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
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
Thomas Augier @thomas-augier.bsky.social PhD at Aix-Marseille University - CRPN and Toulouse University - CRCA | Cognitive roots of Compositionality in Baboons & Bees 🐒🐝 | Comparative cognition - Linguistics - Language of Thoughts 💭
Theiss Bendixen @theissbendixen.bsky.social Data science & Bayes at Novo Nordisk | Author of "The Data Analyst's Guide to Cause and Effect" (https://theissbendixen.com/dag-book/) | Writing a book on Bayes in drug development | Board member, https://giveffektivt.dk/
www.theissbendixen.com
Emile Bryon @emilebryon.bsky.social Environmental Biology, Behavioral Ecology, Cultural Evolution - Utrecht University
Lucas Spicher @lucas-sph.bsky.social PhD student at @unistra.fr | linking socio-ecological factors and cognitive abilities in primates 🐒
Amanda Melin @amelinlab.bsky.social Professor of Biological Anthropology at University of Calgary. Co-director Santa Rosa Primate Project. Primate sensory ecology, molecular genetics and omics, foraging, behaviour, ecology and evolution. She/Her. www.amandamelin.com
Alba Motes Rodrigo @albamotesr.bsky.social Behavioral scientist investigating what it means to be social | I work with 🐒 and 🐜 | Passionate about medical applications of ethology | UNIL🇨🇭
Zoë Goldsborough @zoegoldsborough.bsky.social Observer of animals | Mom | Minerva Fast Track Fellow leading Culture and Social Behavior group at MPI-AB | Passionate about animal ethics and welfare | She/her
https://zgoldsborough.wixsite.com/research
Will @evolvingmoloch.bsky.social traditionsofconflict.com
Christophe Darmangeat @cdarmangeat.bsky.social Anthropologue social
Maxime Derex @maximederex.bsky.social CNRS Researcher at IAST and Toulouse School of Economics
Working on cumulative culture, social learning, innovation
Lucy Aplin @lucymaplin.bsky.social Certified bird brain, researching cognitive and social ecology of parrots and parids. Currently holding down a dual position at the Australian National University and the University of Zurich
Sonja Wild @sonjawild.bsky.social Dr Wild • postdoc affiliate @ucdavis • behavioural ecology • env. change, animal cognition, social learning, personality, animal culture 🐬 🐦 🐿 • 🏳️🌈 ally • hobby photographer • she/her • https://sites.google.com/view/sonjawild
Julia Penndorf @julia-penndorf.bsky.social behavioural ecologist studying information use, space-use & social behaviour
postdoctoral researcher @ Exeter University
Manuel Bohn @elmanubohn.bsky.social Developmental psychologist at Leuphana with an eye on ManyPrimates (@manyprimates.bsky.social)
Evolutionary Cognition Group @evocoggroup.bsky.social Research group led by Judith Burkart at the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology #UZH. Evolutionary origins of cooperation, communication and cognition. Website: evocog-uzh.squarespace.com
Dr Rachael Miller (Harrison) @drrmiller.bsky.social Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow, University of Exeter | Cognition & Conservation | Comparative Psychology | @themanybirds.bsky.social Co-Founder | 🪶🐦👶🐵🧠 | Website: www.drrachaelmiller.com
Karyn Anderson @karynanderson.bsky.social PhD Candidate researching how primates use sex to navigate their complex social lives | Primate behavioural ecologist | University of Toronto | she/her 🏳️🌈🐒
Giuliana Centofanti @giulianacentofanti.bsky.social Development, sociality & early-life adversity in wild chimpanzees
PhD student at Emory University · apes.emory.edu
Solomon Kurz @solomonkurz.bsky.social Clinical psychology researcher | applied statistics geek | so called #RStats influencer
EvoSapiens @evosapiensfr.bsky.social Docteur en sciences cognitives, j’explore le comportement humain de façon interdisciplinaire.
Spécialité : psychologie évolutionnaire.
Livres et soutien à mon travail : https://evosapiens.net/soutien
Animal behavior opportunities @animalopps.bsky.social Jobs, PhD’s, postdocs, internships, and volunteer opportunities for ECRs in animal behavior and adjacent fields. Run and created by @juliammachado.bsky.social
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
Julia Bădescu @iuliabadescu.bsky.social Primatologist | Chimpanzees, Colobus | Prof at Université de Montréal | SMBC to 💫 AuDHD kid | Still figuring out what I’m doing here 🌍🏳️🌈🖤
Dre. Alexandra Gros ⚛ 🧠 @agros.bsky.social Neuroscience PhD - Féministe - Engagée pour la place des femmes en sciences - Responsable Communication & Culture Scientifique - Dévoreuse de podcasts
Jorge Peña 🇵🇸 @jorgeapenas.bsky.social Professor of Interdisciplinary Stuff @ Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), and Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST).
Mathematical models of cooperation and conflict.
https://jorgeapenas.github.io
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
Durham University Collections @ducollections.bsky.social Collections from @durham-university.bsky.social museums, art collection, biosciences, archives and special collections. Not monitored 24/7. @dulib.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/DUCollections 
Chiara Zulberti @chiarazulberti.bsky.social 🌱💬 Biologist interested in the evolution of language and cognition
🐵 Multimodality in chimps
🔎 PhD Student at Uni Leipzig
she/her
T Revathe @revathe.bsky.social Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow @ the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior | PhD @ JNCASR, India | sociality, learning, allomaternal care, culture | Asian elephants & great apes | she/her
Anti-fascism, Anti-imperialism, Anti-colonialism, Anti-caste
Arthur Lefevre Lab @arthur-lefevre-lab.bsky.social Neuroscientist at CNRS | oxytocin | marmoset | acoustic communication social behavior| neuroethology | website: https://www.neuroprime.org/
Alice Massera @alimassera.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher interested in early neurocognitive development, effects of early social experience, and social cognition.- J Julia Fischer @julxf.bsky.social Professor for Primate Cognition University of Goettingen, Head of the Cognitive Ethology Lab at the DPZ (German Primate Center)
Emma Chereskin @emmachereskin.bsky.social PhD Candidate at University of Bristol and Shark Bay Dolphin Research studying the vocal mechanisms of cooperative action in bottlenose dolphin alliances. Having a whale of a time 🐳
she/her
https://emmachereskin.weebly.com/
Stephanie L King @stephanielking.bsky.social Professor of Animal Behaviour @ University of Bristol | cetacean communication and cognition group | loves dogs | PI @ Shark Bay Dolphin Research | she/her 🏳️🌈
Dr Ani Permana @dranipermana.bsky.social Post doc primatologist interested in cognition and culture. Work on vocalisations and nest building in 🦧. Uni Warwick and MPI
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 🏳️🌈
Adriana Luna @adrilunamartz.bsky.social Ethology and conservation 🐾🌿🪶
Studying individual differences, communication and cognition | PhD at MPI-AB | Orangutan cognition and curiosity 🦧🍃
EFP2026 @efp2026.bsky.social Check here for updates on the EFP 2026 conference, to be held in Montpellier, France, 29th June- 3rd July 2026.
Official website: https://www.alphavisa.com/efp/2026/index.php
Auriane Le Floch @aurianelf.bsky.social Researcher in animal communication and cognition 🐒🌳
Soon-to-be postdoc at Geneva University with the NCCR Evolving Language studying grammar processing in dogs 🐕 🇨🇭 🇲🇦
Franck Ramus @franckramus.bsky.social Chercheur CNRS & ENS-PSL
#Psychologie, #neurosciences, #médecine, #éducation, #rationalisme
Anti #fakemed et #fakescience
Ministre du culte #pastafarien
https://linktr.ee/FranckRamus
Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social Director of the Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University London @brunelcce.bsky.social
https://www.rebeccasear.org/
Alfred Anwander @alfredanwander.bsky.social Neuroscientist and connectome researcher. Human & chimpanzee brain connectivity / microstructure using diffusion MRI. Learning & brain plasticity @ MPI CBS, Leipzig
Yannick Becker @ybecker.bsky.social Brain 🧠 evolution 🐒 & language 🙊 | sub-group evolution at rg Cognitive Neurogenetics (@Sofie Valk)@MPI CBS, Germany | incoming Atip-avenir group leader @CRNL, France | Klaus Tschira & GSO Boost Fund Fellow
yannickbecker.weebly.com
Meg Crofoot @meg-crofoot.bsky.social 
Javier Lazaro - scientific illustration @lazaroillustration.bsky.social Scientific illustrator for research & publications
Biologist (PhD) | former researcher
Helping scientists communicate their work visually
Illustrations for papers, books & posters
Get in touch: lazaroillustration@gmail.com
Web: www.lazaroillustration.com
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
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.
Camilla Cenni @ccenni.bsky.social Working on material culture, (animal) innovation, social learning and personality.
Research Fellow at the University of Mannheim.
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
Hannah Comstock @hannahorca.bsky.social Freelance illustrator and creature designer. I like to draw animals, monsters, and creepy things 👁️ she/her
✉️ contact@hannahcomstock.com
Shop + portfolio 👇
hannahcomstock.com
Ammie Kalan @ammiekalan.bsky.social Primatologist, Assistant Professor and PI of the Great Ape Behaviour Lab at UVic Anthropology in BC, Canada
www.ammiekkalan.com
Nora Slania @noraslania.bsky.social PhD student at MPI of animal behaviour,
looking at how and why wild chimps learn
(she/they/any)
Kathelijne Koops @kathelijnekoops.bsky.social Eccellenza Professor at UZH Evolutionary Anthropology 🦍 P.I. APE Group 🦍 Co-director Nimba Chimpanzee Project | Ape material culture | Conservation. She/her
www.apegroup-uzh.com
Nicolas Mathevon @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social Prof bioacoustics, University of Saint-Etienne, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Institut universitaire de France
Academia Europaea
Director ENES Bioacoustics Research Lab (http://eneslab.com)
Book @princetonupress.bsky.social: http://tinyurl.com/yuetutum
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 🌈
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.
Lou Savigny she/her @lousvy.bsky.social PhD candidate exploring bonobo social learning and cultural processes | Utrecht University, Netherlands
She/her
Raphaela Heesen @heesenr.bsky.social Comparative Behavioural Biologist @uni-konstanz.de | Comparative Joint Action Lab | communication, synchrony and emotions in humans & other primates | http://bit.ly/CJALab
Hannah Rausch @hannahrausch.bsky.social PhD student at MPI EVA interested in origins of stone tool use 🪨🔬👩🏼💻
Pawel Fedurek @pawel-fedurek.bsky.social Interested in animal behaviour and conservation. Senior lecturer in Psychology at the University of Stirling. Member of @berg-stirling.bsky.social
Prehistoric Wirral @prehistoricwirral.bsky.social Independent archaeology research project unearthing and preserving the Prehistory of Wirral. Whilst celebrating it's nature. Est'd 2018. https://www.prehistoricwirral.com
📌Wirral Pennisula
Eléonore Rolland @elerolland.bsky.social Postdoc researcher in primatology
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)
Jovana Maksić @jomaksic.bsky.social PhD📍University of Zurich
🔍 hominin cognition & behavior
🧠 neuroscience of Paleo crafts @nccrlanguage.bsky.social
Erin Wessling @northernlimitpt.bsky.social Pan behavioral ecologist + conservationist | co-director of Moyen Bafing Chimp Project and the BonDiv Project | Coordinator for the Western Chimp Action Plan
The Moyen Bafing Chimp Project @mbchimp.bsky.social Chimpanzee and monkey research project in the Moyen-Bafing National Park Guinea, led by @northernlimitpt @LirSamuni and @nakedprimate
Claudio Tennie @ctennie.bsky.social A PI of the HUMAN ORIGINS project (Tübingen, GER)
Humans, hominins & apes -> evolution of human cultural evolution
-> How did we get from an ape-like baseline to human cultural learning/ cultural cognition?
https://sites.google.com/view/claudiotennie
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences @mpicbs.bsky.social Research at MPI CBS revolves around #human #cognitive abilities & processes in the #brain, with focus on functions like #language, #memory, #emotions & #action.
CNRS @cnrs.fr Organisme public 🇫🇷 de recherche pluridisciplinaire, le Centre national de la recherche scientifique c'est 33 000 personnes qui font avancer la connaissance. #HelloESR
Alex Mielke @alexmielke.bsky.social Studies cooperation, communication and social relationships in monkeys and apes. Lecturer QMUL. he/him
Haneul Jang @haneuljang.bsky.social Anthropologist studying motherhood, cooperative foraging & childcare, knowledge transmission and mother-child health among BaYaka foragers in the Congolese rainforest
Research scientist @ird-fr.bsky.social
https://sites.google.com/view/haneuljang
Jenny Tung @jennytung.bsky.social Scientist @ the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and Duke University
Adrian Jaeggi @jaeggiadrian.bsky.social Evolutionary anthropology, evolutionary medicine, behavioral ecology, hormones, comparative phylogenetic methods, Bayesian. Associate Professor @ University of Zurich. Same handle on X
Camille Testard @ctestard.bsky.social Neuroethology and Ecology of social behavior in mammals. Special interest in how animals cope with extreme environmental challenges. PhD in Platt lab @Penn, now Junior Fellow @Harvard and Branco Weiss Fellow with Dulac lab
Sofia Forss @sofiaforss.bsky.social Evolutionary Biologist interested in Animal Behavior and Cognition, especially the interlink between socio-ecological factors, motivation and learning.
www.sofiaforss.com
Fanny de Thier @fandethier.bsky.social Ecology Master's graduate 🎓 Research focus on human-wildlife conflict 🐒 On the lookout for a PhD opportunity in primate ecology & conservation 🔎📚
Marine Cuvilliez @marinecuvilliez.bsky.social PhD student at @taichimpproject.bsky.social
Working on poaching effect on chimpanzees behaviors
Eloïse Disarbois @eloisedisarbois.bsky.social PhD Student ISCMJ @CNRS 🧠🐒
Social behavior, Neuroethology, Oxytocin
📍 Lyon, France
Axel Molina @codae.bsky.social Animal communication 🐋
Cultural evolution🏺
Cognitive sciences 🧠
Worldbuilding and fiction📕
Communalist solarpunk 🟩⬛
Current internship at EthoS Rennes on killer whales call sequences 🎶🐬
He/him
Eugénie Mortessagne @eugeniemrtsg.bsky.social PhD student at @Le_Museum 🐒 Exploring the emotion-cognition interaction in primates
CEEC @ceec-research.bsky.social CEEC - Centre d’Etude en Etholgie et Cognition
CSEC - Centre for the Study of Ethology and Cognition
UMR 6552 @cnrs.fr @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @rennesuniv.bsky.social @universite-caen.bsky.social
#ethologie #CEEC
Klaus Zuberbühler @zuberbuehler.bsky.social 
Sophie Berdugo @sophieberdugo.bsky.social Winner of the ABSW's 2026 "Newcomer of the Year" award.
Assistant Magazine Editor at New Scientist with words in New Scientist, Live Science, the Observer, and BBC Wildlife.
DPhil on chimp learning and tool use.
Institut des Sciences Cognitives - Marc Jeannerod @isc-mj.bsky.social Official account of the Institute of Cognitive Sciences - Marc Jeannerod, a @CNRS research laboratory dedicated to the study of cognition and its disorders.
http://cnc.isc.cnrs.fr
Taï Chimpanzee Project @taichimpproject.bsky.social Research on and conservation of wild chimpanzees in the Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire, since 1979.
www.taichimpproject.org
Communications Biology @commsbio.nature.com An open-access @natureportfolio.bsky.social journal publishing high quality primary research, reviews and commentary in all areas of the biological sciences since 2018.
https://www.nature.com/commsbio/
Thibaud Gruber @thibaudgruber.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Geneva. Primatologist. Comparative psychologist. Co-director Bugoma Primate Conservation Project.
Zanna Clay @zannaclay.bsky.social Professor, Psychology- Durham University. Comparative Cognition and Cross-Cultural Development Lab. Primatology, developmental psychology, bonobos, chimpanzees. Interested in evolution and development of empathy, language, culture, social cognition
Paddy Tkaczynski @paddytkaczynski.bsky.social Behavioural ecologist at LJMU, UK. Studying how non-human primates grow up, how they make friends & their plasticity to the goings on of human primates (https://plasticprimateslab.com/)
Marlen Fröhlich @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social Primatologist | Group leader & Lecturer @ Uni Tübingen | Freigeist Fellow | primate communication - behavioural plasticity - language evolution 🐵 🗣️
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/
Cédric Girard-Buttoz @tozbu.bsky.social Biologist, primate fan, sport addict, photographer, try to understand how animals process the world and communicate about it
Maël Leroux @maelmleroux.bsky.social Lecturer @ethos-research.bsky.social, @rennesuniv.bsky.social, France. Interested in the evolution of language. Currently studying non-human primates 🐒 he/they
Liran Samuni @lirsamuni.bsky.social Behavioral ecologist studying cooperation & intergroup dynamics in wild apes | Emmy Noether & Research Group Leader @ MPI-EVA
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
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