Lover of evolutionary genetics, speciation, adaptation, and plants. Mimulus fanatic.
@flowgenomics.bsky.social
🇨🇦 Canadian plasmid sequencing. $20 CAD per sample. Get your dropbox and submit your samples --> https://www.flowgenomics.com/
@andreevallecam.bsky.social
🍎 outbreak analytics trainer #EpiverseTRACE 📝 usando eñe, emojis, #rstats, #rstatsES •ᴗ• 🇵🇪 #ConIndustriaNacionalSíHayDesarrollo 🏭 🔗 https://avallecam.github.io/
@se-mcd.bsky.social
Public health policy - working in pan prep at UKHSA & LSHTM All views my own
@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
@jamesazam.bsky.social
Research Software Engineer developing/maintaining outbreak analytics tools (EpiNow2, epichains, etc) with the Epiverse-TRACE Initiative. Interested in infectious disease dynamics methods and tool development. https://jamesmbaazam.github.io/ #rstats