Marlene Berke @marleneberke.bsky.social Postdoc @ MIT Brain & Cognitive Science | PhD @ YalePsychology | Computational Modeling | Metacognition | Social Cognition | Perception | Women’s Health Advocacy marleneberke.github.io
Apoorva Gopinath @apoorvagopinath.bsky.social Phd student at Adelaide Uni.
Research. Science writing. Behavioural Ecology. Social Networks.
SMBE Satellite Meeting on Gene-Culture Co-Evolution @smbegeneculture.bsky.social Molecular Perspectives on Human History and Diversity
Cagliari - Sardinia, 21-23 September 2026
A SMBE Satellite Meeting open to Interdisciplinarity
https://sites.google.com/view/gene-cultureco-evolution
Caco (Caroline) @cacoberry.bsky.social PhD student in chimpanzee emotions & culture at the University of Geneva
Animal behaviour enjoyer @animalbehaviourfan.bsky.social 
Iris Bontekoe @irisdb.bsky.social Postdoc @unibe.ch
#MovementEcology #biologging #birds
PhD from @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social and @uni-konstanz.de
MSc and BSc from @rug.nl
Dr. Aurelia Strauß @aureliastrauss.bsky.social Behavioural Ecologist | MSCA fellow @ UCalgary & Exeter | Guest researcher @ RUG | Career advisor @ EthoGes
Ester Desfilis @edesfilis.bsky.social I love learning! Evolutionary developmental neurobiology, Psychobiology, Neuroethology, Comparative Neurobiology. Mare i iaia😊 #UdL #Lleida #Science🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
William D. Marelich, PhD @healthpsy.bsky.social Research Psychologist and Professor - Applied Quant Methods and Health Psych
williammarelich.com
NeuroLeyla @neuroleyla.bsky.social Neuroscientist in The Lemanic Arc. MRI, decision-making, uncertainty, predictive coding, NeuroAI. @EPFL alum. Optimist. Mom. 🇺🇸🇹🇳 in 🇨🇭 #thirdculturekid #UBI #thewholedamndollar
Phyllis Lee @pili-scotland.bsky.social Elephant follower for 40+ years, with the odd primate and bird (especially birds) thrown in. Mentor. 
Gabriella E. Smith, PhD @explanimals.bsky.social Animal listener
https://sites.google.com/view/gabriella-e-smith/home?authuser=1
Sabine Blütgen @sabinebluetgen.bsky.social PhD student at the Centre for Language Evolution @uoe-cle.bsky.social, University of Edinburgh. Interested in human and animal behaviour and evolution, gene–culture coevolution, social cognition. she/her
https://sabinebluetgen.github.io/
Katya Herberg 🐒🧠🌱 @katyaherberg.bsky.social Primatologist interested in the evolution of social cognition and culture / Professional animal enthusiast
PhD @ University of St Andrews📍
Mawa Dafreville @mawadafreville.bsky.social Working on social cognition in human and non-human primates - currently Postdoc in the team 'Pathways to Language' (Department of Paleoanthropology, University of Tübingen)
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.
katja heuer @k4tj4.bsky.social into brain evolution & development, open science, art & science https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hMNZHsrNHw, music, making, javascript, contemporary dance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZfHj7F2FzQ
website: katjaq.github.io
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
New Guinea Singing Dog Conservation Society @ngsdconservation.bsky.social The NGSDCS is a nonprofit that promotes awareness, knowledge, conservation, and welfare of New Guinea Singing Dogs (NGSDs) ngsdconservation.org
Julia Espinosa @jespinosa.bsky.social Postdoc in comparative psychology, biology, & neuroscience @YorkU & @Harvard | Studying the nature & nurture shaping social behaviour in diverse dog populations 🐩🐕🐕🦺 | #ManyDogs Founder & Co-Director | she/her/ella #LatinaInSTEM
Jeff Stevens @jeffreyrstevens.com Professor of Psychology at @unlincoln.bsky.social
Lead the Canine Cognition and Human Interaction Lab @unlcchil.bsky.social
Co-direct the ManyDogs Project @manydogsproject.bsky.social
Data science mentor at @Posit.co.
#RStats #OpenScience
he/him
Emily Bray @dremilybray.bsky.social MA PhD CAAB | Asst Prof at UA VetMed | Researching canine cognition, maternal style, and assistance dogs- L Liz Hare, PhD @lizhare.bsky.social Working dog genetics and genomics | R | Open Science | ManyDogs Project | The Turing Way | Inclusion and Accessibility
Dr Juliane Kaminski @comparativeminds.bsky.social Associate Prof of Comparative Psychology, Member of Centre for Comparative & Evolutionary Pschology (CCEP)
@uop-ccep.bsky.social, #ComparativePsychologie #AnimalCognition, #Dogs, #Chimpanzees, #SocialCognition, #Domestication,She/Her
Daniel Promislow @dpromislow.bsky.social I study systems biology of aging at Tufts University. Co-founder of https://dogagingproject.org and dogaginginstitute.org. Longer, healthier lives. Together.
The views expressed here represent my own opinions and not necessarily those of my employer
Dr. Gita Gnanadesikan @ggnanadesikan.bsky.social Biologist & Comparative Psychologist || Social Behavior & Cognition, Oxytocin, (Epi)genetics || 🐶🐕🦺🐒 || Postdoctoral fellow @ Emory University (formerly FIRST/IRACDA)
https://ggnanadesikan.github.io/
Rachel Dale @drracheldale.bsky.social Senior scientist with 2 science hats: Mental health (humans) & animal behaviour (canids/elephants).
Co-host @wildbehaviorpod.bsky.social
Mountain and camping addict. Scot in Austria. 🏳️🌈
Daphna Buchsbaum @daphnab.bsky.social Children, Dogs, Monkeys, Robots. Associate Professor at Brown University.
https://sites.brown.edu/cocodevlab/
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4LRxXyIAAAAJ&hl=en
Chris Krupenye @chriskrupenye.bsky.social Origins of the Social Mind • Apes • Dogs • Evolutionary Cognitive Scientist, Assistant Professor @JohnsHopkins • he/him
Christoph Völter @christophvoelter.bsky.social Comparative & Developmental Psychologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology 🦍 and the Messerli Research Institute 🐕
Louise Mackie, PhD @louisemackie.bsky.social Messerli Research Institute, Vienna
Comparative Psychologist, researching imitation in:
🐕 Dogs
🤸 Children
🐵 Chimpanzees
MSc was at the University of St Andrews
Scottish 🏴 she/her
www.louisemackie.org
Tamás Faragó (tamsa) @tamsa42.bsky.social Ethologist,
PI of the BARKS Lab, K9VocLearn Project
Dept. of Ethology, ELTE, Budapest
Val Kuhlmeier @valkuhlmeier.bsky.social Professor and Associate Head in the Department of Psychology at Queen's University 🇨🇦 — Developmental Psychology and Animal Cognition — Assistant Director at ManyDogs
Naomi Harvey PhD @naomidharvey.bsky.social Zoologist & veterinary research. She/her.
22yrs with #MEcfs Pro-vax but vaccine injured. Life on pause due to moderate/severe ME/CFS ♿️
Patient Expert in ME/CFS, POTS and syndromic Long Covid.
Please excuse my typos.
Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social Assistant professor in animal behaviour, PI of canidresearchgroup.com. I study how canid behaviour evolves and develops. Scientific integrity advocate. Florida Man wrangler, husky enthusiast and occasional butterfly catcher. Dog watching > people watching.
Dr Kata, PhD @rskcdy.bsky.social behavioural biologist👀👣🐾;
MSc👨🎓;
MEd👩🏫
PhD🐕;
Dogs🐶;
socially awkward 😅;
late dx ADHD 🐝🧠;
sux at cubing 🟥🟧🟩🟨🟦⬜️;
sux at bouldering🧩🪨;
FamDogProject https://ethology.elte.hu/
SciDog https://scidog.hu
Bridgett vonHoldt @bvon.bsky.social Assoc Prof @ Princeton EEB; everything canid genomics; admixture; conservation; Old English Sheepdogs and cats!
Tiziana Srdoč @tizianasrdoc.bsky.social PhD student in Cognitive Science @univie.ac.at
Interested in language acquisition, evolution, communication @babelfischlab.bsky.social
Anwyn Gatesy-Davis @anwyngd.bsky.social PhD student studying dogs 🐕
Canine Cognition & Human Interaction Lab @ University of Nebraska-Lincoln @unlcchil.bsky.social
Hampshire College alumnus
They/them 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Elinor Karlsson @elinork.bsky.social Scientist & artist. Prof at UMass Chan Med School & Broad Institute. Rice U alum. Founder of Zoonomia & DarwinsArk.org. Wants your dog’s DNA. And your cat’s! 🇸🇪🇳🇿🇺🇸
Dr Lauren M Robinson @drlmrobinson.bsky.social Job hunting psychologist of monkeys, wolves, dogs and anything interesting and fundable. Incapable of reading anyone's mind including my own. I research animal personality, happiness, and cognition when paid to do so. Views my own unless they're wrong
Alexandra Horowitz @alexandrahorowitz.bsky.social "Dog Umwelt" to my friends
dogs sniff me; I sniff them back (and then I write books about them: http://alexandrahorowitz.net)
Zazie Todd PhD @zazietodd.bsky.social Writer. Dog and cat behaviour and training. Award-winning author of Wag, Purr, Bark!. Blog: Companion Animal Psychology. Podcast: The Pawsitive Post in Conversation. Maple Ridge, BC, Canada. #Dogs #Cats #Books https://www.companionanimalpsychology.com/
Dr Mia Cobb @drmiacobb.bsky.social Dog Welfare Scientist
Heidi Lyn @heidilynphd.bsky.social Scientist, cosplayer, teacher, musician, can I find more “contradictions”? We are all all of these things! LGBTQ+, Mom, professor of animal cognition and communication. (She/her) Follow my sci com work @talking-animals.bsky.social ;-)
Opinions are my own
Simon Gadbois @simongadbois.bsky.social Ethologist. Canids, Anatids, Emydids. Wildlife Conservation Canines. Dalhousie University.
https://www.simon.gadbois.org
Dr. Jim Crosby @thedogguyjim.bsky.social Canine aggression researcher, expert on dog bites, seeker for things unexamined and questions unasked, and generally nosey. Love small streams, bamboo rods and the sound of running water.
Mattias Sherman @mattiassherman.bsky.social PhD student in ancient genomics @ the Crick, London | wolf domestication, canine evolution, aDNA damage 🦴🐕🧬
Julie K. Young @drjuliekyoung.bsky.social Scientist. Professor & Institute Director. I research wildlife ecology & animal behavior, primarily studying 🐻🦊🐺🐱, their prey, & 🦫 to reduce conflicts and increase coexistence | she, her
https://drjuliekyoung.weebly.com
Tali Caspi @talicaspi.bsky.social NSF PRFB postdoc @ Schell Lab, UC Berkeley | PhD from @ the MECU, UC Davis🧬| urban wildlife ecologist studying carnivores in San Francisco 🐺🌉🐾 | https://talicaspi.weebly.com/
Marianne Freeman (she/her) @msfreeman.bsky.social Animal Researcher and Lecturer | Welfare | Behaviour | Conservation | Education | Management | Zoo
Talking-Animals @talking-animals.bsky.social Science communication page of Heidi Lyn @heidilynphd@bsky.social
All content and opinions are my own.
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 🐕
🇬🇧🇭🇰
Verity Bowell @verityb.bsky.social Lecturer in Clinical Animal Behaviour. Particular interest in animal training, assistance dogs, human-animal interactions, and human behaviour change. Lapsed primatologist. She/her.
Magdalena Boch 🏳️🌈🇪🇺🇦🇹 @magdalenaboch.bsky.social 🧠 imaging neural correlates of social cognition and brain evolution in humans, dogs and other carnivorans 🐩🐺🐈🐅🦦👫🏻
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
Xiaomeng @xmsmomo.bsky.social PhD candidate in comparative cognition at Kyoto University / DOG 🐕 / social cognition / emotion / naïve sociology
Hannah Burrows @hannahburrows.bsky.social Cognitive Neuroscience PhD Candidate at the Social Cognition Lab at Queen’s University🇨🇦
Researching dog-human interactions 🐕🐕🦺
Many Dogs Member since 2023🌎🌍🌏
Perry Hekman @jphekman.bsky.social She/her. Veterinary geneticist. Founder of the Functional Dog Collaborative. One dog, one husband, New Hampshire.
Jenny Essler @jennyessler.bsky.social Research. Dogs. Olfaction. Detection. Conservation. Behavior.
Assistant Professor & Program Coordinator, Canine Training & Management, SUNY Cobleskill.
Views are my own.
Dr. Alexandrina Guran @rinaguran.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow at the @scanunit.bsky.social.
Working on animal cognition, and myself. Storytelling and Science Communication, occasionally doing posts here for @de.in-mind.org
Bradley P Smith @howlingdingo.bsky.social Senior Lecturer (Psychology) at CQUniversity. Researching dingoes, dogs, human-animal interactions, non-lethal approaches to human-wildlife conflict.
Living on Peramangk Country. Father of 3 mini humans and a Labrador.
www.howlingdingo.com.au
Mayte Martinez @maytemartinez.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Hunter College, City University of New York. Coordination, cooperation, social cognition, social behaviour, dogs, primates. She/her
Anna Korzeniowska @atkorzeniowska.bsky.social Engagement Librarian | Canine cognition scientist | Mushroom forager
Anshita Das @anshitadas.bsky.social Research Associate - The Dhole Project
@ Wildlife Conservation Society-India
I work on the ecology and behavior of the enigmatic Asiatic wild dogs. I'm looking forward to working on Hyenas soon!
Ella Williamson @ellawilliamson.bsky.social Doctoral Researcher at the University of York. Studying communication and social cognition in dogs 🐕🧠🗣️ part-time footballer and dog sport enthusiast ⚽️🐕🦺🏃♀️
Em Sundby @emsundby.bsky.social 🐾 Comparative Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠
🐶 MSc student studying dog object ownership
🇨🇦 Queen's University
🐱 Cat parent
🏳️🌈 They/them
https://linktr.ee/esundby
Ljerka Ostojic @ljerkaostojic.bsky.social Comparative Cognition and Meta-science | MSc University of Vienna | PhD University of Cambridge | Lecturer University of Rijeka | Head of Studies @ricogsci.bsky.social cogsci.uniri.hr she/her
Federico Rossano @federicorossano.bsky.social Cognitive scientist and conversation analyst. Associate Professor at UC San Diego. Director of Comparative Cognition Lab at UCSD. Proud father of two.
Amritha Mallikarjun, PhD @amritham.bsky.social Postdoc at Penn Vet Working Dog Center working on canine olfaction. PhD in neuroscience / comparative speech perception at UMD. Tell me about your dog! she/her
Andrea Sommese @asommese.bsky.social Ethologist exploring how dogs see, think, and communicate 👁️🐕 | Postdoc @VetmeduniVienna | Cognitive & welfare science 🐈🐹 | Occasional baker 🧁
Lupin Teles @lmlteles.bsky.social Biology Undergraduate Student from 🇧🇷// Interested in mammalian (specially canids) behavior 🐺🐾
Dr Claire Brand @clbrand.bsky.social Researcher in canine welfare and behaviour at The Royal Veterinary College (RVC) 🐶
Mum, Dog Owner
#ActuallyAustistic
https://www.rvc.ac.uk/about/our-people/claire-brand
Kerri Rodriguez, PhD @kerrirodriguez0.bsky.social Assistant Professor at University of Arizona
Director of the Human-Animal Bond Lab (HAB Lab)
Exploring the dog-human relationship 🐾🦮
She/Her/Hers
Dog Aging Project @dogagingproject.bsky.social We are enrolling tens of thousands of dogs in a ten-year study to unlock the secrets of healthy #aging in #dogs. Join us!
Paula Pérez Fraga @paulapefraga.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at Family Dog Project | I am interested in animal-human interactions, communication, welfare, and emotions | Currently working with dogs but I have a secret love for pigs.
| https://barks-lab.elte.hu/#who | @barkslab.bsky.social
Lauren Van Patter @levanpatter.bsky.social Animal Studies | More-than-human geographies
Dani Sorbie @dani-sorbie.bsky.social PhD Student @Manmetuni | Machine Learning x Dog Welfare 🐶 🐾 | Partnering with @DogsTrust | Views are my own
Tiago Monteiro @monteirotiago.bsky.social behavioural scientist 🕊🐀🐣🐟🐕 || researcher @DomLabVienna & @VetmeduniVienna || previously LearningLab @Neuro_CF & @OxfordBiology & @UnivAveiro
https://tiagomonteiro.weebly.com
@erinhecht.bsky.social @erinhecht.bsky.social 
Mónica Boada @mboadam.bsky.social PhD in Psychology | Vet & researcher in Animal Behaviour | Interested in social behaviour & cognition of wolves & dogs 🐺🐶🧠 Looking for job opportunities!
Leslie-Ann Eickhoff @leslie-ann.bsky.social PhD candidate studying causal perception in
dogs 🐶 and infants 👶🏼
Comparative & Developmental Psychology | University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Laura V. Cuaya @lauveri.bsky.social Everyone knows that dogs are amazing. I think that dogs' brains are also fascinating! 🐶 💕 🧠
Having a marvelous time studying dogs' brains with fMRI at SCAN Unit 😊
✨Shimmering in enchanting Vienna ✨
Hannah Salomons @hannahsalomons.bsky.social Post-doc at Dolphin Research Center & Duke Canine Cognition Center
@melinacordeau.bsky.social @melinacordeau.bsky.social 
ManyDogs Project @manydogsproject.bsky.social ManyDogs is a consortium of researchers dedicated to collaboration and open science practices in the field of canine science through multi-lab studies 
Claudio Tennie @ctennie.bsky.social A PI of the HUMAN ORIGINS project (Tübingen, GER)
Humans, hominins & apes -> evolution of human cultural evolution
-> How did we get from an ape-like baseline to human cultural learning/ cultural cognition?
https://sites.google.com/view/claudiotennie
Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social Assoc. Professor at UC Berkeley
Artificial and biological intelligence and language
Linguistics Lead at Project CETI 🐳
PI Berkeley Biological and Artificial Language Lab 🗣️
College Principal of Bowles Hall 🏰
https://www.gasperbegus.com
Computational Cognition Lab at Taipei Medical University @compcoglab.bsky.social The Computational Cognition lab @ the Graduate Institute of Mind, Brain and Consciousness (https://gimbc.tmu.edu.tw/gimbc/) of Taipei Medical University, Taiwan, lab page: https://sites.google.com/tmu.edu.tw/cdlab/home?authuser=0- J Joan Silk @jbsilk.bsky.social Evolutionary anthropologist, primate behavioral ecologist.
Kayla Kolff @kaylakolff.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher studying chimpanzee social and medicative behaviour (she/her).
🇰🇪 & 🇳🇱 based in 🇩🇪.
https://www.kaylakolff.com/
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/
Lucas Spicher @lucas-sph.bsky.social PhD student at @unistra.fr | linking socio-ecological factors and cognitive abilities in primates 🐒
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/
Eric Schniter @humannature.bsky.social Naturalist with a particular interest in humans:
Evolutionary anthropologist,
evolutionary psychologist,
behavioral economist,
studying life history theory, cooperation, and communication.
https://sites.google.com/site/ericschniter/
Animal behavior opportunities @animalopps.bsky.social Jobs, PhD’s, postdocs, internships, and volunteer opportunities for ECRs in animal behavior and adjacent fields. Run and created by @juliammachado.bsky.social
Martin Nicourt @mart1nicourt.bsky.social MSc student in primatology • @mnhn.fr
Primate social & play behavior | Fieldwork • @gibmacproj.bsky.social🐒
EU Science, Research & Innovation @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu The EU channel for scientists & researchers: opportunities to fund your ideas, updates from EU-funded science, and scientific resources you can use in your work.
Nicholdav @nicholdav.bsky.social I'm interested in how animals communicate with sound and I try to make that easier for everyone to study: https://www.vocalpy.org/
Cat & dog dad, cold brew addict, video gamer, Florida boy, #altac, podcast fan, occasional espanglish. nicholdav.info
animal prattle @animal-prattle.bsky.social The latest n' greatest research about all things animal communication 🐔🐑🐁🐿🐳🦀🦚🕷🐝🗣🐦 @ me your favorite papers, new results, etc 💬