A list of physicists with over 100 followers. Also see Astronomers on Bluesky.
# | Account | Followers |
1. | Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. @TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. She/her. Dr. Google Scholar page Video channel | 88,357 |
2. | Physgal👩🏻🔬 @physgal.bsky.social University physics lecturer and associate dean, learning. Physics demystifier. Supporter of girls and women in physics. 3MNTF 2023 She/her Ph.D. Google Scholar page | 15,304 |
3. | Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social Physics, philosophy, complexity. Johns Hopkins & Santa Fe Institute. Host, #MindscapePodcast. Married to @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social. In May: Quanta & Fields, book 2 of The Biggest Ideas in the Universe. https://preposterousuniverse.c om/ Google Scholar page Video channel Patreon page | 5,442 |
4. | Prof. Anders Levermann, PhD @alevermann.bsky.social °climate physics professor seeking simple laws in nature & economics °head of complexity science at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research https://www.pik-potsdam.de/~anders °author http://www.faltungderwelt.net °posting mainly own work Google Scholar page | 3,768 |
5. | Dr. SkySkull @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* Google Scholar page | 3,374 |
6. | Robert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social Professor and physicist. Black holes, quantum gravity, cosmology. Rocky Top. Tar Heel. Reposts are spooky action at a distance. These are my views, not my employer's. Just terrible at this. Google Scholar page | 2,407 |
7. | Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social Climate scientist. Working for the world's coolest government agency, which obviously endorses nothing I say here. Loves: induction cooking, Earth, 19th century British literature, climate solutions, bread. Hates: other planets, portobello mushrooms Google Scholar page | 1,846 |
8. | Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.bsky.social Mathematician, writer, Cornell professor. All cards on the table, face up, all the time. www.stevenstrogatz.com Google Scholar page | 1,283 |
9. | Karen Masters @karenlmasters.bsky.social Professor of Astronomy and Physics, Haverford College. Small liberals arts colleges are awesome place to be a professor. Pre-orders open for latest book “The Astronomers Library” about books, libraries and astronomy - three of my favourite things. Brit/US Google Scholar page | 1,167 |
10. | Christina Hood @christinahood.bsky.social Energy/climate/carbon markets @Compass Climate, Aotearoa-NZ. Mum, Ph.D ex quantum physicist. Climate stuff mostly on Linkedin. She/her. Google Scholar page | 917 |
11. | Loreno Heer @lorenoheer.bsky.social PhD | Postdoc @ETHZ | Mathematician | Physicist | analysis in metric spaces, Gromov hyperbolicity, geometric group theory | gravitational waves, general relativity | geometry in neuroscience | 💉⁶ | he/him https://loreno-heer.github.io/ Google Scholar page | 851 |
12. | Kelly Truelove @truesciphi.org Prompter of curious AI conversations on the nature of things at http://TrueSciPhi.AI. Curator of science, philosophy, & mathematics podcast and Bluesky lists at https://TrueSciPhi.org. Physics PhD. Google Scholar page Video channel | 842 |
13. | George Musser @gmusser.bsky.social Scientific American contributing editor; Quanta contributing writer; author of Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation, Spooky Action at a Distance, and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to String Theory; @[email protected], @[email protected] Google Scholar page | 787 |
14. | Leo C. Stein @duetosymmetry.com Physics Prof @U of MS. Sloan Fellow. Black holes, gravitational waves, general relativity & beyond. Formerly Caltech MIT Cornell. Need thin pizza + fruity coffee. He/him 🌐 https://duetosymmetry.com/ @duetosymmetr y everywhere Google Scholar page | 719 |
15. | Robert Rohde @rarohde.bsky.social Yet Another Social Media Account Google Scholar page | 691 |
16. | Peter Coles 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social Theoretical astrophysicist specializing in the Universe and all that surrounds it. Based in Maynooth, Ireland, but currently on sabbatical in Barcelona. Blog: telescoper.blog Google Scholar page Video channel | 614 |
17. | Gaël Varoquaux @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social Research & code: Research director @inria ►Data, Health, & Computer science ►Python coder, (co)founder of scikit-learn & joblib ► Sometimes does art photography ►Physics PhD Google Scholar page | 596 |
18. | CosmicPinot @cosmicpinot.bsky.social Brian P. Schmidt: Astronomer at Mt Stromlo Observatory, Vigneron and Winemaker Maipenrai, Vice Chancellor Australian National University, Nobel Laureate Physics Google Scholar page | 594 |
19. | Michael Nielsen @michaelnielsen.bsky.social Searching for the numinous Australian Canadian, now at home in the US https://michaelnotebook.com Google Scholar page Video channel | 447 |
20. | Michael Merrifield @astromikemerri.bsky.social Emeritus professor of astronomy at the University of Nottingham. Too frequent appearances on YouTube. All my own views. Google Scholar page | 446 |
21. | Christopher Berry @cplberry.bsky.social Gravitational-wave astrophysicist. University of Glasgow Senior Lecturer. Science, education, LEGO & cake. May contain traces of nuts 🐘 https://mastodon.online/@cplberry 🐦 https://twitter.com/cplberry 📚 https://cplberry.com Google Scholar page | 443 |
22. | Chad Orzel @orzelc.bsky.social Physicist, professor, author of books about science for non-scientists. Longer-form stuff at https://chadorzel.substack.com/ Google Scholar page | 425 |
23. | John Preskill @preskill.bsky.social Caltech theoretical physicist Google Scholar page | 421 |
24. | Jean-Michel Courty @jmcourty.bsky.social Professeur #Physique à Sorbonne Université Laboratoire Kastler Brossel #vulgarisation Chronique "Idees de Physique" dans PourlaScience 📺 http://youtube.com/@Mercilaphysique Google Scholar page | 419 |
25. | Francis Villatoro @emulenews.bsky.social Informático, físico, doctor en matemáticas y divulgador científico; profesor de la Universidad de Málaga. Podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido. Blog La Ciencia de la Mula Francis en Naukas. Practico el arte de hacer fácil lo difícil. Aprendo cada día. Google Scholar page | 397 |
26. | Svenja Lohmann @svenjalohmann.bsky.social Science communicator | PhD in Physics | Book lover | Coffee addict | Lindy hopper | Plant friend | she/her 📍Uppsala, Sweden Google Scholar page | 397 |
27. | Surya Ganguli @suryaganguli.bsky.social Associate Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford | Venture Partner A16Z Google Scholar page | 387 |
28. | Mete Atature @meteatature.bsky.social Professor of Physics at University of Cambridge Bilingual tweets (English & Turkish), Mostly about science, politics & cats (http://Instagram.com/meteatature) Google Scholar page | 355 |
29. | Paul Coxon @paulcoxon.bsky.social Physicist in Materials Science researching solar cells, molten salts, and sustainable energy ☀️ With added bikes and allotment content 🪴🥦🍆🧅 Google Scholar page | 352 |
30. | Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social Theoretical physicist, Rutgers professor. Google Scholar page | 345 |
31. | Knut Morå @knut.dundasmora.no Physicist looking for dark matter, nothing found so far. Han/him/Dr. Legger ut poster på [email protected] (RSS: https://snabelen.no/@kdund.rss) hjemmeside: https://knut.dundasmora.no Signal: kdund06.68 Google Scholar page | 340 |
32. | The finite physicist @finitephysicist.bsky.social don't sleep through dreams that can't come true Google Scholar page | 324 |
33. | Jacopo Bertolotti @jbertolotti.bsky.social Associated Professor of Physics at the University of Exeter. Would like to post scientific visualizations/animations, but bsky doesn't support animations, so... 🤷🏻♂️ He/lui/on. All opinions are my own fault. Google Scholar page | 317 |
34. | Patrick Koppenburg 🐧 @pkoppenburg.bsky.social Nikhef physicist at LHCb Experiment at CERN. Offline software. #OpenAccess #Outreach #FlavourAnomalies🐧📷🎓💻💫. H/EW/t factory WG convener at #ECFA. Born at 327.55 ppm CO₂. Google Scholar page | 306 |
35. | Andreas Wallraff @andreasateth.bsky.social Research and education in physics with a focus on quantum computing, communication and sensing with team Qudev at ETH Zurich.. Director of the Quantum Center at ETHZ . Google Scholar page | 295 |
36. | estebanmoro @estebanmoro.bsky.social Researcher, scientist at MIT and UC3M estebanmoro.org Google Scholar page | 271 |
37. | Katie McCormick @mccornut.bsky.social Physicist-turned-science writer. Writing about quantum computing for Google Quantum AI and about other stuff at Quanta, Knowable, News from Science, APS Physics Mag, etc. Google Scholar page | 266 |
38. | Petter Holme @pholme.bsky.social Scandinasian professor of network science + computational social science Google Scholar page | 265 |
39. | Lewis MacKenzie @lemackz.bsky.social #NewPI: developing upconversion nanoparticle biosensors | podcasts & scicomm | bass player |Glasgow 🏴 | he/him | expect typos | |www.mackenzie-lab.org | Google Scholar page | 264 |
40. | Mikhail Kats @mickeykats.bsky.social Optics/photonics researcher, applied physicist, and faculty at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Personal account + opinions @mickeykats on Twitter and Threads, but no longer on them much Google Scholar page | 260 |
41. | Misty Bentz @astronomisty.bsky.social Astronomer and Professor at Georgia State University. Big fan of black holes, cats, and cross-stitch. Google Scholar page | 257 |
42. | Daniel Whiteson @danielwhiteson.bsky.social Particle physics and ML (http://sites.uci.edu/daniel). Co-creator @DanielAndJorge podcast and @ElinorWonders TV. Patreon: https://patreon.com/DanielWhiteson. Google Scholar page | 228 |
43. | Casey Handmer PhD @cjhandmer.bsky.social Physicist, Immigrant, Pilot, Dad. Former Caltech, Hyperloop, NASA JPL. Founder Terraform Industries. Build more solar! Google Scholar page | 224 |
44. | Lisa L. Ouellette @patentscholar.bsky.social Stanford Law prof & physics PhD. Researching IP & innovation. Coauthor of free patent casebook: patentcasebook.org Google Scholar page | 223 |
45. | Jonathan Oppenheim @postquantum.bsky.social Quantum mechanic with a lot of ontological baggage. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/oppenheim / Google Scholar page | 215 |
46. | @physicsteo.bsky.social The twitter-er formerly known as @physicsteo. Recovered #CompChem-ist. Doing publishing stuffs @AIPP. Brooklynite from 🇮🇹 via 🇪🇸, 🇸🇪 & 🇩🇪. http://matteo.cavalleri.eu Google Scholar page | 208 |
47. | Steven Dorsher @stevendorsher.bsky.social Former Computational Astro/Physicist (15+ yr, 3 MS) Gravitational waves, black holes, particles, exoplanets. Data analysis, numerical simulation. Personal account. Disabled: seizures Devoted partner. He/him Google Scholar page | 207 |
48. | Robert Fisher @fisherastro.bsky.social Caltech-UC Berkeley-LLNL-Chicago-UMass Dartmouth. Sabbatical 23-24 @Institute for Advanced Studies and Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies. American & Italian Theoretical and Computational Astrophysicist. Professor. He/him/his. Google Scholar page | 206 |
49. | Ben Fulcher @bendfulcher.bsky.social I lead the Dynamics and Neural Systems Group at the School of Physics, the University of Sydney We use physics/stats to understand dynamics of complex neural systems. Twitter: @bendfulcher Mastodon: @[email protected] Google Scholar page | 204 |
50. | Amir Caspi, Ph.D. @astronamir.bsky.social Astrophysicist (solar/stellar) @SwRI in Boulder, CO. Instrumentalist, data jockey, programmer. Gamer. Nerd. Vell, I'm just zis guy, you know? | PI @CubIXSS @citizenCATE2024 Google Scholar page | 202 |
51. | Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social Author, journalist, astrophysicist. He/him. @FreelanceAstro on the bird site. Google Scholar page | 199 |
52. | Jens Eisert @jenseisert.bsky.social Scientist, professor of quantum physics at Freie Universität Berlin and affiliated with Helmholtz Center Berlin and the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute. ERC Fellow. Google Scholar page Video channel | 194 |
53. | Ben Monreal @benmonreal.bsky.social Nuclear, particle, and astrophysics experimentalist at Case Western. Posting about physics, climate, urbanism, Cleveland. See also: mastodon.social/@BenMonreal https://bmon real.github.io/personal.html https://www .project8.org/ Google Scholar page | 188 |
54. | Kyle Cranmer @kylecranmer.bsky.social Director Data Science Institute @UWMadison, Professor of Physics, EiC @MLSTjournal. Physics, stats/ML/AI, open science. Google Scholar page | 185 |
55. | ieva @hyperboieva.bsky.social Quantum information, useless information, generally informed. CS and Physics combined in one desperate PhD. Quantum algorithms researcher at phasecraft.io https://ievacepaite.com/ Google Scholar page | 180 |
56. | Aephraim Steinberg @quantumaephraim.bsky.social Quantum physicist and generally curious human. (Physics prof, Univ Toronto; Director, CIFAR programme on Quantum Information Science; New Yorker / Parisian –in-absentia) Google Scholar page | 173 |
57. | Will Kinney @wkcosmo.bsky.social Cosmologist, physicist, dirtbag mountain biker, expat Montanan, Copernican extremist. Part of the problem. Google Scholar page | 146 |
58. | Matt Reece @mreece.bsky.social physicist, obsessed with axions. Boston resident. never had a twitter or a mastodon, but here I am, inexplicably. Google Scholar page | 145 |
59. | Ben Brubaker @benbenbrubaker.bsky.social Staff writer @quantamagazine.bsky.social covering computer science. Formerly freelance physics writer (Quanta, SciAm, Physics Today, elsewhere), ex-physicist. Google Scholar page | 144 |
60. | Eve Vavagiakis, PhD @evevavagiakis.bsky.social NSF Postdoc Fellow at Cornell, exploring the cosmos w/ACT, CCAT and SO & the great outdoors w/🥾🚴🏻♀️. Author at MIT Kids Press, incoming faculty at Duke '24. Google Scholar page | 132 |
61. | Stephen Bartlett @bartlettquantum.bsky.social Professor at the University of Sydney. Quantum computing enthusiast Google Scholar page | 128 |
62. | John Dudley @johnmdudley.bsky.social Physicist, loves science communication. Research in nonlinearity, optics, extremes and anything else I find interesting. Posts on academic life, science & history. Sometimes politics. @johmndudley on Twitter Google Scholar page | 125 |
63. | Cathleen Fry @cefry42.bsky.social she/they, fiber artist, nuclear physicist posts are personal views only Google Scholar page | 123 |
64. | Philippe Faist @phfaist.bsky.social Quantum information researcher at the Freie Universität Berlin (previously: PhD at ETH Zurich & post-doc at IQIM Caltech) https://phfaist.com/ Google Scholar page | 123 |
65. | Christian Grefe @cgrefe.bsky.social Particle physicist at University of Bonn, working on the ATLAS experiment at CERN. Convener of the ATLAS Tracking group. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7050-5301 Google Scholar page | 121 |
66. | James Wootton @decodoku.bsky.social Helping to make quantum computers. Occasionally misusing them for fun and/or science. Two Ts and no Es. All nonsense here is my own doing Google Scholar page | 120 |
67. | Joe Fitzsimons @jfitzsimons.bsky.social Physicist turned startup founder. CEO @Horizon Quantum Computing. Google Scholar page | 117 |
68. | Dra Jara Juana Bermejo-Vega 🏳️🌈🐀 La Cuántica @queenofquanta.bsky.social Quantum mama. Computer Diva. Activist. Cofounder Q-Turn Workshop. Researcher at University of Granada. #Queer 🏳️🌈 #Trans 🔥 Ehpañola 💃 ♥️ she/ellas Google Scholar page | 114 |
69. | Josh Combes @joshkoomz.bsky.social Australian physicist, quantum mechanic, and engineer. Lived and worked in Japan, USA, and Canada. Prof. @CU Boulder Google Scholar page | 104 |