Elly Poretsky @eporetsky.bsky.social Plant Biologist and Bioinformatician | Project Scientist at UC Berkeley’s Angelo Coast Range Reserve, studying grassland biodiversity, soil microbiomes, and root chemistry | Created www.plantapp.org
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
Hunt Lab, UGA Entomology @huntlab.bsky.social Brendan Hunt, PhD. Entomology, University of Georgia, USA. Structural variants, supergenes, gene regulation, phenotypic plasticity, comparative genomics, social insects, fire ants. https://huntlab.uga.edu
Melvin Opolka @melvinopolka.bsky.social Ant passionate PhD student @unibayreuth.bsky.social | Working with red wood ants and their myrmecophiles throughout Europe as part of the @monitant.bsky.social project 🐜🌳
@jinyc.bsky.social @jinyc.bsky.social
Claire Bailey🦐🐜🐝 @csbailey128.bsky.social PhD student at NJIT studying evolution and morphology of eusocial shrimp
https://bardenlab.org
@beeohazard.bsky.social @beeohazard.bsky.social
Chelsea Cook @phdbee.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Marquette U in Milwaukee WI USA. CoFounder of HiveTech Solutions. Interested in complex social dynamics, mostly in bees.
Jane Waters 🏳️⚧️🐜🇵🇸 @lovetheants.bsky.social Professor and one-time fashion model
My research lab studies the comparative physiology, collective behavior, and natural history of ants
🏳️⚧️🐜🇵🇸
https://linktr.ee/lovetheants
@chemtobyohann.bsky.social @chemtobyohann.bsky.social
@huang1029.bsky.social @huang1029.bsky.social 🌈Looking for a PHD position.
Silicology @silicology.bsky.social #Blockchain #Rustlang
#ClimateJustice #DirectDemocracy #VotingReform #ApprovalVoting #Rust
#GIS #Bioinformatics #Economics #ConvictionVoting
The manifesto book:
https://iambrainstorming.github.io
https://iambrainstorming.vercel.app
Max Aubry @strepsipzerg.com Entomologist, storyteller
Probably in a park somewhere in Vienna
Advait Pai @advait-pai.bsky.social PhD student with Andy Gloss @ UGA • Evolution of herbivorous drosophilids 🌿🪰 • Ant lover in my free time 🐜 • he/him
Valentina Venzin @valentinavenzin.bsky.social Branco Weiss and MSCA fellow at @BelkaidLab || PhD roots in @iannaconelab 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ feminist, LGBTQIA+ soldier, bookworm, 80s flowing in my veins
The Rockefeller University @rockefeller.edu The Rockefeller University is a world-renowned center for research and graduate education in the biomedical sciences, chemistry, bioinformatics and physics.
Jan Kreider @jankreider.bsky.social EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow at Lund University
Evolutionary biologist interested in how cells and organisms evolve cooperation and division of labour.
Tohoku Univ Life Sciences News (Unofficial) @tohoku-life-news-e.bsky.social Based on publicly available information from Tohoku University, Graduate School of Life Sciences, we independently share life science and neuroscience research with a philosophical perspective. This is not an official account. Some posts are automated.
Federico Lopez @flopezos.bsky.social Evolutionary biology, genomics, bioinformatics, social insects.
@christophgiez.bsky.social @christophgiez.bsky.social HFSP Postdoctoral fellow @crick.ac.uk, EMBO fellow alumni, Postdoc in the Neuronal Circuits and Evolution Lab
Working on evolution of neuronal circuits #Drosophila
#Neuroscience | #Evolution | Neuronal #Circuits | #Connectome | #Olfaction 🪼🪰
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|
Max Bolder @boldest-ant.bsky.social PhD | Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz | Social Evolution| Reproductive division of labor| Poneroids |🐜
Hannah Haberkern @hannah-haberkern.bsky.social Neuroscientist studying navigation @ uniwuerzburg.bsky.social. • ants & flies • https://www.haberkernlab.de • FoF seminars • Sjogrens • she/her • Loves birds & sewing • quilts @verdigrissewing.bsky.social
Marleny García Lozano @marlenygarcial.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Lausanne 🇨🇭
https://engelbeelab.com/
PhD from Max Planck Institute for Biology
@mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social
Maxwell Shafer @maxshafer.bsky.social Assistant Professor UofT Cell & Systems Biology - 🐟🐠🐡 comparative genomics/ethology & evolutionary cell biology of sleep 💤 😴 + adventures with @hilsawh - https://shafer-lab.netlify.app/
noelle eghbali @noelleeghbali.bsky.social md/phd student in the ruta lab at rockefeller university
Sofia Avritzer @sofiavritzer.bsky.social Brazilian PhD student studying fruit fly navigation in the Maimon Lab
The Rockefeller Univiversity, previously at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais | She/Her
Kristine Jecha @kriskaykj.bsky.social PhD student - Defending Summer 2027
University of Lausanne🇨🇭 - Schwander group
Studying origins of parthenogenesis, Wolbachia, ladybugs 🐞
https://kjecha.github.io/
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
Ashrit Mangalwedhekar @ashritocyte.bsky.social Aspiring Crocodile ~ Behaviours and Brains, Collectives and Control theory ~ PhD student @imprs_qbee/@CBehav/@UniKonstanz ~ Drummer ~ Ramen enthusiast ~ He/Him
Ann Clemens @annmclemens.bsky.social neuroscientist, principal investigator, interested in natural behaviour & social brain ontogeny. kinshiplab.org
@giac0.bsky.social @giac0.bsky.social
C. J. Howard @antkeeper.bsky.social making an ant colony simulation game
Benjamin Palm @haplodiploid.bsky.social studying ants 🐜 @unihohenheim.bsky.social
Carlos Aguilar Pérez @carlosaplysia.bsky.social 🇲🇽 PhD Student @MPIforBI / UniGoe interested in ethology, neural computations and evolution. NSB-MBL '25
Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social Prince Philip Professor of Ecology & Evolution
@camzoology.bsky.social
I like brains.
www.shmontgomery.co.uk
Ben Parker @ben-parker.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ UNC Chapel Hill Biology. Symbiosis, immunity, evolution, insects
Parkerlab.net
Andrew Blackwell @blackwell.bsky.social Making a documentary about cryptography, the internet, and the NSA. Prev, Supervising Editor of NYT Op-Docs
@nytopinion. Author of "Visit Sunny Chernobyl.” Signal: Axolotl.89
Stephen Tucker @sstucker.com biomedical engineering PhD student at NYU. optical engineering/neuroscience. sstucker.com
Rishika Mohanta @neurorishika.bsky.social Joint PhD Student @ Ruta & Kronauer Labs, Rockefeller University
Neuroscientist 🧠 | IISER PUNE '21-22 | Ex- HHMI Janelian
Stephen Proulx @evoecodynamics.bsky.social an inordinate fondness for bicycles. dad, cat dad, snail dad, turtle dad. loves the interplay between ecological and evolutionary dynamics. they/them.
Phil Barden @haidomyrmex.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist | ants, sometimes shrimp | fossils, morphology, extinction, eusociality | associate professor at NJIT
bardenlab.org
Jenny Merritt @jennymerritt.bsky.social Evolution. Behavior. Neuroendocrinology. Good trouble. She/they 🏳️🌈
Postdoc at the Zuckerman Institute at Columbia | Incoming Asst Prof in the Dept of Genetics at WashU in St. Louis
Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist. Professor at Virginia Tech.
@tomtom-auer.bsky.social @tomtom-auer.bsky.social Assistant Professor @UniFr studying evolution of circuits and behaviors in drosophilids. Co-Director @TReNDinAfrica - strengthening education capacity.
Nadav Shai @nadavshai.bsky.social Cell and Molecular Neurobiologist of Mosquitoes | Senior Scientist at Vosshall lab HHMI/RockefellerUniv | PhD WeizmannScience
Dr. Wen-Juan Ma | 马文娟 @wenjuanma84.bsky.social Evolution, Ecology & Genomics | ERC-StG FROGWY | Assistant Professor | AE: JEB, Heredity |🇨🇳🇳🇱🇨🇭🇬🇷🇳🇱🇺🇸🇧🇪 | chasing two toddlers| runner | #newPI
Dr. Mascha Koenen @maschakoenen.bsky.social Interested in Adipose Tissue Remodeling and Organ Crosstalk, NT Group Leader @mdc-berlin.bsky.social @HI-TAC Mannheim @uniheidelberg.bsky.social Prev. @Rockefeller University with P.Cohen. #WomeninScience
Steve @stevetypesstuff.bsky.social Ants, fossils, beer, macro photography. Drone mapping & GIS. Science PhD. Bambu Labs P1S. He/him, will also respond to “Oi you!”. AuADHD - if I seem over familiar in posts etc. that is probably why. 🇬🇧🇪🇺
Stephen F. Goodwin @stephenfgoodwin.bsky.social Professor of Neurogenetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, University of Oxford. Genetic dissection of Sexual Behaviour.☘️ Drosophila neuroscience, genetics, genomics, sexual behaviour
http://www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/research/goodwin-group-1
Jessica Zung @jlzung.bsky.social Insect neuro, behaviour, and evolution. Postdoc studying Drosophila vision with Gwyneth Card at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute. Formerly worked on mosquito olfaction with Lindy McBride at Princeton EEB.
Website: jlzung.github.io
Sara Mitri @saramitri.bsky.social Microbial ecology and evolution | Professor at University of Lausanne | Theory | Experiments | Egyptian
Michael Poulsen @michaelpoulsenucph.bsky.social Professor in the Evolution of Microbial Symbiosis and Deputy Head of Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen. Views are my own. He/him 🏳️🌈
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-poulsen-5804b926/
https://www.socialsymbioticevolution.com/
Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social Associate Prof | Columbia Biology & Zuckerman Institute
Freeman Hrabowski Scholar | HHMI
We study how the skin-brain axis drives somatosensory behaviors
https://www.abdus-saboorlab.com/
Asher Leeks @asherleeks.bsky.social We study social evolution in viruses.
Assistant Professor @zoology.ubc.ca & @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social
asherleeks.com
Patrick Kennedy @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social Zoologist studying the evolution of cooperation and conflict, mainly with social wasps of Africa | Lecturer at University of Bristol, UK | main focus Cameroon, Kenya + South Africa
tinyurl.com/SocialStrategyLab
Meet Zandawala @zandawala.bsky.social Group leader at KU Leuven and University of Nevada Reno
Interested in neuromodulation of Drosophila physiology and behavior
yoonji kim @yoonjikim.bsky.social LSRF-HHMI Postdoctoral Scientist in the Vosshall lab @Rockefeller University 🦋 PhD in the Brangwynne Lab @Princeton
Flo Camus @fcamus.bsky.social NERC Independent Research Fellow based at University College London 🇨🇱🇦🇺🇬🇧
Nuts about mitochondria & mito nuclear epistasis. Interested in sexual conflict, diet & metabolism.
Associate Editor: Evolution Letters
begüm aydın @begumaydin.bsky.social Incoming Assistant Professor at Columbia University | HHMI Hanna H. Gray Fellow | Researching how microbes shape the development and plasticity of the gut’s nervous system | theaydinlab.com
🦠💩🐁🧫🔬🧿
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]
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
conrad hoffmann @conradhoffmann897.bsky.social
Sandra Tretter @sandratretter.bsky.social PhD student at @MPI_CE Lise Meitner Research Group Social Behavior, working with ants 🐜🧠🦠
Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com Philosopher & Historian of Biology 🇲🇽 • Postdoctoral Fellow @theramseylab.bsky.social (@clpskuleuven.bsky.social) • https://www.alejandrofabregastejeda.com • https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262052825/the-organism-environment-pairing/ • #philsci #HPS #philsky
Moraa Ruth @moraarut.bsky.social Bioinformatician | Evolutionary Genomics | Microbiologist | Sex chromosome evolution
Alba Motes Rodrigo @albamotesr.bsky.social Behavioral scientist investigating what it means to be social | I work with 🐒 and 🐜 | Passionate about medical applications of ethology | UNIL🇨🇭
Financial Media Group @financialmedia.bsky.social Financial Media Group offers full digital marketing turn key solutions for small to medium sized & publicly traded companies.
Lilian Caesar @liliancaesar.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma. Ecology and Evolution of host-microbiome interactions in social bees https://liliancaesar.com/
Ingrid Fetter-Pruneda, Ph.D. @ifetter.bsky.social Neuroscience | Behavior | Aging and fertility | Ants 🐜
Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, UNAM
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/
@simarty.bsky.social @simarty.bsky.social
Sean Bresnahan @seantbres.bsky.social Associate Data Scientist at MD Anderson Cancer Center. Fetal programming, functional genomics, molecular epidemiology, evolution. Opinions are my own.
https://seantbresnahan.com
https://bhattacharya-lab.com
Meenakshi Asokan @meenakshiasokan.bsky.social Neuroscience postdoc, Jane Coffin Childs & Leading Edge Fellow, Falkner Lab @ Princeton| Interested in hormones, brain & behavior| PhD @ Harvard| BTech @ IIT Madras| Stories of WiN🎙️| https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Ql5Nm9UAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Kaitlyn Hajdarovic, Ph.D @khajdarovic.bsky.social Neuroscientist studying the neural circuits of glucose homeostasis.
Cats, embroidery, labor unions
Views my own.
https://khajdarovic.github.io/
She/hers/her
Catherine (Katie) Schretter @ceschretter.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Southern Methodist University | Postdoc in the Rubin lab at Janelia | Ph.D. Caltech | she/her | https://www.schretterlab.org
Amartya Tashi Mitra @binturong98.bsky.social Buschbeck Lab PhD candidate | University of Cincinnati | Studying how weird eyes evolve & develop in arthropods 🐛🪲 | Artist | Embryology 2025 | UCL MRes BEC Alumn | NHM London | St Xavier’s Bombay
https://amartyamitra.wixsite.com/my-site-4
Eliza Jaeger @ecbjaeger.bsky.social Postdoc studying neuromodulation during alloparental care in ants in Kronauer Lab 🐜 | @NSF GRFP PhD Student in Tosches Lab 🦎| NS&B '22 @MBLScience
Owen Maresh @graveolens.bsky.social Mathematics Sorceror (sensory alchemist) at the Arctangent Transpetroglyphics Algra Laboratory (ATAL), I transflarnx mathematics into living rainbows. http://owen.maresh.info https://github.com/graveolensa,
Psoepbe-Tlaxtlal; (an undreamt splendour?)
Fabrizio Ghiselli 🧬 🐜🦪 @fghiselli.bsky.social Assoc Prof @unibo.it | Zoologist 🧬 🐜🦪
Comparative & Biodiversity Genomics, Genomic Conflicts & Cooperation (mitonuclear coevolution, ants) | Editorial Board @ BMC Biology
🏛️https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/fabrizio.ghiselli/en
🐜https://linktr.ee/antswoodwide
Andrew Bahle @andrewbahle.bsky.social neuroscience and behavior in parrots and songbirds
Simons junior fellow and post-doc at NYU Langone studying vocal communication, PhD MIT brain and cognitive sciences
Life Science Network @lifesciencenet.bsky.social A platform for life sciences. Publications, research protocols, news, events, jobs and more. Sign up at https://www.lifescience.net.
Anna Hewett @annamhew.bsky.social Post-doc at UNIL | Inbreeding depression, quant gen and statistical genetics in wild populations 🦉🦌 | Happiest when gallivanting outside 🏊♀️🚴♀️🏃♀️🏔 | She / her
Sajedeh Sarlak @ssarlak.bsky.social PhD in Entomology 🐝🦋🐛🐞🐜
I Quit Smoking 🚭 📚 🐕 @iquitcigs.bsky.social Anti-Smoker My Website campralquitsmoking.net See How I Quit 20 Years Ago Fought Nicotine 35 Years Supporting others who Quit 🚭 STL MO ❤️To Promote Authors 📚 & Ozarks 🌄 Photographer 📷 Pez Add @piperformissouri.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social 💙
Chuanxin Yu @chuanxinyu.bsky.social PhD student, population genetics, genomics, evolutionary biology
Vitor Sudbrack @vsudbrack.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at Uni. of Vienna, Austria 🇦🇹 | Theoretical evolutionary ecology, population genetics, theory and modeling 🧬 | He/him 🏳️🌈🇧🇷
Emory 🩶 @emory-f8.bsky.social I write dark Victorian fiction and specialize in the long 19th century.
She/Her 🏳️🌈🇪🇸✡️ (I'm always kind)
#writer #historian #Lesbian #sapphic #wlw #Hispanic #feminist #goth #vampires #jpop #bibliophile
NO DMs | Terfs & Narcissists DNI
Beautiful Cape Town @gabrielhbyrne.bsky.social
The splendor in and around Cape Town, South Africa. Photography, nature, food, culture.
Canadian BioGenome Project 🇨🇦 @canadianbiogenome.bsky.social The goal of the Canadian BioGenome Project is to produce high-quality reference genomes 🧬 for all Canadian species 🌎
Sequencing Canada's Biodiversity 🌿🦋🐍🧬🐢🦌🐸🌳🐿🐙🦈🦦
Learn more: https://linktr.ee/canadianbiogenome
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.
Max Schmid @schmidmax.bsky.social Ecology and Evolution | Individual-based simulations and mathematical modelling | University of Tübingen
Ewan Flintham @ewanflintham.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist interested sexual selection, sexual conflict and mating systems.