Holly Bik @hollybik.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Georgia + Associate Director of UGA Institute of Bioinformatics. Marine Biology, Polar Science, Deep-Sea Worms (nematodes!), Environmental Genomics, and Science Writing. Views are my own. http://www.hollybik.com
Jonathan Romiguier @selfishmeme.bsky.social Scientist interested in Ants / Molecular Evolution / Population genomics / Phylogenomics
Andrรฉs Sรกnchez @andres-snchz.bsky.social Biologist | FuEDEI Researcher | UBA | Conicet |
Ants, entomology, systematics, biogeography, evolution, invasive species, R nerd, and paper folding
De Colombia ๐จ๐ด, transmitiendo desde Buenos Aires ๐ฆ๐ท
Robert Reed @fascinatingpupa.bsky.social Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. Curator of Lepidoptera. Evo-devologist. Bug nut. Cornell University.
Kyle J McCulloch (he/him) @kypodseyepods.bsky.social Assistant Professor at University of Florida, Dept. of Biology
evolution โข development โข neurophysiology โข behavior โข light sensing systems
Lab Website: https://mcculloch.biology.ufl.edu
Tim Linksvayer @tlinksvayer.bsky.social Evolution of social complexity & evolutionary genetics of social insects. Assoc Prof at Arizona State University
Dajia/Krisa Ye @antharvester.bsky.social Postdoc๐๐๐ชฐ๐ชฐ๐๐
Anyi Mazo-Vargas @anyimv.bsky.social Assistant Professor at @DukeBiology. #NewPI #EvoDevo, gene regulation, adaptive traits, #Wnt signaling ๐ฆ. ๐งฌ๐ฌ๐งช. She/her/Ella
๐ Alex Smith ๐ @alexsmithants.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of #Biology at UofG, Guelph, ON, Canada. Inspired by the #Biodiversity in ACG, Costa Rica. #Ecology, #Evolution, #Entomology
Opinions my own & oh so rarely overlap with my employer.
he/him
www.malexsmith.com
www.youtube.com/@Alex_Smith_Ants
Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social Entomologist and Photographer in Austin, Texas.
https://www.alexanderwild.com
Chris Simms @chrisnsimms.bsky.social Science journalist covering all fields. Formerly an editor at New Scientist and Nature. ๐งช๐ธ ๐
New Scientist: https://tinyurl.com/2tvwfa2b
Live Science: https://tinyurl.com/4mbyh7a9
Sci Am: https://tinyurl.com/bdza74ta
Nature: https://tinyurl.com/yc265esp
Tess Peterson @tesspeterson.bsky.social Plant-soil mutualism and climate change in pine forests @ University of Houston
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Hobby gardener, crafter, medievalist
#SlowLife ๐๐ฑ๐งต
Josh Gibson, Ph.D. @drstrangeant.bsky.social CT microscopist at UIUC's Beckman Institute (@beckmanillinois.bsky.social) ๐ฌ
Entomologist and biomechanist by training ๐ Sometimes tweet about Pokemon. Furret Aficionado. Opinions my own.
@aluckymyrmex.bsky.social @aluckymyrmex.bsky.social
Erin LK McKay @quailinthecity.bsky.social the woods, art, food, science, and bugs.... Mostly bugs ๐พ๐ชถ๐๐๐ดโโ ๏ธ๐งธ๐ฆ๐ฆโโฌ๐๐ชฒ๐๐ฆ๐๐ชฐ๐ฆ๐ชณ๐ท๏ธ๐๐ฆ
Floria Mora-Kepfer Uy @avispatica.bsky.social Assistant Professor @urochester.bsky.social| PI @tropbiolab.bsky.social |social behavior & brain |mechanisms underlying parasitic manipulation |adaptations & changing environments| #teamwasp #zombiewasp #strepsiptera |๐จ๐ท #tica
https://tropbiolab.org/FMKU/
Neil Tsutsui @neiltsutsui.bsky.social Personal account
Professor-UC Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy, & Management
Director-UCB Central Sierra Field Stations
President-El Cerrito Democratic Club
ADEM Delegate-CA Dem Party
Insect behavior & genetics.
Wildland protection & management.
Jacob Oppenheim @curcuas.bsky.social Venture Partner at RAVen, data/ml for bio
Board VP
@AbundantHomesMA
Longer thoughts on data + ml x bio:
http://medium.com/@jnoppenheim
Anna Dornhaus @dornhaus.bsky.social scientist, science communicator, mom, prof, desert dweller - not always in this order
Evan Economo @economo.bsky.social Biodiversity Scientist, Professor, Ant Radiologist @ U Maryland and @OIST
www.biodivlab.org
Tom Hindmarsh Sten @tshindmarsh.bsky.social Circuit architectures, dynamics, and the evolution of behavior. Jane Coffin Childs-HHMI Fellow in the Luo lab at Stanford University | Previously Ruta lab at Rockefeller
Jason L. Williams @pixelatedants.bsky.social Ant biodiversity, evolution, systematics, morphology
Adria LeBoeuf @adriatica.bsky.social I study #socialfluids. Ponderer of the #behavior of myself & other organisms. #SocialInsects / #DistributedMetabolism / #CollectiveBehavior / #CompBio Assoc. Prof @ University of Cambridge; previously Fribourg, Weizmann, Lausanne, Rockefeller, UCSB.
Matthew Prebus @mprebus.bsky.social Assistant Research Professor, ASU
Curator, Social Insect Biodiversity Repository
ant nerd | nature dork | art dweeb
Justin Walsh @justin-t-walsh.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Biology at Holy Family University
Arjuna Rajakumar PhD @arjunarajakumar.bsky.social EvoDevo biologist - Post Doc Lehmann lab Whitehead Institute
ants + flies germ cells, eusociality & endosymbisis
Nichola Plowman @nicplow.bsky.social Specialist in monitoring, evaluation & learning, biodiversity & conservation, and international development. Supporting community-led conservation and development projects in the OCEAN Grants Programme: https://oceangrants.org.uk/
Miles Zhang | ๅผ ่ฟๆฟ @ymilesz.bsky.social | Hymenoptera taxonomy, phylogenomics, and evolutionary ecology | inordinate fondness for insect galls
https://ymilesz.github.io/
Rebecca Wang ็ๆๅฏง @rebeccawang.bsky.social Science Edu๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ฌ~ Entomology๐ชฒ~ Nat.History๐ฑ
Sci Tutor + FHEA @ HKU. HKBM volunteer. Fmr MPhil Cantab Zoology.
Texan, Taiwanese & HK-er (She/Her/ๅฅน).
๐NYC for PhD in Science Education๐ฝ
Jesse Czekanski-Moir @jessecm.bsky.social Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, Biogeography, ConBio; Ants, Land Snails, & sundry invertebrates, often in Belau (Palau), Micronesia; PhD from SUNY-ESF; future uncertain
jessecm.org
Fossa Fuller @ellipsoptera.bsky.social Twelve spiders in a trenchcoat sneaking into SC public comment sessions. She, he, or they.
(My shitposting is mine alone and I am not my organization but my organization is pretty cool too: campquest.org)
Jenny Jandt (she/her) @thewasplady.bsky.social Zoology Dept, Otago Univ: https://www.otago.ac.nz/zoology
Behavioural ecology and social evolution of insects: https://jandtlab.com/
NZ Entomologist (Editor): https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/tnze20
NZ Bug of the Year: https://bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz
Philipp Brand @pbrand.bsky.social PI of Evolutionary Neuroscience and Behavior Group at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research.
Evolution of behavior, neural circuits, chemical senses, and speciation.
he/him
https://brain.mpg.de/brand
Roberto A. Keller @rkellerp.bsky.social Entomologist. Ant specialist. Born Mexico City. Curator of Entomology at Nacional Museum of Natural History and Science, & Researcher at Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes. http://www.mnhnc.ulisboa.pt
Nancy Bee @tangledbank.bsky.social Northwest Oregon and generally west of the Rocky Mountains, nomadic vandweller when I can, learning for joy, queer, dogs, bugs, plants, vertebrates, geology, climate, soil, sky, weather. Degrees in Horticulture, Soil, and Entomology
And bikes always bike
Christina Kwapich @pogonokwap.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Central Florida. Ants, nests, myrmecophiles.
Co-author of โThe Guests of ants: how myrmecophiles interact with their hostsโ(Harvard University Press)
Lab site: www.christinakwapich.com
Eyal Privman @eyalprivman.bsky.social Evolutionary genomics of ants. PI at the Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa. Focusing on evolution of social structure. Homepage https://privman.haifa.ac.il/
M. Vicky Moya @mvickymoya.bsky.social BRAIN Initiative K99 and Leading Edge Fellow in the Economo Lab, Boston University. Identifying the cell types that make up neural circuits. Lover of cortical layers, you, and the Oxford comma.
Yuko Ulrich @yukoulrich.bsky.social Social behaviour and disease in clonal ants, Lise Meitner group leader
@MPI_CE
Lukas Schrader @shaggyschrader.bsky.social I like ants. I like TEs.
Evolutionary Biologist at the Institute for Evolution & Biodiversity (University of Mรผnster)
schraderl.github.io
Seirian Sumner @waspwoman.bsky.social #Behavioural #ecologist; Prof; UCL; weakness for #wasps. Actually, itโs not a weakness.. #Wasplove. Author Endless Forms: Why we should love wasps. http://tinyurl.com/UKwasps #Evolution #Naturewriting #Scicomm #sociality #Genomics
Cintia A. Oi @cintiaoi.bsky.social Biologist, Postdoc @UCL, Scientific associate @NHM, passionate about nature, science and especially wasps
Tomas Kay @tomaskay.bsky.social Social evolution, natural history. Junior fellow of the Simons Society and postdoc in Kronauer lab, Rockefeller University | PhD: Keller lab, University of Lausanne
Erik T. Frank @etf1989.bsky.social Emmy Noether Group Leader at @Uni_Wue ๐ฉ๐ช studying the Evolution of Social Wound Care in Ants and beyond ๐ ๐ด๐๐ฆ๐
Volker Nehring @volkernehring.bsky.social May contain ants
http://evolution.vnehring.de | Behaviour, Evolution, Ecology | Assistant Prof @uni-freiburg.de, Germany | AE @PlosONE | Secretary Central European IUSSI
Heather Campbell @scienceheather.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Entomology at Harper Adams University
Ecological entomologist who loves #ants
National Geographic Explorer
Author of #AntsAVisualGuide
Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society
The Daily Ant @dailyant.bsky.social A news outlet for the formicid-forward crowd.
Publishing premier ant content at https://dailyant.com/! ๐๐๐
Smith Bee Lab @smithbeelab.bsky.social We're interested in collective behavior, nest architecture, social physiology, and how honey bee colonies do what they do.
smithbeelab.com
Darren Ward @nzhymenoptera.bsky.social Ants, bees, wasps, taxonomic collections, insect diversity
Adam Hart @adamhartscience.bsky.social Biologist, broadcaster and writer. Conservation science, especially southern Africa, and insects. Personal account
Jill Oberski, PhD @jilloberski.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Biology @ Hope College, a PUI SLAC. ๐ ๐งฌ ๐ | Entomology | Phylogenomics | Biogeo | Evolution | Diversifying STEM ๐ง โฟ๏ธ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ [she/her]
Esther van den Bos @esthervandenbos.bsky.social Interested in ants and superorganismality.
https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=KtFmcBIAAAAJ
https://www.uni-muenster.de/Evolution/molevolsocbio/esthervandenbos.shtml
Tom Wenseleers @twenseleers.bsky.social Professor @KULeuven - evolutionary biology, theoretical biology & biostatistics (#Rstats). Social insects & microorganisms. Social evolution, self organisation, chemical ecology, statistical machine learning. https://bio.kuleuven.be/eeb/tw/research
Adrian Smith ๐ซ @jack-voltaire.bsky.social Scotchman living in London. Fascists can fook right off. #cfc โญ๏ธโญ๏ธ- T Todd Pierson @twpierson.bsky.social assistant professor @ KSU, but views here are my own | amphibian ecology and evolution
Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social Associate Professor of Biology at the George Washington University
Interested in Pattern Formation, Evolutionary Tinkering, Genetics,
#lociofevolution #dnacrobatics #evodevo #lepidoptera
dnacrobatics.com
pubs: https://rb.gy/nfg8p
Phil Barden @haidomyrmex.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist | ants, sometimes shrimp | fossils, morphology, extinction, eusociality | associate professor at NJIT
bardenlab.org- A Alexandre Casadei-Ferreira @alecferreira.bsky.social Postdoc at @OISTedu @EconomoLab
| Entomologist | Ants | Taxonomy | Morphology | Geometric Morphometrics
Nels Elde @elearlybird.bsky.social Evolutionary genetics and cell biology. And co-host of This Week in Evolution: www.microbe.tv/twievo/ Elde lab: cellvolution.org Opinions: my own, not employers
Matthew Hahn @3rdreviewer.bsky.social Population geneticist
Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social Into evolution, genetics, reproduction. Immigrant (actual, and from the bird site). She/her.
Matt Rockman @mattrockman.net I contain multitudes??
Guitars ๐ธ: @thedepthbeneath.us
Letterboxd ๐ฝ๏ธ: https://boxd.it/GCxH
#Postrock ๐ง: https://streampostrock.com
He/him
Li Zhao @lizhao.bsky.social Associate Professor at the Rockefeller University. We study gene origination, molecular evolution, and the genetic basis of adaptive traits.
McGregor Lab @mcgregorlab.bsky.social Fly and Spider Evo Devo
http://mcgregor-evo-devo-lab.net/McGregor_lab/home.html
YSW @nasilemak.bsky.social undisciplined academic, all things South East Asian -and more, my eyes are bigger than my stomach. Lives in Canada - has been a rootless cosmopolitan (and is grateful for that). Woke af.
felipe @felipecoazz.bsky.social
flopodo
Peter Lenart @plenart.bsky.social Group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Multidisciplinary Sciences, Gรถttingen, Germany. #oocytes #cytoskeleton ๐ชผ, โญ๏ธ๐, ๐ฌ
Kelley Harris @kelleyharris.bsky.social Associate Prof of Genome Sciences at UW. I use population genetic models to study the origins of genetic variation and the evolution of mutational processes.
Kirk Lohmueller @klohmueller.bsky.social Professor at UCLA in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology as well as Human Genetics.
Traffic Ninja. Occasional runner...
https://lohmueller.eeb.ucla.edu
Mary Goll @gollmg.bsky.social Associate Professor | Mom | first-gen | she/her | genetics | chromatin | zebrafish | dev biology | epigenetics | MZT/ZGA | grad training
Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social Population and evolutionary genetics @UCDavis. Posts, grammar, & spelling are my views only. He/him. #OA popgen book https://github.com/cooplab/popgen-notes/releases
Sohini Ramachandran @sramach.bsky.social Population geneticist @BrownUniversity. Interested in the effects of historical processes & natural selection on human genomes. All views expressed are my own.
jim mallet @wtf-r-species.bsky.social natural historian, PhD Texas, native Londoner. https://www.jamesmallet.github.io (Profile pic from Mauro Cutrona https://facebook.com/profile.php?id=100006219407348)
Maitreya Dunham @maitreya.bsky.social My lab works on genome evolution, using yeast genetics and genomics. Chair, Department of Genome Sciences at University of Washington.
Lab website: https://depts.washington.edu/dunhamlab/
Alison Feder @alisonfeder.bsky.social Rapid evolutionary dynamics in viruses, cancer and bacteria. Assistant professor at UW Genome Sciences and Freeman Hrabowski Scholar at HHMI. federlab.github.io
Anna Tigano @annatigano.bsky.social Bioinformatics biologist, Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
Evolutionary and conservation genomics | adaptation | climate change | salmon & other animals | she/lei
Rebekah Rogers @evolscientist.bsky.social Moving to GW Fall 2026!
Genetic Novelty, PopGen, Genomics.
Editor at JEB and MBE.
Conferences 2026: SMBE
Peter Andolfatto @pandolfatto.bsky.social Evolution/Ecology meets Genetics @ Columbia University. We use a variety of organisms (๐ชฐ๐ฆ๐ธ๐ชฒ) and approaches (mol evo and pop gen, mol bio, experimental evo, genetic engineering) to better understand constraints on adaptation.
Olivia Goldman PhD @oliviagoldman.net Neuroimmunology & Bioinformatics ๐ฆ | Schmidt Science & Weill Neurohub Postdoctoral Fellow | SENse Lab @berkeleymcb.bsky.social | PhD in the deadliest animal ๐ฆ | Co-founder & Exec Board Secretary @cientificolatino.com ๐ | she/her ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social I hope you like pictures of bugs.
Curating at CMNH, teaching at CMU, beetling everywhere
Noah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social Personal account, views are mine alone. Coevolution researcher: www.whitemanlab.org / Author: www.mostdeliciouspoison.com / Professor + Head, Division of Genetics, Genomics, Evolution and Development, Molecular & Cell Biology, UC-Berkeley โฎ๏ธ ๐๏ธ
Doc Edge @docedge.bsky.social Associate professor in quantitative and computational biology @USC. Genetics, evolution, statistics. https://edgepopgen.github.io/edgelab/
Ben Rubin @houseofchacha.bsky.social Seeker of Sounds || Maker of Records || 2x-Grammy-nominated Producer/Mixer/Bassist/Composer || Third Way Cultural Alliance Ambassador twca.xyz || linktr.ee/houseofchacha || spotify "best of" playlist: spoti.fi/48FqUFo
Hugo Darras @hugodarras.bsky.social Social insects, non-mendelian inheritance and genomic conflicts ๐ ๐ ๐งฌ๐ฌ
Centre for Evolutionary & Organismal Biology, Zhejiang University, China ๐จ๐ณ https://lab-darras.github.io/
Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social Professor, USC Marine and Environmental Biology, microbe hunter. Dad, husband. he/him. Not a bot. thethrashlab.com @the.thrash.lab
Andrew Hendry @ecoevoevoeco.bsky.social Professor of Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics at McGill University
Maria Servedio @servedio.bsky.social Theoretician, Speciation, Sexual selection, will post rarely!
Adam Carte @adamcarte.bsky.social Postdoc with Norbert Perrimon (HMS Genetics) / John McCutcheon (ASU Biodesign Institute and Boston satellite colony of 1). PhD from Harvard SSQB w/ Alex Schier (Harvard MCB โ๏ธ Unibas Biozentrum).
Sreeparna Pradhan @sreeparnap.bsky.social K. Lisa Yang Brain-Body Center Postdoctoral Fellow at Steve Flavell's Lab @Picower Inst, MIT | PhD from Michael Hendricks' Lab @IPN, McGill Univ | Animal behavior | Neuroscience | Open science
Ben Larson @blarson.bsky.social Protists, microscopy, biophysics, evolution. Interested in how cells control shape and movement https://www.benlarson.org
Natura in minimis maxima
Asst Prof, RPI | Postdoc, UCSF, Wallace Marshall | PhD, UCBerkeley, Nicole King | BA, Physics, Reed College
Sean Leonard @spleonard1.bsky.social Research scientist at a national lab. OIF / OEF veteran. Stutterer. Microbiome engineering, evolution, bees, bread, and data. He/him
Mike Dolan @mikedolan67.bsky.social
William Gilpin @wgilpin.bsky.social asst prof at UT Austin physics interested in chaos, fluids, & biophysics.
https://www.wgilpin.com/- E Eckart Stolle @eckartstolle.bsky.social Comparative Genomics (Insects) lab @ LIB Museum Koenig, Bonn
Pollinator evolution and biodiversity. Social insects. Phenotypic evolution and phenotypic loss. Comparative and population genomics. Entomology
Jenn Coughlan @jenncoughlan.bsky.social Assistant Prof @ Yale EEB. Canadian in the US. Lover of evolutionary genetics, speciation, adaptation, and plants. Mimulus fanatic. (they/them)