Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social Freelance writing about the wild, old and dead. Bylines in NatGeo, SciAm, The New York Times, Texas Monthly, and many other places. Repped by @desir.ee at Looking Glass Literary (fiction) and @benglishhh.bsky.social at Transatlantic (nonfiction)
Ehud @duhe.bsky.social Do you really don’t know?
(I’m a philosopher and historian of biology, interested in all things evolutionary, #genetic, or #cognitive. I find most things ridiculous.)
http://www.ehudlamm.com
Nigel Goldenfeld @nigelgoldenfeld.bsky.social Theoretical physicist at UCSD researching condensed & living matter, fluid mechanics, statistical mechanics.
Bad at staying in my lane. Interested in everything.
https://guava.physics.ucsd.edu/~nigel/
Alison Gopnik @alisongopnik.bsky.social Cognitive scientist, philosopher, and psychologist at Berkeley, author of The Scientist in the Crib, The Philosophical Baby and The Gardener and the Carpenter and grandmother of six.
Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems.
Website: https://melaniemitchell.me
Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
Alex Green (文浩航) @glexareen.bsky.social Associate Professor (Law), CUHK (Hong Kong SAR, PRC); Academic Associate, 23ES Chambers (UK); (international law, statehood, philosophy, culture, climate change & sea-level rise).
Book 1: https://tinyurl.com/bdfa86ve
Book 2: https://tinyurl.com/yc4nmrnm
M R. X. Dentith @mrxdentith.com Philosopher of conspiracy theory theory. Editor (but not the) of “Social Epistemology” & the “Journal of Contemporary Chinese Philosophy”
they/them
Website: https://www.mrxdentith.com
Podcast: https://zencastr.com/The-Podcaster-s-Guide-to-the-Conspiracy
Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social Computation & Complexity | AI Interpretability | Meta-theory | Computational Cognitive Science
Max Planck Institute ESI.
Dept. of Computer Science & Mathematics,
Goethe University Frankfurt.
https://fedeadolfi.github.io
On the job market!
Jean-François Cudennec @limpetnerd.eurosky.social 🔬 Limpet scientist (PhD) | Marine biology, paleontology & coastal archaeology
📸 Also nature photographer
https://www.instagram.com/jfcudennec?igsh=MW9mbGVpdzF0YXdrcA%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
Uri Hertz @urihertz.bsky.social PI at the cog-sci dept at the university of Haifa. Social-cognitive-computational psychology, and sometimes neuroscience.
www.socialdecisionlab.net
Markus Meister @mameister4.bsky.social Neuroscientist. Long-form opinions at https://markusmeister.com.
Jieyu Zheng @jieyusz.bsky.social www.jieyuzheng.com
Caltech Phd candidate in Neurobiology, Meister Lab
- Avid birder, wildlife photographer, hiker...
- Alumnae from SJTU, Cornell and Cambridge Uni
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
Yogi Jaeger @yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy 🇨🇭 in 🇦🇹 Life beyond dogma! Free-floating systems thinker & natural philosopher. Antifragilist extemporanian metamodernist. Open science, society & living […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://spore.social/@yoginho, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Tony Zador @tonyzador.bsky.social Neuroscientist at CSHL. Interests: neuroAI, molecular connectomics, & cortical circuits. Co-founder of Cosyne and NAISys meetings.
Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social Epigenetic Inheritance, Neuroscience & anything biology-related
https://www.odedrechavilab.com/
q.e.d: https://www.qedscience.com
Organizer of “The Woodstock of Biology”
TED: https://shorturl.at/myFTY
Huberman Lab Podcast: https://youtu.be/CDUetQMKM6g
Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co Social science and other distractions. Old posts get deleted pretty quick.
https://kieranhealy.org /
https://theordinalsociety.com
Daron Acemoglu @dacemoglumit.bsky.social Institute Professor, MIT Economics. Co-Director of @mitshapingwork.bsky.social. Author of Why Nations Fail, The Narrow Corridor, and Power & Progress.
Ariel Rubinstein @arielrubinstein.bsky.social School of Economics, Tel Aviv University
Department of Economics, New York University
https://arielrubinstein.org/
Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social Author of "Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the 20th Century". Too online since 1995. Sometime Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury. UC Berkeley Professor.
manvir singh @manvir.bsky.social anthropologist at uc davis.
contributing writer at the new yorker.
author of SHAMANISM: THE TIMELESS RELIGION (knopf + allen lane).
Dan Williams @danwphilosophy.bsky.social Philosopher. Interested in: Philosophy, Psychology, Evolution, Artificial Intelligence, Social Science, Politics.
danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society.
Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society
Professor of Communication, Cornell
https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
Nicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University. Sociologist. Network Scientist. Physician. Author of Apollo's Arrow; Blueprint; Connected; and Death Foretold. Director of the Human Nature Lab: https://humannaturelab.net- D David Poeppel @davidpoeppel.bsky.social
Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social Neurogeneticist interested in the relations between genes, brains, and minds. Author of INNATE (2018) and FREE AGENTS (2023)
Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social Physics, philosophy, complexity. @jhuartssciences.bsky.social & @sfiscience.bsky.social. Host, #MindscapePodcast. Married to @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social.
Latest books: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe.
https://preposterousuniverse.com/
Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social Historian of science, art, & ideas 🗃
Words: Smithsonian, LA Times, TLS, Aeon, Nature, Science.
Author: HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY
www.surekhadavies.org
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/surekhadavies?tag=bluesky
Speaker bureau: Chartwell Speakers
Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.bsky.social Lecturer/researcher in phil & neuro.
Éireannach en France/immigrant.
Education, evolution, embodied mind/metaphysiology, memory, deliberation, myside bias, representation, reasoning, perspectivism, pragmatism.
Universités de Bordeaux & Bdx-Montaigne.
Sara Imari Walker @saraimari.bsky.social Professor @ASU @sfiscience
Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social Professor of democracy and international affairs. http://www.henryfarrell.net and newsletter at http://www.programmablemutter.com. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554.
Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social Historian at Cambridge. In Search of the Phoenicians (2018) and How the World Made the West (2024). Photos by Sukant Deepak (in Jaipur, 2024) and Carlotta Cardana (at St John's College, Cambridge, 2025).
Philipp Lorenz-Spreen @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social Heading the Computational Social Science group within SynoSys & ifK at TU Dresden, where we study how online information environments impact public discourse and develop alternatives that benefit democracy. Views are my own. https://synosys.github.io/
Maxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social web: http://maxim.ece.illinois.edu
substack: https://realizable.substack.com
Dr. Karenna Malavanti @kmalavanti.bsky.social Senior Lecturer of Psychology & Neuroscience | #firstgen | Scholarly Teacher| Experimental Cognitive Psychologist | Latina in STEM | #teachpsych | Views are my own
Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social Associate prof of psychology Vanderbilt Univ, studies how adults and children learn true and false information, she/her, lkfazio.com
Regan A. R. Gurung @reganargurung.bsky.social Social psychologist; Educator; Writer: http://regangurung.com/books/ Inspiring effective efficient teaching/learning. Friends & Family Forever
Vishal Thakkar, PhD (he/him/his) @vjthakk.bsky.social SLU ---> TCU ---> TCC ---> UTSW
Assistant Professor of Psychology/Psychiatry, UTSW Medical Center
Passionate about scholarship of teaching and learning, non-invasive neuromodulation, language, and memory.
Website: www.vthakkar.com
leslie berntsen, ph.d. 😷 👩🏽🏫 🇳🇮 @leslie-bern.bsky.social Founder @stemedify.bsky.social, core organizer @standupforscience.bsky.social • Psych Ph.D., Latina Sinvergüenza™️, y disabled nightmare dressed like a daydream ✨ • “Like Regina George but for a good cause”
📍Los Angeles | 🔗 https://www.leslie-bern.com
Ken Carter @drkencarter.bsky.social Charles Howard Candler Professor of Psychology @emoryoxford @emoryuniversity
Leslie Cramblet Alvarez @lesliealvarez.bsky.social Psych prof turned faculty developer. Interested in all things teaching and learning in higher education with a side of yoga and running.
Dina Gohar, Ph.D @drgohar.bsky.social Social & Clinical Psychologist
Psychology Faculty at UMichigan-Ann Arbor
@skogs5.bsky.social @skogs5.bsky.social
Aaron S. Richmond @aaronsrichmond.bsky.social A consumer of great teaching.
Susan Nolan @susan-nolan.bsky.social Professor of Psychology | Textbook author in statistics & intro psychology | Co-founder of the International Collaboration on Undergraduate Psychology Outcomes (icupo.org) | Cat enthusiast & bookworm. [shu.edu/profiles/susannolan.html]
Dr. Danae Hudson @danaehudson.bsky.social
Morton Ann Gernsbacher @gernsbacherlab.bsky.social Vilas Research Professor & Sir Frederic Bartlett Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, researching cognitive neuroscience, human attention & communication
Sue Frantz @suefrantz.com
Liz Leininger @ecleininger.bsky.social Associate Prof at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Neuroscientist & STEM Education researcher. In my spare time I photograph birds and play gamelan music. Views are my own.
Lindsay Masland @lindsaymasland.bsky.social Executive Director of a Center for Teaching and Learning
Professor of Psychology
Queer in all the ways.
Opinions mine.
Building a world where teaching and teachers matter.
Robin G Nelson @robingnelson.blacksky.app Biocultural Bio Anthropologist at SHESC ASU;
studying familial & community dynamics, child growth, health outcomes across the lifespan, & parental investment; parent to 2; happy introvert; loves exercise; NJ ---> AZ
Richard McElreath 🐈⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social Anthropologist - Bayesian modeling - science reform - cat and cooking content too - Director @ MPI for evolutionary anthropology https://www.eva.mpg.de/ecology/staff/richard-mcelreath/
Abbey Page @abbeyepage.bsky.social Lecturer CCE Brunel in working on all things on reproduction, childrearing, early childhood and social support. Thinks in evolutionary and other frameworks. Secretary of EHBEA. 🩷💜💙🩵
Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Psychology at Duke studying kids & culture. PI of the Mind & Culture Lab. Mom x3. Some people just want to watch the world learn.
dorsaamir.com | mindandculturelab.com
Ed Hagen @edhagen.net Professor of Anthropology at Washington State University.
Faculty page: https://anthro.vancouver.wsu.edu/people/hagen/
Views expressed are my own and do not reflect those of my employer or other organizations I'm affiliated with.
Meltem Yucel @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social Assistant Professor @msupsychology.bsky.social • studying norms, morality, & gossip • Previously @ Duke, UVA, IMPRS LIFE • she/her • Founder: @psychresearchlist.bsky.social • Lab: @moralmindslab.bsky.social • www.meltemyucel.com
Mikey Pasek @mikeypasek.bsky.social Assistant professor of social psychology at the University of Illinois Chicago. I study identity-based division and how to reduce it, with a focus on ethno-religious conflict. Cinnabon enthusiast. michaelhpasek.com
M. Willis Monroe @willismonroe.com Cuneiform Studies, History of Science/Religion, Quantitative Humanities, Associate Professor at the University of New Brunswick, Co-Director of the Database of Religious History.
Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social Anthropologist interested in hunter-gatherer egalitarianism | Asst Prof @BaylorAnthro.bsky.social | Editor-in-Chief, Hunter-Gatherer Research | Spelling errors my own
Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social Professor of Ethics & Technology @ Hertie School, Berlin. Interests: Artificial & Natural Intelligence; Behavioural Ecology; Cooperation; Digital Governance. Social media policy: https://joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2024/10/guidance-to-my-social-media.html
Dr Michelle Ann Kline @michelleakline.bsky.social anthropologist in a psych dept | American in the UK | she/her | doing my best to be inclusive
Bret Beheim @babeheim.bsky.social cultural evolution, behavioral ecology, math models, data provenance, MOSAIC group leader @ Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology + faculty at the Leipzig School of Human Origins https://babeheim.com/
James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social Anthropologist in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability studying human adaptation, infectious disease dynamics, and climate fiction.
https://heeh.stanford.edu
Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social Cross-cultural and experimental psychologist / anthropologist.
Working on: appearance ideals, body image, sexual selection, gender, social transmission.
Working in:
🇬🇧 🇨🇴 🇭🇳 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇿🇼 🇰🇪 🇿🇦 🇨🇳
(A veces posteo en español.)
Prof @ Durham
http://www.boothlab.org
Mason Youngblood @masonyoungblood.bsky.social Postdoc fellow researching cultural evolution at the Institute for Advanced Computational Science - Electronic music as Callosum - masonyoungblood.com
Dr Sarah Myers @drsarahmyers.bsky.social Evolutionary anthropologist, researcher with BirthRites at MPI-EVA Leipzig. Reproduction, postnatal depression, infant feeding, cooperative childrearing, FGMC.
Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social Associate Professor of Psychology at Columbia studying how kids and adults think about morality, religion, and law. Lover of balloons. Lab website: columbiasamclab.weebly.com
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
Matthew Gervais @matthewmgervais.bsky.social Lecturer in Psychology @BrunelCCE.bsky.social.
Sentiments & sociality co-evolving with culture | Comparative field methods & ethics | Pickles & playgrounds & ponds on the side wee
https://www.brunel.ac.uk/people/matthew-gervais
Jeremy Ginges @jeremyginges.bsky.social Social psychologist @LSE studying cooperation and conflict across cultural divides
Heidi Colleran @heidicolleran.bsky.social Anthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. https://www.eva.mpg.de/ecology/staff/heidi-colleran/ Culture | Demography |Reproduction | Population | Humanist and scientist. Writing a book: The Myth of Human Nature, out 2027 🇮🇪
Kris Smith @kris-smith.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Anthropology at WSU studying how people work together to respond to environmental change and infectious disease across E. Africa. Interdisciplinary and plays well with others. He/him
Website: kristophermsmith.com
James Winters @replicatedtypo.bsky.social Simulating sci-fi novels and calling it cultural evolution
Centre for Culture and Evolution | Brunel University London | https://j-winters.github.io
Matt Zefferman @mzefferman.bsky.social Any views expressed are, at most, my own and do not reflect those of any organization.
Rachel Kendal @rachkendal.bsky.social Interested in cultural evolution, evolutionary anthropology, psychology, primatology, equitable academia, cats, dogs, wild swimming and camping. Prof at Durham Uni, UK (she/her)
Alberto Acerbi @acerbialberto.com I am an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento (Italy): cognitive anthropology / cultural evolution / digital media / cultural analytics
More info in the pinned post.
Robin Schimmelpfennig @schimmelpfennig.bsky.social PhD@heclausanne (w/ EffersonCharles) /Affl. @LSE_PBS w/ @mmuthukrishna & Google Research. UN Fellow for Behavioral Science #behavior #culture #organizations #AI Webite: robinschimmelpfennig.com
Katie McAuliffe @katiemcauliffe.bsky.social Cooperation, Morality, Justice, Norms, Evolution, Society, Culture, etc
bccooperationlab.com
bcvirtueproject.com
Associate Prof @ Psychology & Neuroscience, Boston College
Daniel Conroy-Beam @dconroybeam.bsky.social Associate professor at UCSB. Evolutionary and computational perspectives on human mating. Occasional nature photos. He/him.
https://www.danconroybeam.com/
Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social Faculty (Penn State), lab director (https://socialitylab.org), entrepreneur. Interdisciplinary anthropologist studying how people cooperate to manage risk. Foodie. 🌎🌍
Pat Savage @patrickesavage.bsky.social Author: Comparative Musicology (academic.oup.com/book/62353; open access)
Director: @compmusiclab.bsky.social
Host/PI @manyvoices.bsky.social
Rutherford Discovery Fellow @U Auckland
Assoc. Prof. @Keio U
Music, evolution, diversity
He/him
Tangata tiriti
Adrian Viliami Bell @avbell.bsky.social professor and chair of anthropology at the university of utah; interested in evolution, culture, and migration
https://adrianbell.wordpress.com/
Jessica D Ayers @jessicadayers.bsky.social Evolutionary Social Psychologist | Studies behavioral expressions of genetic conflict 🧬 | CSUF🐘and ASUpsych 🔱🌵alum | Assistant professor BoiseStatePsych jessicaayers.org
Alex Mesoudi @alexmesoudi.com Cultural evolution researcher at the University of Exeter (Penryn campus), UK. I study human social learning and culture using evolutionary theory.
Past President of the Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social
Website: alexmesoudi.com
Bruce Rawlings @brucerawlings.bsky.social Associate Prof. Durham University (Psychology)
Studying cultural evolution, innovation, creativity in kids cross-culturally, chimps and other animals.
DE&I Associate Editor, Developmental Science
Ipswich Town- J Joan Silk @jbsilk.bsky.social Evolutionary anthropologist, primate behavioral ecologist.
EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social Official feed of European Human Behaviour & Evolution Association. Follow for news and info about awards, grants, conferences. Account managed by @pablovarase.bsky.social www.ehbea.org
Jordan Moon @jordanmoon.bsky.social Social psychologist @ University of Southampton. Formerly at Brunel University of London and Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse. PhD from Arizona State University.
Religion, morality, etc.
W: https://www.jordanwmoon.com
David W Lawson @davidwlawson.bsky.social Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Barbara
Applied Evolutionary Anthropology Lab 🌍🌏🌎
Human Behavioral Ecology
Global Health, Family, Gender Norms 🏳️🌈
aea-lab.com
Dr Emily Emmott @ehemmott.bsky.social Associate Prof in Biological Anthropology, bringing Evolution to Public Health. Director of Education at UCL Anthropology.
Profile: https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/30051
Maxime Derex @maximederex.bsky.social CNRS Researcher at IAST and Toulouse School of Economics
Working on cumulative culture, social learning, innovation
Thomas Pollet @tvpollet.bsky.social I study social relationships (and a bunch of random other things) with an interest in statistics. Views are my own. https://tvpollet.github.io/
Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social The official account for the Cultural Evolution Society. Our mission is to promote the study of cultural evolution in research and practice.
www.culturalevolutionsociety.org
Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social Exploring the intersection of culture, evolution, psychology and anthropology. We study how culture and evolution shape human behaviour and society
Jeanne Bovet @jeannebovet.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Northumbria University (UK)
Sean Prall @sprall.bsky.social Anthropologist at UCLA
Health, reproduction, vaccination, mistrust
sprall.github.io
samuel mehr @mehr.nz i am a cognitive scientist studying auditory perception at the University of Auckland and the Yale Child Study Center 🇳🇿🇺🇸🇫🇷🇨🇦
lab: themusiclab.org
personal: mehr.nz
intro to my research: youtu.be/-vJ7Jygr1eg
book: WHY WE HEAR WHAT WE HEAR (2028, Bloomsbury)
Dan Sperber @dansperber.bsky.social
Hugo Mercier @hugoreasoning.bsky.social Evolutionary and cognitive psychologist. Author, Not Born Yesterday (http://tinyurl.com/yyh929ns), The Enigma of Reason (http://tinyurl.com/6hbpn84).
Tim Waring @twaring.bsky.social I study the evolution of human culture with a focus on environmental behaviors and institutions and an eye toward helping these become more sustainable on a single, limited planet. https://timwaring.info/