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. @JohnsHopkins & @SFIscience. Host, #MindscapePodcast. Married to @JenLucPiquant. He/him. Baltimore, MD preposterousuniverse.com Google Scholar page Video channel Patreon page 13 years on Twitter Recent tweets: 16% new, 45% replies, 23% retweets, 16% quotes On 3,571 user lists 320,273 followers | 305 |
| 2. |  Katie Mack@AstroKatie Cosmologist, pilot, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. @TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Author: #EndOfEverythingBook. Personal account. She/her. Dr. Waterloo, Ontario astrokatie.com/book Google Scholar page Video channel 13 years on Twitter Recent tweets: 4% new, 73% replies, 11% retweets, 10% quotes On 4,566 user lists 426,648 followers | 294 |
| 3. |  Sabine Hossenfelder@skdh German Physicist. Author of 'Lost in Math' & 'Existential Physics'. Creator of 'Science Without the Gobbledygook'. rt's/shares/likes are not endorsements Germany youtube.com/c/SabineHossen… Google Scholar page Video channel 14 years on Twitter Recent tweets: 12% new, 59% replies, 24% retweets, 5% quotes On 1,421 user lists 87,174 followers | 222 |
| 4. |  TrueSciPhi / Kelly Truelove@TrueSciPhi Science, philosophy, & mathematics podcast and Twitter lists at TrueSciPhi.org, by Kelly Truelove (he/him, physics PhD). Images: TrueSciPhi.art. Austin, Texas TrueSciPhi.org Google Scholar page Video channel 7 years on Twitter Recent tweets: 60% new, 4% replies, 33% retweets, 3% quotes On 313 user lists 10,238 followers | 194 |
| 5. |  Dr Clara Nellist@claranellist Particle physicist | UvA/Nikhef | ATLAS experiment, CERN | @ParticleClara on TikTok | 🐯 | views mine | she/her | #BiInSci 🏳️🌈 Geneva, Switzerland claranellist.com/about Video channel 13 years on Twitter Recent tweets: 12% new, 75% replies, 6% retweets, 7% quotes On 263 user lists 13,043 followers | 156 |
| 6. |  Michael Nielsen@michael_nielsen Searching for the numinous 🇦🇺 🇨🇦, now home in 🇺🇸 Researcher @AsteraInstitute Thinking out loud at https://t.co/maezekQUWb San Francisco, CA michaelnielsen.org Google Scholar page Video channel 14 years on Twitter Recent tweets: 16% new, 67% replies, 1% retweets, 16% quotes On 2,156 user lists 77,552 followers | 155 |
| 7. |  Prof. Brian Keating@DrBrianKeating Teaching science with animations & dad jokes • Chancellor’s Professor @UCSanDiego • Scientist @SimonsObs • 3x Bestselling Author• Host @Into_Impossible Podcast San Diego, CA BrianKeating.com Google Scholar page Video channel 12 years on Twitter Recent tweets: 28% new, 15% replies, 32% retweets, 25% quotes On 281 user lists 23,469 followers | 139 |
| 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 13 years on Twitter Recent tweets: 4% new, 67% replies, 3% retweets, 26% quotes On 1,360 user lists 69,578 followers | 83 |
| 9. |  Stephen Wolfram@stephen_wolfram I create ideas, technology, science, companies, books, ...: #WolfLang #WolframPhysics #WolframAlpha #Mathematica @WolframResearch stephenwolfram.com Video channel 13 years on Twitter Recent tweets: 88% new, 1% replies, 11% retweets, 0% quotes On 1,814 user lists 88,504 followers | 63 |
| 10. |  Victor V. Albert@victorvalbert Theoretical physicist @NIST, Fellow @JointQuICS, Zookeeper @theeczoo University of Maryland sites.google.com/site/victorval… Google Scholar page Video channel 6 years on Twitter Recent tweets: 31% new, 37% replies, 15% retweets, 18% quotes On 25 user lists 2,124 followers | 52 |
| 11. |  Dom / DoS@DominicWalliman I make science videos on Domain of Science youtube.com/domainofscience Author of the @ProfAstroCat books. I have a PhD in Experimental Quantum Physics. dominicwalliman.com Video channel 12 years on Twitter Recent tweets: 17% new, 56% replies, 22% retweets, 5% quotes On no user lists 10,440 followers | 34 |