The (ma)X-Files
Scientist | Microbiologist | Artist | Science Communicator
Phage researcher specializing in bacterial infections in both animal and human contexts, with a unique perspective shaped by a background in both the US and Ireland.
Views are my own
@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.
@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
@rupyr19.bsky.social
PhD Student in Medical Systems Biolog 💻🔬🧪 @kaletalab.bsky.social | Host-Microbiome Interactions 🪱🦠 | Constraint-Based Metabolic Modeling 📊 | Microbiome Enthusiast 🧬🧫
@blancobercial.bsky.social
Eukaryotic Plankton Ecology and Evolution | Assistant Professor @biosstation.bsky.social @arizonastateuni.bsky.social | ZoopGroup laboratory | Se Habla Español https://bios.asu.edu/about/team-members/leocadio-blanco-bercial
@georgeimatsumoto.bsky.social
Manta photo by Jeff Milisen. I'm interested in deep-sea, open ocean (heck, anything ocean), education, supporting educators, and increasing our ocean literacy
@mikemignola.bsky.social
Artist-Writer-Creator of the Hellboy Universe or Mignolaverse etc...
@darcyshapiro.bsky.social
BioAnthro PhD. Miocene apes, hips, locomotion, trabecular bone. 💀 Editorial Director: PBS Eons, Bizarre Beasts, and anything else the Greenhouse team cooks up. 🦕🦔🪴 she/her #GoBlue
@ipbes.net
Intergovernmental Platform on #Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services. Denialism/trolling/profanity may result in banning. Re-skoots ≠ endorsements. www.ipbes.net linktr.ee/ipbes
@whysharksmatter.bsky.social
I am a marine conservation biologist studying sharks and a science writer. Posts are about science and the environment, science communication, and more! He/him
@zebrafish007.bsky.social
Zebrafish, blood and lymphatic vessels, microscopes, imaging, aquaculture, cavefish, 3D printing, science. views my own.
@kellylgreenphd.bsky.social
Clinical psychologist and scientist at the University of Pennsylvania studying the effectiveness and implementation of treatments for suicide prevention.
@nicholaswu.bsky.social
Ecophysiology | herpetology | macroecology | meta-analysis | data viz. Lecturer at Murdoch University | https://wunicholas.wixsite.com/home
@squamatespod.bsky.social
Mark D. Scherz, Ethan Kocak, Hiral Naik, and Gabriel Ugueto bring you the biggest recent news in herpetology, and also terrible puns.
@markscherz.bsky.social
Curator of Herpetology & Associate Professor of Vertebrate Zoology at Natural History Museum of Denmark • ERC StG: GEMINI • Co-host of SquaMates Podcast and AnatomyInsights on Youtube • He/Him
@auroraobrien.bsky.social
Blue-haired herpetologist ~ Research assistant at the University of Wolverhampton ~ Conservation genetics ~ linktr.ee/auroraobrien
@cnzdenek.bsky.social
Ecologist and Herpetologist. Associate Researcher, People For Wildlife. Co-owner, Australian Reptile Academy. Fulbright alumna. Inspiring Australia Ambassador (Qld). #PalmCockatooProject. Ex UofCaliforniaIrvine / ANU
@deswalsh.bsky.social
Senior Environment Artist “OPEN TO WORK” https://www.artstation.com/pikminman previously: Sumo-Digital Leamington, Night School, State of Play, Hutch, Frontier Developments. Posts ref - anti A i & nf-t #3dart | #gamedev | #reference |
@seananderson.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at Georgia Tech. Computational biology 🤝 field biology. Evolutionary ecology 🤝 evolutionary genetics. Thinking about how one species splits into two. https://seanasanderson.github.io/
@kmaclea.bsky.social
I study microbes (#Bacteria, #Phages) but love the whole #TreeOfLife @UofNH @UNHManchester associate professor #MicrobialGenomics #ScienceEd (he/him/his)
@yishay.bsky.social
Computational biologist. Studying genomes of phages and microbes. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nYRQiRMAAAAJ&hl=en
@symbionticism.bsky.social
Scientist, Huck Professor: Microbiome, Virome, Symbiosis, Evolution, Genetics, Phylosymbiosis, Holobiont, Wolbachia, Phage | Director of One Health Microbiome Center @psumbiome.bsky.social | SciEd: @wolbachiaproj.bsky.social | @holobiontbiology.bsky.social
@duerkoplab.bsky.social
Phages and other mobile genetic elements of bacteria | Microbiome and pathobionts | Associate Professor CU-Anschutz | Microbiology Program Director CU-Anschutz | https://www.duerkoplab.org/
@mervetepephd.bsky.social
PhD Microbiologist // Biomineralization, AMR & Biofilms // @remissionbiome.bsky.social team Defend science, resist ignorance https://twitter.com/mervetepePhD http://mastodon.online/@MerveTepe http://post.news/@/mervetepephd Ankara/New York/Tel Aviv
@evelienadri.bsky.social
Group Leader @ Quadram Institute. Phages, viromes and taxonomy with a side of gaming and yarn arts. EDI & Athena Swan lead. Ally.
@genevauxpierre.bsky.social
Toxin-Antitoxin Systems, Molecular Chaperones, group leader CNRS Toulouse
@nigel-brown.bsky.social
Em. Prof of Molec Microbiology & former Vice-Principal, Univ Edinburgh. FLSW, FRSE, etc.. Worked on metal resistance in bacteria. Allegedly retired, but still doing science-related stuff. Pro-EU Brit. #iPhobe. Editor #AccessMicrobiology
@jodywinter.bsky.social
Principal Lecturer in Microbiology at Nottingham Trent University with interests in AMR, Helicobacter, bacterial membrane vesicles, antimicrobial stewardship
@eliza-coli.bsky.social
Microbiologist now #Illustrator; Give #Science clarity, impact & pictures; Portfolio lizawolfson.co.uk ⭐commissions open from JAN 2026⭐ #SciArt #Microbiology #scicomm she/they 🏳️🌈 Bristol, England · https://campsite.bio/eliza_coli
@microshep.bsky.social
Microbiologist and general enthusiast. Hobbies include sitting down, staying warm, and hitting people with medieval weapons.
@celiasouque.bsky.social
Evolution | Genomics | AMR ECDC EUPHEM fellow at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. Previously seen: Harvard Medical School Currently obsessed with plasmids 🦠
@mellacey.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Sheffield Hallam University. Pedagogy Editor for Access Microbiology. Here for the molecular microbiology, HE pedagogy and outreach... and a side of crafting. All views, and typos, are my own. She /her.
@noemiematthey.bsky.social
Microbiologist in @justinecollier.bsky.social 's lab by day & Science Artist by night 🦄 ! Love living with, working with and drawing about microbes, especially bacteria! Open for commissions ♡ https://campsite.bio/noemiematthey
@prsecor.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Montana State University. Studying bacteria and their viruses with a focus on phage-host-microbe interactions. Lab Website: https://secorlab.org Faculty profile: https://www.montana.edu/mbi/directory/2553333/patrick-secor
@funnirudh.bsky.social
I engineer and manipulate phages, in the literal sense. #Cdiff #phage #CryoEM MRC DiMeN DTP PhD Student @University of Sheffield | Int BS-MS @NISER Bhubaneswar | Former Intern @MPI Evol Bio
@sieravirus.bsky.social
Assistant professor @ Aarhus University | ERC starting 2024 | Microbial/viral ecology | crazy cat lady | @EMG_Lyon @jemersonmicro @UCBerkeley @Firestone_lab @BanfieldLab @JedFuhrman 🇮🇱🇺🇦
@ahocher.bsky.social
Group Leader, Molecular mimicry / chromatin evolution / engineering Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge. Wellcome Trust CDA fellow https://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/research/research-groups/hocher-group
@aliciapcv.bsky.social
| CRISPR, Plasmid Biology, Bacterial EcoEvo & AMR | Sci-Illustrator | @embo.org postdoctoral fellow, San-Millán lab @cnb-csic.bsky.social 🇪🇸 Previously: PhD in Bikard Lab, @pasteur.fr 🇫🇷 | She/Her | From 🇪🇸 & 🇵🇹 | 💜
@susiegriggo.bsky.social
PhD Student in the FAME lab at Flinders University (on Kaurna land)| Using Maths and Biology to understand Microbes 🦠
@thuvpnguyen.bsky.social
Seeking a quantitative narrative of microbial interactions. Postdoc with Prof. Bonnie L. Bassler at Princeton University. Previously at Duke University, Baylor College of Medicine, and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
@tiffzarrella.bsky.social
assistant professor at georgetown | polymicrobial interactions | bacterial physiology | science educator | views my own www.zarrellalab.org
@misssalmonella.bsky.social
María de Toro. Bioinformatician. Sequencing Microbial genomes 🧬. Manager of a Genomics & Bioinformatics Core Facility #NoSciNoFuture #OneHealth🌏 #FoodSafety #Bioinformatics #MGEs #plasmids ❗️Only science, no politics
@lgbacteria.bsky.social
🇨🇴 Assistant Professor at Stanford Microbiology & Immunogy. Gut microbiome sociomicrobiology and gene flow. https://garciabayonalab.stanford.edu
@epcrocha.bsky.social
Scientist, genomics, evolution, microbiology, computational biology, Pasteur Institute, Paris
@josie-e.bsky.social
Postdoc studying evolutionary microbiology with phage and pseudomonas at MMSB Lyon, France with Anne Chevallereau in the MEEP group (She/Her)
@jakraemer.bsky.social
Cantabrigian, scientist, marathoner, nerd, politically too tuned in, homo
@robfagan.bsky.social
Lead for Molecular Microbiology @sheffielduni.bsky.social @molmicrosheffield.bsky.social #SEN parent, #AngelmanSyndrome Clostridial cell biology, AMR & bacteriophage structure and function He/Him https://sites.google.com/sheffield.ac.uk/fagan-lab/