Victor Ajuwon @victorajuwon1.bsky.social Postdoc in the Comparative Cognition Lab, Cambridge Psychology Department working on cognition and curiosity in cuttlefish🐙 and other animals. Formerly DPhil student at Oxford Biology. https://vajuwon.weebly.com
@denisep99.bsky.social @denisep99.bsky.social PhD student studying innovation in kea 🦜 | Animal behavior and cognition | Bird enthusiast 🐦⬛
Petra Sumasgutner @pesumas.bsky.social Associate Professor for Behavioural Ecology | Konrad Lorenz Research Center | University of Vienna - Urban Raptors - Movement Ecology - Human-Wildlife- Interactions - Hike | Fly | Dive
https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0001-7042-3461
Fragkiskos Machairas @frankmachairas.bsky.social
Zofia Trafas (kiwi)🥝🏳️🌈 @kiwiow.bsky.social PhD student @Vetmeduni Vienna, researching innovation in kea🦜| bird cognition and behaviour enthusiast | still a fan of tits and boobies𓄿𓅐𓅞𓅬𓅫
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
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
Anna Elisa Kempf @annaek.bsky.social PhD Student @Vetmeduni Vienna 🦜🕊️ Working on Dexterity & Tool use in Goffin‘s cockatoos into all things art & science 🪷 (she | her)
Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net Language, interaction, tech • papers https://markdingemanse.net • blog https://ideophone.org • more colourful on fedi https://scholar.social/@dingemansemark/ • POSSE: Publish on Own Site, Syndicate Everywhere
Kezrek Laczin @kezrek.bsky.social 🚀 Kez, WotC Art Director ✨ She/her/they queer ace
- Considerate & realistic optimist
- Thoughts are my own
- 🚫 Blocks all genAI, NFTs, & bigots
Portfolio: http://kezrek.com
Measuring Behavior @measuringbehavior.bsky.social The next MB conference is April 28-30 2027 in Düsseldorf. It is a forum for the latest methods, inventions, prototypes, tools and techniques in behavioral research.
Christian Guckelsberger @creativeendvs.bsky.social 💻Computer Scientist🖼Art Historian👨🏫Prof in Creative Tech @Aalto University (Finland). Bridging AI/HCI/CogSci/Creative Practice to research creative AI.
War and Peas 🧿 @warandpeas.bsky.social 🌹 Comics by Elizabeth Pich & Jonathan Kunz 🌹
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Lena Jannasch @crowladyl.bsky.social PhD student @ Uni Tübingen | Studying intelligence as an evolutionary spectrum, not a hierarchy | Avian cognition | Math at heart
We need global policies to make AI safe and aligned with human interests.
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
Marcela Suarez @marentierra.bsky.social Lecturer in Critical Intersectional perspectives on AI at School of AI, Radboud University
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 🏳️🌈
Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social Exciting stuff on complexity, theoretical biology, artificial intelligence, linguistics, neuroscience and their intersections.
#complexitycat
complexitycat.org
Laura Simone Lewis @laurasimonelewis.bsky.social Asst. Prof. in Psychological and Brain Sciences and Anthropology @ UC Santa Barbara | UC PPFP Fellow | Fascinated by great ape social cognition!
https://www.laurasimonelewis.com/
https://www.originsofmindlab.com/
Johannes Brinz @johannesbrinz.bsky.social Philosopher at the University of Osnabrück 📚 Working on the philosophy of (Neuromorphic) AI, computation, and science.
"From simulating to duplicating the brain": https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-026-05505-0
One Hashtag Birds @one-hashtag-birds.bsky.social
Please follow for photos of beautiful birds without too many hashtags.
Portfolio: https://unsplash.com/@one_hashtag_birds
Laura Lambert, PhD 🍋 @laudepluie.bsky.social Posdoc in Neurosciences & Psychology
Universities: Bordeaux - Paris Cité - Lausanne
Behavioural addictions 🎰 🎮🔞
Podcast de vulgarisation 🎧 "Thèse et vous !"
Coordinatrice Pint of Science Bordeaux #pint26
Jeux vidéo & Escalade 💛
EthoArt 2026 — Ethology & the Arts @ethoart2026.bsky.social Ethology, Literature and the Arts 🎨🦋 — Erice, Sicily, 24-27 Sep 2026. How the science of animal behaviour shapes philosophy, literature, film & art. Abstracts due 10 Sep. 🔗 centromajorana.it/ethoart2026
Nick Leiby @nleiby.bsky.social Alexandria, VA.
Data, science, climbing, urbanism, sci fi, birds.
gaia.eco - Biodiversity Studio @gaia.eco 🪸 Monitor species. Restore nature.
🌍 Data, KPIs, analytics and reports
🔎 Open up https://gaia.eco
Jose Ricardo Paula @josericardopaula.bsky.social Ass Prof @ University of Lisbon; President of @SPEtolgia; PI of http://www.behcomplexitylab.eu
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
Jonas Rose @jonasrose.bsky.social https://www.ngl.psy.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/
Neuroscience of avian cognition. Cognitive science at Ruhr University
Owls in Towels @owls-in-towels.bsky.social Wildlife rehabilitators often wrap owls so they can be weighed and fed. If not, the owls get in a flap.
The result? Loads of pictures of #owlsintowels
https://owlsintowels.org
poppylambert.bsky.social @poppylambert.bsky.social Comparative cognition PhD student @vetmedunivienna. Researching learning, causal reasoning and innovation in our animal friends. Host of the Living Biology podcast. https://sites.google.com/view/poppy-j-lambert
BA Biology . MSc Science Communication
Universität Wien / University of Vienna @univie.ac.at Offizieller Account der Uni Wien / Official account of University of Vienna.
Es postet http://communications.univie.ac.at 💬
Impressum: http://go.univie.ac.at/impressum Netiquette: http://go.univie.ac.at/netiquette
@mhoeschele.bsky.social @mhoeschele.bsky.social
Behaviour 2027 @behaviour2027.bsky.social Official account for Behaviour 2027 (XXXIX International Ethological Congress) taking place in Vienna, Austria, from August 23-27.
Joe Morford @morfjoe.bsky.social Into behavioural ecology / navigation / collective behaviour & more
Wildlife @worldwildlife.bsky.social Wildlife Community for those who care about species & habitat conservation. Photography, Art, Videos of Birds,Mammals,Reptiles,Plants,insects
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61578489868735
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Fraser Weston @fraserweston4.bsky.social Scottish MSci Palaeontology and Geology student @Palaeo_Bham 🏴🦕 | Studying biomechanics and taphonomy using FEA and CFD 🏞️🦷 | Volleyball Enthusiast 🏐
Catherine Sheard @sheardcat.bsky.social Lecturer & Interdisciplinary Fellow @ University of Aberdeen. Professionally: macroevolution, especially birds & languages. Personally: drinks too much coffee, plays too much D&D.
she/her
Carlos Aguilar Pérez @carlosaplysia.bsky.social 🇲🇽 PhD Student @MPIforBI / UniGoe interested in ethology, neural computations and evolution. NSB-MBL '25
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social I cover science and culture at Ars Technica. Former science editor, Gizmodo. Ex-vangelical. Rodeo fan. Married to @seanmcarroll, servant to two cats: Ariel and Caliban. Baltimore, MD. She/her.
Myrto Petropoulou @myrtopetr.bsky.social Behavioural Ecologist. 🐦⬛🦜
PhD student @univie.ac.at working on extractive foraging behaviour with hooded crows and sulphur-crested cockatoos. Interested (among others) in all things cognition and sociality
ARAA @araa.at Avian Research Association of Austria. Our aim is to bring together avian researchers to improve the exchange of ideas, increase knowledge, and promote mentorship throughout Austria. If you're a member, DM us your new papers or positions to share.
Matjaž @mtjzh.bsky.social bird brain enthusiast
📍 Vienna, Austria
Julie Thuillier 🐦⬛ @speaking-ravenish.bsky.social (she/her) 🌱 Looking for a PhD in behavioural ecology/sociobiology, particularly interested in vertebrate scavengers
🪶 MSc in wildlife and ethology, MA in science communication
Currently at @klf-univienna.bsky.social 🐣
Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social trailcams
no AI ever
Michael Bok @mikebok.bsky.social Biologist at Lund University, Sweden. Interested in the evolution and function of vision in invertebrates. Middling photographer.
Odd Jacobson @oddjacobson.bsky.social Movement ecologist / Postdoc at MPIAB / long-term data / climate / spatial memory and learning / Bayesian stats / continuous-time movement modeling
Closer to Truth @closertotruth.bsky.social 24 seasons and counting exploring fundamental questions in Cosmos, Life, Consciousness, and Meaning with the world's top thinkers and scientists.
Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, FRSE. Co-Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and BRAID @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2016) and The AI Mirror (2024). Views my own. Humble servant to Carol and Puffin. She/her.
Noema Magazine @noemamag.com Longform journalism exploring fresh ideas. Pitch us: edit@noemamag.com
Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community 🟦 Analyst and writer focusing on cognition, politics, religion, technology, and media
🟦 Host, Theory of Change
🟦 Writing @flux.community, and frequently quoted or published in NYT, WaPo, NBC, Variety…
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Leftist Gamer Memes @leftistgamermemes.bsky.social - Activist, artist, gamer ♡
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Jakob Hohwy @hohwy.bsky.social philosopher: consciousness, rationality, self-evidencing, contemplation
https://www.monash.edu/m3cs
Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social Photo sharing bot for planetary and deep space images.
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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social Sci journo, author of Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains. Highly caffeinated. All bad takes mine. She/her
Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com Daily comic by Aaron Reynolds that keeps on winning awards despite being nothing more than birds and curse words. Books, calendars and merch at effinbirds.com
Linnéa Gyllingberg @gyllingberg.bsky.social Fulbright scholar and Wallenberg Postdoctoral fellow @uclamath | PhD in applied math from @uppsalauni | Interested in mathematical biology, collective behaviour and complex systems | linneagyllingberg.github.io
CNRS Biologie @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social Décrypter la complexité et la diversité du vivant
🔗 https://www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr
CEEC @ceec-research.bsky.social CEEC - Centre d’Etude en Etholgie et Cognition
CSEC - Centre for the Study of Ethology and Cognition
UMR 6552 @cnrs.fr @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @rennesuniv.bsky.social @universite-caen.bsky.social
#ethologie #CEEC
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org Grumpy. Associate Professor of Political Philosophy. Animal rights, ethics of activism, political philosophy.
Homepage: https://stevecooke.org/
Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social Director of Language & Genetics at Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen.
Tracing the complex connections between genes, brains, speech & language.
Website: https://www.mpi.nl/people/fisher-simon-e
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3132-1996
Dr. Glaucomflecken @glaucomflecken.bsky.social Ophthalmologist. Comedian. Speaker. Jonathan.
Samantha B @cog-cli-co.bsky.social PhD Student in cognition & ethology.
Working on visual perception, learning, bees and humans !
Carly @carlykay.bsky.social Science writer. Sucker for seaweed, salt and climate solutions
Simon Baeckens @simonbaeckens.bsky.social Asst. Prof. at UCLouvain 🇧🇪 // Head of the Animal Evolutionary Ecology lab // macro- to micro-evolution and lizard adaptations🦎
Shen Comix @shenanigansen.bsky.social These comics are only visible to cool people!!
Support me: https://patreon.com/shencomix // Store: https://topa.to/shen
Sanja Sreckovic @sanjasreckovic.bsky.social Research Visitor at CPNSS (LSE). Philosophy of mind and cognitive science, animal minds, rationality and emotions, inference, philosophy of science, did some work on AI (before it was cool)
Tommy Blanchard @tommyblanchard.bsky.social PhD in neuroscience, MA in philosophy. Writing about science and philosophy of mind: https://cognitivewonderland.substack.com/
Paleo Nerds Podcast @paleonerdspod.bsky.social A paleontology podcast 🦖⛏️ hosted by Dave Strassman and Ray Troll. For paleo nerds by paleo nerds. 🔊 Listen now! https://www.paleonerds.com
Bronson Harry @bronsonharry.bsky.social Ex-neuro, turned strat intel for gov integrity. Tsundoku aficionado. Dad of 1+2. rstats, face perception, vision, and cortical organisation.
Learning data science informed strat intel and open gov.
https://mstdn.social/@bronsonharry
Petr Procházka @rytikerttunen.bsky.social 🥚🐣🐦researcher @ivb-cas.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social | #ornithology #birdmigration #birdringing #birdtracking #broodparasitism #HABITRACK | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aGO2IjIAAAAJ&hl=en
https://www.instagram.com/rytikerttunen/
Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social This is a bot that posts a quote by Ursula K. Le Guin every 2 hours. Was ursulabot on twitter
Serge Ahmed @sergeahmed.bsky.social Behavioral and Brain Scientist ~ Addiction Research ~ CNRS Research Director ~ University of Bordeaux
Lynda Carter @lyndacarter.bsky.social Singer, Actress and Philanthropist.
www.lyndacarter.com
@sfeca-jeunes.bsky.social @sfeca-jeunes.bsky.social
Dave Cornell @drdavecornell.bsky.social Philosopher | Writer | Lecturer
www.drdavecornell.com
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/
Juliet Turner @juliet-turner.bsky.social Ecologist & Evolutionary Biologist. previously DPhil @ Oxford: insect social evolution 🐝
Dajia/Krisa Ye @antharvester.bsky.social Postdoc🐜🐜🪰🪰🐜🐜
Ethos'Art - Consultante éthologue PACA @ethos-art.bsky.social Juliane Demellier - Éthologue (she/her)
🦄 Accompagnements de gardienn·es d'équidés vers une relation harmonieuse, une compréhension fine
🐴 Recherche en cours sur l'ébrouement chez le cheval (éthologie et bioacoustique) - Projet de Doctorat
Clarissa Brincat @clarissabrincat.bsky.social Freelance science journalist. You can view my portfolio at clarissabrincat.com
Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com Anthropologist, speaker, educator. Plant medicines, Land Back + organizing for collective liberation. Is Gaeilgeoir mé 💚 she/her 📍 Tkaronto
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Brooke Fitzwater, PhD (she/her) 🐟🪱🏳️🌈♾️ @oceanfilly.bsky.social It's me, the sea lady.
I study Sexual Selection, Host Sex/Parasite Interactions, and Behavior (also interested in Bio Ed!)
Currently looking for a postdoc position!
Biologist/Photographer/Artist/Jedi/Autistic
https://bfitzwater.wixsite.com/bfitzwater
Wild Animal Initiative @wildanimals.bsky.social Conducting research, providing funding, and supporting researchers to accelerate science that helps wild animals. wildanimalinitiative.org
European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social The next ECBB will take place at Anglia Ruskin University in 2026!
https://www.aru.ac.uk/science-and-engineering/conferences-and-events/ecbb-2026
LECD - Laboratoire Ethologie Cognition Développement @lecd-upn.bsky.social We study the cognitive and developmental bases of communication and social life, in animals and human babies 🐥🐦👶
- Université Paris Nanterre
Lab website : https://lecd.parisnanterre.fr/
Babylab website : https://babylab.parisnanterre.fr/
EvOCRO Project @evocroproject.bsky.social Exploring how crocodiles think and learn.
Behaviour • Evolution • Conservation
EU-funded • Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow MSCA
https://evocroproject.github.io/
Francesca M. Cassola Ph.D. @xiscacassola.bsky.social MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow in Animal Cognition | PhD in Animal Behaviour | Host of @dropsofsciencenews.bsky.social – natural science news | my posts are in ITA / ENG / ESP and are very random, about everything and nothing...
Biological Theory @biologicaltheory.bsky.social Journal devoted to theoretical advances in the fields of biology and cognition, with an emphasis on the conceptual integration of #EvoDevo approaches. Published by @kli.ac.at
springer.com/journal/13752
Animal behavior opportunities @animalopps.bsky.social Jobs, PhD’s, postdocs, internships, and volunteer opportunities for ECRs in animal behavior and adjacent fields. Run and created by @juliammachado.bsky.social
Daniel J Nicholson @djnicholson.bsky.social Integrating the History, Philosophy, & Theory of Biology
Murk @ginkgogoes.bsky.social or Murkrow or Carol Wu
she/her
Illustrator of May You Fish In Interesting Times, winner of 2024 Indie Groundbreaker Award for Best Art 🐟
PRINTS: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/carolwuillustration/ (DM if you want something added!)
SLEEB Lab Bonn @sleeblab.bsky.social Research group at the University of Bonn studying sleep, life history, evolutionary ecology and behavior (sleeb)- mainly using spiders 🕷️
We love natural history, scicom & adventures and are here to share that with you!
www.danielaroessler.weebly.com 🌈
Virginie Simoneau-Gilbert @virginiesimoneau.bsky.social ✍🏻📚 Animal Ethicist, Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy at Queen’s University, Canada.
virginiesimoneaugilbert.com
Diane d'Erceville @sydka-art.bsky.social Illustrator of extinct worlds🦕
🔸Based in Strasbourg
DinoCon @dinoconuk.bsky.social DinoCon is the UK’s largest Palaeontology themed convention celebrating all things prehistoric. Dino may be in our name, but we welcome all aspects of palaeontology, not just dinosaurs!
https://www.dinocon.co.uk/
Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social Tyrannosaur Expert; Dinosaur Paleontologist; University of Maryland Geology Faculty; Director of the College Park Scholars-Science & Global Change Program; Science Author; Cat Dad; 🦖🦕
Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social Neuroscientist: consciousness, perception, and Dreamachines. Author of Being You - A New Science of Consciousness.
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/