Orbital Studies @orbitalstudies.com A literary science magazine. Issue № 0: Ways of Seeing the Living World available now. https://orbitalstudies.com
Shumon T. Hussain @shumon.bsky.social Hunter-Gatherer and Multispecies Archaeology (Deep Time), Environmental Humanities, More-Than-Human Deep History, Animal-kin, Boardgames & eSports, Politics of Life - PI of ECOLITHIC & ZOOGESTURES @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social
Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social Professor of Medical Anthropology (University of St Andrews, Scotland) researching zoonosis, plague, epidemics, colonial medicine, biopolitics, multispecies relations, and medical visual culture
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/social-anthropology/people/cl12
Emily R. Trunnell, Ph.D. @ertrunnell.bsky.social neuroscientist 🧠 | Director @ https://www.scienceadvancement.org/ (SAO) | Moving U.S. biomedical research toward humans & away from other animals 🐀 | she/her/hers
Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle @mnhn.fr 400 ans d’aventures scientifiques pour éclairer demain
🌍 Observer, comprendre, agir pour la Terre et le vivant
📍 10 musées, jardins et zoos en France
S’abonner 👉 mnhn.fr/la-newsletter-du-museum-sur-la-terre-et-le-vivant
Kathelijne Koops @kathelijnekoops.bsky.social Eccellenza Professor at UZH Evolutionary Anthropology 🦍 P.I. APE Group 🦍 Co-director Nimba Chimpanzee Project | Ape material culture | Conservation. She/her
www.apegroup-uzh.com
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
Caroline Fryns @carolinefryns.bsky.social PhD candidate at the University of Neuchâtel studying chimp vocal development. AKA professional animal stalker
Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute #DISI @divintelligence.bsky.social Fostering interdisciplinary collaboration among scholars and storytellers interested in the origins, nature, and future of intelligences.
Web: www.disi.org
Podcast: Many Minds (@manymindspod.bsky.social)
Vesta Eleuteri @vestaeleuteri.bsky.social Biologist studying elephant gestures & chimp drumming.
Obsessed with elephants. Yes, chimps are cool too.
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
Gibraltar Macaques Project @gibmacproj.bsky.social Long-term project studying the ecology, behaviour and conservation of the population of Barbary macaques from Gibraltar, led by Dr Sylvain Lemoine, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge.
Ethological Society @ethoges.bsky.social Academic society supporting Behavioural Biology in research & teaching | associated with Ethology | 🇪🇺 | posts by @hanjabrrr.bsky.social
Taï Chimpanzee Project @taichimpproject.bsky.social Research on and conservation of wild chimpanzees in the Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire, since 1979.
www.taichimpproject.org
The Neotoma Paleoecology Database @neotomadb.bsky.social Supporting global-change research and education via open, community-curated data and services for paleoecological and paleoenvironmental data. https://www.neotomadb.org
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
Minato Asari | 浅利みなと @minatoasari.bsky.social Philosopher of language and biology at Tokyo Metropolitan University（東京都立大学）
website: https://sites.google.com/view/minato-asari/
Wild Animal Initiative @wildanimals.bsky.social Conducting research, providing funding, and supporting researchers to accelerate science that helps wild animals. wildanimalinitiative.org
Eleanor Crookes @eleanorcrookes.bsky.social - BSc Zoology, University of Derby
- MSc Human Evolution and Behaviour, UCL concentrating on wild animal welfare 🐒
- SWBio DTP PhD studentship investigating behaviour, physiology and ecology of antimicrobial resistance in baboons🐒 🦠
She/her
The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience @lseanimalsentience.bsky.social We use the science of animal minds to design better policies, laws and ways of caring for other animals. https://www.lse.ac.uk/sentience / https://www.linkedin.com/company/lseanimalsentience/
Daniel Kelly @dryan149.bsky.social Co-director of the Cognition, Agency & Intelligence Center
Co-author of Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change
Philosophy of mind, cog sci, cultural evolution, moral psych, climate change
https://tinyurl.com/y72qnp9v
Suzanne Walsh @zanbreathnach.bsky.social Irish artist (performance and audio), and writer, ag foghlaim Gaeilge arís, sometimes bird rescuer, they/them, siad/iad, Wexford/Dub
Www.suzannewalsh.ie
Cédric Moisy @cedric-moisy.bsky.social Research scientist 🍇🖥️🌱🦠🔬
Plant Pathology | 3D+t imaging | MRI | Xrays tomography | IA | Image Analysis 🔎☢️🧲
Trunk diseases | Fungal Pathogens | Genetics | Molecular Biology | Grapevine | Breeding & Selection
French Wine and Vine Institute, France 🇫🇷
Avilien Dard @avdar66.bsky.social #MSCA #Postdoc, Van Breusegem Lab #VIB -UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology #plantscience #redox
https://linktr.ee/Avilien.dard
Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social Neurogeneticist interested in the relations between genes, brains, and minds. Author of INNATE (2018) and FREE AGENTS (2023)
Gabriella Santini @gabriellasantini.bsky.social PhD in Environmental Anthropology @UCLanthropology & @officialZSL studying people-lion interactions | @SSHRC_CRS Fellow | @ESACcanada Board Member | Co-founder of The Creative Collective
Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social History Prof @ Durham University | Historian of Britain and the Atlantic world | w/ special interests in the global history of science, medicine and technology (including AI).
Lauren Reed @laurenwreed.bsky.social Linguist interested in homesign, social cognition, and the evolution of language. laurenwreed.com
ces2026 @ces2026.bsky.social This year’s Cultural Evolution Society (CES) Conference 2026 will be held at UM6P Rabat Campus - Morocco.
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.
Alba Motes Rodrigo @albamotesr.bsky.social Behavioral scientist investigating what it means to be social | I work with 🐒 and 🐜 | Passionate about medical applications of ethology | UNIL🇨🇭
Karyn Anderson @karynanderson.bsky.social PhD Candidate researching how primates use sex to navigate their complex social lives | Primate behavioural ecologist | University of Toronto | she/her 🏳️🌈🐒
Lotte Koot @lottelarissa.bsky.social PhD candidate exploring chimpanzee culture | Primate Culture Origins Group | Utrecht University
Kevin Daviaud @dvdkevin.bsky.social Research engineer studying social cognition and cultural evolution in non-human primates. Currently investigating tool use in macaques @unistra.fr.
Kyle Fischer @akfischer.bsky.social Postdoc. Interests: evolutionary approaches to the behavior of humans and other animals; politics; religion; wellbeing; digital media; the spread of (mis)information; etc.
Auriane Le Floch @aurianelf.bsky.social Researcher in animal communication and cognition 🐒🌳
Soon-to-be postdoc at Geneva University with the NCCR Evolving Language studying grammar processing in dogs 🐕 🇨🇭 🇲🇦
Sofia Forss @sofiaforss.bsky.social Evolutionary Biologist interested in Animal Behavior and Cognition, especially the interlink between socio-ecological factors, motivation and learning.
www.sofiaforss.com
Charlotte Christensen @c-christensen.bsky.social Behavioural ecologist - Eternal optimist - Big sister 24/7
Group leader @ University of Zurich, Switzerland & Mpala Research Centre, Kenya
Research page: https://www.charlottechristensenresearch.com
https://www.popecol.org/charlotte-christensen/
Marianne Paisley (she/her) @mariannepaisley.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 PhD Candidate - Great Ape Wellbeing at University of Sussex. Using thermal imagery to assess wellbeing in gorillas & chimpanzees 🐵 PSGB Student Officer 🤓
Will Allen @willallennz.bsky.social Sustainable development & co-design practitioner. Supports multi-stakeholder processes and constructive change. Sharing insights on systems thinking, adaptive management, evaluation, facilitation. More at https://learningforsustainability.net/
Alexa Duchesneau @alexa63709.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Yale University
Nutritional Ecology of white-faced capuchin monkeys
Searching for post doc focused on nutritional ecology/botany/plant-primate interactions 🍃
Stefaniya Kamenova @stefaniyak2.bsky.social Molecular ecologist studying trophic interactions 🇵🇸🇱🇧
National Museum of Natural History, Sofia | University of Oslo
Geladas For Cooperation @geladasbridges.bsky.social Research project on the social behaviour of geladas in Ethiopia (PI: Elisabetta Palagi; co-PI: Bezawork Afework). Follow our scientific and social journey!
Dr. Walter Veit @walterveit.bsky.social Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Reading |
Most of my recent writing is on animal consciousness and welfare
Andrew King @shoalgroup.bsky.social Professor of Animal Behaviour. www.SHOALgroup.org
Palaeotrails @palaeotrails.bsky.social Palaeoanthropology research group led by @martamlahr.bsky.social combining multiple projects that investigate human evolution, largely focused in the Turkana Basin.
Administered by the Ng'ipalajem team
Mary Bates @marybates.bsky.social Freelance science writer for adults and kids, specializing in the life and social sciences. Studied bat echolocation for my PhD in psychology. Cat lover, embroiderer, nerd. She/her.
🌐 marybatessciencewriter.com
Julie Kern @juliekern.bsky.social Behavioural Ecologist | Communication | Cooperation | Conservation. Co-founder @Dwarf_Mongoose Research Project. Currently outback NSW.
Lara Narbona Sabaté @laranarbona.bsky.social Primatologist by profession, linguist by vocation (or is it?). Graduate @apesemory.bsky.social Madly in love with Budongo Chimps and Taboga Capuchins.
She/her
Earth Species Project (ESP) @earthspecies.bsky.social The new frontier of interspecies understanding.
We decode animal communication with advanced AI to illuminate the diverse intelligences on earth.
www.earthspecies.org/
Matthew Longo @mattlongo.bsky.social Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Birkbeck, University of London
Jishnu @jishnuk.bsky.social PhD at University of Cambridge; previously IISER Mohali
Ethology and Social Behaviour 🐒
Sofia Carrera @sccarrera.bsky.social Postdoc in bio anthro @ Northwestern 
Patrick Lewin @plewin.bsky.social Behavioural ecologist interested in movement, navigation and collective behaviour, especially in birds | Postdoc in the Portugal Lab, Oxford, looking at visual guidance of flight in homing pigeons | DPhil on Manx shearwater navigation | BTO ringing trainer
Leanne Proops @leanneproops.bsky.social Associate Professor, Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology, University of Portsmouth, UK · comparative psychology · evolution · social cognition · thanatology · equid behaviour · animal welfare · working equids 🐎 · she / they 🏳️🌈
Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
Elisa Fernández Fueyo @elisaffueyo.bsky.social PhD student researching baboon communication at RHUL & UCL with LIDo🐒
Interested in animal social behaviour, cognition and ethics🐜
Open and inclusive science✨
Eva Read @evaroseread.bsky.social Researcher interested in sentience, ethics and animal welfare science.
Katya Herberg 🐒🧠🌱 @katyaherberg.bsky.social Primatologist interested in the evolution of social cognition and culture / Professional animal enthusiast
PhD @ University of St Andrews📍
Dr. Abigail Desmond @abigaildesmond.bsky.social Archaeologist. Technologist. Harvard researcher.
https://heb.fas.harvard.edu/people/abigail-desmond
Mark William Westmoreland @docwestmo.bsky.social Memphis native working in Philosophy of Race, Decolonial Theory, Political Phil, & Henri Bergson. Villanova PhD. Teaching ethics, human rights, Africana thought, & Phil of Law. Director of Free School in Ocean County NJ. (Carpenter, Hiker, Musician)
Rachel Thomson 🐘 @rachelliephant.bsky.social 🌍 PhD Elephant Cognition, Personality & Conflict
🧠 Comparative & Evolutionary Psychology
🐘 University of Portsmouth / Elephants for Africa
🎓 1+3 South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership
🐭 MRes Neuroscience / MSc Research Methods
Liberty Severs @libertysevers.bsky.social Philosopher of biology and cognitive scientist. PhD Fellow at Uni. Lisbon/Bochum. Learning, decision-making, agency and control.
Co-founder @nonneuralcognition.bsky.social, VP @ispsm.bsky.social.
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
Nicholas Emmerson @nicemm.bsky.social Philosopher without portfolio. Until recently, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Iceland. My website: https://nicholasemmersonphilosophy.weebly.com.
Matt Berkley @mattberkley.bsky.social Sentientism, food policy for desired/anticipated consumption patterns, plant-based food for climate, consumption behaviour, history and reporting of global goals, framing.
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
Hettie Aliano @hettiealiano.bsky.social Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology PhD Student at WashU | Research Interests: Moral Injury, Trauma, PTSD, Memory
André Gonçalves @fieryangelsfell.bsky.social Postdoc at the Indianapolis Zoological Society. Interested in primatology, cognition, anthropology, history, & comparative thanatology.
gaia.eco - Biodiversity Studio @gaia.eco 🪸 Monitor species. Restore nature.
🌍 Data, KPIs, analytics and reports
🔎 Open up https://gaia.eco
distrustful dinosaurs @distrustful-dinos.bsky.social
never trust the mammals
https://youtube.com/@distrustful_dinos
https://distrustful-dinosaurs.com
https://destringers-field-guide.com
Marina Bolotnikova @mbolotnikova.bsky.social Senior reporter for Vox thinking about factory farming & animal rights, ag, economics, science & its discontents, cities, housing, transit and ✨ideas✨
marina@vox.com
~Skeptical of epistemic authority
I live in Madison, WI
Simon Brown @simonabbrown.bsky.social Philosopher of mind/cog sci studying animal minds, memory,
consciousness, temporal representation, & implications for animal ethics/policy.
Asst. Prof. @ Ashoka University, India
Rebecca Meagher @rkmeagher.bsky.social Animal behaviour and welfare researcher. Assoc Prof at Dalhousie. Fond of cows, mustelids, cats and nerdy humour.
Ben Bush @gumbybush.myatproto.social Happily confused.
Studying philosophy (action and ethics via emotion & reflex--having reasons without being able to give reasons) at FSU.
Earth BioGenome Project 🌍 @ebpgenome.bsky.social 🧬 Sequencing biodiversity. Securing its future.
The Earth BioGenome Project (EBP) is a global moonshot for biology working to sequence, catalog, and characterize the genomes of Earth’s eukaryotic biodiversity.
🌍 Follow us:
linktr.ee/earthbiogenomeproject
Danielle Wood @daniellewoood.bsky.social she/her 🏳️🌈
#opentowork
research with 🦧 and 🐘
msc cog sci / coffee, climbing rocks, horn playing ☕️ 🧗♀️
Katie Cronin, PhD @katieacronin.bsky.social Tweets about animal welfare & job opportunities in the field. Scientist & writer interested in the experiences of animals & how they can thrive in our care. katherinecronin.net
Cat Scientists @liztapanes.bsky.social We are cats and scientists. Our mom is only the latter. Views our own. ❤️🙃
Rick @bulepanda72.bsky.social World citizen living in Southeast Asia. I watch and photograph primates and wildlife.
Author, Hearing Disabled, father, photographer.
Juliette Aychet @julietteaychet.bsky.social PhD, Associate Professor at Paris Nanterre Univ 🐥🐒👶 - she/her
Interested in gestures and multimodal communication in primates, birds, and all beings who move to communicate 💃
https://linktr.ee/julietteaychet
Alex Sacco @alexandrasacco.bsky.social wildlife biologist | metabarcoding & microbiomics | #poopscience
Dr. Stephanie Canington @scanington.bsky.social Postdoc at UPenn * Anatomist * History of Science * Studies primate feeding behaviors & morphology * Academic mama * First-gen college graduate
Tyler Andres-Bray @tyandresbray.bsky.social (he/him) Asst Prof of Teaching in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCLA. Interested in chimpanzee tool use, insectivory, behavioral ecology, and inclusive STEM education. Dog dad, husband, and comic book nerd 🏳️🌈
Dr. Marcela Benítez @mebenitez.bsky.social Assistant Professor @AnthroEmory| Hormones and social cognition in 🐒 |SoCaP Lab| Capuchins de Taboga 🇨🇷 | she/her |#queerinstem 🏳️🌈|#latininSTEM | #vamosARG 🇦🇷⚽️🔟
Janette Wallis @janettewallis.bsky.social Primatologist | Africa | chimpanzees | researcher | educator | consultant | editor | conservation | HWI | disease | ecotourism | Oklahoma | Democrat | OKC Thunder | cats! 
Lara Durgavich @ldurgavich.bsky.social Still tinkering. Still a primate.
Biological anthropologist. Mom. #SciComm enthusiast.
I ❤️ animals & pop culture.
Hannah Frogge @hannahfrog.bsky.social PhD student @ UCSB studying the effects of anthropogenic disturbance on primate reproduction and immune function
Rachel Harrison @rachelaharrison.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Anthropology Department, Durham University. Studying social learning in humans and other primates. 
Alex Pritchard (he/him) @pritcharda.bsky.social Postdoctoral Scholar @ UCDavis.
SNA | decision making | uncertainty | sociality | interdisciplinary | individual differences | experiments | multi-methods
Adam McLain @thelemurguy.bsky.social Primatology, Evolutionary Biology, Genetics. I helped describe Groves' dwarf lemur (Cheirogaleus grovesi).
Cats, camping, coffee and curling. LSU grad, Geaux Tigers
Professor of Biology at SUNY Polytechnic Institute. All posts my own opinion.
Rob O'Malley (he/him) @robomalley.bsky.social (he/him) #Primatologist #biologist #anthropologist doing #SciComm with @acs.org. Also #Education Cmte co-chair @bioanth.org, formerly at @pged.bsky.social & @aaas.org. Dad, gardener, scientist, SFF fan. Striving 2B good human. Opinions r my own
Jason Kamilar @jasonkamilar.bsky.social Professor at UMass Amherst | primates | ecology | evolution | anthropology | transplanted New Yorker | Opinions my own | www.kamilarlab.org
Stephanie Fox @safox.bsky.social primatologist • ev. anthropologist • nature enthusiast • activist
Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California Santa Barbara
she/her
Thore Bergman @vocalmonkey.bsky.social Biologist/psychologist interested in social behavior, communication, and cognition in wild primates
Chadwick @notoriousecd.bsky.social Student of life, earth, mind. MSc Primate Behavior (studied chimpanzee gestures) - Central Washington University. BA Anthropology & BA Political Science - Arizona State University. Caregiver at an accredited chimpanzee sanctuary.
Kris Sabbi @kris-sabbi.bsky.social Comparative primatologist studying how great apes grow up | Harvard HEB
krissabbi.com
Dr. Laurie Kauffman @dryapyapi.bsky.social Biologist, biological anthropologist, primatologist, caretaker of elderly cat. All about all animals. Invisibly disabled. She/her
Dr. Erin R. Vogel @erinvogel.bsky.social Primatologist, ecologist, professor, working mom to 2 amazing kids, excited about anything to do with ecology🌏, diet and physiology, orangutans, peatlands, and Indonesia🇮🇩🦧