The It's Innate! Podcast @theitsinnatepc.bsky.social Developmental cognitive scientists Deon (deontbenton.bsky.social) & Jenny (jinjingjenny1.bsky.social) debate the origins of knowledge. Occasionally joined by our editor extraordinaire, Jenna DiStefano (jennadistefano.bsky.social)
itsinnate.fireside.fm
Rodney Tompkins @rtompkins.bsky.social Psychology PhD candidate at UC San Diego, interested in the development of knowledge about care, protection, and social relationships.
https://sites.google.com/view/rtompkins/
Abhigyan Sahoo @abhigyansahoo.bsky.social RA @ULBruxelles | how do race, identity, groups, language shapes politics and social inequalities | 🏳️🌈
https://sites.google.com/view/abhis-com/home
Jordi Sterett @jsterett.bsky.social she/her | M. S. in Psychology | PhD Student at UC Santa Cruz | I’m interested in how young children learn in everyday contexts revolving media & food alongside their caregivers
Consciously Lost @consciouslylost.bsky.social Wandering with a thread in hand. Raw stories on values, boundaries, and the decisions we usually avoid.
Essays → consciouslylost.substack.com
Free sample →
consciouslylost.substack.com/about
Workbook → consciouslylost.com
Erin Kim @erindkim.bsky.social 
robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social the tallest child in the world!! https://www.robertjacksonbennett.com/the-french-drain-i-dug-back-in-2019
Meltem Yucel @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social Assistant Professor @msupsychology.bsky.social • studying norms, morality, & gossip • Previously @ Duke, UVA, IMPRS LIFE • she/her • Founder: @psychresearchlist.bsky.social • Lab: @moralmindslab.bsky.social • www.meltemyucel.com
Fernando Sánchez @fernandosanchezh.bsky.social PhD candidate at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Jadyn Park @jadynpark.bsky.social Graduate student at UChicago | Computational Affective and Social Neuroscience Lab | she/her
Mystie L. Saturday @mystiesaturday.bsky.social Social psych PhD student at the University of Chicago studying close relationships and self/identity
she/her | first-gen | 🏳️🌈
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Adi Wiezel, Ph.D. @awiezel.bsky.social South(w)e(a)sterner & social psychologist studying political psychology, affect, leadership, & intergroup relations. Assistant Professor of Psychology and director of the BORG research lab (https://awiezel.wixsite.com/wiezelborglab) @ Elon University.
Tim (Wei-Ting) Chao @timchao.bsky.social Ph.D. Student @ University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign with Dr. Michael Rizzo | Developmental Psychology & Origins of Social Development | @UofT’22
Vlad Chituc @vladchituc.bsky.social Cognitive scientist studying how morality, happiness, and other subjective magnitudes can be quantified.
Postdoctoral fellow at Yale University
https://www.vladchituc.com/
@denisselopez.bsky.social @denisselopez.bsky.social Dev Psych PhD student at UChicago | she/her/ella 🇲🇽
Emma Yu @emmayu23.bsky.social she/her | PhD Student @UC Santa Barbara | Boston University '23
Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com Philosopher & Historian of Biology 🇲🇽 • Postdoctoral Fellow @theramseylab.bsky.social (@clpskuleuven.bsky.social) • https://www.alejandrofabregastejeda.com • https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262052825/the-organism-environment-pairing/ • #philsci #HPS #philsky
Adena Schachner @adenaschachner.bsky.social Assoc Prof at UC San Diego, exploring the mind & its origins. Cognitive development, social cognition, music cognition, open science, all of interest. http://madlab.ucsd.edu 
Dr Rebecca Koomen @rebeccakoomen.bsky.social Studying origins of cooperation for sustainability.
Developmental, cross-cultural, comparative psychologist.
UM6P School of Collective Intelligence
she / her
Alberto Acerbi @acerbialberto.com I am an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento (Italy): cognitive anthropology / cultural evolution / digital media / cultural analytics
More info in the pinned post.
Sacha Altay @sachaltay.bsky.social 🔎 Misinformation, social media & the news 🗞️
🇨🇭 Postdoc at the University of Zurich, previously Reuters Institute & ENS 🇫🇷
https://sachaaltay.github.io/
tal boger @talboger.bsky.social phd student at jhu psych | perception + cognition
https://talboger.github.io/
Society for Philosophy and Psychology @socphilpsych.bsky.social minding minds since 1974
John Templeton Foundation @templetonfdn.bsky.social We support interdisciplinary research and catalyze conversations that inspire awe and wonder. ✨
Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social Associate Professor of Psychology at Columbia studying how kids and adults think about morality, religion, and law. Lover of balloons. Lab website: columbiasamclab.weebly.com
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social Paradigmatically promiscuous scientist. Ankylosaur enthusiast. Modeler of cultural evolution and related topics. Anti-fascist. Professor at UC Merced, external prof at the Santa Fe Institute and CSH-Vienna.
Web: https://smaldino.com/wp/
Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social An account for experimental philosophy - an interdisciplinary field at the intersection of philosophy and psychology https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_philosophy#:~:text=Experimental%20philosophy%20is%20an%20emerging,inform%20research%20on%20phi
Tom Costello @tomcostello.bsky.social research psychologist. beliefs, AI, computational social science. assistant prof at Carnegie Mellon
Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social Co-founder of Project Implicit, Society for Improving Psychological Science, and the Center for Open Science; Professor at the University of Virginia
Margaret Echelbarger @bskybymidge.bsky.social Consumer Science asst prof at UW-Madison | UMich PhD | Graphic Novel Enthusiast | Devoted Midwesterner | Nacho Fanatic | she/her
About me: www.mechelbarger.com
Newsletter: https://mmarginalia.substack.com/
Lab IG: www.instagram.com/raisinggoodconsumers
Cooperation Lab @cooperationlab.bsky.social We're the BC Cooperation lab, directed by Dr. Katherine McAuliffe. We study the forces that shape and sustain cooperative societies.
https://www.bccooperationlab.com
Adam Morris @thatadammorris.bsky.social Computational cognitive scientist. Postdoc at Princeton. Studying introspection in humans and AI.
Matti Wilks @mattiwilks.bsky.social Reader (Associate Prof) in Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. Interested in morality and related things.
Julia Marshall @juliamarshall.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Brown University, studying how children and adults reason about the social world. Director of the Mind & Morality Lab. Forever an Atlanta Falcons fan 
Alexis Smith-Flores @asmithflores.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Lehigh | cog dev, emotion reasoning, and social cog | she/her
https://wordpress.lehigh.edu/littlelearnerslab/
Katie Vasquez @ktvasq.bsky.social PhD candidate at UChicago 🧠 Wesleyan University alum 🎓 Developmental psychologist taking a social cognitive approach to peer pressure https://www.katievasquez.me/
Human Behavior & Evolution Society @humbehevosoc.bsky.social The Human Behavior & Evolution Society (HBES) is an international society for scientists studying the evolution of human behavior. Find us at https://www.hbes.com, or read our journal Evolution & Human Behavior. Account managed by Yunsuh (Nike) Wee
Gordon Pennycook @gordpennycook.bsky.social Associate Professor, Psychology @cornelluniversity.bsky.social. Researching thinking & reasoning, misinformation, social media, AI, belief, metacognition, B.S., and various other keywords. 🇨🇦
https://gordonpennycook.com/
The Dissenter @thedissenteryt.bsky.social In-depth interviews with leading academics on #psychology, #philosophy, #anthropology, #neuroscience, #economics, #biology, and more.
Website: https://www.thedissenter.net/
Paul Bloom @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social Psychologist who studies and writes about human nature—including morality, pleasure, and religion. Sustack: https://smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/
bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social Official account for the Bergelson Lab at Harvard, sporadically maintained by the PI:).
Just a lab, trying to figure out how babies learn language, somehow caught in the crosshairs of gov't admin battles.
xavier roberts-gaal @xrg.bsky.social three language models in a trench coat
harvard psych, oai safety fellow (xavierrg.com)
Fiery Cushman @fierycushman.bsky.social Psychologist, but not the kind that can help you
Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social Cognitive Scientist, Associate Professor at Boston University, Director of the Developing Minds Lab https://www.bu.edu/cdl/developing-minds-lab/
Carolyn Baer @carebaer7.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Psychology @TrentU
Cognitive development, confidence, collaboration
Research funded by SSHRC 🇨🇦
Celeste Kidd @celestekidd.bsky.social Professor of psychology at UC Berkeley. Studies how people form beliefs, why the beliefs are sometimes flawed, & how new tech impacts those beliefs. 
Jan Engelmann @janengelmann.bsky.social Comparative and Developmental Psychologist at UC Berkeley and Director of the Social Origins Lab: https://socialoriginslab.com/
Brandon Woo @brandonwoo.bsky.social Assistant professor at UCSB, studying the development of the social mind. 🇨🇦🏳️🌈 (he/him)
bmwoo.github.io
Alexa "Lex" Sacchi @alexasacchi.bsky.social Dev Psych PhD Candidate at UofT 🇨🇦 Studying morality & change over time ⭐ They/Them 🌈 On the postdoc job market 👀
More here! linktr.ee/alexasacchi
Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard University. Computation, cognition, development.
Elizabeth Bonawitz @ebonawitz.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. Learning Sciences, Harvard GSE. Study learning in early childhood using computational modeling & empirical studies. Speaking for self only. She/her
Mia Radovanovic @radovanovic.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Algoma University studying effort. she/her https://radovanovicm.github.io/website/
Jessica Sommerville @jessicas.bsky.social Psych prof at Univ. of Toronto, studying the dev't of social and moral cognition, learning, and behavio(u)r.
tecl.ca
Elaine Wang @elainewang.bsky.social PhD Student | Yale Psychology
Norman Zeng @normanjzeng.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Toronto studying moral development in infants and children
Adrienne Wood @adriennewood.bsky.social Social Psychology. Emotion, interpersonal behavior, conversation, social networks. I'm a dabbler, so if you love poorly-made arts and crafts or amateur improv, I'm your gal! https://emotionbehavior.com (Opinions are my own, not my employer's)
Rebecca Saxe @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social Cognitive neuroscience at MIT. Open science. 🇨🇦
Saxelab.mit.edu
Lindsey Powell @lindseypowell.bsky.social Developmental psych & cog neuro, studying how babies and kids make sense of and learn from their social world. Assoc Prof @ UCSD. she/her
Ashley Thomas @ashleyjthomas.bsky.social Assistant Professor she/her. I study how people think about social relationships. Usually with babies and kids.
ashleyjthomas.com
Daniel Gilbert @danielgilbert.bsky.social Professor of Psychology, Harvard University | Author of “Stumbling on Happiness” | Host of “This Emotional Life” on PBS
Lydia Emery @lydiaemery.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago in social psychology studying relationships, social class, and self/identity. She/her. https://cedarlab.uchicago.edu
Dan Williams @danwphilosophy.bsky.social Philosopher. Interested in: Philosophy, Psychology, Evolution, Artificial Intelligence, Social Science, Politics.
Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social Professor, Department of Psychology and Center for Brain Science, Harvard University
https://gershmanlab.com/
mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social Social/Political Psychology @ Tilburg University | ♥ Burritos+Vinyl+ | if there aren’t typos, I didn’t write it
https://tbslaboratory.com
David Pizarro @peez.bsky.social Brother J. says “yuck”
Oliver Scott Curry @oliverscottcurry.bsky.social Chief Science Officer www.kindness.org | Research Affiliate https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk | www.oliverscottcurry.com
Evolution, cooperation, morality & politics. All posts are hypotheses.
Léo Fitouchi @lfitouchi.bsky.social Cognitive scientist. Studying moral cognition & culture
Research fellow at @iast.fr @tse-fr.eu. PhD ENS Paris.
Website: leofitouchi.github.io
Chris Kavanagh @ckava.bsky.social Cognitive Anthropologist/Social Psychologist. Norn Irish in Japan. Junior co-host of Decoding the Gurus. Interested in conspiracism, extremism, & religion/ritual psychology.
Aarhus University's Religion, Cognition, and Culture Unit @rcc-au.bsky.social Aarhus University
The Database of Religious History @religionhistory.bsky.social 
Michael Barlev @mbarlev.bsky.social Evolution, cognition, & culture. Arizona State University 🌵 🌞 🦂- A Azim Shariff @azimshariff.bsky.social Professor of Psychology at the University of British Columbia.
Tania Lombrozo @tanialombrozo.bsky.social Writes about cognitive science and philosophy. Professes psychology at Princeton University. Devours chocolate and fiction. www.tanialombrozo.com
Dimitris Xygalatas @xygalatas.bsky.social Experimental anthropologist, cognitive scientist, dad, author of Ritual: How seemingly senseless acts make life worth living
Joshua Conrad Jackson @joshcjackson.bsky.social Cultural evolution of the mind | Assistant Professor @ University of Chicago, Booth School of Business & Faculty Affiliate of UChicago Data Science Institute | He/his | https://joshuaconradjackson.com
Nicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University. Sociologist. Network Scientist. Physician. Author of Apollo's Arrow; Blueprint; Connected; and Death Foretold. Director of the Human Nature Lab: https://humannaturelab.net
Victoria Southgate @vhsouthgate.bsky.social Developmental social cognitive neuroscientist and thalassophile. Prof at the University of Copenhagen.
Personal site: www.victoriasouthgate.com
Lin Bian @linbian.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Psychology @UChicago, studying social cognitive development, stereotypes, prejudice, and inequality
Website: eastlab.uchicago.edu
The Cognitive Development Society (CDS) @cogdevsoc.bsky.social 
Isobel Heck @isobelheck.bsky.social asst prof @ U of R studying children's thinking about society
https://labsites.rochester.edu/miso-lab/
co-director psychgeist media (www.psychgeistmedia.org)
Zoe Liberman @zoeliberman.bsky.social Associate Professor at UCSB. Interested in the origins and development of humans' understanding of social relationships. liberman.psych.ucsb.edu
marjorie rhodes @marjorierhodes.bsky.social I do developmental cognitive science at nyu; interested in social cognition, conceptual development, science for social change, and language and thought
Deon T. Benton @deontbenton.bsky.social Developmental cognitive scientist. Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University. Co-host of The It's Innate! Podcast. PI of the Computational Cognitive Development Lab. Dad. Husband. Human. (he/him/his)
Yuko Munakata @yukomunakata.bsky.social Prof @UCDavis. Cognitive control - influences, consequences, mechanisms, variations, developments. Mom, boarder, pursuer of Quadrant 2.
Andrew Shtulman @andrewshtulman.bsky.social Professor, cognitive developmental psychologist, and author of SCIENCEBLIND (Basic) and LEARNING TO IMAGINE (Harvard). I love academic bureaucracy and sarcasm.
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Grégory Fiorio @gregoryfiorio.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Cognitive Science at ENS-PSL (Paris)
I investigate the evolutionary and cognitive foundations of morality, punishment and intergroup violence.
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/gregoryfiorio/home
Diana Tamir @dianatamir.bsky.social Psych Professor at Princeton studying how brains think about people. https://psnlab.princeton.edu/
Patrick Durkee @pdurkee.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Psychology at Fresno State studying hierarchy and personality at multiple levels of analysis.
@davidpinsof.bsky.social @davidpinsof.bsky.social Evolutionary social scientist, research affiliate at UCLA, co-creator of Cards Against Humanity, writes about bullshit at http://everythingisbullshit.blog
Erez Yoeli @erezyoeli.bsky.social Research Scientist, MIT Sloan
Director, Applied Cooperation Initiative
Co-author, Hidden Games
Research focus: How to motivate people to do good
Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social Faculty (Penn State), lab director (https://socialitylab.org), entrepreneur. Interdisciplinary anthropologist studying how people cooperate to manage risk. Foodie. 🌎🌍
Nathan Nunn 🇨🇦 🇰🇷 @nathannunn.bsky.social Professor of Economics. University of British Columbia. Political Economy, Economic Development, Economic History, Cultural Evolution. 🇰🇷🇨🇦
Martin Lang @martinlangcz.bsky.social Cognitive and evolutionary science of human cooperation with particular interest in signaling, ritual, and religion.
Assist Prof at LEVYNA, Masaryk Uni
www.martinlang.cz
#CogEvoSciRel
M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social Professor of Psychology & Human Values at Princeton | Cognitive scientist curious about technology, narratives, & epistemic (in)justice | They/She 🏳️🌈
www.crockettlab.org
Rob Sica @robsica.bsky.social Knowledge would have little allure if we did not have to overcome so much shame on the way to acquiring it. -Nietzsche
Michael Muthukrishna @michael.muthukrishna.com Prof. #NYU & #LSE. Author: A Theory of Everyone. Researching & spreading the word on how humans evolved & what that means for us today. www.atheoryofeveryone.com