Behaviour 2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social Behaviour 2025 is the 38th International Ethological Congress to be hosted at Kolkata, India. Save the dates: 25-30 August, 2025. #Behaviour2025
For more details, check out our website: https://behaviourindia2025.in
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Dr. Rebecca Calisi-Rodríguez @rebeccacalisi.bsky.social Wildlife biologist & UC Davis professor studying animal behavior, stress, reproduction & the mental health benefits of human-animal interactions.
She/Her/Ella🇲🇽🇵🇷
Book-WILD PRIDE https://linktr.ee/RebeccaCalisiRodriguez
Lab https://greencarelab.ucdavis.edu/
Diana Manners @dmmanners.bsky.social •MSc Animal Behaviour student at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland
•BS Zoo Science 2018, USA
(she/her)
Andrew King @shoalgroup.bsky.social Professor of Animal Behaviour. www.SHOALgroup.org
Jacob C. Dunn @jacobcdunn.bsky.social Professor of Evolutionary Biology at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.
www.thepeergroup.org.uk
PEER Group research is focused on primate evolution and ecology, with a particular emphasis on vocal communication and the evolution of language.
Sjoerd Vos @vos-biology.bsky.social Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution. www.vos-biology.nl
Dr. Sophie Barton @sophiebarton.bsky.social Newly minted PhD of Hecht Lab of Harvard University. Studying how selection shapes the brains & behaviors of working dogs, village dogs, New Guinea singing dogs, and domesticated foxes 🐶 🦊 🧠 caninebrains.org sophiealexandrabarton.com ngsdconservation.org
Christina Nord @ina820.bsky.social Radical behaviorist interested in all things social. Native Hoosier. Current Postdoc at UC Davis 🐒🐄
Caroline Bettridge @cmbettridge.bsky.social Zoology Lecturer. Behavioural Ecology, primates, sociality, dogs, wildlife, science, conservation, nature.
Menno van Berkel @mennovanberkel.bsky.social Behavioural ecologist (PhD) seeking postdoc. Interested in sexual selection, courtship, animal architecture, cognition, sociality, rewilding, human-wildlife conflict, and of course birds.
Animal Inventiveness Research Project @animalinvention.bsky.social Our research explores how & why non-human animals invent new behaviours by studying their play.
The project is led by Mathilde Tahar & Alecia Carter.
We are funded by the Leverhulme Trust and hosted by UCL.
https://www.animalinventiveness.com
Emily Levy @emilylevy.bsky.social Behavioral ecologist studying songbirds. Assistant professor at Sacred Heart University. Excited about social behavior, early-life effects, field work, lab work, birds, primates, teaching, and undergrad research! she/her | emilyjlevy.weebly.com
Louise Kandler @louisekandler.bsky.social PhD researcher at the University of St Andrews studying personality in rats 🐀🐀🐀
Zoologist interested in all things animal behaviour and animal welfare.
She/her 🏳️🌈
Gregory Kohn @kohngregory.bsky.social Professor specializing in bird social behavior. Interested in developmental systems thought, ontogenetic niches, organismal agency, and ייִדיש. PI: Avian Social Ethology Lab
Roli Roberts @roliroberts.bsky.social Senior Editor at @plosbiology.org; Scientist, Humanist, Optimist and Recovering Academic. All opinions my own.
Silvia Damini @silviadamini.bsky.social PhD candidate at the University of Vienna working on wild ravens interactions with heterospecifics and personality
Jie Gao (D.Sc.) @drjiegao.bsky.social Comparative cognition • face and body perception • biological knowledge • chimpanzees • children • gorillas • goats • giraffes • Hakubi Researcher @ Kyoto University • views my own
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/gaojie/
Juliette Aychet @julietteaychet.bsky.social PhD, Associate Professor at Paris Nanterre Univ 🐥🐒👶 - she/her
Interested in gestures and multimodal communication in primates, birds, and all beings who move to communicate 💃
https://linktr.ee/julietteaychet
Julia Bădescu @iuliabadescu.bsky.social Primatologist | Chimpanzees, Colobus | Prof at Université de Montréal | SMBC to 💫 AuDHD kid | Still figuring out what I’m doing here 🌍🏳️🌈🖤
Hannah Frogge @hannahfrog.bsky.social PhD student @ UCSB studying the effects of anthropogenic disturbance on primate reproduction and immune function
Elliot Howard-Spink @ehowaspi.bsky.social Researching primate behaviours | Postdoc at UZH Evo Anthro & NCCR Evolving Language | Former Postdoc at MPI Animal Behavior & DPhil at Oxford Biology | Tools & Culture, Language Evo, Development & Senescence | He/They 🌈
Gustavo Alarcón-Nieto @galarconnieto.bsky.social Doctoral candidate at Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior IMPRS/UniKonstanz. Animal behavior, movement, tropical ecology, birds.
Javier Lazaro - scientific illustration @lazaroillustration.bsky.social Scientific illustrator for research & publications
Biologist (PhD) | former researcher
Helping scientists communicate their work visually
Illustrations for papers, books & posters
Get in touch: lazaroillustration@gmail.com
Web: www.lazaroillustration.com
Georgia Thompson @georgiathompson.bsky.social Commissioning Editor for Medical titles at CRC Press | Society of Young Publishers South West Events Officer
Got an idea for a book 📚? ✉️ georgia.thompson@tandf.co.uk
Jay Stafstrom @jaystafstrom.bsky.social Assistant Prof at Indiana University (starting Jan 2026)
neuroethology | spiders | animal behavior | spiders | sensory systems | ALAN | art | spiders
Ted Pavlic (he/him/his) @tedpavlic.bsky.social ASU Assoc. Prof in SCAI and SOLS.
Decision making and behavior in living and artificial autonomous systems. I ❤️ ants, bees, wasps, robots, and optimal foraging theory.
mastodon: @tedpavlic@mas.to
Twitter/X: @TedPavlic
@TEDx: http://youtu.be/9GWXCRetOjk
Dr. Taylor Brown @tbrownbirds.bsky.social Ornithologist 🐦 | birder 🦆| advocate for community science 🔭 | she/her | taylorbrown.org
Rick @bulepanda72.bsky.social World citizen living in Southeast Asia. I watch and photograph primates and wildlife.
Author, Hearing Disabled, father, photographer.
Wilson Sherman @wilsonsherm.bsky.social PhD Student in UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability studying people and American black bears in California.
🐻🌻🏘️🌎🌈
more at wilsonsherman.com
Tiziana A. Gelmi Candusso @urbanzoochory.bsky.social Research fellow at UWI LPZoo, prev. at UofT
Spatial ecologist | Urban mammals | Modeling animal movement, habitat selection, connectivity, species interactions and HW coexistence. Working with camera traps and GPS tracking data. Twitter was @UrbanZochory
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
Neeltje Boogert @neeltjeboogert.bsky.social Associate Professor in Animal Behaviour at Exeter's Penryn Campus. Studying avian social behaviour, cognition, disease spread and human-wildlife conflict. Love trail running, rock climbing, kayaking. Terrible at (kite-)surfing and expert worrier.
Dr Ellen Williams @drelliephants.bsky.social Animal behaviour and welfare researcher, interested in social behaviour and how managed environments impact on animal welfare 🐘
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ellen-Williams-6
Lucie Dona Maria @radicalmoineau.bsky.social PhD in blue tits' behavioral ecology at CEFE (CNRS, Montpellier 🇨🇵)
Your typical queer vegan woke feminist with an extra nerdy/weeb flavour. Also a dog mom and a birding 🦅/ gaming🎮🎲 / burlesque ✨ enthusiast
She/they
Marianne Paisley (she/her) @mariannepaisley.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 PhD Candidate - Great Ape Wellbeing at University of Sussex. Using thermal imagery to assess wellbeing in gorillas & chimpanzees 🐵 PSGB Student Officer 🤓
Esteban Fernandez-Juricic @estebanfj.bsky.social Prof at Purdue University. Visual ecology, visual physiology and anatomy, animal behavior, conservation ecology. Mixed-model and research reproducibility enthusiast.- S @skoopwoman.bsky.social @skoopwoman.bsky.social
Adam Hasik @hasikadam.bsky.social Postdoctoral research associate at the University of Edinburgh. Lover of all things parasites, ecology, and evolution!
He/him
Molly McNamara-Langton @mollymcnamara-lang.bsky.social 🎥 Wildlife Filmmaker
🦈 MSc Marine Vertebrate Ecol & Conservation
University of Exeter
Dr. Jocelyn Woods @animalwelfarist.bsky.social Zoo➡️farm #AnimalWelfare and #AnimalBehavior @ UW Madison using tech to study the impacts of tail docking sheep 🐑 | knitter on the run 🏃🏼♀️ 🧶 | views are my own
Keeper of @midwestprimates.bsky.social 🐒
https://jocelynwoods.wixsite.com/jocelynwoods
Charlotte Gannon @ckagannon.bsky.social Early Careers Fellow in the Institute of Advanced Study & Dep. Psychology at University of Warwick, researching imagination evolution and development 🦧👶. She/her
Wouter Vansteelant @wmgvs.bsky.social Trying to understand the world from a bird's perspective 🐦 | Migration and movement ecologist at BirdEyes.org. | Guest researcher at ibed.uva.nl | Co-founder of batumiraptorcount.org
Full portfolio at www.wouter-vansteelant.com
EARA @eara.eu European Animal Research Association | Informing about the importance of biomedical research using animals and the progress of new approach methodologies.
Laurie O'Neill @laurieparrot.bsky.social PhD parrot cognition, now working in bioscience funding strategy
Alexander McNamara @albeardyeditor.bsky.social Editor-in-chief at @livescience.bsky.social. Doing my very best to stick to following science people on this platform
Tay (Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró) @biotay.bsky.social Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró, Goffin Lab, Vienna, Austria
PhD^2 and Ninja Biologist.
Animal Behavior and Comparative Cognition.
Human perch for cockatoos.
Also here: twitter.com/BioTay
More about me here: https://osunamascaro.weebly.com/
MyPet Health by Vetcation @vetcation.com The mobile app that scores pet food. We decipher pet food labels and analyze the health impact of food products. An independent project by vets to help pet parents avoid toxic food for their pets.
App: vetcation.com/#/redirect
gcfchen@vetcation.com
Julia Kilgour, PhD @juliakilgour.bsky.social Urban ecologist • Navigating challenges with wildlife, cities, and people • Behavioural adaptations of animal to urban areas • Equity & justice in academia and beyond • 🤓 • 🏳️🌈 • 🏃♀️• 🐕 • 🥾 • 🍷• ☕️ • she/her
Josep Gasol @josepgasol.com Philosopher | PhD candidate @ University of Pardubice & UNED | #firstgen | Doing research on philosophy of animal mind and its intersection with applied ethics. 🐳🧠🍉🐝🦑🌱
(He/him)
🌐 josepgasol.com
IPBES @ipbes.net Intergovernmental Platform on #Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services. Denialism/trolling/profanity may result in banning. Re-skoots ≠ endorsements.
www.ipbes.net
linktr.ee/ipbes
www.freeourknowledge.org @freeourknowledge.bsky.social A collective action platform to kickstart #OpenScience practices in academia. Skeets by Wim Pouw
Josefien Tankink @josefient.bsky.social Post doctoral researcher studying the evolution of cooperation and social behaviour between non-human primates.
she/her
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Josefien-Tankink
Hansraj Gautam @hansraj88.bsky.social Postdoc @University of Turku, 🇫🇮 | animal behaviour, ecology and climate change | Working on Asian elephants, focusing on social behaviour, functional ecology & demography 🐘🌿🌳
https://linktr.ee/hansraj.g
Alexandria Cosby @alexandriacosby.bsky.social PhD candidate & Vanier scholar in the WEB lab @ the University of Guelph studying the foraging behavior of bats 🦇 alexandriacosby.wixsite.com/alexandriacosby
Danai Papageorgiou @danaipapageorgiou.bsky.social Behavioural ecologist interested in the social life of animals. Emmy Noether Group Leader at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Associate Editor in ProcB.
https://danaipapageorgiou.weebly.com/
Camille Testard @ctestard.bsky.social Neuroethology and Ecology of social behavior in mammals. Special interest in how animals cope with extreme environmental challenges. PhD in Platt lab @Penn, now Junior Fellow @Harvard and Branco Weiss Fellow with Dulac lab
Alex Figueiredo @alexfig.eurosky.social Microbiome ecology, animal behaviour, evolutionary biology.
Postdoc at NIOO-KNAW
Previously: Postdoc at U. Oxford & PhD in EvoBio at U. Zurich.
Birder & bird ringing trainee. I dig Mini & cooking. He/him- C Christine Beardsworth @cebeardsworth.bsky.social Lecturer in Behavioural Ecology at Liverpool John Moores University. Interested in cognition, personality and movement ecology
Natalie Awad Schwob @awad-schwob.bsky.social Asst. Prof in Psych & Animal Behavior at Bucknell
Research Scientist at Ape Initiative
Cognitive Evolution in Primates & Humans
🇺🇸🇱🇧🇵🇸🏳️🌈
https://bit.ly/pace-lab 
Berkay Arslan @asimpleprimate.bsky.social Visiting Scholar at the Global Research Centre for Diverse Intelligences @grcdi.bsky.social | MSc in Comparative Psychology 🐒 @uniofstandrews.bsky.social | Wiser: berkayarslan
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
Nicolas Mathevon @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social Prof bioacoustics, University of Saint-Etienne, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Institut universitaire de France
Academia Europaea
Director ENES Bioacoustics Research Lab (http://eneslab.com)
Book @princetonupress.bsky.social: http://tinyurl.com/yuetutum
Alex Pritchard (he/him) @pritcharda.bsky.social Postdoctoral Scholar @ UCDavis.
SNA | decision making | uncertainty | sociality | interdisciplinary | individual differences | experiments | multi-methods
Andrea Ravignani @andrearavignani.bsky.social Professor @SapienzaRoma - Comparative psychology, music neuroscience & bioacoustics. Works on rhythm/sync/speech/communication across species (humans, primates, marine mammals, etc.)
Aliènor Bertrand @alienorbertrand.bsky.social Chercheuse, philosophe
@CNRS @ENSLyon
Philosophie et anthropologie de la nature.
Histoire de la philosophie moderne.
#Changementsglobaux
cnrs.academia.edu/AliènorBertrand
Ines Fürtbauer @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social Behavioural endocrinologist, Associate Professor
http://ines.fuertbauer.com/
wimpouw @wimpouw.bsky.social Working on dynamic signs and signals in communication at Tilburg University at the Department of Computational Cognitive Science. Interested in language & movement science, complex systems & 4E, Open Science (envisionbox.org) & other things (wimpouw.com)
Simon Gadbois @simongadbois.bsky.social Ethologist. Canids, Anatids, Emydids. Wildlife Conservation Canines. Dalhousie University.
https://www.simon.gadbois.org
Camilla Cenni @ccenni.bsky.social Working on material culture, (animal) innovation, social learning and personality.
Research Fellow at the University of Mannheim.
Silvan Spiess @babblingbirds.bsky.social PhD Student @UZH_ch in evolutionary biology, studying the variability of complex vocalisations in Chestnut-Crowned Babblers. Avian & non-avian dinosaur enthusiast.
Ryan Scauzillo @ryuzicohn28.bsky.social Postdoc at UTHSC in Memphis, TN.
Research interests neuroethology, neuroecology, social behavior, animal cognition.
https://ryanscauzillo.weebly.com/
Profile pic is from Halloween this year.
Lucie Le Tallec @lucieletallec.bsky.social Master’s Student in Evolutionary & Functional Ecology | Graduate in Applied Ethology & Animal Biology | Bird lover🐤
Animal Behaviour Live @animalbehaviour.live International & inclusive online platform bringing together researchers in animal behaviour.
🔗Website: animalbehaviour.live
🌲Linktree: https://linktr.ee/animalbehaviourlive
📝Conference: https://ablaoc.sciencesconf.org/
Ondrej Fiser @laniusondrej.bsky.social 🦅 MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow 🦅
Ornithologist 🐦 Ethologist 🦉 Ph.D. in Cognitive Ethology 🦅 Avian Cognition 🐦⬛ Predator-Prey Interactions 🦤 Predator Recognition🦜
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ondrej-Fiser-2?ev=hdr_xprf
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
Richard Mott @ro-mott.bsky.social Animal welfare scientist with an interest in perception and cognition. Climb now, work later
Vix Franks @vixfranks.bsky.social Lecturer in Wildlife Biology & Conservation at University of Salford. Animal behaviour, social networks, and conservation, with a soft spot for birds 🦜 she/her
Janire Castellano Bueno, PhD @janirecas.bsky.social 🦜 Researcher at @wildanimals.bsky.social
🐒 #AnimalWelfare Postdoc at @newcastleuni.bsky.social
Opinions are my own (she/her)
Hoi-Lam Jim @hljim.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Kyoto University 🌳 https://ifohs.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/archives/member/hoi-lam-jim-2
Comparative psychology, animal behaviour & social cognition in elephants & canids 🐘🐾
One of @manydogsproject.bsky.social 🐕
🇬🇧🇭🇰
UC San Diego @ucsandiego.bsky.social The official account of UC San Diego. #4 public university, #1 in your hearts. 🔱
Helen Mylne @helephantmylne.bsky.social How long do monkeys live? 🐒 Turns out we don't really know! Postdoc in Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour at UoExeter modelling primate lifespans. Also elephant social network analyst 🐘 running entirely on sugar and a love of African wildlife 🌍
Katie Grogan @drkatieg1.bsky.social Scientist & Asst Prof at U. of Cincinnati: anthropological genetics & evolutionary biology. Feminist. Dog lover. She/Her👩🔬👩💻🐶 Tweets my own.
Janette Wallis @janettewallis.bsky.social Primatologist | Africa | chimpanzees | researcher | educator | consultant | editor | conservation | HWI | disease | ecotourism | Oklahoma | Democrat | OKC Thunder | cats! 
Sarah Dalesman @sarahdalesman.bsky.social Researcher in animal behaviour and cognition, mostly working with aquatic snails and dogs. And sometimes both!
Dog agility trainer, judge and competitor in my spare time.
Lecturer at Aberystwyth University in Wales @aberdlsagb.bsky.social
Anna Redly @annaredly.bsky.social Research Assistant at @kingsioppn.bsky.social, interested in adolescent mental health, neurodiversity and public engagement.
Kevin Lala @kevinlala.bsky.social Evolution; animal behaviour; animal culture; human cognitive evolution; niche construction; anti-racism. Editor-in-Chief of Biological Theory
#evolution #evodevo #philbio #philsci #animalculture #animalbehavior
ManyBirds Project @themanybirds.bsky.social A Big Team Open Science collaborative approach to avian cognition and behaviour research | 🕊🦅🦆🦜🐓🦩🦚🦉| Run by Co-Founder @drrmiller.bsky.social | Website: www.themanybirds.com
Christopher Olson @christopherrolson.bsky.social Associate Professor of Physiology at Midwestern University | Neuro 🧠 |Ornithologist 🦉 | Grand Canyon enthusiast | Natural History | All things Arizona 📸
Dr Sam Roberts @samroberts7.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Psychology @LJMU
Director of Networks and Wellbeing Lab: https://wellbeing.owlstown.net
Research interests in social bonds in primates and humans.
https://profiles.ljmu.ac.uk/12295-sam-roberts
Millie Johnston @milliejohnston.bsky.social Postdoc at the University of Canterbury researching avian cognition 🦜 🇳🇿
~ kea, crows, jackdaws, pigeons ~
~ working memory, probabilistic reasoning, timing behaviour, affective states ~
Tyler Andres-Bray @tyandresbray.bsky.social (he/him) Asst Prof of Teaching in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCLA. Interested in chimpanzee tool use, insectivory, behavioral ecology, and inclusive STEM education. Dog dad, husband, and comic book nerd 🏳️🌈
Marianne Freeman (she/her) @msfreeman.bsky.social Animal Researcher and Lecturer | Welfare | Behaviour | Conservation | Education | Management | Zoo
Dr. Kathleen M. Munley @thefishiedoc.bsky.social Assistant Professor @psychualberta.bsky.social 🇨🇦 | PI: The Seasonal and Social Neuroendocrinology (SeaSoN) Lab @ualberta.bsky.social | social and seasonal regulation of behavioral plasticity in cichlids 🐟🧠🧬 | she/her
Dr Ani Permana @dranipermana.bsky.social Post doc primatologist interested in cognition and culture. Work on vocalisations and nest building in 🦧. Uni Warwick and MPI
Bad Psychology Takes @badpsych.bsky.social Noun. willful ignorance (uncountable) (idiomatic, law) A decision in bad faith to avoid becoming informed about something so as to avoid having to make undesirable decisions that such information might prompt.
Posting the worst Psychology takes.
Ben Finkel @finkelben.bsky.social I research the challenges of aging with the Ngogo chimps, life history evolution, and other anthro things. Lecturer @ Dartmouth College
Daniel Villar @daniel-a-villar.bsky.social Conservation biologist and behavioural ecologist. Treasurer of Scientists for Labour. Postdoc at @durhamanthropology.bsky.social, DPhil from @biology.ox.ac.uk