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Top Genome Scientists to Follow on Twitter

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  • It has been more than a year since posting Top N Genome Scientists to Follow in Twitter.  That was an effort from a twitter newbie wanting to compile a list of genome academic scientists to follow.  No doubt, it was woefully inadequate, a biased list, and badly in need of update all this time. Here is an attempt to update the list.
  • A few key differences. The earlier list contained just 15 people and now it has little over 4o genome scientists under multiple categories, like Professors, Postdocs, and Computational Biologists. Hurray! Most new additions in the lists are professors at various levels. And the previous list focused on academicians on tenure track, but the new list has computational biologists/bioinformaticians, one of the most useful breeds in genomics.
  • The way it is listed now is with the 15 scientists who were in the earlier list followed by new scientists. For the genome scientists who were part of the last list, both the current and previous tweet stats are given.
  • If you are an upcoming researcher in genomics, it is a great time to be on twitter and follow these awesome scientists. Repeating the earlier thought on the benefits of Twitter,

Twitter Bio: Cardiologist, geneticist, digital medicine aficionado, author of The Creative Destruction of Medicine La Jolla, CA · http://www.stsiweb.org

Now: Tweets: over 3700; Followers: over 30,000; Following: over 270
Then: Tweets: over 2000; Followers: over 8000; Following: over 300

Twitter Bio: Biologist & blogger w/ #evolution #microbes & #genomes focus; #openaccess & @plosbiology advocate; @harvard @stanford alum; prankster; cyclist & Prof. @ucdavis

Tweets : over 34,900; Followers: over 19,800; Following: over 2800
Then: Tweets: over 23000; Followers: over 11000; Following: over 2100

Twitter Bio:  Assistant Professor at @broadinstitute and @MassGeneral working on extracting useful information from absurdly large DNA sequence data-sets. Boston, USA · macarthurlab.org

Tweets: over 12,000; Followers: over 11,000; Following: over 630
Then: Tweets: over 7800; Followers: over 6400; Following: over 500

Twitter Bio: Simply Statistics blog by Jeff Leek, Roger Peng, and Rafael Irizarry. Home to statistics; data; science; and Rafa’s Rants.

Tweets: over 1200; Followers: over 9900; Following: over 209
Then: Tweets: over 500; Followers: over 2600; Following: over 160

Twitter Bio: Geneticist; editor; writer; science communicator; nonprofit strategist. Owner, Girlscientist Consulting. Reviews editor, Genome Research. Atlanta · about.me/girlscientist

Tweets: over 14,000; Followers: over 7900; Following: over 1295
Then: Tweets: over 9000; Followers: over 5000; Following: over 900

Twitter Bio:  Geneticist. Professor @UCLA. Math and statistics junkie. Occasional mountaineer. Analyzing large datasets since long before Big Data became cool. SoCal

Tweets: over 18000; Followers: over 6200; Following: over 790
Then: Tweets: over 11000; Followers: over 2400; Following: over 600

Biologist at UC Berkeley & HHMI; open access advocate and co-founder of Public Library of Science Berkeley, CA · http://www.michaeleisen.org

Tweets: over 13,500; Followers: over 7500; Following: over 1500
Then: Tweets: over 4000; Followers: over 2300; Following: over 400

Twitter Bio: #Bioinformatics Core Director at @UVA. Blogger at http://gettinggeneticsdone.com , biologist, statistician, patent agent, brewer, runner, guitar noise-maker. Charlottesville, VA · stephenturner.us

Tweets: over 5900; Followers: over 5100; Following: over 270
Then: Tweets: over 3000; Followers: over 2200; Following: over 200

Twitter Bio: Bacterial (meta) genomes, high-throughput sequencing and clinical applications thereof. Birmingham, UK · pathogenomics.bham.ac.uk/clinicogenomics

Tweets: over 14000; Followers: over 4300; Following: over 570
Then: Tweets: over 6000; Followers: over 1800;Following: over 300

Twitter Bio: So interdisciplinary I occasionally risk being relevant. I absolutely do not speak for Michigan State University in any way, shape, or form. A secure, hidden bunker. · ivory.idyll.org

Tweets: over 15,000; Followers: over 3100; Following: over 90
Then: Tweets: over 2979; Followers: over 1180; Following: over 29

Twitter Bio:  Cancer & Stem Cell Researcher, Cancer Survivor, Assoc Prof. UC Davis, Author of Stem Cells: An Insider’s Guide, Blogger & Stem Cell Research Advocate, Reedie ipscell.com

Tweets: over 4600; Followers: over 2500; Following: over 650
Then: Tweets: over 1900; Followers: over 1010; Following: over 450

Evolutionary Pharmacologist, Open Scientist, Self Publisher. My lab gives antidepressants and other psych drugs to yeast cells. NYC · http://perlsteinlab.com

Tweets: over 22,000; Followers: over 3,200; Following: over 380
Then: Tweets: over 6600; Followers: over 700; Following: over 190

Twitter Bio:Postdoctoral fellow studying human genetics, Harvard Medical School. https://sites.google.com/site/josephpickrell/

Tweets: over 3,200; Followers: over 2,100; Following: over 240
Then: Tweets: over 1200; Followers: over 600; Following: over 120

Twitter Bio: Computational genomicist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto Toronto · noble.gs.washington.edu/~mmh1/

Tweets: over 8700; Followers: over 1600; Following: over 1000
Then: Tweets: over 6700; Followers: over 800; Following: over 600

 

Third Century Professor, Director of http://iQBS.org at Dartmouth College, Bioinformatics, Genetics, Genomics, Epistasis, Complexity, BigData. Hanover, NH, USA · epistasis.org

Tweets: over 17,000; Followers: over 5,100; Following: 1400 over

Twitter Bio: Ewan Birney is Associate Director at the EMBL-EBI (with a sideline in genomics research). I have an insatiable love of biology and rarely don’t have an opinion
EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, Cambridge · ebi.ac.uk/about/people/e…

Tweets: over 4,000; Followers: over 4,600; Following: over 450

I am a neurogeneticist interested in the genetics of brain wiring and its contribution to variation in human faculties. Dublin · wiringthebrain.blogspot.com

Tweets: over 10,000; Followers: over 4,000; Following: over 690

Twitter Bio: Physician scientist and entrepreneur. Chief and Associate Professor of Systems Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine buttelab.stanford.edu

Tweets: over 2,400; Followers: over 3400; Following: over 1000

Twitter Bio: Genomicist / Bioinformatician, Director of ARK-Genomics, a high-throughput facility at The Roslin Institute. Tweets are my own. Edinburgh · ark-genomics.org

Tweets: over 12,600; Followers: over 2500; Following: over 800

Twitter Bio: Computer Scientist and Computational Biologist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory CSHL, NY · schatzlab.cshl.edu

Tweets: over 1000; Followers: over 1500; Following: over 240

Twitter Bio: Everyman, Worrier, Information Junkie, Yankunian, Drosophilista, Open Science Advocate, @FlyJedi, Principal Investigator of @bergmanlab, curator of @fly_papers. Manchester, UK · caseybergman.wordpress.com

Tweets: over 7,600; Followers: over 1,500; Following: over 650

Twitter Bio: Population geneticist and Professor at Stanford Stanford, CA · bustamantelab.stanford.edu

Tweets: over 500; Followers: over 1,400; Following: over 90

Twitter Bio: Gholson J. Lyon, M.D., Ph.D., is Assistant Professor in Human Genetics at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. He is a child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist. New York City · lyonlab.cshl.edu

Tweets: over 7600; Followers: over 1400; Following: over 1300

Twitter Bio: I lead a computational genomics lab at the Univ. of Virginia. We use algorithms and data mining to understand genome biology and the genetic basis of traits. Charlottesville, Virginia · quinlanlab.org

Tweets: over 2,800; Followers: over 1,200; Following: over 390

Twitter Bio: I am running a lab at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research that focuses on computational human genetics. Cambridge, MA, USA · jura.wi.mit.edu/erlich

Tweets: Over 970, Followers: Over 1100, Following: Over 180

Twitter Bio: Husband, father of two, biologist, bioinformatician, researcher, Dutchman. Views expressed here are my own. An RT does not necessarily mean endorsement. Oslo · flavors.me/flxlex

Tweets: over 8,400; Followers: over 1100;Following: over 200

Twitter Bio: evolutionary and population genetics at UC Davis. Also tweet about preprints through @haldanessieve https://haldanessieve.org gcbias.org

Tweets: Over 5400, Followers: over 1,100, Following over: 500

Twitter Bio: Interested in genomics, genetics, variation, climate change, rugby and sports in general. Views expressed here are my own and not those of my employer. Silver Spring,MD · about.me/dmchurch

Tweets: Over 3,400, Followers: Over 1000, Following: Over 280

Twitter Bio: NYC smell neurobiologist. New York, NY USA · vosshall.rockefeller.edu

Tweets: Over 1,700, Followers: Over 1000, Following: Over 200

Twitter Bio: Computational Biologist, Fellow at OICR

Tweets: Over 600, Followers: Over 1000, Following: Over 700

Twitter Bio: Latest news, updates, links from Olivier Elemento’s Laboratory of Cancer Systems Biology at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York. New York city · physiology.med.cornell.edu/faculty/elemen…

Tweets: Over 3600, Followers: Over 700: Following: Over 300

Twitter Bio: Bioinformatics Professor, interested in Data Science, with Photography, Cycling & History as hobbies Yale · gerstein.info

Tweets: Over 1700, Followers: Over 700, Following: Over 260

Twitter Bio: I don’t always sequence genomes, but when I do… Mittelman Lab · mittelmanlab.com

Tweets: over 4,600; Followers: over 660; Following: over 110

Twitter Bio: evolutionary genetics of maize and teosinte. erstwhile ethnobotanist. consumer of bad puns. UC Davis · rilab.org

Tweets: over 2,900; Followers: over 560; Following: over 300

Twitter Bio: Computational Biologist; Blog at http://liorpachter.wordpress.com. math.berkeley.edu/~lpachter/

Tweets: over 130; Followers: over 510; Following: over 200

statistician; professor at UW-Madison; interested in almost everything except finance. Madison, Wisconsin · kbroman.wordpress.com

Tweets: over 1300; Followers: over 420; Following: over 90