GSS 2027 @gendercongress.bsky.social Looking for researchers, speakers & experts in Gender & Sexuality Studies
🎓 Join GSS 2027 – 12th Global Congress
📍 Barcelona, Spain | 📅 May 13–14, 2027
📩 DM us for speaking & collaboration opportunities
Website: https://genderstudycongress.com/
conrad hoffmann @conradhoffmann897.bsky.social 
Lee Hsiang Liow （廖珕庠） @lhliow.bsky.social Macroevolution, paleobiology, Singapore-grown, US-developed scientist in Norway. Marine inverts, bryozoans. Natural History Museum & Centre for Planetary Habitability Oslo.
[Background photo is the Whanganui coast, North Island, NZ]
Ben Doughty @doughty-ben.bsky.social Exploring how hyaluronan dynamics shape developmental timing, aging, and disease. 💧
The project: https://osf.io/sd5g4/wiki?wiki=v46fd
bioscilex @pepsci.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher in Microbial ecology at the BIAM - CEA Cadarache, France 🇫🇷
Sylvain Estebe @sylvainestebe.bsky.social 33 yo, computational cognitive science & social science 🇩🇰 🇫🇷 @AarhusUni_int
| music producer 📀X2 💿 X1 | also 🐶📸🧗
PaulGM @paulgmock.bsky.social Msc Marine Microbiology @ MPI Bremen.
Love the ocean, molecular biology, microbial ecology and natural history, also an avid ant fan :) 🏔️🦕🦠🌿🌊🐜🦣
Lemon Ride @lemonride.bandcamp.com Lemon Ride is the name on everyone’s lips — and no one knows who’s behind it. Blending shimmering melodies with earth-shaking basslines, Lemon Ride crafts a sound that defies definition, balancing emotion and innovation in every track.
Keerthipriya P @keerthipriyap.bsky.social Postdoc researching animal behaviour (social behaviour in particular) and genetics. 🐘 🐿️ 🐦 🦆 🐒 Currently at the University of São Paulo (Brasil), previously at Colorado State University (USA) and JNCASR (Bengaluru, India)
@jon-sociologist.bsky.social @jon-sociologist.bsky.social Neurodiverse and proud of it (fair warning: I say a lot of shit some people find inappropriate)
Naturalist Atheist (I believe in the universe as revealed by science)
I value democracy, compassion, and inclusion
Julia Belden @juliabelden.bsky.social Graduate Research Assistant, Knight Center for Environmental Journalism--Michigan State University. Science communicator 🧬. Recovering zookeeper 🦭🐋🐍🐠.
Signal: jbelden.38
LCPW @lcpw.bsky.social I reskeet things I like. And, well, things I don’t much like but am glad I learned about. And things that I am infuriated by, and want everyone else to be mad about too. But I try to minimize the latter.
Geeks for Growth - St. Louis @g4gstlouis.bsky.social Dramatically performing digital marketing for St Louis, MO area businesses. Grow your business the smart way.
Jonathan Serrie @jonathanserrie.bsky.social ⚛️ science journalist🚀exploring the cosmos on FOX 📺
Akshay Bharadwaj @akshaybirdwatch.bsky.social Applied ecology • #rstats • Inclusive science
🧑🏽🎓 PhDing @UniNeuchatel 🇨🇭
https://akshaybirdwatch.weebly.com/
Past: IISc-Bangalore 🇮🇳, CEFE 🇫🇷, UniBern🇨🇭
Matthew Nelsen @mpnelsen.bsky.social Senior Research Scientist at Field Museum || Lecturer @saic-edu.bsky.social || Evolutionary biologist interested in macroevolution, symbiosis, fungi and geobiology. Posts my own. https://mpnelsen.com/
Owen Maresh @graveolens.bsky.social Mathematics Sorceror (sensory alchemist) at the Arctangent Transpetroglyphics Algra Laboratory (ATAL), I transflarnx mathematics into living rainbows. http://owen.maresh.info https://github.com/graveolensa,
Psoepbe-Tlaxtlal; (an undreamt splendour?)
gaia.eco - Biodiversity Studio @gaia.eco 🪸 Monitor species. Restore nature.
🌍 Data, KPIs, analytics and reports
🔎 Open up https://gaia.eco
Natalie Hofmeister @nathofme.bsky.social Asst Prof @ Miami University Ohio starting August '25
Ornithology, evolutionary biology, invasion biology, feminist STS
Accepting MS/PhD students for Winter & Fall '26 | nataliehofmeister.com
Tim Coulson @timcoulson.bsky.social Author of "A Little History of Everything from the Big Bang to You" published by Penguin MJ 2024
Professor of Zoology, University of Oxford
Ecology, Evolution, Existence, Science- G Gerda Saxer @gerdasaxer.bsky.social Evolutionary biologists. I work on microbes for industrial applications.
Balaji @bala-ji.bsky.social Senior Scientist of Coastal and Marine Ecology Division at GUIDE. Oceanography and Marine biologist.
Lucas Santana Souza @lucasgenoma.bsky.social Using mathematical models and individual-based simulations to study the social evolution of microbes, viruses, and endosymbiosis.
XIII European Congress of Entomology @ece2026tours.bsky.social To bring together the international entomological community to share knowledge, foster collaboration & inspire future research.
June 29 – July 3, 2026 • Tours, France 🐛🦋🐜🪲🦗🐞🦟🪰🪳🐝🌍🔬🧬🧪
➡️ https://www.ece2026.org/
Anyi Mazo-Vargas @anyimv.bsky.social Assistant Professor at @DukeBiology. #NewPI #EvoDevo, gene regulation, adaptive traits, #Wnt signaling 🦋. 🧬🔬🧪. She/her/Ella
Toby Pennington @tobypennington.bsky.social Botanist, biogeographer
Javad Sadeghi @microbial-ecology.bsky.social 🌎 Postdoctoral Researcher | Microbial Manipulation Lab, University of Toronto
🌿 Microbial ecology & evolution | Host–microbe interactions | Climate adaptation
🌐 https://javadsadeghi.wixsite.com/javadsadeghi
Jen Heemstra @jenheemstra.bsky.social Professor and Chair of WashU Chemistry. I’m a researcher, but I’m a #MentorFirst. Author of Labwork to Leadership.
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin @wiko-berlin.bsky.social Institute for Advanced Study | Impressum: http://wiko-berlin.de/impressum/ | Datenschutz: http://wiko-berlin.de/datenschutz
Ankana Sanyal @ankanasanyal.bsky.social PhD student working on the socioecology and dispersal of male Asian elephants @Jncasr.
smitten kitchen @smittenkitchen.bsky.social triumphant home cooking, est. 2006
three cookbooks + one audiobook + newsletter
glad you’re here
smittenkitchen.com
Calum Stephenson @mutualistics.bsky.social EEB Graduate Student @ Washington University in St. Louis. Studying social amoeba and symbiotic bacteria. 🏴
Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social Epidemiologist/mathematician. Professor at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Author of The Rules of Contagion and The Perfect Bet. Views own.
New book Proof: The Uncertain Science of Certainty available now: proof.kucharski.io
Karen Kapheim @kmkbees.bsky.social Social evolution in bees | Professor of Biology | Utah State University | she/her
Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov U.S. Senator, Massachusetts. She/her/hers. Official Senate account.
https://substack.com/@senatorwarren
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social Prof @ Penn studying media, race, tech, feminism, politics.
Author of A SECOND SIGHT (Mariner, 2026), co-author #HASHTAGACTIVISM (MIT Press, 2020) + more.
Typos and opinions both mine.
Co‑Director: @miccenter.bsky.social
Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org Women-run nonprofit/nonpartisan newsroom reporting causes, solutions, context since 3/20. Mantra: "Do the right thing and wait."
Give: mfp.ms/donate Props: mfp.ms/impact
Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social Independent journalist.
Send tips via Signal: 202-510-1268.
Join my newsletter 👇👇👇
kenklippenstein.substack.com
Dr. Robert D. Bullard @drrobertbullard.bsky.social Director of Bullard Center Texas Southern University, professor, author of 18 books, NBEJN #HBCU Climate Change Consortium, #ClimateReality Board, AAAS, National Academy of Medicine, TIME Earth Award, Father of Environmental Justice, US Marine Corps Vet.
Syd Cannings @sydcannings1.bsky.social Biologist, naturalist, bug- and bird lover, and inhabitant of the Yukon's boreal woodlands. Co-author of British Columbia: A Natural History. Conservation. Biodiversity.
Jeffrey Heilveil (he/him) @nigronia.bsky.social Stream ecologist and entomologist at SUNY Oneonta.
#PUI #macroinverts #insects
Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social 🦋 A crazy entomologist of sorts who will lead you around Ecuador🇪🇨 to look at bugs and stuff.
www.SciBugs.info/links
| Dyslexic, typos are my own | SciComm | Video Games | DnD | Cosplay | Tarot |
Neil Tsutsui @neiltsutsui.bsky.social Personal account
Professor-UC Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy, & Management
Director-UCB Central Sierra Field Stations
President-El Cerrito Democratic Club
ADEM Delegate-CA Dem Party
Insect behavior & genetics.
Wildland protection & management.
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
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
Daniel Kronauer @danielkronauer.bsky.social PI @Rockefeller University. Investigator @HHMI. Instigator of clonal raider ant project #CRAP. 🐜 Evolution, Behavior & Neuroscience. Posts science and photography. 🧠 📸
https://www.rockefeller.edu/research/2280-kronauer-laboratory/
Eric R. Eaton @bugeric.bsky.social Nonfiction author, blogger, insect identifier, ally. Presenter/speaker. #SciComm, entomology, urban nature, human conflict with other species, other humans. Opposed to colonialism, capitalism. Married Progressive in Kansas, USA.
he/him/they
Charley Eiseman @ceiseman.bsky.social Freelance naturalist, especially into leafminers, sawfly larvae, and other underappreciated herbivorous insects | http://bugtracks.wordpress.com
Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me 🪲 Professor 🪰 University of Northern British Columbia 🕷️ Insect ecologist 🐝 conservation, biodiversity, natural history 🐛 Opinions are my own 🐞 https://linktr.ee/dezene 🦋
Wayne Maddison @waynemaddison.bsky.social Raw pu-erh in the morning; oolong in the afternoon. Chocolate: dark milk. Would rather be drawing spider genitalia, usually. Looking forward to the next field trip. Thinking about getting a pottery wheel. Father of two amazing adults. Emeritus Prof @ UBC
Stephen Heard @stephenbheard.bsky.social Evolutionary ecologist & Boggle aficionado. Author: The Scientist's Guide to Writing; Charles Darwin's Barnacle and David Bowie's Spider. He/him.
Blog and book links: scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com
Fiona Cross @drspidernz.bsky.social Arachnologist at University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Spider cognition, SciComm, and writer 🕷 #LoveSpiders
www.doctorspider.net
D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art Scientist by day (drummondlab.org), artist by night (dadrummond.art). Sculpture, drawings, and other works. Obsessed with the details of the natural world. Lab posts at @drummondlab.bsky.social 🧪
Bugz n Slugz @moistmacro.bsky.social Nudibranch obsessive, underwater photographer, citizen scientist, bug photographer and thalassophile.
Now in the Abu Dhabi. ♾️🧩🦑
All photos by me.
Miles Zhang | 张远濛 @ymilesz.bsky.social | Hymenoptera taxonomy, phylogenomics, and evolutionary ecology | inordinate fondness for insect galls
https://ymilesz.github.io/
Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social Squid biologist
Science communicator
Artist
Philadelphian
I run @SkypeAScientist.bsky.social
Creator of the SquidMobile
https://linktr.ee/Sarahmackattack
Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social Why things evolve into crabs. Evolutionary biologist (species alive today AND fossils, and how to study them together). Canadian at UCSB and Harvard (she/her)
My science: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CKqoVjEAAAAJ&hl=en
Christina Baer, Ph.D. @bugbaer.bsky.social Ecological Genetics Research Asst Prof in the First-year Research Immersion (FRI) Program at Binghamton University. Temperate & tropical #insects 🐛🐜🦗 #plants 🌱🌴🌳#ClimateChange | she/her
BugBob @bugbobphoto.bsky.social Biologist, author, nature photographer
Tapani Hopkins @tapani-hopkins.bsky.social Studying African rainforest wasps, biodiversity, and other excuses not to get a real job. University of Turku, but living in Kållby 🇫🇮.
Posts in English / svenska / suomeksi
Also here:
https://mastodon.online/@tapani_hopkins
https://users.utu.fi/taesho
Entomological Society of America @entsocamerica.bsky.social Sharing insect science globally.
ESA is the world's largest organization serving insect scientists.
Need to identify an insect? Visit http://entsoc.org/insect-id
Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social Entomologist passionate about flies, beetles, spiders, mites... Also macro photography. Director & diagnostician at NC State Plant Disease and Insect Clinic. Opinions are my own. He/him
Raleigh, NC, USA
https://www.flickr.com/photos/76790273@N07/
Morgan Jackson, PhD @bioinfocus.bsky.social Entomologist fascinated by flies (#Diptera), biodiversity & taxonomy. Telling the story of biodiversity, one species at a time. He/Him. Profile pic: Kerascoët
Sean McCann @ibycter.bsky.social Entomologist, sometime arachnologist, natural history enthusiast.
I used study caracaras. I still do, but I used to as well. Avatar by the endlessly talented @blackmudpuppy.bluesky.social
Also, photographer! 
Dr. Catherine Scott @cataranea.bsky.social No-longer-a-professional arachnologist/behavioural ecologist/natural historian; current research-admin type & luddite. I also knit, sew, & have strong opinions. Pronouns: she or they
Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social All photos are my own and not AI.
I am a filmmaker and photographer based in Olympia, WA, and Bijagua, Costa Rica @casabentbill.bsky.social but I spend as much time as I can in hot, humid, tropical forests. Because that's where the birds are!
he/him
Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social I hope you like pictures of bugs.
Curating at CMNH, teaching at CMU, beetling everywhere
Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social Entomologist and Photographer in Austin, Texas.
https://www.alexanderwild.com
César Favacho @cesarfavacho.bsky.social Da Biologia (entomólogo) e Macrofotografia. Nativo da Amazônia!
TikTok +300k
Pix e contato: cesarfavacho@gmail.com
PicPay: @cesarfavacho
#trupenaturalista
Saimi Hanma ⚔️ サイミ @saimihanma.bsky.social Author of 'The Naturalist at Home' and 'Nature Obscura'. Writer, artist, photographer. ND
著者
aka Kelly Brenner
@nudibranch.bsky.social
#InverteFest
https://saimihanma.com
Patreon https://www.patreon.com/saimihanma
Gwen Pearson @bug-gwen.bsky.social Entomologist. Educator. Writer. NERD.
I am a bug AND a Feature. She/Her
https://gwenpearson.com
maureen @maureenbug.bsky.social phage biologist at the Joint Genome Institute
mostly posting about invertebrate butts
she/her
https://maureenbug.github.io/
Catherine Dulac @dulaclab.bsky.social Identifying the neural basis of innate social behaviors using molecular and genetic tools @Harvard @HHMINEWS
Rebecca Saxe @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social Cognitive neuroscience at MIT. Open science. 🇨🇦
Saxelab.mit.edu
Jon Freeman @freemanjb.bsky.social associate professor of psychology and social neuroscientist at columbia | person perception and social cognition | data equity | 🏳️🌈
Mark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social Social neuroscientist studying how people understand and predict each other. Assistant Professor at Dartmouth College. http://markallenthornton.com
Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social Affective neuroscientist studying how & why we feel from womb-to-tomb.
Chancellor’s Leadership Professor of Psychology @ UC Davis
Associate Director @ NBRI at UCDavis
blissmoreaulab.ucdavis.edu
CNY -> Chestnut Hill -> Yolo
Views my own.
Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social UCLA social neuroscientist, co-founder of Resonance Inc., Substack: https://bit.ly/3BdpdTb- C Chris Frith @cdfrith.bsky.social taciturn lapsed neuroscientist
Niv Reggev ניב רגב نيڤ ريچيڤ @nivreggev.bsky.social Faculty @ Ben-Gurion University. Interested in stereotypes, memory, biases, and their intersection w/ cognitive neuroscience. He/him
https://scmbbgu.wixsite.com/scmblab
Debbie Bangasser @bangasserlab.bsky.social Neuroendocrinology & Behavior Lab| 3 parts neuro🧠 science🔬🧪 + 1 part Debbie’s weird hobbies 🐦💃🤿 | Debbie’s pronouns she/her/hers
Brian Trainor @briantrainor.bsky.social Behavioral neuroscientist at Univ. of California at Davis. Studying stress, brains, puberty, and social behavior in a super large mouse. Here for science and other fun stuff. Trainorlab.ucdavis.edu
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4627-5478
Patricia Lockwood @thepsychologist.bsky.social Prof of Decision Neuroscience, Sir Henry Dale Fellow & Jacobs Fellow, University of Birmingham @TheCHBH PI http://www.sdn-lab.org. Likes cats, decision-making, social behaviour & brains. Blog: http://tinyurl.com/Helpful-Brain
Matthew Apps @brainapps.bsky.social Full Professor of Cognitive Computational Neuroscience & MSNlab PI-- Motivation, decision-making & social cognition in human brains. Centre for Human Brain Health, University of Birmingham, UK.
www.msn-lab.com
Dr. Helena Hartmann (she/her) @helenahartmann.com Neuroscientist, psychologist & science communicator ✨
www.helenahartmann.com
Pain & expectations in the (social) 🧠
Postdoc @ulrikebingel.bsky.social's lab & @SFB-TRR-289.bsky.social 💊
Explaining science with fictional stories 📖 @scienceandfiction.net
Siri Leknes @sirileknes.bsky.social Professor, LAB lab, University of Oslo 🇳🇴
Pleasure, pain, stress, reward. Opioids.
Affective Brains.
Open science.
Twin mum.
www.affectivebrains.com
Tessa Solomon-Lane @tksolomonlane.bsky.social (She/her) Professor. Scientist. Educator. Public engager. Interested in social behavior, behavioral developmental, and regulation by brain and hormones. PUI lab. Views own. 🐠🧠🧪🌈
Pascal Vrticka @pvrticka.bsky.social Associate Professor in Psychology @universityofessex.bsky.social (Colchester, UK) | PI of @soneatlab.bsky.social | fNIRS hyperscanning & structural and functional MRI | Attachment & caregiving in families & couples | TEDx speaker | https://pvrticka.com | 🇨🇭
Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) @s4sn.bsky.social S4SN is an international, interdisciplinary, scientific, non-profit society.
The annual meeting #S4SN2026 will take place in Montréal, Canada, August 23–26, 2026! 🧠
Website: http://www.s4sn.org
SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit, est. 2010, led by @ClausLamm and based at @univienna | Curated by @lukasmayrhofer
Christine R. Lattin, PhD @clattin.bsky.social Associate Professor at LSU trying to understand how hormones & neurotransmitters help wild animals successfully cope with environmental challenges. She/her
Jim Coan @jimmycoan.bsky.social Exploring human connection through science and art. Inventor of Social Baseline Theory. Director of the Virginia Affective Neuroscience Lab. Host of the podcast “Circle of Willis." https://linktr.ee/jimcoan
SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social The Social and Affective Neuroscience Society | Official Bluesky News Feed socialaffectiveneuro.org
Dr. Connor Haggarty @connorhaggarty.bsky.social | EEG | Sociability | Substance Use | Psychiatry | Cannabinoids | Psychedelics |
Coms Chair @Eurbehavpharm.bsky.social
Bill Nihilist @wmkenkel.bsky.social Will Kenkel, the rodent-studying ape. Asst. Prof. Psych & Brain Sciences University of Delaware
www.besvolelab.com
Andres Bendesky @bendeskylab.com Neuroscience – behavior – genetics – evolution
Columbia University
Professor Maney @professormaney.bsky.social Neuroscientist at Emory University studying how scientific claims of sex differences are generated, interpreted, and become embedded in policy and practice
Catherine Marler @cmarler.bsky.social My lab studies oxytocin and cooperation, hormonal and neurochemical effects on communication, social bonding, behavioral synchrony and division of labor, and we dabble in neuroplasticity and the immune system. Science is fun! Animal behavior is my passion.
Forrest Rogers, PhD @forrestdrogers.bsky.social Postdoc in the Peña and Mallarino labs at Princeton. I study dad brains (he/him). *Looking for Faculty Positions* forrestdrogers.com
Luke Remage-Healey @healeylab.bsky.social Professor, Neuroscience and Behavior, Center for Neuroendocrine Studies.
umass.edu/healeylab/