Open Research and Public Engagement Roadmap @engagedroadmap.bsky.social Co-Creating Ireland's Public Involvement in Open Research Roadmap
ENGAGED is building a national roadmap to shape public involvement in open research in Ireland. We believe that research can and does play an important role in tackling societal challenges.
Dr Lucy Rycroft-Smith @ljrycroftsmith.bsky.social Researching, mathing, designing, writing, queering, drawing, talking, comedying, teaching, board gaming. Homerton College, Cambridge. Currently researching and talking about #AI and #education.
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
The Messy Ecologist @themessyecologist.bsky.social I’m campaigning for more messy spaces for nature, join our messy mission and let’s Rewild together by doing less- and letting nature do the rest!
PhD researcher - Rewilding with Beavers 🦫
Founder of the Wee Pond Project 🐸
Alex Swainson @alexswainson.bsky.social Neuroscientist & Teaching Associate at the University of Bristol 🧠📚
Frequently found throwing Velcro balls and donning prism goggles 🥽
Dr Rebecca von Hellfeld @becks-seascience.bsky.social Ecotox postdoc looking at marine contamination and ecosystem sentinels 🐋
Dr Katherine Whyte @kateywhyte.bsky.social Senior Ecological Statistician @bioss.bsky.social 📊
Scientist in marine mammals, seabirds, renewable energy, statistics & animal movement.🌊🦭🐧🐾
STEM Ambassador.👩💻 Own views.
https://katherinefwhyte.co.uk/
Jenny Regan @jennyregan.bsky.social Biologist researching innate immunity across the life course in Drosophila 🪰 Macrophages | guts | infection | sex differences | ageing | intervention.
Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh
Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social Author and Professor of Maths and Public Engagement.
Books -
Math(s) of Life and Death
How to Expect the Unexpected
You Don't Know What You're missing
https://tinyurl.com/37rx2yuv
He/Him
@sheborg.bsky.social @sheborg.bsky.social 
@hayleypincott.bsky.social @hayleypincott.bsky.social 
Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social @eso.org Fellow in Garching studying active galaxies ✨ Science communicator, music lover
www.astrofawcett.com
Paul Stallard @paulstallard.com Software architect, PhD CEng MIET, STEM Ambassador, data nerd, runner, (uni)cyclist
Dave Cornwell @seismodave.bsky.social Seismologist 🌍. Type 1 diabetic 💉. Runner🏃🏻♂️. STEM Ambassador. Disability in STEM. Lightyear Role Model. UCU Rep. 🏴 in 🏴. He/him.
Hannah Higson @hanna-imascientist.bsky.social Hannah | Bath | Coffee drinker
I'm Head of Education for @imascientist.org.uk and I used to be a primary school teacher in Oxford!
Rum Deer Research @rumdeerresearch.bsky.social Research findings and news from a long-term study of Red Deer on the Isle of Rum National Nature Reserve, Scotland. https://rumdeer.bio.ed.ac.uk/ #isleofrum #deer #reddeer #cervuselaphus #science #reddeerresearch 
Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com Nature Ecology & Evolution publishes research and comment across the entire breadth of ecology and evolution, including both pure and applied topics. nature.com/natecolevol
EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social Posts about jobs, conferences, etc. from the Evolution Directory (EvolDir) mailing list https://evoldir.net, run by the European Society for Evolutionary Biology @eseb.bsky.social
Anna Hewett @annamhew.bsky.social Post-doc at UNIL | Inbreeding depression, quant gen and statistical genetics in wild populations 🦉🦌 | Happiest when gallivanting outside 🏊♀️🚴♀️🏃♀️🏔 | She / her
Dr Suze Kundu @funsizesuze.bsky.social Nanochemist. Research Community Engagement wrangler. Science TV presenter. Science writer. Science communicator. Trustee of the Royal Institution. Cat mamma. Musical theatre fan. Disney nerd. She/her. 📸 @huwmjames @ Science StoryLab
Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com Nature Portfolio’s high-quality products and services across the life, physical, chemical and applied sciences is dedicated to serving the scientific community.
Animal Behaviour Live @animalbehaviour.live International & inclusive online platform bringing together researchers in animal behaviour.
🔗Website: animalbehaviour.live
🌲Linktree: https://linktr.ee/animalbehaviourlive
📝Conference: https://ablaoc.sciencesconf.org/
Animal behavior opportunities @animalopps.bsky.social Jobs, PhD’s, postdocs, internships, and volunteer opportunities for ECRs in animal behavior and adjacent fields. Run and created by @juliammachado.bsky.social
ZSL Science @zslscience.bsky.social The ZSL Institute of Zoology is a world-leading conservation science research centre. Part of @zslofficial.bsky.social
https://www.zsl.org/what-we-do/science-research
This account is currently not monitored.
Royal Institution @rigb.org We're an independent charity connecting people of all ages and backgrounds with science.
📺 Home of the #XmasLectures
💥 Weekly science talks online/in person
🌐 rigb.org
James Galbraith @gulbruth.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist, Luddite, coffee addict. Postdoc at University of Edinburgh researching the evolution of weird chromosomes and sex determination in insects, opinions my own, he/him.
Francisca Sconce @franciscasconce.bsky.social Outreach & Learning @royentsoc.bsky.social #Insects #Entomology #Ecology #SoilBiodiversity #SciComm #STEMAmbassador #WildPutney She/Her. Views my own.
Natural History Museum, London @nhm-london.bsky.social We’re the museum looking deeper into the Earth’s past to shape a new future where both people and planet thrive.
Protecting the planet, it’s in our nature. 🌍
London Wildlife Trust @ldnwildlifetrust.bsky.social Championing nature recovery in London, repairing our lost connection to the natural world since 1981.
#LondonWildlifeTrust
https://www.wildlondon.org.uk/
Bat Conservation Trust @batconservation.bsky.social Bat squeaks by Joe and Andreia with occasional special guests! Posts are not endorsements. 🦇
www.linktr.ee/BatConservationTrust
Scottish Wildlife Trust @scotwildlife.bsky.social Protecting wildlife and restoring ecosystems across Scotland's land and seas.
https://scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/
#WordsOfTheWild
The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social
Working towards a world where nature is understood, valued and protected.
https://www.linnean.org/
Nick Royle @royleresearch.bsky.social Associate Professor in Behavioural and Evolutionary Ecology at The University of Exeter (Cornwall). Research on parental care, social evolution, life-histories, and broader ecology & conservation. Mostly involving beetles (burying, dung & ground varieties)
Ashleigh Griffin @asgriffin.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist based in Oxford
Matthew Silk @mattjsilk.bsky.social Research Fellow in the Institute of Ecology and Evolution at University of Edinburgh. Social networks, behaviour, disease, demography and some wildlife photos.
Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social Entomologist. Curator of Polyneoptera at The Natural History Museum, London. Ground beetle evolution and taxonomy in the Vogler lab https://www.site100.org
Chair at Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland colsoc.org
Casey Patmore @paseycatmore.bsky.social behavioural ecologist studying burying beetles for my PhD at the University of Edinburgh. Always looking for insects. (he / him).
Scottish Public Engagement Network (ScotPEN) @scotpen.bsky.social ScotPEN empowers inclusive, impactful public engagement across Scotland, fostering trust and understanding in research.
Helen Featherstone, PhD @hfeatherstone.bsky.social Public engagement with research, creative & F2F, training & development for PER, interactive exhibits, research, visitor studies, cheese, growing things, making things, yarn, raving, Bristol. She / her.
UCL Public Engagement @uclengage.bsky.social Here to support staff and students to engage with public groups and communities outside of UCL. We believe that by listening to and collaborating with people, we can improve our research and teaching to make a greater impact and create positive change.
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.
Liz Gaberdiel @lizgaberdiel.bsky.social Wellcome PhD student in the @allshire-lab.bsky.social at the University of Edinburgh! Pombe epigenetics 🧬 x Single-molecule microscopy 🔬 now introducing telomerase. Recovering physicist.
Bibiana Rojas @biobiiana.bsky.social Assoc. Prof at KLIVV–VetmeduniVienna 🇦🇹 studying the impact of global change on amphibians | Mum of Leah | #CienciaCriolla 🇨🇴 | #LatinaInSTEM | 🇨🇴➡️🇬🇧➡️🇬🇫➡️🇦🇺➡️🇫🇮➡️🇦🇹
bibianarojas.co
Matthew Zipple @matthewzipple.bsky.social Evol biologist and behavioral ecologist. Sociality. Lifespan. Klarman Fellow at Cornell, working with Kern Reeve and Mike Sheehan.
https://matthewzipple.weebly.com/
Aidan Foo, PhD @aidanfoo.bsky.social Microbial genomics and mosquito microbiomes | Research Tech @ The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
GitHub: https://github.com/aidanfoo96
LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aidan-foo
Conor Jon Ellis @conorjonellis.bsky.social Geographer | Adventure Seeker | Director of Learning and Engagement | Smiler | Dog Person | Modern Art | 🏳️🌈🏴🇪🇺
Adam Hart @adamhartscience.bsky.social Biologist, broadcaster and writer. Conservation science, especially southern Africa, and insects. Personal account 
Katherine Mathieson @kathmath.bsky.social Science, innovation, sci-comm, charity sector, London
Director: Royal Institution
Trustee: Pilotlight, Enthuse Trust
Dr Jamie Gallagher @jamiebgall.co.uk Public Engagement trainer & consultant | #SciComm writer/presenter | @rspb.bsky.social & STFC advisor |🏳️🌈🏴
Geek: Star Trek | Doctor Who
I make nerdy rainbow pin badges that have raised £35k for homeless LGBTQ+ people
https://linktr.ee/Jamiebgall
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
Sam Rogerson @naturefromsam.bsky.social 🎓 Entomologist & Ecologist @ Stirling University.
🪲 Lover of bugs and birds.
📸 Photographer of all things green and brown.
🕸️ Find my stuff @naturefromsam.
Sam Ellis @samellisq.bsky.social Lecturer at the University of Exeter. Interested in general but especially in life history evolution and social behaviour.
Frank Venter @vfrank.bsky.social 🇿🇦 in 🏴 | Postdoctoral Researcher at Edinburgh Uni | Parasitology, Coinfection, and Drug Resistance | Views are my own
SakalukLab @sakaluklab.bsky.social behavioral ecology, evolutionary biology, insects, birds
Stephanie L King @stephanielking.bsky.social Professor of Animal Behaviour @ University of Bristol | cetacean communication and cognition group | loves dogs | PI @ Shark Bay Dolphin Research | she/her 🏳️🌈
Claire Tsui @clairetsui.bsky.social Double degree Phd at RUG and UEA working on drivers of variation in aging in the Seychelles Warbler.
Interested in phenology and quantitative genetics. Love all things birbs
Oonagh Barker @obarker.bsky.social Final year PhD student at UEA - I use dietary manipulations in fruit flies to explore sex differences in ageing, parental effects, and responses to heat shock.
Interested in postdocs for autumn 2026!
Dr Richard S. Turner @rsturner.bsky.social 
Nature Reviews Biodiversity @natrevbiodiv.nature.com A new journal from the Nature Portfolio reviewing key advances in conservation, ecology, and evolution. Posts by the editors, @alexmckay.bsky.social, @lukegrinham.bsky.social, and Tim Thomas. https://www.nature.com/nrbd
SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social The Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. EcoEvoRxiv (https://ecoevorxiv.org) is our preprint server. Become a member at http://sortee.org/join
https://linktr.ee/sortecoevo
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.
Ilaria Lonero @ilarialonero.bsky.social PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh. Working on migratory passerines phenology and range shifts through @BTObirds data. Interested in ornithology, behavioural ecology and evolution.
Also a bird ringer trainee and runner enthusiast.
Sarah Dobson @sarah-dobson.bsky.social University of Edinburgh PhD student. Interested in evolutionary ecology, quantitative genetics and indirect genetic effects. Working on sexual selection with the Isle of Rum Red Deer Project.
Tom Ratz @tomratz.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist | Independent Group Leader & SNSF Fellow at University of Zurich | Evolution, plasticity, & social interactions 🪰🐞🦗 🕷 ⍦
tomratz.weebly.com
Kynan Delaney @kynandelaney.bsky.social Recent PhD. Stats advisor to Honours biology students at UofEdinburgh. Interested in ageing in wild insects.
Raspberry Pi enthusiast!
Website: kynandelaney.github.io
The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social Not-for-profit publisher of Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology, Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open. Host of community sites the Node, preLights and FocalPlane. Supporting biologists and inspiring biology.
The Royal Society @royalsociety.org The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.
https://royalsociety.org/
Ally Phillimore @allyphillimore.bsky.social Phenology, adaptation and climate change. Based at University of Edinburgh. He/him www.phenoweb.org project. See also @phenoweb.bsky.social
Programme director for Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity MSc
Sandra Steiger @steigerlab.bsky.social Head of the department of Evolutionary Animal Ecology @ University of Bayreuth | Professor | #firstgen | mother | loves burying beetles |interested in the evolution of family life and chemical communication
Kirsty MacLeod @kjmacleod.bsky.social Behavioural and evolutionary ecologist, lecturer in Bangor, Wales - sociality, life history, stress, thermal ecology, mostly in reptiles macleodlab.weebly.com
Edward R. Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social - Lecturer, UEA
- Data Editor, Ecology Letters
- Publications Committee, ESA
- Past-President and Advocacy Co-Chair, SORTEE
- Studies Ageing, Parental Effects, and Open Science
- Fond of burying beetles
- R Enthusiast
- Dad x1
Susan Eshelman @s-eshelman.bsky.social (she/her) Postdoc at RBGE, Research Associate Univ. of Edinburgh| Exploring global grassland diversity & drivers of grass functional traits 🌾🌍
🔎 Open to collaboration
📬 DM to connect! 😊 linktr.ee/susan.eshelman
Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social Retired professor of psychology at University of Oxford. Interests in developmental neuropsychology and improving science. Blogs at deevybee.blogspot.com
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
Niko Hensley, PhD. @nikohensley.bsky.social 🧠🦗 base pairs, brains, behavior, biodiversity💡🦐
Herchel-Smith Fellow @ Cambridge in Zoology
🏳️🌈 he/him 🇵🇭 | no justice, no peace
Kate Laskowski @katelaskowski.bsky.social UC Davis. Developmental drivers of individuality in the Amazon molly. Nature through nurture and a lot of noise. Really into random effects. Hard no to autocrats
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!
Luke Holman @lukeholman.bsky.social Associate Prof at Edinburgh Napier U and Commissioning Editor at Journal of Evolutionary Biology. @lukeholman_evo elsewhere 
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
Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social A.v.Humboldt professor at the University of Mainz. Evolutionary ecologist. Runs a research group that once prompted the description "in this [coffee] room there's almost always someone who is at least partially fun". (Which we then translated into Latin.)
Susan Johnston @susanjohnston.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Genomics at the Institute of Ecology & Evolution @ U. of Edinburgh. Meiotic recombination in 🐦🐟🦄🌾. Shy Glaswegian. Mum of two. Fluent in franglais. https://sejohnston.com/
Joël Meunier @jmeunierearwig.bsky.social Behavioural ecologist studying earwigs (insects), parental care, social evolution, social immunity, pesticides, global warming... Defender of open science.
CNRS Researcher at univ Tours (FR) - IRBI
https://joelmeunier.wixsite.com/researchpage
Madingley Abbs @bugecologist.bsky.social Behavioural Ecologist. PhD student, University of St Andrews. She/Her. I watch bugs eat each other (research area: evolutionary ecology of sibling cannibalism).
Ben Sheldon @sheldonbirds.bsky.social Ornithologist and Evolutionary Ecologist at the University of Oxford - natural history, science, cycling
Christos C. Ioannou @ccioannou.bsky.social Professor Bristol uni Biological Sciences. Lots of #fishsci #behaviour #rstats #collectivebehaviour #predators. Grants Secretary for @asab.org
Shinichi Nakagawa @itchyshin.bsky.social Behavioural ecologist, meta-analyst & manga-lover
Elva Robinson @elvarobinson.bsky.social Behavioural ecologist: Social organisation in ants etc; Field ecology, behavioural experiments, computational modelling; EDI, University of York; she/her
Sinead English @englishse.bsky.social Interested in early-life and parental effects, climate change, infectious diseases. Likes insects, theory and comparative studies.
Professor of Life History Evolution & Wuebben Fellow, JGU Mainz
Leads EVE lab www.evelab.org
Academic mama, from Zimbabwe
Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social Journal of Animal Ecology publishes the best #AnimalEcology research that develops, tests and advances broad ecological principles. A @britishecologicalsociety.org journal.
Erica McAlister @flygirlnhm.bsky.social Dipterist, Entomologist, presenter, author, museum lover
Principal Curator, Flies and fleas, Natural History Museum, London, UK
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social I had a marvellous time ruining everything.
Professor of Genetics @UCL, Public Humanities Fellow @SAS. Ex-President of @Humanists_UK Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷×
@kbjmanagement
adamrutherford.com
Ash Whiffin @ashwhiffin.bsky.social 🪲 Entomologist, bonkers about beetles
🏛 Museum Curator
🏴 Usually found turning over logs/stones or poking in dead stuff.
(she/her)
🔗 https://linktr.ee/Ash_Whiffin
Per Smiseth @persmiseth.bsky.social Behavioural ecologist @ University of Edinburgh. Parental care & family conflict, inbreeding. Biological recording & natural history in cemeteries, burial grounds & churchyards.
Allen J Moore @ajmoore.bsky.social Evolutionist. Studying social interactions and genetics. I’m the one in the lab who isn’t allowed to touch the pipettes. EiC of Ecology and Evolution.
Bob Wong @bbmwong.bsky.social Professor and Behavioural Ecologist at Monash University
https://www.bobwonglab.org
Dee Sidhu @karendeepsidhu.bsky.social PhD student | Evolutionary Biology | Climate change and sexual selection | Animal Behaviour | Heawaves| Decolonising | QUADRATdtp | University of Aberdeen | opinions are my own | she/her
🇵🇸 Free Palestine
🏳️⚧️ Trans rights are human rights
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 🏳️🌈
Wildlife Biology @wildlifebiology.bsky.social A scientific journal for research in wildlife management and conservation. Owned by @nordicoikos.bsky.social.
Catherine Oke @catherineoke.bsky.social Postdoc in @reecelab.bsky.social at Edinburgh Uni | Evolutionary ecology of vector-parasite interactions👩🏻🔬🦟🔬
Rebecca Lovell @rebeccalovell.bsky.social Quantitative evolutionary ecologist 👩💻🐦🦋🌿 Currently a Postdoc at the University of Aberdeen (she/her)