A list of astronomers with over 100 followers. This list includes astrophysicists, cosmologists, planetary scientists, space scientists, and related professionals. Also see Physicists on Mastodon.
| # | Account | Followers |
| 1. |  Katie Mack@[email protected] Google Scholar page Video channel Joined 2017-Apr-02 Last posted 2024-Mar-29 | 37,622 |
| 2. |  Chanda Prescod-Weinstein@[email protected] Assistant Professor. I do theoretical physics and astrophysics and Black feminist science, technology and society studies. I won a 2021 LA Times Book Prize for my book #DisorderedCosmos. I am all #BLACKandSTEM and all Jewish. queer/agender/woman/she. posts by/for me🖖🏽 Website: http://cprescodweinstein.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/IBJIYONGI Substack: http://chanda.substack.com Verified by: http://fedified.com Joined 2022-Nov-06 Last posted 2023-Feb-27 | 10,715 |
| 3. |  Erin M. May, PhD@[email protected] Professional Astrophysicist. Crafting Enthusiast. You can find me studying atmospheres of planets around far away stars with space telescopes (she/her) Header picture is from a simulation of the atmosphere of an Earth-like exoplanet. Other things I like and will occasionally toot about: Star Trek, Knitting, Books, Cats Previous Instance: @_astronoMay (all follows welcome, no need to ask!) Website: https://erinmmay.github.io/ Story Graph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/_astronomay Personal Account: @[email protected] Etsy Mastodon Account: @[email protected] Joined 2022-Nov-06 Last posted 2023-May-01 | 10,679 |
| 4. |  Prof. Sam Lawler@[email protected] Professor of astronomy, farmer of goats. Asteroid (42910). She/her. Has mostly lived in warmer places, now learning to live respectfully on Treaty 4 lands (Saskatchewan, Canada) website: https://uregina.ca/~slb861/about.html Google Scholar page Joined 2022-Apr-25 Last posted 2024-Apr-25 | 7,509 |
| 5. |  Emily Lakdawalla@[email protected] Planetary scientist, space boffin, captain planets. Author, journalist, speaker, asteroid 274860. 🏳️🌈 she/her. Order my Curiosity book: http://amzn.to/2mlisaL Buy my art: https://elakdawalla.etsy.com Website: https://lakdawalla.com Newsletter: https://elakdawalla.beehiiv.com/ Blog and Patreon: https://patreon.com/elakdawalla Etsy Store: https://elakdawalla.etsy.com Video channel Joined 2017-Nov-14 Last posted 2023-Jul-20 | 6,653 |
| 6. |  Dr. Victoria Grinberg@[email protected] Me: - she/her - professional PhD astrophysicist #XraysAreTheBestRays - #ClimateCrisis & Astronomers for Planet Earth @a4e - science communication #VicisAstro - artwork #VicisArt - book recs #VicisBooks - living between Zuid-Holland (55%), Süddeutschland (30%) & on the road (15%) Housekeeping: - private account, not speaking for my employer - most posts expire after 12 months - direct messages from non-mutuals are blocked & ignored - full text search enabled Professional website: https://www.sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de/~grinberg/ Astronomy & Climate Crisis at the LISA Symposium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8jnr_Hlu_w&t=2394s Astronomers for Planet Earth: https://astronomersforplanet.earth/ Google Scholar page Joined 2022-Oct-30 Last posted 2024-Apr-25 | 5,671 |
| 7. |  Kelly Lepo@[email protected] Astronomer | Science communicator | Adult Lisa Simpson Education and Outreach Scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute supporting JWST Personal account — Views are my own Website: https://kellylepo.com Posts about: #Astronomy #Space #JWST #Accessibility Google Scholar page Joined 2022-Nov-03 Last posted 2024-Apr-25 | 4,549 |
| 8. |  Dr. Anna Hughes@[email protected] Making eggs and taking names | astrophysics PhD working in quantum computing | Vancouver, BC instagram.com/astroannah Joined 2022-Oct-31 Last posted 2024-Apr-23 | 3,884 |
| 9. |  Elizabeth Tasker@[email protected] UK astrophysicist working at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Author of 'The Planet Factory'. Very into planets, cats and virtual reality (sometimes together). @girlandkat on twitter. Personal web: https://girlandkat.com/ Professional web: https://www.elizabethtasker.com/ The Planet Factory: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/planet-factory-9781472917744/ Planetary Diversity: https://store.ioppublishing.org/page/detail/Planetary-Diversity//?k=9780750321389 Joined 2022-Nov-06 Last posted 2024-Apr-25 | 2,713 |
| 10. |  Dr. Abbie 🌞@[email protected] "Formidable person of science." Art + STEM + culture programs at the #MSU #Museum 💡 #astrodon, #WomenInSTEM, nerd doctor of black holes and neutron stars 💥 science literacy 👩🏻💻 data science & #FOSS 🐍 mental health 🧠 #BiInSci 🏳️🌈 knitter 🧶 Posts ≠ employers. Please have something in your profile/post history indicating who you are before following! BLM. No TERFs. No SWERFs. Cloudless ➡️ abbiestev.bsky.social 🟦 Mom stuff ➡️ @abbie 🤰 Pronouns: she/her Location: Michigan Website: https://abigailstevens.com/ Currently reading: The "Thursday Next" series by Jasper Fforde Joined 2022-Nov-05 Last posted 2023-Sep-07 | 2,607 |
| 11. |  Sarah Hörst@[email protected] Associate Prof of Planetary Science at Johns Hopkins and Titan evangelist. “I tried to pick my battles until the battles picked me.”- Taylor Swift she/her http://sarahhorst.com Twitter: twitter.com/planetdr Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/PlanetDr Google Scholar page Joined 2022-Apr-25 Last posted 2022-Apr-25 | 2,532 |
| 12. |  Carolyn Porco@[email protected] Voyager & Cassini! AAS Carl Sagan Medal 2010. Asteroid Porco 7231. Visiting Scholar UC Berkeley. Thinker. Living my best life. On Substack Now! "Coming of Age in the Solar System" Extolling the long march of science that has brought us to an awareness of the cosmos, the solar system, our precious blue ocean planet & humanity's place in the grand scheme of cosmic evolution https://carolynporco.substack.com/ #space #science #explore #astronomy #astrodon Joined 2022-Nov-07 Last posted 2024-Apr-20 | 2,333 |
| 13. |  Heloise F. S. 💻:BlobhajReach:@[email protected] Dr. Heloise F. Stevance. Computational Astrophysicist Powered by Python and chocolate snacks :fatpikachu: :thonking: Website: https://www.hfstevance.com Google Scholar page Joined 2023-Feb-14 Last posted 2023-Mar-30 | 1,901 |
| 14. |  Michele Bannister@[email protected] Planetary astronomer UCNZ, poet, hunter of new & strange worlds. Connoisseur of fuzzy dots of light. Asteroid (10463). Pākehā; she orcid: Joined 2022-Oct-27 Last posted 2024-Apr-22 | 1,427 |
| 15. |  Natalie Batalha@[email protected] Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics and Director of Astrobiology, UC Santa Cruz Joined 2022-Oct-30 Last posted 2023-May-09 | 1,370 |
| 16. |  Nicole Gugliucci@[email protected] Physics professor, astronomer, education wonk, and science communicator who loves dogs, books, weights, and good trouble. She/they I'm probably on Bluesky right now, tbh Website: https://noisyastronomer.com Verified by: https://fedified.com/ Elsewhere on the interwebs: https://bio.link/noisyastronomer Google Scholar page Video channel Joined 2017-Nov-16 Last posted 2024-Feb-18 | 1,175 |
| 17. |  Prof. Karen Masters@[email protected] #Astrophysics prof at #Haverford college. Investigating #galaxies with #GalaxyZoo, MaNGA, SDSS, GBT. #Extragalactic radio #astronomer. Co-author: "30s Universe"; "30s Space Travel". British. She/her My website: https://klmasters.sites.haverford.edu/ Amazon Author page: https://www.amazon.com/Karen-Masters/e/B09KSVYWF9?ref_=pe_1724030_132998060 ORCID: https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0003-0846-9578 Github: https://github.com/karenlmasters Google Scholar page Joined 2022-Nov-03 Last posted 2023-Sep-07 | 1,097 |
| 18. |  Emily Hunt@[email protected] Astronomy postdoc. Works with machine learning & star clusters. Queer 🏳️🌈, trans (she/her), vegan. #Python #Astronomy #Astrodon #MachineLearning #LGBT #Tech Location: Germany Website: https://emilydoesastro.com GitHub: https://github.com/emilyhunt Joined 2022-Nov-24 Last posted 2024-Mar-11 | 1,048 |
| 19. |  Sarah Kendrew@[email protected] Astronomer & Instrument Scientist, European Space Agency. Working on JWST operations at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, MD. 🇧🇪🇬🇧 Google Scholar page Joined 2022-Apr-25 Last posted 2023-Jul-29 | 1,031 |
| 20. |  Sarah Barah Bo Barah (Tuttle)@[email protected] She's here, she's there, she's EVERY-fucking-where.... (Really, an astrophysicist in Seattle.) Tired, bi, Jewish, surrounded by love and chaos. Joined 2017-Nov-21 Last posted 2022-Dec-14 | 1,001 |
| 21. |  Rachel Kirby@[email protected] 💫 Studying a PhD in space science while learning to live gently on our own special planet 🧶 sew / knit / make 🪐 she/her fibreandspace.com Joined 2022-Nov-07 Last posted 2022-Nov-10 | 950 |
| 22. |  Bibiana Prinoth@[email protected] Studying the atmospheres of hot exoplanets as a PhD student at Lund University, Sweden. Passionate about #scicomm, #outreach and #teaching. From Switzerland to the stars 🪐🔥 #Astronomy #Astrophysics #PhDlife #Exoplanets #PhD #astrodon #PlanetStalker #astronomer #astrophysicist #Physicist Website: https://bprinoth.github.io Instagram: https://instagram.com/astro.bibi_ Pronouns: she/her Google Scholar page Joined 2022-Nov-01 Last posted 2024-Mar-21 | 905 |
| 23. |  Meg Schwamb@[email protected] Planetary scientist & astronomer at Queen’s University Belfast: KBOs, Planet Four(Mars), exoplanets (Planet Hunters NGTS) ,LSST SSSC co-chair. Opinions posted are my own website: https://megschwamb.com/ pronouns: she/her Joined 2022-Apr-25 Last posted 2024-Apr-22 | 880 |
| 24. |  Jane Rigby@[email protected] Astronomer studying galaxies, Ops Project Scientist for JWST, AAS Trustee, queer parent BLM UU human. Views mine, all mine! Joined 2022-Nov-02 Last posted 2023-Jan-18 | 794 |
| 25. |  Sibylle Anderl@[email protected] Astrophysik, Philosophie, Schreiben. Joined 2022-Oct-31 Last posted 2024-Apr-10 | 782 |
| 26. |  Stephanie Deppe, PhD (she/her)@[email protected] Content Strategist at Vera Rubin Observatory. Making science fun! #scicomm • planetary astronomer • Michigander in CA • she/hers Website: https://www.spacescisteph.com Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/SpaceSciSteph Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spacescisteph Joined 2022-Nov-11 | 770 |
| 27. |  Dr. Julia V. Seidel@[email protected] -Fellow at ESO in Chile based at #Paranal observatory -Won't shut up about the climate. Ours and extra-terrestrial. -Bi, loves trains, hates starlink. -🇩🇪 -> 🇫🇷 -> 🇬🇧 -> 🇨🇴 -> 🇨🇭-> 🇨🇱 hashtags: #astronomy #exoplanets #astrophysics #climate pronouns: she/her, sie/ihr politics: überzeugte Grüne Joined 2022-Nov-02 Last posted 2024-Mar-25 | 691 |
| 28. |  Renee Hlozek@[email protected] About: South African cisgender, bisexual woman Assoc. Astrophysics Prof., Rhodes scholar (and lover of loud karaoke), Senior TED Fellow. Feminist scientist. She/her Joined 2022-Nov-02 Last posted 2023-Jan-19 | 594 |
| 29. |  Julianne Dalcanton@[email protected] Astrophysicist at the Center for Computational Astrophysics and the University of Washington. @dalcantonJD on Twitter. Joined 2022-Oct-27 Last posted 2023-Jan-28 | 589 |
| 30. |  Vivian U@[email protected] Astronomer at UC Irvine. Galaxies-black holes enthusiast. Academic mama. She/her/royal we. Come for the science; stay for the nerdiness. #Astrodon #Astronomy #Observer #Galaxies #BlackHoles #Telescopes #Keck #JWST #AcademicMom #Caltech #UHIfA #CfA #UCR #UCPPFP #UCI Website: https://vivian-u.github.io ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1912-0024 Twitter: https://twitter.com/JustTheLetterU ADS: https://tinyurl.com/uiadsquery-vu Joined 2022-Nov-07 Last posted 2023-Dec-11 | 563 |
| 31. |  Dr Ashley Nova@[email protected] Cosmic Babe. Astronomer. ML researcher. SFF Author. She/They. Trans, polyam, queer, ADHD. Google Scholar page Patreon page Joined 2022-Nov-18 Last posted 2023-Jul-05 | 536 |
| 32. |  Michelle Collins@[email protected] Astronomer at the University of Surrey. Runner. Fan of dresses with pockets. Studies the smallest galaxies to learn about dark matter and galaxy evolution Joined 2022-Oct-28 Last posted 2022-Nov-22 | 532 |
| 33. |  Kristin Block@[email protected] spacecraft pro, musician, disabled, union member. opinions are my own and queer. this is my birdonym. Twitter: https://twitter.com/marsmaven Post: marsmaven Joined 2018-Aug-08 Last posted 2022-Dec-18 | 523 |
| 34. |  Dr. Megan Tannock@[email protected] Astronomy PhD. Dog Lover. Academic turned video game developer working on #SpaceEngine. (she/her) Twitter: https://twitter.com/AstronomerMegan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/astronomermegan/ Website: https://megantannock.wixsite.com/home BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/astronomermegan.bsky.social Joined 2022-Oct-30 Last posted 2024-Mar-18 | 478 |
| 35. |  Laura Kreidberg@[email protected] Exoplanets 🌐, atmospheres 🌩️, aliens 👽 | Director of the APEx Department at MPIA Personal website: https://lkreidberg.github.io/ APEx website: https://www.mpia.de/institute/scientific-departments/atmospheric-physics-of-exoplanets Pronouns: she/her Joined 2022-Nov-18 Last posted 2022-Nov-22 | 440 |
| 36. |  Beatriz Mingo@[email protected] The Hitchhiker's Guide to Radio Galaxies 🌌. #Astrophysics postdoc livin' la vida #LOFAR 📡 at the Open University. #EUinUK 🇪🇺🇬🇧, #cat minion 🐈, #metalhead 🤘, #sustainability fan 💚. Dr/she/her 🏳️🌈. Website: https://www.open.ac.uk/research/people/bm6929 ORCID: https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0001-5649-938X LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bmingo/ Joined 2022-Nov-05 Last posted 2023-Nov-04 | 419 |
| 37. |  Karina Voggel@[email protected] Astronomer at the Strasbourg Observatory, working on super-massive black holes in the relics of galaxy nuclei. Can be found running otherwise. Joined 2022-Nov-18 Last posted 2023-Feb-16 | 349 |
| 38. |  Misty Bentz 💫@[email protected] She/Her. Professor and astrophysicist. Black holes, cats, and cross-stitch. Website: www.astro.gsu.edu/~bentz Google Scholar page Joined 2022-Nov-05 Last posted 2023-Jan-01 | 336 |
| 39. |  Starzanplanets #WearAMask@[email protected] Physicist • Astro/Planetary/Geospace/Atmo • AAS Journals Science Editor • CyberInfrastructure • Facilities #PlanetaryScienceJournal #TeamCentaurs • canoethusiast • Photos of rivers, birds, gators & my cat • personal posts Google Scholar page Joined 2022-Oct-27 Last posted 2024-Apr-22 | 320 |
| 40. |  Brooke Simmons@[email protected] Joined 2022-Oct-25 Last posted 2022-Dec-12 | 302 |
| 41. |  PlasmaNerd@[email protected] Space Physics and Space Weather nerd. Working on Artemis, and discovering the secrets of the Aurora and the Magnetosphere. Views are my own. She/Her For my non Science interests, I like photography and gardening. Tags: #SpacePhysics #SpaceWeather #Artemis #Aurora #Magnetosphere #Ionosphere #Heliosphere #DataScience #Photography #Gardening #OpenScience Twitter handel: PlasmaNerd Instagram: Lex_photo sometimes updated website: https://alexahalford.weebly.com/ orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5383-4602 Google Scholar page Joined 2022-Nov-06 Last posted 2023-Jul-18 | 298 |
| 42. |  Dr Joanna Barstow@[email protected] STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellow at the Open University. Astromum x2. STEM Ambassador, sci outreacher, FRAS. Christian, singer, bookworm. She/her. Joined 2022-Nov-04 Last posted 2023-Jan-30 | 288 |
| 43. |  Dr Laura Watkins@[email protected] Brit, astronomer, dancer. Likes space and cats. Pronouns: she/her/hers Website: http://www.stsci.edu/~lwatkins Google Scholar page Joined 2022-Nov-15 Last posted 2023-Feb-11 | 276 |
| 44. |  Alyssa Goodman@[email protected] Message: Help! Google Scholar page Joined 2022-Nov-10 Last posted 2022-Nov-19 | 267 |
| 45. |  Astronomer Royal for Scotland@[email protected] Catherine Heymans, Professor of Astrophysics, Edinburgh University. Director of the German Centre for Cosmological Lensing, RUB. #LongCovid Joined 2022-Nov-05 | 254 |
| 46. |  Caroline Bertemes@[email protected] Postdoctoral Astrophysicist at Heidelberg Uni. Galaxy Evolution & AGN | Molecular gas | Spatially resolving galaxies. 🇱🇺 | She/her | #BiInSci 🏳️🌈 Twitter: https://twitter.com/carobertemes Webpage: https://cbertemes.github.io/ Joined 2022-Nov-05 Last posted 2023-Aug-25 | 242 |
| 47. |  Esra Bulbul@[email protected] Astrophysicist working for @erosita_SRG. Group Leader at Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics. @ERC_Research Grantee. Previously MIT, Center for Astrophysics|Harvard&Smithsonian, and NASA. 67% Turkish 32% American Google Scholar page Joined 2022-Dec-04 Last posted 2023-Aug-10 | 212 |
| 48. |  Sarah Milkovich@[email protected] Planetary geologist, science systems engineer, artist, knitter, and crafter with chronic illness. Opinions my own. She/her 🖤🤍💜 Joined 2023-Feb-01 Last posted 2023-May-19 | 211 |
| 49. |  Hannah Wakeford@[email protected] She/Her | Exoplanet scientist | Lecturer @BristolUniPhys | @exo_cast podcaster | Co-author of Bang!! | opinions = my own Exoplanet astronomer: Exocast podcaster: Bang!! Author: November MoSista: Google Scholar page Joined 2022-Apr-25 Last posted 2023-Oct-16 | 209 |
| 50. |  Dr. L. C. Mayorga@[email protected] #Exoplanets, Seattleite living in Maryland. Half an existential crisis from being productive. She/Her/Royal We. Website: https://lcmayorga.wordpress.com/ My Cat's Instagram (mostly): http://instagram.com/mayorgalc Google Scholar page Joined 2022-Nov-28 Last posted 2023-May-23 | 201 |
| 51. |  Dr. Johanna Hartke@[email protected] Astronomer. FINCA fellow in Turku. Working on galaxy halos, intra-cluster light and planetary nebulae as kinematic tracers. Pronouns: she/her/sie/ihr My website: jhartke.github.io/ Google Scholar page Joined 2022-Nov-08 Last posted 2023-Dec-07 | 177 |
| 52. |  Emma Alexander@[email protected] Astrophysicist and animal enthusiast (she/her) Google Scholar page Joined 2022-Nov-06 Last posted 2023-Nov-03 | 175 |
| 53. |  Sarah Jane Schmidt :v_bi:@[email protected] Ex-astronomer turned data scientist, living in Berlin. Feminist, hobby hopper, baker, cyclist, and video/board gamer. Bi, polyam, autistic. She/her. I have another account where I talk more about my experiences with autism: neurodifferent.me/@hastyunicorn website: https://sarahjaneschmidt.com/ other account: https://neurodifferent.me/@hastyunicorn Joined 2022-Nov-18 Last posted 2024-Apr-24 | 164 |
| 54. |  Sheila@[email protected] Joined 2022-Nov-09 | 154 |
| 55. |  Marie-Luise Steinmeyer@[email protected] #firstgen PhD fellow at the Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen | studying the formation of rocky planets | she/her 🇩🇪🏳️🌈 Pronouns: she/her Homepage: https://steinmeyer-ml.github.io/ Joined 2022-Nov-07 Last posted 2023-Jan-24 | 150 |
| 56. |  Taïssa Danilovich@[email protected] I study molecules around evolved stars. Some of the stardust we’re made of. Astronomy/astrophysics researcher, currently in Australia. Formerly Sweden and Belgium. BlueSky: @stellaralchemist.bsky.social Joined 2022-Nov-16 Last posted 2024-Jan-15 | 142 |
| 57. |  Kat Volk@[email protected] Kat_volk from Twitter, katmvolk on Instagram, Katvolk.com Google Scholar page Joined 2022-Oct-26 Last posted 2023-Jan-01 | 112 |