HUMAN ORIGINS - Cluster of Excellence @humanorigins.bsky.social
@tag26exeter.bsky.social @tag26exeter.bsky.social
UCL Institute of Archaeology @uclarchaeology.bsky.social This is the official Bluesky account for the UCL Institute of Archaeology one of the largest & most highly regarded centres for #Archaeology, #Heritage & #Museum studies.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology
📸 (c) James Tye
The British Museum @britishmuseum.bsky.social The official account of The British Museum
🏛 Explore 2 million years of human history
Dr Lindsay de Wal @drlindsaydewal.bsky.social BA,MA,PhD|UK’s 1st NHS Humanist Head of Chaplaincy|Director Humanist-Existential Care [EHSN]|Head of Pastoral Care [NRPSN]|Thoughts are my own|Published Author|
W: https://living-your-values.com
W: https://humanist-existential-care.trainercentralsite.eu
Humanism Now Podcast @humanismnowpod.bsky.social
ISHASH @ishash.bsky.social The International Society for Historians of Atheism, Secularism, and Humanism.
On Humans Podcast @ilarimakela.bsky.social Human origins | Global history | Econ history | Anthropology | Archaeology
Covering the story of humanity, from the evolution of apes to the making of the modern economy.
Posting as Ilari Mäkelä, host of On Humans.
https://onhumans.substack.com/about
Shen Tian | 田申 @ts-brain.bsky.social Phd student in Social Psychology/Neuroscience 🧠 studying social learning, language transmission, and cultural evolution.
ces2026 @ces2026.bsky.social This year’s Cultural Evolution Society (CES) Conference 2026 will be held at UM6P Rabat Campus - Morocco.
Foreign Policy Centre @fpcthinktank.bsky.social The Foreign Policy Centre (FPC) is an outward-looking, non-partisan international affairs think tank based in the UK. https://fpc.org.uk/
Lizzi Collinge MP @lizzicollinge.bsky.social Labour MP for Morecambe and Lunesdale, general interest nerd.
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk Antiquity is a bimonthly review of world archaeology edited by Professor Robin Skeates. Please be aware that we sometimes share relevant images of human remains. https://antiquity.ac.uk/
Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social 🌎 Former MP for Brighton Pavilion, former Leader @greenparty.org.uk Professor of Practice, University of Sussex. Author of 'Another England: How to Reclaim our National Story'. Writing & campaigning on climate & nature 🌎 linktr.ee/carolinelucasbrighton
Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social #ComplexSystems scientist. Institute of Evolutionary Biology @csic.es| DySOC-UTennessee, Knoxville | Girl dad. He/him.
Lab: svalver.github.io
#EvoBio #CultEvo #ExtendedBiology #hypergraphs
Eva Mol🍉 @evamol.bsky.social Lecturer Roman ArchaeologyUoY; slow archaeology; from Drenthe; lover of everything conceptual
Finn Stileman @finnstileman.bsky.social Archaeologist & PhD candidate @ University of Cambridge
He/him
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
Niki Seth-Smith @nikisethsmith.bsky.social Editor of @newhumanist.bsky.social, journalist and fiction writer 🍐
Michael Rosen @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social Writer, performer, broadcaster, university professor
Website: www.michaelrosen.co.uk
YouTube Channel: 'Kids' Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen'
Radio show: BBC Radio 4 'Word of Mouth'
Goldsmiths University of London, Prof Children's Lit., teaching MA
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
Prof Nichola Raihani @nicholaraihani.bsky.social Professor & Author
Auckland & UCL
Books: THE SOCIAL INSTINCT (2021) || THE THINKING ANIMAL (2027, ✍🏼)
Website: www.nicholaraihani.com
Likes cycling.
Chris French @profchrisfrench.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Goldsmiths, Greenwich Skeptics in the Pub, Author of "The Science of Weird Shit" http://profchrisfrench.com Rep’d by Mark Gottlieb at Trident Media Group
Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social Green MP for Brighton Pavilion since 2024. Elected to challenge Labour in power at all levels of Govt since 2014. She/her. Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party at PO Box Green Party, London, SE1P 6YL
Origin Story @originstorypodcast.bsky.social The real stories behind the most misunderstood and abused ideas in politics. A podcast with Dorian Lynskey and Ian Dunt.
http://patreon.com/originstorypod
https://linktr.ee/originstorypodcast
Produced by Podmasters
Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social Writer & Observer columnist. Latest book: Not So Black and White (Hurst). “Unsettles the pieties of contemporary race-talk” - Paul Gilroy. “A work of immense scholarship” – Jon Bloomfield. Website: https://kenanmalik.com/
Green Humanists @greenhumanists.bsky.social A home for Green Party of England and Wales members seeking to lead ethical and fulfilling lives on the basis of evidence, experience and empathy.
Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton @archsoton50.bsky.social Bluesky account for the Department of Archaeology at the University of Southampton.
Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social Archaeologist | Permanent Representative of the Director, Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg | Adjunct lecturer State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart | Private account, views are mine 🖖
Catherine Roberts @alwaystotheside.bsky.social I like ponies🐎, books📚, archaeology🏺. Mediocre rider, unfocused reader and currently studying for MA Archaeology at University of Reading (p/t mature).
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Also @adventuresintheoutback on Insta and @woman_much_missed on Insta(Bookstagram).
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
BAR Publishing @barpublishing.bsky.social Independent Publisher of the world's largest academic archaeological series with over 4000 titles.
@ipghq Academic & Professional Publisher of the Year '22
Richard Bram @photobram.bsky.social Photographer. That is quite enough.
@jacquelinefacer.bsky.social @jacquelinefacer.bsky.social
Nicky Akehurst @nickyakehurst.bsky.social Known for Management & Representation of Photographers & Archives. Now permanently in the garden, creating my personal Eden, whilst dedicating time to Conservation/Environmental/Social Issues.
Tristram Hicks @warondirtymoney.bsky.social Author: The War on Dirty Money, The EU Financial investigation Handbook.
Ex senior cop, crime scientist.
https://open.substack.com/pub/tristramhicks/p/1-a-short-uk-history-of-confiscating?r=ed1ld&utm_medium=
Shriya Gautam (DPhil) @shriyagautam.bsky.social Digital Visual Cultures Archaeologist and Object Analyst. Founder and Director of Research, Speaking Archaeologically.
Tomos Proffitt @tomosproffitt.bsky.social PI at ICArEHB Researching Palaeolithic Archaeology, Primate Archaeology, Lithic Analysis, Knapping and Experimental Archaeology. View my own
Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social Archaeologist & Associate Professor in Palaeolithic Archaeology at UCL, where we run the PaPa MSc programme.
Researching Neanderthal archaeology in La Mancheland & Western Doggerland, from Boxgrove to La Cotte.
Provide Geoarch expertise to ASE.
He/Him 🏺
Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social Paleoanthropologist, human evolution, Neanderthals, modern human origins, S-E Europe and Greece.
Dog enthusiast!
Professor, University of Tübingen, Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironments. Opinions my own.
Dr. Oliver Dietrich @oliverdietrich.bsky.social #Archaeologist. Neolithic-Bronze Age. Doctoral thesis on ~4000 socketed axes from Romania. ~15 years at early Neolithic Göbekli Tepe / Türkiye. Now public relations and research @landesmuseumhalle.bsky.social. Also #photography. Private account.- C Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social Palaeoanthropologist at the Natural History Museum London.
Posts are my own, and when I repost or like, it does not signify I necessarily agree with all content https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/departments-and-staff/staff-directory/chris-stringer.html
Gilly Forrester @gillyforrester.bsky.social Prof of comparative cognition investigating how we evolved & develop cognitive abilities (w/wo neurodiverse conditions) Researching brains & behaviours of human infants & children, gorillas, chimpanzees & orangutans. Passionate about science communication
Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social Recent Masters degree in Archaeological Practice at Birkbeck, University of London. Volunteer at Ham House, Richmond. Here to share my love of archaeology.
Emma Jones @emlouwynjones.bsky.social videographer/photographer & maker of prehistoric personal ornaments 🎥 📸 📿
Aislinn Keogh @mandolinguist.bsky.social Linguist, musician, and aspiring adrenaline junkie 🧗 Postdoc at Durham University, researching children's role in cultural evolution
@durhampsych.bsky.social
@durhamdcerc.bsky.social
(she/her) 🌈
https://aislinnkeogh.github.io/
Guardian NUJ @gonuj.org The NUJ chapel for the Guardian
Humanists UK @humanists.uk We advance free thinking and promote humanism to create a tolerant society where rational thinking and kindness prevail.
James Croft @croftspeaks.bsky.social Humanist Chaplain. Pragmatist philosopher (Cambridge, Harvard). Frank Knox Fellow. Trans Inclusive Radical Humanist. Green Party UK. Own views. 💚
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
Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social Professor of Global Politics @UCL. Author of “Fluke." Writer @TheAtlantic. Host, Power Corrupts podcast. The Garden of Forking Paths Substack.
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social I had a marvellous time ruining everything.
Professor of Genetics @UCL, Public Humanities Fellow @SAS. Ex-President of @Humanists_UK Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷×
@kbjmanagement
adamrutherford.com
Jim Al-Khalili @jimalkhalili.bsky.social Jim Al-Khalili CBE FRS. Academic, author, broadcaster. Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Physics @UniofSurrey,
https://jimal-khalili.com
https://www.youtube.com/@UnbaffledScience
Human Evolution Research Institute at University of Cape Town @heriuct.bsky.social Our work drives transformative research on the African record of human evolution. Learn more: https://linktr.ee/heri.uct
Rob Foley @robfoley.bsky.social Professor of Human Evolution and Fellow of King's College Cambridge. Emeritus, so I now do the research there was never time to do before. Interested in anything evolutionary, from humans to lithics to ecology and stars.
Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, author (NOMAD CENTURY; TRANSCENDENCE; ANTHROPOCENE https://bit.ly/3QR898d) Human-Earth system science https://WanderingGaia.com
Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology & Prehistory @CamBioanth @UCamArchaeology - interested in #science, #humanevolution, #prehistory, #palaeontology, #bones #lithics, #fossils, #climatechange, #museums, #collections
Can get distracted by much more 😍- J Joan Silk @jbsilk.bsky.social Evolutionary anthropologist, primate behavioral ecologist.
Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social Economic justice campaigner. Professor of Accounting Practice, Sheffield University. Former chartered accountant. Political economist. Opinions all my own.
Dr James Cole @jamescolearch.bsky.social Deputy Executive Dean @uniofbrighton. Human evolution & prehistoric cannibals. @IgNobel prize winner 2018
Andy I.R. Herries at La Trobe Archaeoogy @ozarchaeomaglab.bsky.social Palaeoanthropology & Geochronology Professor at La Trobe University Archaeology. Director of the Drimolen Palaeoanthropology Field School, Amanzi Springs & The Australian Archaeomagnetism Laboratory he/him
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
@anthrofuentes.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social
Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social Director of the Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University London @brunelcce.bsky.social
https://www.rebeccasear.org/
Gerrit Dusseldorp 🟥 @dussel.bsky.social Does Pleistocene Archaeology @ Leiden University https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/gerrit-dusseldorp#tab-1
Cricket | Natural history
Dr Ben Schoville @bschov.bsky.social Senior Researcher and Lecturer in Archaeology. Interested in human adaptations in arid environments, particularly in the Pleistocene, experimental archaeology and the origins of projectiles, and the Acheulean/Middle Stone Age transition.
Annemieke Milks @annemiekemilks.bsky.social Palaeolithic archaeologist, experimental archaeology, Pleistocene childhoods and skills, wood technologies, and human evolution.
🏺, 🥾, 📚 , 🎶
Assoc Prof Robyn Pickering @pickeringrobyn.bsky.social Assoc. Professor University of Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦 Co-director Human Evolution Research Institute | geology, isotopes, U-Pb dating carbonates, human evolution, southern African palaeoclimates | equitable fieldwork | decolonisation |she/her
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
Dr Pauline Nelson @drpmanc110.bsky.social Qualitative researcher in #HealthServicesOrganisation @sheffielduni.bsky.social; ‘Norn’ Irish; unpaid carer; tea drinker 🫖
Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social Archaeologist | Neolithic Britain & Ireland | Heritage interpretation | Lecturer at University of Exeter | Editor of Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society
UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture: “Making, Understanding, Storytelling”
https://www.ucd.ie/archaeology/ceamc/
Posts by Aidan O’Sullivan & Anita Radini, at UCD School of Archaeology
European Association of Archaeologists @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social We are 4,000 archaeologists from over 60 countries.
Tweets by volunteers, not 24/7.
Find us here: https://www.e-a-a.org/
e: helpdesk@e-a-a.org
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/
Dr. James Dilley @ancientcraftuk.bsky.social Experimental Archaeologist; Media consultant; Specialist in Flintknapping & Bronze casting: see my work displayed at The British Museum & Stonehenge
Find me at: https://www.ancientcraft.co.uk/
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 🏳️🌈
EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social Official feed of European Human Behaviour & Evolution Association. Follow for news and info about awards, grants, conferences. Account managed by @pablovarase.bsky.social www.ehbea.org
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
The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social The Wolfson Digital Archaeology & Heritage Lab in the Department of Archaeology at the University of York.
https://linktr.ee/dahlab
Director: Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social
Co-Director: James Taylor @archaeo-james.bsky.social
Elena Miu @elenamiu.bsky.social Cultural evolution, cultural adaptation, innovation
Assistant Professor in Cognitive Science at Aarhus University
https://elenamiu.github.io/
Lois Lee @loielee.bsky.social Sociologist at the University of Kent. Existential cultures, ethics and identities; secularism and pluralism; social stratification and inequalities.
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
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/
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
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
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
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
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.
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)
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
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
Björn Lindström @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social Researching (social) learning and cultural evolution at Karolinska Institute, Sweden
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
Hugo Mercier @hugoreasoning.bsky.social Evolutionary and cognitive psychologist. Author, Not Born Yesterday (http://tinyurl.com/yyh929ns), The Enigma of Reason (http://tinyurl.com/6hbpn84).
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/
Ed Hagen @edhagen.net Professor of Anthropology at Washington State University.
Faculty page: https://anthro.vancouver.wsu.edu/people/hagen/
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