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: 16% new, 53% replies, 17% retweets, 14% quotes On 3,448 user lists 293,566 followers | 262 |
| 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: 6% new, 81% replies, 10% retweets, 4% quotes On 4,420 user lists 405,198 followers | 259 |
| 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, 42% replies, 47% retweets, 0% quotes On 1,249 user lists 62,871 followers | 188 |
| 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: 43% new, 13% replies, 39% retweets, 5% quotes On 313 user lists 10,034 followers | 170 |
| 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: 18% new, 64% replies, 12% retweets, 6% quotes On 254 user lists 10,794 followers | 133 |
| 6. |  Brian Keating@DrBrianKeating Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of Physics @UCSanDiego | 2x Bestselling Author: Into the Impossible & Losing the Nobel Prize @WWNorton YouTube 👉 urlgeni.us/youtube/channe… Google Scholar page Video channel 11 years on Twitter Recent tweets: 15% new, 12% replies, 39% retweets, 34% quotes On 232 user lists 18,980 followers | 126 |
| 7. |  Michael Nielsen@michael_nielsen Searching for the numinous. Individually & collectively optimistic. 🇦🇺 🇨🇦, now home in 🇺🇸. San Francisco, CA michaelnielsen.org Google Scholar page Video channel 13 years on Twitter Recent tweets: 10% new, 78% replies, 0% retweets, 12% quotes On 2,047 user lists 68,510 followers | 118 |
| 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: 4% new, 56% replies, 5% retweets, 34% quotes On 1,336 user lists 68,929 followers | 79 |
| 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, 2% replies, 24% retweets, 0% quotes On 1,756 user lists 83,662 followers | 56 |
| 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 12 years on Twitter Recent tweets: 20% new, 51% replies, 22% retweets, 7% quotes On 167 user lists 8,774 followers | 26 |