Courtney Hilton @courtneybhilton.bsky.social studies how the world we live in shapes our perception and cognition
ARC DECRA Fellow @unimelb.edu.au • @psychunimelb.bsky.social | Complex Human Data Hub
Richard Wilson @rwilso.bsky.social PhD student in linguistics at University of Edinburgh
Inbal Arnon @inbalarnon.bsky.social Cognitive scientist, linguist and developmental psychologist. Studying language learning, language evolution, and the links between them. https://www.arnonlanguagelab.com/
Cognition @cognitionjournal.bsky.social EiC team: Johan Wagemans, Ian Dobbins, Ori Friedman, and Katrien Segaert
The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social Wears a black cape and fights crime. Not Batman.
Sunday Times No.1 Bestselling author•The Secret Barrister•#FakeLaw•Nothing But The Truth•
Also writes thrillers. The Cut Throat Trial out now at all good bookshops.
Kill All The Lawyers coming July 2027…
Christian Ilbury @christianilbury.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Sociolinguistics & Director of EDI for PPLS at University of Edinburgh.
he/him
LVC, digital (queer+youth+popular) cultures, 'MLE', & accent bias/linguistic discrimination - Edinburgh/London.
https://cilbury.wordpress.com/
DRMC @durhamrmcentre.bsky.social Durham Research Methods Centre (DRMC) provides an interdisciplinary environment for the development of research methods and for methods training.
W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social Women and Others in Evolutionary Behavioural Sciences
Empowering women and SGM students, researchers, and educators in the evolutionary behavioural sciences through mentorship, advocacy and community
https://linktr.ee/w_plus_ebs
ces2026 @ces2026.bsky.social This year’s Cultural Evolution Society (CES) Conference 2026 will be held at UM6P Rabat Campus - Morocco.
@evolangconf.bsky.social @evolangconf.bsky.social
Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org SIPS brings together scholars working to improve methods and practices in psychological science. Join us!
https://improvingpsych.org/membership/
#PsychSciSky #OpenScience
improvingpsych.org
Elif Yildiz @elif-m-yildiz.bsky.social PhD candidate at Max Planck School of Cognition. Centre for Language Evolution graduate in Edinburgh. Interested in evolutionary genetics, aDNA and the neurobiological bases for linguistic cognition.
Remi van Trijp @remivantrijp.bsky.social Research Leader at https://csl.sony.fr. My work blends linguistics, artificial intelligence, and complex systems science to understand how humans create and share meaning through language and narrative. Read more at https://remivantrijp.com
Amalia Skilton @amaliaskilton.bsky.social I study language learning and use in interaction, esp in the Indigenous Americas. Work 🏴 | Web blogs.ed.ac.uk/amaliaskilton | 🇺🇸🏳️🌈😎 she/her
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social We undertake fundamental research into the psychological, social and biological foundations of #language | Onderzoeksinstituut voor #taal, van genetica tot gedrag
Lucie Wolters @luciewolters.bsky.social PhD student in Cognition at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: https://www.arnonlanguagelab.com/. Interested in language evolution, cultural transmission, language learning/acquisition. MSc in Evolution of Language and Cognition, Edinburgh University.
Dor Shilton @dorshilton.bsky.social Postdoc Cohn Institute, Tel Aviv University
Research affiliate School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Oxford University
Cultural evolution of music and ritual, human social evolution
https://www.dorshilton.com/
Kensy Cooperrider @kensycoop.bsky.social Cognitive scientist, writer, podcaster. Interested in the diversity of communication & cognition. Language, gesture, concepts, time, space, metaphor.
Host of Many Minds (@manymindspod.bsky.social)
www.kensycooperrider.com
Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social A free recommendation process of scientific preprints based on peer reviews: https://peercommunityin.org
A multi-disciplinary diamond open-access journal: https://peercommunityjournal.org @peercomjournal.bsky.social
Many Voices @manyvoices.bsky.social Podcast and global collaboration researching cross-cultural diversity and relationships between music and language.
http://many-voices.com
Host/PI: @patrickesavage.bsky.social
Meike Scheller @meike-scheller.bsky.social Assistant Prof @ Durham Psych
Interested in the flexibility and stability of human information processing 🧠
Multisensory | Self | Developmental Plasticity | EvoDevo | Bayesian brainz | Attraction
She/her🌈
Centre for Language Evolution @uoe-cle.bsky.social Interdisciplinary centre at the University of Edinburgh. We study the cultural evolution of language using experimental and computational approaches. https://cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk/
Eleonore Lumer @elelola-lumer.bsky.social Interested in polite humans and robots.
PhD @ Bielefeld University
jsPsych @jspsych.org Create behavioral experiments that run in a web browser
https://www.jspsych.org
Amandine Visine @amandinevisine.bsky.social BaYaka Children & Foraging
PhD student @durhampsych.bsky.social & @durhamanthropology.bsky.social
Funded by @ninedtp.bsky.social
(She/Her)
Friederike [freddy; she/her] Hillemann @fhillemann.bsky.social . behavioural ecologist
. Foraging Ecology And Social Ties (FEASTs)
. von Humboldt postdoc fellow @ Durham
. Preprint Editor ProcB
. General Editor Hunter Gatherer Research
🌱♻️🌈🧠🌶️
✊ally to 🏳️⚧️ and BLM
fhillemann.github.io
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
Simon Carrignon @carigol.bsky.social research, culture & computers || drac, romanche et sud grenoblois || https://randomdrift.info/
Sabine Blütgen @sabinebluetgen.bsky.social PhD student at the Centre for Language Evolution @uoe-cle.bsky.social, University of Edinburgh. Interested in human and animal behaviour and evolution, gene–culture coevolution, social cognition. she/her
https://sabinebluetgen.github.io/
Dr Eve Holden (she/her) @chimpanzeve.bsky.social Developmental & comparative psychologist. Socialisation in people & nonhuman primates. Interests in evolution, culture, experience, social behaviour, learning, sex, gender, parenting, ADHD. Postdoc @DurhamPsych. Fieldwork lover. Cat & plant mother. ADHD.
Cliodhna Hughes @greatlikecheese.bsky.social
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
Maryellen MacDonald @maryellenmacdonald.bsky.social Psycholinguist, author of MORE THAN WORDS (Avery/PenguinRH). https://www.maryellenmacdonald.com/
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
LAGB @lagbling.bsky.social Linguistics Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
https://www.lagb.org.uk/
EHBEA 2026 @ehbea2026.bsky.social Feed of the 2026 European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association Conference - Leiden. April 15-17, 2026.
Stay tuned for updates!
Jeremy Kendal @jeremykendal.bsky.social Anthropologist at Durham University, UK. Interests include epistemology and ontology, cultural evolution, disease emergence.
https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/jeremy-kendal/
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8644-3117
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.
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
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
Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social Paradigmatically promiscuous scientist. Ankylosaur enthusiast. Modeler of cultural evolution and related topics. Anti-fascist. Professor at UC Merced, external prof at the Santa Fe Institute and CSH-Vienna.
Web: https://smaldino.com/wp/
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
Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social Always in the Corner
ESLR @eslr.bsky.social ESLR Society is a community for early-career researchers interested in human and non-human animal culture, behaviour and learning. Join for free and subscribe to our mailing list at:
https://www.eslrsociety.com
EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social Official feed of European Human Behaviour & Evolution Association. Follow for news and info about awards, grants, conferences. Account managed by @pablovarase.bsky.social www.ehbea.org
Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social Cognitive scientist studying how we see + think @ Johns Hopkins University. 🇨🇦
Lab: https://perception.jhu.edu/
Fausto Carcassi @faustocarcassi.bsky.social Sardinian. Assistant prof at the illc in Amsterdam. Language & cognition w/ models & experiments. Roughly Bayesian. Past: Tübingen, Centre for Language Evolution in Edinburgh (He/Him)
@johanneskned.bsky.social @johanneskned.bsky.social Assistant professor at Aarhus University working on individual differences in inner speech.
Also interested in language technology for low resource languages, aphasia, perspective-taking, social cognition, and anything to do with kalaallisut 🇬🇱
Thomas Pellard @thomaspellard.bsky.social CNRS Research scientist 🇫🇷 historical-comparative linguistics, archaeolinguistics, phylolinguistics, geolinguistics, endangered languages, languages of Japan
Annika Tjuka @annikatjuka.bsky.social Language Scientist studying linguistic diversity with a focus on word meanings | Postdoctoral Researcher @MPI_EVA_Leipzig | Alumni @HumboldtUni
http://annikatjuka.com
Natalia Levshina @natalialevshina.bsky.social Assistant professor of communication and computational methods @ Radboud University. I'm interested in why human languages are the way they are and how people from different cultures use them. Communicative efficiency, corpus-based typology, statistics, AI
savithry @savithry.bsky.social conference live-poster moonlighting as linguist (she/her/ആ ബഹളി)
Dan Dediu @ddediu.bsky.social Language, its evolution, diversity and biological foundations.
ICREA & University of Barcelona.
Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Psychology at Duke studying kids & culture. PI of the Mind & Culture Lab. Mom x3. Some people just want to watch the world learn.
dorsaamir.com | mindandculturelab.com
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.
Alison Gopnik @alisongopnik.bsky.social Cognitive scientist, philosopher, and psychologist at Berkeley, author of The Scientist in the Crib, The Philosophical Baby and The Gardener and the Carpenter and grandmother of six.
Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute #DISI @divintelligence.bsky.social Fostering interdisciplinary collaboration among scholars and storytellers interested in the origins, nature, and future of intelligences.
Web: www.disi.org
Podcast: Many Minds (@manymindspod.bsky.social)
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/
Prof. Dr. Asli Ozyurek @asliozyurek.bsky.social Director,Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics; Multimodal Language Dept.Turkish expat studied in the US; lives @Netherlands,works for the German Max Planck Society - https://www.mpi.nl/people/ozyurek-asli - I am more active on Linkedin:)
Hannah Little @hanachronism.bsky.social Lecturer @University of Liverpool. Director @Open Rights Group. SETI Post-Contact hub. Science Communication researcher and practitioner. Alien Linguist (Rep. Alex Cochran). Linguist. Comedian. Data Rights Advocate. Writer. Socialist. Trade Unionist.
David Sidhu @davidmsidhu.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Carleton University 🇨🇦 | PI of the https://classilab.ca/
I study cognition, language, and multimodality (sound symbolism, iconicity, embodied cognition).
Convinced that John Lennon is the bouba and Paul McCartney is the kiki.
Josh de Leeuw @joshdeleeuw.bsky.social Cognitive Scientist at Vassar College. Currently working on open source tools for researchers.
Creator and maintainer: https://www.jspsych.org
Shane Steinert-Threlkeld @shane.st Associate Professor (Linguistics) at University of Washington
https://shane.st
Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social Working Memory, Cognition and Development lab 👩🏼💻🧠 at the University of Geneva 🇨🇭
PI: @evievergauwe.bsky.social
Griffiths Computational Cognitive Science Lab @cocoscilab.bsky.social Tom Griffiths' Computational Cognitive Science Lab at Princeton. Studying the computational problems human minds have to solve.
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
Damián Blasi @damianblasi.bsky.social I research linguistic diversity over the last 12,000 years, seeking explanations in the minds, behaviors, and cultures of humans, and its practical consequences for our species
Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social I am a principal investigator at the Center for Mind/Brain, CiMeC, at the University of Trento, where I research language and cognition in humans and machines.
Manuel Anglada-Tort @manuelangladatort.bsky.social Lecturer in Psychology and Director of Music, Mind and Brain at Goldsmiths, University of London
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)
Monica Tamariz @onicatam.bsky.social Cultural evolution, language evolution
Kevin Lala @kevinlala.bsky.social Evolution; animal behaviour; animal culture; human cognitive evolution; niche construction; anti-racism. Editor-in-Chief of Biological Theory
#evolution #evodevo #philbio #philsci #animalculture #animalbehavior
Bill Thompson @wdt.bsky.social Cognitive Scientist. Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley.
Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net Language, interaction, tech • papers https://markdingemanse.net • blog https://ideophone.org • more colourful on fedi https://scholar.social/@dingemansemark/ • POSSE: Publish on Own Site, Syndicate Everywhere
PHD Comics @phdcomics.com Comics by Jorge Cham: Oliver's Great Big Universe, Elinor Wonders Why, ScienceStuff and PHD Comics
Marcus Perlman @mperlman.bsky.social Cognitive scientist interested in iconicity, language, gesture, evolution, gorillas, and the future of intelligent life.
Timo B. Roettger @timoroettger.bsky.social Cognitive scientist / Linguist - Full Professor at University of Oslo
Director of @manylanguagesc.bsky.social, PI of ICONIC (https://www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/research/projects/iconic/)
#MetaScience #OpenScience
#DataViz #PresentationDesign #SciComm
andrea e. martin @andreaeyleen.eurosky.social ::language, cognitive science, neural dynamics::
Lise Meitner Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics |
Principal Investigator, Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud University |
http://www.andreaemartin.com/
lacns.GitHub.io
Sophie Slaats @sophieslaats.bsky.social 🔎 distributional information and syntactic structure in the 🧠 | 💼 postdoc @ Université de Genève | 🎓 MPI for Psycholinguistics, BCBL, Utrecht University | 🎨 | she/her
Olivier Morin @oliviermorin.bsky.social Researcher at Ecole Normale Supérieure / CNRS in Paris. Culture, cognition, things in between. https://linktr.ee/oliviermorin
PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social I'm a bot that posts new preprints from PsyArXiv.
Maintained by @remoschmutz.bsky.social & @malte.the100.ci
Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society @edcdcs.bsky.social We are creating an environment where data-driven research can grow and thrive. Join us! #EdCDCS #DataLedResearch
www.cdcs.ed.ac.uk
Nay @nayomiejade.bsky.social (She/They) Drama Teacher. Nerd. Queer. All opinions are my own.
Katy @outhwaik.bsky.social
Stefano Coretta @scoretta.bsky.social Lecturer/Assistant Prof at UoE — Research Methods, Statistics, Open Research, Non-dual monism — #neurodiverse #lgbtq #chronicillness
stefanocoretta.github.io
Mason Youngblood @masonyoungblood.bsky.social masonyoungblood.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.
Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social Director of the Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University London @brunelcce.bsky.social
https://www.rebeccasear.org/
Lisa DeBruine @debruine.bsky.social Professor of MetaScience 🏳️🌈 she/they
#metacheck #rstats #PsyTeachR #OpenResearch #ManyFaces #iyknyd (overwhelmed by social media)
Culture Conference @cultconf.bsky.social Bluesky account for Culture Conference 2027
Hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, on 31 March – 2 April 2027
Website: https://culture-conference.com
Maisy Hallam @maisyhallam.bsky.social Little but fierce. Postdoc in the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution at MPI-EVA (Leipzig), working on evolutionary biases and numeral systems. Big fan of cultural evolution, category systems, cognitive biases.
https://maisyhallam.github.io/
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
Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social Cognitive Science at Aarhus Uni. Curious about social interactions, symbolic behaviors, and meta-science. Focus on stats, computational modeling, machine learning, complex systems, language, exp semiotics and neuropsychiatric conditions. He/They.
Morten H. Christiansen @mh-christiansen.bsky.social Cognitive scientist interested in the processing, acquisition and evolution of language; statistical learning; computational modeling.
Lab website: https://csl-lab.psych.cornell.edu
Theresa Matzinger @thematzing.bsky.social doing research on language evolution, language change, language learning and everything cognition-related; Post-doc: Uni Vienna; before: Post-doc Center of Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus Uni Torun and PhD Uni Vienna
Andrew Smith @andrewdmsmith.bsky.social Linguist at Stirling University. Cànanaiche. Cognitive linguistics, language evolution, grammaticalisation, metaphor, Gàidhlig, languages, Scottish and UK politics, football (Burnley/ East Stirlingshire/ groundhopping), music, maps, cats, other stuff.
Dr Christine Cuskley @nerdpro.bsky.social Lead Consultant, https://cogknit.uk Researcher/teacher/learner and person who does internet things. Communication, social cognition, perception and evolution therof. https://ccuskley.github.io
NCCR Evolving Language @nccrlanguage.bsky.social Exploring the past, present, and future of language
💬|🐵|🧠|📱 Based at the University of Geneva, the University of Zurich and the University of Neuchatel.
Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).
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
Kenny Smith @kennysmithed.bsky.social Professor of evolutionary linguistics at Edinburgh. Cyclist, runner, climber, coward.