[ramraj07]

This is not always the case. SA and Sabine, are the hyper rare outliers in this regard. Fields like biology have no such folks for variety of reasons (I’m counting out some celebrities involved in pointing out actual misconduct instead of sloppy work).

[biomcgary]

Biology has so many exceptions and idiosyncrasies compared to physics that being broadly competent is difficult.

Physics found the "zoo" of diverse particles to be inelegant (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_zoo). In biology, actual zoos hold a small fraction of diversity at the organismal level. The diversity at the molecular level is insanely high and the vast majority of "rules" have exceptions. Even the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_dogma_of_molecular_bio...) is a bit messy, unless stated fairly carefully (e.g., https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24965874/).

[lofatdairy]

Who even are the big science communicators in for current research in bio? Nobody comes to mind, not even a non-professor.

[dekhn]

Eric Topol

[faitswulff]

Akiko Iwasaki aka @virusesimmunity on Twitter is also a good follow for, well, viruses and immunity.

Ed Yong for excellent long form journalism.