Claire @chirila.bsky.social Prof of linguistics. 🇦🇺/🇺🇸; Australian languages, historical linguistics, Voynich Manuscript
Matthew Silk @mattjsilk.bsky.social Research Fellow in the Institute of Ecology and Evolution at University of Edinburgh. Social networks, behaviour, disease, demography and some wildlife photos.
Thomas Talhelm @thomastalhelm.bsky.social I'm an associate professor of behavioral science at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. I also founded Smart Air, a social enterprise dedicated to making low-cost air purifiers and teaching people how to build their own.
jim mallet @wtf-r-species.bsky.social natural historian, PhD Texas, native Londoner. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/jim (Profile pic from Mauro Cutrona https://facebook.com/profile.php?id=100006219407348)
Paul Bergmann @pkbergmann.bsky.social PhD candidate in Psychology at the Computational Modelling of Behaviour Lab, University of Marburg.
Interested in cooperation, social learning, and inequality.
Jean-Baptiste Camps @jbcamps.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. Computational Philology at École des chartes, Univ. PSL
ERC StG "The Lost Manuscripts of Medieval Europe: Modelling the Transmission of Texts (LostMA)" (2024-2029)
Cultural Transmission - Evolution of Texts - Computational Methods - Stylometry
Bridget Waller @bridgetwaller.bsky.social Professor of Evolution and Social Behaviour | Communication, faces, social interaction | ERC Consolidator grant FACEDIFF www.FACEDIFF.co.uk | NTU 🇪🇺🏳️🌈 |
President, Primate Society of Great Britain @primatesocietygb.bsky.social- D @drmdsharma.bsky.social @drmdsharma.bsky.social
Alexandra A. de Sousa @alealisousa.bsky.social Brain evolution https://alealisousa.github.io/
Alastair J Wilson @ali--wilson.bsky.social Evolution, behaviour, genetics, fish geek. Views my own
Luca Hahn @lucahahn.bsky.social Fascinated by (social) minds: cognition, sociality, culture. PhD student at University of Exeter, Cornwall, UK @uniexecec.bsky.social. Investigating social relationships/networks and social information use in wild jackdaws @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social.
Faye Thompson @fayejthompson.bsky.social NERC Independent Research Fellow at University of Exeter, Cornwall
Intergroup conflict | Cooperation | Social evolution | Termites | Banded mongooses
Chris Kaiser-Bunbury @isleconserv.bsky.social Community ecologist using islands and interaction neworks (mostly pollination and seed dispersal) to address urgent conservation questions.
Nick Royle @royleresearch.bsky.social Associate Professor in Behavioural and Evolutionary Ecology at The University of Exeter (Cornwall). Research on parental care, social evolution, life-histories, and broader ecology & conservation. Mostly involving beetles (burying, dung & ground varieties)
Dan Sankey - collective ecology @collectiveecology.bsky.social Collective behaviour and behavioual ecology. Or, simply put, collective ecology. PS. I love maths. Check out my YouTube videos where I break down my theoretical papers. https://www.youtube.com/@danielsankey126
Xav Harrison @xavh.bsky.social Molecular Ecologist at the University of Exeter. Interested in Wildlife microbiomes, disease, and statistics.
xavharrison.github.io
Elze Hesse @elzehesse.bsky.social UKRI Future Leaders Fellow based at the University of Exeter, interested in understanding the ecology and evolution of public goods, cooperation and plant-microbe interactions in metal- polluted soils
Dr Sarah Nelms @sarahenelms.bsky.social Lecturer in Marine Vertebrate Ecology and Conservation
@UniofExeter #ExeterMarine investigating #plastic pollution in the #marine environment. She/her
Matthew Lomas @lomasresearch.bsky.social Researcher of Autism, Teaching and Human Cognition. University of Exeter.
@keith-jensen.bsky.social @keith-jensen.bsky.social
Karim Baraghith @karimbaraghith.bsky.social
Lisa DeBruine @debruine.bsky.social #metacheck #rstats #PsyTeachR #OpenResearch #ManyFaces #iyknyd (overwhelmed by social media) 🏳️🌈 she/they
On Humans Podcast @ilarimakela.bsky.social Human origins | Global history | Econ history | Anthropology | Archaeology
Covering the story of humanity, from the evolution of apes to the making of the modern economy.
Posting as Ilari Mäkelä, host of On Humans.
https://onhumans.substack.com/about
Anna Graff @annagraff.bsky.social sie/ihr | she/her
Postdoc @isle-uzh.bsky.social
Gemeinderätin der Stadt Zürich @spzuerich.ch
Julia Penndorf @julia-penndorf.bsky.social behavioural ecologist studying information use, space-use & social behaviour
postdoctoral researcher @ Exeter University
Shakti Lamba @shaktilamba.bsky.social biologist, ecologist, anthropologist, forager, grower, independent scholar, study commons systems and collective action, over 15 years fieldwork with hunting, gathering and foraging communities (adivasi) in India
Ludovic Maisonneuve @ludovicmaisonneuve.bsky.social Research Fellow at IAST Toulouse | Evolution of social learning strategies | Mathematical modeling
https://ludovic-maisonneuve.github.io/
Charlie Brooker @charliebrooker.bsky.social Underwhelmist.
Dr Rachael Miller (Harrison) @drrmiller.bsky.social Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow, University of Exeter | Cognition & Conservation | Comparative Psychology | @themanybirds.bsky.social Co-Founder | 🪶🐦👶🐵🧠 | Website: www.drrachaelmiller.com
Kevin Hong @kevin-hong.bsky.social Cognitive Anthropologist; interested in cultural evolution and evolutionary psychology. Fieldwork in SW China on divination and magic. Assistant Prof at U Macau.
Twitter: https://x.com/KevinHong1991
Euan Angus Young @euantheyoung.bsky.social Evolutionary medicine | Statistical genetics | Asking why evolution left us with so much disease. Building methods and analysing big datasets. Always up to collaborate and learn from other researchers.
Alex Alvergne @alexalvergne.bsky.social Research Scientist at CNRS - Montpellier Evo Anthro Group Leader - Post about Human Evolutionary Ecology - Evo Med & Public Health - Women’s Health
Stefano Palminteri @stepalminteri.bsky.social Computational cognitive scientist interested in learning and decision-making in human and machiches
Research director of the Human Reinforcement Learning team
Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS)
Institut National de la Santé et Recherche Médicale (INSERM)
Social Learning Lab @sociallearninglab.bsky.social Social Learning Lab at Stanford University. We study children's cognitive development and how they learn from the social world.
PI: Dr. Hyowon Gweon @hyogweon.bsky.social
Holly Dunsworth @dunsworth.bsky.social Anthropology professor with a weird little book about human evolution coming to science shelves in 2027. https://hollydunsworth.blogspot.com/ & https://ecodevoevo.blogspot.com/
SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social The Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. EcoEvoRxiv (https://ecoevorxiv.org) is our preprint server. Become a member at http://sortee.org/join
https://linktr.ee/sortecoevo
Victoria Coren Mitchell @vcorenmitchell.bsky.social Writer, poker player and accidental quiz show host.
Charles Mullon @charlesmullon.bsky.social Evolutionary ecologist into evolutionary theory, eco-evolutionary dynamics, evolution of genetic architecture and Drag Race 🏳️🌈 (he/him); Asst Prof @ UNIL
https://lab-mullon.github.io/index.html
Dr Alice Bridges @adbridges.bsky.social Postdoc studying social learning, culture and behaviour in bumblebees & other insects at the University of Sheffield (@minibraincognition.bsky.social) 🌱🐝 She/her, views my own. 🇬🇧🇪🇺
I’m a (very) amateur nature photographer, & I’m also writing a novel!
Brian Wood @woodbrian.bsky.social Professor of anthropology at UCLA. Interested in evolutionary anthropology research, science, travel, music, the world out there. Director of the Hadza Fund.
Alexander Schakowski @alexschakowski.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow at MPI for Human Development, Berlin. Interested in human foraging, social decision-making, and collective intelligence.
Andrea Baronchelli @baronca.bsky.social Decentralised networks of humans and machines
https://www.andreabaronchelli.com/
Ishaan Sinha @ahnisnaahsi.bsky.social Doctoral student @exetercec.bsky.social investigating the evolution of personality variation and social learning
Hirotaka Imada @hirotakaimada.bsky.social Social Psychologist (PhD).
Assoc Prof @rhulpsychology.bsky.social.
Interests: Intergroup relations/cooperation/reputation.
Love music. Made in Japan. Views my own.
More about me: https://himada2018.github.io/ciplab/
Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev Co-founder & editor, Works in Progress. Writer, Scientific Discovery. Podcaster, Hard Drugs. Advisor, Coefficient Giving. // Previously at Our World in Data.
Newsletter: https://scientificdiscovery.dev
Podcast: https://harddrugs.worksinprogress.co
🏳️🌈
PBrakes @pbrakes.bsky.social Culture: humans & non-humans, conservation, theory & practice. Chair Bonn Convention Expert Group Animal Culture, #WDC, #ExeterMarine, CERG Massey University, Co-Chair IUCN CESSP-SSC Conservation of Animal Cultures Task Force, Mana Tūāpapa Fellow, RSNZ.
Hannah Little @hanachronism.bsky.social Lecturer @University of Liverpool. Director @Open Rights Group. SETI Post-Contact hub. Science Communication researcher and practitioner. Alien Linguist (Rep. Alex Cochran). Linguist. Comedian. Data Rights Advocate. Writer. Socialist. Trade Unionist.
Haneul Jang @haneuljang.bsky.social Anthropologist studying motherhood, cooperative foraging & childcare, knowledge transmission and mother-child health among BaYaka foragers in the Congolese rainforest
Research scientist @ird-fr.bsky.social
https://sites.google.com/view/haneuljang
Michael Hochberg @mkhochb.bsky.social University of Montpellier - Santa Fe Institute. Working these days on intelligence in biological and artificial systems. Website https://mehochberg.wixsite.com/blog/academia
Mohammad Atari @mohammadatari.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Psychology at UMass Amherst.
Director of the Culture and Morality Lab.
Séamus A. Power @seamusapower.bsky.social Forthcoming Book: Inequality - The View From Manywheres
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/inequality/50A5ACF8B6CB4D8D8393C4A620119D63
Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Copenhagen.
Visiting Senior Fellow, L.S.E.
President of @SQIP
W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social Women and Others in Evolutionary Behavioural Sciences
Empowering women and SGM students, researchers, and educators in the evolutionary behavioural sciences through mentorship, advocacy and community
https://linktr.ee/w_plus_ebs
Justin Yeh @djyeh.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Cheng Kung University. Cultural evolution, speciation, sexual selection, mathematical modeling. Will post very rarely.
Sonja Wild @sonjawild.bsky.social Dr Wild • postdoc affiliate @ucdavis • behavioural ecology • env. change, animal cognition, social learning, personality, animal culture 🐬 🐦 🐿 • 🏳️🌈 ally • hobby photographer • she/her • https://sites.google.com/view/sonjawild
Weaponised Pasts @weaponisedpasts.bsky.social Official account for the Leverhulme-funded project Weaponised Pasts: The Evolution of Heritage-based Hostility on Social Media. Learn more at https://www.weaponisedpasts.org
todd gureckis @toddgureckis.bsky.social computational cognitive science @ nyu. director NYU minds, brains, and machines initiative. https://gureckislab.org. Are you interested in research in my lab? https://intake.gureckislab.org/interest/
Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social Professor of Behavioural Ecology @ Bristol | social behaviour, vocal communication, cooperation, conflict, global change biology | love teaching and mentoring | love family time more
https://www.bio.bris.ac.uk/research/behavior/Vocal_Communication/
Sheilagh Ogilvie @sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social Chichele Professor of Economic History, All Souls College, Oxford
https://sheilaghogilvie.com/
Katya Herberg @katyaherberg.bsky.social Primatologist interested in the evolution of social cognition and culture // Professional animal enthusiast 🐒🧠
Uni of Exeter | Oxford Uni | Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology- R Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.bsky.social London's longest running evening class. We study what it means to be human at UCL Anthropology dept. We are FREE, on Tues eves term time. Account run by Camilla Power. Radical anthropologists include Chris Knight, Ian Watts, Jerome Lewis and Morna Finnegan
ces2026 @ces2026.bsky.social This year’s Cultural Evolution Society (CES) Conference 2026 will be held at UM6P Rabat Campus - Morocco.
Many Minds podcast @manymindspod.bsky.social Exploring our world's diverse forms of mind—human, animal, machine—from diverse perspectives. A project of @divintelligence.bsky.social, @kensycoop.bsky.social, @laukas.bsky.social
www.disi.org/manyminds/
Steije Hofhuis @steijehofhuis.bsky.social Cultural historian and postdoctoral researcher at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB). Studies uses of migration history in public debates today. PhD was about the cultural evolution of witch-hunting
Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social Scientist & skeptic. Dad. Book addict. Pathologically curious. Origins and Evolution of Complexity, Synthetic Transitions, Liquid Brains, and Earth Terraformation. ICREA, SFI & CSH professor. Author. Secular humanist.
Chiara Barbieri @chiarabarbieri.bsky.social Genetics at Uni Cagliari. Research Group "Human genetic diversity across languages and cultures" Uni Zurich.
@howbrainsevolve.bsky.social @howbrainsevolve.bsky.social
Pseudoerasmus @pseudoerasmus.bsky.social I bleat about the history of global economic development
https://pseudoerasmus.substack.com/
https://pseudoerasmus.com
https://medium.com/@pseudoerasmus
Paula Sheppard @paulajasheppard.bsky.social Evolutionary Anthropologist and Behavioural Ecologist. Interested in people's decisions around having babies.
I am not Alice Sweet Alice.
Minhua Yan @minhuayan.bsky.social Evolutionary anthropology, human behavioral ecology, cultural evolution. Research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Toulouse. Dog owner and animal lover.
Sven Kasser @svenkasser.bsky.social Genes & culture & coevolution, oh my!
Bio PhD @ St Andrews (w/ Kevin Lala) | Oxford | Stanford
Now a postdoc with Brenna Henn (UC Davis) and Caitlin Uren (Stellenbosch)
Opinions are my mom’s due to vertical cultural transmission - he/him.
Dr Lora Adair @loraadair.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at Brunel University | Feminist + Evolutionist | Reproduction/Abortion Research + Outreach
David Schultner @davidschultner.bsky.social Post-doctoral researcher at Karolinska Institute. I study social cognition and social learning using a mix of experiments, computational models and simulations.
Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @kristinandrews.bsky.social Philosopher. How animal cognition research informs philosophy, and vice versa. Social norms, evolution of tech, ToM, personhood, consciousness, AI. Prof and York Research Chair in Animal Minds at YorkU and Prof at CUNY Grad Center. www.kristinandrews.org
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
Eva Reindl @missdaffodil.bsky.social
John McBride @john-mcbride.bsky.social Scientist studying the evolution of proteins and music (so far, separately).
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=PYTwBWIAAAAJ
https://github.com/jomimc
Sasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social Statistical geneticist. Associate Prof at Dana-Farber / Harvard Medical School.
www.gusevlab.org
The Clever Cockie Research Project @clevercockierp.bsky.social Account for the research project jointly run at ANU and UZH and led by Lucy Aplin, studying spread of innovation, culture and cognition in urban cockatoos
https://www.clevercockies.com/
Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social Cognitive scientist at Stanford. Open science advocate. Symbolic Systems Program director. Bluegrass picker, slow runner, dad. http://langcog.stanford.edu
Marshall Abrams @marshall0i.bsky.social Philosopher of science, occasional scientist. Phil of:
ev biol, probability, modeling, stat inference. Book: Evolution and the Machinery of Chance. Activity here as private citizen, not as rep of nor supported by employer. https://marshallalmostsurely.com
Elli Leadbeater @ellileadbeater.bsky.social Professor of Ecosystems and Biodiversity in University College London's People and Nature Lab; interested in anything to do with ecology/evolution but especially pollinators, fruit flies and memory
@wennergrenorg.bsky.social @wennergrenorg.bsky.social Supporting anthropology worldwide, since 1941
https://wennergren.org/
Cornish Jackdaw Project @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social Research team led by Alex Thornton at the University of Exeter's Centre for Ecology and Conservation, studying cognition in wild jackdaws and other creatures.
wildcognitionresearch.com
Victoria Southgate @vhsouthgate.bsky.social Developmental social cognitive neuroscientist and thalassophile. Prof at the University of Copenhagen.
Personal site: www.victoriasouthgate.com
Phyllis Lee @pili-scotland.bsky.social Elephant follower for 40+ years, with the odd primate and bird (especially birds) thrown in. Mentor.
Cedric Boeckx @cedricboeckx.bsky.social ICREA Research Professor. Evolution, Genetics, Neuroscience, Linguistic Cognition
https://www.cedricboeckx.com
Uri Hertz @urihertz.bsky.social PI at the cog-sci dept at the university of Haifa. Social-cognitive-computational psychology, and sometimes neuroscience.
www.socialdecisionlab.net
Vivian Scheinsohn @arqueoscheinsohn.bsky.social Archaeologist in Patagonia, Argentina. Full professor at Universidad de Buenos Aires/ Researcher at Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas - CONICET. Hunter-gatherers, landscape archaeology. Born and raised in Buenos Aires
Dr Luis Huckstadt @luishuckstadt.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, @exetercec.bsky.social. Ecophysiology of marine top predators (🦭, 🐋, 🐧). Pinnipedologist. He/Him #immigrantscientist #PinnipedFacts 🇨🇱➡️ 🇬🇧 https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/ecodap/
Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, author (NOMAD CENTURY; TRANSCENDENCE; ANTHROPOCENE https://bit.ly/3QR898d) Human-Earth system science https://WanderingGaia.com
Laura Simone Lewis @laurasimonelewis.bsky.social Asst. Prof. in Psychological and Brain Sciences and Anthropology @ UC Santa Barbara | UC PPFP Fellow | Fascinated by great ape social cognition!
https://www.laurasimonelewis.com/
https://www.originsofmindlab.com/
Siobhán Cully 🇺🇸 🐱🥼🤓🩼 @siobhancully.bsky.social Anthropologist at #Rutgers studying disability, health, gender, inequality, evolution. Former program officer at #NSF. Mom, #DisabledinSTEM, musician. Passionate about #STEM #equity and #inclusion. Repost != endorsement. Views mine.
Dr Fay Clark @drfayclark.bsky.social Senior Lecturer: University of Bristol | PI: Comparative Challenge Lab | Finding Flow in animals | Primates | Cetaceans | 🧠🧩
Friederike [freddy; she/her] Hillemann @fhillemann.bsky.social . behavioural ecologist
. Foraging Ecology And Social Ties (FEASTs)
. von Humboldt postdoc fellow @ Durham
. Preprint Editor ProcB
. General Editor Hunter Gatherer Research
🌱♻️🌈🧠🌶️
✊ally to 🏳️⚧️ and BLM
fhillemann.github.io
Lara Wood @larawood.bsky.social Reader in Psychology at Abertay University. Research on how children think about others (social cognition) and how others influence children (social learning and influence) including #imitation #genderstereotypes #epistemicvigilence #sociallearning
Daniel Haun @dbmhaun.bsky.social Scientist @ the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Niles Eldredge @nilese.bsky.social
Josh Arbon @josharbon.bsky.social Animal behaviour, social and cognitive evolution. Jackdaws, mongooses, now wagtails. Herchel Smith Research Fellow, University of Cambridge.
Nori Jacoby @norijacoby.bsky.social Assistant professor at Cornell Psychology Department. CoCoCo Lab (Cornell Computational Cognition Lab) @co3lab.bsky.social. I am recruiting!