Courtney Applewhite @c-applewhite.bsky.social Death researcher 💀 | Currently in EPFL's Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠 | PhD Religious Studies | Here for death, bereavement, presences, & interdisciplinary work | Plus rugby 🏉 and cats 🐈⬛
Carmen Callizo @callizocarmen.bsky.social ▪︎ Philosopher & Ph.D. in psychology ▪︎
Culture | Religion | Time | Forgiveness
@petomano.bsky.social @petomano.bsky.social
Dan Major-Smith @djsmith90.bsky.social Recovering Evolutionary Anthropologist/Accidental Epidemiologist/Cat fosterer
PostDoc at Aarhus and Senior Research Associate at Bristol
Interests: cooperation; religion; causal inference; cohort studies
Site: https://danmajor-smith.netlify.app/about
County Durham @countydurham.bsky.social News and updates from County Durham, UK - we originally started this service on the bird app in 2012 and now here on Bluesky - Updates from the county include Darlington, Stockton, Consett, Spennymoor, and more
Eleanor Schille-Hudson @erbsh.bsky.social Cognitive Scientist--studying how people think about things they can't see
Postdoc in Anthropology at Stanford
Ph.D. in CogSci/Psych from IU Bloomington
https://www.eleanorschillehudson.com/
I love hobbies ✨
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
David P. Schmitt, Ph.D. @psychoschmitt.bsky.social Professor of Psychology and Department Head at Oklahoma State University, USA. Interests include personality, health, gender/sex diversity; Founded or co-founded International Sexuality Description Project, Culture and Evolution, Dionysus Digital Health.
Emily Messer PhD @emilyjemesser.bsky.social Christian. Primatologist. Research Interests: social influence, social learning, cultural evolution, prosociality, science communication. Assistant Prof Heriot-Watt University. Views my own.
Human Behavior & Evolution Society @humbehevosoc.bsky.social The Human Behavior & Evolution Society (HBES) is an international society for scientists studying the evolution of human behavior. Find us at https://www.hbes.com, or read our journal Evolution & Human Behavior. Account managed by Yunsuh (Nike) Wee
Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social Director of the Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University London @brunelcce.bsky.social
https://www.rebeccasear.org/
Connair J. S. Russell @connairrussell.bsky.social Postdoc/Research Fellow at Queen's University Belfast.
Open Science • Religion • (Non)Belief • Rstats
Paul Bloom @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social Psychologist who studies and writes about human nature—including morality, pleasure, and religion. Sustack: https://smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/
Cat Hobaiter @nakedprimate.bsky.social Primatologist studying communication and cognition in wild apes. Some time academic. Full time naked ape. PI Wild Minds Lab @ University of St Andrews. She/her.
www.wildminds.ac.uk
Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social Promoting Cognitive Science as a discipline and fostering scientific interchange among researchers in various areas.
🌐 https://cognitivesciencesociety.org
The Database of Religious History @religionhistory.bsky.social
Adam Baimel @abaimel.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Psychology - Oxford Brookes University
Religion; spirituality; cultural change; environmentalism
www.adambaimel.com
Aarhus University's Religion, Cognition, and Culture Unit @rcc-au.bsky.social Aarhus University
Eleanor Power @eapower.bsky.social anthropologist, network scientist, phillumenist, Rep2SI (rep2si.github.io) & ENDOW (endowproject.github.io), assoc prof at the London School of Economics, external faculty @sfiscience.bsky.social. (she/her)
Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com An online-only journal publishing Reviews, Perspectives & Comments across psychology, its applications & societal implications. Posts from the editors. https://www.nature.com/nrpsychol/
Joseph Watts @josephwatts.bsky.social Social scientist interested in how human culture, cognition and evolution interact. Psychology Department, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Personal website: https://josephwatts.org/
John H. Shaver @johnhshaver.bsky.social Anthropologist at Baylor University
Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social Faculty (Penn State), lab director (https://socialitylab.org), entrepreneur. Interdisciplinary anthropologist studying how people cooperate to manage risk. Foodie. 🌎🌍
Aaron Fisher @aaronjfisher.bsky.social Associate Professor of Psychology | University of California, Berkeley.
Interested in science that is Actionable, Veridical, and Generalizable.
Read about my work: https://www.dynamicpsychlab.com/
Mohammad Atari @mohammadatari.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Psychology at UMass Amherst.
Director of the Culture and Morality Lab.
Prof Nichola Raihani @nicholaraihani.bsky.social Professor & Author
Auckland & UCL
Books: THE SOCIAL INSTINCT (2021) || THE THINKING ANIMAL (2027)
Website: www.nicholaraihani.com
Likes cycling.
Josh Tybur @joshtybur.bsky.social Professor of Psychology and Infectious Disease at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Liane Young @lianeleeyoung.bsky.social Prof of Psychology and Neuroscience at Boston College | Director of Morality Lab | Academic Mama | she/her | https://moralitylab.bc.edu/
Matthew I. Billet @matthewibillet.bsky.social Culture | Religion | Social Cognition | Environmental Decision Making
Postdoc UC Irvine | PhD S/P Psychology University of British Columbia
Dimitris Xygalatas @xygalatas.bsky.social Experimental anthropologist, cognitive scientist, dad, author of Ritual: How seemingly senseless acts make life worth living
Sheina Lew-Levy @sheinalew.bsky.social Associate Professor at @durhampsych.bsky.social. I look at how culture influences children's learning, and how learning makes us human.
Will @evolvingmoloch.bsky.social traditionsofconflict.com
Jon Lanman @lanmanjon.bsky.social Cognitive Anthropologist at Queen's University Belfast
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Cognition & Culture
Joseph Bulbulia @epiclab.bsky.social Professor of Psychology
Victoria University of Wellington
New Zealand
MUNI_CEDRR @municedrr.bsky.social The Centre for the Digital Research of Religion at Masaryk University is an interdisciplinary centre applying computational methods in research into religion
religionistika.phil.muni.cz/cedrr
DISSINET @dissinet.bsky.social The Dissident Networks Project (DISSINET), an ERC-funded inititative at Masaryk University’s Centre for the Digital Research of Religion, applies SNA, GIS, and computational text analysis to explore dissident and inquisitorial cultures in medieval Europe.
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.
Elis @eliscl.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at @iasliu.bsky.social interested in religion, naming practices, social influence dynamics and computational social science
www.eliscarlberglarsson.com
Michael DeVries @michaeldevries.bsky.social PhD @unibirmingham.bsky.social | Second Temple Judaism | Dead Sea Scrolls | Qumran war tradition | Currently researching ritual, cognition, and the Qumran movement | Adjunct Professor | #LADodgers #LARams
Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social Director of Language & Genetics at Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen.
Tracing the complex connections between genes, brains, speech & language.
Website: https://www.mpi.nl/people/fisher-simon-e
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3132-1996
Jovana Maksić @jomaksic.bsky.social PhD📍University of Zurich
🔍 hominin cognition & behavior
🧠 neuroscience of Paleo crafts @nccrlanguage.bsky.social
Baylor Anthropology @bayloranthro.bsky.social Anthropology Department at Baylor University.
Štěpán Bahník @bahniks.bsky.social psychologist interested in judgment & decision making, methodology, programming; associate professor at the Prague University of Economics and Business
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
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
Will Gervais @willgervais.com psych prof & author | culture & evolution | atheists | methodological pluralism FTW | comic & horror nerd | he/him
Disbelief: The Origins of Atheism in a Religious Species https://www.amazon.com/Disbelief-Origins-Atheism-Religious-Species/dp/1633889246/
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/
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).
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
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
Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social The official account for the Cultural Evolution Society. Our mission is to promote the study of cultural evolution in research and practice.
www.culturalevolutionsociety.org
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 🇮🇪
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
Natalia Vélez @natvelali.bsky.social Cognitive scientist at UCSD, personally & scientifically interested in collaboration | science sketcher | thinking in non-English 🇵🇷
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
Pat Savage @patrickesavage.bsky.social Author: Comparative Musicology (academic.oup.com/book/62353; open access)
Director: @compmusiclab.bsky.social
Host/PI @manyvoices.bsky.social
Rutherford Discovery Fellow @U Auckland
Assoc. Prof. @Keio U
Music, evolution, diversity
He/him
Tangata tiriti
Aiyana Koka Willard @aiyanakoka.bsky.social Cultural Evolutionary Psychologist | Centre for Culture and Evolution | Brunel University London
Researcher of religion, religious decline, spiritual beliefs, and other worldviews
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
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.
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
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
manvir singh @manvir.bsky.social anthropologist at uc davis.
contributing writer at the new yorker.
author of SHAMANISM: THE TIMELESS RELIGION (knopf + allen lane).
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
Michael Muthukrishna @michael.muthukrishna.com Prof. #NYU & #LSE. Author: A Theory of Everyone. Researching & spreading the word on how humans evolved & what that means for us today. www.atheoryofeveryone.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
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
Tim Waring @twaring.bsky.social I study the evolution of human culture with a focus on environmental behaviors and institutions and an eye toward helping these become more sustainable on a single, limited planet. https://timwaring.info/
Mason Youngblood @masonyoungblood.bsky.social 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
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/
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.
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 🏳️🌈
Jonathan F Schulz @jonathanschulz.bsky.social Asst. Prof. at George Mason University. Interested in cultural evolution, human behavior, economic development and history. https://sites.google.com/site/jonathanfschulz/