Catherine Sheard @sheardcat.bsky.social Lecturer & Interdisciplinary Fellow @ University of Aberdeen. Professionally: macroevolution, especially birds & languages. Personally: drinks too much coffee, plays too much D&D.
she/her
Behaviour 2027 @behaviour2027.bsky.social Official account for Behaviour 2027 (XXXIX International Ethological Congress) taking place in Vienna, Austria, from August 23-27.
ARAA @araa.at Avian Research Association of Austria. Our aim is to bring together avian researchers to improve the exchange of ideas, increase knowledge, and promote mentorship throughout Austria. If you're a member, DM us your new papers or positions to share.
Theresa Matzinger @thematzing.bsky.social doing research on language evolution, language change, language learning and everything cognition-related; Post-doc: Uni Vienna; before: Post-doc Center of Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus Uni Torun and PhD Uni Vienna
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
Clemens Küpper @chorlnev.bsky.social Interested in Biodiversity and why there is so much variation out there. Evolution, Genetics, Behaviour, Ecology, Conservation, nowadays also Physiology. Studying Waders/Shorebirds. Currently at Max Planck BI.
Anecdata.org @anecdata.org A free online platform for citizen and community science, developed at @mdibl.org.
https://www.anecdata.org
European Ornithologists' Union @eounion.bsky.social The European Ornithologists' Union is an international forum for #ornithology and promotes the scientific study of birds within Europe. Next meeting #EOU2027!
David Tan @mangrovepitta.bsky.social Ornithologist and biogeographer. Working on the global macroecology of bird-window collisions and on the genetics of faunal adaptation to mangroves. Obsessed with pittas. Previously at the University of New Mexico, now a postdoc at iDiv in Leipzig.
The Moyen Bafing Chimp Project @mbchimp.bsky.social Chimpanzee and monkey research project in the Moyen-Bafing National Park Guinea, led by @northernlimitpt @LirSamuni and @nakedprimate
German Ornithological Society @dornitholges.bsky.social The German Ornithological Society promotes all forms of #ornithology. Founded in 1850, we represent continuity and permanence in #avian #science.
You can also find us on Instagram @DOrnitholGes and you can check out our website www.do-g.de
Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social Professor of philosophy, becoming a nun is not off the table yet
(not a Jesse Singal follower, you are welcome to check)
Megan Petersdorf @meganpetersdorf.bsky.social new orleans 🎭 • postdoc • biologist • anthropologist • science communicator • studying the sex lives of monkeys 🐒 • she/her 🏳️🌈
MPI-EVA Leipzig @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology investigates the #history and #evolution of #humans and other #primates.
Leipzig, Germany
https://www.eva.mpg.de/index.html 
The Ramsey Lab @theramseylab.bsky.social The Ramsey philosophy of biology lab at KU Leuven, Belgium.
https://www.theramseylab.org • #HPbio #philsci #philsky #evosky #paleosky #cogsci #AI
@sicb-dpcb.bsky.social @sicb-dpcb.bsky.social 
Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, Department of War Studies, King's College London. Russian foreign & security policy, US foreign policy, US-Russia relations, European security. Views are my own.
European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social The next ECBB will take place at Anglia Ruskin University in 2026!
https://www.aru.ac.uk/science-and-engineering/conferences-and-events/ecbb-2026
Kai Caspar @nomascus.bsky.social Zoology lecturer @hhu.de | Armchair biologist | Mammalogist + board member @mammalbiology.bsky.social, also part of @themanybirds.bsky.social core team | Organismic vertebrate biology | Views my own
Ecology of Animal Societies @livingingroups.bsky.social Dept. for the Ecology of Animal Societies @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social & @uni-konstanz.de.
Posts do not represent the views of MPI, University of Konstanz , or lab leaders.
Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social Research from the Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.
Fichtel-Kappeler-Lab @kirindy.bsky.social At the Fichtel-Kappeler-Lab, we study the behavior, ecology, and biodiversity of lemurs at our study site in Kirindy Forest, Western Madagascar
Josh Arbon @josharbon.bsky.social Animal behaviour, social and cognitive evolution. Jackdaws, mongooses, now wagtails. Herchel Smith Research Fellow, University of Cambridge.
Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social Doctor of Birds at SUNY Oswego. Opinions = mine, not representative of NY state government. I run a banding station: @rcbobirds on IG.
Jacinta Beehner @jbeehner.bsky.social Animal behavior, reproductive strategies and counterstrategies, hormones and behavior, University of Michigan, go blue.
Avocetta @avocettajournal.bsky.social Peer-reviewed journal of #ornithology publishing original research, reviews and meta-analyses
Benedetta Catitti @bcatitti.bsky.social Behavioural ecologist @Vogelwarte.bsky.social.
Studying how birds grow up, move out, and live fast—or slow—one GPS fix at a time
Associate Editor at @avocettajournal.bsky.social
Dustin Rubenstein @dustinrubenstein.com Thomas Hunt Morgan Professor of Conservation Biology • Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology • Columbia University • New York City | Animal Behavior | Integrative Organismal Biology | Evolutionary Ecology
Dr Lindelani Makuya @linde-makuya.bsky.social PostDoc in ecophysiology of solitary living at IPHC - DEPE - CNRS || Research Manager at the Succulent Karoo Research Station
Maike Woith @maikewoith.bsky.social 
Ana V. Leitão @anavleitao.bsky.social Behavioural & evolutionary ecologist | PhD | Interested in animal communication, evolution of bird' traits on islands, bird cognition, avian female colours and song.
She/her
www.islandbirdproject.com
Comparative Cognition Society @compcogsoc.bsky.social CCS is a community of researchers dedicated to understanding the evolution of cognition and development of behaviour across taxa. Join us in Montréal April 14th - 17th 2027 for #CO32027!
https://www.comparativecognition.org/
Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour @cbehav.bsky.social We are a centre dedicated to the study of collective behaviour | Integrative and Quantitative | Cluster of Excellence
@uni-konstanz.de, Germany.
Website: https://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-behaviour/
British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk Advancing Ornithology | Home of #theBOUblog | Upcoming events #BOUasm26 #BOU2027
https://bou.org.uk
American Ornithological Society @amornith.bsky.social The American Ornithological Society (AOS) is a global network of professionals working together to advance the scientific study and conservation of birds.
COMMENTING POLICY: https://americanornithology.org/about/governance/social-media-policy/#commenting
BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social BTO is the UK's leading Registered Charity working with volunteers to improve our knowledge of birds through monitoring and research. www.bto.org
Cornell Lab of Ornithology @cornellbirds.bsky.social The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is a world leader in the study, appreciation, and conservation of birds and biodiversity. birds.cornell.edu/home/
(White-breasted Nuthatch by Hannah Criswell / Macaulay Library)
Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social Evolutionary ecologist striving for better science. Meta-analyst & Meta-researcher. Principal Investigator @ucoimbra.bsky.social. Past BoD member of SORTEE (@sortee.bsky.social). Receiving & Data Editor
@Ecology_Letters. M 2:37, HM 72:49, FTP 4.45W/kg
EFP2026 @efp2026.bsky.social Check here for updates on the EFP 2026 conference, to be held in Montpellier, France, 29th June- 3rd July 2026.
Official website: https://www.alphavisa.com/efp/2026/index.php
Adi Barocas @otter-guy.bsky.social Carnivore ecologist and conservation biologist, Research group leader at Tel-Hai University. Field-based work spanning Hula valley, Negev desert and Peruvian Amazon
Animals Doing Stuff in Groups @animalsdoingstuff.bsky.social Hello, we are the Animals Doing Stuff in Groups lab, PI @mikemwebster.bsky.social at the University of St Andrews. We study animal behaviour and social interactions.
🐟(🐚🦀)🐧
https://sites.google.com/view/big-lab-webster/home?authuser=0
Cini Gall @cinig.bsky.social Behavioural Ecologist, studying communication and group coordination
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
Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social Research Ecologist working on birds, mammals, forests, farms, hedgerows, woodland natural colonisation. Marsh Tit & Wood Warbler studies. Editor-in-Chief of the journal Bird Study: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/tbis20
Views are mine.
The Waterbird Society @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social International scientific nonprofit organization dedicated to the study & conservation of all waterbird species 🦩 https://waterbirds.org 🦆
We publish Waterbirds: The International Journal of Waterbird Biology
🦢 https://bioone.org/journals/waterbirds 🪿
Antoine Stier @antoinestier.bsky.social @CNRS Researcher at @IPHC_Strasbourg
Avian ecophysiologist (metabolism, mito, ageing, heat stress)
Head @Econergy1🐧 project
Editorial board @J_Thermal_Biol
Alex Georgiev @alexvgeorgiev.bsky.social Primatologist at Bangor University, UK. Studying Zanzibar red colobus https://www.zanzibarredcolobusproject.org
FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology @africanornithology.bsky.social Research Institute within the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa
https://science.uct.ac.za/fitzpatrick/fitz-news/current-news
Kirsty MacLeod @kjmacleod.bsky.social Behavioural and evolutionary ecologist, lecturer in Bangor 🏴 - sociality, life history, stress, thermal ecology, mostly in reptiles macleodlab.weebly.com
@odedkeynan.bsky.social @odedkeynan.bsky.social 
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book available now.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
Ammie Kalan @ammiekalan.bsky.social Primatologist, Assistant Professor and PI of the Great Ape Behaviour Lab at UVic Anthropology in BC, Canada
www.ammiekkalan.com
Mélissa Berthet @berthetmelissa.bsky.social Researcher in primatology 🐒 and animal linguistics 🎤🙊
Titi monkeys, bonobos and gorillas ❤️🦍
Postdoc at the University of Milan, Italy
She/Her
https://sites.google.com/view/melissa-berthet
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 🌍🏳️🌈🖤
Mathilde Martin @mathildemartin.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at University of Zurich. Interested in behavioural ecology with a focus in acoustic communication of marine and terrestrial mammals
Survival International @survivalinternational.org We are the global movement for Indigenous peoples' rights.
#DecolonizeConservation #UncontactedTribes
Meg Crofoot @meg-crofoot.bsky.social 
Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social EvAnth, EvMed, & Global Health
I study mothers, milk, & babies
Cheddar Superfan.
"Scarier than a badger"
Opinions my own
Czech and Slovak Ethological Society @csets.bsky.social ❗ Official Bluesky account of the Czech and Slovak Ethological Society. ❗ We spread news about ethological research conducted not only by our members. 🐎🐦🐒
Portuguese Ethological Society (SPE) @spetologia.bsky.social Society founded in 1987 to promote the study of animal behaviour | Follow us for new research of #SPEmembers, new #actaethologica issues, and updates of activities
Organização não governamental e sem fins lucrativos
Portugal
www.etologia.pt
@spe.etologia
ASSAB @animbehav.bsky.social The objective of the Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASSAB) is:
to promote the scientific study of Animal Behaviour and provide opportunities for discussion among its members
Account run by @sramellini.bsky.social
VolkswagenStiftung @volkswagenstiftung.de WirStiftenWissen – auch hier auf BlueSky. Folgt uns für spannende Förderangebote, mutige Forschungsprojekte und faszinierende Veranstaltungen.
🌐 www.volkswagenstiftung.de
Carsten Schradin @carsten-schradin.bsky.social Behavioral ecologist studying social evolution in comparative studies and long-term field studies in South Africa. Studying the solitary bush Karoo rat and the socially flexible striped mouse. Animal behavior. Succulent Karoo Research Station. CNRS, IPHC.
Frontiers in Social Evolution Seminar FINE @fine-seminar.bsky.social International Remote Seminar on Frontiers in Social Evolution (FINE).
https://www.socialevolutionseminar.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@seminaronfrontiersinsocial1478
The FINE Seminar allows students and researchers from all over the world to meet online.
Guidance, Skills & Opportunities for Researchers @gso-forresearchers.bsky.social Society needs research. Research needs supporters.
We offer independent, innovative, and scalable solutions for researchers and institutions – with a measurable ripple effect.
Valentin Amrhein @vamrhein.bsky.social Ecology, conservation, statistics, reproducibility https://camargue.unibas.ch Retire statistical significance https://nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00857-9
Max Licht @maxlicht.bsky.social Interested in open ocean predators and how they interact with eachother | Animal Behaviour | Humboldt-University | 161 & 1312
Tomos Potter @tomospotter.bsky.social Evolutionary ecologist in the Kokko lab, JGU Mainz. Recovering guppy-botherer, interested in eco-evolutionary processes that generate and maintain diversity. Models, stats, long-term studies.
🏴 in 🇩🇪
Also likes: food, landscapes, guitars
Ruth Mottram @ruthmottram.eurosky.social Climate scientist at DMI, Greenland, Antarctica, polar regions in general.
Now migrated to eurosky.social on here.
Mostly on mastodon though @ruth_mottram@fediscience.org
Blogging at sternaparadisaea.net
Vesta Eleuteri @vestaeleuteri.bsky.social Biologist studying elephant gestures & chimp drumming.
Obsessed with elephants. Yes, chimps are cool too.
Eugene Y. S. Chua @eugenechua.bsky.social Nanyang Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Formerly postdoc faculty at Caltech.
I work on philosophy of physics and philosophy of science. More at https://eugenechua.com
BA Cambridge '17, PhD UC San Diego '23.
Michael Griesser @michael-griesser.bsky.social Cooperation. Communication. Conservation. Cognition.
Nature matters.
https://sites.google.com/view/c-wild-griesser/home
Laure-Anne Poissonnier @curiousant.bsky.social Insect behaviour researcher, mostly working with ants lately. Looking at learning, information use, and basically trying to understand what they understand. And a hobbit in my free time.
Ethological Society @ethoges.bsky.social Academic society supporting Behavioural Biology in research & teaching | associated with Ethology | 🇪🇺 | posts by @hanjabrrr.bsky.social
History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage @ottomanhistory.bsky.social ➥ Old Photos, Pics, Docs, Maps
➥ Ottoman Empire Archives
➥ Historical Letters, Notes, Poems, Memoirs.
➥ medium.com/@HistoricalMemoirs
Peter Santema @petersantema.bsky.social Ornithology | Behavioural Ecology | Natural History. Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, Department of Ornithology. Father of three.
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/
Human Relations Area Files at Yale University @hraf755.bsky.social Promoting understanding of cultural diversity and commonality in the past and present since 1949. Home of the world's largest anthropological data bank. https://hraf.yale.edu
Ellie Diamant @elliediamant.bsky.social Lover of birds, urban ecology and evolution, behavioral ecology, interspecies friendships, transdisciplinarity. Vegan. she/her.
(Incoming) VAP at Bard College; former post-doc at BGU; UCLA PhD
Costanza Zanghi @coszan.bsky.social Interested in all things fish and behavioural ecology. Love nature, gelato & my dogs. She/them
Antica Culina @anticac.bsky.social ecology, open science, meta-science, evidence synthesis, birds, piano
Ecology & Behaviour 2025 @ecobhvr2025.bsky.social This is the official Bluesky account for the 17th edition of the Ecology & Behaviour conference to be held at the CEFE Montpellier from 11-15 August 2025! #ecobhvr2025
Faye Thompson @fayejthompson.bsky.social NERC Independent Research Fellow at University of Exeter, Cornwall
Intergroup conflict | Cooperation | Social evolution | Termites | Banded mongooses
Oryan Zacks @oryanzacks.bsky.social PhD student in philosophy of biology, researching memory, imagination and consciousness.
Also interested in teaching, sci-comm, pedagogy and dance.
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- J Joan Silk @jbsilk.bsky.social Evolutionary anthropologist, primate behavioral ecologist.
John Hawks @johnhawks.net Paleoanthropologist | Chair and Professor of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin–Madison 🧪🏺💀https://www.johnhawks.net
Co-BreeD (Cooperative Breeding Database) @co-breed.bsky.social The Cooperative Breeding Database is an #open_access resource on cooperative breeding birds and mammals
Follow for updates on upcoming new fancy datasets!
Curated by Y. Ben-Mocha @benmocha.bsky.social
Supported by Konstanz University @uni-konstanz.de
Janire Castellano Bueno, PhD @janirecas.bsky.social 🦜 Researcher at @wildanimals.bsky.social
🐒 #AnimalWelfare Postdoc at @newcastleuni.bsky.social
Opinions are my own (she/her)
Laurel Neme @laurelneme.bsky.social Author and journalist. Contributor to National Geographic and Mongabay.com. Books incl : ANIMAL INVESTIGATORS; THE ELEPHANT'S NEW SHOE; and THE GIRAFT: A REAL-LIFE GIRAFFE RESCUE (March 2026). Co-Host of The WildLife Podcast (2026). www.laurelneme.com
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
Dr Eve Holden (she/her) @chimpanzeve.bsky.social Developmental & comparative psychologist. Socialisation in people & nonhuman primates. Interests in evolution, culture, experience, social behaviour, learning, sex, gender, parenting, ADHD. Postdoc @DurhamPsych. Fieldwork lover. Cat & plant mother. ADHD.
Maël Leroux @maelmleroux.bsky.social Lecturer @ethos-research.bsky.social, @rennesuniv.bsky.social, France. Interested in the evolution of language. Currently studying non-human primates 🐒 he/they
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
Cara A Gallagher @caragallagher.bsky.social Human girl - Ecomodeller - Tenure Track Researcher @aarhusuni.bsky.social - Energetics, behavior, & agent-based modelling ⚡🐾🖥️ - Graphic art enthusiast 🖌️ - Editor @ibe.pensoft.net & Movement Ecology
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!
Vlad Demartsev @animal-sounds.bsky.social Behavioural ecologist #AnimalBehavior #VocalCommunication #Bioacoustics @unikonstanz @CBehav @MPI-AB
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