
From Prison Cells to PhD
@prison2pro
To help inspire others with similar backgrounds to excel beyond what society and life circumstances have set to be the norm.
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Alex Hanna (اليكس حنٌا)
@alexhanna
Director of Research @DAIRInstitute \ 🛼 @BayAreaDerby \ THE AI CON @HarperBooks (soon) \ 🇪🇬⚧ She/هي \ 🐘[email protected] \ Rep 📝 @ianbonaparte
John Schu
@mrschureads
Librarian. NYT Bestselling Author. | LOUDER THAN HUNGER, RUTHIE ROSE’S BIG IDEA, THE GIFT OF STORY, THIS IS A SCHOOL, THIS IS A STORY | Agent: @Molly_ONeill.
Dan Santat
@dsantat
NY Times bestselling children's book author of Beekle ('15 Caldecott) A First Time for Everything ('24 National Book Award) Creator Disney's The Replacements
thot leedurr
@docdre
Still Dré...still here. Award-winning author: tinyurl.com/DistBlkness. BlackTwitter: goo.gl/Wc98bf. CTDA: goo.gl/0njUPf.
SchoolLibraryJournal
@sljournal
School Library Journal is the largest reviewer of kids & YA content, from books to digital. Serving up tweets: the editors of SLJ.
Jason Reynolds News
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Stay updated with New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds
Rockefeller University
@rockefelleruniv
The Rockefeller University is a world-renowned center for research and graduate education in the biomedical sciences, chemistry, bioinformatics and physics.
Faces & Voices
@facesandvoices
We are dedicated to organizing, mobilizing, empowering & educating the over 23 million Americans living in #Recovery. #RecoveryMovement #FacesandVoices
Leslie Vosshall PhD
@leslievosshall
VP/CSO @HHMInews & Head of #VosshallLab @rockefelleruniv Toward Excellent, Inclusive, & Open Science. See also @leslievosshall.bsky.social
Glenn E. Martin 🐐
@glennemartin
Fixer Activist Spartan Unbossed Founder 6X Entrepreneur
FAMM Foundation
@fammfoundation
FAMM | Helping transform America’s criminal justice system by uplifting the voices of impacted families & individuals. RTs & likes ≠ endorsements
J.T. Roane
@jtroane
Mellon Asst. Prof. of Africana Studies & Geography Rutgers University
HHMI
@hhminews
HHMI believes in the power to advance science through research/science ed., making discoveries that benefit all. bsky.app/profile/hhmi.o…
Ruha Benjamin
@ruha9
✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚
Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA 🇺🇦
@celinegounder
Medicine / Infectious Disease / Epidemiology / @KFF @CBSNews @NYUGrossman @BellevueHosp doc / Threads @drcelinegounder / Bluesky @celinegounder.com
Harlan Krumholz
@hmkyale
Harold H. Hines Jr Professor, Yale Univ; Director, YNHH CORE; Editor-in-Chief, JACC. Working to improve the future for those who follow us...
Prison Policy Initiative
@prisonpolicy
Challenging mass incarceration and over-criminalization through research, advocacy, and organizing. Get email updates: prisonpolicy.org/subscribe/
Prison_Health 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@prison_health
Jail, Prison, Criminology, et al. ($)= Paywall. An Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
American Society for Cell Biology
@ascbiology
Inclusive, international community of life scientists. Home to @MBoCjournal @CBELifescied.
swm
@sheathescholar
scholar-educator (they/them)
Kimberly D. Manning, MD, MACP
@gradydoctor
Internist, teacher, thinker, doer | @EmoryDeptofMed VC for @EmoryDOMRYSE & Professor |@HumanDoctoring podcast | @JHospMedicine LPD | #HBCUMade | she/her/ma’am🔺
Nature Reviews Endocrinology
@naturerevendo
The latest advances in diabetes, obesity, nutrition, thyroid and more from the editors of Nature Reviews Endocrinology, a review journal.
Dan Greene
@greene_dm
Futures of work. Writing, researching, teaching, lefting. Ruthless everything, existing. The Promise of Access: mitpress.mit.edu/9780262542333/
Abeba Birhane
@abebab
Senior Advisor, AI Accountability @Mozilla |Cognitive science PhD |Adjunct prof @tcddublinscss, @tcddublin |Ethiopian in Ireland |She/her @abeba.bsky.social
B.B. Alston
@bb_alston
#1 NY Times Bestselling Author of the AMARI Books. Overall Winner of the Barnes & Noble Children’s & YA Book Awards.
Colby Sharp
@colbysharp
⭐️driven by gratitude⭐️Husband 👫 Dad 👦👧👧👦👦 Teacher 👔 Reader 📚 Runner 🏃 Writer ✏️ Nerd 🤓 VOTE! #NerdyBookClub | views expressed are mine
Kelly Gallagher
@kellygtogo
I teach, I write, I travel, I talk—to help kids become better readers and writers.
Heba Gowayed هبة جويد
@hebagowayed
Sociology Prof @CUNY. Maker of resistance humus. Author of REFUGE bit.ly/refugehg. Now writing on the violence & COST OF BORDERS. she/هي
Childless Dog Lady is PISSED OFF. 🍉🌺
@sgbuggs
sociologist into racism, intimacy + culture. co-editor/author of @unsafewordsbook. disaster bi 🏳️🌈. food/theater/fashion/tv junkie. black feminist killjoy.
Osborne Association
@osborneny
Transforming lives, communities, and the criminal legal system.
Scott Hadland, MD
@drscotthadland
Pediatrician 👨🏻⚕️ • Chief of Adolescent Med at MassGeneral • Associate Prof at Harvard Med • NIH researcher • Husband & dad of 2 kiddos • 🇨🇦 in 🇺🇸 & 🌈
JOTF
@jotfmaryland
The Job Opportunities Task Force (JOTF) promotes policies and programs that increase the skills, job opportunities, and incomes of the Maryland workforce.
Alice Wong 王美華
@sfdirewolf
Disabled oracle. Founder, @DisVisibility. Editor, DISABILITY INTIMACY bit.ly/3SXjkzZ Available NOW!
Noel Vest, PhD
@noelvest
Prison to Ph.D. | Assistant Professor at @BUSPH | Postdoc @Stanford | PhD @WSU | Formerly Incarcerated Scholar | *views are my own
Max Jordan Nguemeni
@maxjordan_n
Asst Prof/Doc @UCLA_GIMHSR Health justice+STS research, writing & tennis. Chaotic good. Alum: @BrighamMedRes+@CIRSeiu, @YaleMed @GaTech @HowardU @Forbesunder30.
Deborah E. McDowell
@dem8z
Reader, writer, teacher, gardener, seamstress, contrarian. Professor, @WoodsonUVA Alice Griffin Professor of English, University of Virginia. Please, no DM’s.
uché blackstock, md
@uche_blackstock
💜c & e’s mama x 👩🏾⚕️#TIME100 health x 📖nyt bestselling author, LEGACY 🩺 @vikingbooks @sterlinglordlit, 📺: @csetalent, 🗣️: @penguinrandomhouse Speakers
Jarrett Lerner
@jarrett_lerner
Award-winning maker of books for kids. Agent: @myrrr he/him
Emily Wang
@ewang422
Co-founder of @_Transitions Clinic Network, Director of Health Justice Lab @Yale, Founding director of @SEICHE_Yale
@serena5.bsky.social
@serenafreeher1
Social justice activist. Non-profit executive director (@newhourNY) @galaxy_gives fellow. Proud Boricua. @serena5.bsky.social. All opinions my own.
Dr. Whitney Pirtle
@thephdandme
associate professor, sociologist, writer, mentor, mother and much more #BlackFemSoc
HHMI | Janelia
@hhmijanelia
A pioneering research center where scientists from many disciplines collaborate on science's most challenging problems. bsky.app/profile/hhmija…
The Marshall Project
@marshallproj
criminal justice news. nonpartisan. nonprofit. nonpaywall. 📨 sign up for our newsletters: themarshallproject.org/newsletters
Release Aging People in Prison Campaign
@rappcampaign
We organize people, families, and communities across New York State to end mass incarceration and promote racial justice. #ParoleJusticeNY #ClemencyNow
Angie Thomas
@angiecthomas
#1 NYT Bestselling author - The Hate U Give, Concrete Rose, etc. On the Come Up streaming on Paramount+ . Nic Blake and The Remarkables out now!
Alec Karakatsanis
@equalityalec
founder, @CivRightsCorps civil rights lawyer author of usual cruelty (2019) and copaganda (forthcoming 2025) views here are my own, not civil rights corps
Dr. Stan Andrisse
@dr_andrisse
Assistant Professor, Howard University College of Medicine | Alum Adjunct Asst Professor, Johns Hopkins Medicine | Executive Director, From Prison Cells to PhD
New Hour
@newhourny
We are dedicated to empowering women and children impacted by the criminal justice system.
Joshua B. Hoe
@joshuabhoe
Senior Policy Manager at Dream.Org, Host of the Decarceration Nation, Christian, formerly incarcerated, registrant, He/Him 2022 Impact Award Winner
Secrets from a Prison Cell
@cellsecrets
Managed by a Former Insider: who posts Tweets from the author and himself. To order the book:wipfandstock.com/9781666766059/…
Ismail Ahmed
@iaahmed123
PI @UUNeurobiology We work at the intersection of chembio and neuroscience to study neuropeptide modulation of behavior and physiology. Views are my own.
James Olzmann
@olzmannlab
Professor of Molecular Therapeutics and Metabolic Biology at UC Berkeley; Departments of Molecular & Cell Biology and Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology
Olayemi Olurin
@msolurin
✨Movement Lawyer, Writer & Creator ✨Olurinatti on YouTube & Substack ✨Olay & Friends premieres Sundays at 1pmEST
Dyjuan Tatro
@dyjuantatro
may or may not be notable • @BPIBard Alum • @thefortunesoc Board Member • #EndTheException Ambassador • You should watch #CollegeBehindBars • my views
Women's Community Justice Association
@womenscja
Advocate for all justice impacted women & gender expansive people. Fight to move #BEYONDrosies on Rikers Island and create new alternatives and opportunities.
Yale Program in Addiction Medicine
@yaleadm
No wrong door. Improving access to & effectiveness of prevention, treatment, & harm reduction services for people who use substances & those with addiction.
Jennifer peltz
@jennifernwill
I’m a prison wife/prison advocate, advocating for change is my passion for criminal justice reform!
Maryland Youth Justice Coalition
@mdyouthjustice
The Maryland Youth Justice Coalition is a group of individuals and organizations committed to transforming our youth justice system.
David Garlock
@davidleegarlock
Returning Citizen. CSA Victim. Advocate for Registrants. Role in #justmercy. Public Speaker. Happily Married. @eji_org client, @EasternU Eccl. 4:14 TEDx 2022
Ishmail Abdus-Saboor
@ishmailsaboor
We study how the skin-brain axis drives somatosensory behaviors | Associate Professor @Zuckermanbrain @Columbia_Bio | Freeman Hrabowski Scholar @HHMINEWS
Dr. Glaucomflecken
@dglaucomflecken
Ophthalmologist. Comedian. Speaker. Tiktok. Contact: [email protected] Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/glauco…
Free Willey
@lfender39
Fighting for a second chance for long time incarcerated.
Alice Ting
@aliceyting
Molecular designer
Sarah Axelrath MD
@drsarahaxelrath
Find me at drsarahaxelrath.bsky.social
Catherine Dulac
@dulaclab
Identifying the neural basis of innate social behaviors using molecular and genetic tools @Harvard @HHMINEWS and at DulacLab at mstdn dot science
Korie Grayson, PhD (she/her)
@teamkorie
(Re)Defining the Image of STEM | STEM Diversity Advocate | Keynote Speaker | HBCU Alum #yourfavoritescientist
Deb Raji
@rajiinio
AI accountability, audits & eval. Keen on participation & practical outcomes. CS PhDing @UCBerkeley. forever @AJLUnited, @hashtag_include ✝️