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: 23% new, 43% replies, 19% retweets, 14% quotes On 3,491 user lists 299,001 followers | 281 |
| 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: 4% new, 77% replies, 9% retweets, 8% quotes On 4 user lists 410,809 followers | 278 |
| 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 14 years on Twitter Recent tweets: 8% new, 59% replies, 33% retweets, 0% quotes On 1,286 user lists 68,703 followers | 205 |
| 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: 46% new, 9% replies, 37% retweets, 8% quotes On 318 user lists 10,161 followers | 180 |
| 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, 70% replies, 11% retweets, 6% quotes On 252 user lists 11,006 followers | 140 |
| 6. |  Brian Keating@DrBrianKeating Chancellor’s Professor @UCSanDiego • Cosmologist @SimonsObs • Wrote 2 Bestsellers • Tweets on curiosity & science. Currently writing the Great American Dad Joke INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast 🎧 physics.ucsd.edu/~bkeating Google Scholar page Video channel 11 years on Twitter Recent tweets: 26% new, 9% replies, 25% retweets, 40% quotes On 248 user lists 20,697 followers | 134 |
| 7. |  Michael Nielsen@michael_nielsen Searching for the numinous. Individually & collectively optimistic. 🇦🇺 🇨🇦, now home in 🇺🇸. @AsteraInstitute. Thinking out loud at: https://t.co/Ktphaq5xK7 San Francisco, CA michaelnielsen.org Google Scholar page Video channel 13 years on Twitter Recent tweets: 8% new, 83% replies, 1% retweets, 8% quotes On 2,095 user lists 71,419 followers | 127 |
| 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: 2% new, 60% replies, 2% retweets, 36% quotes On 1,366 user lists 69,749 followers | 81 |
| 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: 74% new, 1% replies, 25% retweets, 0% quotes On 1,782 user lists 85,548 followers | 60 |
| 10. |  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: 22% new, 52% replies, 21% retweets, 5% quotes On 180 user lists 9,472 followers | 30 |
| 11. |  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 On 20 user lists 1,422 followers | 29 |