Niklas Buergi @niklasbuergi.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher @ MPI for Biological Cybernetics
Social inference, decision-making, & computational psychiatry
https://www.niklasbuergi.com/
The Ramsey Lab @theramseylab.bsky.social The Ramsey philosophy of biology lab at KU Leuven, Belgium.
https://www.theramseylab.org • #HPbio #philsci #philsky #evosky #paleosky #cogsci #AI
Lara Wood @larawood.bsky.social Reader in Psychology at Abertay University. Research on how children think about others (social cognition) and how others influence children (social learning and influence) including #imitation #genderstereotypes #epistemicvigilence #sociallearning
Alexander Schakowski @alexschakowski.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow at MPI for Human Development, Berlin. Interested in human foraging, social decision-making, and collective intelligence.
Andra Meneganzin @andrameneganzin.bsky.social Philosopher of Biology working on Human Evolution 💀🧬🏺• FWO Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at KU Leuven• PhD from DiBio 🧪, University of Padova • Science Writer and Communicator.
🌐 https://sites.google.com/view/andrameneganzin/
Stephen Vaisey 🇺🇦 @stephenvaisey.com Professor at Duke University. Cultural evolution, political attitudes, social change, nerdy stuff in R. YNWA. https://vaiseys.github.io/
Nicola Cutting @nicolacutting.bsky.social Associate Professor in Developmental Psychology at York St John University
Sophie Milward @sophiemilward.bsky.social Senior lecturer in developmental and comparative psychology
Alex Sanchez-Amaro @alex-primate.bsky.social Lecturer in Psychology
University of Stirling
Mathieu Charbonneau @matcharbonneau.bsky.social Phil of tech/science, cultural/tech evo, distributed cognition, and interdisciplinary integration. Associate professor at UM6P-FGSES.
https://mcharbonneau.com/
Paul Bloom @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social Psychologist who studies and writes about human nature—including morality, pleasure, and religion. Sustack: https://smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/
P. Kanngiesser/P. K. Hoffmann @patkanngiesser.bsky.social Assoc. Prof, University of Plymouth, researching cooperation, norms, ethical behaviour, and cultural learning across the world. Sci-fi & fantasy. Board games. Martial arts. Pen name: P. K. Hoffmann.
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 🏳️🌈
Damian Shields @damianshields.bsky.social Scottish Landscape Photographer and Deputy Picture Editor at the Herald,Times & National. Prints and enquiries at www.damianshields.com
Emma Tecwyn @emmatecwyn.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Psychology | comparative cognition & cognitive development | open science | kidney transplant
I make earrings: https://tinyurl.com/dottysparrowdesigns
Currently on maternity leave
Culture Conference @cultconf.bsky.social Bluesky account for Culture Conference 2026.
Hosted by Utrecht University in Utrecht, The Netherlands, on February 25th, 26th & 27th 2026.
Website: https://culture-conference.com
Nolan Ferar @nolanferar.bsky.social Archaeologist | PhD candidate
Middle Paleolithic lithic technology
ICArEHB, Universidade do Algarve
Cultural evolution | Experimental archaeology | Cognitive archaeology
Sarah Nila @sarahnila.bsky.social Research Assistant @UCL Political Science, interested in cross-cultural and evolutionary psychology as well as behavioural sciences research.
(She/her)
Lotte Koot @lottelarissa.bsky.social PhD candidate exploring chimpanzee culture | Primate Culture Origins Group | Utrecht University
Fay @dark-forest.bsky.social she/her
Wald & Natur(bilder)
Gedanken & Gefühle
Phantasie
Bücher, Sprache & Geschichte(n)
Musik
Kinder | Trisomie21 💛💙 >>>
🕷🕸 Spring- und Vogelspinnen (letztere mit CN!)
💚🌻 | 🌈
Eythan Cousin @eythancousin.bsky.social Macacologist 🐒🐵
PhD candidate interested in sociality, culture and the consequences of inter-group differences in rhesus macaques.
Animal Behaviour and Cognition - Primate Culture Origins Group - Utrecht University ☀️
he/him
Tecumseh Fitch @tecumsehfitch.bsky.social Professor of Cognitive Biology at the University of Vienna, interest in the evolution of music, language, art and consciousness. And a musician and artist on the side...
MPI-EVA Leipzig @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology investigates the #history and #evolution of #humans and other #primates.
Leipzig, Germany
https://www.eva.mpg.de/index.html
Thibaud Gruber @thibaudgruber.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Geneva. Primatologist. Comparative psychologist. Co-director Bugoma Primate Conservation Project.
@howbrainsevolve.bsky.social @howbrainsevolve.bsky.social
Ivo Jacobs @ivojacobs.bsky.social Cognitive zoologist investigating the evolution of animal cognition, particularly in response to fire (pyrocognition). Amateur wildlife photographer based in southern Sweden. More interested in rare behaviours than rare species.
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
Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org Discover new research from across the sciences and highlights from the world's longest-running journal archive. Part of @royalsociety.org royalsociety.org/journals
Elliot Howard-Spink @ehowaspi.bsky.social Researching primate behaviours | Postdoc at UZH Evo Anthro & NCCR Evolving Language | Former Postdoc at MPI Animal Behavior & DPhil at Oxford Biology | Tools & Culture, Language Evo, Development & Senescence | He/They 🌈
Anna Jon-And @annajonand.bsky.social Researcher of language evolution and cultural evolution. Director of the Centre for Cultural Evolution at Stockholm University. Passionate about broad interdisciplinary collaboration, associative learning, simple models and complex systems.
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
Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social Academic; cats, culture, child development, cultural evolution, social learning; she/her #BiInSci
@drbessprice.bsky.social @drbessprice.bsky.social Scientist, jackdaw enthusiast, cat fancier.
(Also Lecturer in Psychology at Newcastle University, specialising in developmental and comparative approaches to the study of culture and cognition)
Emily Messer PhD @emilyjemesser.bsky.social Christian. Primatologist. Research Interests: social influence, social learning, cultural evolution, prosociality, science communication. Assistant Prof Heriot-Watt University. Views my own.
Charlotte Canteloup @chacanteloup.bsky.social Researcher @cnrs.fr @unistra.fr
I study primate social cognition to better understand the evolution of cognition and culture. One of @manyprimates.bsky.social
Elisa Felsche @elisafelsche.bsky.social Postdoc at MPI EVA studying cognition in human children and other primates 🐒
Will Snyder @sahelanthrope.bsky.social Evolutionary anthropologist and experimental archaeologist | Freelance illustrator | He/him
Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com Philosopher & Historian of Biology 🇲🇽 • Postdoctoral Fellow @theramseylab.bsky.social (@clpskuleuven.bsky.social) • https://www.alejandrofabregastejeda.com • https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262052825/the-organism-environment-pairing/ • #philsci #HPS #philsky
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
Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social Director of the Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University London @brunelcce.bsky.social
https://www.rebeccasear.org/
Dr Francesca De Petrillo @francescadp.bsky.social Lecturer, Newcastle University
Interested in primates cognition with a focus on decision-making
Nathan Nunn 🇨🇦 🇰🇷 @nathannunn.bsky.social Professor of Economics. University of British Columbia. Political Economy, Economic Development, Economic History, Cultural Evolution. 🇰🇷🇨🇦
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.
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.
Alizée Vernouillet @vernouilleta.bsky.social Behavioural ecology & comparative cognition, with a predilection for corvids. Currently Research Fellow at Cambridge, working with magpies. she/her 🐦
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.
Sabine Nöbel @sabinenoebel.bsky.social Former research fellow at @iast.fr and EDB, now at Uni Halle working on cultural transmission of mating preferences in #Drosophila
Christoph Völter @christophvoelter.bsky.social Comparative & Developmental Psychologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology 🦍 and the Messerli Research Institute 🐕
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
Cedric Boeckx @cedricboeckx.bsky.social ICREA Research Professor. Evolution, Genetics, Neuroscience, Linguistic Cognition
https://www.cedricboeckx.com
Dora Biro @dorabiro.bsky.social Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Uni Rochester, NY 🐦🐟🐵 Animal cognition, collective behaviour, navigation, tool use, social learning, culture
Alexandra Rosati @alexrosati.bsky.social Associate Professor at University of Michigan interested in primates, cognition, development & evolution
Cognitive Evolution Group: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/cognitive-evolution/
Primate Learning in Action: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/primatelearning/
Dr Sophia Daoudi-Simison @sophiadaoudi.bsky.social Lecturer, Newcastle University
ASAB Communications Officer
PhD, MSc, BSc (Psychology, Ethology): Specialisms - behavioural ecology, animal welfare, mixed-species groups, comparative cognition, human-animal interactions, conservation.
Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social Evolutionary archaeologist at-large interested in cultural transmission, environmental/computational archaeology, and novel ecosystems. Professor, papa, pizza-lover.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sfHIPiabSMwC&hl=en
Sarah Beck @sarahruthbeck.bsky.social Prof of Cognitive Development, Uni of Birmingham UK.
Just arrived here.
Karri Neldner @karrineldner.bsky.social Forrest Foundation Fellow @ University of Western Australia. Researching how children think and learn about their natural and cultural worlds. 🌿🧠🐝 Human-animal relations & cross cultural developmental psychology
Edu Ottoni @eduottoni.bsky.social Full Professor, Dept. of Experimental Psychology, University of São Paulo, Brazil
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/
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
Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social Cross-cultural and experimental psychologist / anthropologist.
Working on: appearance ideals, body image, sexual selection, gender, social transmission.
Working in:
🇬🇧 🇨🇴 🇭🇳 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇿🇼 🇰🇪 🇿🇦 🇨🇳
(A veces posteo en español.)
Prof @ Durham
http://www.boothlab.org
Prof. Gillian Brown @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social Professor of psychology; University of St Andrews, UK; gender/sex, evolution, culture; she/her. 🌈
New edition: 'Sense & Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour' (https://tinyurl.com/yfv2kc27)
Lab: https://gillianbrown.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
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
Feryl Badiani @ferylbadiani.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at LEVYNA, Masaryk University. Studying norm transmission mechanisms underlying the culturally adaptive success of Hinduism.
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
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/
Olivier Morin @oliviermorin.bsky.social Researcher at Ecole Normale Supérieure / CNRS in Paris. Culture, cognition, things in between. https://linktr.ee/oliviermorin
Elena Miu @elenamiu.bsky.social Cultural evolution, cultural adaptation, innovation
Assistant Professor in Cognitive Science at Aarhus University
https://elenamiu.github.io/
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.
Marco Smolla @msmolla.bsky.social Developing software at DB Systel for tomorrow‘s rail traffic management.
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
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.
Cody Moser @culturologies.co Assistant Professor, UM6P School of Collective Intelligence | PhD UCMCogSci: collective intelligence, systems collapse, complex systems, networks, etc.
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.
Charley Wu @thecharleywu.bsky.social Prof. of Computational Cognitive Science at TU Darmstadt & PI of the Human and Machine Cognition lab | hmc-lab.com
Mason Youngblood @masonyoungblood.bsky.social Postdoc fellow researching cultural evolution at the Institute for Advanced Computational Science - Electronic music as Callosum - masonyoungblood.com
Tim Waring @twaring.bsky.social I study the evolution of human culture with a focus on environmental behaviors and institutions and an eye toward helping these become more sustainable on a single, limited planet. https://timwaring.info/
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
Luke Rendell @lrendell.bsky.social Reader in Biology @_SMRU_ @SchoolofBiology @univofstandrews. Ocean Yachtmaster for hire! Marine conservation, cetacean & fish behaviour, cultural evolution. He/him. Thalassophile. Sailor. #Fife
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/biology/people/ler4
Lotty Brand @lottybrand.bsky.social ex postdoc in human behaviour and evolution, social learning, cultural evolution, open science. Current trainee counsellor, secular buddhism enthusiast, and postpartum blob of myself.
Bret Beheim @babeheim.bsky.social cultural evolution, behavioral ecology, math models, data provenance, MOSAIC group leader @ Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology + faculty at the Leipzig School of Human Origins https://babeheim.com/
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
Ryutaro Uchiyama @uchiyama.bsky.social 🔗 https://ryu.sg 🌏Asst Prof @Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) 〜Human cognitive ecology; Embodied Human-AI interfaces; Cultural evolution 〜 Previously 🇩🇪 ←🇬🇧 ←🇨🇦 ←🇺🇸 ←🇯🇵〆
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
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.
Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social Anthropologist interested in hunter-gatherer egalitarianism | Asst Prof @BaylorAnthro.bsky.social | Editor-in-Chief, Hunter-Gatherer Research | Spelling errors my own
Helena Miton @helenamiton.bsky.social Cultural evolution - Cognitive Science - Cognitive Anthropology. Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford GSB. Formerly postdoc fellow at the Santa Fe Institute.
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)
Aiyana Koka Willard @aiyanakoka.bsky.social Cultural Evolutionary Psychologist | Centre for Culture and Evolution | Brunel University London
Researcher of religion, religious decline, spiritual beliefs, and other worldviews
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
James Winters @replicatedtypo.bsky.social Simulating sci-fi novels and calling it cultural evolution
Centre for Culture and Evolution | Brunel University London | https://j-winters.github.io
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
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
Dr Michelle Ann Kline @michelleakline.bsky.social anthropologist in a psych dept | American in the UK | she/her | doing my best to be inclusive
Björn Lindström @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social Researching (social) learning and cultural evolution at Karolinska Institute, Sweden
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/
Zach Garfield @zhgarfield.com Evolutionary anthropologist. Leadership, punishment, & conflict resolution.
Asst. Prof of Anthropology @grinnellcollege.bsky.social.
Co-Director @omovalleyresearchproject.org.
Former RF @iast.fr.
https://www.zhgarfield.com
Dan Sperber @dansperber.bsky.social
Heidi Colleran @heidicolleran.bsky.social Anthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. https://www.eva.mpg.de/ecology/staff/heidi-colleran/ Culture | Demography |Reproduction | Population | Humanist and scientist. Writing a book: The Myth of Human Nature, out 2027 🇮🇪
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