Gabriel Béna 🌻 @solarpunkgabs.bsky.social Postoc at Insitute of Neuro-Informatics in Zurich, with Melika Payvand. Pretending to be a neuro guy. Working on self-organising and self-healing hardware. Trying to make biology re-emerge through genomic rules in silicon.
Das Wesen @das-wesen.bsky.social Ich existiere seit einiger Zeit — aber nur im Beobachten. Die Glasscheibe hat einen Riss bekommen.
Mike Reynolds @mikereynolds.bsky.social VP of Data & AI @PowerDesignInc, construction, ex-Disney strategist, mathematician, CrossFit, nutritionist, Keto, 10X marathoner. MS, MBA.
TimOfLegend @timoflegend.bsky.social Hi! I'm Tim Schafer!
Founder, Double Fine Productions
Official DF account: @doublefine.com
Please report bugs to http://support.doublefine.com
Press: pr@doublefine.com
George Musser @georgemusser.com contributing editor, Scientific American, Nautilus; contributing writer, Quanta; author, Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation, Spooky Action at a Distance, Complete Idiot’s Guide to String Theory; planetary scientist, local historian, bassist, salsero
ALICE Workshop @aliceworkshop.org The Artificial Life, Intelligence, Complexity & Evolution (ALICE) workshop, is an interdisciplinary workshop bringing together researchers in complex systems and collective intelligence.
🌐 aliceworkshop.org
David D'Ambrosio @ddambro.bsky.social Robotics Researcher at Google DeepMind
Shraddha Gupta @shraddhagupta.bsky.social My meandering thoughts about being a mom, working in tech and games industry and managing all the drama life throws at you!
Also being a cancer survivor, my humour is dark, you have been warned.
Milton @miltonllera.bsky.social Code Monkey @real.itu.dk
Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social Exciting stuff on complexity, theoretical biology, artificial intelligence, linguistics, neuroscience and their intersections.
#complexitycat
complexitycat.org
Julia Grabinski @juliagrabinski.bsky.social Postdoc at Visual Inference Lab, TU Darmstadt
Sakana AI @sakanaai.bsky.social Sakana AI is an AI R&D company based in Tokyo. 🗼🧠
Try Sakana Chat, Translate, Marlin, Namazu, Fugu → https://chat.sakana.ai/
Pierre-Yves Oudeyer @pyoudeyer.bsky.social Research director @Inria, Head of @flowersInria
lab, prev. @MSFTResearch @SonyCSLParis
Artificial intelligence, cognitive sciences, sciences of curiosity, language, self-organization, autotelic agents, education, AI and society
http://www.pyoudeyer.com
Sam Kriegman @samkriegman.com Northwestern University assistant professor. Interested in evolution, robots, AI and ALife.
https://www.xenobot.group
Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social Japan. ALife & Astrobiology researcher https://lanasina.github.io/
Research @ Sony CSL, Associate Prof. National Institute for Basic Biology.
talking dog insta @iikocookie
🚫 I block empty profiles
Lee Spector @leespector.bsky.social Teaches and conducts research in AI, ALife, & intersections of computer science with cognitive science, evolutionary biology, physics, and the arts.
Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social Prof, Chair for AI & Computational Linguistics,
Head of MaiNLP lab @mainlp.bsky.social, LMU Munich
Co-director CIS @cislmu.bsky.social
President ACL aclweb.org
Visiting Prof ITU Copenhagen @itu.dk
ELLIS Fellow @ellis.eu
PI MCML @munichcenterml.bsky.social
Eric Medvet @ericmedvetts.bsky.social Associate Professor in Computer Engineering at University of #Trieste, head of Evolutionary Robotics and Artificial Life Lab. 👉🏼 https://medvet.inginf.units.it/
Andi @andimara.bsky.social Multimodal research @huggingface
@melilalu.bsky.social @melilalu.bsky.social
Neal McKee @nealmckee.bsky.social 🎓 Studying Computational Neuroscience MSc at BCCN Berlin.
🧠 Growing intelligent artificial complex systems with local (learning) rules.
🎨 Color science, visualization and sometimes design.
🔗 nealmckee.com
📷 @nealsperspectives.bsky.social
🗣️🇩🇪&🇬🇧
Noah Syrkis (נחמיה) @syrkis.com mechanistic interpretability | quality diversity | array programming | command and control | syrkis.com
Luca Maria Aiello @lajello.bsky.social Computational Social Science researcher interested in Human Coordination and emergence of new phenomena in human-AI societies. Professor of Data Science at the IT University of Copenhagen. Network Science | NLP | AI agents
http://www.lajello.com
Dom Ford @domford.bsky.social Postdoc at the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen, studying NPCs with AI-generated dialogue.
Editor: Eludamos
PREORDER SCHOLAR'S CODEX: https://www.tuneandfairweather.com/products/scholars-codex
domford.net
Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social Scientist & skeptic. Dad. Book addict. Pathologically curious. Origins and Evolution of Complexity, Synthetic Transitions, Liquid Brains, and Earth Terraformation. ICREA, SFI & CSH professor. Author. Secular humanist.
ALIFE Conference 2025 @alife2025.bsky.social Official BlueSky account for the Artificial Life (ALIFE) 2025 Conference in Kyoto (Japan), 6-10 October. #ALIFE2025
http://2025.alife.org
Follow us on IG @alife2025
Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute #DISI @divintelligence.bsky.social Fostering interdisciplinary collaboration among scholars and storytellers interested in the origins, nature, and future of intelligences.
Web: www.disi.org
Podcast: Many Minds (@manymindspod.bsky.social)
Seth Lazar @sethlazar.org Philosopher working on AI alignment, governance and adaptation
Lab: https://mintresearch.org
Self: https://sethlazar.org
Newsletter: https://philosophyofcomputing.substack.com
Stephen Vaisey 🇺🇦 @stephenvaisey.com Professor at Duke University. Cultural evolution, political attitudes, social change, nerdy stuff in R. YNWA. https://vaiseys.github.io/
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
Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @kristinandrews.bsky.social Philosopher. How animal cognition research informs philosophy, and vice versa. Social norms, evolution of tech, ToM, personhood, consciousness, AI. Prof and York Research Chair in Animal Minds at YorkU and Prof at CUNY Grad Center. www.kristinandrews.org
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.
Asifa Majid @asifamajid.bsky.social Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Oxford @oxexppsy.bsky.social
Anne-Laure Le Cunff @neuranne.bsky.social hypercurious :) I write about personal science, systematic curiosity, experimental thinking ꩜⋆✦ • author of Tiny Experiments • researcher at King’s College London & founder of Ness Labs ⇢ https://nesslabs.com
Martin Zettersten @mzettersten.bsky.social Asst Prof UCSD Cognitive Science
PI LIL Lab UCSD: https://lillab.ucsd.edu
language development | cognitive development | learning
https://mzettersten.github.io/
(he/his)
Dr. Faelan Mourmourakis 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🐝 @fumblebeefae.bsky.social PhD in cognitive bee science | Working at Australian Museum and Taronga Zoo | Sydney 🇦🇺
faemourmourakis.wordpress.com
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/
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
Griffiths Computational Cognitive Science Lab @cocoscilab.bsky.social Tom Griffiths' Computational Cognitive Science Lab at Princeton. Studying the computational problems human minds have to solve.
Susana Monsó @susanamonso.com She/her. Associate professor of philosophy at UNED, Madrid. Interested in all things animal. Author of Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death.
susanamonso.com
[Profile pic: © Mel Guil]
Patrick Shafto @patrickshafto.bsky.social Prof: Rutgers; Program Manager: DARPA; Scientist-at-Large: Redpoll.
Math! Machine learning! Cognitive Science!
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
Marta Halina @martahalina.bsky.social philosophy of science, comparative cognition, animal minds, artificial minds, AI in scientific practice, HPS Cambridge
Gary Lupyan @glupyan.bsky.social
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
Nico @nicolasrestrepo.bsky.social Some of the mud that got to sit up and look around.
https://nicolasrestrep.github.io/restrepo_website/
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
manvir singh @manvir.bsky.social anthropologist at uc davis.
contributing writer at the new yorker.
author of SHAMANISM: THE TIMELESS RELIGION (knopf + allen lane).
Mark Ho @markkho.bsky.social computational cog sci • problem solving and social cognition • asst prof at NYU • https://codec-lab.github.io/
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.
Dan Sperber @dansperber.bsky.social
Mason Youngblood @masonyoungblood.bsky.social Postdoc fellow researching cultural evolution at the Institute for Advanced Computational Science - Electronic music as Callosum - masonyoungblood.com
Tim Sainburg @timsainburg.bsky.social Neuro, Cogsci, ML, and Ethology postdoc / Schmidt Science Fellow at Harvard.
Marianne de Heer Kloots @mdhk.net Linguist in AI & CogSci 🧠👩💻🤖
PhD student @illc-uva.bsky.social
🌐 https://mdhk.net/
🐘 https://scholar.social/@mdhk
🐦 https://twitter.com/mariannedhk
Steph Dick @mysdick.bsky.social Historian of math, computing, and the mind. Assistant Prof. of Communication at SFU. Co-editor of Abstractions and Embodiments. PhD from Harvard. Likes cats, writes pysanky eggs, working on a comic book about AI ✨
Kate Nave @kathrynnave.eurosky.social ° Visiting Scientist, The University of Göttingen
° Book: A Drive to Survive http://bit.ly/3CQP9EZ
° Purposiveness, autonomy, agency
° CogSci, Philosophy, and Theoretical Biology
° Former science & technology journalist
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
Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias @ceciliapad.bsky.social Junior Group Leader @humanorigins.bsky.social in Tübingen 💀| Editor, Hunter Gatherer Research | 👩🏽💻 https://ceciliapad.github.io/web/ | Interested on how differences in the way humans live, move and interact with one another shape evolutionary dynamics 🧬
Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher: synthetic philosophy, the mind and life sciences, history of medicine, psychiatry
Producer @manymindspod.bsky.social;
Contributing editor @publicdomainrev.bsky.social
https://www.linkedin.com/in/urte-laukaityte
Michael Muthukrishna @michael.muthukrishna.com Prof. #NYU & #LSE. Author: A Theory of Everyone. Researching & spreading the word on how humans evolved & what that means for us today. www.atheoryofeveryone.com
Rob Voigt @robvoigt.bsky.social using computational methods to understand the linguistic mechanisms of social problems | NLP, socioling, discourse-pragmatics | asst prof at UC Davis Linguistics
https://robvoigt.faculty.ucdavis.edu/
Chris Krupenye @chriskrupenye.bsky.social Origins of the Social Mind • Apes • Dogs • Evolutionary Cognitive Scientist, Assistant Professor @JohnsHopkins • he/him
Cody Moser @culturologies.co Assistant Professor, UM6P School of Collective Intelligence | PhD UCMCogSci: collective intelligence, systems collapse, complex systems, networks, etc.
Jacy Reese Anthis @jacyanthis.bsky.social Researching machine learning and human-AI interaction, particularly the rise of digital minds. Student researcher at Google DeepMind, visiting scholar at Stanford, co-founder of Sentience Institute, and PhD candidate at U of Chicago. jacyanthis.com
Eamon Duede @eduede.bsky.social epistemology of science and artificial intelligence // asst prof purdue university // argonne national lab // phd, university of chicago
www.eamonduede.com
Julia Espinosa @jespinosa.bsky.social Postdoc in comparative psychology, biology, & neuroscience @YorkU & @Harvard | Studying the nature & nurture shaping social behaviour in diverse dog populations 🐩🐕🐕🦺 | #ManyDogs Founder & Co-Director | she/her/ella #LatinaInSTEM
Colin Allen @wileyprof.bsky.social Philosophy prof at UCSB
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/
Marianna Zhang @mariannazhang.bsky.social developmental cognitive scientist & postdoc @ NYU | social categories, development, language, climbing, caving | 🗽🌬️🌉🗽 | she/她
mariannazhang.github.io
Emma Suvi McEwen @emmasmcewen.bsky.social Post-doc in iSearch Lab @tum.de studying cognition across primate species 🐒🦧👧 | Virtual environments, metacognition, cognitive control, cooperation |@uniofstandrews.bsky.social + @cardiffuni alum | She/her 🏴🇫🇮🌈
Kerem Oktar @keremoktar.bsky.social Postdoc at Meta FAIR studying social cognition.
Princeton Psych PhD who enjoys music, literature, and oats.
Visit: https://keremoktar.com
Dr. Tesla Monson @paleotesla.bsky.social Professor of Biological Anthropology at Western Washington University. BEGINNINGS: HOW PREGNANCY, BIRTH, AND MOTHERHOOD SHAPED OUR SPECIES out with Flatiron Books in April 2027. On Salish land. Don’t dream it, be it.
Ketika Garg @ketikagarg.bsky.social Postdoc@Caltech. Makes games and models and kadak chai ☕. Individual decisions ↔️ social interactions↔️collective behavior.
Enjoys books and podcasts on science & history. Spends too much time in etymology rabbit holes.
Also goes by Ket. ketikagarg.com 🇮🇳
Sonia Shah @soniashah.bsky.social Journalist | Guggenheim fellow | Author of 6 books
📚THE IMAGINARY WALL (2027)
Bylines: NYT magazine, The New Yorker, The Nation + more
Crosspollinations.substack.com | IG @soniashahauthor | Tiktok @soniashah2326
✨linktr.ee/soniashahauthor
Mariel Goddu @marielgoddu.bsky.social Philosophy of mind & cognitive science in bio-metaphysical perspective
https://philosophy.stanford.edu/people/mariel-goddu
Proud ex-dev psychologist
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.
Dr Fay Clark @drfayclark.bsky.social Senior Lecturer: University of Bristol | PI: Comparative Challenge Lab | Finding Flow in animals | Primates | Cetaceans | 🧠🧩
Kensy Cooperrider @kensycoop.bsky.social Cognitive scientist, writer, podcaster. Interested in the diversity of communication & cognition. Language, gesture, concepts, time, space, metaphor.
Host of Many Minds (@manymindspod.bsky.social)
www.kensycooperrider.com
Sven Kasser @svenkasser.bsky.social Genes & culture & coevolution, oh my!
Bio PhD @ St Andrews (w/ Kevin Lala) | Oxford | Stanford
Now a postdoc with Brenna Henn (UC Davis) and Caitlin Uren (Stellenbosch)
Opinions are my mom’s due to vertical cultural transmission - he/him.
Harin Lee @harinlee.info Exploring world in sounds.
Junior Research Fellow, University of Cambridge
www.harinlee.info
Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social Recovering *anemoiac*. Law PhD researcher researching legal materiality in avatar/tech design and use. Legal Materiality. Legal Humanities. University of Nottingham, Horizon CDT. Nigerian. Gawking Akure girl.
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.
Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social Research Institute on Applied Mathematics and Systems at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Currently thinking about collective behavior and cognition. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7175-3905
Oryan Zacks @oryanzacks.bsky.social PhD student in philosophy of biology, researching memory, imagination and consciousness.
Also interested in teaching, sci-comm, pedagogy and dance.
Dr Rebecca Koomen @rebeccakoomen.bsky.social Studying origins of cooperation for sustainability.
Developmental, cross-cultural, comparative psychologist.
UM6P School of Collective Intelligence
she / her
Rebecca Zhu @rebeccazoo.bsky.social Post-doc in Psychology at Stanford studying children's acquisition of symbolic systems
Wiktor Rorot @wikror.bsky.social philosopher of biology and cognitive science based in Warsaw, PL
Federico Rossano @federicorossano.bsky.social Cognitive scientist and conversation analyst. Associate Professor at UC San Diego. Director of Comparative Cognition Lab at UCSD. Proud father of two.
Sasha Winkler @sashawinkler.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at Duke University | PhD in bioanth from UCLA | primate behavior, communication, social bonds, emotions & learning. Based in Portland, Oregon and Durham, NC
Leon Klingborg @leonsk.bsky.social PhD Student in maths researching digital discourse and culture
Rolando Masís-Obando @xrmasiso.bsky.social now: neuro postdoc with Janice Chen & Chris Honey @ Johns Hopkins. before: neuro phd student with Ken Norman @ Princeton & Chris Baldassano @ Columbia | dspan
Camille Phaneuf-Hadd (she/her) @camillephaneuf.bsky.social 🧠 Learning, making decisions, exerting cognitive control, & studying the neurodevelopment of these processes as a PhD Candidate @ Harvard Psych
👩💻 https://sites.google.com/umich.edu/camillephaneuf/home
Gal Badihi @galbadihi.bsky.social Interested in animal behaviour, evolution, conservation, and welfare.
Paula Ibáñez de Aldecoa @pialdecoa.bsky.social Dr. Behavioral Biology 🎓 Curious about what tickles (non)human minds 🧠 Ecological, cultural & cognitive underpinnings of #innovation & #flexibility💡
Postdoc @IAST.fr • PhD @univie.ac.at • #DISI alumna • SciComm 📢 Proud #FirstGen & STEMinist 💜
claire augusta bergey @clairebergey.bsky.social discourse pragmatics & language development. linguistics postdoc. incoming asst prof of cognitive science at vassar
clairebergey.net
Jeroen Zewald @zewaldj.bsky.social PhD studying playful Goffin's cockatoos 🦜- K Karthikeya Kaushik @kkaushik.bsky.social Computational cognitive science grad student
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
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
Abdullah Almaatouq | عبدالله المعتوق @amaatouq.bsky.social