Nori Ishii @tatsunoriishii.bsky.social Social & Cognitive Psychologist@JWU: social cog, mindreading, cognitive science of religion / Drummer: heavy metal, Metallica
Nick Byrd, Ph.D. @byrdnick.com I study how to improve decisions and well-being at @GeisingerCollege.bsky.social.
🎓 gScholar: shorturl.at/uBDPW
▶️ youtube.com/@ByrdNick
👨💻 psychologytoday.com/us/blog/upon-reflection
📓 byrdnick.com/blog
🎙️ byrdnick.com/pod
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
@khaterehborhani.bsky.social @khaterehborhani.bsky.social
Vivek Nityananda @viveknityananda.bsky.social I research behaviour, mostly with insects.
I write (Book out here: https://tinyurl.com/ypu67rb9; Play: https://tinyurl.com/cjscz4c4).
Illustration. Improv. Scicomm. Personal account. (He/Him) 🏳️🌈
website: www.viveknityananda.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
Chris Martin @chrismartin76.bsky.social Social psychologist with a chance of sociology. Lives in Atlanta, GA. From Pune, India.
Eva Kundtová Klocová @kundtova.bsky.social researcher at LEVYNA & research coordinator at HUME Lab at Masaryk University
evo and cog approaches to religion and rituals
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
IACESR Society @iacesr.bsky.social International Association for the Cognitive and Evolutionary Sciences of Religion
The Research Center for Group Dynamics @rcgd-isr.bsky.social The birthplace of foundational concepts in social science, RCGD conducts research on observed behavior at the U-M Institute for Social Research.
Ishaan Sinha @ahnisnaahsi.bsky.social Doctoral student @exetercec.bsky.social investigating the evolution of personality variation and social learning
Cristian Román-Palacios @cromanpa.bsky.social Asst Prof @ University of Arizona. I study macroevolution, phylogenetics, and biodiversity loss using large datasets. PI @ datadiversitylab.github.io. Photography, pottery, self-hosting, and Latin American history on the side
Rebecca Grattan @rebeccagrattan.bsky.social Clinical psychologist and Lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka. Early intervention in mental health researcher. Mum to two cuties 💜
Dimitris Xygalatas @xygalatas.bsky.social Experimental anthropologist, cognitive scientist, dad, author of Ritual: How seemingly senseless acts make life worth living
Hideo Neil Daikoku @hideodaikoku.bsky.social
Dr. Travis Langley @drtravislangley.bsky.social Batman & Psychology author, Popular Culture Psychology editor, psych professor/chair, social psychologist, Wheel of Fortune champ. Teach on media, crime, mental health.
16 books, most recently on Stranger Things, Spider-Man, The Handmaid's Tale.
#blue
Colin D. Wren @cdwren.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of Archaeology at UCCS in Colorado, mind usually other places. Agent-based models and quantitative methods usually for the Palaeolithic.
Matthew I. Billet @matthewibillet.bsky.social Culture | Religion | Social Cognition | Environmental Decision Making
Postdoc UC Irvine | PhD S/P Psychology University of British Columbia
Evolution Letters @evolletters.bsky.social OA journal publishing the best work in evolutionary biology. Jointly owned by @eseb.bsky.social & @sse-evolution.bsky.social, published by OUP. https://academic.oup.com/evlett
Tag us in your post about your Evolution Letters papers and we will repost!
Evolution @journal-evo.bsky.social Evolution publishes articles in evolutionary biology focused on evolutionary phenomena and processes at all levels of biological organization. Evolution is owned by the Society for the Study of Evolution and is published by Oxford University Press.
Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social #societyjournal (ESEB), covering #evolution across all organisms
#genetics #genomics #selection #lifehistory #evodevo #popgen #theory #speciation #morphometrics #phylogenetics #phylogeography
https://academic.oup.com/jeb
http://jevbio.net
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 🇮🇪
Cristina Moya @hyperadapthyrax.bsky.social evolutionary anthropologist, overly committed to adaptationist logic
https://sites.google.com/site/cristinasolermoya/ Can we agree to fight against this corporate oligarchy? https://indivisible.org/groups
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Ian Towle @iantowle.bsky.social Researcher in primate evolution, with a focus on teeth
Martin Lang @martinlangcz.bsky.social Cognitive and evolutionary science of human cooperation with particular interest in signaling, ritual, and religion.
Assist Prof at LEVYNA, Masaryk Uni
www.martinlang.cz
#CogEvoSciRel
Folgert Karsdorp @folgertk.bsky.social KNAW Meertens Institute & Utrecht University; Interested in cultural change/diversity/bias; book: “Humanities Data Analysis” https://www.humanitiesdataanalysis.org; new journal: CHR https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/computational-humanities-research
Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social Paradigmatically promiscuous scientist. Ankylosaur enthusiast. Modeler of cultural evolution and related topics. Anti-fascist. Professor at UC Merced, external prof at the Santa Fe Institute and CSH-Vienna.
Web: https://smaldino.com/wp/
Erol Akcay @akcay.theoretical.bio Ecology, evolution, and social dynamics at the University of Pennsylvania. He/him
https://akcay.theoretical.bio
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/
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.
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).
Stephen Vaisey 🇺🇦 @stephenvaisey.com Professor at Duke University. Cultural evolution, political attitudes, social change, nerdy stuff in R. YNWA. https://vaiseys.github.io/
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
Oleg Sobchuk 🇺🇦 @sobchuk.bsky.social I use big data to research the cultural evolution of arts @ Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics
More: https://www.aesthetics.mpg.de/institut/mitarbeiterinnen/oleg-sobchuk.html
Nathan Nunn 🇨🇦 🇰🇷 @nathannunn.bsky.social Professor of Economics. University of British Columbia. Political Economy, Economic Development, Economic History, Cultural Evolution. 🇰🇷🇨🇦
Matt Zefferman @mzefferman.bsky.social Any views expressed are, at most, my own and do not reflect those of any organization.
Dan Sperber @dansperber.bsky.social
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
Natalia Vélez @natvelali.bsky.social Cognitive scientist at UCSD, personally & scientifically interested in collaboration | science sketcher | thinking in non-English 🇵🇷
Zach Garfield @zhgarfield.com Evolutionary anthropologist. Leadership, punishment, & conflict resolution.
Asst. Prof of Anthropology @grinnellcollege.bsky.social.
Co-Director @omovalleyresearchproject.org.
Former RF @iast.fr.
https://www.zhgarfield.com
Celia Heyes @celiaheyes.bsky.social Theoretical psychologist studying the evolution of human cognition.
All Souls College, University of Oxford
https://users.ox.ac.uk/~ascch/
Björn Lindström @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social Researching (social) learning and cultural evolution at Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Joshua Conrad Jackson @joshcjackson.bsky.social Cultural evolution of the mind | Assistant Professor @ University of Chicago, Booth School of Business & Faculty Affiliate of UChicago Data Science Institute | He/his | https://joshuaconradjackson.com
Dr Michelle Ann Kline @michelleakline.bsky.social anthropologist in a psych dept | American in the UK | she/her | doing my best to be inclusive
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
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
Andrew Buskell @andrewbuskell.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Georgia Tech HSOC. He|Him. History and Philosophy of Science; Culture and Cultural Evolution; Ethics; Cognition. www.andrewbuskell.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
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)
Helena Miton @helenamiton.bsky.social Cultural evolution - Cognitive Science - Cognitive Anthropology. Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford GSB. Formerly postdoc fellow at the Santa Fe Institute.
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
Ryutaro Uchiyama @uchiyama.bsky.social 🔗 https://ryu.sg 🌏Asst Prof @Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) 〜Human cognitive ecology; Embodied Human-AI interfaces; Cultural evolution 〜 Previously 🇩🇪 ←🇬🇧 ←🇨🇦 ←🇺🇸 ←🇯🇵〆
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
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/
Lotty Brand @lottybrand.bsky.social ex postdoc in human behaviour and evolution, social learning, cultural evolution, open science. Current trainee counsellor, secular buddhism enthusiast, and postpartum blob of myself.
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
Luke Rendell @lrendell.bsky.social Reader in Biology @_SMRU_ @SchoolofBiology @univofstandrews. Ocean Yachtmaster for hire! Marine conservation, cetacean & fish behaviour, cultural evolution. He/him. Thalassophile. Sailor. #Fife
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/biology/people/ler4
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
Iyad Rahwan | إياد رهوان @iyadrahwan.bsky.social Director, Max Planck Center for Humans & Machines http://chm.mpib-berlin.mpg.de | Former prof. @MIT | Creator of http://moralmachine.net | Art: http://instagram.com/iyad.rahwan Web: rahwan.me
Mason Youngblood @masonyoungblood.bsky.social Postdoc fellow researching cultural evolution at the Institute for Advanced Computational Science - Electronic music as Callosum - masonyoungblood.com
Charley Wu @thecharleywu.bsky.social Prof. of Computational Cognitive Science at TU Darmstadt & PI of the Human and Machine Cognition lab | hmc-lab.com
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
Scott Claessens @scottclaessens.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Kent, interested in cultural evolution, cooperation, and moral psychology with a focus on artificial intelligence.
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.
Cody Moser @culturologies.co Assistant Professor, UM6P School of Collective Intelligence | PhD UCMCogSci: collective intelligence, systems collapse, complex systems, networks, etc.
Jeremy Koster @jeremykoster.bsky.social Aligning incentives for better science - quality over status
Signer of DORA: https://sfdora.org/
Co-director of ENDOW project: https://endowproject.github.io/
Interdisciplinary socio-ecological scientist advocating for congruence of theory, data, and stats
Maxime Derex @maximederex.bsky.social CNRS Researcher at IAST and Toulouse School of Economics
Working on cumulative culture, social learning, innovation
Bill Thompson @wdt.bsky.social Cognitive Scientist. Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley.
Sam Passmore @sampassmore.bsky.social
Research Fellow with the The HASS Digital Research Hub @ ANU
www.sampassmore.com
www.kinbank.net
Kinship | Language | Methods | Diversity
Chris Buckley @chrisbuckley.bsky.social Anthropologist with interests in cultural evolution, phylogenetics, classical methods, weaving. Interface of archaeology and ethnography. Author of "Stone and Fiber: Daily life in the Baliem valley, Papua".
Thom Scott-Phillips @thomscottphillips.bsky.social Language, Psychology, Culture, Philosophy, Society, Evolution • When not doing science I dance the lindy hop
https://linktr.ee/thomscottphillips
Marco Smolla @msmolla.bsky.social Developing software at DB Systel for tomorrow‘s rail traffic management.
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 🏳️🌈
Wataru Toyokawa @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social Behavioural scientist running the Computational Group Dynamics (COGNAC) lab in RIKEN CBS. Also affiliating the Uni Konstanz & MPI Animal Behaviour. Love Collective Dynamics, whiskies, wine, and vintage shops.
Elena Miu @elenamiu.bsky.social Cultural evolution, cultural adaptation, innovation
Assistant Professor in Cognitive Science at Aarhus University
https://elenamiu.github.io/
Olivier Morin @oliviermorin.bsky.social Researcher at Ecole Normale Supérieure / CNRS in Paris. Culture, cognition, things in between. https://linktr.ee/oliviermorin
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- A Adam Powell @adampowell.bsky.social
Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social #ComplexSystems scientist. Institute of Evolutionary Biology @csic.es| DySOC-UTennessee, Knoxville | Girl dad. He/him.
Lab: svalver.github.io
#EvoBio #CultEvo #ExtendedBiology #hypergraphs
Joe Stubbersfield @jstubbersfield.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Winchester University. Research in social transmission, cultural evolution, and psych behind conspiracy theories & urban legends.
https://jmstubbersfield.wordpress.com/
Jeremy Kendal @jeremykendal.bsky.social Anthropologist at Durham University, UK. Interests include epistemology and ontology, cultural evolution, disease emergence.
https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/jeremy-kendal/
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8644-3117
Fredrik Jansson @fredrikjansson.bsky.social Associate Professor in Mathematics interested in cultural evolution and connecting psychology, sociology and philosophy through modelling.
Mícheál @michealdebarra.bsky.social
Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social Quantitative Methods, Prehistoric Demography, Cultural Evolution and random stuff. Professor of Quantitative and Comparative Archaeology @cam-archaeology.bsky.social https://ercrema.github.io/
Nicole Wen @nicolewen.bsky.social Ph.D. • Lecturer (Asst Prof) in Psychology | Centre for Culture and Evolution | Brunel University of London | Director of the Culture & Minds Lab (@culturemindslab.bsky.social) | www.nicolewen.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
manvir singh @manvir.bsky.social anthropologist at uc davis.
contributing writer at the new yorker.
author of SHAMANISM: THE TIMELESS RELIGION (knopf + allen lane).
Emanuel Deutschmann @deutschmann.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociological Theory at Europa-Universität Flensburg, author of "Mapping the Transnational World" (Princeton University Press, 2022) and "Die Exponentialgesellschaft" (Suhrkamp, 2025)
https://www.emanueldeutschmann.net
Hanna @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Utrecht University, interested in the development and the evolution of reasoning
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/
Antonia Hamilton @antoniahamilton.bsky.social Social Neuroscience Professor at UCL studying human brain and behaviour in real world social interactions
Gareth Roberts @garicgymro.bsky.social Welsh linguist in Philadelphia. I grow languages in the lab. Opinions my own. He.
Ieithydd o Gymro yn Philadelphia. Tyfaf ieithoedd yn y lab. Barnau fy hun. Fo.
https://linktr.ee/garicgymro
Simon J. Greenhill @simongreenhill.bsky.social I study how languages and cultures evolve. Primarily with phylogenies and other assorted computational methods. Based at @Biology_UoA. Never met a language phylogeny or a cultural phylogeny I didn't like. #phylolinguistics
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.
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/
Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social Cross-cultural and experimental psychologist / anthropologist.
Working on: appearance ideals, body image, sexual selection, gender, social transmission.
Working in:
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(A veces posteo en español.)
Prof @ Durham
http://www.boothlab.org
Simon Carrignon @carigol.bsky.social research, culture & computers || drac, romanche et sud grenoblois || https://randomdrift.info/
Durham Cultural Evolution Research Centre @durhamdcerc.bsky.social DCERC is a highly interdisciplinary research centre using evolutionary models to study cultural change and diversity. Based at Durham University, England.