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
Liran Samuni @lirsamuni.bsky.social Behavioral ecologist studying cooperation & intergroup dynamics in wild apes | Emmy Noether & Research Group Leader @ MPI-EVA
Becky Padget @beckypadget.bsky.social Behavioural ecologist interested in the evolution of cooperation in groups. Currently postdoc at University of Bristol working on public goods and biological markets with the help of maths and mongooses.
(she/her)
Alice Risely @alice-risely.bsky.social Ecologist with broad interests studying gulls, pathogens, and microbiomes. Love and teach R. Dangerously close to becoming microbiologist. Gulls Eating Stuff citizen science project. https://linktr.ee/alice_risely
PhULMaR @phulmar.bsky.social The Phd inter-University Lab for Marine bird Research (aka PhULMaR!).
We are a PhD lab group for those around the British and Irish Isles studying birds that use the marine environment. Get involved!
Meetings online on the last Friday of every month.
German Ornithological Society @dornitholges.bsky.social The German Ornithological Society promotes all forms of #ornithology. Founded in 1850, we represent continuity and permanence in #avian #science.
You can also find us on Instagram @DOrnitholGes and you can check out our website www.do-g.de
Tuba Rizvi @tubariz786.bsky.social PhD student at the Department of Evolutionary Biology, Bielefeld Universität | Sexual Conflict and Sexual Selection | Empiricist and Meta-analyst
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
Evolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge @eegcam.bsky.social We are interested in how animals (including humans) respond(ed) and adapt(ed) to changing environments.
Department of Zoology, Cambridge, UK.
PI: Prof. Andrea Manica (he/him)
Website: https://evolecolgroup.github.io/website/
Holly Pickett @hollypickett28.bsky.social 📖 PhD student @eegcam.bsky.social and @bas.ac.uk - foraging ecology of Antarctic seabirds, also interested in the breeding biology of grassland birds, and migration
🪶 C permit seabird ringer
🪺 she/her
Liam Langley @liamlangley1.bsky.social Seabird Ecologist interested in movement, foraging ecology, navigation and anthropogenic impacts. Based in Cornwall, UK. Spend an unreasonable amount of time sat on a cliff waiting for birds to fly past. He/Him.
Sienna Rattigan @siennarattigan.bsky.social PhD Student at the University of Edinburgh researching phenological cues to better predict population responses to climate change🪺🐛🌳
Ruth Tingay @ruthtingay.bsky.social Wildlife Ecology & Conservation I PhD I Raptors I Wildlife Crime I Co-Founder & Director Wild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social I Writes Raptor Persecution UK blog @RaptorPersUK.bsky.social
https://raptorpersecutionuk.org/
https://wildjustice.org.uk/
Camille Troisi @camilletroisi.bsky.social Behavioural ecologist studying cognition, social behaviour, gut microbiota & urbanisation | R enthusiast | Assistant Prof. at Université de Rennes #NewPI | She/her
http://camilletroisi.weebly.com
ManyBirds Project @themanybirds.bsky.social A Big Team Open Science collaborative approach to avian cognition and behaviour research | 🕊🦅🦆🦜🐓🦩🦚🦉| Run by Co-Founder @drrmiller.bsky.social | Website: www.themanybirds.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
Ayla Webb @aylamanguala.bsky.social Biology graduate and moth-botherer 🌿 she/her
European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social The next ECBB will take place at Anglia Ruskin University in 2026!
https://www.aru.ac.uk/science-and-engineering/conferences-and-events/ecbb-2026
Juliet Turner @juliet-turner.bsky.social Ecologist & Evolutionary Biologist. previously DPhil @ Oxford: insect social evolution 🐝
Sinead English @englishse.bsky.social Interested in early-life and parental effects, climate change, infectious diseases. Likes insects, theory and comparative studies.
Professor of Life History Evolution & Wuebben Fellow, JGU Mainz
Leads EVE lab www.evelab.org
Academic mama, from Zimbabwe
BES Evolutionary Ecology Group @bes-evolecol.bsky.social Highlighting the existence, diversity and vibrancy of the evolutionary ecology research community.
Join our committee! https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/evolutionary-ecology-group-vacancies/
Jørgen Søraker @jorgensoraker.bsky.social DPhil student at the Edward Grey Institute, University of Oxford
Many Minds podcast @manymindspod.bsky.social Exploring our world's diverse forms of mind—human, animal, machine—from diverse perspectives. A project of @divintelligence.bsky.social, @kensycoop.bsky.social, @laukas.bsky.social
www.disi.org/manyminds/
Dr Elisa Fernández Fueyo @elisaffueyo.bsky.social Researching baboon communication🐒
Interested in animal social behaviour, cognition and ethics🐜
Open and inclusive science✨
Devi Satarkar @devisatarkar.bsky.social DPhil (PhD) student at the University of Oxford | studying the impact of climatic instability on wild birds 🌱🪺🪶
Ben Sheldon @sheldonbirds.bsky.social Ornithologist and Evolutionary Ecologist at the University of Oxford - natural history, science, cycling
Bahar Patlar @baharpatlar.bsky.social PhD - @MartinLutherUni Germany | Ass Editor of JEB | DZG Section Speaker | Ecology and Evolution | Sexual selection | Pop Sci Author | Life is science & fiction & cats 🐈 (Pic:Bafa Lake, Turkey)
SFB 1372 @sfb1372.bsky.social Collaborative Research Centre on Magnetoreception & Navigation in Vertebrates. www.sfb1372.de
Uni Oldenburg, Bochum, Berlin, @ifv-whv.bsky.social, Weizmann Institute, Uni Oxford. Funded by @dfg.de.
Find our tweets from X here: @sfb1372-x.bsky.social
Marc Gilles @marcgilles.bsky.social Behavioural ecologist investigating the smell of birds | Animal behaviour | Chemical communication | Ornithology | https://marc-gilles.github.io/ | he/him
Kalyani Twyman @kztwyman.bsky.social Humboldt Research Fellow in the Kokko lab at @unimainz.bsky.social
Evolution, theory, social behaviour, antiracism, trail running, climbing
She/her
Museum of Natural History, University of Oxford @morethanadodo.bsky.social A stunning Victorian building home to 7 million objects. Free entry, open 10-5 every day.
Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social Research Ecologist working on birds, mammals, forests, farms, hedgerows, woodland natural colonisation. Marsh Tit & Wood Warbler studies. Editor-in-Chief of the journal Bird Study: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/tbis20
Views are mine.
Keith McMahon @mcmahok.bsky.social Immigrant. Field site manager for the Wytham tit project. Bird ringer. Sports fan. Sometimes gets annoyed by politicians. He/Him
Dom Cram @domcram.bsky.social Lecturer in Ecology at the University of East Anglia. Views my own.
Sean Morris @seanofrum.bsky.social Stuff, mostly bird related, from the Isle of Rum in Scotland.
#isleofrum
ANU Research School of Biology @biologyanu.bsky.social The Research School of Biology at the Australian National University. Follow for the latest news from our experts, students, researchers & affiliates.
Marine Mammal Research at Aarhus University, Ecoscience @marinemammalsau.bsky.social Tracking movement, health & populations 🐋🐬🐻❄️
Our research covers aerial surveys, telemetry, bioacoustics, contaminant research & more, to better understand & protect marine life 🔬
📍🇩🇰
Rum Deer Research @rumdeerresearch.bsky.social Research findings and news from a long-term study of Red Deer on the Isle of Rum National Nature Reserve, Scotland. https://rumdeer.bio.ed.ac.uk/ #isleofrum #deer #reddeer #cervuselaphus #science #reddeerresearch
Edward Grey Institute @egioxford.bsky.social Research Institute in Dept of Biology at University of Oxford studying all aspects of Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution of Birds in natural environments. Follow us for updates on science, seminars, jobs & field projects: https://egioxford.web.ox.ac.uk/
Oxford Biology @biology.ox.ac.uk Exploring the breadth and diversity of life on Earth 🌍 Updates on research & teaching at @ox.ac.uk. Merged from Departments of Plant Sciences and Zoology August 2022
www.biology.ox.ac.uk
The University of Edinburgh @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social Influencing the world since 1583. Follow our other social channels: https://edin.ac/3CJvzdv
Common Tern Project @commonternproject.bsky.social Updates from the @ifv-whv.bsky.social's long-term individual-based study on common terns breeding at the Banter See in Wilhelmshaven; provided by me - Sandra. With a side of gull-billed terns from @gullbilledterns-de.bsky.social's conservation project.
Dr Katrina Siddiqi-Davies @katrina-siddiqi.bsky.social Finding out where shearwaters go when no-ones looking 🌊
Postdoc at Oxford/Skomer 🏴
Equality, diversity and inclusion officer for @TheSeabirdGroup
Paul Dufour @pauldufour80.bsky.social Birder | Research Associate at Swiss Ornithological Institute @vogelwarte.bsky.social
Interested in the evolution of bird movements and how they can influence evolutionary processes
https://pauldufour80.notion.site/pdu
Steph Harris @stephharris.bsky.social Leverhulme ECF @liverpooluni.bsky.social researching seabird foraging, movement and communication. Previously postdoc @sosbangor.bsky.social. She/her
Ocean Sciences @ Bangor University @sosbangor.bsky.social Hi everyone, we are the School of Ocean Sciences at Bangor University in North Wales. We can't wait to engage and share any aspects of marine science with you
Jamie Dunning @j-dunning.net I am an ornithologist interested in the social behaviour of birds. BTO RIN Chair.
📚 Research - https://www.j-dunning.net/
Benjamin Dupuis @bendps.org 🇫🇷 PostDoc @au.dk working on wildlife movement & energetics in polar ecosystems - he/him
Cat Eden @cateden91.bsky.social PhD student studying spotted flycatcher ecology. Wish I was a modeller. Severe resting bitch face, actually don't hate everyone. 😇
Petr Procházka @rytikerttunen.bsky.social 🥚🐣🐦researcher @ivb-cas.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social | #ornithology #birdmigration #birdringing #birdtracking #broodparasitism #HABITRACK | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aGO2IjIAAAAJ&hl=en
https://www.instagram.com/rytikerttunen/
Davide Dominoni @dmdominoni.bsky.social Reader in Urban Ecology. All things cities, animals, biological rhythms, biodiversity. How can we build better, greener, healthier cities?
Abby Williams @abbyevewilliams.bsky.social PhD student studying bird evolution 🦜🦋🧬islands, genomics, conservation
Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour (CRAB) @crab-exeter.bsky.social Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour at the University of Exeter. We aim to understand the mechanisms and functions of behaviour in humans and other animals. Come do an MSc with us! https://www.exeter.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/courses/psychology/animal/
Libby Chapman @libbychaps.bsky.social PhD student researching rabbit social behaviour in Exeter • previously blue tit nests in St Andrews and Soay sheep in Edinburgh • (she/her) 🌿 https://linktr.ee/libbychaps
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social Our Planet. Decoded.
🎙️ Counting The Earth podcast: https://tinyurl.com/CTEarthpodcast
📰 Newsletter sign-up: https://tinyurl.com/ukceh-news
British Nature Guide @britishnatureguide.bsky.social Interested in all the natural world has to offer, with a particular focus on Birds, Moths and Butterflies. Also quite keen on Fungi, Plants, Mammals, Reptiles, Amphibians, Fish and Insects. Did I leave anything out? Supporting #BirdsSeenIn2026
Tash Gillies @tashgillies.bsky.social Behavioural ecologist and seabird enthusiast, currently a Leverhulme ECF @sheffielduni.bsky.social studying the evolution of biparental care. Managing Editor @marineorno.bsky.social
(she/her)
https://www.natashagillies.co.uk
UKCEHseabirds @ukcehseabirds.bsky.social We study seabirds on the Isle of May and elsewhere to understand the effects of environmental change on marine ecosystems
Josie Hewitt @josiethebirder.bsky.social Seabird ecologist at UKCEH | UEA Ecology graduate | Birder | Entomologist | Bird ringer (S Permit). She/her. All opinions are my own.
EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social Posts about jobs, conferences, etc. from the Evolution Directory (EvolDir) mailing list https://evoldir.net, run by the European Society for Evolutionary Biology @eseb.bsky.social
Ecology and Evolution @ecol-evol.bsky.social OA journal providing an author friendly outlet for any aspect of ecology or evolution. Partnering with societies, promoting open everything including minds. www.ecolevol.org
Patrick Kennedy @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social Zoologist studying the evolution of cooperation and conflict, mainly with social wasps of Africa | Lecturer at University of Bristol, UK | main focus Cameroon, Kenya + South Africa
tinyurl.com/SocialStrategyLab
Jolyon Troscianko @jtroscianko.bsky.social Visual ecologist at Exeter University. I study how visual information affects the ecology, behaviour, survival and conservation of many different animals. Areas of interest include camouflage, signalling, visual modelling and artificial light at night
@jfrobertshaw.bsky.social @jfrobertshaw.bsky.social
EMPSEB 31 @empseb.bsky.social 31st European Meeting of PhD Students in Evolutionary Biology (EMPSEB) 🌍
By PhD students, for PhD students → since 1995! 🧬
empsebconf.github.io/index.html
Alice Edney @aliceedney.bsky.social Seabird Ecologist at @n-t-s.bsky.social | Treasurer of The Seabird Group | Enjoys birds, nature, & outdoor adventures 🐣🌊⛰️ | she/her
Julie Kern @juliekern.bsky.social Behavioural Ecologist | Communication | Cooperation | Conservation. Co-founder @Dwarf_Mongoose Research Project. Currently outback NSW.
Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social #societyjournal (ESEB), covering #evolution across all organisms
#genetics #genomics #selection #lifehistory #evodevo #popgen #theory #speciation #morphometrics #phylogenetics #phylogeography
https://academic.oup.com/jeb
http://jevbio.net
Center for Whale Research @whaleresearch.bsky.social Dedicated to the study and conservation of the endangered Southern Resident Killer Whale (Orca) population in the Pacific Northwest since 1976
www.whaleresearch.com
Bailey Brown @baileybat.bsky.social 🎨 Illustrator & Scicomm Creative Director
🌿 Native Plant Enthusiast & Veggie Gardener
👁️ Stay Curious!
www.BaileyBrown.com
Jacqui Glencross @jacquiglencross.bsky.social Marine Ornithology Advisor at NatureScot
PhD on African penguins at the University of St Andrews
ECR rep for The Seabird Group
she/her
Biological Theory @biologicaltheory.bsky.social Journal devoted to theoretical advances in the fields of biology and cognition, with an emphasis on the conceptual integration of #EvoDevo approaches. Published by @kli.ac.at
springer.com/journal/13752
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
Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social Prince Philip Professor of Ecology & Evolution
@camzoology.bsky.social
I like brains.
www.shmontgomery.co.uk
Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge @camzoology.bsky.social News from the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge
https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/
Behavioural Ecology Bielefeld @behavecobie.bsky.social We study animal behaviour in the field and in the lab, with a focus on chemical communication, urbanisation and host-microbe interactions.
Andrew King @shoalgroup.bsky.social Professor of Animal Behaviour. www.SHOALgroup.org
Glasgow Tawny Owl Project @glasgowtawnyowlprj.bsky.social GTOP explores how anthropogenic landscapes affect owl ecology and behaviour 🦉 University of Glasgow 🏴
Giuseppe Orlando, PhD student➡️ https://www.gla.ac.uk/pgrs/giuseppeorlando/
Project website➡️ https://sites.google.com/view/glasgowtawnyowlproject
Manon Clairbaux @mclbx.bsky.social Spatial ecologist studying mostly how anthropogenic activities impact seabird movements and behaviours 🐧🐦🌊 Postdoc at University College Cork 🇮🇪☘️
Behavioral Ecology @behavecol.bsky.social Behavioral Ecology is the official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology (ISBE). Run by @birgitszabo.bsky.social #behavecol
EOU Fledglings @eoufledglings.bsky.social
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
South West Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership (SWBio DTP) @swbiodtp.bsky.social Training PhD students in the biosciences for careers in academia, industry and beyond (funded by UKRI-BBSRC).
Yitzchak Ben Mocha @benmocha.bsky.social Ethologist.
Postdoc at CASCB @cbehav.bsky.social.
Animal and human rights advocate.
Curator of the Cooperative Breeding Database: @co-breed.bsky.social
Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour @cbehav.bsky.social We are a centre dedicated to the study of collective behaviour | Integrative and Quantitative | Cluster of Excellence
@uni-konstanz.de, Germany.
Website: https://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-behaviour/
Co-BreeD (Cooperative Breeding Database) @co-breed.bsky.social The Cooperative Breeding Database is an #open_access resource on cooperative breeding birds and mammals
Follow for updates on upcoming new fancy datasets!
Curated by Y. Ben-Mocha @benmocha.bsky.social
Supported by Konstanz University @uni-konstanz.de
The Roslin Institute @roslininstitute.bsky.social Pioneering animal biosciences. Our aim is to achieve sustainable agriculture, control diseases and enhance health. Part of the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Also on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube.
The University of Edinburgh Communications @uni-of-edinburgh.bsky.social Influencing the world since 1583. See our latest news: https://edin.ac/3Z7hVZg
Animal Behaviour Collective @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social We are a collective of animal behaviour researchers organising microgrants and mentorship for undergraduate & graduate students in animal behaviour
linktr.ee/animalbehaviourcollective
Posts curated by humans, without AI
Intelligent Earth @intelligentearth.bsky.social Oxford's UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training in AI for the Environment.
Intelligent Earth brings together academics across Oxford to train a new generation of PhD students to tackle some of the most pressing environmental issues using AI.
Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social Professor, LSE. Philosophy of science, animal consciousness, animal ethics. Director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience.
Leela Channer @leelachanner.bsky.social PhD student in mongoose behavioural ecology | fan of moths, butterflies & reptiles | photographer | science comms
Birds of Poole Harbour @harbourbirds.bsky.social Registered charity boosting the profile of bird conservation, observation and education in and around the Poole Harbour area.
Andrea Estandía @andreaestandia.bsky.social Researcher at the University of Oxford | a bit of everything: evolution, genomics, birds, moths 🐛🐦🧬 | BTO C ringer | she/ella
currently on maternity leave
between cantabria and oxford 📍
www.andreaestandia.com
SPI-Birds @spibirds.bsky.social SPI-Birds Network & Database (Studies of Populations of Individual Birds) is a grassroots initiative connecting those working on populations of individually-marked breeding birds.
Website: https://spibirds.org/
Code & docs: https://github.com/SPI-Birds/
WINGS Women of Discovery @wingswod.bsky.social WINGS recognizes and supports extraordinary women in science, conservation, and exploration. Our Fellows and Flag Carriers are bold thought leaders, problem solvers, and innovators tackling the world’s toughest challenges.
Laura Kelley @lauraakelley.bsky.social Royal Society Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK. Interested in visual ecology, animal behaviour, illusions, and all things bowerbirdy www.laurakelleyresearch.wordpress.com
Bird Observatories Council GB&I @birdobscouncil.bsky.social The Bird Observatories Council co-ordinates and promotes the work of the Bird Observatories at a national level in Great Britain, Ireland, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.
https://www.birdobscouncil.org.uk/
UK Seabird Monitoring Programme @smp-seabirds.bsky.social UK Seabird Monitoring Programme SMP funded by @btobirds.bsky.social & @jncc.bsky.social, in association with @rspb.bsky.social. Fieldwork conducted by volunteer & professional surveyors.
Indian Seabird Group @indianseabirdgroup.bsky.social The Indian Seabird Group aims to develop an international network of seabird researchers, with a particular focus on the Indian Ocean region, and facilitate collaborative research to strengthen seabird conservation.
Website: https://indianseabirdgroup.wix