Sydney Levine @sydneylevine.bsky.social Cognitive scientist working at the intersection of moral cognition and AI safety. Currently: Google Deepmind. Soon: Assistant Prof at NYU Psychology. More at sites.google.com/site/sydneymlevine.
Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery @naturerecovery.bsky.social Working to understand & support what it takes to deliver effective, inclusive & scalable nature recovery. https://naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk
Our talks in person & online: https://bookwhen.com/oxfordbiodiversitynetwork
Milena Tsvetkova @mtsvetkova.bsky.social Computational social scientist
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social
Stephen Morgan MP @stephenmorganmp.bsky.social Member of Parliament for Portsmouth South ⚓️ | Minister for Food Security and Rural Affairs 🌱 | Pompey born and bred
✉️ stephen.morgan.mp@parliament.uk
A.S. Paglayan @aspaglayan.bsky.social Prof. Paglayan at UCSanDiego; Non-Resident Fellow at CGDev.
Author of "Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education."
I write and teach about politics and education.
https://www.amazon.com/Raised-Obey-Education-Princeton-Economic/dp/069126127X/
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).
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
Natalia Vélez @natvelali.bsky.social Cognitive scientist at UCSD, personally & scientifically interested in collaboration | science sketcher | thinking in non-English 🇵🇷
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
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 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
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
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
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
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 🏳️🌈
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
Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social #ComplexSystems scientist. Institute of Evolutionary Biology @csic.es| DySOC-UTennessee, Knoxville | Girl dad. He/him.
Lab: svalver.github.io
#EvoBio #CultEvo #ExtendedBiology #hypergraphs
Joe Stubbersfield @jstubbersfield.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Winchester University. Research in social transmission, cultural evolution, and psych behind conspiracy theories & urban legends.
https://jmstubbersfield.wordpress.com/
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
Feryl Badiani @ferylbadiani.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at LEVYNA, Masaryk University. Studying norm transmission mechanisms underlying the culturally adaptive success of Hinduism.
Fredrik Jansson @fredrikjansson.bsky.social Associate Professor in Mathematics interested in cultural evolution and connecting psychology, sociology and philosophy through modelling.
Mícheál @michealdebarra.bsky.social
Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social Quantitative Methods, Prehistoric Demography, Cultural Evolution and random stuff. Professor of Quantitative and Comparative Archaeology @cam-archaeology.bsky.social https://ercrema.github.io/
Simon Carrignon @carigol.bsky.social research, culture & computers || drac, romanche et sud grenoblois || https://randomdrift.info/
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
Alice Williams @alicejwilliams.bsky.social Archaeologist and archaeobotanist using computational methods to understand the past & postdoc on the New Bantu Mosaics project
Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social Professor of Ethics & Technology @ Hertie School, Berlin. Interests: Artificial & Natural Intelligence; Behavioural Ecology; Cooperation; Digital Governance. Social media policy: https://joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2024/10/guidance-to-my-social-media.html
Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social Exploring the ecology of an increasingly human planet.
Prof. Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC
Anthromes, Anthroecology & Anthropocene
https://anthroecology.org/people/ellis/
Ben Marwick @benmarwick.bsky.social Archaeologist and #rstats enthusiast
Cultural Evolution - Transformation Fund @cultevolfunding.bsky.social Transforming the Field of Cultural Evolution. Funding by @templeton_fdn through @CulturalEvolSoc.bsky.social
https://mas.to/@CulturalEvolFunding
https://twitter.com/CultEvolFunding
ces.transformationfund@durham.ac.uk
https://ces-transformationfund.org/
Elspeth Ready @elspethready.bsky.social Senior researcher in HBEC Department @MPI_EVA_Leipzig & freelance environmental social science consultant
Anthropology, Arctic social science, social network analysis, running, hiking, science fiction
elspethr.github.io
sanguatsiniq.github.io
Václav Hrnčíř @vaclavhrncir.bsky.social Evolutionary anthropologist. Postdoctoral Researcher at @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social. Interested in prehistory and cultural evolution.
vaclavhrncir.com
Roope Kaaronen @roopekaaronen.net Forager of information and mushrooms • "String theorist" • Cognitive science, cultural evolution, cognitive anthropology, ethnomathematics • https://roopekaaronen.net • Kayaking, music, nature, photography
Colin D. Wren @cdwren.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of Archaeology at UCCS in Colorado, mind usually other places. Agent-based models and quantitative methods usually for the Palaeolithic.
Jeremy Van Cleve @vancleve.theoretical.bio Associate Professor @ University of Kentucky. Evolution / Ecology / Math. Biker. Aikidoka. #BlackLivesMatter
Editor in Chief of Theoretical Population Biology
http://vancleve.theoretical.bio
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.
Abbey Page @abbeyepage.bsky.social Lecturer CCE Brunel in working on all things on reproduction, childrearing, early childhood and social support. Thinks in evolutionary and other frameworks. Secretary of EHBEA. 🩷💜💙🩵
@charlesefferson.bsky.social @charlesefferson.bsky.social Attender of meetings at the University of Lausanne. #culturalEvolution #geneCultureCoevolution #appliedCulturalEvolution #evolutionCooperation #coordination #socialNorms #humanEvolutionaryEcology
Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social Scientist | Behavior | Cognition | Culture
Latest book: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691240770/the-human-evolutionary-transition
And Nature Photographer/biodiversity junkie:
www.jlind.se & www.instagram.com/jlindphoto
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.
John Little @johnlittle.bsky.social Evolution created a system of coevolving geophysical, biophysical, sociocultural and sociotechnical systems. The ensuing societal challenges of the Anthropocene must be holistically framed and addressed: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.5c11895.- A Adam Powell @adampowell.bsky.social
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
Jens Koed Madsen @jenskoedmadsen.bsky.social At LSE, I work on belief revision and decision-making in dynamic systems - mainly sustainability and information systems.
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
Brooke Scelza @bscelza.bsky.social Professor at UCLA. Interested in family and marital dynamics, perinatal health and maternal support. Mom-mom and dog-mom.
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/
Dr Rebecca Koomen @rebeccakoomen.bsky.social Studying origins of cooperation for sustainability.
Developmental, cross-cultural, comparative psychologist.
UM6P School of Collective Intelligence
she / her
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
Liam Delaney @liamdelaney2025.bsky.social Head of LSE Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science. Personal webpage with reading lists etc., here https://economicspsychologypolicy.blogspot.com/
Stephen Vaisey 🇺🇦 @stephenvaisey.com Professor at Duke University. Cultural evolution, political attitudes, social change, nerdy stuff in R. YNWA. https://vaiseys.github.io/
Peter Gray @peterbgray.bsky.social Senior UX researcher at a leading US retirement provider. Mixed methods research and behavioral science. Former professor. Reflections on human behavior, family dynamics, retirement & aging.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-gray-84737712
Luke Glowacki @lukeglowacki.bsky.social Anthropologist at Boston University. PI Human Systems and Behavior Lab. Co-Director of the Omo Valley Research Project.
Thomas Curran @thomascurran.bsky.social Associate Professor at LSE | Psychologist | International Best Selling Author of THE PERFECTION TRAP
Thibaud Gruber @thibaudgruber.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Geneva. Primatologist. Comparative psychologist. Co-director Bugoma Primate Conservation Project.
Ernie Bornheimer @erniebornheimer.bsky.social Pro-democracy.
Anti-fascist.
Politics, philosophy, and economics.
Dimitris Xygalatas @xygalatas.bsky.social Experimental anthropologist, cognitive scientist, dad, author of Ritual: How seemingly senseless acts make life worth living
Iona Italia, PhD @ionaitalia.bsky.social 🇬🇧🇮🇳🇦🇷Parsi 🔥 Based in Sydney. Local? Get in touch.
Managing Ed, @quillette.bsky.social
✍🏼 occasionally at Substack, The Second Swim
❤️ Chess, tango, gymnosophism, 🐕 Pro 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 🇹🇼
Duplicate of X account. Here once a week.
Evan Lieberman @evlieb.bsky.social Political science professor, Director of MIT Center for International Studies and Global Diversity Lab. I study democratic governance, climate policy, ethnic politics, mostly in Africa.
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
Sarah Alami | سارة علمي @anthrosarah.bsky.social Evolutionary anthropologist at SCI, UM6P, Rabat 🇲🇦. Co-director of the CoDeM² lab https://codemlab.github.io/.
Natasha Jaques @natashajaques.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UW and Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. Social Reinforcement Learning in multi-agent and human-AI interactions. PhD from MIT. Check out https://socialrl.cs.washington.edu/ and https://natashajaques.ai/.
Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social Behavioral Science of AI @ Toulouse School of Economics @tse-fr.eu Director of @iast.fr Chair of Moral AI @ Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute https://jfbonnefon.github.io/
Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social Long Time Internet Guy- A Azim Shariff @azimshariff.bsky.social Professor of Psychology at the University of British Columbia.
Kostadin Kushlev @kushlevphd.bsky.social 🇧🇬🏳️🌈|Psychological Scientist|Asst. Professor @Georgetown|Technology, Happiness; AI| Avid Cyclist, Happy Traveler| Bulgarian at Heart.
Wataru Toyokawa @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social Behavioural scientist running the Computational Group Dynamics (COGNAC) lab in RIKEN CBS. Also affiliating the Uni Konstanz & MPI Animal Behaviour. Love Collective Dynamics, whiskies, wine, and vintage shops.
Dr Michelle Ann Kline @michelleakline.bsky.social anthropologist in a psych dept | American in the UK | she/her | doing my best to be inclusive
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.
https://www.brunel.ac.uk/people/matthew-gervais
Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social Co-founder of Project Implicit, Society for Improving Psychological Science, and the Center for Open Science; Professor at the University of Virginia- C @ckavanagh.bsky.social @ckavanagh.bsky.social
Richard Thaler @rthaler.bsky.social Behavioral Economist, sports fan
Robert Wright @robertwrighter.bsky.social Author of Nonzero, The Moral Animal, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True. Writing a book about AI. Publisher of the Nonzero Newsletter & host of the Nonzero Podcast. https://nonzero.substack.com/
Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social EvAnth, EvMed, & Global Health
I study mothers, milk, & babies
Cheddar Superfan.
"Scarier than a badger"
Opinions my own
Alex Mesoudi @alexmesoudi.com Cultural evolution researcher at the University of Exeter (Penryn campus), UK. I study human social learning and culture using evolutionary theory.
Past President of the Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social
Website: alexmesoudi.com
David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social Prof at Cornell studying how human-AI dialogues can correct inaccurate beliefs, why people share falsehoods, and ways to reduce political polarization and promote cooperation. Computational social science + cognitive psychology.
https://www.DaveRand.org/
The Database of Religious History @religionhistory.bsky.social
Nicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University. Sociologist. Network Scientist. Physician. Author of Apollo's Arrow; Blueprint; Connected; and Death Foretold. Director of the Human Nature Lab: https://humannaturelab.net
Nathan Nunn 🇨🇦 🇰🇷 @nathannunn.bsky.social Professor of Economics. University of British Columbia. Political Economy, Economic Development, Economic History, Cultural Evolution. 🇰🇷🇨🇦
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- J Joan Silk @jbsilk.bsky.social Evolutionary anthropologist, primate behavioral ecologist.
Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social Director of the Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University London @brunelcce.bsky.social
https://www.rebeccasear.org/
Association for Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social A nonprofit dedicated to advancing scientific psychology across disciplinary and geographic borders.
psychologicalscience.org
Jobs: jobs.psychologicalscience.org
Membership: psychologicalscience.org/members
#APSGlobal; #APS26BCN
Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz R, data, 🐕, 🍸, 🌈. He/him.
Cristina Moya @hyperadapthyrax.bsky.social evolutionary anthropologist, overly committed to adaptationist logic
https://sites.google.com/site/cristinasolermoya/ Can we agree to fight against this corporate oligarchy? https://indivisible.org/groups
Ed Yong @edyong209.bsky.social Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him
📷 Canon R6mkii + RF 800mm
Edyong.me
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.