A list of professional science writers with over 500 followers. This list includes science columnists, reporters, editors, book authors, and so on engaged in such work as their primary occupation. Excludes professional researchers who write for the public as a supplemental activity (also see lists of astronomers and physicists).
| # | Account | Followers |
| 1. |  James Gleick@[email protected] Author. Chaos, Genius, The Information, Time Travel. Website: https://around.com/ Joined 2022-Dec-22 Last posted 2023-Feb-04 | 12,895 |
| 2. |  Kai Kupferschmidt@[email protected] science journalist. molecular biologist. curious. contributing correspondent "Science Magazine" part of @pandemia interested in #infectiousdiseases, #misinformation/#disinformation and all things #blue Science: https://www.science.org/content/author/kai-kupferschmidt Blue: https://www.amazon.de/Blue-Search-Natures-Rarest-Color/dp/1615197524 Verified by: https://isverified.online/mastodon/@ka[email protected] Verified by: https://fedified.com Joined 2022-Nov-03 Last posted 2023-Jan-30 | 12,173 |
| 3. |  Annalee Newitz@[email protected] I write science fiction and science nonfiction. Coming 1/31: The Terraformers. Bylines: NYT, New Scientist, The Atlantic, etc. Pod: Our Opinions Are Correct. I love noodles. Pronouns: They/Them Website: http://www.techsploitation.com Podcast: http://www.ouropinionsarecorrect.com Newsletter: https://www.buttondown.email/thehypothesis Joined 2022-Nov-16 Last posted 2023-Feb-04 | 10,565 |
| 4. |  Carl Zimmer@[email protected] Writer. Columnist, New York Times. Book author. Champion of under-appreciated life forms. Web: carlzimmer.com My web site: https://carlzimmer.com/ More than you need to know: https://carlzimmer.com/about/bio/ Columns for NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/by/carl-zimmer Joined 2018-Sep-03 Last posted 2023-Feb-03 | 8,829 |
| 5. |  Swapna Krishna@[email protected] #space | #science | #startrek | #gaming | #scicomm | #tech | #scifiHost/Writer of PBS's Far Out. I write for Wired and StarTrek.com and produce videos about space. Nana Visitor called me "fierce." Author of A POCKET GUIDE TO STARGAZING (Chronicle Books, 2023) and co-editor of SWORD STONE TABLE (Vintage, 2021). About Me: http://www.swapnakrishna.com Newsletter: http://newsletter.swapnakrishna.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/skrishna TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@swapna_krishna Joined 2022-Nov-22 Last posted 2023-Feb-03 | 6,095 |
| 6. |  Emily Lakdawalla@[email protected] Planetary scientist, space boffin, captain planets. Author, journalist, speaker, asteroid 274860. 🏳️🌈 she/her. Order my Curiosity book: http://amzn.to/2mlisaL Buy my art: https://elakdawalla.etsy.com Website: https://lakdawalla.com Newsletter: https://elakdawalla.beehiiv.com/ Blog and Patreon: https://patreon.com/elakdawalla Etsy Store: https://elakdawalla.etsy.com Video channel Joined 2017-Nov-14 Last posted 2023-Feb-03 | 5,749 |
| 7. |  Mika McKinnon@[email protected] Field geophysicist, disaster researcher, scifi science consultant, science writer, recreational rock licker. #YouFindARock #RockCheck #MinCup #SciComm #WomenInSTEM 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Pronouns: She/Her Other sites: https://www.mikamckinnon.com/ Location: West Coast of North America (usually) Video channel Joined 2022-Nov-07 Last posted 2022-Dec-06 | 4,367 |
| 8. |  Charles Seife@[email protected] Journalist, NYU professor, debunker of 'alternative facts.' Author of several books, most recently a biography of Stephen Hawking. Pronouns: he/him/his. Website: http://www.charlesseife.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/cgseife ORCID: 0000-0001-5309-8716 Verified by: https://fedified.com Joined 2022-Oct-06 Last posted 2023-Feb-02 | 4,227 |
| 9. |  Corey S Powell@[email protected] Writer, editor, magazine maker, podcaster, procrastinator. Former editor of Discover and American Scientist magazines. Writer on "The End is Nye" (Peacock). Co-host of #ScienceRules podcast (Stitcher).Co-founder of OpenMind.#astronomy #science #scicomm #wonder Twitter: @coreyspowell OpenMind: https://www.openmindmag.org Joined 2022-Apr-26 Last posted 2023-Feb-01 | 4,168 |
| 10. |  Laura Helmuth@[email protected] Editor in Chief of Scientific American. Birder. Previously at Washington Post, National Geographic, Slate, Smithsonian & Science. Joined 2022-Oct-28 Last posted 2022-Nov-17 | 3,306 |
| 11. |  George Musser@[email protected] contributing editor for #ScientificAmerican, contributing writer for #QuantaMagazine, author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to String Theory, author of Spooky Action at a Distancein my spare time, I play #bassguitar in a local cover band, dance Cuban-style #salsa, and volunteer for my local historical societyformerly @[email protected] Twitter: @gmusser Web: https://georgemusser.com History Project: https://eastjerseyhistory.org Verified by: https://fedified.com Joined 2022-Apr-22 Last posted 2023-Feb-02 | 3,249 |
| 12. |  Elizabeth Kolbert@[email protected] I am a staff writer at The New Yorker and author of "The Sixth Extinction" and "Under a White Sky." Joined 2022-Nov-07 Last posted 2023-Jan-28 | 3,199 |
| 13. |  Maggie Koerth@[email protected] Senior science writer at @FiveThirtyEight Nieman Fellow, class of '15 Council for the Advancement of Science Writing Chaos muppetShe/They Joined 2022-Dec-14 Last posted 2023-Jan-20 | 2,836 |
| 14. |  Michael Slezak@[email protected] National Science and Environment Reporter at the ABC. Lives and works on Gadigal Country. He/him. I’ll post here about the topics I’m interested in, which include those topics I report on, especially #climate and #biodoversity. But also a bit of politics and random other things. Nothing here represents the views of the ABC. https://www.abc.net.au/news/michael-slez ak/9641812 Workplace: Australian Broadcasting Corporation Lives: On Gidigal land Job title: National Science and Environment Reporter Bad bird: HTTPS://Twitter.com/MikeySlezak Joined 2022-Oct-29 Last posted 2023-Jan-17 | 2,362 |
| 15. |  łopatologia@[email protected] writer @verge, toxo posting on mastodon The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/23519135/mastodon-verge-staff-where-to-find Twitter: @mslopatto Website: elizabethlopatto.com Joined 2017-Apr-04 Last posted 2023-Feb-04 | 2,344 |
| 16. |  GeneticJen@[email protected] Game dev. Writer. Science consultant (games, books, tv). Narrative design. Twitch Affiliate. Intermittent journalist. Evo devo. Physics.Just a Scottish trans woman making a focused effort to further decentralise my online presence and the tools I use.#Science #Gaming #GameDev #Privacy #Decentralized #decentralised #LGBTQ #ADHD #Trans #Scottish #fedi22 Pronouns: She/her Twitch: https://twitch.tv/geneticjen Blog: https://www.geneticjen.com GIF Earth: @[email protected] Joined 2022-Nov-02 Last posted 2023-Feb-04 | 2,269 |
| 17. |  Alexandra Witze@[email protected] Freelance science journalist. Correspondent for Nature. Managing editor, Annals of the Deep Sky. President, Science Writers Association of the Rocky Mountains. Board member, The Open Notebook. Website: http://www.alexandrawitze.com Joined 2022-Nov-06 Last posted 2023-Jan-27 | 2,256 |
| 18. |  Ariel Waldman@[email protected] Antarctic Explorer + Creative Director. TED speaker + YouTuber. Previously: NASA + art school. Website: https://arielwaldman.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/arielwaldman Patreon: https://patreon.com/arielwaldman My Book: https://amzn.to/3HfCVnw Joined 2018-Aug-16 Last posted 2023-Feb-03 | 2,160 |
| 19. |  Jennifer Ouellette@[email protected] Science writer, Ars Technica. Formerly Gizmodo. Exvangelical. Married to @seanmcarroll. Baltimore, MD. She/her Joined 2022-Nov-19 Last posted 2023-Feb-04 | 2,046 |
| 20. |  Natalie Wolchover@[email protected] Physics journalist at Quanta Magazine. 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting. She/her. Kindness, independent thinking, the dignity of people & animals. (For the migration bots: I am @nattyover on Twitter.) Joined 2022-Oct-07 Last posted 2022-Nov-30 | 1,996 |
| 21. |  Ferris Jabr@[email protected] science writer ✵ contributing writer New York Times Magazine ✵ writing a book about the coevolution of Earth and life for Random House ✵ surname rhymes with neighbor Website: https://ferrisjabr.wordpress.com Verified by: https://fedified.com/ Joined 2022-Nov-05 Last posted 2022-Dec-18 | 1,831 |
| 22. |  Amy Maxmen@[email protected] Award-winning science reporter covering global health & inequality. Words @Nature @natgeo etc www.amymaxmen.com. Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow @cfr_org. Views are my own. She/her. Covid: Global Health: Journalism: Equality: Joined 2022-Nov-12 Last posted 2023-Jan-25 | 1,771 |
| 23. |  Kendra Pierre-Louis@[email protected] Joined 2022-Nov-16 | 1,663 |
| 24. |  Amy Harmon@[email protected] New York Times reporter covering science, nature and social inequality. leaf miners, oak galls, eastern grey squirrels. pronouns: she/her NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/by/amy-harmon iNat: https://www.inaturalist.org/people/amy_harmon Joined 2022-Nov-06 Last posted 2023-Jan-12 | 1,635 |
| 25. |  Jon Cohen@[email protected] Staff writer at Science. Personal website: www.joncohen.org Science stories: https://www.science.org/content/author/jon-cohen Twitter: @sciencecohen Joined 2022-Nov-12 Last posted 2022-Dec-19 | 1,610 |
| 26. |  Tara Haelle@[email protected] #Science & #health & #medical #journalist • mom • #feminist • #teacher • #photographer • #author • #kidlit • #AHCJ • #NASW • #binder • #Texan • she/her • supports 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 #BLM ✊🏿 • dog lover • rat mom • #bookworm • I ❤️ fantasy, scifi, romance, NF & YA Website: www.tarahaelle.net Facebook Professional Page: https://www.facebook.com/tarahaellejournalist My words: https://muckrack.com/tarahaelle/articles Verified by: https://fedified.com Joined 2022-Oct-31 Last posted 2022-Dec-06 | 1,540 |
| 27. |  Richard Van Noorden@[email protected] Features editor, Nature.r.vannoorden[[at]]nature[[dot]]co mrichardvannoorden⟦at⟧protonmail⟦d ot⟧com Verified by: https://fedified.com Joined 2022-Oct-29 Last posted 2023-Feb-03 | 1,428 |
| 28. |  Eric Roston@[email protected] Climate change, alpha to omega, at Bloomberg Green. Literally wrote the book on carbon. AKA: https://twitter.com/eroston Work stuff: https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AQdgGkZhizQ/eric-roston Long neglected personal website: http://www.ericroston.com/ Currently reading: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-biggest-bluff-how-i-learned-to-pay-attention-master-myself-and-win-maria-konnikova/18834413?ean=9780525522645 Joined 2022-Nov-06 Last posted 2023-Jan-28 | 1,360 |
| 29. |  Tom Levenson@[email protected] Science writer and filmmaker; professor of science writing at MIT. Most recent book: Money for Nothing. Upcoming: So Very Small. Ruled by Champ and Tikka Joined 2022-Nov-01 Last posted 2023-Feb-04 | 1,334 |
| 30. |  Alan Boyle@[email protected] Mastermind of @cosmiclog and Fiction Science podcast. Science journalist for GeekWire and Universe Today. Veteran of NBCNews.com. Author of "The Case for Pluto." Twitter: @b0yle Blog: https://cosmiclog.com Website: http://alanboyle.com Opencheck: https://opencheck.is/wikidata/Q4706226 Joined 2022-Oct-26 Last posted 2023-Feb-04 | 1,304 |
| 31. |  Philip Ball@[email protected] Science commentator, author, Twitter exile. Books include Critical Mass, Bright Earth, Beyond Weird. Joined 2022-Nov-16 Last posted 2022-Nov-25 | 1,293 |
| 32. |  Akshat Rathi@[email protected] - Senior climate reporter, Bloomberg News- Podcast http://bloomberg.com/zero-podcast - Newsletter http://bit.ly/bbg-zero- [email protected] https://akshatrathi.com Joined 2022-Oct-30 Last posted 2023-Jan-31 | 1,289 |
| 33. |  LizNeeley@[email protected] Founder of Liminal, focused on sensemaking & science communication. Going on sabbatical in 2023. She/her. Married to Ed Yong Twitter: @LizNeeley Website: LizNeeley.com Website: LiminalCreations.com Joined 2022-Nov-03 Last posted 2022-Nov-07 | 1,268 |
| 34. |  Julia Belluz@[email protected] Global public health journalist, currently writing a book about nutrition, metabolism and obesity. Formerly Vox.com, MIT Knight Fellow etc. Newsletter: https://juliabelluz.substack.com/ Joined 2022-Nov-21 Last posted 2023-Jan-31 | 1,220 |
| 35. |  Daniel Fischer@[email protected] Science writer in Germany since, gasp, 1982 specializing in all things space. Blogging all the time - in German - on https://skyweek.wordpress.com Joined 2022-Nov-05 Last posted 2023-Feb-04 | 1,170 |
| 36. |  Matt Shipman@[email protected] Writer. Mostly about science, tech and health. Periodically about food and pop culture. Based in NC. Let’s make the South better, y’all. (he/him) My book on science PR: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/boo k/chicago/H/bo18768107.html My infrequently updated #scicomm blog: https://sciencecommunicationbreakdown.wordpress.com/ My infrequently updated pop culture writing: https://medium.com/@shiplives Joined 2022-Oct-31 Last posted 2023-Feb-02 | 1,071 |
| 37. |  Arielle Duhaime-Ross@[email protected] Journalist. I host podcasts and TV shows at VICE News. They/Them Video channel Joined 2022-Oct-28 Last posted 2022-Dec-23 | 1,043 |
| 38. |  Matthew Herper@[email protected] I'm a journalist who writes about where medicines come from. Polk Award '21. This is biology's century; every data point has a face. Joined 2022-Nov-19 Last posted 2023-Feb-02 | 1,008 |
| 39. |  Siri Carpenter@[email protected] #Science #journalist and #editor. Co-founder & editor-in-chief of The Open Notebook. Past President of the National Association of Science Writers #NASW. Editor of THE CRAFT OF SCIENCE WRITING. http://www.siricarpenter.com. [email protected] She/her/hers Website: http://www.siricarpenter.com Joined 2022-Nov-22 Last posted 2022-Nov-27 | 996 |
| 40. |  Brandon Keim@[email protected] Journalist | Nature, animals, science & environment | 📰 NYT, National Geographic, The Atlantic etc. | 📕 The Eye of the Sandpiper http://goo.gl/cn6c1y | 📗 Meet the Neighbors Newsletter: https://brandonkeim.substack.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/9brandon/ Joined 2018-Aug-09 Last posted 2023-Feb-04 | 993 |
| 41. |  Gaia Vince@[email protected] Writer, broadcaster, author (NOMAD CENTURY; TRANSCENDENCE; ADVENTURES IN THE ANTHROPOCENE: https://bit.ly/3QR898d). Science of human and Earth systems Joined 2022-Nov-05 Last posted 2023-Feb-04 | 965 |
| 42. |  Marc Abrahams@[email protected] editor of Annals of Improbable Research, organizer of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, columnist at New Scientist. I write about research that makes people LAUGH then THINK. https://improbable.com/whatis/about-marc -abrahams/ Joined 2022-Nov-18 Last posted 2023-Feb-04 | 943 |
| 43. |  Nadia Drake@[email protected] Science journalist and contributing writer at National Geographic, focusing mostly on astronomy, astrophysics, planetary science and space exploration. Former ballet dancer, current overuser of emojis 🤷♀️. Champagneophile. PhD. (she/her) 🇱🇧🇺🇸🏳️🌈 WEBSITE: http://www.nadiadrake.com TWITTER: http://www.twitter.com/nadiamdrake Joined 2022-Nov-18 | 921 |
| 44. |  Michelle Nijhuis@[email protected] Writer and editor thinking about #conservation, #climate, #ecology, and paths to a better future. Author of BELOVED BEASTS: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction, a critical history of the modern conservation movement. Project editor at #TheAtlantic, consigliere of #HighCountryNews, bylines #NationalGeographic, #NYRB, #NYTOpinion. Minimalist packer. Website: http://www.rhymeswithmyhouse.com Book: http://www.tinyurl.com/belovedbeasts Joined 2022-Nov-11 Last posted 2023-Jan-14 | 909 |
| 45. |  Laurie Winkless@[email protected] Physicist & science storyteller. Book#1: SCIENCE AND THE CITY. Book#2: STICKY (finalist for 2023 AAAS/Subaru prize). Irish in 🇳🇿. Feminist. Opinionated. She/her Website: https://www.lauriewinkless.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurie-winkless/ My latest book: https://www.lauriewinkless.com/books/sticky-the-secret-science-of-surfaces Portfolio: https://authory.com/LaurieWinkless Joined 2022-Nov-04 Last posted 2023-Feb-04 | 844 |
| 46. |  Seelix@[email protected] Science Communicator. Cosplayer. Corsetiere. Genderqueer, pan, polyam nerd femme. . I am like a roulette wheel of hyperfocuses. Good luck with your spin! Pronouns: they/them Joined 2022-Nov-03 Last posted 2023-Feb-04 | 717 |
| 47. |  Liza Gross@[email protected] Reporter, covering #agriculture, the #climatecrisis and oil and gas industry effects on Earth and all her inhabitants for Inside Climate News #climate #environmentaljustice #fossilfuels #biodiversity #water #agriculture #environmentalhealth #publichealth website: https://insideclimatenews.org/profile/liza-gross/ Pronounts: she/her Place: Ohlone land website: https://www.lizagross.com/ Joined 2022-Nov-07 Last posted 2023-Jan-30 | 646 |
| 48. |  Christie Aschwanden@[email protected] award-winning science journalist, author NYT bestseller GOOD TO GO @wwnorton, co-host EMERGING FORM podcast, VP @ Council for Advancement of Science Writing, VP @ KVNF mountain-grown community radio, alum @FiveThirtyEight, outdoor adventurer. My parties have dancing. Good to Go: https://www.goodtogobook.com/ Emerging Form Podcast: https://emergingform.substack.com/ Grand Mesa Nordic Council: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1II5d-h2iA Intellectual Humility project: https://ggsc.berkeley.edu/who_we_are/news/announcement/meet_the_ggscs_intellectual_humility_grant_winners Joined 2022-Dec-13 Last posted 2023-Feb-01 | 609 |
| 49. |  erineaross@[email protected] Freelance science journalist based in Oregon. tryinta figure this out but my dog keeps stealing shit & it's very distracting. She/her Joined 2022-Nov-18 | 521 |