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.
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
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
Lorine Grangy @mandrillorine.bsky.social PhD student on mandrill bioacoustics at ENES Lab🐒🌿🔊
she//her
@flogutu.bsky.social @flogutu.bsky.social
ESLR @eslr.bsky.social ESLR Society is a community for early-career researchers interested in human and non-human animal culture, behaviour and learning. Join for free and subscribe to our mailing list at:
https://www.eslrsociety.com
Matthias Allritz @realprimatthias.bsky.social Studies great ape cognition and behavior at Leipzig Zoo.
Themes: metacognition, communication, spatial cognition.
ManyPrimates 3 - Inference by exclusion.
Phyllis Lee @pili-scotland.bsky.social Elephant follower for 40+ years, with the odd primate and bird (especially birds) thrown in. Mentor.
Brendan Barrett @bjjbarrett.bsky.social dad / evolutionary (behavioral) ecologist
group leader at MPI-AB and STRI research associate
social learning, cultural evolution, extragenetic inheritance, dispersal.
field & stats & math.
cyclist & runner / doom metal aficionado.
he/him.
Emma Suvi McEwen @emmasmcewen.bsky.social Post-doc in iSearch Lab @tum.de studying cognition across primate species 🐒🦧👧 | Virtual environments, metacognition, cognitive control, cooperation |@uniofstandrews.bsky.social + @cardiffuni alum | She/her 🏴🇫🇮🌈
Viola Komeda @bambazoodl.bsky.social MSc by research student at the University of St Andrews exploring the use of forelimb mobility in chimpanzee climbing, nest building, and gesture.
Dr Sophia Daoudi-Simison @sophiadaoudi.bsky.social Lecturer, Newcastle University
ASAB Communications Officer
PhD, MSc, BSc (Psychology, Ethology): Specialisms - behavioural ecology, animal welfare, mixed-species groups, comparative cognition, human-animal interactions, conservation.
Debottam Bhattacharjee @debottam1991.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher @University of Göttingen 🇩🇪, Previously Marie Curie Fellow @UniUtrecht 🇳🇱 & Postdoc @CityUHK 🇭🇰, PhD in animal behaviour from @iiserkol 🇮🇳. 🐾🐒 🐃
Associate Editor: @cp-iscience@bsky.social
https://www.dbcognition.co.in
Moni Laschober @monilaschober.bsky.social from Vienna, Austria; MSc in Human-Animal Interactions; BSc in Biology (Zoology); biology, welfare, behaviour, cognition, academia; I share job offers & useful stuff
Monika Mircheva @mmirch.bsky.social PhD candidate, Evolutionary Cognition Group
Cooperative breeding, vocal communication, language
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.
@ips-primatenews.bsky.social @ips-primatenews.bsky.social
Hannah Frogge @hannahfrog.bsky.social PhD student @ UCSB studying the effects of anthropogenic disturbance on primate reproduction and immune function
Dianne @dianne9m.bsky.social Great ape zookeeper surrounded by lilacs. My views are my own. she/her
Dr. Sarah Renee Phillips @ecoevogal.bsky.social Scientist studying primate immunity, immunogenetics & infectious diseases & Early Career Leadership Program member at Genetics Society of America. www.sarahreneephillips.com
#activist #feminist #scientist #writer #musiclover #Queen #mostlynoncompliant
Dr. Raymond Vagell 🏳️🌈🐒 @prancingpapio.bsky.social Ph.D. Lemur Researcher. Primatologist. #QueerInSTEM #Anthropology.
Interests: Cognition, Welfare & Enrichment.
Currently in Durham, NC. Wanderlust. #PokemonGO Community Ambassador.
He/Him/His
www.raymondvagell.com
Bas van Boekholt @monkeyologist.bsky.social
Brooke @brookecaldrich.bsky.social Neotropical Primate Conservation
PhD researcher, University of South Wales. Integrating primate conservation, welfare and advocacy.
Books, Cornwall, primatology, cats, vegan food, monkeys, justice.
https://linktr.ee/brooke.aldrich
Ashley Mensing @amensing.bsky.social PhD candidate interested in primate behavioral ecology, behavioral endocrinology, and developmental plasticity at UCLA
Todd Disotell @todddisotell.bsky.social Primate, Hominin, Biological Anthropologist, Molecular Primatologist, Carpenter, Electrician, Plumber, Lumberjack, Hunter, Fisherman
Ines Fürtbauer @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social Behavioural endocrinologist, Associate Professor
http://ines.fuertbauer.com/
Romane Leten @romaneleten.bsky.social MSc in Animal Behaviour, Environmental Biology @UniUtrecht. Interested in culture , dynamics and life of great apes and elephants.
Theresa Schulze @theresaschulze.bsky.social MSc Biology. Interested in behavioral ecology and social behaviour in mammals and birds. Looking for a PhD🐒🐋🐦⬛
Callum Carpenter @ccprimatology.bsky.social MPhil student in Wildlife Conservation researching chimpanzees in Guinea-Bissau. MRes Primate Biology, Behaviour and Conservation.
J. Chris Pires @jchrispires.bsky.social Professor passionate about student success & team science #firstgen #Brassica enthusiast walking Dogs of the Plant World
#Agriculture #Food #HigherEd #EduSky #Agsky #SciComm & more
#Soil #Crop #Science ; opinions mine
Nicole Furgala @nicolefurgala.bsky.social http://apes.emory.edu | PhD Candidate @ Emory| Thinking about if monkeys think about what other monkeys are thinking about
Italo F Pereira @italofpereira.bsky.social Primatologist | Behavioural Ecology | Climate Change | PhD student in Geography, Urban and Environmental Studies at Concordia University
Alexandria Cosby @alexandriacosby.bsky.social PhD candidate & Vanier scholar in the WEB lab @ the University of Guelph studying the foraging behavior of bats 🦇 alexandriacosby.wixsite.com/alexandriacosby
Vedrana Šlipogor @vedranaslipogor.bsky.social postdoc @fbm-unil.bsky.social @thesensech.bsky.social @InkawuP | PhD @univie.ac.at | L'ORÉAL-UNESCO "FWIS" alumna | personality, comparative cognition, multimodal communication | primates, naked mole-rats | @themanybirds.bsky.social | #LINO23
Emile Bryon @emilebryon.bsky.social Environmental Biology, Behavioral Ecology, Cultural Evolution - Utrecht University
Dr Hella Péter @hellapeter.bsky.social mbchimp.bsky.social data wrangler 💻 PhD - are your chimps drinking? 🐵💧 team abcmicrogrants.bsky.social 🐝
ADHD & disabled✨ she/her 🏳️🌈
Allison Carden Hanes @allisoncardenhanes.bsky.social Primatologist turned producer. Fine with being kicked off Twitter years ago. Also using Threads, mostly use Instagram and LinkedIn. @onehealthpro.bsky.social @ohpexpeditions.bsky.social
Perrine Théroude 🦍 @perrinetheroude.bsky.social PhD Student Investigating stress and resilience with thermal imaging in great apes 🐒
Primatology, Neurosciences & Behavioral sciences🧠
University of Sussex
Sourabh Biswas @sourabhb.bsky.social Behaviour Biologists | Postdoc | Indian Institute of Science | Naturalist | Shutterbug | Travaholic | He/him
Website | https://sites.google.com/view/sourabhbiswas/about?authuser=1
Laurie Beckwith @laurieb21.bsky.social Eastern malcontent in the west.
Vesta Eleuteri @vestaeleuteri.bsky.social Biologist studying elephant gestures & chimp drumming.
Obsessed with elephants. Yes, chimps are cool too.
Fanny Aguilera @fannyaguilera.bsky.social PhD at @bat-cesco.bsky.social and @cea.fr | Bat foraging competition🦇 link with food ressource 🪲 and light pollution💡| Scientific illustrator (https://fannyaguilera.wixsite.com/fanny-aguilera)
Giulia Severino @giuliaseverino.bsky.social Primatologist looking for a PhD! 🐒
Ethophilia Research Foundation (ERF) @ethophilia.bsky.social Ethophilia Research Foundation (ERF) or Ethophilia, runs as a contemporary centre for academic exchange and working as a scientific hub for innovation. We majorly focus on ethological research.
https://ethophiliaresearchfoundation.com/index.html
@drbessprice.bsky.social @drbessprice.bsky.social Scientist, jackdaw enthusiast, cat fancier.
(Also Lecturer in Psychology at Newcastle University, specialising in developmental and comparative approaches to the study of culture and cognition)
@shesatthezoo.bsky.social @shesatthezoo.bsky.social Behavioral biologist, animal lover, educator, advocate, zoo connoisseur, world-traveler & bookworm ☺️
Axel Molina @codae.bsky.social Animal communication 🐋
Cultural evolution🏺
Cognitive sciences 🧠
Worldbuilding and fiction📕
Communalist solarpunk 🟩⬛
Current internship at EthoS Rennes on killer whales call sequences 🎶🐬
He/him
Edoardo Pietrangeli @edoardopietrangeli.bsky.social interested in animal sociality et al. (networks; primates; social relationships)
currently studying spider monkeys in Mexico and Costa Rica.
Michael Haslam @twigtechnology.bsky.social Aussie archaeologist, PhD, obsessed with tool-using animals. Steward at Skara Brae, Orkney. http://twig.technology. Writing a book on intelligence with @abigaildesmond.bsky.social for Harvard Uni Press (2027). No AI.
🐒🦦🐙🐦⬛🐝🕷️🦧🐴🐠🪲🦜🐿️🐋🦀
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
Dr Eve Holden (she/her) @chimpanzeve.bsky.social Developmental & comparative psychologist. Socialisation in people & nonhuman primates. Interests in evolution, culture, experience, social behaviour, learning, sex, gender, parenting, ADHD. Postdoc @DurhamPsych. Fieldwork lover. Cat & plant mother. ADHD.
Maxime Derex @maximederex.bsky.social CNRS Researcher at IAST and Toulouse School of Economics
Working on cumulative culture, social learning, innovation
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.
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
Shoko Sugasawa @shokosugasawa.bsky.social Academic Track Research Fellow at Newcastle University. Studying object manipulation by animals without hands 🐝🐥🪺 animal behaviour, ecology, cognition, evolution. Dog and food lover. Mum. Views my own. she/her https://shokosugasawa.weebly.com/
Drew Altschul @dremalt.bsky.social Lecturer in Psychology @ Newcastle University. Studying the evolution of hierarchies and hierarchical thinking, mostly in primates. Open science, BTS, ManyPrimates/ManyManys. Living organism. Psoriatic arthritic. Age dyschronic. Writer. Buddhist.
Donna Kean @donnakean.bsky.social Postdoc @ Animal Minds Lab🐀🦜@UABBarcelona researching convergent evolution of intelligence
Lucy Aplin @lucymaplin.bsky.social Certified bird brain, researching cognitive and social ecology of parrots and parids. Currently holding down a dual position at the Australian National University and the University of Zurich
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
Dr Rachael Miller (Harrison) @drrmiller.bsky.social Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow, University of Exeter | Cognition & Conservation | Comparative Psychology | @themanybirds.bsky.social Co-Founder | 🪶🐦👶🐵🧠 | Website: www.drrachaelmiller.com
Prof. Gillian Brown @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social Professor of psychology; University of St Andrews, UK; gender/sex, evolution, culture; she/her. 🌈
New edition: 'Sense & Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour' (https://tinyurl.com/yfv2kc27)
Lab: https://gillianbrown.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @kristinandrews.bsky.social Philosopher. How animal cognition research informs philosophy, and vice versa. Social norms, evolution of tech, ToM, personhood, consciousness, AI. Prof and York Research Chair in Animal Minds at YorkU and Prof at CUNY Grad Center. www.kristinandrews.org
Shona Duguid @shona-d.bsky.social Lecturer in Psychology | Cooperation, coordination and communication in humans and other primates | ManyPrimates
https://shonaduguid.weebly.com/
Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy and Director of the EPP BA/BSc at the University of Warwick. My UKRI-funded FLF Communicative Mind project researches human and non-human great ape communication and cognition, and the evolution of language. 🇪🇺🍉 he/him
Stuart K Watson @chimpsahoi.bsky.social Postdoc at University of Zurich. Working on fuzzy insights into fluffy minds. He/him
Elena Miu @elenamiu.bsky.social Cultural evolution, cultural adaptation, innovation
Assistant Professor in Cognitive Science at Aarhus University
https://elenamiu.github.io/
Anja Landsmann @wildmolecules.bsky.social Research management, strategy, and resources at Leipzig University. Interested in genetics, chimps, and diseases in the wild.
Nora Slania @noraslania.bsky.social PhD student at MPI of animal behaviour,
looking at how and why wild chimps learn
(she/they/any)
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)
Berkay Arslan @asimpleprimate.bsky.social Visiting Scholar at the Global Research Centre for Diverse Intelligences @grcdi.bsky.social | MSc in Comparative Psychology 🐒 @uniofstandrews.bsky.social | Wiser: berkayarslan
Dr Kirsten Blakey @khblakey.bsky.social Lecturer in Developmental Psychology at Liverpool John Moores University • Studying cognitive development, belief revision, information seeking & social learning • she/her
Jon Richardson @jonrichardson.bsky.social Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at University of Glasgow 🏴| Previously Postdoc at University of Minnesota 🇺🇸 | PhD at University of Edinburgh 🏴| he/him 🏳️🌈
Rebecca Rimbach @urban-squirrel.bsky.social Energetics, eco-physiology, urban ecology | @ University of Münster | mainly 🐭🐿️🐒 but also into 🦎| Mom of 2 | firstgen | she/her | http://rebecca-rimbach.com
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/
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
Michael Gurven @mgurven.bsky.social Professor of Anthropology @ UC Santa Barbara. Aging, life history and sociality! Co-Director of Tsimane Health & Life History Project. Website: gurven.anth.ucsb.edu
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
SFEcologie&Evolution @sfecologie.bsky.social French Society of Ecology & Evolution (SFE²)
https://sfecologie.org/
Jie Gao (D.Sc.) @drjiegao.bsky.social Comparative cognition • face and body perception • biological knowledge • chimpanzees • children • gorillas • goats • giraffes • Hakubi Researcher @ Kyoto University • views my own
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/gaojie/
Lysanne Snijders @lysannesnijders.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Behavioural Ecology @w-u-r.bsky.social | Animal Behaviour | Conservation | Nature | Science | Plant-based
Nic Thompson González @nic-tg.bsky.social Asst. Prof. Integrative Anthropological Sciences @ UCSB
Sociality - Life history - Health - Primates.
Co-Director Kakamega Monkey Project
Dre's mom. She/They
http://www.nicolethompsongonzalez.com/
Gilly Forrester @gillyforrester.bsky.social Prof of comparative cognition investigating how we evolved & develop cognitive abilities (w/wo neurodiverse conditions) Researching brains & behaviours of human infants & children, gorillas, chimpanzees & orangutans. Passionate about science communication
Bridget Waller @bridgetwaller.bsky.social Professor of Evolution and Social Behaviour | Communication, faces, social interaction | ERC Consolidator grant FACEDIFF www.FACEDIFF.co.uk | NTU 🇪🇺🏳️🌈 |
President, Primate Society of Great Britain @primatesocietygb.bsky.social
Victoria Lockwood @valockwood.bsky.social Functional morphologist and primatologist, arboreality, #locomotion, behavioural variation, paleoanthropology, comparative anatomy, postdoc at PALEVOPRIM
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
Olivier Gimenez 🦦 @oaggimenez.bsky.social Scientist (he/him) @cnrs.bsky.social https://oliviergimenez.github.io/
Grown statistician • Improvised ecologist • Sociologist apprentice
Statistical ecology • Bayesian statistics • Mammals
#rstats
claire Doutrelant @claire-doutrelant.bsky.social CNRS researcher, Univ Monpellier, CEFE
https://www.cefe.cnrs.fr/fr/recherche/ee/esp/777-c/152-claire-doutrelant
Subjects: 1) Evolution of male and female ornementation; 2) Animal cooperation; 3) Island evolution
https://plumesetracines.net/
Louise Riotte-Lambert @riottelambert.bsky.social CNRS researcher: animal movement and cognition
@cefemontpellier @CNRS 🇨🇵
Mother 🥰 #WomeninSTEM- J Julia Fischer @julxf.bsky.social Professor for Primate Cognition University of Goettingen, Head of the Cognitive Ethology Lab at the DPZ (German Primate Center)
Ethological Society @ethoges.bsky.social Academic society supporting Behavioural Biology in research & teaching | associated with Ethology | 🇪🇺 | posts by @hanjabrrr.bsky.social
Raymundo Báez-Mendoza @raymundobaez.bsky.social 🇲🇽 Neuroscientist interested in social interactions. Dad & immigrant. Group Leader of the Social Neurobiology Lab @ German Primate Center
UNAM -> MPI-BC -> Cambridge -> MGH-HMS -> DPZ
https://www.dpz.eu/en/social-neurobiology-lab
CNRS Écologie & Environnement @cnrsecologie.bsky.social Institut du CNRS spécialisé en écologie et environnement.
Comprendre la biosphère pour agir.
#biodiversité 🦋🌺 #écosystème 🏞️ #préhistoire ⌛️ #océan 🌊
Quentin Cosnefroy @quentin-cosnefroy.bsky.social Paleoanthropologist.
Fonctional anatomy of the appendicular skeleton - Locomotor behaviors of human and non-human primates - Hominin postcranial morphostructure.
Laboratory for Archaeo-Bioanthropology (HUJI), Associate researcher at UMR 5199 PACEA.
Sarah Benson-Amram @sarahba.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of British Columbia, Animal Cognition, Animal Behavior, Urban Carnivores, Director Animal Behavior and Cognition Lab
Jonas R.R. Torfs @jonasrrtorfs.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher in bonobo gut and vaginal microbiomes 🐵🦠 | microbiome stability & transmission | University of Antwerp & Zoo Antwerp