Amanda Melin @amelinlab.bsky.social Professor of Biological Anthropology at University of Calgary. Co-director Santa Rosa Primate Project. Primate sensory ecology, molecular genetics and omics, foraging, behaviour, ecology and evolution. She/Her. www.amandamelin.com
Oscar Nodé-Langlois @oscarnl.bsky.social PhD in neurosciences. Studying social learning in wild chimpanzees. Interested in ethology and visual arts.
Shona Duguid @shona-d.bsky.social Lecturer in Psychology | Cooperation, coordination and communication in humans and other primates | ManyPrimates
https://shonaduguid.weebly.com/
Christina Nord @ina820.bsky.social Radical behaviorist interested in all things social. Native Hoosier. Current Postdoc at UC Davis 🐒🐄
Minhua Yan @minhuayan.bsky.social Evolutionary anthropology, human behavioral ecology, cultural evolution. Research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Toulouse. Dog owner and animal lover.
Ed Seabright @edseabright.bsky.social Anthropologist. Research and education fellow, UM6P School of Collective Intelligence.
Community organisation and leadership in rural Bolivia and Morocco.
edseab.github.io
The Ramsey Lab @theramseylab.bsky.social The Ramsey philosophy of biology lab at KU Leuven, Belgium.
https://www.theramseylab.org • #HPbio #philsci #philsky #evosky #paleosky #cogsci #AI
ces2026 @ces2026.bsky.social This year’s Cultural Evolution Society (CES) Conference 2026 will be held at UM6P Rabat Campus - Morocco.
Kirsty Harris @kirstyharris.bsky.social Psychology PhD Candidate at NTU 🐒
Likely found thinking about primates 🦧
Marie Padberg @mariepadberg.bsky.social Postdoc at MPI EVA, studying the social-cognitive development in non-human great apes. Fieldworker at heart.
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.
Mélissa Berthet @berthetmelissa.bsky.social Researcher in primatology 🐒 and animal linguistics 🎤🙊
Titi monkeys, bonobos and gorillas ❤️🦍
Postdoc at the University of Milan, Italy
She/Her
https://sites.google.com/view/melissa-berthet
@giacomojervis.bsky.social @giacomojervis.bsky.social - N nickystaes.bsky.social @nickystaes.bsky.social
Matthias Allritz @realprimatthias.bsky.social Studies great ape cognition and behavior at Leipzig Zoo.
Themes: metacognition, communication, spatial cognition.
ManyPrimates 3 - Inference by exclusion.
Michael Pleyer @symbolicstorage.bsky.social nerd. cognitive/evolutionary linguist. Assistant Prof at Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland
(he/him)
www.michaelpleyer.com
@symbolicstorage@scholar.social
@symbolicstorage
Julia Bădescu @iuliabadescu.bsky.social Primatologist | Chimpanzees, Colobus | Prof at Université de Montréal | SMBC to 💫 AuDHD kid | Still figuring out what I’m doing here 🌍🏳️🌈🖤
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
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
Hansraj Gautam @hansraj88.bsky.social Postdoc @University of Turku, 🇫🇮 | animal behaviour, ecology and climate change | Working on Asian elephants, focusing on social behaviour, functional ecology & demography 🐘🌿🌳
https://linktr.ee/hansraj.g- J Joan Silk @jbsilk.bsky.social Evolutionary anthropologist, primate behavioral ecologist.
Dr. Angie Achorn @angachorn.bsky.social Anthropologist/Primatologist. Assistant Professor @ UTRGV 🤠✌🏼 PhD from Texas A&M (2022). Fulbright (🇮🇩) alum. Books, sci-fi/fantasy, memes, & puns enthusiast 🏳️🌈✨ Views are my own.
Qiankun Zhong @qkzhong.bsky.social Cultural Evolution, Communication Behaviors, and Analytical Sociology| postdoc at MPI Human Development
Théo Lemeux @tlemeux.bsky.social Ph.D student at @unistra.fr | Social tolerance, social learning and innovation | Macaques 🐒
Delphine De Moor @delphinedemoor.bsky.social behavioral ecologist, studying the evolution of social relationships - postdoc @PrimEvo lab @MPI-EVA | team MacaqueNet & @ABCmicrogrants | she/her
linkree: https://linktr.ee/delphinedemoor
Lotte Koot @lottelarissa.bsky.social PhD candidate exploring chimpanzee culture | Primate Culture Origins Group | Utrecht University
Many Minds podcast @manymindspod.bsky.social Exploring our world's diverse forms of mind—human, animal, machine—from diverse perspectives. A project of @divintelligence.bsky.social, @kensycoop.bsky.social, @laukas.bsky.social
www.disi.org/manyminds/
Eythan Cousin @eythancousin.bsky.social Macacologist 🐒🐵
PhD candidate interested in sociality, culture and the consequences of inter-group differences in rhesus macaques.
Animal Behaviour and Cognition - Primate Culture Origins Group - Utrecht University ☀️
he/him
Eva Reindl @missdaffodil.bsky.social 
T Revathe @revathe.bsky.social Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow @ the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior | PhD @ JNCASR, India | sociality, learning, allomaternal care, culture | Asian elephants & great apes | she/her
Anti-fascism, Anti-imperialism, Anti-colonialism, Anti-caste
Wendel van der Sluis @wendelvandersluis.bsky.social Associate Editor, De Gruyter Brill Life Sciences: animal/human behaviour, cognition, anthropology, primatology, amphibians, crustacean research, zoology, sensory perception, insects and related fields.
Justine Thobois @justinetho.bsky.social Master's degree in Ethology
Studying cognition in great apes
Science HR @sciencehr.bsky.social A career network featuring science jobs in academia and industry.
Visit our platform at www.science.hr
Jonas R.R. Torfs @jonasrrtorfs.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher in bonobo gut and vaginal microbiomes 🐵🦠 | microbiome stability & transmission | University of Antwerp & Zoo Antwerp
Dominik Deffner @dominikdeffner.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Computational Modelling of Behaviour @unimarburg.bsky.social | Collective decision-making and cultural evolution | https://www.uni-marburg.de/en/fb04/team-deffner/copy_of_deffner
Daniel Redhead @danielredhead.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Sociology at @rug.nl | Interdisciplinary researcher interested in social networks, cooperation, and social and economic inequality | Assistant director of the ENDOW project: endowproject.github.io 🏳️🌈
Mauddss @maud28.bsky.social I'm finishing my Master in Biodiversity and Ecology. I'm now looking for a job or a PhD in animal behaviour or conservation 🌱
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
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. Marco A. C. Varella @marcovarella.bsky.social Biologist, researcher in evolutionary psychology, educator, science writer & editor. Evolutionary perspectives on aesthetics, arts, music, mating, sexual strategies, personality, twinning, anthropomorphism, COVID-19 pandemic, chronotype, & climate crisis🇧🇷
Alejandra Pascual-Garrido @runnerape.bsky.social The Leakey Foundation Grantee. Plant-based material cultures in wild chimpanzees. Naturalist. Endurance runner. Childfree by choice.
Nora Slania @noraslania.bsky.social PhD student at MPI of animal behaviour,
looking at how and why wild chimps learn
(she/they/any)
Lisa Fontana @lisafontana.bsky.social PhD Candidate at the Australian National University, working on innovation, cognitive ecology and social learning in sulphur-crested cockatoos 🦜
Charlotte Canteloup @chacanteloup.bsky.social Researcher @cnrs.fr @unistra.fr
I study primate social cognition to better understand the evolution of cognition and culture. One of @manyprimates.bsky.social
Lou Savigny she/her @lousvy.bsky.social PhD candidate exploring bonobo social learning and cultural processes | Utrecht University, Netherlands
She/her
Chiara Pertile @chiarapertile.bsky.social Doctoral researcher at the University of Bordeaux | PACEA
Philosophy of Biology • Cultural Evolution • Primatology • Archaeology
Thomas Augier @thomas-augier.bsky.social PhD at Aix-Marseille University - CRPN and Toulouse University - CRCA | Cognitive roots of Compositionality in Baboons & Bees 🐒🐝 | Comparative cognition - Linguistics - Language of Thoughts 💭
Vesta Eleuteri @vestaeleuteri.bsky.social Biologist studying elephant gestures & chimp drumming.
Obsessed with elephants. Yes, chimps are cool too.
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
Amandine Visine @amandinevisine.bsky.social BaYaka Children & Foraging
PhD student @durhampsych.bsky.social & @durhamanthropology.bsky.social
Funded by @ninedtp.bsky.social
(She/Her)
Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social Scientist | Behavior | Cognition | Culture
Latest book: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691240770/the-human-evolutionary-transition
And nature photographer/biodiversity junkie:
www.jlind.se & www.instagram.com/jlindphoto
Olivier Morin @oliviermorin.bsky.social Researcher at Ecole Normale Supérieure / CNRS in Paris. Culture, cognition, things in between. https://linktr.ee/oliviermorin
Mason Youngblood @masonyoungblood.bsky.social masonyoungblood.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/
Mawa Dafreville @mawadafreville.bsky.social Working on social cognition in human and non-human primates - currently Postdoc in the team 'Pathways to Language' (Department of Paleoanthropology, University of Tübingen)
Saein Lee @saeinlee.bsky.social Primatologist l Postdoc @UZH : curiosity, prosociality, social norm, social learning l Gibbon 🧑💻l DISI 2022 fellow l NGS explorer l FAMELAB
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
Katya Herberg 🐒🧠🌱 @katyaherberg.bsky.social Primatologist interested in the evolution of social cognition and culture / Professional animal enthusiast
PhD @ University of St Andrews📍
Wild Behavior Podcast @wildbehaviorpod.bsky.social Ever wondered how dolphins recognize each other? Or how to train an alligator? Then you're in the right place!
Join us as we sit with fellow animal behavior experts to learn all about what makes animals tick.
linktr.ee/wild_behavior_pod
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
Luca Hahn @lucahahn.bsky.social Fascinated by (social) minds: cognition, sociality, culture. PhD student at University of Exeter, Cornwall, UK @uniexecec.bsky.social. Investigating social relationships/networks and social information use in wild jackdaws @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social.
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
Luca Pedruzzi @lucapedruzzi.bsky.social PostDoc at University of Rennes, France
Currently studying multimodal communication in wild chimpanzees 🌿
Tom Roth 🟥 @troth93.bsky.social Biologist | PhD | Animal Behavior | Primatology | Social cognition | Mate choice | Lecturer at Utrecht University | Opinions in my tweets are my own
Simon Kirby @simonkirby.bsky.social Prof Language Evolution FBA FRSE MAE. Head of Dept, Linguistics & English Language, Uni Edinburgh. With my students & collaborators I do science & art. he/him. simonkirby.net
Paula Ibáñez de Aldecoa @pialdecoa.bsky.social Dr. Behavioral Biology 🎓 Curious about what tickles (non)human minds 🧠 Ecological, cultural & cognitive underpinnings of #innovation & #flexibility💡
Postdoc @IAST.fr • PhD @univie.ac.at • #DISI alumna • SciComm 📢 Proud #FirstGen & STEMinist 💜
Awani @awanib.bsky.social PhD candidate at @univie.ac.at working on social integration and object play in common ravens. Interested in social behaviour, cognition, evolution.
https://awanibapat.wordpress.com/
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
Limor Raviv 🐘🤗🦒🍄🦄 @limorraviv.bsky.social Group leader LEADS MPI_NL & DCC Radboud ➡️ Language Evolution; Cultural Evolution; Animal & Human Cognition; Open Science; DON'T DREAM IT - BE IT!
Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social Cognitive neuroscientist with many interests, including why our stomachs churn when we feel disgust. I also write books on programming; teach Python, statistics, and machine learning; and develop open-source software.
https://www.dalmaijer.org
Ellen Roche @ellroche.bsky.social ** searching for early 2027 postdoc **
Science — how do early experiences shape emotional development & regulation? 🧠
Democracy — how do emotion regulation/co-regulation support our highest ideals (freedom, justice, peace, etc)? 🌈
ellencroche.com
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
Not that other guy, that's for sure @neogliberal.bsky.social 30% academic discourse; 15% games; 3% misc; 52% skeets I wrote but deleted immediately.
michael chimento @mchimento.bsky.social postdoc at Uni Zurich
studying social learning, social networks and animal culture in birds 🐦 and agent-based models 🤖
https://michaelchimento.github.io
https://soundcloud.com/tek_cashay
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
Kevin Lala @kevinlala.bsky.social Evolution; animal behaviour; animal culture; human cognitive evolution; niche construction; anti-racism. Editor-in-Chief of Biological Theory
#evolution #evodevo #philbio #philsci #animalculture #animalbehavior
Romane Leten @romaneleten.bsky.social MSc in Animal Behaviour, Environmental Biology @UniUtrecht. Interested in culture , dynamics and life of great apes and elephants.
Meriem Paris @meriem-paris.bsky.social Master's degree in ethology - University of Rennes
Culture Conference @cultconf.bsky.social Bluesky account for Culture Conference 2027
Hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, on 31 March – 2 April 2027
Website: https://culture-conference.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
Brain Evolution News @brainevolutionnews.bsky.social Brain Evolution in the News posted here for you!
For events & opportunities in brain evolution research follow @EurNetBrainEvoR.bsky.social
http://brainevolutionnews.blogspot.com
The Leakey Foundation @leakeyfoundation.org We're a nonprofit on a mission to explore and explain the human story. We're here to make friends and talk about science. 
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
Zoë Goldsborough @zoegoldsborough.bsky.social Observer of animals | Mom | Minerva Fast Track Fellow leading Culture and Social Behavior group at MPI-AB | Passionate about animal ethics and welfare | She/her
https://zgoldsborough.wixsite.com/research
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.
Elodie Freymann (PhD) @elodiefreymann.bsky.social Researching botanical self-medication in wild chimpanzees🌿
Evy van Berlo @evy-van-berlo.bsky.social Comparative psychologist studying primate social cognition using serious games
Mongabay @mongabay.com Award-winning nonprofit media outlet publishing global environmental science & news in 8 languages via bureaus in India, Brazil, Africa, Latin America, Indonesia & US: https://mongabay.com
Chris Krupenye @chriskrupenye.bsky.social Origins of the Social Mind • Apes • Dogs • Evolutionary Cognitive Scientist, Assistant Professor @JohnsHopkins • he/him
Maël Leroux @maelmleroux.bsky.social Lecturer @ethos-research.bsky.social, @rennesuniv.bsky.social, France. Interested in the evolution of language. Currently studying non-human primates 🐒 he/they
Sonya Pashchevskaya @sonya-ofthejungle.bsky.social PhD student at LuiKotale Bonobo Project and Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior: networks in wild bonobos and immigrant females' integration
Benjamin Morillon @bnmorillon.bsky.social Cognitive Neuroscientist - Aix-Marseille Uni. Auditory, Speech, Music perception. sEEG/MEG; neural dynamics; audio-motor coupling.
seanleezy.bsky.social @seanleezy.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
ENBER mailing list @eurnetbrainevor.bsky.social European Network for Brain Evolution Research http://sites.google.com/site/eurobrainevolnet/ For Brain Evolution in the News follow @BrainEvolutionNews.bsky.social
VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology @vibmicrobes.bsky.social ➡️ http://jobs.vib.be
Home of the labs of @masscheleinlab, @michielslab, @raeslab, @verstrepenlab, Sibylle Vonesch and the lab of @sammy-pontrelli
@ips-primatenews.bsky.social @ips-primatenews.bsky.social 
@ejcvanleeuwen.bsky.social @ejcvanleeuwen.bsky.social