A list of physicists with over 1,000 followers. Also see Astronomers on Twitter.
| # | Account | Peer followers |
| 1. |  Sean Carroll@seanmcarroll Physics, philosophy, complexity; thinking, writing, talking. @Caltech & @SFIscience. Host, #MindscapePodcast. Married to @JenLucPiquant. He/him. Los Angeles preposterousuniverse.com Google Scholar page Video channel Patreon page 12 years on Twitter Recent tweets: 20% new, 49% replies, 19% retweets, 12% quotes On 3,403 user lists 288,046 followers | 248 |
| 2. |  Katie Mack@AstroKatie Cosmologist, pilot, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. @TEDFellow. Author: 'The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)'. Personal account. She/her. Dr. Raleigh, NC astrokatie.com/book Google Scholar page Video channel 12 years on Twitter Recent tweets: 7% new, 76% replies, 13% retweets, 4% quotes On 4,375 user lists 400,200 followers | 244 |
| 3. |  Sabine Hossenfelder@skdh Physicist, blogger, author, YouTuber, sometimes-songwriter, nighttime-philosopher. Maker of my own misery. rt's/shares/likes are not endorsements she/her Germany youtube.com/c/SabineHossen… Google Scholar page Video channel 13 years on Twitter Recent tweets: 10% new, 63% replies, 27% retweets, 0% quotes On 1,207 user lists 58,673 followers | 182 |
| 4. |  TrueSciPhi / Kelly Truelove@TrueSciPhi A window on science, philosophy, and mathematics communities on social media, by Kelly Truelove (physics PhD). Lists: TrueSciPhi.org. Images: TrueSciPhi.art. Austin, Texas TrueSciPhi.org Google Scholar page Video channel 6 years on Twitter Recent tweets: 49% new, 18% replies, 29% retweets, 4% quotes On 309 user lists 9,873 followers | 158 |
| 5. |  Dr Clara Nellist@claranellist Particle physicist | REI Fellow, Radboud Uni | @ATLASexperiment @CERN | 🐯 | views mine | she/her | #BiInSci 🏳️🌈 Geneva, Switzerland claranellist.com/about Video channel 12 years on Twitter Recent tweets: 14% new, 61% replies, 15% retweets, 9% quotes On 252 user lists 10,650 followers | 124 |
| 6. |  Brian Keating@DrBrianKeating Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor @UCSanDiego Astrophysicist | Author: Losing The Nobel Prize (@wwnorton). @SimonsObs. Hosting Brilliant 🧠s @ImpossibleClips San Diego, CA youtube.com/DrBrianKeating… Google Scholar page Video channel 10 years on Twitter Recent tweets: 30% new, 13% replies, 38% retweets, 19% quotes On 225 user lists 17,416 followers | 123 |
| 7. |  Michael Nielsen (in NYC)@michael_nielsen Searching for the numinous 🇦🇺 🇨🇦, in 🇺🇸 Thinking out loud, all provisional San Francisco, CA michaelnielsen.org Google Scholar page Video channel 13 years on Twitter Recent tweets: 12% new, 82% replies, 1% retweets, 6% quotes On 2,024 user lists 66,046 followers | 105 |
| 8. |  Mika McKinnon@mikamckinnon Field geophysicist, disaster researcher, scifi science consultant, science writer, public speaker, irrepressibly curious. #scicomm #womeninSTEM she/her 🇨🇦🇺🇸 West Coast about.me/mikamckinnon Google Scholar page Video channel 12 years on Twitter Recent tweets: 6% new, 59% replies, 5% retweets, 30% quotes On 1,332 user lists 68,064 followers | 76 |
| 9. |  Stephen Wolfram@stephen_wolfram I create ideas, technology, science, companies, books, ...: #WolfLang #WolframPhysics #WolframAlpha #Mathematica @WolframResearch stephenwolfram.com Video channel 12 years on Twitter Recent tweets: 73% new, 3% replies, 23% retweets, 0% quotes On 1,728 user lists 80,770 followers | 52 |
| 10. |  Dom/DoS@DominicWalliman I make science videos on Domain of Science youtube.com/c/domainofscie… Author of the @ProfAstroCat books. I have a PhD in Experimental Quantum Physics. dominicwalliman.com Video channel 11 years on Twitter Recent tweets: 14% new, 51% replies, 27% retweets, 8% quotes On 169 user lists 8,431 followers | 25 |