hey everyone! i made a list of some useful starter packs (primarily biology/earth sciences with a few bonus things thrown in) to share with friends who have joined bsky in the last week and thought it may be useful for some people here too! 🌍🧪 #SciSky #BioSky docs.google.com/document/d/1... - ThreadSky

blahttodea.bsky.social • 106 days ago

hey everyone! i made a list of some useful starter packs (primarily biology/earth sciences with a few bonus things thrown in) to share with friends who have joined bsky in the last week and thought it may be useful for some people here too! 🌍🧪 #SciSky #BioSky https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p2fx8dp-vd42iYW2LY04TJ3sNMt_tF-oi65I4EVGpgA/edit?usp=sharing

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drspidernz.bsky.social•90 days ago

@pantrog.bsky.social This looks like what you are after 😊

sdelcilab.bsky.social•89 days ago

Wooow thank you, such a nice job!

jgeschke.bsky.social•88 days ago

hi, here I have one for biodiversity governance institutions:

https://go.bsky.app/DdDYBMT

blahttodea.bsky.social•82 days ago

hey, i'm so sorry for the late response! (i completely missed a bunch of notifications and am only just catching up now) thank you for sharing, i've added it to the list! 😊

annyare.bsky.social•105 days ago

📌

ryankbrook.bsky.social•91 days ago

would you mind adding my starter pack?

https://go.bsky.app/6z3FevF

blahttodea.bsky.social•91 days ago

just added it! 😊

ryankbrook.bsky.social•91 days ago

mucho thankso

xcsci.bsky.social•87 days ago

📌

jocelynpoissant.bsky.social•90 days ago

could you add this one by any chance? thank you!
https://go.bsky.app/HTEq79p

blahttodea.bsky.social•90 days ago

of course, just added it! 😊

biogeoverse.bsky.social•90 days ago

Can we get this one added to the paleontology section of Earth Sciences??

https://go.bsky.app/VLmSB1B

blahttodea.bsky.social•90 days ago

of course! just added it to the list 😊

biogeoverse.bsky.social•90 days ago

Fabulous! Thanks so much!

jgpausas.bsky.social•106 days ago

Great! See also the directory of starter packs: https://blueskydirectory.com/starter-packs/all

blahttodea.bsky.social•106 days ago

thanks! yes i'm aware of that i just wanted to group some relevant packs together for friends and thought id share it here too

nhcooper123.bsky.social•106 days ago

This is amazing thanks Georgia!

tfinch.bsky.social•106 days ago

Thanks for doing this. There's a general #ornithology starter pack as well as the seabird one. Would probably fit under Zoology: https://go.bsky.app/CB8biDW

blahttodea.bsky.social•106 days ago

brilliant, thank you! will add it now 😊

tfinch.bsky.social•106 days ago

Also this: https://bsky.app/profile/martinjung.bsky.social/post/3lap3bi2goc2y

blahttodea.bsky.social•106 days ago

just added!

lorenatrainsdogs.bsky.social•48 days ago

📌

katharinehayhoe.com•57 days ago

I can’t tell from the link, but just wanted to add that I have about a dozen climate-related starter packs, including one on nature based solutions. The one on climate research orgs filled up so I have a part two for that one as well.

stupidistgit.bsky.social•90 days ago

This is very useful thanks!

forestgoblin.bsky.social•100 days ago

This is amazing, thank you!

ottermagically.bsky.social•106 days ago

Thank you very kindly, Georgia.

drkmabrams.bsky.social•105 days ago

📌

plpranesh.bsky.social•89 days ago

Is there any shortcut or option in the app to find the starter packs I joined? Or do I need to go through the links every time

blahttodea.bsky.social•89 days ago

you can use https://clearsky.app to see which lists you're a member of! unfortunately i don't think there's an in app shortcut at th moment

plpranesh.bsky.social•89 days ago

Thanks! 😊

klilsh.bsky.social•106 days ago

📌

janousekwild.bsky.social•88 days ago

Here is one for algae, mosses and ferns: https://go.bsky.app/GKP4yPC

blahttodea.bsky.social•88 days ago

brilliant, thanks for sharing! will add it now 😊

nwobs.bsky.social•106 days ago

Just tried a couple of those links but got redirected to nonfunctional locations. But I’m pretty new here myself and maybe just done know how the packs work.

blahttodea.bsky.social•106 days ago

i've just tried the links myself and they should all be working properly! they should take you to a page for that respective starter pack where you should then see the option in the top right corner to follow all (or you can manually go through and follow specific accounts)

ipbes.net•88 days ago

Thanks - that’s a tremendous resource! Here’s another you might like to add: https://go.bsky.app/LjV86zg

blahttodea.bsky.social•88 days ago

thank you! i'll add it now 😊

michawehrli.bsky.social•89 days ago

Heres another one:)
https://bsky.app/starter-pack-short/Sj5Dc3F

blahttodea.bsky.social•88 days ago

thanks for sharing! i'll add it now 😊

nmouquet.bsky.social•36 days ago

Hi Georgia, thanks for adding the Global Ecology feed :) please could you change the links to : Vol 1 : https://bsky.app/starter-pack/nmouquet.bsky.social/3lfum2bjpab24 and Vol 2 = https://bsky.app/starter-pack/nmouquet.bsky.social/3ld2m2csaai2x Thanks !

naturesarchive.bsky.social•103 days ago

Great list! I'm not sure if I have a place on your list (I'm not a biologist) but I interview lots of biologists on my Nature's Archive podcast - including lots of very niche topics. And I'm always looking for passionate guests to share their stories and work.

deepeleven.bsky.social•105 days ago

👋

agunderson.bsky.social•90 days ago

Here’s another thanks! https://go.bsky.app/N5Xvr8v

blahttodea.bsky.social•90 days ago

thank you for sharing! will add it to the list asap ☺️

naterra.bsky.social•97 days ago

📌

stelkens.bsky.social•106 days ago

Oh nice! Thanks for sharing! Can you do one for evolutionary biology?

blahttodea.bsky.social•106 days ago

i'm just adding starter packs that others have made but i'll definitely keep an eye out for any evolutionary bio ones and add them straight away!

polejit.bsky.social•106 days ago

https://go.bsky.app/JjvzkWU

jlsteenwyk.bsky.social•105 days ago

Thank you for sharing this one!

polejit.bsky.social•106 days ago

https://go.bsky.app/TUNHbNu

skryazhi.bsky.social•90 days ago

https://bsky.app/starter-pack/mikeblazanin.bsky.social/3l6xukeebid2h

blahttodea.bsky.social•90 days ago

thanks for sharing! will add it to the list asap ☺️

polejit.bsky.social•106 days ago

https://go.bsky.app/VMqVSAi

blahttodea.bsky.social•106 days ago

thank you! i'll add them all to the list now ☺️

kristinamuise.bsky.social•90 days ago

Can you added another bat one by @albertabats.bsky.social

https://go.bsky.app/2t1aJW2

albertabats.bsky.social•90 days ago

Yay!

blahttodea.bsky.social•90 days ago

sure thing! thanks for sharing, i'll add it now 😊

kristinamuise.bsky.social•90 days ago

Thank you!

lilneanderthal.bsky.social•88 days ago

📌

manuelconejo.bsky.social•14 days ago

Thank you so, so much for doing this!! That's extremely helpful for anyone new here

myheadmyhead.bsky.social•100 days ago

thank you so much for that list! !!!

...it think i will turn a lot of it into lists...

bsbibotany.bsky.social•86 days ago

That's really helpful, thank you!

physioktbroker.bsky.social•89 days ago

Is it possible to add a category for health care research? 🧪

blahttodea.bsky.social•89 days ago

i initially made the list purely to share with friends from my department (ecology, environment) moving over to
bsky so didn't add anything like health sciences, neuro, human genetics, etc as it's not my field! unfortunately it's gotten quite time consuming and i'd rather keep human related fields +

blahttodea.bsky.social•89 days ago

separate but hopefully it can inspire someone else from that area to make their own list!

drsadhbh.bsky.social•105 days ago

📌

danielbolnick.bsky.social•106 days ago

A meta-starter pack.

josephwb.bsky.social•91 days ago

Here is a phylogenetics SP :) https://go.bsky.app/D7LsGUM

blahttodea.bsky.social•91 days ago

thanks for sharing! just added it 😊

ecfreewoman.bsky.social•91 days ago

Thanks for the initiative! :) Can you also add Aquatic Sciences: https://go.bsky.app/Lf9iN2C

blahttodea.bsky.social•91 days ago

of course! just added it 😊

blueappaloosa.bsky.social•91 days ago

Could you add the SciArt Starter Pack? It's different from the sci artists one you have (I think)

https://go.bsky.app/DygrEnH

blahttodea.bsky.social•91 days ago

of course! just added it 😊

acrea9.bsky.social•96 days ago

Thank you!👍

1312a.cab•57 days ago

I never expected there to be such an active entomology community on here, having my timeline be 3 bug posts for every 1-2 news or serious post makes social media a lot more tolerable tbh

gkalinkat.bsky.social•85 days ago

Thank you for the great service Georgia 🙏 maybe you can add our small but growing light pollution starter pack? That would be awesome!
https://go.bsky.app/QaJeatt

blahttodea.bsky.social•82 days ago

hey, i'm so sorry for the late response! (i completely missed a bunch of notifications and am only just catching up now) thank you for sharing, i've added it to the list! 😊

gkalinkat.bsky.social•82 days ago

🙏🙏🙏

olivier-saulnier.bsky.social•88 days ago

Thanks for putting this together, it's a great resource!
Can you add the childhood cancer pack please?
https://go.bsky.app/Tpd9QnM

blahttodea.bsky.social•88 days ago

hey olivier! i wanted to just keep the list as primarily ecology/environmental topics and avoid any human focused fields as the list is already quite large and it's become quite time consuming to maintain - i hope you understand! hopefully this list can inspire others to make similar

olivier-saulnier.bsky.social•88 days ago

Ah, no worries! I was wondering why there weren't any cancer-related packs :) Thank you Georgia!

cminnaar.bsky.social•96 days ago

This is great! Thanks for setting this up and sharing. There's a plant-pollinator interactions pack that could probably go into your ecology section? https://go.bsky.app/5oenknG

blahttodea.bsky.social•96 days ago

thanks for sharing! i'm in the lab teaching all day but will add it as soon as i have access to my laptop ☺️

ilplataleo.bsky.social•89 days ago

Hi! I would put biogeography under the Evolution section!

blahttodea.bsky.social•88 days ago

thanks for the tip!

pavelpipek.bsky.social•90 days ago

I would say Biogeography should be added: https://bsky.app/starter-pack/ilplataleo.bsky.social/3lb53xo25ot26

blahttodea.bsky.social•90 days ago

thanks for sharing! i'll add it to the list asap ☺️

helephantmylne.bsky.social•88 days ago

Thanks, this is great! Here's another Animal Behaviour one :)

https://go.bsky.app/9CV3PAd

blahttodea.bsky.social•82 days ago

hey, i'm so sorry for the late response! (i completely missed a bunch of notifications and am only just catching up now) thank you for sharing, i've added it to the list! 😊

biobabbler.bsky.social•105 days ago

📌

jung-gt.bsky.social•100 days ago

📌

xenomatt.bsky.social•90 days ago

📌

hugoflavio.com•105 days ago

This is very useful, thanks! 🙏

blahttodea.bsky.social•105 days ago

no problem! 😊

boredaardvark.bsky.social•88 days ago

genknoxx.bsky.social•88 days ago

As I go through the posts of my thousands of starter pack enabled followed accts - I am adding folks to lists by topic. So based on what’s up in the world I have a resource here to learn more.

It’s really really slow. But it’s going to be pretty good.

genknoxx.bsky.social•88 days ago

And my lists are of course public. Like everyone’s. So maybe at some point they’d be useful to other people. We shall see!!

boredaardvark.bsky.social•88 days ago

I’m just going with the randomness of my following feed.

duineuasal.bsky.social•88 days ago

Basically.

jan-honza-pergl.bsky.social•88 days ago

📌

billurbektas.bsky.social•89 days ago

Can you please also add this one? https://bsky.app/profile/billurbektas.bsky.social/post/3lbp4zcwqgc2k

blahttodea.bsky.social•88 days ago

sure! will add it now 😊

englishse.bsky.social•105 days ago

This is brilliant thanks! Just found a starter pack about vector-borne disease that could fit in the 'Epidemiology' section https://bsky.app/starter-pack/shauntcross.bsky.social/3lafdvc37wy2q

blahttodea.bsky.social•105 days ago

thank you!! will add it now ☺️

richardbj.bsky.social•86 days ago

Well done Georgia, this is brilliant!
Here’s the one I made for #IonChannel (biology) research?
https://go.bsky.app/6taxHfx any chance? 😇🤓

blahttodea.bsky.social•82 days ago

hey, i'm so sorry for the late response! (i completely missed a bunch of notifications and am only just catching up now) thank you for sharing, i've added it to the list! 😊

blahttodea.bsky.social•106 days ago

if anyone has any suggestions on packs to add, ways it can be restructured, etc please drop them here or dm me! also if you made any of these packs and would like it removed just let me know 🙏 i added them to a google docs so i can add more packs as i come across them!

dnthomas01.bsky.social•105 days ago

Thanks for making the list, it is very useful...wonder if this one could be added?
https://go.bsky.app/7RL1i9C

blahttodea.bsky.social•105 days ago

thank you for sharing, i'll add it now! 😊 i'll put it with the other geosciences packs for now

timcurran.bsky.social•99 days ago

Thanks for this Georgia!

Can you please add this one on Fire Ecology?
https://go.bsky.app/DzbHGbs

blahttodea.bsky.social•98 days ago

thanks for sharing! i've added it to the list 😊

timcurran.bsky.social•98 days ago

Thanks!

stuartwigby.bsky.social•105 days ago

Really useful thanks! Do you know if any sexual selection packs exist? I'm new here and haven't quite worked out how to find things! 😵‍💫

blahttodea.bsky.social•105 days ago

i found this one earlier that i also need to add to the list now! https://bsky.app/profile/judithmank.bsky.social/post/3lamaya6fc22j

lianegbenning.bsky.social•90 days ago

Fabulous list - thanks 🙏.
I made one that could fit also 🌎. Would be great if you could add it.

https://go.bsky.app/7ocntgs

blahttodea.bsky.social•90 days ago

of course, thanks for sharing! will add it to the list asap ☺️

asanchez-tojar.bsky.social•88 days ago

Please, consider adding the starter pack of the Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology @sortee.bsky.social Thanks in advance. #openscience

🔗 https://bsky.app/starter-pack/daxkellie.bsky.social/3lc2u55y7og2g

blahttodea.bsky.social•88 days ago

will do, thanks for sharing! 😊

bmwildermuth.bsky.social•105 days ago

Hi, would be awesome if you could add this one:
https://go.bsky.app/8gvjAum

maltejochum.bsky.social•105 days ago

Hi, I would also like to be added here, please!

bmwildermuth.bsky.social•105 days ago

Hi Malte, you are in the original Ecologist package, therefore I did not include you in v2 :)

maltejochum.bsky.social•105 days ago

Thx, just saw it ;)

blahttodea.bsky.social•105 days ago

thanks for sharing!! will add now ☺️

kostchristian.bsky.social•105 days ago

Hi Benjamin, Could you please add me to this list as well? Thanks a lot.

bmwildermuth.bsky.social•105 days ago

Hi, unfortunately the pack is already at the 150 accounts limit! I am certainly hoping someone will make Ecologist v3 :)

kostchristian.bsky.social•105 days ago

Thanks for letting me know.

blahttodea.bsky.social•106 days ago

seeing as i mainly made this for myself/friends to start with i just organised it and included things based on what i/my group would be interested in so this is not an exhaustive list but like i said, any suggestions on things to add or change please let me know!

anthrobirder.bsky.social•106 days ago

Thanks for doing this. There's a good thread of starter packs on environmental stuff (mostly environmental humanities but also other things) here:
https://bsky.app/profile/carsoncenter.bsky.social/post/3l46zspiz4x2h

noteom.bsky.social•102 days ago

idk if everybody's aware of the starter pack directory, but I got it pinned fyi

blahttodea.bsky.social•106 days ago

thank you! ☺️

fiona-webster22.bsky.social•88 days ago

Wonderful! But how do I get any one starter pack URL to open up in my browser? (Can't use the 🦋 app because it's only for phone.)

blahttodea.bsky.social•86 days ago

sorry for the late reply! if the links aren't working for you to click on directly maybe you could copy and paste the webpage url into your browser? if there are any specific faulty links please let me know!

natalycastelblanco.bsky.social•99 days ago

Thank! Here another one!

https://bsky.app/profile/efvogel.bsky.social/post/3lb7uganymc2o

blahttodea.bsky.social•98 days ago

thank you for sharing, i've added it to the list! 😊

ciscosalvato.bsky.social•90 days ago

If you set them up as a BlueSky starter pack and not a Google doc, their posts will be there as well.

mridulkthomas.bsky.social•103 days ago

Thanks for putting this together! Could you please add this thermal biology list to your ecology section?

https://go.bsky.app/nHLZbD

blahttodea.bsky.social•103 days ago

of course! i'm going into the lab right now but will add it asap, thanks for sharing ☺️

jittebug.bsky.social•90 days ago

📌

henkrenting.bsky.social•81 days ago

Really nice but missing food and agricultural sciences completely.

lovetheants.bsky.social•105 days ago

Thank you for gathering these!!

https://go.bsky.app/zo95qR

blahttodea.bsky.social•105 days ago

no problem! that's been added to the list ☺️

sandyk.bsky.social•88 days ago

This is so helpful! Thank you for sharing! Could you please add this Starter Pack for Comparative Biomechanics? https://go.bsky.app/HvHFgvB

blahttodea.bsky.social•82 days ago

hey, i'm so sorry for the late response! (i completely missed a bunch of notifications and am only just catching up now) thank you for sharing, i've added it to the list! 😊

sandyk.bsky.social•81 days ago

No need to apologize! Thank you so much for creating such a great resource! 🤗

blahttodea.bsky.social•81 days ago

you're very welcome! i'm glad others are finding it helpful ☺️

martinjung.bsky.social•106 days ago

Nice! But note that one can easily search for starterpacks here https://blueskydirectory.com/starter-packs/all

blahttodea.bsky.social•106 days ago

yes i know but i've found that some of the packs dont always show up on the directory especially if the pack name/bio words things slightly differently, plus i started adding packs to a doc anyway so i could give to friends who signed up so just thought id share the doc i already had

walrus75.bsky.social•87 days ago

📌

alexmorss.bsky.social•90 days ago

📌

saltyecoevo.bsky.social•97 days ago

Hey, Can you add this one in a Botany section? Thanks! https://go.bsky.app/BBFi7qX

blahttodea.bsky.social•96 days ago

yes of course, thanks for sharing! i'm in the lab all day today teaching but i'll add it as soon as i have access to my laptop ☺️

drangelborja.bsky.social•88 days ago

Could you add this new one?

https://go.bsky.app/K7HxGsK

blahttodea.bsky.social•82 days ago

hey, i'm so sorry for the late response! (i completely missed a bunch of notifications and am only just catching up now) thank you for sharing, i've added it to the list! 😊

drangelborja.bsky.social•82 days ago

And this other

https://go.bsky.app/Jan37L2

blahttodea.bsky.social•82 days ago

thank you! i've added both 😊

drangelborja.bsky.social•82 days ago

Much appreciated!

drangelborja.bsky.social•82 days ago

And this

https://go.bsky.app/FPUKZez

drangelborja.bsky.social•82 days ago

Thanks

drangelborja.bsky.social•89 days ago

https://go.bsky.app/4PTX62K