Roy Francis's Starter Pack
Created by
@royfrancis.bsky.social
@phillewis.bsky.social
detroit native. deputy editor at huffpost. WABJ president. check out my free newsletter! --> https://www.whatimreading.net/
@scalzi.com
I enjoy pie. Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
@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
@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
@jburnmurdoch.ft.com
Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com 📝 ft.com/jbm
@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
@erictopol.bsky.social
physician-scientist, author, editor https://www.scripps.edu/faculty/topol/ Ground Truths https://erictopol.substack.com SUPER AGERS https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Super-Agers/Eric-Topol/9781668067666
@davidho.bsky.social
Climate scientist; ocean carbon cycle and climate solutions. Founder, Bamboo Bike Project; Co-founder and Chief Science Officer, @cworthy.bsky.social; Professor, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. https://linktr.ee/david_ho
@carlzimmer.com
NYT columnist. Signal: carlzimmer.31 web:carlzimmer.com AIR-BORNE: THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE LIFE WE BREATHE https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724793/air-borne-by-carl-zimmer/ [This account includes a tweet archive]
@vickiboykis.com
ML Engineering. LLMs 😬. Information retrieval. Infra. Systems. Normcore code. Nutella. Vectors. Words. Vibes. Bad puns (soon). https://vickiboykis.com/what_are_embeddings/
@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
@olihawkins.com
Editorial data scientist working on computational investigations for the visual and data journalism team at the Financial Times.
@helenbranswell.bsky.social
I cover infectious diseases for STAT (www.statnews.com). 2020 Polk winner. Nieman '11. She/her. I write about H5N1 (in all species), Covid, polio, flu, Ebola, RSV, mpox, STIs. Find me on Signal: HBranswell.01
@elisabethbik.bsky.social
Science integrity consultant and crowdfunded volunteer, PhD. Ex-Stanford University. Maddox Prize/Einstein F Award winner NL/USA/SFO. #ImageForensics @MicrobiomDigest on X. Blog: ScienceIntegrityDigest.com Support me: https://www.patreon.com/elisabethbik
@enirenberg.bsky.social
Views my own, but you can borrow them if you feel so inclined. Anti-disease. Big Nerd Energy. “A homework person.” Fun at parties. Antibody hoarder. “Problematically literate.” he/him
@kakape.bsky.social
science journalist. author. molecular biologist. curious. interested in #microbes, #misinformation and all things #blue contributing correspondent at @science.org co-host of @pandemia.bsky.social 2024 KSJ fellow at MIT Signal: kakape.93
@stevesilberman.bsky.social
Award-winning science writer, author of the New York Times bestseller "NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity," and an upcoming book on cystic fibrosis, "The Taste of Salt."
@o.simardcasanova.net
· French Organizational Economist @cerefige.bsky.social, en français and in English · Incentives in the Workplace, Open Social Media, Europe, Defence, Networks, Meta & Open Science, #Rstats · he/him 🏳️🌈 · https://o.simardcasanova.net
@gidmk.bsky.social
Epidemiologist. Research Fellow. Doctor of Spreadsheets. Writer (Slate, TIME, Guardian, etc). PhD, MPH. Host of senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him. Find my writing on Substack and Medium.
@yabellini.bsky.social
I share my experience teaching computational skills and building welcoming communities of practice for programming scientists | rOpenSci Community Manager | R-Ladies Project Lead | 30 Years in Education | 24 Years as Researcher | Spanglish | #RStats
@marynmck.bsky.social
Journalist. Contributing Ed at Scientific American. Senior Fellow at Emory Univ's Center for the Study of Human Health. Books: BIG CHICKEN, SUPERBUG, BEATING BACK THE DEVIL. All my stories at https://authory.com/marynmckenna. DMs don't work, don't know why
@epiellie.bsky.social
Epidemiologist and science communicator | newsletter: epiellie.substack.com | cohost @casualinfer podcast | Causal inference for public health #epitwitter | Canadian in US 🇨🇦 | she/her/Dr
@chrisalbon.com
Director of Machine Learning at the Wikimedia Foundation. We host Wikipedia.
@dgrand.bsky.social
Prof at MIT working on misinformation/fake news, social media, polarization, intuition vs deliberation, cooperation, politics, and religion. (he/him) https://davidrand-cooperation.com/
@xkcd.com
@angierasmussen.bsky.social
Virologist. PI at VIDO, University of Saskatchewan. Co-EiC of Vaccine. 🇺🇸 in 🇨🇦. Emerging viruses, pathogenesis, zoonosis, host responses, dogs, football, off-color language. Opinions my own.
@adamjkucharski.bsky.social
Epidemiologist/mathematician. Professor at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Author of The Rules of Contagion and The Perfect Bet. Views own. New book Proof: The Uncertain Science of Certainty available now: proof.kucharski.io
@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
@phylogenomics.bsky.social
Prof at #UCDavis Interests: evolution, ecology, function & phylogenomics of host-microbe/microbiome symbioses; #openscience; #birds; baseball; T1D Lab phylogenomics.me Pics jonathaneisen.smugmug.com Links linktr.ee/jonathaneisen TED go.ted.com/6WPm
@hannes.muehleisen.org
I like databases and boats. Co-creator of @duckdb.org, Co-Founder and CEO DuckDB Labs. Professor of Data Engineering at Radboud Universiteit.
@jbloomlab.bsky.social
Lab studying molecular evolution of proteins and viruses. Affiliated with Fred Hutch & HHMI. https://jbloomlab.org/
@artologica.net
Michele Banks Artist inspired by science Friend to squirrels https://www.etsy.com/shop/artologica/
@mjskay.com
Assoc Prof Computer Science and Communication Studies at Northwestern. Infovis, HCI. Author of tidybayes & ggdist R pkgs. he/him. 🏳️🌈 https://mjskay.com/ Co-director https://mucollective.northwestern.edu Co-founder https://journalovi.org
@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
@ologies.bsky.social
A comedyish science podcast hosted by @alieward. Asking smart ologists not-smart questions about their professional obsessions. Every Tuesday. May be NSFW. https://linktr.ee/alieward
@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
Prof of Primary Care Health Sciences, Oxford. Researching digital health/ inequities, covid prevention (masks/ air quality). Wild swimmer. Mum to Rob (marine bio) & Al (doc). She/her. https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=QDCqsJwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
@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
@gavinyamey.bsky.social
Professor of Global Health & Public Policy at Duke University. Director of the Center for Policy Impact in Global Health. DJ at WXDU (Thursdays, 4-6pm ET, wxdu.org). TIME columnist. He/him. Tallest Jew on Earth.
@andrew.heiss.phd
Assistant professor at Georgia State University, formerly at BYU. 6 kids. Study NGOs, human rights, #PublicPolicy, #Nonprofits, #Dataviz, #CausalInference. #rstats forever. andrewheiss.com Signal: andrewheiss.01
@timoreilly.bsky.social
Founder & CEO, O'Reilly Media. Doing my best to help good futures happen.
@aetiology.bsky.social
Collector of social media sites. Definitely not a memelord. Sometimes scienceing (infectious disease epi and shit. Occasionally literally). Writes about vaccine hesitancy, science misinfo, zombies. Probably somewhere on a trail. Views own etc.
@royfrancis.bsky.social
Data science • Bioinformatics • R • Omics #rstats #GeneSky #SingleCell #Quarto #GraphicDesign #WebDesign #3dprinting 💻🧬🤓📈📷🏞️🎨