STEM Writers and Science/Medical Historians
I'm a medical historian - and I'm looking for my people! Here's a list of medical and science historians, both popular and academic, as well as STEM writers and journalists. Also, relevant institutes, libraries, and museums. Give me a shout if you want to be added!
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@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social
@oispooky.bsky.social
🤼 1880s boxing & wrestling historian 🥊 London's Cockney, Cumbrian, Caribbean pugilists ✍🏻 Moscow, Munroe, Goodson, Wannop 👊 Advisor #AThousandBlows 👩🏻💻 PR @britsciassoc.bsky.social 🏖️ Clacton-on-Sea 🖤 www.grapplingwithhistory.com
@profdasgupta.bsky.social
Author of 📚 Where Biology Ends & Bias Begins: Lessons on Belonging from our DNA 🧬 @UCPress Genetics Ed, BUMedical, PastPres APHMG, FulbrightPrgr 🇪🇬 shoumitadasgupta.com
@christian-s-warren.bsky.social
Studying the history of health & environment. Walking the dogs. Teaching the classes. Writing the books.* Traveling the world, little by little. *Brush With Death [Lead Poisoning] *Starved for Light [Rickets and Vitamin D Deficiency]
@mperkinsmcvey.bsky.social
PhD • SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow • History and Philosophy of Science, Intoxication, Medicine, Psych and Pharma, specializing in 19th/early-20th century Germany • Book "Intoxicated Ways of Knowing" forthcoming at U. Chicago Press
@faithdaniellemd.medsky.social
Pediatrician ,Opinion Writer, Peds Endo , HealthPolicy , Health History, ΖΦΒ 🕊️ www.faithdaniellemd.com #Medsky #PedsSky #BlackMedSky #D9sky
@tesskou.bsky.social
Science Journalist 📰 & Fact Checker 🔎 @ScienceAlert 🚀 ❤🦇 #Nature, #Climate, #Health, #SciComm, #WildOz & 📷 Wildlife Photog 🐌🕷️ 🎓MSciComm, BSc. Zoology & Genetics 🐋 🌿 Views my own 🦎 Narrm ♾🧠 🌈ally My work: https://www.sciencealert.com/tessa-koumoundouros
@neurolatina.bsky.social
Cellular Neuroscientist, PhD, Neuronal RNA, Science Outreach, DEI advocate. 🇨🇦🇨🇱Immigrant, Feminist, Public Policy enthusiast. Wiki Editor. Opinionated opinions my own. Living in the unceded territories of Tiohtiá:ke (Montreal) She/Ella
@suzieedge.bsky.social
Medical doctor/author mashup. Gory tales of human bodies in history and dead king juice. Books, TikToks, photographs and films.
@bmleitner.bsky.social
Historian of brain science, psychiatry and neurology in the Habsburg and Japanese Empires. Interested in history and philosophy of science and medicine. 医学史・精神神経学史・科学哲学・学術史 https://meduniwien.academia.edu/BernhardLeitner
@sanderlab.bsky.social
Professor & Head of ID at Charité Berlin & Berlin Institute of Health German-Norwegian physician-scientist interested in Infectious diseases, respiratory medicine, vaccines & immunity, „friluftsliv“, cycling, music, democracy.
@matthewcobb.bsky.social
Professor Emeritus (Manchester), writes on history of science & French Resistance. Finishing a biography of Francis Crick, out in October 2025. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8258-4913
@scarlettlw.bsky.social
Science Communicator @UniCambridge & Presenter @NationalSpaceCentre Illustrator✏️ Writer✍️ Presenter🎤 Artist 🎨 Biologist 🧪 | Space Nerd 🛰 Wildlife Photographer 📷 www.skyplumstudios.com Co-parent to 6 cats 🐈 (long story) All views & opinions are my own 🌈
@npapadogian.bsky.social
Dad; Lecturer in European History, University of Stirling; UKRI Future Leaders Fellow studying the history of global HIV activism; writes in personal capacity
@infinitecolor.bsky.social
Nurse, author, podcast host, all things thinking and neuroscience. Currently on my 2nd book on critical thinking. Along the crest of a high and beautiful wave.
@wellcomecollection.bsky.social
A free museum and library in London and online. Explore the past, present and future of health with us. wellcomecollection.org
@drbeldavis.bsky.social
Historian @ Natural History Museum, research on repro history, nat history, collections. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/people/isabel-davis.html Book: Conceiving Histories: Trying for Pregnancy, Past & Present MIT Press. 🐁 lover (someone's got to be).
@richterscale.bsky.social
Historian: of American religion/irreligion by training; of science & conspiracy by trade dumb jokes about smart things and smart jokes about dumb things Podcast research/factcheck: SNAFU with Ed Helms; The Reason We're All Still Here; My Fugitive, more
@xinyiwenhps.bsky.social
• PhDing @CambridgeHPS @WellcomeTrust • Award-winning emerging historian • Working on #EarlyModern natural knowledge and its long reception • Writing a history of the doctrine of signatures • FLS www.hps.cam.ac.uk/directory/wen 漫画とアニメ、#青空ごはん部
@atinybitwaring.bsky.social
Director of The Old Operating Theatre Museum. Previous: Science Museum, HSMOxford, Cambridge HPS & STS UCL. Material Culture, History of Science and Medicine. Easily distracted. Tea-drinker. Muma-bear. Own views.
@hildabast.bsky.social
Scientist (PhD; she/her), writer, cartoonist. Blogging & Newsletter: Living With Evidence https://hildabastian.wordpress.com/ Mastodon enthusiast: @hildabast@mastodon.online
@sebfalk.com
Historian of science || Admissions Tutor at Girton College, University of Cambridge || Singer, sailor, runner, father || "Always generous" – The New Yorker
@profdavidturner.bsky.social
Disability historian, Director of the Research Institute in Culture and Communities, Swansea University. Vice Chair Disability Arts Cymru. Writing Disability: A History of Resistance for The Bodley Head / Vintage.
@friendsofgri.bsky.social
OSCR SC050180|Museum open Tues-Fri 11-3, Sat 12-2|📧info@friendsofgri.org http://friendsofgri.org
@oldoptheatre.bsky.social
A medical museum housing the oldest operating theatre in Europe (1822) in the heart of London Bridge. Likes and retweets are not endorsements. #OldOpTheatre www.oldoperatingtheatre.com
@monicaannwalker.bsky.social
Historian, Photographer, Museum Professional, Curator, Martial Artist, and World Explorer! Just your average Jack-of-all-Trades... Museum Operations & Marketing Manager at the Bank of England Museum; Volunteer Curator & Gallery Manager at The Camera Club.
@jamie-saris.bsky.social
I’m a medical anthropologist, based in Ireland. Professionally, I’m interested in poverty, mental illness, addiction and aging. My research is in Europe and Africa. I post a lot on politics bc health and society r intimately connected.
@adamrutherford.bsky.social
I had a marvellous time ruining everything. Scientist. President of @Humanists_UK Lecturer in Genetics @UCL Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷× @kbjmanagement adamrutherford.com
@debharkness.bsky.social
Professor. Novelist. Feels too much. Never enough children, islands, mourners, gossips & vegetables. Warms the stars. Essentially a spy. She/her. A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES 🧙♀️SHADOW OF NIGHT 🌚 THE BOOK OF LIFE 📖 TIME'S CONVERT 🕰️ #TBBO🐦⬛
@naturespoisons.bsky.social
Forensic Toxicologist, PhD Organic Chemist & Prince of Poisons. Writing NATURE'S POISONS, the science & history of nature's most vicious creations (WW Norton, 2025). Also into gardening, fountain pens, photography, and 3D printing. NaturesPoisons.com
@sadiahqureshi.bsky.social
Historian of science, race, and empire. Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction an FT recommended book to read in 2025. Published by Penguin on 5 June, World Environment Day.🦤🐅🦈 🌏🌱 https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/309254/vanished-by-qureshi-sadi
@permafrostee.bsky.social
Permafrost Research Scientist - PhD. Ottawa. Ground ice and effects of climate change. Also like bikes, EVs, and making cities better🌳 🚲. UVic and Carleton U Alum. Long Covid - rebuilding 🤖🧠🦾🦿. слава україні ! 🇺🇦
@drrubidium.bsky.social
Chemist, professor, blackademic, runner, basketball mad, and JB Fletcher fan. Of course she did it. All of it.
@weinersmith.bsky.social
A big nerd. Co-author of NYTimes Bestsellers Soonish & A City on Mars. Co-host of Daniel and Kelly's Extraordinary Universe. She/her www.weinersmith.com
@zachweinersmith.bsky.social
Author of Bea Wolf, A City on Mars, and the comic SMBC Website: www.smbc-comics.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersmith?ty=h New book: http://www.acityonmars.com/
@alexhaagaard.bsky.social
Opinions = mine Shouting into the void about chronic illness, philosophy of medicine and design. If I want advice, I'll ask for it. If I want to hear about the merits of a biopsychosocial framework, my account has been hacked.
@thomasvye.bsky.social
Medical Historian MA Medical Humanities Medical History, horror, rpgs, water birds, squirrels, sumo (相撲), Japanese culture, games. Autistic.
@leahhazard.bsky.social
NHS midwife, activist, author of Womb (NYT Editors’ Choice), Hard Pushed (UK Sunday Times bestseller) and Birth Wars (coming 2027 from Allen Lane/Penguin Press). Trustee, Amma Birth Companions. www.leahhazard.co.uk. All views my own.
@scienceshowoff.bsky.social
Chaotic nerdy comedy in venues across the UK and online. Serving science, history, medicine and books-based laughs. Always looking for new talent and audiences. DM if you'd like to perform. Listen to The World’s Only Science Podcast. it/that
@drstevex.bsky.social
Comedy and science communication. Trainer, consultant, speaker, host, podcaster, photographer. I help experts to be interesting, effective and public. Founder of Science Showoff he/him
@marlabroadfoot.bsky.social
Freelance Science Journalist, PhD Geneticist, Contributing Editor at American Scientist, Adjunct Faculty at UNC, Board Member at NASW, Past President at SCONC, 2022-23 Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellow.
@shanpalus.bsky.social
Features editor at Slate with a special interest in science and health. Writer and runner.
@oliviacampbell.bsky.social
New York Times bestselling author of WOMEN IN WHITE COATS and SISTERS IN SCIENCE. Editor, Parents & Everyday Health. Regular contributor, NatGeo. Journalist. Essayist. Feminist. Mom. Lover of cats, books, baking, tea, & thrifting
@erinwelsh.bsky.social
Science communicator, scientist, public health enthusiast, book nerd. Host and producer of @tpwky.bsky.social. Here to share new and ongoing projects, tidbits from the history of medicine, and thoughts on books. Send me your recommendations!
@tpwky.bsky.social
Disease + podcast = so much good dinner party conversation. Hosted by @erinwelsh.bsky.social and Erin Allmann Updyke. YouTube Premiere of Pregnancy Act One on March 11, 5pm PT: https://youtu.be/Dx0ewmmMjnQ
@charliebingham.bsky.social
Nature fan | History Nerd | Author Debut book out now! Like birds, Tudors & historic houses - often at the same time 🐦🏠 Bringing my #BirdsFromFarAway with me 🐦
@h2so4hurts.bsky.social
Scientific strategist | Storyteller | Genomics, Lab diagnostic and high throughput automation | Coder | Comments are my own | Omic.ly
@quackdoctor.bsky.social
Writer focusing on the history of medicine, especially patent remedies and fraudsters at thequackdoctor.com and thequackdoctor.substack.com Also co-host of literature podcast @shewrotetoo.bsky.social
@frankendodo.bsky.social
Leverhulme Research Fellow HPS Leeds | Inaugural USC Carrollian Fellow | Tutor Oxford ContEd | Formerly York SATSU & DPhil Oxford EnFac | Editor Lewis Carroll Review | Erdős–Bacon No 8 | Polymath | #scicomm #envhist #histmed
@tortietabby.bsky.social
Historian of medicine and gender in modern Ireland. Professor at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. I work on #histmed, reproductive health, and activism. Cat lover. 🐈 she/her. https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/proflaurakelly/
@lauratisdall.bsky.social
Senior lecturer in modern British history at Newcastle University. C20th/C21st British childhood, adulthood & age. Writes & reviews fiction: loves the speculative, sapphic and uncanny. Lesbian. 🌈 https://drlauratisdall.wordpress.com
@lolaruizberdun.bsky.social
Professor in #Histmed #Histsci 🧪at @uahes.bsky.social; I research in History of Midwifery and Birth; President of LVCINA, Spanish Society of History of Birth and Secretary of Spanish Society of History of Sciences. Member of @eurohealthhist.bsky.social
@dorkymum.bsky.social
Freelance writer & blogger • Science, environment, travel, books, family, islands • Green, socialist, feminist • Trans rights are human rights • Free Palestine • She/her • lutruwita/Tasmania via Scotland • #MDANT • dorkymum.com • ruthdawkins.net
@ravenscimaven.bsky.social
Raven Baxter, Ph.D. -- Molecular biologist helping people + companies globally learn + share science, for a more scientifically engaged world. iloveraven.com
@haushoferl.bsky.social
MD turned historian of medicine, science, food, environment | author of WONDER FOODS (@ucpress.bsky.social '22) http://shorturl.at/nuGP7 | @gastronomica.bsky.social | living in Amsterdam | #histstm #histmed #foodhistory #foodstudies | she/her
@laminda.bsky.social
Science writer/editor at Scholastic, previously Live Science & the American Museum of Natural History. WGAE member. She/her. And I wrote a book! Rise of the Zombie Bugs: https://press.jhu.edu/books/title/53677/rise-zombie-bugs
@coreenanne.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Twentieth-Century British History @Durham_uni #dishist #histtech #histmed #ownviews #she #her
@richardtbellis.bsky.social
Historian of anatomy, disease, and medical books. Associate Lecturer in Medical Humanities, Medical school, Uni of St Andrews. Support Chester FC and edit the fanzine The Blue & White.
@resobscura.bsky.social
Associate professor of history at UC Santa Cruz, father of a 3 year old and 1 year old. History of science, medicine, technology, drugs, and empire. Book: https://benjaminpbreen.com/books/tripping/ Writing at https://resobscura.substack.com
@drjengunter.bsky.social
Doctor, writer, Canadian Spice, lasso of truth, I speak for no one but me. 2X NYT bestsellers. More thoughts at TheVajenda.com
@hanblythe.bsky.social
Research Fellow at LSHTM, affiliated at Birkbeck. Health humanities and history of mental health, charity and the NHS. Former policy person. Trying to play squash.
@jacquelyngill.bsky.social
Climate, extinction, and biodiversity scientist at UMaine, researching Earth’s past for a better future. Writer and podcaster for the planet. Chaotic good professor. Working to be a good ancestor. She/her. #BiInSci #DisabledInSTEM
@hpsleeds.bsky.social
Established in 1957 at the University of Leeds. We are a group of researchers exploring the development and meanings of science, technology and medicine.
@michalyoudoing.bsky.social
History of Science, Astronomy, Cartography, Transport, Software, AI Translating 17th century Astronomy texts Author: -The Perfect Transport: and the science of why you can't have it -Almagestum Novum: History of Astronomy
@jowiph.bsky.social
Historian of evolutionary biology and scientific racism who has somehow turned into a historian of the physical sciences. Expect lots of cat pictures and general miscellany. Marylandic.
@klostermedizin.de
History of Medicine/Pharmacy ● Medicinal plants in Europe ● Herbal anti-infectives ● Coordinating the Forschergruppe Klostermedizin (Research Group Monastic Medicine), Würzburg (Germany) -> klostermedizin.de
@engelmal.bsky.social
Chancellor's Fellow at Uni of Edinburgh (STIS & CBSS) Author of 'Mapping AIDS' (CUP), co-author of 'Sulphuric Utopias' (MIT) PI at the Epidemy Lab (ERC): http://epidemy.org
@scifri.bsky.social
Entertaining & educational conversations about science, tech, + more. Hosted by Ira Flatow and Flora Lichtman. From WNYCStudios #SciFriBookClub 📚 ' Everything Is Tuberculosis' by John Green
@beckhistorian.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 they/them 🗃️ PhD in progress at CHSTM @ University of Manchester ♿️ History of white canes in twentieth century Britain 🧑🦯➡️ #DisHist 🌳 I have an egg called Dippy and we go on adventures together
@erinacean.bsky.social
Archivist, historian, reader, Londoner, feminist @erinacean @erinacean@h-net.social www.lesleyahall.net https://lesleyahall.blogspot.com/
@erinbiba.bsky.social
Freelance Science Journalist. Fact Checker. NatGeo, BBC, SciAm, NBC News, PopSci, WIRED, and others. Hire me to fact check your book. I post about Jewish stuff, disability, Star Trek, and The Buffalo Bills. Jersey girl.
@chendirl.bsky.social
Qualitative Health | Stillbirth & Perinatal #Death | Grief & Bereavement | Interdisciplinary | www.ciarahenderson.com/ | eurohealthhist.bsky.social #CA22159 Science Officer | #SocialScience #MedHum #Maternity #Research #HistMed #History #Cillíní #Folklore
@laurasellers.bsky.social
Historian of medicine, science, forensics & prisons. Freelance curator and heritage consultant. Former curator at Thackray Museum of Medicine. She/her
@jontopham.bsky.social
Professor of History of Science, University of Leeds. History of print, science and religion, life and earth sciences, Britain 1790-1840. Award-winning new book: "Reading the Book of Nature" bit.ly/Book-of-Nature ahc.leeds.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/143/
@17cmedicalwomen.bsky.social
PhD-ing at York on '17C Private Diseases'. Aspiring historical fiction writer about women medical practitioners and their adventures in 17C London.
@kingtekkers.bsky.social
Professor of Medical Humanities (historian of medicine and science) | ageing, germs, advertising, technology | sports, musics, runs, foods, gardens
@whitchurchhospital.bsky.social
Whitchurch Hospital is a closed Mental Health Hospital in Cardiff 🏴 1908-2016 Used as a military hospital during both World Wars. Originally known as the Cardiff City Mental Hospital. Account run by Whitchurch Hospital Historcial Society (Est. 2009)
@rachelbynoth.bsky.social
Historian of 18th/19th c. Family, lifecycle, gender, emotion esp. anxiety,distant communications and politics. Bath Spa Senior Lecturer. PhD: PM George Canning and family’s letters/anxiety https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/our-people/rachel-bynoth/
@sacrobosco.bsky.social
Historian, Professor, author of Policing Pregnant Bodies (Hopkins, 2024)
@rachelbsinger.bsky.social
Environmental historian of post-Roman Britain and Merovingian Gaul. PhD Candidate at Georgetown University researching plague, climate, rebel nuns, and disaster. Philly sports fan and weird rescue animal enthusiast by night. rachelbsinger.com
@tlmarttinen.bsky.social
Nordic Colonialism, Indigenized Lutheranism & Eugenics. Interests: Lived Stories/ Race & Genetics/ Disability & Euthanasia. PhD (C) CMH Oxford Brookes U. http://CONFRONT-EUGENICS.ORG. Research Collaboration-CEMFOR Uppsala U. SSHRC Awardee
@gabrielfinkelstein.bsky.social
Historian of science, modern Europe, and exploration. Currently working on “Scientific History,” a study of Buckle, Taine, and du Bois-Reymond. https://ucdenver.academia.edu/GabrielFinkelstein #histsci #histSTM
@drsurekhadavies.bsky.social
Historian of science, art, & ideas. Curious about how science & society shape each other? Preorder HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY now: https://www.surekhadavies.org/humans-a-monstrous-history https://buttondown.com/surekhadavies?tag=bluesky
@healthhistory.bsky.social
Historian of health and medicine at the University of Strathclyde. I research mental health, food/nutrition, and immunology/allergy. Cycling, hiking, kayaking, nature, basic income, music, Gaidhlig, Scotland, Canada.
@ktafoss.bsky.social
Professor & Director, School of Journalism & Strategic Media, MTSU. Likes dogs, medical history facts, climbing, TV, and the Oxford comma. My latest books: https://www.umasspress.com/9781625348289/capturing-covid/ https://www.umasspress.com/978162534
@shelbyzimme.bsky.social
Social historian of medicine, institutions, poverty, and death | PhD from Trinity College Dublin | Based in London
@science-grrl.bsky.social
A UK grassroots network celebrating women and non-binary people in science: local connections with a national voice. Because science is for everyone. www.sciencegrrl.co.uk
@ederummadum.bsky.social
Prof @ History UC Berkeley | Director CSTMS | Author of _How the Clinic Made Gender_ http://tinyurl.com/y49m84ja | Mostly tired | tweets my own | she/her/hers | My kid drew my profile picture
@cinziag.bsky.social
Medical Anthropology& Humanities, Research Fellow, Univ of Manchester, CHSTM | Medical uncertainty| Autism| Gender (https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/cinzia.greco) Editor Anthropologie&Santé (https://journals.openedition.org/anthropologiesante/)
@ferrydanini.bsky.social
Assistant professor in Belgium. Philosophy and history of medicine. Many other things. Autrice "Pilules Roses", julietteferrydanini.com
@bethlinker.bsky.social
Historian of Science + Medicine + Public Health + Disability @UPenn. New book re origins of posture health panic: SLOUCH https://tinyurl.com/46hfkpsn bethlinker.com Other books: WAR'S WASTE & CIVIL DISABILITIES
@ramckay.bsky.social
🇨🇦🇬🇧 Historian of Medicine and Public Health & Executive Coach (ICF PCC) | Author: Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic (@UChicagoPress.bsky.social, 2017) | Treasurer, SSHMedicine.bsky.social | Whippet afficionado
@mariasmilios.bsky.social
Award winning author The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis Adjunct Columbia University SPH Keynote speaker @penguinrandomhouse #endtb #gunsafety #factsmatter #womenmatter (https://www.mariasmilios.com)
@fayway.bsky.social
Ill-tempered Auntie now haunting Rhode Island. Wrote books etc. on history of science/medicine, mostly medieval. Always in trouble for something. Old. Hangs with prof who writes lots on global capitalism and science. Multinational. Uncollegial.
@vickiye.bsky.social
Senior Research Data Steward at UCL's Advanced Research Computing department @ucl-arc.bsky.social, sometime clinical trial conduct methodologist, palaeopathologist, archaeologist, & food historian | #DataSharing #OpenScience | Views my own
@drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social
Above all, pluviophile 🌧️ Interdisciplinary PhD, Receipt manuscripts x LIS studies x early modern science at UCL📙Freelance book detective 🕵️♀️Health and Heritage ♥️ 👩🏫Cataloguing enthusiast 📚Medical humanities nerd 💊Away with the faeries🧚♀️
@medmilmedicine.bsky.social
Medieval Military Medicine-from the Vikings to the High Middle Ages Available at Pen & Sword Books and Amazon www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Medieval-Military-Medicine-Hardback/p/20583