Anna Elisa Kempf @annaek.bsky.social PhD Student @Vetmeduni Vienna 🦜🕊️ Working on Dexterity & Tool use in Goffin‘s cockatoos into all things art & science 🪷 (she | her)
Francesca M. Cassola Ph.D. @xiscacassola.bsky.social MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow in Animal Cognition | PhD in Animal Behaviour | Host of @dropsofsciencenews.bsky.social – natural science news | my posts are in ITA / ENG / ESP and are very random, about everything and nothing...
Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata @ento-ea.bsky.social Experimental and applied entomology - Scientific journal of the Netherlands Entomological Society @nev.nl with research papers and reviews. #entomology #biocontrol 🪲🦋🪰🐜🐞🐝🪳🦗🦟🐛
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15707458
Measuring Behavior @measuringbehavior.bsky.social The next MB conference is April 28-30 2027 in Düsseldorf. It is a forum for the latest methods, inventions, prototypes, tools and techniques in behavioral research.
Tiago Monteiro @monteirotiago.bsky.social behavioural scientist 🕊🐀🐣🐟🐕 || researcher @DomLabVienna & @VetmeduniVienna || previously LearningLab @Neuro_CF & @OxfordBiology & @UnivAveiro
https://tiagomonteiro.weebly.com
Victor Ajuwon @victorajuwon1.bsky.social Postdoc in the Comparative Cognition Lab, Cambridge Psychology Department working on cognition and curiosity in cuttlefish🐙 and other animals. Formerly DPhil student at Oxford Biology. https://vajuwon.weebly.com
Behaviour 2027 @behaviour2027.bsky.social Official account for Behaviour 2027 (XXXIX International Ethological Congress) taking place in Vienna, Austria, from August 23-27.
Jose Ricardo Paula @josericardopaula.bsky.social Ass Prof @ University of Lisbon; President of @SPEtolgia; PI of http://www.behcomplexitylab.eu
Ailie McWhinnie @ailiemcwhinnie.bsky.social Neuroscientist turned science writer, currently a Maria Leptin EMBO Science Journalism Fellow, writing for Science
Daisy @daisyrjb.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Exeter @uniexecec.bsky.social
Sensory processing and signal perception during mate choice interactions 👁️ 🐟
grice pudding @evpok.love Plays music on interesting instruments, cooks for the revolution, is a computational linguist, earns cider being a university prof. Death to all tyrants 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
one day you'll wake up and you'll be glad to be awake
they or anything gender neutral
Thomas MacGillavry @thomasmacgillavry.bsky.social Postdoc with Tecumseh Fitch, UniWien |
The biology and evolution of dance in a comparative perspective 💃🏻🕺🏼 🦚 |
Love music, nature, bouldering, and exploring wild places 🌴 |
he/him |
University of Vienna
Shreya Dube (they/them) @neuroshreya.bsky.social 🇮🇳🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈. LIDo DTP scholar, Interested in Evolutionary Developmental/ Comparative Neuroscience, Welfare, Avians, and the environment! MRes Neuroscience at University of St. Andrews, previously at Newcastle University
Clara Petit @claramlpetit.bsky.social Graduate student in Ethology from Stockholm University, I'm looking for a PhD allowing me to work on animal cognition, social behaviors, parent-offspring behaviors or sibling behaviors in mammals and/or birds!
Wild Animal Initiative @wildanimals.bsky.social Conducting research, providing funding, and supporting researchers to accelerate science that helps wild animals. wildanimalinitiative.org
ARAA @araa.at Avian Research Association of Austria. Our aim is to bring together avian researchers to improve the exchange of ideas, increase knowledge, and promote mentorship throughout Austria. If you're a member, DM us your new papers or positions to share.
Theresa Rössler @theroesa.bsky.social 
The Clever Cockie Research Project @clevercockierp.bsky.social Account for the research project jointly run at ANU and UZH and led by Lucy Aplin, studying spread of innovation, culture and cognition in urban cockatoos
https://www.clevercockies.com/
Julie Thuillier 🐦⬛ @speaking-ravenish.bsky.social (she/her) 🌱 Looking for a PhD in behavioural ecology/sociobiology, particularly interested in vertebrate scavengers
🪶 MSc in wildlife and ethology, MA in science communication
Currently at @klf-univienna.bsky.social 🐣
Lisa Fontana @lisafontana.bsky.social PhD Candidate at the Australian National University, working on innovation, cognitive ecology and social learning in sulphur-crested cockatoos 🦜
Frederick Verbruggen @fredverb.bsky.social 
Matt Berkley @mattberkley.bsky.social Sentientism, food policy for desired/anticipated consumption patterns, plant-based food for climate, consumption behaviour, history and reporting of global goals, framing.
Jacob C. Dunn @jacobcdunn.bsky.social Professor of Evolutionary Biology at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.
www.thepeergroup.org.uk
PEER Group research is focused on primate evolution and ecology, with a particular emphasis on vocal communication and the evolution of language.
European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social The next ECBB will take place at Anglia Ruskin University in 2026!
https://www.aru.ac.uk/science-and-engineering/conferences-and-events/ecbb-2026
Yarrow Dunham @yarrowdunham.bsky.social Studies social cognition in children and grown-ups. Teaches in the psychology and cognitive science programs at Yale.
Lab: socialcogdev.com
Kevin Riggs @profriggsy.bsky.social Physics, philosophy, cognitive science, drumming, beer.
Albert Vilella, PhD. @albertvilella.bsky.social Bioinformatics Scientist / Next Generation Sequencing, Single Cell and Spatial Biology, Next Generation Proteomics, Liquid Biopsy, SynBio, AI/ML in biotech // http://albertvilella.substack.com
BehavEcolPapers @behavecolpapers.bsky.social #BehavioralEcology #Ethology #HumanBehavior #AnimalBehavior #LifeHistory #AnimalPhysiology papers from #PubMed & journal rss-feeds | -- MF
CONNECT partnership @connect-btss.bsky.social CONNECT (Coordinated Network of Networks for Enhancing Collaborative Teams) is an SSHRC-funded partnership. Our goal is to study Big Team Social Science and make it more reliable, inclusive, and impactful.
https://connect-btss.github.io/
Carl Soulsbury @cds-york.bsky.social Professor of Animal Ecology @UniLincoln Married to Graziella+3 kids+1 hound. Views: agrees with Sheena, views are own.
George Rabin @ghtrabin.bsky.social DPhil student @intelligentearth.bsky.social & Oxford biology graduate.
Machine learning, biodiversity, sensory ecology, biologgers, birds
Marina Papadopoulou @marinapapa.bsky.social Computational biologist | Postdoctoral Researh Fellow 👋she/her
✨️ Collective animal behavior, behavioral ecology, self-organization, ABM, heterogeneity, complex social systems
📍Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin (GER)
🌐 www.mpapadopoulou.com
Roel Janssen🍀🌹🪶 @vrijevogel56.bsky.social Pensionado GGZ SPV #Natuur #vogels #fotografie. Field work on (breeding) birds #BMP-er #vogelaar, #lifelongbirder #birds #bird📷 #Pro_Hattem #Hattem No meat. Proud te be #antifa🔺|🐾🐺🦉 #FBPE 🇪🇺 "EcoSocialist”
Nino Kadic @ninokadic.com Postdoc at the Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb | PhD, King’s College London | Primarily working on mind and metaphysics 💭
ISBE2026 @isbe2026.bsky.social International Society for Behavioral Ecology Congress, Turin (Italy) 20-24 July 2026
www.isbe2026.com
Serge Ahmed @sergeahmed.bsky.social Behavioral and Brain Scientist ~ Addiction Research ~ CNRS Research Director ~ University of Bordeaux
Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh @kouroshkalantar.bsky.social Professor of Engineering at the University of Sydney
Account is only about science, tech, art & nature
Opinions are my own
Craig White @craig-white.bsky.social Head, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University. Physiology | life history | ecology | evolution | higher education
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
Stephan Reber @stephanreber.bsky.social 🇨🇭Cognitive Zoologist @ Lund University 🇸🇪 Evolutionary Biology - Crocodilian Cognition & Communication - Bioacoustics - Animal Behaviour - Comparative Cognition - IUCN Crocodile Specialist Group member
@journeybird.bsky.social @journeybird.bsky.social 
Ellen O'Donoghue @eodonoghue.bsky.social Lecturer in Psychology; Cardiff University. I study how we flexibly learn about our environments, with particular interest in curiosity-driven exploration.
Jeff White @jeffwwhite.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher at Cornell and with the Tawaki Trust. Seabird foraging ecology. Stable isotopes. Diving physiology. Population dynamics. he/him 🏳️🌈 #firstgen
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
Tim Sainburg @timsainburg.bsky.social Neuro, Cogsci, ML, and Ethology postdoc / Schmidt Science Fellow at Harvard. 
Simon Brown @simonabbrown.bsky.social Philosopher of mind/cog sci studying animal minds, memory,
consciousness, temporal representation, & implications for animal ethics/policy.
Asst. Prof. @ Ashoka University, India
Teppo Felin @teppofelin.bsky.social ion foundation endowed prof | university of utah | cognition, AI, generative rationality, theory-based view, causal reasoning, economics, strategy
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🇧🇷
Milad Shokri @miladshokri.bsky.social Postdoc in Ecology at @unisalento (Italy) { Foraging behavior ~ Metabolic rate }
German Ornithological Society @dornitholges.bsky.social The German Ornithological Society promotes all forms of #ornithology. Founded in 1850, we represent continuity and permanence in #avian #science.
You can also find us on Instagram @DOrnitholGes and you can check out our website www.do-g.de
Michaëla Berdougo 🐦 @michaelaberdougo.bsky.social PhD student in climate-driven adaptation and speciation in Ficedula flycatchers breeding on Öland, Sweden.
ASAB @asab.org We promote the study of animal behaviour, organise conferences, fund research & support the teaching of animal behaviour. Co-publisher of #AnimalBehaviourJournal. For meeting coverage, follow @asab-meetings.bsky.social
Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social Biology Professor, Canada Research Chair, & Associate Dean at University of Windsor. I use bioacoustics to study ecology, evolution, & conservation. Husband & father. Proud Canadian 🇨🇦. I post about our team's research adventures. www.uwindsor.ca/dmennill
Claudia Wascher @wascherclaudia.bsky.social Prof. of Behavioural Biology | cooperation, communication, cognition, corvids and physiology | equity & diversity research | addressing biases in animal behaviour
https://claudiawascher.github.io/
she/her ♻️🌍💚|🏳️🌈 & 🏳️⚧️ ally|✊🏿 ally|🇪🇺|
Damien Farine @damienfarine.bsky.social Analysing collectives of living dinosaurs. Discoverer of multilevel societies. Watcher of fishers and dolphins. Modeller of emergent phenomena. Caretaker of long term guineafowl, fairywren and chough projects. A/Prof @ Australian National Uni.
Elina Mäntylä @elinamantyla.bsky.social Ecologist studying interactions between birds, insects and plants, and bird migration. Now working as a Development Specialist at University of Turku. Opinions are my own.
Lisandrina Mari @lisandrinamari.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher & MSCA Alumna Uni of Jyväskylä 🕊️🪺🇫🇮 | Subject Editor @ Journal of Field Ornithology | ecotox, behavior, cognition, thermal physiology | she/her
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
Hannah Scharf @hannah-scharf.bsky.social Akademische Rätin at LMU Munich studying great tits | PhD from UIUC on cowbirds and prothonotary warblers #PROWandCow | behavioral ecology | she/her 🏳️🌈
Dr. Susanne Hoffmann @susannehoffmann.bsky.social Group leader @ MPI-BI, Germany, interested in Neuroethology~Naturalistic Neuroscience~Vocal Communication~Echolocation~Sensory+Motor Systems~🐦~🦇
Vladimir Pravosudov @cognitiveecol.bsky.social Cognitive and Behavioral Ecology Lab
Alex Chan @alexhhchan.bsky.social Postdoc @cbehav.bsky.social, Konstanz 🐦 Trying to track birds with computer vision 🇭🇰
https://alexhhchan.odoo.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.
Lysanne Snijders @lysannesnijders.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Behavioural Ecology @w-u-r.bsky.social | Animal Behaviour | Conservation | Nature | Science | Plant-based
Ljerka Ostojic @ljerkaostojic.bsky.social Comparative Cognition and Meta-science | MSc University of Vienna | PhD University of Cambridge | Lecturer University of Rijeka | Head of Studies @ricogsci.bsky.social cogsci.uniri.hr she/her
Marc Gilles @marcgilles.bsky.social Behavioural ecologist investigating the smell of birds | Animal behaviour | Chemical communication | Ornithology | https://marc-gilles.github.io/ | he/him
Katy Willcox @katywillcox.bsky.social Kathryn (Katy) Willcox | PhD @ecobird.bsky.social | social environments <-> bird behaviour and cognition | 🐥🐦🧠🦦🐝 | ❤️ welfare & outreach | also 🎶🎨🎮🎲👩🍳🌿 | she/her
PEC Exeter @pec-exeter.bsky.social Working on: the consequences of release and management of gamebirds; the evolution of cognition, using the genius of the bird world - pheasants; and occasionally messing with chickens, ravens, beavers and moths. Tweets by Jo Madden 
Mark O’Hara @mohara.bsky.social I like to watch the forest and its inhabitants.
🇨🇦 Chris Sturdy 🇨🇦 @cbsturdy.bsky.social Father, Husband, Professor, Canadian
Vitor H. B. Ferreira @vitorhbf.bsky.social PhD in Animal Behavior and Cognition. 🇧🇷 Researcher at INRAE 🇫🇷 and CEB team (Cognition, Ethology and Animal Welfare) 🐣🐥🐓🐤🐔
Anna N Osiecka 🍉 @aosiecka.bsky.social AvH post-doc at Humboldt Uni: info in rhythm & evolution of rhythm in vocal learners. Bioacoustics, emotions, information, seabirds. PhD. she/they 🏳️🌈 BLM
Silvia Damini @silviadamini.bsky.social PhD candidate at the University of Vienna working on wild ravens interactions with heterospecifics and personality
Julia Penndorf @julia-penndorf.bsky.social behavioural ecologist studying information use, space-use & social behaviour
postdoctoral researcher @ Exeter University
Deryk Tolman @deryktolman.bsky.social Behavioural ecology and coevolution. I like cuckoos. He/Him
David Kikuchi @birdsnakes.bsky.social biologist: warningsignal.org
Peter Korsten @peterkorsten.bsky.social biologist | behaviour, ecology & evolution | population studies of birds | lecturer @aberdlsagb.bsky.social @aberuni.bsky.social Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK
Dr Mark E Hauber @thecowbirdlab.bsky.social Executive Director at CUNY ASRC, comparative psychology professor at GC CUNY with an eye on brood parasites; Nat Geo Explorer, married 🏳️🌈; I post my own mind. www.cowbirdlab.org
The Alex Foundation @thealexfoundation.bsky.social Visit our website: www.alexfoundation.org. Dr. Irene Pepperberg researches the cognitive and communicative abilities of African Grey parrots. Visit our shop: https://teespring.com/stores/alexfoundation
https://www.facebook.com/thealexfoundation1
Barbara Klump @barbaraklump.bsky.social Ass.-Prof. @University of Vienna
WWTF VRG Leader
Maja Mielke (she/her) @maja-mielke.bsky.social Biologist, nature artist, science writer & bird enthusiast.
I write 'Beaks & Bones,' a science blog on birds.
Subscribe now 👇 for fascinating bird science stories! 🪶
https://beaksandbones.substack.com
Contact: https://maja.mielke.ws/contact/
Gabriella E. Smith, PhD @explanimals.bsky.social Animal listener
https://sites.google.com/view/gabriella-e-smith/home?authuser=1
LaurenGuillette.bsky.social @laurenguillette.bsky.social Animal Cognition Research Group leader, Associate Prof. @psychualberta.bsky.social, Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Ecology (she/her) ally 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @laurenguillette on X
Anna Fabbri @annafabbri.bsky.social PhD Candidate @univienna
Mylène Dutour @dutourmylene.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher, Behavioural ecologist, animal communication and cognition, mom of 2 amazing kids
fusanilab @fusanilab.bsky.social Our laboratory focuses on behaviour, physiology and ornithology, with a particular interest in migration and courtship
Marie Hébert @mariehebert.bsky.social Research Fellow @University of St Andrews -Neuroethologist/behavioural neuroendocrinologist.
Birds🦜🐥🦆, Brain 🧠,Hormones, Nest building 🪺, Courtship, and more!
drmariehebert.wordpress.com
Guillaume Dillenseger @dillensegerg.bsky.social PhD student in shorebird breeding ecology and predation patterns at University of South Bohemia🐣 Agrégé vacataire à l’Université de Strasbourg
Michal Šulc @biosulc.bsky.social Ornithologist at the Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno
https://www.ivb.cz/en/person/michal-sulc/
Journal of Avian Biology @avianbiology.bsky.social Open access outlet for innovative, hypothesis-driven research on the biology of birds, with a particular emphasis on ecological, evolutionary and behavioural studies. Nordic Society Oikos journal advocating fair, openly accessible and reproducible research
Cornish Jackdaw Project @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social Research team led by Alex Thornton at the University of Exeter's Centre for Ecology and Conservation, studying cognition in wild jackdaws and other creatures.
wildcognitionresearch.com
Drew Schreiner @schreinerdrew.bsky.social learning | neuroethology | basal ganglia | birdsong | decision-making | natural history | Current K99 Postdoc Rich Mooney @Duke | PhD Christina Gremel @UC San Diego
On the faculty job market 2026-27: https://drewschreiner.github.io/
Jonas Rose @jonasrose.bsky.social https://www.ngl.psy.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/
Neuroscience of avian cognition. Cognitive science at Ruhr University
Marie C. Diquelou @mdiquelou.bsky.social Avian and Primate Cognition - Behavioural Ecology - Human-Wildlife Interactions
Currently postdoctoral fellow at the University of St Andrews.
Other interests : 🐕🚶♀️ , 🥾🏔 , 🧵🖌
Pronouns : she/her
George Ordiway @georgeordiway.bsky.social Postdoc at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute studying the neuroscience of birdsong and auditory perception. 🧪 Also a classical music nerd and DnD nerd and video game nerd.
David Pritchard @davidpritchard.bsky.social Lecturer in Psychology at Newcastle University
Studying how animals acquire and use information to do useful things. Navigation, foraging, and comparative cognition. 🐦⬛
All opinions are my own. He/him. OCD & ADHD
Katharina Brecht @katharinabrecht.bsky.social Science Strategy at MDC Berlin / Bird Lady at heart
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)