Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him
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Edyong.me
Paul Huber @sciencepaulh.bsky.social PhD student @steigerlab - Evolutionary Biologist, Social Isolation & Sibling Interactions
Eda Özüdogru @eda-ozudogru.bsky.social Master‘s student @University of Münster | Passionate about animal behaviour & welfare (all species welcome 🐾) | Probably reading right now 📚
Rebecca Chen @rebeccachen.bsky.social postdoc at @thehoffmanlab.bsky.social working on mutation load, DNA methylation and epigenetic clocks in black grouse 🧬👩💻🧪
mutation load | inbreeding | population genetics | ecological epigenetics | sexual selection
https://rshuhuachen.github.io/rc/
Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social Mics. Cameras. Echolocation! Studying active sensing in collectives: bat and RoBat echolocation in groups, & writing niche Python packages.
Group leader, Active Sensing Collectives Lab:
thejasvibr.github.io & activesensingcollectives.com
@dzg-evol.bsky.social @dzg-evol.bsky.social - D @dzg-gerzoolsociety.bsky.social @dzg-gerzoolsociety.bsky.social
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/
Felix Javier @felixjavier.bsky.social PhD student at UConn EEB || NSF GRFP Fellow ||Copepods, Inverts, Genomics, Evolution and Science Communication || 🇵🇷🏳️🌈
Vanessa Penna Goncalves (she/her) @vanspidergirl.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow at Macquarie University
Behavioral Ecologist
#spiders #brains #neuroscience
Josefine Kreuz @josefinekreuz.bsky.social PhD Student
Evolutinary Biomechanics Lab, University of Greifswald
Biology,
Zoology
Functional Morphology, Behaviour
Denise D Dell'Aglio @ficusorganensis.bsky.social Research Fellow at University of Bristol and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama. Fascinated by Heliconius butterflies, their behaviour and ecology in tropical forest.
Nijat Nariman @nnariman.bsky.social Behavioural & Evolutionary Ecologist | Biological Invasions | Spiders and sometimes beetles | https://linktr.ee/nnariman | he / him | 🏳️🌈
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
Dr. Jonas Wolff @wolffspider.bsky.social Head of the @evoimec.bsky.social lab, critter hunter and nature explorer
Visual Insect Neuroethology Group @insect-vision.bsky.social https://insect-vision.com/
@anna-stoeckl.bsky.social @lochlanw.bsky.social @yvonneh96.bsky.social @manel-a-pama.bsky.social @andrew-mccauley.bsky.social @andreagonsek.bsky.social
@ronjabigge.bsky.social @emmarusconi.bsky.social @arha2.bsky.social
Anupama Manel @manel-a-pama.bsky.social Sensing, behavior and beyond
Grad student 🌈🌈 University Konstanz
https://www.insect-vision.com/anupama-nayak-manel
Bangalore, India
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
Jose Ricardo Paula @josericardopaula.bsky.social Ass Prof @ University of Lisbon; President of @SPEtolgia; PI of http://www.behcomplexitylab.eu
Maria Filippou @mariafilippou.bsky.social DPhil in Biology - University of Oxford 🎓
Editor of The Natterjack 🐸
Sexual Selection 🦋 | Thermal Ecology 🔥 | Evolution 🧬 | Herpetology 🐍
Melissa Ramsay @melissa-e-ramsay.bsky.social PhD researcher at St Andrews' Centre for Biological Diversity and the Scottish Oceans Institute. Sensory ecology - animal (multi)sensory processing - intertidal scavengers.
🦀🌊🐟🫧
EastBio EDI/Student Rep
(she/her)🌈🍉🌱
Bob Wong @bbmwong.bsky.social Professor and Behavioural Ecologist at Monash University
https://www.bobwonglab.org
Christian Drerup @handle.invalid Fellow by Examination at Magdalen College & Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Biology @ University of Oxford 🇬🇧🇩🇪 Interested in the behavioural and sensory ecology of invertebrates 🦑🐙🦟🦋🦀🦐 and fish 🐠 🐟
🔗 https://christiandrerup.com
Judith A.H. Smit @judithsmit.bsky.social NOMIS-STRI postdoc | Animal communication in changing environments | Treehoppers & Frogs | #AnimalBehavior #Ecology #Evolution | 🇳🇱 in 🇵🇦 | she/her
Jess Stephenson @jfstep.bsky.social Research Fellow at Stockholm University. Very crap at bsky. Host-parasite eco and evo, mostly guppies and worms. Stephensonlab.com for better description and more info!!
Dr Nathalie Stroeymeyt @nstroeymeyt.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol, studying collective behaviour and transmission processes in social insects
Dr. Susanne Hoffmann @susannehoffmann.bsky.social Group leader @ MPI-BI, Germany, interested in Neuroethology~Naturalistic Neuroscience~Vocal Communication~Echolocation~Sensory+Motor Systems~🐦~🦇
John Nyakatura @johnnyakatura.bsky.social Biologist at Humboldt University, Berlin...
Zoology, Functional Morphology, Comparative Anatomy, Biomechanics, Evolutionary Biology, etc.
Follow this profile for any news from our lab.
@maitryjani.bsky.social @maitryjani.bsky.social 
Lars Chittka @larschittka.bsky.social Lars Chittka, Professor of Sensory and Behavioural Ecology and author of The Mind of a Bee
Jim Barnett @jimbarnett.bsky.social Behavioural & sensory ecology
Herpetology & entomology
Assist. Prof. in Zoology at Trinity College Dublin
www.behaviouralecologylab.com
(he/him)
Dr. Ralph Simon @ralsimon.bsky.social Sensory ecologist, bat-plant interactions, bioacoustics. Research group leader & staff scientist @ Nuremberg Zoo; associate scientist @FAU_MaD_Lab he/him
https://rsimon.de
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.
Dr Taina Conrad @drtainaconrad.bsky.social Biologist interested in animal communication. Vibrational, chemical, acoustic you name it. Love all species.
WWF Deutschland @wwf.de Unser Planet braucht euch. Lasst uns zusammen Klima, Natur, Umwelt und Artenvielfalt schützen. https://www.wwf.de
Evolutionary Biomechanics lab Greifswald @evoimec.bsky.social Evolutionary Biomechanics lab @unigreifswald.bsky.social | Diversity & evolution of function in biological materials and animal traits | PI @wolffspider.bsky.social
Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge @camzoology.bsky.social News from the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge
https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/
Reassembly Research Unit @reassemblynet.bsky.social We study the recovery of a rainforest (Chocó, Ecuador). Resistance and resilience of species interaction networks and ecosystem processes. DFG-funded (FOR 5027) www.reassembly.de
[Posts by Nico Blüthgen, reflect his personal opinion]
Christoph Grüter @chrisleduck.bsky.social Associate Professor in Animal Behaviour & Ecology @University of Bristol🇬🇧 |🐝 🐜| immigrant 🇨🇭| he/him | https://www.socialinsect-research.com/
Science HR @sciencehr.bsky.social A career network featuring science jobs in academia and industry.
Visit our platform at www.science.hr
British Arachnological Society @britishspiders.bsky.social The British Arachnological Society (BAS) is the UK’s only body devoted exclusively to the study of arachnids (spiders, harvestmen & pseudoscorpions): https://britishspiders.org.uk. To record GB spiders, please use https://irecord.org.uk/enter-srs-records.
Communications Biology @commsbio.nature.com An open-access @natureportfolio.bsky.social journal publishing high quality primary research, reviews and commentary in all areas of the biological sciences since 2018.
https://www.nature.com/commsbio/
Iain Couzin @icouzin.bsky.social FRS. Director, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and Center for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour at the University of Konstanz, Germany. 🏴
Dr. Erin Brandt @arachnogal.bsky.social Postdoc studying spider locomotion at U Chicago with Jasmine Nirody. Interested in sexual selection, biomechanics, thermal ecology, and the tradeoffs between them. Spreading spider love figuratively and literally!
Jay Stafstrom @jaystafstrom.bsky.social Assistant Prof at Indiana University (starting Jan 2026)
neuroethology | spiders | animal behavior | spiders | sensory systems | ALAN | art | spiders
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de Official account of the Max Planck Society. Devoted to basic #research in #physics #astronomy #chemistry #biology #earthsciences #materialscience #mathematics #socialsciences and the #humanities; Imprint: https://www.mpg.de/imprint
LIB-MorphoLab @lib-morpholab.bsky.social Central lab for evolutionary, taxonomic & functional #morphology and #biomechanics of #invertebrates & #vertebrates at Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (@leibnizlib.bsky.social). https://leibniz-lib.de/de/impressum.html
MorphoNews @morphonews.bsky.social Study group Morphology of the German Zoological Society. Infos on zoomorphological topics & latest news in the field by Thies Büscher & Andy Sombke.
Tom Ratz @tomratz.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist | Independent Group Leader & SNSF Fellow at University of Zurich | Evolution, plasticity, & social interactions 🪰🐞🦗 🕷 ⍦
tomratz.weebly.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/
Simona Kralj Fišer @simonakraljfiser.bsky.social Evolution, sexual selection, sexual size dimorphism, reproductive biology, animal personalities, quantitative genetics, maternal effects. Spiders. Love all kind of animals, travelling, cooking, hikes and more. https://www.simonakraljfiser.com
Maria Albo @mariaalbo.bsky.social Science and Education. Evolutionary biologist based in Facultad de Ciencias Uruguay, interested in sexual selection
Sean Rands @seanrands.bsky.social Behavioural ecologist @ University of Bristol, interested in the rules and mechanisms of behavioural/ecological interactions in a whole host of different systems. Easily distracted.
webby stuff: www.seanrands.com
SLEEB Lab Bonn @sleeblab.bsky.social Research group at the University of Bonn studying sleep, life history, evolutionary ecology and behavior (sleeb)- mainly using spiders 🕷️
We love natural history, scicom & adventures and are here to share that with you!
www.danielaroessler.weebly.com 🌈
Entomological Society of America @entsocamerica.bsky.social Sharing insect science globally.
ESA is the world's largest organization serving insect scientists.
Need to identify an insect? Visit http://entsoc.org/insect-id
Lauren Sumner-Rooney @laurensr.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist (invertebrates, vision), Group Leader @multipleye-lab.bsky.social, Lecturer @bristolbiosci.bsky.social. Gradual learner of 🇩🇪 She/her. Views mine, all mine!
Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social A.v.Humboldt professor at the University of Mainz. Evolutionary ecologist. Runs a research group that once prompted the description "in this [coffee] room there's almost always someone who is at least partially fun". (Which we then translated into Latin.)
Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior – caesar @mpinb.mpg.de Interdisciplinary #BasicResearch on how the collective activity of #neurons gives rise to the plethora of #animalbehavior.
Imprint: http://mpinb.mpg.de/im
Migration Department, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior @animaltracking.bsky.social Wikelski Dept. / www.ab.mpg.de/wikelski / Myriads of organisms migrate. We strive to predict animal decisions on their journeys, interactions with the environment, and consequences on ecosystems and humans.
Erik T. Frank @etf1989.bsky.social Emmy Noether Group Leader at @Uni_Wue 🇩🇪 studying the Evolution of Social Wound Care in Ants and beyond 🐜 🌴🐝🦍🚑
Michelle Beyer @michellebeyer.bsky.social PhD Behavioural Ecology | Research assistant at the LfL Freising| Eurasian Otter Management with special research interest in substrate-borne chemical trails across taxa and especially the silk and chemical information of spiders
Sofia Pereira da Silva @sofiaepsilva.bsky.social phd student in compneuro @ sprekeler lab
lisboa / 📍berlin :)
Carolin Schlarb @carolin-schlarb.bsky.social Carnivore specialist
Scientific researcher at Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin
Cheetah Research Project, Dept. Evolutionary Ecology
M.Sc. Organismic, Evolutionary and Paleobiology - University of Bonn
Paul Huber @paulhuber.bsky.social 
Melanie Dammhahn @mdammhahn.bsky.social Professor for Behavoural Biology, Münster University
Jannes Meyer @jannesdoesscience.bsky.social 28 year old Biologist
Master of Science
Assistant Curator at Zoo Dortmund
Animal Behavior and (Behavioral) Ecology
Travel, Books, Animals, Video Games, Football ⚽
Ahana Aurora Fernandez @ahanaaurora.bsky.social Emmy Noether Group leader |STRI Research Associate | Research interests: Bioacoustics, Vocal learning, Social behavior, Vocal ontogeny, Neuroethology
| Bats | Hummingbirds | Dog owner | www.ahanaaurorafernandez.org
Christian Nawroth @goatswhostare.bsky.social Researcher at FBN | Alumnus of University of Halle, Queen Mary University of London & Agroscope | Interests: animal cognition & welfare | Goat aficionado | Boardgame enthusiast | Mycophile | he/him
christiannawroth.wordpress.com
Saskia Sperfeld @saskiasp.bsky.social PhD student in cognitive neuroscience and behavioral biology, gerbil enthusiast
CABES @cabes.bsky.social Capacities on Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services in Africa to promote engagement in IPBES @ipbes.net.
Funded by @iki-germany.bsky.social
Website: http://www.cabes.online
E-learning: https://elearning.cabes.online
Other: https://linktr.ee/cabes.iki
🌍🧪
Hannah Buckley @buckleyhannah.bsky.social Ecologist | Academic | Aotearoa New Zealand
Leilani Walker @lanipai.bsky.social Spiders. She/Her.
Chrissie Painting @cpaintingnz.bsky.social Senior Lecturer @Uni Waikato, Behavioural Ecologist, Bug lover, Pākeha, Mama to 2 kiddos, Senior Ed for NZJZ, Prez of ASSAB, She/her 🏳️🌈
IMPRS for Brain and Behavior @imprsbb.bsky.social Fully-funded #PhD Program in #Neuroethology in Bonn, Germany. International Max Planck Research School for Brain & Behavior. #Neuroscience #Neuroethology
https://imprs-brain-behavior.mpg.de/
Universität Hamburg @uni-hamburg.de Hier postet die Social Media-Redaktion der Abteilung Kommunikation und Marketing der Universität Hamburg. | Impressum: uhh.de/impressum
Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg @adwhamburg.bsky.social Wissenschaftliche Exzellenz und Kooperation in Norddeutschland: Interdisziplinär. Gesellschaftlich relevant. Unabhängig.
In: Hamburg, Bremen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern + Schleswig-Holstein
www.awhamburg.de
Impressum: http://t1p.de/zze7m
35th European Congress of Arachnology @35theca2025.bsky.social The 35th European Congress of Arachnology will take place in
Zadar, Croatia, from 31 August to 5 September 2025.
E - mail: eca2025@irb.hr
Kasey Fowler-Finn @kfowlerfinn.bsky.social Biotremologist, mother, climber. PI studying insect and arachnid diversity, plasticity, acoustics, urbanization, evolution and ecology. SciArt & Diversity in STEM 🏳️🌈
Svea Carlotta von Einem @svea-voneinem.bsky.social B.Sc. Student at the University of Greifswald
Working on spiders 🕷
Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social Research group leader | Neuroethologist | Lepidopterophile
https://www.insect-vision.com/
www.annastoeckl.com
Charissa de Bekker PhD (she/her) @zombieantdoc.bsky.social Associate Professor, molecular ecologist @ Utrecht University.
Zombie-making parasites, extended phenotypes, ant behavior, fungal hyper parasites, fungi for sustainable solutions. DEI advocate. #firstgen
Metal head, cat lady, dog mom, BJJ black belt.
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin @mfnberlin.bsky.social Follow us for real science and research stories beyond the sky! 🦋
MultiplEye Lab @multipleye-lab.bsky.social Unravelling the function and evolution of many-eyed visual systems. Led by @laurensr.bsky.social and based @bristolbiosci.bsky.social, previously
@MfNBerlin.bsky.social.
ASAB Spring 2027 @asab-meetings.bsky.social ASAB Spring 2027 will take place in Portsmouth UK April 7-9. Account for up-to-date info about @asab.org's next upcoming meeting.
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
ASAB Education Committee @asabeducation.bsky.social The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) has an Education Committee that supports colleagues teaching animal behaviour from schools through to higher education.
bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social 
VBIO e. V. @vbio.bsky.social Verband Biologie, Biowissenschaften und Biomedizin in Deutschland
Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung @sgn.one 3 Museen & 12 Forschungsstandorte 🦖🦋🦐
European Society for Evolutionary Biology @eseb.bsky.social Official profile of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) - an international academic society supporting the study of #evolution
https://eseb.org
Publisher of @jevbio.bsky.social
Co-publisher of @evolletters.bsky.social
Nadja Geiger @nadjageiger.bsky.social PhD Student @sleeblab.bsky.social | University of Bonn | Behavioural Ecology | Conservation | Photo- & Videography | SciCom | gazing at sleepy spiders 🕷️✨🌿
she/her
Dominik Melville @ecoevodom.bsky.social Wildlife microbiology, disease ecology, immunology 🦇🦠 wannabe chef 🥨 queer 🌈
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
ISBE2026 @isbe2026.bsky.social International Society for Behavioral Ecology Congress, Turin (Italy) 20-24 July 2026
www.isbe2026.com
Helmholtz Institute for One Health (HIOH) @helmholtz-hioh.bsky.social The Helmholtz Institute for One Health (HIOH) of HZI, in partnership with Greifswald University, Medical Center, and FLI, focuses on emerging and known pathogens, including AMR, emphasizing human, animal, environmental, and climate health.
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft @dfg.de Die DFG ist die größte Forschungsförderorganisation und die Selbstverwaltungsorganisation der Wissenschaft in Deutschland:
www.dfg.de
Impressum: https://www.dfg.de/impressum
Social Media-Netiquette: www.dfg.de/netiquette
@laura-hartwig.bsky.social @laura-hartwig.bsky.social 
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/
Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social Scientific journal publishing research, overview and commentary across all of biology. All of it!
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/home
Part of CellPress @cellpress.bsky.social
Behavioral Ecology @behavecol.bsky.social Behavioral Ecology is the official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology (ISBE). Run by @birgitszabo.bsky.social #behavecol