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amanda hess @amandahess.bsky.social writer at large, @nytimes.com *** my book is called SECOND LIFE: HAVING A CHILD IN THE DIGITAL AGE https://bookshop.org/p/books/second-life-having-a-child-in-the-digital-age-amanda-hess/21713723
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Ian Wilson @greenmen.org.uk Refugee from Twitter. Computer scientist, photographer, dogaholic. Retired, thank goodness.
Virginia Tech @virginiatech.bsky.social Solving complex problems, pushing boundaries, serving others, & reimagining education & technology. We are #VirginiaTech & you are welcome here. Go #Hokies! ๐ฆ
American Journal of Veterinary Research (AJVR) @ajvroa.bsky.social The official account for the American Journal of Veterinary Research (AJVR), a gold open access peer-reviewed, scientific journal published online by the American Veterinary Medical Association.
American Aging Association @americanaging.bsky.social The official Bluesky account of AGE. #geroscience #aging #AGE2025
https://www.americanagingassociation.org/
University of Louisville Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute @uoflenvirome.bsky.social The Envirome Institute investigates how environmental conditions foster, support or impede cardiovascular health. We're pursuing a new vision of health that promotes wellness, improves resilience & reduces health inequities. Find us @ enviromeinstitute.com
Julia Espinosa @jespinosa.bsky.social Postdoc in comparative psychology, biology, & neuroscience @YorkU & @Harvard | Studying the nature & nurture shaping social behaviour in diverse dog populations ๐ฉ๐๐โ๐ฆบ | #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- 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
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 
Dr. Gita Gnanadesikan @ggnanadesikan.bsky.social Biologist & Comparative Psychologist || Social Behavior & Cognition, Oxytocin, (Epi)genetics || ๐ถ๐โ๐ฆบ๐ || 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 โช@wildbehaviorpod.bsky.socialโฌ
Mountain and camping addict. Scot in Austria. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
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 โข Apes โข Dogs โข Evolutionary Cognitive Scientist, Assistant Professor @JohnsHopkins โข he/him
Christoph Vรถlter @christophvoelter.bsky.social Comparative & Developmental Psychologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology ๐ฆ and the Messerli Research Institute ๐
Louise Mackie, PhD @louisemackie.bsky.social Messerli Research Institute, Vienna
Comparative Psychologist, researching imitation in:
๐ Dogs
๐คธ Children
๐ต Chimpanzees
MSc was at the University of St Andrews
Scottish ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ she/her
www.louisemackie.org
Tamรกs Faragรณ (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 ๐จ๐ฆ โ Developmental Psychology and Animal Cognition โ 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 โฟ๏ธ
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 biologist๐๐ฃ๐พ;
MSc๐จโ๐;
MEd๐ฉโ๐ซ
PhD๐;
Dogs๐ถ;
socially awkward ๐
;
late dx ADHD ๐๐ง ;
sux at cubing ๐ฅ๐ง๐ฉ๐จ๐ฆโฌ๏ธ;
sux at bouldering๐งฉ๐ชจ;
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 Srdoฤ @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 ๐
Canine Cognition & Human Interaction Lab @ University of Nebraska-Lincoln @unlcchil.bsky.social
Hampshire College alumnus
They/them ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
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 dogโs DNA. And your catโs! ๐ธ๐ช๐ณ๐ฟ๐บ๐ธ
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 โcontradictionsโ? 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 ๐ฆด๐๐งฌ
Julie K. Young @drjuliekyoung.bsky.social Scientist. Professor & Institute Director. I research wildlife ecology & animal behavior, primarily studying ๐ป๐ฆ๐บ๐ฑ, their prey, & ๐ฆซ 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 Davis๐งฌ| urban wildlife ecologist studying carnivores in San Francisco ๐บ๐๐พ | 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 ๐ณ https://ifohs.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/archives/member/hoi-lam-jim-2
Comparative psychology, animal behaviour & social cognition in elephants & canids ๐๐พ
One of @manydogsproject.bsky.social ๐
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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 ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ช๐บ๐ฆ๐น @magdalenaboch.bsky.social ๐ง imaging neural correlates of social cognition and brain evolution in humans, dogs and other carnivorans ๐ฉ๐บ๐๐
๐ฆฆ๐ซ๐ป
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 ๐ / social cognition / emotion / naรฏve sociology
Hannah Burrows @hannahburrows.bsky.social Cognitive Neuroscience PhD Candidate at the Social Cognition Lab at Queenโs University๐จ๐ฆ
Researching dog-human interactions ๐๐โ๐ฆบ
Many Dogs Member since 2023๐๐๐
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 ๐๐ง ๐ฃ๏ธ part-time footballer and dog sport enthusiast โฝ๏ธ๐โ๐ฆบ๐โโ๏ธ
Em Sundby @emsundby.bsky.social ๐พ Comparative Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience ๐ง
๐ถ MSc student studying dog object ownership
๐จ๐ฆ Queen's University
๐ฑ Cat parent
๐ณ๏ธโ๐ 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 ๐๏ธ๐ | Postdoc @VetmeduniVienna | Cognitive & welfare science ๐๐น | Occasional baker ๐ง
Lupin Teles @lmlteles.bsky.social Biology Undergraduate Student from ๐ง๐ท// Interested in mammalian (specially canids) behavior ๐บ๐พ
Dr Claire Brand @clbrand.bsky.social Researcher in canine welfare and behaviour at The Royal Veterinary College (RVC) ๐ถ
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 ๐พ๐ฆฎ
She/Her/Hers
Heather @hyenco.bsky.social 
STW @stw89.bsky.social Yankees, dogs, died in the wool liberal Democrat
Emily Bray @dremilybray.bsky.social MA PhD CAAB | Asst Prof at UA VetMed | Researching canine cognition, maternal style, and assistance dogs
Kris Hale (Best in Dog) @bestindog.bsky.social Certified Professional Dog Trainer (CPDT-KA)
www.bestindog.com
Positive reinforcement, enrichment, and behavior modification
Certified Dog Parkour Instructor (IDPKA)
Dog mom, nature lover, native plant enthusiast, avid reader, and fan of music. 
@kmayip.bsky.social @kmayip.bsky.social 
Dog Aging Institute @dogaginginst.bsky.social The Dog Aging Institute champions and invests in innovative aging research in companion dogs.
Buffer @buffer.com The social media management platform for scheduling, publishing & analytics across every major network. Plan your content calendar in one place. This account is managed by real humans. ๐
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MuttNation Foundation @muttnation.bsky.social BECAUSE of YOU, MuttNation can help shelter pets find a place to call home.
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Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine @pucvm.bsky.social Our mission is to advance global animal and human health and well-being.
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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.
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