Peiwei Chen @peiwei-chen.bsky.social HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow & Postdoc with Andy Clark and Cedric Feschotte at Cornell | selfish genetic element, transposon, small RNA, evolution
peiweichen.com
Riccardo Giovanni @riccardo5.bsky.social 
Sam Arsenault, PhD @samarsenault.bsky.social Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Mississippi State University 🐜 🧬 | Ants | Supergenes | Genomics | Evo-Devo | Evolution |
https://arsenaultresearch.github.io/
[he/him]
Philipp Brand @pbrand.bsky.social PI of Evolutionary Neuroscience and Behavior Group at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research.
Evolution of behavior, neural circuits, chemical senses, and speciation.
he/him
https://brain.mpg.de/brand
Lei Yu (于雷) @nefu-for-journal.bsky.social I am the managing editor of Journal of Forestry Research (JCR IF=4.1, 12/92; Scopus Citescore of 8.3). You can get all via journal web: https://www.springer.com/journal/11676
Benjamin Palm @haplodiploid.bsky.social studying ants 🐜 @unihohenheim.bsky.social
Chinmay Hemant Joshi @chjoshi.bsky.social Behavioral ecologist | Currently looking for Postdoc positions | PhD from @uofa-eeb.bsky.social and MS from IISER-Trivandrum | Robustness of collective foraging, animal contest, and evolution of eusociality
Website: chinmayhemantjoshi.wordpress.com
Baptiste Piqueret @baptistepiqueret.bsky.social PhD in Ethology. Last postdoc position with the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology / Jena Germany.
Interested in ants, olfaction and animal behaviour.
XIII European Congress of Entomology @ece2026tours.bsky.social To bring together the international entomological community to share knowledge, foster collaboration & inspire future research.
June 29 – July 3, 2026 • Tours, France 🐛🦋🐜🪲🦗🐞🦟🪰🪳🐝🌍🔬🧬🧪
➡️ https://www.ece2026.org/
Ingrid Fetter-Pruneda, Ph.D. @ifetter.bsky.social Neuroscience | Behavior | Aging and fertility | Ants 🐜
Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, UNAM
@czavaletaz.bsky.social @czavaletaz.bsky.social 
Vusumuzi Ngonidzashe Hove @vusumuzihove.bsky.social
Ph.D. Student, Pharmaceutical Sciences, @umaryland.edu School of Pharmacy 💊 | Medicinal Chemist👨🏾🔬🔬🧪| Oncology Researcher 💻🧬💉| @ubuffalo.bsky.social Alumnus🎓🦬 | @UBmenstennis🤘🏿🎾 | Zimbabwean Pro Tennis Player🎾🇿🇼 |#BillsMafia🏈🇺🇸
https://linktr.ee/vusumuzihove
Sandra Tretter @sandratretter.bsky.social PhD student at @MPI_CE Lise Meitner Research Group Social Behavior, working with ants 🐜🧠🦠
Dirk Metzler @dirkmetzler.bsky.social stochastic modelling in biology, evolutionary bioinformatics, theoretical population genetics, evolutionary (epi)genomics and transcriptomics
Esther van den Bos @esthervandenbos.bsky.social Interested in ants and superorganismality.
https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=KtFmcBIAAAAJ
https://www.uni-muenster.de/Evolution/molevolsocbio/esthervandenbos.shtml
Giulia Blasi @giblasi.bsky.social 
Maria Litto @mlitto.bsky.social Lab manager @socialinsectlab.bsky.social @unimainz.bsky.social ~ Interested in ecology and evolution of social insects and trophic interactions. She/her 🇮🇹🇩🇪🏳️🌈
Joe Colgan @hibernogruppe.bsky.social Asst. Prof. JGU Mainz 🇩🇪 (he/him)| 🐝🧬 wild bee evolution | 🐟💻 salmonid genomics | https://github.com/joscolgan
Tom Keaney @tom-is-kean.bsky.social Postdoc and Kokkonut @uni_mainz — evolutionary theory (interested in how asymmetry generates conflict), bikes and bushwalking
Christoph Grüter @chrisleduck.bsky.social Associate Professor in Animal Behaviour & Ecology @University of Bristol🇬🇧 |🐝 🐜| immigrant 🇨🇭| he/him | https://www.socialinsect-research.com/
Volker Nehring @volkernehring.bsky.social May contain ants
http://evolution.vnehring.de | Behaviour, Evolution, Ecology | Assistant Prof @uni-freiburg.de, Germany | AE @PlosONE | Secretary Central European IUSSI
Joël Meunier @jmeunierearwig.bsky.social Behavioural ecologist studying earwigs (insects), parental care, social evolution, social immunity, pesticides, global warming... Defender of open science.
CNRS Researcher at univ Tours (FR) - IRBI
https://joelmeunier.wixsite.com/researchpage
Seirian Sumner @waspwoman.bsky.social #Behavioural #ecologist; Prof; UCL; weakness for #wasps. Actually, it’s not a weakness.. #Wasplove. Author Endless Forms: Why we should love wasps. http://tinyurl.com/UKwasps #Evolution #Naturewriting #Scicomm #sociality #Genomics
Adria LeBoeuf @adriatica.bsky.social I study #socialfluids. Ponderer of the #behavior of myself & other organisms. #SocialInsects / #DistributedMetabolism / #CollectiveBehavior / #CompBio Assoc. Prof @ University of Cambridge; previously Fribourg, Weizmann, Lausanne, Rockefeller, UCSB. 
Tim Linksvayer @tlinksvayer.bsky.social Evolution of social complexity & evolutionary genetics of social insects. Assoc Prof at Arizona State University
Richard Merrill @dickmerrill.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist at LMU Munich interested behaviour and speciation. Tropical butterfly hunter. Dog father. https://www.bio.lmu.de/en/research/research-fields/evolutionary-biology/merrill-lab/
Philipp Engel @pengellab.bsky.social Microbiologist at UNIL Switzerland, interested in Microbiota-host interactions, symbiosis, evolution and genomics, and social bees
engelbeelab.com
Max Körner @max-evolbio.bsky.social Evolutionary biology & Entomology, Gamer & Movie enthusiast. Enjoy critters with 4+ legs. Burying beetle researcher in Bayreuth, GER
Luisa Jaimes @jaimesnino.bsky.social Entomologist and Evolutionary biologist at JGU | Postdoc & Group Leader | Life-history evolution in ants | ljaimesnino.github.io
Elva Robinson @elvarobinson.bsky.social Behavioural ecologist: Social organisation in ants etc; Field ecology, behavioural experiments, computational modelling; EDI, University of York; she/her
The Social Fluids Lab @socialfluids.bsky.social We study socially transferred materials, metabolic division of labour, and the evolution of cooperation. Mostly ants, sometimes microbes, sometimes vertebrates.
PI = @adriatica.bsky.social, Lab is @camzoology.bsky.social at University of Cambridge.
Charissa de Bekker PhD (she/her) @zombieantdoc.bsky.social Associate Professor, molecular ecologist @ Utrecht University.
Zombie-making parasites, extended phenotypes, ant behavior, fungal hyper parasites, fungi for sustainable solutions. DEI advocate. #firstgen
Metal head, cat lady, dog mom, BJJ black belt.
Abel Bernadou @abelbernadou.bsky.social @cbitoulouse | Major evolutionary transitions • Division of labour • Social evolution • insects • ants
Yuko Ulrich @yukoulrich.bsky.social Social behaviour and disease in clonal ants, Lise Meitner group leader
@MPI_CE
Hugo Darras @hugodarras.bsky.social Social insects, non-mendelian inheritance and genomic conflicts 🐜 🐝 🧬🔬
Centre for Evolutionary & Organismal Biology, Zhejiang University, China 🇨🇳 https://lab-darras.github.io/
Cintia A. Oi @cintiaoi.bsky.social Biologist, Postdoc @UCL, Scientific associate @NHM, passionate about nature, science and especially wasps
Iain Couzin @icouzin.bsky.social FRS. Director, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and Center for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour at the University of Konstanz, Germany. 🏴
Jos Kramer @joskramer.bsky.social Social Evolution & Ecology | Insects, Microbes & Parental Care | Independent Group Leader [ERC Staring Grant Fellow] at Uni Bayreuth (DE)
Joanito Liberti @joanitoliberti.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ University of Geneva | studying the interactions between gut microbes and animal neurophysiology and behaviour 🔍🧫🧬🐝
Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social Scientist, Evolutionary Biologist & Entomologist / Ants / Genomes to Microbiomes / Professor & Curator at @Cornell / @CornellCALS / She/Her
Sandra Steiger @steigerlab.bsky.social Head of the department of Evolutionary Animal Ecology @ University of Bayreuth | Professor | #firstgen | mother | loves burying beetles |interested in the evolution of family life and chemical communication
Andy Gardner @andygardner.bsky.social Evolution | Theory | Social Evolution | Population Genetics | Behavioural Ecology | Kin Selection | Multilevel Selection | Inclusive Fitness | Sex Ratio | Altruism | Professor of Biology at University of St Andrews, Scotland. 
Giulia Scarparo @giuliascarparo.bsky.social Junior Gourp leader, JGU, Mainz
Clarita Iona Mendes @clariona.bsky.social PhD Student @UniMainz
Studying Neurobiology in 🐜
Dabbler in writing, arts & SciComm
Universität Köln| Universität Würzburg| St.Xavier's Mumbai|
Bornberglab @bornberglab.bsky.social Molecular evolution and bioinformatics at Uni Muenster, Germany. Protein evolution | domains | de novo genes | comparative evolutionary genomics
http://bornberglab.org/
Uthara Srinivasan @utharasrini.bsky.social Kokkonut 🥥 and PhD student at JGU Mainz, Germany | Non genetic inheiritence, plasticity, polymorphism maintenence| Theories of adaptative evolution | 🧬🌿📈👩💻🙆♀️
Previously at EES LMU, Munich and Azim Premji University, Bangalore
she/her
Ina Huylmans @ahuylmans.bsky.social evolutionary biologist: sex determination, social evolution, gene expression evolution, and bugs #genomics #bioinformatics #molbiol
Niels Dingemanse @dingemanselab.bsky.social I love animal behaviour, behavioural ecology, life history strategies, quantitative genetics, social evolution, SQuID-teaching, mixed models, birding, dragonflies, chickens, diving, the sea & the mountains. Prof @lmumuenchen. Views are my own. He/him
CristinaTuni @cristinatuni.bsky.social Evolutionary behavioural ecologist. Associate Professor at @unito @dbiosunito. Interested in reproduction of 6-to-8-legged creatures. Mom of 2. Big fan of @MacroBeatsRecords
Clemens Küpper @chorlnev.bsky.social Interested in Biodiversity and why there is so much variation out there. Evolution, Genetics, Behaviour, Ecology, Conservation, nowadays also Physiology. Studying Waders/Shorebirds. Currently at Max Planck BI.
Rebecca Chen @rebeccachen.bsky.social postdoc at @thehoffmanlab.bsky.social working on mutation load, DNA methylation and epigenetic clocks in black grouse 🧬👩💻🧪
mutation load | inbreeding | population genetics | ecological epigenetics | sexual selection
https://rshuhuachen.github.io/rc/
Roman Zug @romanzug.bsky.social Theoretical biologist
Postdoc @mainzuniversity.bsky.social
Evolution & development, gene regulation, health & disease, symbiosis
And a fondness for the humanities
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Sz-2qz4AAAAJ&hl=en
Federico Lopez @flopezos.bsky.social Evolutionary biology, genomics, bioinformatics, social insects.
Rob Waterhouse @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social Director, Environmental Bioinformatics Group at SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics @sib.swiss. Chair, European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA, @ergabiodiv.bsky.social). #biodiversity #genomics www.rmwaterhouse.org
Nico Posnien @posnienlab.bsky.social genotype-phenotype, evo-devo, genetics, transcriptomics, gene regulatory networks, flies, beetles, spiders.
https://www.posnien-lab.net/ 
Social Insects Lab - JGU Mainz @socialinsectlab.bsky.social Behavioral Ecology and Social Evolution Research Groups @unimainz.bsky.social
Laura Ross @laurarossevo.bsky.social Professor of non-Mendelian genetics, University of Edinburgh
Johanna Mappes @jmappes.bsky.social Professor of Ecology at the University of Helsinki
🧪 #Animal behaviour, #animal coloration, #evoeco, #moths, #sensory ecology #fundamental science
I teach birds to play computer games
Evolution Letters @evolletters.bsky.social OA journal publishing the best work in evolutionary biology. Jointly owned by @eseb.bsky.social & @sse-evolution.bsky.social, published by OUP. https://academic.oup.com/evlett
Tag us in your post about your Evolution Letters papers and we will repost!
ESEB 2025 Congress @eseb2025.bsky.social Welcome to the ESEB 2025 Congress, set to take place in Barcelona. This congress marks another milestone for the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), which has been organising biennial conferences since 1987. Join us! We are waiting for you.
European Society for Evolutionary Biology @eseb.bsky.social Official profile of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) - an international academic society supporting the study of #evolution
https://eseb.org
Publisher of @jevbio.bsky.social
Co-publisher of @evolletters.bsky.social
Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social Entomologist and Photographer in Austin, Texas.
https://www.alexanderwild.com
Daniel Kronauer @danielkronauer.bsky.social PI @Rockefeller University. Investigator @HHMI. Instigator of clonal raider ant project #CRAP. 🐜 Evolution, Behavior & Neuroscience. Posts science and photography. 🧠 📸
https://www.rockefeller.edu/research/2280-kronauer-laboratory/
Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social A.v.Humboldt professor at the University of Mainz. Evolutionary ecologist. Runs a research group that once prompted the description "in this [coffee] room there's almost always someone who is at least partially fun". (Which we then translated into Latin.)