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@byronjsmith.bsky.social
@edyong209.bsky.social
Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him 📷 Canon R6mkii + RF 800mm Edyong.me
@dieworkwear.bsky.social
Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter. If you have a style question, search: https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
@carlbergstrom.com
UW biology prof. 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 I don't like fascists. he/him
@gretchenmcc.bsky.social
Internet linguist. Wrote Because Internet, NYT bestseller about internet language. Co-hosts @lingthusiasm.bsky.social, a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics. she/her 🌈 Montreal en/fr 🇨🇦 gretchenmcculloch.com
@techconnectify.bsky.social
I'm that YouTuber who taught you how dishwashers work. Guess I'm tryin' out the whole Bluesky thing now. he/him https://www.youtube.com/technologyconnections
@seanmcarroll.bsky.social
#Physics, #philosophy, #complexity. Johns Hopkins & @sfiscience.bsky.social. Host, #MindscapePodcast. Married to @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social. Latest: Quanta & Fields, book 2 of The Biggest Ideas in the Universe. https://preposterousuniverse.com/ He/him.
@quantamagazine.bsky.social
Illuminating math and science. Supported by the Simons Foundation. 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting. www.quantamagazine.org
@xkcd.com
@lizneeley.bsky.social
Founder of Liminal (LiminalCreations.com) & co-founder Solving For Science (SolvingFor.org). Focused on turning knowledge into action. #science #communication #sensemaking #scicomm #stories She/her. Married to @edyong
@baym.lol
Associate Prof @HarvardMed. Microbial evolution, antibiotic resistance, mobile genetic elements, algorithms, phages, molecular biotech, etc. Find me on Google Images under "floating dumpster fire" baymlab.hms.harvard.edu
@jchrispires.bsky.social
Professor passionate about student success & team science #firstgen #Brassica enthusiast walking Dogs of the Plant World #Agriculture #Food #HigherEd #EduSky #Agsky #SciComm & more #Soil #Crop #Science ; opinions mine
@richardsever.bsky.social
Co-Founder, bioRxiv and medRxiv. Assistant Director, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.
@albertvilella.bsky.social
Bioinformatics Scientist / Next Generation Sequencing, Single Cell and Spatial Biology, Next Generation Proteomics, Liquid Biopsy, SynBio, Compute Acceleration in biotech // http://albertvilella.substack.com
@vscooper.micropopbio.org
Evangelist for the study of evolution in action by everyone. Pitt Prof | EvolvingSTEM | biofilms | EvMed | genomics entrepreneur (@SeqCoast.bsky.social, @midauthorbio.bsky.social) | ASM volunteer | lifelong exercise addict ~ swim bike run
@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 someone (sorry, I forgot who!) on other site.
@sfiscience.bsky.social
The premier research center for #ComplexSystems #science. santafe.edu linktr.ee/sfiscience
@stevenstrogatz.com
Mathematician, writer, Cornell professor. All cards on the table, face up, all the time. www.stevenstrogatz.com
@rnavarre.bsky.social
Displaced South Louisianan. Associate prof of PoliSci @Bridgewater StateU (MA), studies Populism, immigration policy and other depressing things. Newest book The Age of Discontent is out now. I miss properly seasoned seafood She/ her
@contaminatedsci.bsky.social
Associate Professor, MIT Still thinking about the 10^9 mutations generated in your microbiome today.
@jcamthrash.bsky.social
Professor, USC Marine and Environmental Biology, microbe hunter. he/him. Not a bot. thethrashlab.com
@nbedera.bsky.social
Sociologist studying how our social structures make sexual violence more likely to occur. Author of ON THE WRONG SIDE. Co-founder of Beyond Compliance Consulting. PhD UMich.
@saunderslab.bsky.social
Distinguished Fellow, UTSW / 🧬 Bacterial genetics enthusiast 🧫 / Caltech PhD (biofilms & redox) / Open & reproducible science (he/him) / saunderslab.org
@lizscurious.bsky.social
Cares about tiny things in a larger context Asst prof @uniGroningen Microbiology, ecology, evolution #AMR, #UTI microbecoevo.com
@gibbological.bsky.social
microbiome researcher | associate professor @isbscience.org | affiliate prof @uwbioe.bsky.social | ecology, evolution, and systems biology of 💩 🦠 | precision/personalized nutrition/medicine ⚕️ | 🏳️🌈 he/him | lab website: gibbons.isbscience.org
@drlynnchiu.bsky.social
Recovering philosopher staying with the trouble. PhD #philbio. I work(ed) on niche construction, holobiont, gut mind, immunity, extended evolutionary synthesis. Now curating & communicating research at the Comms Hub @univie.ac.at #scicomm #highered 🇹🇼
@justinmeyer.bsky.social
UCSD Prof, phage experimental evolution, first gen uni, LGTBQIA+, yinzer, wastes time on politics
@kenwhite.bsky.social
Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report. Signal: KenWhite.1969
@animalculum.bsky.social
Postdoc in evolution of microbes. I study protists losing mitochondria, algae stealing plastids, and bacteria living on nothing but sulfur. IUEM, Plouzané, BZH, FR. https://lukasnovak.eu/ https://scholar.social/@animalculum he/him
@allen.bsky.social
Science but prefer skateboarding—Genentech R&D, Facebook AI Research, Broad Institute, …
@scottcanderson.bsky.social
Scientist and science writer. Author of The Psychobiotic Revolution with the brilliant scientists John Cryan and Ted Dinan. I write for Psychology Today and New Scientist. Find me at scottcanderson.substack.com
@isepprotists.bsky.social
The International Society for Evolutionary Protistology Serves People with Interests in the Taxonomy, Phylogeny, Cell Biology, and Evolution of Protists. https://www.isep-protists.com/ Account managed by @animalculum.bsky.social
@postquantum.bsky.social
Quantum mechanic with a lot of ontological baggage. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/oppenheim/
@saramitri.bsky.social
Microbial ecology and evolution | Professor at University of Lausanne | Theory | Experiments | Egyptian
@lkalan.bsky.social
Associate Professor at McMaster university interested in microbes and how they interact with each other and with us. #MicroSky #IDSky #Microbiomesky #secmet 🇨🇦🧫🧬⚗️
@grimalkina.bsky.social
Psychologist for Software Teams (& writing a book about it). Founder: Developer Success Lab, Catharsis Consulting. VP of Research. Defender of the mismeasured. https://www.drcathicks.com/ Host at: https://www.changetechnically.fyi/
@cecilianoecker.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Minnesota State Mankato (she/her). Interested in microbial ecology and evolution, metabolism, genomics, computational biology, equitable education, & more. Views my own. noeckerlab.github.io
@gilbertjacka.bsky.social
Microbial ecologist: EIC for mSystems Journal, cofounder of http://biomesense.com; President for AMI (http://appliedmicrobiology.org); Father, Scientist, Pilot.
@yafizicist.bsky.social
Electromagnetic simulations, mostly magnets, sometimes superconducting. C++, Python, Fortran. Gadgets. Coffee. Not recovering runner. Fantasy and science fiction.
@seanjungbluth.bsky.social
Adjunct Prof @ SFSU | Research Prof @ EOS Center | Research Affiliate @ LBNL. Metagenomics | Oceanography | Plankton | Microbial Ecology | ML/AI | Big Data | Open Science. jungbluthlab.org
@mikeblazanin.bsky.social
Postdoc with @kayla-king.bsky.social and @sarperotto.bsky.social at UBC. Host-pathogen evolution. C. elegans, phages, and bacterial communities. Modeling and experimental evolution. Microbial and computational methods. https://mikeblazanin.com/
@rwolff.bsky.social
Ecology and evolution of the human gut microbiome in Nandita Garud's lab at UCLA
@legidoquigley.bsky.social
Scientist doing clinical research, studies 1000s molecules “omics” in brain 🧠 & Liver disease, Dementia & Diabetes Technology massspec🩸🧪 lipidomics & metabolomics, proteins & 🧬 🧩 big data
@nigelgoldenfeld.bsky.social
Chancellor's Distinguished Professor of Physics, UCSD. Interested in everything. Theoretical physicist researching condensed & living matter, fluid mechanics, statistical mechanics. Bad at staying in my lane. https://guava.physics.ucsd.edu/~nigel/
@ollikarkkainen.bsky.social
Senior researcher in drug toxicology at University of Eastern Finland and co-founder and CEO of Afekta Technologies Ltd. Metabolomics, biomarkers, alcohol, drugs, nutrition, disease progression, treatment responses. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0825-4956
@jomcinerney.bsky.social
Writing a book about horizontal gene transfer and non treelike evolution. Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Biology. Pangenomes. Chair in Evolutionary Biology. 🇮🇪 http://github.com/mol-evol/panGPT
@byronjsmith.bsky.social
Microbial Ecologist / Bioinformatician, Postdoc in the Pollard Lab, Gladstone Institutes. PhD from University of Michigan