Jonathan Gant @jongant.bsky.social Theoretical neuroscience PhD student @lmu.de
Ali Rıza Taşkale @alirizataskale.bsky.social https://alirizataskale.com
External Lecturer at Roskilde University
@distinktionjournal.bsky.social special issue editor
Recent publication: Making Finance Legible https://academic.oup.com/ips/article-abstract/20/2/olag015/8666259
Neuroscience Ireland @neuroscienceirl.bsky.social Ireland's Official Neuroscience Society
https://neuroscienceireland.com
AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social Memes do a better job than mainstream media (bar set low🤨). Chaos is the plan #Confuse #CreateDoubt #BuryTheEvidence. #ToryCovidCatastrophe #LongCovid #WealthInequality
HOW they get away with it 🤬. #MemeForToday ❤️ #Horses #Cleethorpes 🇬🇧
#RodTemperton 🎵
Hagioptasia: Perception & Meaning @hagioptasiatheory.bsky.social Exploring the hidden force of perceived 'specialness' - a natural illusion shaping human belief, behaviour, & culture.
https://hagioptasia.wordpress.com
Dirk Gütlin @gutlin.bsky.social I post the latest Neuroscience, ML/AI, Complex Systems, and Stats papers.
Deciphering prediction and learning with @auksz.bsky.social at Freie Universität Berlin/CCNB/BCCN.
I also play bass in a pop punk band:
https://linktr.ee/goodviewsbadnews
Computational Cognitive Science @compcogsci.bsky.social Account of the Computational Cognitive Science Lab at Donders Institute, Radboud University
D H Fowles @danielharveyfowles.bsky.social Artist, naturalist and social scientist
East Anglia
Edvard I Moser @edvardmoser.bsky.social Scientific Co-Director and Professor at Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, NTNU, Norway. Neural network computation, grid cells. Nobel Prize Physiology-Medicine 2014.
Arman Behrad @armanbehrad.bsky.social Computational Neuroscience | PhD. candidate at @cmc-lab.bsky.social | Fine Arts, Music, Longevity
Satpreet (Sat) Singh @satpreetsingh.bsky.social Postdoc @harvard.edu @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social
Homepage: http://satpreetsingh.github.io
Twitter: https://x.com/tweetsatpreet
Pieces of Mathematics @piecesofmathematics.com I am Francesco Macrì, a passionate, self-taught, and self-directed learner of mathematics.
Website: https://www.piecesofmathematics.com
Mathstodon: https://mathstodon.xyz/@pieces_of_mathematics
Humanists UK @humanists.uk We advance free thinking and promote humanism to create a tolerant society where rational thinking and kindness prevail.
Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social Psychologist & fMRI-nerd.
🧠 + psychedelics, cannabis, sex hormones. Instrument botherer.
The secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.
My stuff: https://linktr.ee/mbwall
My vids: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChaSxw9NuBrAFN3zjLQRbPg
Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social Fall 26 Visiting Scholar, Harvard/Philosophy
25/6 Radcliffe, Harvard
Assoc Prof, Indiana U Bloomington
Personal account
Seeking work in&out of academe
Phil & Neuro
Book 1 Smell www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674278721
B. 2 Senses https://shorturl.at/tBUSM
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science 👁️ https://olivia.science
🍃 https://metatheory.space
associate professor of computational cognitive science · she/they · cypriot/kıbrıslı/κυπραία · σὺν Ἀθηνᾷ καὶ χεῖρα κίνει
Albert Vilella, PhD. @albertvilella.bsky.social Bioinformatics Scientist / Next Generation Sequencing, Single Cell and Spatial Biology, Next Generation Proteomics, Liquid Biopsy, SynBio, AI/ML in biotech // http://albertvilella.substack.com
Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com Professor of Computational Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Aarhus University. PI @ the Embodied Computation Group. We study perception, interoception, & metacogniton.
https://www.the-ecg.org
Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social Researcher trying to shape AI towards positive outcomes. ML & Ethics +birds. Generally trying to do the right thing. TIME 100 | TED speaker | Senate testimony provider | Navigating public life as a recluse.
Former: Google, Microsoft; Current: Hugging Face
Sergiu P. Pasca @sergiuppasca.bsky.social Professor at Stanford & Director of Stanford Brain Organogenesis
Lab: https://pascalab.org
Center: https://med.stanford.edu/brainorganogenesis.html
TED: https://go.ted.com/6WJy
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sergiu.p.pasca/
Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social Mood & Memory researcher with a computational bent. https://www.nicolecrust.com. Science advocate. Prof (UPenn Psych) - Author: Elusive Cures. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691243054/elusive-cures
Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social Physics, philosophy, complexity. @jhuartssciences.bsky.social & @sfiscience.bsky.social. Host, #MindscapePodcast. Married to @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social.
Latest books: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe.
https://preposterousuniverse.com/
Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social Professor of Psychology at NYU (jayvanbavel.com) | Author of The Power of Us Book (powerofus.online) | Director of NYU Center for Conflict & Cooperation | trying to write a new book about collective decisions
Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social Neurogeneticist interested in the relations between genes, brains, and minds. Author of INNATE (2018) and FREE AGENTS (2023)
Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems.
Website: https://melaniemitchell.me
Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
Paul Bloom @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social Psychologist who studies and writes about human nature—including morality, pleasure, and religion. Sustack: https://smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/
Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social AI and cognitive science, Founder and CEO (Geometric Intelligence, acquired by Uber). 8 books including Guitar Zero, Rebooting AI and Taming Silicon Valley.
Newsletter (100k subscribers): garymarcus.substack.com
Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co Social science and other distractions. Old posts get deleted pretty quick.
https://kieranhealy.org /
https://theordinalsociety.com
Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social Scientist/Author/Speaker; Presidential Distinguished Prof/Director Center for Science, Sustainability & the Media, U. Penn; National Academy of Sciences; American Academy of Arts & Sciences; Royal Society; Tyler Prize
Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social physician-scientist, author, editor
https://www.scripps.edu/faculty/topol/
Ground Truths https://erictopol.substack.com
SUPER AGERS https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Super-Agers/Eric-Topol/9781668067666
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org Professor at Stanford. Psychology/Neuroscience/Data Science/AI. Books include: The New Mind Readers, Handbook of fMRI Data Analysis, Hard to Break, Statistical Thinking, and Better Code, Better Science
https://poldrack.github.io/
Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social Professor of Computational Cognitive Science | Dept. of Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence | @Iris@scholar.social on 🦣 | http://irisvanrooijcogsci.com | she/they 🏳️🌈
Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social Climate scientist, formerly NASA, currently Project Drawdown. Former astrophysicist, current Earth supremacist. Author of HUMAN NATURE, best book of 2025 according to both Scientific American and my dad https://shorturl.at/aJRYb
hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social neuroscientist in Korea (co-director of IBS-CNIR) working on BCI (hemodynamics-based), metacognition (including implicit forms, especially in perception), blindsight, & AI introspection
https://tinyurl.com/hakwan
小紅書號：95881807766
Sheril Kirshenbaum @sheril.bsky.social Science. Policy. Host of PBS Serving Up Science. www.sherilkirshenbaum.com
Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social Science-ing, trying to improve science. Metascience, open access, reforming scholarly authorship practices. Cognitive and perceptual psychologist.
Mastodon: @alexh@fediscience.org
Awais Aftab @awaisaftab.bsky.social Psychiatrist with philosophical interests | Conversations in Critical Psychiatry (Oxford University Press, 2024) | Psychiatry at the Margins www.psychiatrymargins.com
Felipe De Brigard @felipedebrigard.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy, Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University. Director of the Imagination and Modal Cognition Lab - www.imclab.org. Pun aficionado. (he/him/el) 🇨🇴
Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social Psychologist and neuroscientist at UCL https://metacoglab.org
Author, Know Thyself (2021) https://metacoglab.org/book
Dad and assistant to the Diplomat 
Jamie Reilly 🦜 @reilly-coglab.com Professor at Temple University | Research: Neuro/Psycholinguistics, Semantic Memory, Dementia, Open Source Software, Pupillometry | Fun: Drawing, Watercolor, Photography, Horror Fiction
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.
Mike Levin @drmichaellevin.bsky.social I'm a scientist at Tufts University; my lab studies anatomical and behavioral decision-making at multiple scales of biological, artificial, and hybrid systems. www.drmichaellevin.org
David Barack @dlbarack.bsky.social Philosopher and neuroscientist | Studying inquiry and foraging | Conceptual and theoretical foundations of cognition | #T1D
Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social Ketamine Karen, Dopamine Dame
Here via Tehran/KU/Yale/Pitt
author of KETAMINE https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262542241/
and a lot of good papers https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WNB2KvkAAAAJ&hl=en
Charan Ranganath @charan-neuro.bsky.social Professor, Author of WHY WE REMEMBER out 2-20-24, Doubleday Books
Director, UC Davis Memory and Plasticity Program, Professor, Center for #Neuroscience & Dept. of #Psychology
#Memory #fMRI #EEG #Computational #Punk #indie #Music: http://ch-ra.bandcamp.com
dickretired @dickretired.bsky.social Neuroscientist
Ashley Juavinett, PhD @ashleyjuavinett.bsky.social Neuroscientist, educator, author of SO YOU WANT TO BE A NEUROSCIENTIST? (Columbia, 2020) & MIND OVER MATTER (Princeton TBD) // professor at ucsd // co-host of www.changetechnically.fyi // www.ashleyjuavinett.com // newsletter at graymatter.ghost.io
Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com Philosophy and Game Theory 🦚 Research the interface between philosophy, economics, and biology 💱 www.kevinzollman.com
Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com Astrophysicist, author (The Universe: A Graphic Guide, 40 Ways to Know A Star, & more), artist, sewist, science communicator. English/Français/子供の日本語。Associate Professor. hEDS ♿️. She/her. 🏳️🌈. Opinions all mine.
https://www.jillianscudder.com/books
Scott Solomon, PhD @scottsolomon.bsky.social Director, Center for Science Communication & Public Engagement & Teaching Professor of Biosciences at Rice University. Author of Becoming Martian & Future Humans. Host of the podcast Wild World With Scott Solomon. Views=own
Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social Neuroscientist: consciousness, perception, and Dreamachines. Author of Being You - A New Science of Consciousness. 
Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore @sjblakemore.bsky.social Professor of Psychology & Cognitive Neuroscience at Cambridge, FBA FMedSci FRS. Adolescent brain development. Views my own. Book: http://amazon.co.uk/dp/1784161349
Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social Science writer and author of books including Bright Earth, The Music Instinct, Beyond Weird, How Life Works.
Lars Chittka @larschittka.bsky.social Lars Chittka, Professor of Sensory and Behavioural Ecology and author of The Mind of a Bee
Dr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social Psychologist at University of Oxford | Adolescence + mental health
Linktr.ee/lucyfoulkes
Jakob Hohwy @hohwy.bsky.social philosopher: consciousness, rationality, self-evidencing, contemplation
https://www.monash.edu/m3cs
Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social Prof of Cognitive Neuroscience & Vice Dean at UCL, Fellow of the Royal Inst. of Navigation. I study how we remember, navigate & imagine space
Photo: Our upcoming field research in the Marshall Islands
https://spierslab.wixsite.com/wavesandwayfinding
Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social DEI hire. Prof of Primary Care, Uni of Oxford. Researching digital health/ inequities, covid prevention (masks/ air quality). Wild swimmer. Mum to Rob (marine bio) & Al (doc). She/her. https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=QDCqsJwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Pete Etchells @peteetchells.bsky.social Professor of Psychology and Science Communication | Award-winning science writer | Screen Time | Social Media | Smartphones | Video games | https://linktr.ee/unlockedbook
Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social Physics, bubbles, oceans, hot chocolate and curiosity. Professor at UCL, writer, broadcaster. Author of Storm in a Teacup and Blue Machine https://linktr.ee/helenczerski Co-host of BBC Radio 4's Rare Earth
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social Space archaeologist | Global Expert Group for Sustainable Lunar Activity | Asteroid 551014 Gorman | Dr Space Junk vs the Universe. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262539654/dr-space-junk-vs-the-universe/ | Blog https://zoharesque.blogspot.com/
Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social Bad Astronomer (formerly @BadAstronomer), SciCommer, Dork. Crash Course Astronomy guy. He/him. Newsletter: badastronomy.beehiiv.com
I'm self-employed so my opinions do in fact represent my company's.
Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social Planetary scientist, freelance science writer and space artist, queer, ADHD, mom. Turns out it’s hard to be all those things at once. Shop at elakdawalla.Etsy.com
Laurie Winkless @lauriewinkless.bsky.social Physicist & science storyteller. 📚#1: SCIENCE AND THE CITY 📚#2: STICKY. Words in other places. Irish in Aotearoa New Zealand. Massive science nerd, biz owner, enthusiastic, outspoken, equity-minded, multi-crafter. She/her. #ToitūTeTiriti #FreePalestine
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app Theoretical Astro/Physicist:
https://chanda.science
First book:
https://tinyurl.com/DisorderedCosmos
BUY MY NEW BOOK:
https://tinyurl.com/EdgeOfSpaceTime
Blog:
news.chanda.science
all Black/all Jewish. 🏳️🌈/agender/woman.
Posts by/for me🖖🏽
Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social Astronomer, writer and zookeeper. Oxford, Gresham and the Zooniverse. The human half of the Dog Stars podcast. New book: 'Our Accidental Universe' (UK/rest of world) and 'Accidental Astronomy (US) now out.
Ethan Siegel @startswithabang.bsky.social Cosmologist, science communicator, author, speaker, and longtime writer of Starts With A Bang.
Not the next Carl Sagan; the first Ethan Siegel.
Dr Emma Byrne @sciwriby.bsky.social Science Writer ('Swearing is Good for You', 'How to Build a Human'), broadcaster, journalist.
I write about the stuff that makes you go 'that's fucking amazing!'
She/they
www.emmabyrne.net
Signal: sciwriby.11
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/
Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social Dad. Science Teacher. Author of books including “Why Don’t Things Fall Up?”, "Mr Shaha's Recipes for Wonder" and “How to Find a Rainbow”. Lots of free stuff and more about me at alomshaha.com
Ellen Peters @ellenpeters.bsky.social Prof SOJC and Psychology, Dir Ctr for Science Comm Research, UOregon. Studies decisions & communication. My book: Innumeracy in the Wild
Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social Collector of social media sites. Infectious disease epidemiologist. Writes about vaccine hesitancy, science misinfo, zombies. Probably somewhere on a trail. Views own etc.
Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social Professor, Archaeologist, Egyptologist, Award-winning writer of books, Dad joke lover, mom, rabble-rouser academic. Owned by cats. she/her 
Matt Kirkcaldie @matttkk.bsky.social Obsessed with brain structure and comparative neuroanatomy.
They’re not circuits. It’s not wiring. Cortex is a resonant mesh.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3285-0168
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matt-Kirkcaldie [ image by https://mattcoyle.net ]
Miriam Forster @miriamforster.bsky.social Two capybaras in a long wool cardigan posing as a writer. Factchecker and accidental whiteness educator.
Autistic, agender, she/they.
Longform work at Medium: https://medium.com/@miriamsforster
“Exclamation marks are numerous, but justified.” -Kirkus🌟
🦋 Alie of the Woods 🦋 @humanbyweight.bsky.social Alie Kratzer | Engineer + Scientist + Entrepreneur + Author | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ she/her
Chris Adami @chrisadami.bsky.social Professor at Michigan State University. Trying to understand how the universe works, including people and animals. And plants and microbes. So, pretty much everything. (he/him)
Kostas Kampourakis @kampourakisk.bsky.social Author and editor of books intended to help non-experts understand science. Interested in anything about evolution, development, heredity and nature of science.
Joseph Meany @crimsonalkemist.com Science Advisor in Energy and Materials Science; Author, He/Him
#matsci, #chemistry, #energy, #climatetech, #space, #renewableenergy, #circulareconomy 
Neil Cohn @neilcohn.bsky.social Comics and emoji creating cognitive (neuro)scientist at Tilburg University studying language, brains, comics, emoji & multimodality (he/him). 😮💨🫠🫥🥹🫨
www.visuallanguagelab.com
Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social Historian of science, art, & ideas 🗃
Words: Smithsonian, LA Times, TLS, Aeon, Nature, Science.
Author: HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY
www.surekhadavies.org
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/surekhadavies?tag=bluesky
Speaker bureau: Chartwell Speakers
Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de I used to scan brains, now I talk about science for a living. Science editor, science podcaster, SPIEGEL-bestselling writer. Founder of @realscientists.de and trainer at @nawik.de. Looks even worse IRL. He/him.
NEW BOOK OUT NOW!
🔗 https://jensfoell.de
Stephen Heard @stephenbheard.bsky.social Evolutionary ecologist & Boggle aficionado. Author: The Scientist's Guide to Writing; Charles Darwin's Barnacle and David Bowie's Spider. He/him.
Blog and book links: scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com
Anthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social Traces & trace fossils. Wrote 'Life Sculpted' (2023), 'Dinosaurs Without Bones' (2014), 'The Evolution Underground' (2017), & more. Hubby, Trekkie, reading, cooking, craft-beer imbibing, childless cat dude, 🚫AI. 🧪🐾🦖🦕🪨⚒️🌍📚✍️ 🖖 https://ajmartinauthor.com
Dr Lucy Rogers @drlucyrogers.com Engineer.
Book: 'Up - A Scientist's Guide to the Magic Above Us'
I'm interested in connecting with those who build, explain, or bring ideas to life in unusual ways.
www.lucyrogers.com
https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/DrLucyRogers
Carlos Rossa @carlosrossa.bsky.social Physicist
PhD in photovoltaic systems
Scientist
Climate change
Solar Energy
Beatles
my book: https://tinyurl.com/carlosrossa
LinkedIn: https://tinyurl.com/incarlosrossa
Born 🇧🇷
Living 🇪🇸
Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social Sci journo, author of Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains. Highly caffeinated. All bad takes mine. She/her
Phil Garnock-Jones @theobrominated.eurosky.social Botanist, retired academic. Author of "He Puāwai, a natural history of New Zealand flowers" (Auckland University Press, 2025) illustrated with >500 stereo pair photographs. 🎸🌺🌱
Whakatū, Aotearoa. orcid.org/0000-0002-2539-4152
Christopher Madan @engra.me Uni Nottingham Asst Prof in Psychology.
Memory, aging, decisions, emotion, brains, PhD supervision, ttrpg, more!
https://engra.me
Eric Turkheimer @ent3c.bsky.social Behavior genetics, clinical psychology, Mets. Occasional politics.
Substack (free): https://ericturkheimer.substack.com/
Book Is Out! Understanding the Nature-Nurture Debate
https://shorturl.at/Ce2hf
Electronic Version: https://shorturl.at/Fq2jv
Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social PI + parent = professional cat-herder • inclusiveness • he/him • studying both brain health and communication at Northeastern University
Textbook: The Neuroscience of Language (Cambridge University Press)
http://jonathanpeelle.net
David N. Thomas @dnthomas01.bsky.social Eclectic Bluesky-Rambler - It's not random...honest/ Marine-Arctic-Antarctic-Climate Biologist/ Slow but enthusiastic cyclist/ Woke academic still aspiring to be a scholar/ 🇬🇧 diaspora in 🇫🇮
Books: https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B001HOBI0E
Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social Archaeologist, word-witcher, scicomm, consultancy
📚 KINDRED: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death & Art
🖋️ MATRIARCHA: Prehistory Re-imagined
🏛️ Honorary Researcher U. Cambridge & U. Liverpool
1/4 @trowelblazers.bsky.social
Rep: PEW Literary
Jennifer Groh @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social I like to think about neural representations. Author: Making Space. Prof: Neuroscience, Duke University. Banjo. Chickens. Opinions my own. I repost science job ads, among other things.
Joanna Bagniewska @joannabagniewska.com Lecturer in Environmental Science at Oxford Uni @ox.ac.uk @lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk
Fellow at @kelloggoxford.bsky.social
Zoologist, science communicator, 🇵🇱 in 🇬🇧.
#AcademicSky 🧪
I write books, buy them!
https://linktr.ee/jbagniewska
Mary C. Murphy @marycmurphy.bsky.social Author, CULTURES OF GROWTH | Latina professor @IUPsych | Founder @EquityAccelerator focused on improving education, organizations, and inequality | Texan @ ❤️ | https://marycmurphy.substack.com/
Jim Weatherall @jamesowenweatherall.com Philosopher, physicist, mathematician / Chair of LPS @ UC Irvine / EiC of Philosophy of Science / Poultry enthusiast fancier / Irish Step Dancer