Unravelling the Palaeolithic 2026 @unravellingpalaeo.bsky.social Unravelling the Palaeolithic 2026 | UCL Institute of Archaeology | 19/06/2026-20/06/2026
Two days of all things Palaeolithic, Palaeoanth + Pleistocene
https://sites.google.com/view/unravelling-the-palaeolithic/home
*Logo by Tabitha Paterson
James McInerney @jomcinerney.bsky.social Writing a book about horizontal gene transfer and non treelike evolution. Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Biology. Pangenomes. https://profmcinerney.substack.com/ 🇮🇪 https://mol-evol.github.io/
April M. Beisaw @aprilmbeisaw.bsky.social Anthropology professor @Vassar College. Fulbrighter @Natural History Museum Vienna. The Archaeology of American Protests (2025), Taking Our Water for the City: Archaeology of NYC Watershed Communities (2022), Identifying & Interpreting Animal Bones (2013).
Dr. Mary T. Silcox @marytsilcox.bsky.social Vertebrate Paleontologist studying early primates and their kin. Also enjoy going to the theatre and looking at art. Professor at University of Toronto Scarborough. She/her
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.
John C Willman @johncwillman.bsky.social Researcher at CIAS, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal • Co-director of the Virtual Anthropology Lab • Paleoanthropology, Paleolithic Archaeology, Bioarchaeology, Dental Anthropology, Domestication
Biological Anthropology @bioanth.bsky.social Posting the latest discoveries in human evolution and primatology. We also spotlight the broader field of biological anthropology—from the history of our discipline to talks, conferences, and job opportunities.
Primate Research and News @ourprimatepast.bsky.social Posting the latest in primate research, conservation news, and insights into primate evolution #Primatology #BiologicalAnthropology
Video interview series: https://m.youtube.com/@ourprimatepast
John Hawks @johnhawks.net Paleoanthropologist | Chair and Professor of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin–Madison 🧪🏺💀https://www.johnhawks.net
Dr Laura T. Buck @ltbuck.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Anthropology Liverpool John Moores University, UK. Co-Lead of Research Centre for Evolutionary Anthropology & Palaeoecology. Main research project: hybridisation in human evolution. 
Mark Grabowski @markgrabowski.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Anthropology at Liverpool John Moores University; human evolution; evolutionary biology; comparative methods. Co-lead of the Joint MSc Human Evolution Programme at UoL/LJMU.
Mark @bioarchmark.bsky.social Forensic anthropologist and Bioarchaeologist interested in stable isotopes, aDNA, and paleopathology; 🏳️🌈 ; views are mine
Hannes Rathmann @hannesrathmann.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher | Osteoarchaeology | Paleoanthropology | Biological Anthropology | Dental Morphology | Burials | Senckenberg | University of Tübingen
Clément Zanolli @clement-zanolli.bsky.social Paleoanthropologist, CNRS researcher at the University of Bordeaux (France)
Chris Campisano @campisano.bsky.social Geologist & Paleoanthropologist @ Institute of Human Origins (IHO) and Arizona State University (ASU)
Julia Arias-Martorell @julsam.bsky.social Paleoanthropologist at Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (www.icp.cat)
Amanda Slotter @aslotter.bsky.social Paleoanthropologist studying early hominins |💀🦷| Assistant Professor at the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine. (she/her)
Pere Gelabert @peregx9.bsky.social Evolutionary Biologist, Ass. Prof at @univie.ac.at @heasvienna.bsky.social, ERC_Shadows. Paleogenomics and sedaDNA.
Alpinisme entre hores.
Molt del marge dret del Llobregat.
https://beamlabwien.univie.ac.at/
Margot Serra @margotserra.bsky.social Bioarchaeologist, archaeologist, PhD student at the University of Cambridge, research interests include osteobiography, paleopathology, isotope analyses, funerary archaeology of Pre-Columbian Peru (current project - Preceramic Period, South Coast, Peru)
Asher Rosinger @asherrosinger.bsky.social Human biologist | Associate professor @PennState Biobehavioral Health & Anthropology | Climate & health | If you like #water, you'll already like 62% of me | #UNC #UGA #CDCEIS Alum (he/him) https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=c89wo3AAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Adrianna Wiley @osteoadri.bsky.social Biocultural Medical Anthropologist | Phd Candidate | Political Poet | Hockey Player | She/Her
María Serrano @mserranor.bsky.social Skeleton in an ill-fitting skin suit | Ad Astra PhD Researcher in Bioarchaeology of Disability @ UCD dublin | she / her 🌈 🍉✨
💀 mariaserranoruber.wixsite.com/home
Nick @zooarchaeology.bsky.social archaeologist. Grad student at the University of British Columbia on occupied Musqueam territory. I like fauna.
Shivani @shivanianthro.bsky.social BSc, MSc, MSc🎓| PhD Researcher in Forensic Anthropology💀| AAFS- Diversity Outreach Committee Member |Lecturer
Glauke Wylin @glauke-wylin.bsky.social PhD candidate and assistant at the department of archaeology, Ghent University.
Bioarchaeological insights into social stratification in Greece.
Stable isotopes and cross-section geometry to get insights into dietary habits and activity patterns.
@carolineswims.bsky.social @carolineswims.bsky.social 
Ioannis (Yannis) Chatzikonstantinou @chatzikon.bsky.social Adjunct lecturer in Archaeological science at the University of West Attica, Greece. PhD in Prehistoric Archaeology and Osteoarchaeology.
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Dr Carolyn Rando @carolyn-rando.bsky.social Associate Professor in Bioarchaeology & Forensic Anthropology
UCL Institute of Archaeology
Kalangi Rodrigo @kalangirodrigo.bsky.social DPhil student @UniversityofOxford #Zooarchaeologist 🦴 #Primatologist 🐒 #NeanderthalEnthusiastic
Chloe Stringer @osteo-clo.bsky.social PhD candidate in Arch Sci @UniMelb // likes zooarchaeology 🦴 isotopes 🧪 molluscs 🐚 birds 🐦linguistics 📖 food 🍛 and folk dance 💃🏻 // interested in interdisciplinary ways of understanding past human-animal-environment relationships // she/they
Aman Kang @amankang.bsky.social Archaeologist pursuing a PhD at the University of Cambridge
ZooMS | Zooarchaeology | Palaeolithic | Human Evolution | 🇦🇺
Kristi Lewton 🏳️🌈 @lewton.bsky.social Biological anthropologist; anatomy professor at USC; research: skeletons, adaptation, locomotion, primates, hominins; what makes us human and how did we get here?
Rachèl Spros @isotopistrachel.bsky.social Post-doctoral researcher with the RoBMobS project at Cardiff University. Loving all the isotope systems. #bioarchaeology #bones #enamel
Lucia Snyderman @aukwardlucia.bsky.social Biology Graduate from Middlebury College | SCENARIO NERC DTP PhD researcher at the Zoological Society of London & University of Reading | Researching lost birds 🦢, fish 🐟, and ecosystems to guide rewilding, reintroductions, and coexistence
Leslie Quade @lesliequade.bsky.social Bioarchaeologist and paleopathologist specialising in stress
Jenny Botting-van Blerk @primatejenny.bsky.social Primatologist and conservationist
Dr. Erin P. Riley @ethnoprimate.bsky.social Professor | #Ethnoprimatology #Sulawesi #Macaques #ProjectSEED #FieldworkEthics | Author: The Promise of Contemporary Primatology
Partha Radiata @partharadiata.bsky.social Primatologist teaching design for coexistence. Feminist Ally. Anti-Capitalist. Anti- Colonism.Anti- Caste. Views are my own. Aspiring voice artist. Curious about faces! Free Palestine. For Congo, Syria, Lebanon, Sudan.
Thore Bergman @vocalmonkey.bsky.social Biologist/psychologist interested in social behavior, communication, and cognition in wild primates
Stephanie Fox @safox.bsky.social primatologist • ev. anthropologist • nature enthusiast • activist
Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California Santa Barbara
she/her
Leveda Cheng @levedacheng.bsky.social Studies intergroup relationship and power dynamics in humans and Pan. Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at University of St Andrews
Rachel Harrison @rachelaharrison.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Anthropology Department, Durham University. Studying social learning in humans and other primates. 
Eithne Kavanagh @eithnekavanagh.bsky.social Senior lecturer and research fellow at NTU Psychology. Research on social and communicative behaviour in humans and other primates
Dr. Stephanie Canington @scanington.bsky.social Postdoc at UPenn * Anatomist * History of Science * Studies primate feeding behaviors & morphology * Academic mama * First-gen college graduate
Alex Sacco @alexandrasacco.bsky.social wildlife biologist | metabarcoding & microbiomics | #poopscience
Lemur Conservation Network @lemurnetwork.bsky.social We believe lemurs can be saved from extinction if we all work together. Visit our website at lemurconservationnetwork.org to learn about lemurs, celebrate the World Lemur Festival in October, and find out how you can help.
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
Juliette Aychet @julietteaychet.bsky.social PhD, Associate Professor at Paris Nanterre Univ 🐥🐒👶 - she/her
Interested in gestures and multimodal communication in primates, birds, and all beings who move to communicate 💃
https://linktr.ee/julietteaychet
Dr Chris Young @drchrisyoung.bsky.social Senior lecturer in psychology at Nottingham Trent University, research focus on primate social behaviour, ecology and endocrinology
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
Cat Scientists @liztapanes.bsky.social We are cats and scientists. Our mom is only the latter. Views our own. ❤️🙃
bioRxiv Ecology @biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social 
Sam Ellis @samellisq.bsky.social Lecturer at the University of Exeter. Interested in general but especially in life history evolution and social behaviour.
Animal Behaviour Collective @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social We are a collective of animal behaviour researchers organising microgrants and mentorship for undergraduate & graduate students in animal behaviour
Dani cRabaiotti 🦀 @danirabaiotti.bsky.social Dr of Zoology
Data Scientist
Science feed co-creator
NYT bestselling author of #DoesItFart🐢💨
Colin Beale @cmbeale.bsky.social Ecologist, ornithologist & nature lover.
Professor of ecology & conservation at the University of York.
Author of 101 Curious Tales of East African Birds.
Chair of A Rocha UK.
Josefine Bohr Brask @jbbrask.bsky.social Social networks | network science | animal behaviour | behavioural ecology | complex systems. Assistant professor at University of Copenhagen.
https://josefinebohrbrask.weebly.com/
Prof Jane K Hill @janehillyork.bsky.social Ecologist @ University of York studying the responses of species to climate change 🦋
Stu Bearhop @stubearhop.bsky.social Academic at the University of Exeter. Animal ecologist 📊
Researching: animal migration 🦅, foraging behaviour🦆
Will likely post about: research🔬, teaching🎓, wildlife🦋, birds🐦⬛, ornithology 🪶, landscapes🏔️, coast🏝️, kayaking🚣, cycling🚲
Neeltje Boogert @neeltjeboogert.bsky.social Associate Professor in Animal Behaviour at Exeter's Penryn Campus. Studying avian social behaviour, cognition, disease spread and human-wildlife conflict. Love trail running, rock climbing, kayaking. Terrible at (kite-)surfing and expert worrier.
Charlotte Le Marquand @charlielem.bsky.social ACCE DTP PhD Student | Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity | University of York | Woodland-mediated predator impacts on waders 🌳🌲
Currently on a POST Fellowship, through the British Ecological Society, working as a Committee Specialist.
Silvan Spiess @babblingbirds.bsky.social PhD Student @UZH_ch in evolutionary biology, studying the variability of complex vocalisations in Chestnut-Crowned Babblers. Avian & non-avian dinosaur enthusiast.
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.)
Margaret Hughes @margaretthughes.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow (Biology) @ UCalgary studying #caribou ecology; general interest in movement ecology, habitat selection, conservation, & restoration.
Occasionally find me squirrelling or with sheep.
Lover of all animals.
(she/her)
Hannah Sima Rempel @hannah-rempel.bsky.social Marine ecologist & PhD student interested in how human impacts reshape marine trophic interactions. (She/her) 🏳️🌈🪸 🐟 ⚛️ 🧬
Other interests include: rstats, sciart, educational outreach
https://hannahrempel.weebly.com
Charli Grimes @charli-ocean.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Exeter studying the social behaviour of killer whales
Brett Hodinka, PhD @bretthodinka.bsky.social Biology Dept., Western Washington Univ.
Ecological & Evolutionary Physiology
Birds and life-history trade-offs
https://bretthodinka.weebly.com
Christian Drerup @handle.invalid Fellow by Examination at Magdalen College & Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Biology @ University of Oxford 🇬🇧🇩🇪 Interested in the behavioural and sensory ecology of invertebrates 🦑🐙🦟🦋🦀🦐 and fish 🐠 🐟
🔗 https://christiandrerup.com
Franca Eichenberger @francae.bsky.social Behavioural & molecular ecologist studying the behavior & population dynamics of marine mammals. 🐬🐋🧬
Postdoc at University of Bristol.
https://linktr.ee/franca.eichenberger
Dr. Cam Mosley @fisherthem.bsky.social Dr. Fish (they/them) NSF PRFB Fellow in the Hansen Lab studying fisheries biology and climate change impacts in lakes @ UMN🎣🌡️ | ND Jones Lab alum ☘️| Emory ENVS ‘19 | BlackInSTEM 🏳️🌈
Dr Nadiah Kristensen @nadiah.bsky.social modeller of ecology, evolution, and cooperation | she/her | 🤘 | 🐘 fediscience.org/@nadiah | nadiah.org
Sarah B. Bassing, PhD @sbassing.bsky.social Assistant Prof. of Applied Quantitative Ecology, Montana State University | Species interactions, carnivore behavior, wildlife conservation | Camera trap & scat enthusiast | She - her - hers
https://www.bassinglabecology.org/
Lindsey Swierk @lindseyswierk.bsky.social Assistant Professor at SUNY Binghamton | behavioral ecology | tropical ecology | herpetology🦎🐸 | lindseyswierk.com
Centre for Research on Ecology, Cognition and Behaviour of Birds @ecobird.bsky.social Centre for Research on Ecology, Cognition and Behaviour of Birds 🐣
Ghent University, Belgium
Posts by @fredverb.bsky.social & @katywillcox.bsky.social
Lauren Brent @ljnbrent.bsky.social Social evolution, social aging & the benefits of social networks. Professor @crab-exeter.bsky.social, Dept. of Psych, Uni. of Exeter. Big team science collaborations: #MacaqueNet #CBRU. She/her. http://linktr.ee/laurenbrent
Francesca Johansen @chess96.bsky.social Postdoc in animal behaviour and welfare. Raising a puppy for the first time. Sleeping less than I should.
Wouter Vansteelant @wmgvs.bsky.social Trying to understand the world from a bird's perspective 🐦 | Migration and movement ecologist at BirdEyes.org. | Guest researcher at ibed.uva.nl | Co-founder of batumiraptorcount.org
Full portfolio at www.wouter-vansteelant.com
Femi E Benny @femi-benny.bsky.social PhD Student at UCL studying Asian Giant Hornets
Insect researcher 🐝 | Aspiring science writer ✍️ | Advocate for sustainable food 🦗🪲🐜🍴
Curious about what I write ? Hit the link below- https://bento.me/femi-e-benny
#ecology #entomology #behaviour 
Caitlin Mclean @saorsawolf.bsky.social ˚꩜animal biology | rewilding | wolf research | trail cam footage | coexisting with nature˚꩜
💌: saorsawolf@gmail.com | 📍Scotland
🌲🐺🥾🌙🐌🍂🪵🪶🏔️🐻🍄🟫🐾
Roxy Holmes @roxybholmes.bsky.social Final year PhD student in the Marine Behavioural Ecology Group studying #sensory and #social #behaviour in invasive lionfish @ #UniversityofCambridge
Camille Testard @ctestard.bsky.social Neuroethology and Ecology of social behavior in mammals. Special interest in how animals cope with extreme environmental challenges. PhD in Platt lab @Penn, now Junior Fellow @Harvard and Branco Weiss Fellow with Dulac lab
Federico De Pascalis @fdepa1.bsky.social Researching animal movements🐦Mediterranean and tropical seabirds🌊Ocean lover.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Federico-De-Pascalis
www.movecolab.it
Jelena Belojevic @jellybb.bsky.social PhD student at Uni Oulu and Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence. Working on behavior, movement, survival, and conservation of ruffs and southern dunlins. In love with shorebirds and everything they do. She/her
Vitor H. B. Ferreira @vitorhbf.bsky.social PhD in Animal Behavior and Cognition. 🇧🇷 Researcher at INRAE 🇫🇷 and CEB team (Cognition, Ethology and Animal Welfare) 🐣🐥🐓🐤🐔
Sarah Dalesman @sarahdalesman.bsky.social Researcher in animal behaviour and cognition, mostly working with aquatic snails and dogs. And sometimes both!
Dog agility trainer, judge and competitor in my spare time.
Lecturer at Aberystwyth University in Wales @aberdlsagb.bsky.social
Richard Mott @ro-mott.bsky.social Animal welfare scientist with an interest in perception and cognition. Climb now, work later
TheBehaviourForum.org @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social www.TheBehaviourForum.org is an unique online to discuss all about animal behaviour: experimentation, protocols, articles, pro-tips, welfare, legislation, conferences, networking! Created and hosted by COST_TEATIME.
Seirian Sumner @waspwoman.bsky.social #Behavioural #ecologist; Prof; UCL; weakness for #wasps. Actually, it’s not a weakness.. #Wasplove. Author Endless Forms: Why we should love wasps. http://tinyurl.com/UKwasps #Evolution #Naturewriting #Scicomm #sociality #Genomics
Pascal Marchand 🐏🐐 @pmchamovibex.bsky.social Chercheur en écologie comportementale behavioural ecologist on mountain ungulates
Mouflon, ibex, chamois
Saikat Ray @ray-neuro.bsky.social Real world neuroscience.
Neuroscience of animal societies and in the wild.
Flying bats, shrinking shrews, running rats.
Dr. Jocelyn Woods @animalwelfarist.bsky.social Zoo➡️farm #AnimalWelfare and #AnimalBehavior @ UW Madison using tech to study the impacts of tail docking sheep 🐑 | knitter on the run 🏃🏼♀️ 🧶 | views are my own
Keeper of @midwestprimates.bsky.social 🐒
https://jocelynwoods.wixsite.com/jocelynwoods
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/
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.
Kate Lewis @kate-lewis.bsky.social Animal Welfare Researcher, working with rhesus macaques. Research interests: animal behaviour and welfare (particularly in macaques 🐒 & horses 🐎), communication, facial expression
Molly Fowkes @mollylouisefowkes.bsky.social PhD Researcher at Lancaster University tracking the social networks for critically endangered European Eels 🐠
Interested in all things communication, social networks, applied conservation and animal behaviour!
https://lec-reefs.org/team/molly-fowkes/
Ana Cristina Gomes @anacrgomes.bsky.social PostDoc researcher at Uppsala University
Behavioral ecology, phenotypes evolution, sexual selection, social behaviour, coloration, cognition, personality
PhD (she/her)
Hoi-Lam Jim @hljim.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Kyoto University 🌳 https://ifohs.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/archives/member/hoi-lam-jim-2
Comparative psychology, animal behaviour & social cognition in elephants & canids 🐘🐾
One of @manydogsproject.bsky.social 🐕
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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 💜
Ellen Hambleton @buosteo.bsky.social Zooarchaeologist in Archaeology & Anthropology Dept, Bournemouth University. Bonegeek.
Dr Jim Morris @jimbonesmorris.bsky.social Archaeologist, interested in too many things, mainly anything animals, Iron Age, Romans with a bit of medieval thrown in. Attempting to be a fell runner. Will mainly post pictures of my dog Sansa and the odd thing about archaeology