Centre for Language Evolution @uoe-cle.bsky.social Interdisciplinary centre at the University of Edinburgh. We study the cultural evolution of language using experimental and computational approaches. https://cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk/
Amanda Royka @amandaroyka.bsky.social Roses are red, rabbits eat kale. I’m studying for a PhD at Yale.
Social Cognition • Comparative Cognition • Theory of Mind
https://amandaroyka.github.io/
Daniel Nettle @danielnettle.bsky.social Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS, Paris
www.danielnettle.eu
Mario Klingemann @quasimondo.bsky.social Artist, Neurographer, AI Prompteur, Purveyor of Systems, Data Dumpster Diver, Information Recycler
Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net mediocre transsexual and middle-aged sydneysider. tired, anxious, and fearful. occasionally writes sensible things about code, art, and statistics
Sabine Blütgen @sabinebluetgen.bsky.social PhD student at the Centre for Language Evolution @uoe-cle.bsky.social, University of Edinburgh. Interested in human and animal behaviour and evolution, gene–culture coevolution, social cognition. she/her
https://sabinebluetgen.github.io/
Cliodhna Hughes @greatlikecheese.bsky.social
Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social Retired professor of psychology at University of Oxford. Interests in developmental neuropsychology and improving science. Blogs at deevybee.blogspot.com
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
Noga Zaslavsky @nogazs.bsky.social Computational cognitive scientist, developing integrative models of language, perception, and action. Assistant Prof at NYU.
More info: https://www.nogsky.com/
@emmalcaldwell.bsky.social @emmalcaldwell.bsky.social
Virve Vihman @virvev.bsky.social Psycholinguist at the Univ of Tartu, Estonia, mother of teens, researcher of language acquisition & use, Estonian/American, ally, MEDAL consortium PI
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/
Erol Akcay @akcay.theoretical.bio Ecology, evolution, and social dynamics at the University of Pennsylvania. He/him
https://akcay.theoretical.bio
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).
James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social Anthropologist in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability studying human adaptation, infectious disease dynamics, and climate fiction.
https://heeh.stanford.edu
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
Nathan Nunn 🇨🇦 🇰🇷 @nathannunn.bsky.social Professor of Economics. University of British Columbia. Political Economy, Economic Development, Economic History, Cultural Evolution. 🇰🇷🇨🇦
Heidi Colleran @heidicolleran.bsky.social Anthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. https://www.eva.mpg.de/ecology/staff/heidi-colleran/ Culture | Demography |Reproduction | Population | Humanist and scientist. Writing a book: The Myth of Human Nature, out 2027 🇮🇪
Matt Zefferman @mzefferman.bsky.social Any views expressed are, at most, my own and do not reflect those of any organization.
Natalia Vélez @natvelali.bsky.social Cognitive scientist at UCSD, personally & scientifically interested in collaboration | science sketcher | thinking in non-English 🇵🇷
Joshua Conrad Jackson @joshcjackson.bsky.social Cultural evolution of the mind | Assistant Professor @ University of Chicago, Booth School of Business & Faculty Affiliate of UChicago Data Science Institute | He/his | https://joshuaconradjackson.com
Dr Michelle Ann Kline @michelleakline.bsky.social anthropologist in a psych dept | American in the UK | she/her | doing my best to be inclusive
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
Kris Smith @kris-smith.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Anthropology at WSU studying how people work together to respond to environmental change and infectious disease across E. Africa. Interdisciplinary and plays well with others. He/him
Website: kristophermsmith.com
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
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)
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
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.
Simon J. Greenhill @simongreenhill.bsky.social I study how languages and cultures evolve. Primarily with phylogenies and other assorted computational methods. Based at @Biology_UoA. Never met a language phylogeny or a cultural phylogeny I didn't like. #phylolinguistics
Ryutaro Uchiyama @uchiyama.bsky.social 🔗 https://ryu.sg 🌏Asst Prof @Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) 〜Human cognitive ecology; Embodied Human-AI interfaces; Cultural evolution 〜 Previously 🇩🇪 ←🇬🇧 ←🇨🇦 ←🇺🇸 ←🇯🇵〆
Bret Beheim @babeheim.bsky.social cultural evolution, behavioral ecology, math models, data provenance, MOSAIC group leader @ Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology + faculty at the Leipzig School of Human Origins https://babeheim.com/
Lotty Brand @lottybrand.bsky.social ex postdoc in human behaviour and evolution, social learning, cultural evolution, open science. Current trainee counsellor, secular buddhism enthusiast, and postpartum blob of myself.
Matthew Gervais @matthewmgervais.bsky.social Lecturer in Psychology @BrunelCCE.bsky.social.
Sentiments & sociality co-evolving with culture | Comparative field methods & ethics | Pickles & playgrounds & ponds on the side wee
https://www.brunel.ac.uk/people/matthew-gervais
Dominik Deffner @dominikdeffner.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Computational Modelling of Behaviour @unimarburg.bsky.social | Collective decision-making and cultural evolution | https://www.uni-marburg.de/en/fb04/team-deffner/copy_of_deffner
Iyad Rahwan | إياد رهوان @iyadrahwan.bsky.social Director, Max Planck Center for Humans & Machines http://chm.mpib-berlin.mpg.de | Former prof. @MIT | Creator of http://moralmachine.net | Art: http://instagram.com/iyad.rahwan Web: rahwan.me
Tim Waring @twaring.bsky.social I study the evolution of human culture with a focus on environmental behaviors and institutions and an eye toward helping these become more sustainable on a single, limited planet. https://timwaring.info/
Charley Wu @thecharleywu.bsky.social Prof. of Computational Cognitive Science at TU Darmstadt & PI of the Human and Machine Cognition lab | hmc-lab.com
Robin Schimmelpfennig @schimmelpfennig.bsky.social PhD@heclausanne (w/ EffersonCharles) /Affl. @LSE_PBS w/ @mmuthukrishna & Google Research. UN Fellow for Behavioral Science #behavior #culture #organizations #AI Webite: robinschimmelpfennig.com
Scott Claessens @scottclaessens.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Kent, interested in cultural evolution, cooperation, and moral psychology with a focus on artificial intelligence.
Brendan Barrett @bjjbarrett.bsky.social dad / evolutionary (behavioral) ecologist
group leader at MPI-AB and STRI research associate
social learning, cultural evolution, extragenetic inheritance, dispersal.
field & stats & math.
cyclist & runner / doom metal aficionado.
he/him.
Jeremy Koster @jeremykoster.bsky.social Aligning incentives for better science - quality over status
Signer of DORA: https://sfdora.org/
Co-director of ENDOW project: https://endowproject.github.io/
Interdisciplinary socio-ecological scientist advocating for congruence of theory, data, and stats
Maxime Derex @maximederex.bsky.social CNRS Researcher at IAST and Toulouse School of Economics
Working on cumulative culture, social learning, innovation
Adrian Viliami Bell @avbell.bsky.social professor and chair of anthropology at the university of utah; interested in evolution, culture, and migration
https://adrianbell.wordpress.com/
Durham Cultural Evolution Research Centre @durhamdcerc.bsky.social DCERC is a highly interdisciplinary research centre using evolutionary models to study cultural change and diversity. Based at Durham University, England.
Chris Buckley @chrisbuckley.bsky.social Anthropologist with interests in cultural evolution, phylogenetics, classical methods, weaving. Interface of archaeology and ethnography. Author of "Stone and Fiber: Daily life in the Baliem valley, Papua".
Joseph Watts @josephwatts.bsky.social Social scientist interested in how human culture, cognition and evolution interact. Psychology Department, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Personal website: https://josephwatts.org/
Marco Smolla @msmolla.bsky.social Developing software at DB Systel for tomorrow‘s rail traffic management.
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 🏳️🌈
Jonathan F Schulz @jonathanschulz.bsky.social Asst. Prof. at George Mason University. Interested in cultural evolution, human behavior, economic development and history. https://sites.google.com/site/jonathanfschulz/
Wataru Toyokawa @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social Behavioural scientist running the Computational Group Dynamics (COGNAC) lab in RIKEN CBS. Also affiliating the Uni Konstanz & MPI Animal Behaviour. Love Collective Dynamics, whiskies, wine, and vintage shops.- A Adam Powell @adampowell.bsky.social
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
Nicole Wen @nicolewen.bsky.social Ph.D. • Lecturer (Asst Prof) in Psychology | Centre for Culture and Evolution | Brunel University of London | Director of the Culture & Minds Lab (@culturemindslab.bsky.social) | www.nicolewen.com
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/
Jeremy Kendal @jeremykendal.bsky.social Anthropologist at Durham University, UK. Interests include epistemology and ontology, cultural evolution, disease emergence.
https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/jeremy-kendal/
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8644-3117
Feryl Badiani @ferylbadiani.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at LEVYNA, Masaryk University. Studying norm transmission mechanisms underlying the culturally adaptive success of Hinduism.
Fredrik Jansson @fredrikjansson.bsky.social Associate Professor in Mathematics interested in cultural evolution and connecting psychology, sociology and philosophy through modelling.
Mícheál @michealdebarra.bsky.social
Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social Quantitative Methods, Prehistoric Demography, Cultural Evolution and random stuff. Professor of Quantitative and Comparative Archaeology @cam-archaeology.bsky.social https://ercrema.github.io/
Simon Carrignon @carigol.bsky.social research, culture & computers || drac, romanche et sud grenoblois || https://randomdrift.info/
ESLR @eslr.bsky.social ESLR Society is a community for early-career researchers interested in human and non-human animal culture, behaviour and learning. Join for free and subscribe to our mailing list at:
https://www.eslrsociety.com
Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social Cross-cultural and experimental psychologist / anthropologist.
Working on: appearance ideals, body image, sexual selection, gender, social transmission.
Working in:
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(A veces posteo en español.)
Prof @ Durham
http://www.boothlab.org
Alice Williams @alicejwilliams.bsky.social Archaeologist and archaeobotanist using computational methods to understand the past & postdoc on the New Bantu Mosaics project
Cristina Moya @hyperadapthyrax.bsky.social evolutionary anthropologist, overly committed to adaptationist logic
https://sites.google.com/site/cristinasolermoya/ Can we agree to fight against this corporate oligarchy? https://indivisible.org/groups
Cailin O’Connor @cailinmeister.bsky.social Philosopher and applied mathematician at UC Irvine. Author of The Misinformation Age and Origins of Unfairness. Irish dancer. Mother. Mother of Chickens.
Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social Exploring the ecology of an increasingly human planet.
Prof. Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC
Anthromes, Anthroecology & Anthropocene
https://anthroecology.org/people/ellis/
Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social Behavioral Science of AI @ Toulouse School of Economics @tse-fr.eu Director of @iast.fr Chair of Moral AI @ Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute https://jfbonnefon.github.io/
David W Lawson @davidwlawson.bsky.social Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Barbara
Applied Evolutionary Anthropology Lab 🌍🌏🌎
Human Behavioral Ecology
Global Health, Family, Gender Norms 🏳️🌈
aea-lab.com
Eleanor Power @eapower.bsky.social anthropologist, network scientist, phillumenist, Rep2SI (rep2si.github.io) & ENDOW (endowproject.github.io), assoc prof at the London School of Economics, external faculty @sfiscience.bsky.social. (she/her)
Ben Marwick @benmarwick.bsky.social Archaeologist and #rstats enthusiast- A Azim Shariff @azimshariff.bsky.social Professor of Psychology at the University of British Columbia.
Cultural Evolution - Transformation Fund @cultevolfunding.bsky.social Transforming the Field of Cultural Evolution. Funding by @templeton_fdn through @CulturalEvolSoc.bsky.social
https://mas.to/@CulturalEvolFunding
https://twitter.com/CultEvolFunding
ces.transformationfund@durham.ac.uk
https://ces-transformationfund.org/
Elspeth Ready @elspethready.bsky.social Senior researcher in HBEC Department @MPI_EVA_Leipzig & freelance environmental social science consultant
Anthropology, Arctic social science, social network analysis, running, hiking, science fiction
elspethr.github.io
sanguatsiniq.github.io
Václav Hrnčíř @vaclavhrncir.bsky.social Evolutionary anthropologist. Postdoctoral Researcher at @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social. Interested in prehistory and cultural evolution.
vaclavhrncir.com
Kiran Basava @incertaesedis.bsky.social Technically an anthropologist. Postdoc at the Data Diversity Lab, University of Arizona. Building a database of animal cultures.
https://kiranbasava.weebly.com/
Colin D. Wren @cdwren.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of Archaeology at UCCS in Colorado, mind usually other places. Agent-based models and quantitative methods usually for the Palaeolithic.
Jeremy Van Cleve @vancleve.theoretical.bio Associate Professor @ University of Kentucky. Evolution / Ecology / Math. Biker. Aikidoka. #BlackLivesMatter
Editor in Chief of Theoretical Population Biology
http://vancleve.theoretical.bio
Damien Farine @damienfarine.bsky.social Analysing collectives of living dinosaurs. Discoverer of multilevel societies. Watcher of fishers and dolphins. Modeller of emergent phenomena. Caretaker of long term guineafowl, fairywren and chough projects. A/Prof @ Australian National Uni.
Abbey Page @abbeyepage.bsky.social Lecturer CCE Brunel in working on all things on reproduction, childrearing, early childhood and social support. Thinks in evolutionary and other frameworks. Secretary of EHBEA. 🩷💜💙🩵
@charlesefferson.bsky.social @charlesefferson.bsky.social Attender of meetings at the University of Lausanne. #culturalEvolution #geneCultureCoevolution #appliedCulturalEvolution #evolutionCooperation #coordination #socialNorms #humanEvolutionaryEcology
Thibaud Gruber @thibaudgruber.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Geneva. Primatologist. Comparative psychologist. Co-director Bugoma Primate Conservation Project.
Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social Scientist | Behavior | Cognition | Culture
Latest book: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691240770/the-human-evolutionary-transition
And nature photographer/biodiversity junkie:
www.jlind.se & www.instagram.com/jlindphoto
UNESCO Week of Sound in Edinburgh @weekofsound.bsky.social Hosted by @edincollegeofart.bsky.social at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social for the people of Edinburgh.
weekofsound.scot
School of PPLS at The University of Edinburgh @schoolofppls.bsky.social The account of the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences at The University of Edinburgh.
Natalia Levshina @natalialevshina.bsky.social Assistant professor of communication and computational methods @ Radboud University. I'm interested in why human languages are the way they are and how people from different cultures use them. Communicative efficiency, corpus-based typology, statistics, AI
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho @rferrericancho.bsky.social
@emma-carroll.bsky.social @emma-carroll.bsky.social
Dr Jenny Allen @jennyallen13.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher at @seamammalresearch.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social studying culture and social learning in whales. Feminist, Whovian, bookworm, expert tree climber. She/her.
Tim Vernimmen @timvernimmen.bsky.social science writer / music enthusiast / aspiring peripatetic
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
Bluesky Synthesizer Community #synthsky @synthsky.bsky.social Los Angeles - London
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We’ve got a strong synthesizer community here on Bluesky. Join us!!
#synthsky #synthfam #synthesizer #modular #electronica #ambient
Haaretz.com @haaretzcom.bsky.social All the news, opinion and analysis from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World
Edinburgh College of Art @edincollegeofart.bsky.social Part of the University of Edinburgh, UK. Undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Art, Design, History of Art and Music.
https://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/
Lara Jones @larajonesmusic.bsky.social composer / producer / performer 🏳️🌈🇵🇸
Latest EP for film & tv: https://www.universalproductionmusic.com/en-gb/discover/albums/39104/introducing-lara-jones
www.larajonesmusic.com
Science Magazine @science.org Cutting-edge research, news, commentary, and visuals from the Science family of journals. https://www.science.org
Cathleen O'Grady @cathleenogrady.bsky.social Science journo, mainly at @science.org, writing about science & society, research integrity, and other places where the scientific rubber hits the road.
cathleenogrady.com
Fruitmarket @fruitmarket.bsky.social A free, public space for culture in the heart of Edinburgh, the Fruitmarket provides inspiration and opportunity for artists and audiences.
Check out what's happening at Fruitmarket https://linktr.ee/fruitmarket
https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk
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