Mike the Mad Biologist's Starter Pack
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@mikethemadbiol.bsky.social
@jeremymberg.bsky.social
Husband, Father and grandfather, Datahound, Dog lover, Fan of Celtic music, Former NIGMS director, Former EiC of Science magazine, Pittsburgh, PA
@kateclancy.bsky.social
Feminist science professor at the University of Illinois. Obsessed with the uterus, even when it's being shitty. Author of PERIOD: The Real Story of Menstruation, now out on paperback. Up next: PREGNANCY, INTERRUPTED. White, settler, queer. ๐
@nonfinality.com
Appellate public defender. Poll worker. Peace Corps Tunisia. Low-level zoning chair. Wolverine in Buckeye land. Cyclist. Personal views only. On the payroll of the rain garden interests. he/him LOTR/poll worker feeds https://www.eac.gov/help-america-vote
@genjcchristian.bsky.social
Commander of the Red Guard of the Christian Conservative Cultural Revolution and 2nd Eagle of the Apocalypse. I outrank that sniveling bastard, Michael Flynn. I wear camo and am therefore invisible. - Alabama side of Washington Cascades
@flscitriguy.bsky.social
โHeโs just this guy, ya knowโ Former Neuroscientist who traveled along I-75. focused on biomed fellowships & trainee development. Husband, dad x 4,๐โโ๏ธ ๐ด ๐โโ๏ธ๐๏ธโโ๏ธ๐บ๐ฅ Opinions my own, Reposts not endorsments
@markhoofnagle.medsky.social
Trauma Surgeon. Basic Scientist. UVA/UMD/UPenn. Now WashU/STL. Blocking is curating.
@clutchscience.bsky.social
She/her Permadoc @ UOregon zebrafish community Retina researcher married to an OD Parent to two awesome grown people Daughter to a mild-mannered mom in memory care
@dralgaegirl.bsky.social
Professor of Biology/Ecology and #TriBeta advisor doing #SLACScience. I focus on understanding how human activities affect freshwater algal biochemistry. Gardener, hiker, baker, dog/cat mom. RP โ endorsement.
@katharinehayhoe.com
climate scientist posts 100% my own ๐จ๐ฆ is my home distinguished professor & chair, Texas Tech chief scientist, The Nature Conservancy board member, Smithsonian NMNH alum, UToronto and UIUC author, Saving Us
@wardqnormal.bsky.social
(he/him) Teacher, knitter, widower, provincial park, single-elimination tournament, type of volcanic crater, song by Hank Williams, electronic device designed to trick or deceive radar, species of moth of the family Tortricidae, ...
@jimhenleymusic.bsky.social
Normcore troubadour. He/him. Vocals/keyboards for Silver Alert. Solo singer/songwriter on the Internets.
@dcjohnson.bsky.social
#Climate #MMT #GND Opinions expressed here are solely correct. US expat in the UK. Former Sr Fellow, Campaign for America's Future. Previous to that Silicon Valley Tech & Exec. seeingtheforest.com wecanhavenicethings.com (MMT) governmentcheese.co.uk
@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
@napaaqtuk.bsky.social
Inupiaq, scientist of in host-microbe interactions, mom, runner, news junkie, not necessarily in that order. I speak for myself. She/her @napaaqtuk most socials. Unapologetically typo prone
@restingdinoface.bsky.social
Bronto-queen, big cat, best-selling and award-winning author of The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, When the Earth Was Green (available now!), and Tyrant Lizard Queen (coming soon). ๐ she/they/it. Skreeonk. http://rileyblack.net
@beebrookshire.bsky.social
Sci journo, author of Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains. Highly caffeinated. All bad takes mine. She/her
@hilzoy.bsky.social
Ethics R Us. Baltimore. Refugee from Twitter, blogging, and who knows what else.
@omegamom.bsky.social
New Mexico, science, climate change, politics, science fiction and fantasy, adoption, Troubles With Young Adult Children, Long Covid. Warning: My timeline is quite full, so I donโt follow back!
@larrythesequel.bsky.social
40-something Native Detroiter. Currently in suburban Flint. Have lived the city, rural, and suburban life. MSU Spartan alum. Father. Baseball fan. Generally left-wing, pro-labor politics.
@drskyskull.bsky.social
Professor of optics, blogger of physics, history, & pulp fiction. Generally tries to keep things light-hearted, in spite of *waves hands at everything* (he/him) blog: https://skullsinthestars.com/
@tomlevenson.bsky.social
Writer. (So Very Small, out April 29, 2025, on germ theory, past present and future.) Quondam documentarian (credits at PBS, BBC, etc.) Professing science writing at MIT. Lucky spouse and father, servant to two tuxedo cats. He/him
@flyingsquidgoggles.bsky.social
Lover of science, the oceans, and all the strange wonderful creatures inhabiting this world; ๐ธ posted without other attribution are mine, despises fascists
@mauraquint.bsky.social
she/her Join the tax fight: Families Over Billionaires, Fair Share America https://www.fairshareusa.org/join-our-email-list Comedy writer, Onion contributor, mcsweeneys column, etc Currently in bed. Email nice things only: quintmaura@ gmail
@salvagni.org
Co-founder LabEight Ventures. Founding Partner @AugustaFund. Hokie. Guardian of Nala & Moose. Immersed in water. Moving through with @courts112. (he/him)
@xkcd.com
@drewharwell.com
Tech reporter @washingtonpost.com Newsletter: drewharwell.com/stories Signal: drewharwell.01
@mcbazacophd.bsky.social
Infectious disease epidemiologist in the public sector, EIDs, Outbreaks, Zoonoses, Virginia Tech and Pitt grad, UMD Public Health adjunct faculty, Smash All Fascism, he/him, and most importantly Dad, DC adjacent
@nanopharmnc.bsky.social
Neurosci w/ tiny farm. PI of McE lab! AWARD WINNING PEARS! #FriendsWithLyricalGenius #TheEldestMillennial, often found running in the woods, She/Her, views expressed are not as a rep of UNC-CH. www.mcelligottlab.org https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4717-5698
@amandaweavernovels.com
Contemporary and historical romance/ political ranting and pop culture/ costumes and cute animals. Brooklyn, NY. she/her https://www.amandaweavernovels.com/
@gsjphd.bsky.social
Paleontologist. Educator. Big galoot. Bespoke homemade opinions. (he/him) Arthropod enthusiast, echino-curious. Eamus Catuli, illegitimi non carborundum.
@erinyoung.bsky.social
Public Health #Bioinformatician. Wants to sequence ALL THE THINGS. Personal account with alternative spellings and grammar structures. She/her
@brooklynmarie.bsky.social
Tlรถnista. Shitposting merrily downward. Weird plant, cat, books lady. Sci-fi, fantasy, art, jazz, etc. Profile photo is a selfie with the bottom half of my face hilariously covered by my cat's. Banner pic is of crows in a tree.
@bretbatson.bsky.social
My week beats your year. ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ญ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด ๐๐ต๐ข๐บ-๐๐ต-๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ฅ ๐ท๐/๐ท๐๐ โค๏ธโก๏ธ๐ฒ ๐๐๐/๐๐๐
@jnovkov.bsky.social
Academic (poli sci, law, and US political development), administrator, gymnastics fan, resident of upstate New York. Go Great Danes! Views expressed here are solely my personal opinions. Born at 321 PPM CO2. #polisky #skystorians
@ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social
I think it's bad to touch hot stoves. We should not do that. Exceeded my rate limits on Twitter so now I'm here. Sh*tposts and takes on politics, movies, culture, whatever.
@refrag.bsky.social
He/him Chicagoan, stroke survivor, dev, moving further to the Left as I get older & more pissed off. I probably repost too damn much. And make too many typos. Also @refrag@mastodon.cloud, but barely use it anymore
@jakeyeston.bsky.social
Editor at Science Magazine, shepherding chemistry papers; views here are my own; he/him
@avielroshwald.bsky.social
History Professor. Comparative study of nationalism. Latest bookโOccupied: European and Asian Responses to Axis Conquest, 1937-1945 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2023) https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Occupied-by-Aviel-Roshwald/9781108790826
@robertcruickshank.com
Digital Strategy for California YIMBY, Chair of Sierra Club Seattle. Personal account -- what you see here represents my own opinions, for better or worse.
@marcveld.bsky.social
Professor of Immunology ๐ณ๐ฑ ๐ฌ๐ง Lisbon, ๐ต๐น #Immunology Time for Science, not silence https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=7vG1jLIAAAAJ&hl=en https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1478-9562 threads.net/@marc_veld mastodon.online/@marc_veld
@pazsays.bsky.social
Talk like Sam Spade, live like Miss Marple. Real life: Buenos Aires. Fiction: debut novel THE SHAMSHINE BLIND (scifi noir alternate history!) from Atria Books
@drustevenson.bsky.social
Professor of Law, South Texas College of Law - Houston. Academic research now focuses on firearms regulation. I won't follow accounts or reply to their posts if I can't tell who they are IRL. #Housky #lawsky #gvp #gvr
@christinasho.bsky.social
law professor, former House and Senate staffer, ex Clinton White House, etc. Health policy and ballet are both embodiment practices. Book: https://tinyurl.com/Normalizing-Right-to-Health
@katiesaurusseven.bsky.social
I like to read, but: never read the writers who signed the Harper's letter! Nothing gold can stay, Ponyboy. BTS ARMY ๐โท
@tft.io
A large person, in Canada. Father to two, smaller persons. Wife guy. Dual citizen, a modicum of discipline. Proud liberal. Hobbesian. Unix apostate, Classic Mac OS revanchist, tilter at path-dependent windmills. Emacsist.
@peterclines.bsky.social
NYT bestselling maker-upper of things. Still making things up. Still getting paid for it. No, it doesn't make sense to me, either. Former film guy. Toy enthusiast. he/him
@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.
@metaomicsnerd.bsky.social
Postdoc @ Hess Lab @ UC Davis (PhD @ UCSB). Cow gut microbe engineering at the bench, science policy and politics away from it. Opinions my own. Blueskyโs first Anaerobic Fungi Guru. She/her. โธ๏ธ (Jลdo Shinshลซ) Hold the line.
@lilithsaintcrow.com
I write books. A crow for a fetch, I'm your huckleberry. She/her. (Hint: Like "synchro.") https://www.lilithsaintcrow.com
@djangowexler.bsky.social
Author of fantasy novels. Refugee from https://twitter.com/DjangoWexler My stuff at https://djangowexler.com/
@mackayim.bsky.social
past virologist. past lab manager. PCR guy. husband. dad. reader. writer. fixer. bad typist. learner. in no order. opinions mine alone. australian. elbows up! https://virologydownunder.com/
@wrigleyfield.bsky.social
Sociologist/demographer specializing in mortality, racial inequity, Covid-19. Avid theater-goer, inconsistent powerlifter, and erstwhile operator of an all-volunteer bookstore. Toddler parent. Living not-quite-car-free in Minneapolis. she/her
@isabelott.bsky.social
Evolutionary & population biology of vector-borne viral disease systems. NSF GRF ๐ฆ genetics PhD student in NC. Arbovirologist (orthobunyavirus wonk). Public health advocate. 80s mosquito. Opinions exclusively my own. (she/her)
@omrimarian.bsky.social
Family guy. Acting dad. Novice dog person. Tax law professor. Backpacker. Beer snob. Weekend guitarist. Israeli expat in SoCal.
@darrigomelanie.bsky.social
Executive Director of Campaign for New York Health, VP Legislation National Organization for Women NYS, LGBTQ+ nonprofit co-founder, and former congressional candidate in NY03
@sheril.bsky.social
CFR fellow in the U.S. Senate. Scientist. Author. Host of PBS Serving Up Science. www.sherilkirshenbaum.com
@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
@golikehellmachine.com
antifa warlord arbitration consultant. drummer in tragic lovers. writes WORK IS FOUR LETTERS. loud. also writing DOGE IS FOUR LETTERS now, i guess. direct complaints to https://golikehellmachine.com/
@ryanlcooper.com
Managing editor at The American Prospect, cohost and producer of the @leftanchor.bsky.social podcast https://www.patreon.com/leftanchor Newsletter: https://www.ryanlcooper.com/
@eschatonblog.com
I used to be famous on the internet. Have a blog. https://eschatonblog.com Currently near Toon
@yastreblyansky.bsky.social
There is no peace without justice. Old Democratic blogger at yastreblyansky.blogspot.com and yastreblyansky.substack.com. He/him. Is this where the party is?
@cherylrofer.bsky.social
Retired nuclear scientist. Worked in Estonia, Kazakhstan, and Los Alamos. Posting on nuclear issues, war, nature, science, and women's issues. Also cats. She/her. Blogs at Nuclear Diner and Lawyers, Guns & Money Banner: The invincible summer within
@kagrox.bsky.social
Heard of the Nuclear Option? How it works? Youโre welcome. https://preview.tinyurl.com/y3drq9j3 Kagro in the Morning #KITM Livestream, M-F, 9-11 AM ET: http://netroots-main-1.stream.creek.fm:8000/stream http://kagrox.libsyn.com http://patreon.com/kagrox
@jackiantonovich.bsky.social
Historian of medicine, gender, & politics in the American West. Creator & Executive Editor Emerita, @nursingclio. She/Her/Hers
@avishaybsg.bsky.social
Normative Theory of Civ-Mil especially under democratic backsliding | Liberalism Rekindled Postdoctoral Fellow @Hebrew U | Ruderman Scholar in Residence and Senior Researcher at the INSS | Napper extraordinaire | Kartofellophile
@meredithshiner.com
current twitter ex-pat. past congressional reporter. contributing editor @newrepublic.com. running a communications consulting business and raising a toddler irl. letโs work together! โฌ๏ธ meredithshiner.com
@eliasisquith.blog
i am part of the team behind the ezra klein show / these are my personal opinions / reposts โ endorsements / i block doomers / trust the process / go ๐ฆ / delete posts ~ 1x per week www.eliasisquith.blog
@luxalptraum.com
Journalist, author, podcaster, bon vivant. Literally OCD (F42.2!). She/her ืืคืขืืื ืื ื ืืืชืืช ืืขืืจืืช ืื ืื ื ืืืืืช ืขืืจืืช ืืจืืฆื ืืืฉืชืคืจ. ืชืืงืื ืื ืืืืืจื ืขืืจืืช ืชืืื ืืืขืจืืื. ืืื linktr.ee/lux
@punkrockscience.bsky.social
PhD brain and genomic scientist. Ocean junkie. Computer wrangler. Open data believer. Geek. Punk. Not that kind of doctor. Views only my own. She/her
@alexwild.bsky.social
Curator of Entomology at the University of Texas at Austin, personal account. Biology. Insects. Photography. https://www.alexanderwild.com
@roby-b.bsky.social
ID doc (MGH), PI (Broad Institute), antibiotic resistance resister, sepsis immune profiler, COVID doc, husband, dad. Coffee, tennis, kindness, science, & sleep enthusiast. Here to learn, as that other place devolves. Views mine. | bhattacharyyalab.org
@jwmason.bsky.social
Associate professor of economics, John Jay College-CUNY. Blog and other writing: jwmason.org. Study economics with me: https://johnjayeconomics.org. Anti-war Keynesian, liberal socialist, belligerent biker, Brooklyn dad. From the river to the sea.
@melodyschreiber.com
Health/science + Arctic journalist. Thick skin and an elastic heart. Email melodyschreiber@proton.me Signal melodyschreiber.06 Newsletter notadoctor.news
@saavikford.bsky.social
CUNY Astro prof, AMNH research assoc, runner, astronomer, crafter, camper, gardener, mom, all opinions completely my own (she/her)
@egall.bsky.social
1 of 400 NH State Reps (in my case: Merrimack County District 20; i.e. Concord Ward 6). Read my pinned post. he/him. #NHPolitics See also @cooljeaniusarchive.bsky.social for previous posts and @cooljeaniusbot.bsky.social for my bot. linktr.ee/ericgallager
@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.
@marypcbuk.bsky.social
Omnivorous technology journalist. girl with the USB earring; author of the Cassidy At Large technomysteries. Buy me a โ @ http://lnkiy.in/IV9SD. she/her. Warning: contains opinions. #nohello
@bakerdphd.bsky.social
Went to some colleges, now studying them for a living Talk equally about ed policy and reality tv She/Her https://www.dominiquebaker.com/ (I generally don't follow students as they deserve space to blow off steam about people like me)
@amymaxmen.bsky.social
Award-winning science reporter at KFF Health News. Bylines at Nature, New York Times, National Geographic & more. Covering inequality & public health. RTโ endorsement. www.amymaxmen.com & https://kffhealthnews.org/news/author/amy-maxmen
@amandasmith.bsky.social
Writer, science nerd, boy crazy, Dodger fan. she/her. I made a book & won best dramatic screenplay at #AFF2021. Opinions my own & often wrong.
@jopabinia.bsky.social
Why things evolve into crabs. Evolutionary biologist (species alive today AND fossils, and how to study them together). Canadian at Harvard (she/her) My science: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CKqoVjEAAAAJ&hl=en
@johnpfaff.bsky.social
Professor at Fordham Law. Prisons and criminal justice quant. I'm not contrarian, the data are. Author of Locked In. New stuff at johnfpfaff.com.
@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
Molecular biologist from Texas, here to share my meanderings on nature, science, history, politics, and zombies. Long threads a specialty.
@sarahposner.bsky.social
Investigative journalist, columnist, expert on the Christian right. Working on something new. Author, Unholy. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/605774/unholy-by-sarah-posner/ More: https://www.sarahposner.com