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 ππ³
Claire Baileyπ¦ππ @csbailey128.bsky.social PhD student at NJIT studying evolution and morphology of eusocial shrimp
https://bardenlab.org
@chemtobyohann.bsky.social @chemtobyohann.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.
Tamara Szentivanyi π¦π¦ π¦ @tamikasz.bsky.social Researcher of mosquitoes, ticks and VBDs, bats and associated parasites and pathogens. amateur herper, interested in infectious wildlife diseases. Epidemiologist in training.
Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe) @pdbeurope.bsky.social Developing macromolecular structure resources and tools for life science.
- Founding partner of the wwPDB.
- Manage the community-led PDBe-KB resource and the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database, a collaboration with Google DeepMind.
- Part of EMBL-EBI
Ahmed El Hady @zamakany.bsky.social Group leader at Center for advanced Study of Collective Behavior CEO and co-founder of Ecodylic Science
Behavior, Biophysics, Quantification, Analytics
Max Aubry @strepsipzerg.com Entomologist, storyteller
Probably in a park somewhere in Vienna
Nicholas Bellono @nbellono.bsky.social www.bellonolab.com | βͺHarvard MCB
Maria Antonietta Tosches @matosches.bsky.social Associate Professor @ Columbia University. Brain evolution, plasticity and regeneration. www.tosches-lab.com
Valentina Venzin @valentinavenzin.bsky.social Branco Weiss and MSCA fellow at @BelkaidLab || PhD roots in @iannaconelab π³οΈβππ³οΈββ§οΈ feminist, LGBTQIA+ soldier, bookworm, 80s flowing in my veins
Stephanie L King @stephanielking.bsky.social Professor of Animal Behaviour @ University of Bristol | cetacean communication and cognition group | loves dogs | PI @ Shark Bay Dolphin Research | she/her π³οΈβπ
Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social Study genetic conflicts professionally. Try to avoid conflicts in personal life (with mixed results).
Fred Hutch Basic Sciences,
UW Genome Sciences,
HHMI.
Posting in a personal capacity. My posts donβt reflect my employersβ opinions.
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
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.
Marleny GarcΓa Lozano @marlenygarcial.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Lausanne π¨π
https://engelbeelab.com/
PhD from Max Planck Institute for Biology
@mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social
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
noelle eghbali @noelleeghbali.bsky.social md/phd student in the ruta lab at rockefeller university
Kristine Jecha @kriskaykj.bsky.social PhD student - Defending Summer 2027
University of Lausanneπ¨π - Schwander group
Studying origins of parthenogenesis, Wolbachia, ladybugs π
https://kjecha.github.io/
Hannah Haberkern @hannah-haberkern.bsky.social Neuroscientist studying navigation @ uniwuerzburg.bsky.social. β’ ants & flies β’ https://www.haberkernlab.de β’ FoF seminars β’ Sjogrens β’ she/her β’ Loves birds & sewing β’ quilts @verdigrissewing.bsky.social
@giac0.bsky.social @giac0.bsky.social 
Neil Shubin @neilshubin.bsky.social Paleontologist. Developmental Biologist. Anatomist. Polar wanderer. Telling people that they are fish since 2008.
Princeton Vaughn @princetonvaughn.bsky.social PhD Candidate in the Campbell-Staton Lab at Princeton University EEB
Interested in urban herpetology
NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Lover of lizards and math rock
Steve @stevetypesstuff.bsky.social Ants, fossils, beer, macro photography. Drone mapping & GIS. Science PhD. Bambu Labs P1S. He/him, will also respond to βOi you!β. AuADHD - if I seem over familiar in posts etc. that is probably why. π¬π§πͺπΊ
Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social Associate Professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Neuroscientist. Loves explaining. Bibliophile. Amateur singer. Eternal optimist. Writes the occasional paper. Lab website - www.arkabanerjeelab.com
FlΓ‘via A. Esteves @faesteves.bsky.social Entomologist, myrmecologist. At home in tropical rainforests and Brazil. Passionate about poneroids, Felidae, Elapidae, fieldwork, politics, and so many other things. Wannabe birder.
Dmitri Petrov @petrovadmitri.bsky.social Evolutionary Biologist at Stanford. Rapid Evolution, Adaptation, and Genomics. Open Science advocate. 
Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist (Multicellularity & social evolution). Prof. at Georgia Tech & Director of the QBioS PhD program.
https://ratclifflab.biosci.gatech.edu/
yoonji kim @yoonjikim.bsky.social LSRF-HHMI Postdoctoral Scientist in the Vosshall lab @Rockefeller University π¦ PhD in the Brangwynne Lab @Princeton
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
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/
begΓΌm aydΔ±n @begumaydin.bsky.social Incoming Assistant Professor at Columbia University Irving Medical Center | HHMI Hanna H. Gray Fellow | Researching how microbes shape the development and plasticity of the gutβs nervous system.
π¦ π©ππ§«π¬π§Ώ
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 π³οΈβπ
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-poulsen-5804b926/
https://www.socialsymbioticevolution.com/
Rishika Mohanta @neurorishika.bsky.social Joint PhD Student @ Ruta & Kronauer Labs, Rockefeller University
Neuroscientist π§ | IISER PUNE '21-22 | Ex- HHMI Janelian
Nadav Shai @nadavshai.bsky.social Cell and Molecular Neurobiologist of Mosquitoes | Senior Scientist at Vosshall lab HHMI/RockefellerUniv | PhD WeizmannScience
@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.
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
Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social evolutionsociety.org
Meet Zandawala @zandawala.bsky.social Group leader at KU Leuven and University of Nevada Reno
Interested in neuromodulation of Drosophila physiology and behavior
Ebi Antony George @ebiantonygeorge.com 
Jenny Merritt @jennymerritt.bsky.social Evolution. Behavior. Neuroendocrinology. Good trouble. She/they π³οΈβπ
Postdoc at the Zuckerman Institute at Columbia | Incoming Asst Prof in the Dept of Genetics at WashU in St. Louis
Stephen F. Goodwin @stephenfgoodwin.bsky.social Professor of Neurogenetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, University of Oxford. Genetic dissection of Sexual Behaviour.βοΈ Drosophila neuroscience, genetics, genomics, sexual behaviour
http://www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/research/goodwin-group-1
Chris R Reid @chris-r-reid.bsky.social Senior Lecturer. Anything collective behaviour - ants, slime moulds, fish, robots. Complex systems, emergence and self-organisation.
Calum Stephenson @mutualistics.bsky.social EEB Graduate Student @ Washington University in St. Louis. Studying social amoeba and symbiotic bacteria. π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ
Stu West @stuwest.bsky.social Evolution. He/him/his. Views not my own. π΅π¦π³οΈβππ¨βπ¬π
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
Asher Leeks @asherleeks.bsky.social We study social evolution in viruses.
Assistant Professor @zoology.ubc.ca & @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social
asherleeks.com
American Naturaliο¬ / ASN π @asn-amnat.bsky.social The American Naturalist, scholarly journal of evolutionary biology and ecology, pioneer of Open Data, affiliated with American Society of Naturalists and our nonprofit publisher (UChicago Press). All articles are Green Open Access compatible.
Insectes Sociaux @insectessociaux.bsky.social International journal for the study of social arthropods πππͺ³
https://insectessociaux.com/
https://link.springer.com/journal/40
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. 
Flo Camus @fcamus.bsky.social NERC Independent Research Fellow based at University College London π¨π±π¦πΊπ¬π§
Nuts about mitochondria & mito nuclear epistasis. Interested in sexual conflict, diet & metabolism.
Associate Editor: Evolution Letters
Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist. Professor at Virginia Tech.
Phil Barden @haidomyrmex.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist | ants, sometimes shrimp | fossils, morphology, extinction, eusociality | associate professor at NJIT
bardenlab.org
Philipp Engel @pengellab.bsky.social Microbiologist at UNIL Switzerland, interested in Microbiota-host interactions, symbiosis, evolution and genomics, and social bees
engelbeelab.com
Sara Mitri @saramitri.bsky.social Microbial ecology and evolution | Professor at University of Lausanne | Theory | Experiments | Egyptian
Chris Jiggins @chrisjiggins.bsky.social Genomics, insects and evolution. Particularly butterflies, crop pests and black soldier flies. University of Cambridge, St Johnβs College and Dept Zoology, FRS
Dr Nathalie Stroeymeyt @nstroeymeyt.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol, studying collective behaviour and transmission processes in social insects
Ehab Abouheif @abouheif.bsky.social Student of nature, biology, and the field of eco-evo-devo (a synthesis of ecology, evolution, and developmental biology). Professor at Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, China) https://www.abouheiflab.org/ Opinions are my own.
Dr. Wen-Juan Ma | 马ζε¨ @wenjuanma84.bsky.social Evolution, Ecology & Genomics | βͺERC-StG FROGWY | Assistant Professor | AE: JEB, Heredity |π¨π³π³π±π¨ππ¬π·π³π±πΊπΈπ§πͺ | chasing two toddlers| runner | #newPI
Sam Arsenault, PhD @samarsenault.bsky.social Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Mississippi State University π 𧬠| Ants | Supergenes | Genomics | Evo-Devo | Evolution |
https://arsenaultresearch.github.io/
[he/him]
Sandra Tretter @sandratretter.bsky.social PhD student at @MPI_CE Lise Meitner Research Group Social Behavior, working with ants ππ§ π¦ 
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 π and π | Passionate about medical applications of ethology | UNILπ¨π
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 β July 3, 2026 β’ Tours, France ππ¦ππͺ²π¦ππ¦πͺ°πͺ³πππ¬π§¬π§ͺ
β‘οΈ https://www.ece2026.org/
Ingrid Fetter-Pruneda, Ph.D. @ifetter.bsky.social Neuroscience | Behavior | Aging and fertility | Ants π
Instituto de Investigaciones BiomΓ©dicas, UNAM
Eliza Jaeger @ecbjaeger.bsky.social Postdoc studying neuromodulation during alloparental care in ants in Kronauer Lab π | @NSF GRFP PhD Student in Tosches Lab π¦| NS&B '22 @MBLScience
Amartya Tashi Mitra @binturong98.bsky.social Buschbeck Lab PhD candidate | University of Cincinnati | Studying how weird eyes evolve & develop in arthropods ππͺ² | Artist | Embryology 2025 | UCL MRes BEC Alumn | NHM London | St Xavierβs Bombay
https://amartyamitra.wixsite.com/my-site-4
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
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
Fabrizio Ghiselli 𧬠ππ¦ͺ @fghiselli.bsky.social Assoc Prof @unibo.it | Zoologist 𧬠ππ¦ͺ
Comparative & Biodiversity Genomics, Genomic Conflicts & Cooperation (mitonuclear coevolution, ants) | Editorial Board @ BMC Biology
ποΈhttps://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/fabrizio.ghiselli/en
πhttps://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
Anna Hewett @annamhew.bsky.social Post-doc at UNIL | Inbreeding depression, quant gen and statistical genetics in wild populations π¦π¦ | Happiest when gallivanting outside πββοΈπ΄ββοΈπββοΈπ | She / her
Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social Writer & nature photographer, especially macro photography of arthropods. Board member, Desert Tortoise Preserve Committee (conservation nonprofit). Fan of California, Montana, the rest of the planet. Photo website: https://www.tomastlephotography.com/
Chuanxin Yu @chuanxinyu.bsky.social PhD student, population genetics, genomics, evolutionary biology
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.
Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social Entomologist and Photographer in Austin, Texas.
https://www.alexanderwild.com
Llynfian @llynfian.bsky.social Art and nature. South Wales. UK.
Vitor Sudbrack @vsudbrack.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at Uni. of Vienna, Austria π¦πΉ | Theoretical evolutionary ecology, population genetics, theory and modeling 𧬠| He/him π³οΈβππ§π·
iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social The place where your nature photos impact science & conservation around the world. Free, nonprofit, & community-powered. πͺ²ππΏ
Manhattan Bird Alert @birdcpk.bsky.social Birds and nature in Manhattan. bigmanhattanyear.com
Canadian BioGenome Project π¨π¦ @canadianbiogenome.bsky.social The goal of the Canadian BioGenome Project is to produce high-quality reference genomes 𧬠for all Canadian species π
Sequencing Canada's Biodiversity πΏπ¦ππ§¬π’π¦πΈπ³πΏππ¦π¦¦
Learn more: https://linktr.ee/canadianbiogenome 
Earth BioGenome Project π @ebpgenome.bsky.social 𧬠Sequencing biodiversity. Securing its future.
The Earth BioGenome Project (EBP) is a global moonshot for biology working to sequence, catalog, and characterize the genomes of Earthβs eukaryotic biodiversity.
π Follow us:
linktr.ee/earthbiogenomeproject
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.
Ewan Flintham @ewanflintham.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist interested sexual selection, sexual conflict and mating systems. 
Max Schmid @schmidmax.bsky.social Ecology and Evolution | Individual-based simulations and mathematical modelling | University of TΓΌbingen
Luca Soldini @lucasoldini.bsky.social Evolutionary genetics in general, selfish genetic elements and genetic conflicts in particular π¬π§¬
Vikram Chandra @vchandra.bsky.social BWF CASI Postdoc at Harvard OEB; brains, behaviour, evolution, acoels. Previously: social evolution PhD at the Rockefeller
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=z8ttnIMAAAAJ&hl=en- E Eckart Stolle @eckartstolle.bsky.social Comparative Genomics (Insects) lab @ LIB Museum Koenig, Bonn
Pollinator evolution and biodiversity. Social insects. Phenotypic evolution and phenotypic loss. Comparative and population genomics. Entomology
Social Insects Lab - JGU Mainz @socialinsectlab.bsky.social Behavioral Ecology and Social Evolution Research Groups @unimainz.bsky.social
Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social #societyjournal (ESEB), covering #evolution across all organisms
#genetics #genomics #selection #lifehistory #evodevo #popgen #theory #speciation #morphometrics #phylogenetics #phylogeography
https://academic.oup.com/jeb
http://jevbio.net
Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social Scientific journal publishing research, overview and commentary across all of biology. All of it!
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/home
Part of CellPress @cellpress.bsky.social
Patrick Krapf @krapfpatrick.bsky.social MSCA fellow, postdoc @uva.nl UvA Amsterdam, interested in the ecology, evolution, and behaviour of π and other insects; enjoys hiking in the mountains ποΈπ; #scicomm; http://blog.myrmecologicalnews.org; www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-krapf-91918a413
Giulia Scarparo @giuliascarparo.bsky.social Junior Gourp leader, JGU, Mainz
Romain Pigeault @romain-pigeault.bsky.social Associate professor in evolutionary ecology. I investigate the causes and consequences of infection heterogeneity⦠when I'm not drowning in admin paperwork and unsuccessful funding applications.
Germain Montazeaud @germtz.bsky.social INRAE researcher
plant-plant interactions, evolutionary biology, quantitative genetics, agroecology
AmΓ©lie Cabirol @acabirol.bsky.social PI @CBIToulouse | Interested in how gut bacteria influence cognitive functions in honeybees
Juan J. Lagos-Oviedo @jjlagosoviedo.bsky.social PhD student at the University of WΓΌrzburg
Study the evolution of social wound care behaviour in ants | MEME alumnus πΈπͺ π¨π΅ π©πͺ π¨π΄
Social evolution, behavioural ecology and maths
https://juanjose-lagosoviedo.weebly.com/
Jonathan Romiguier @selfishmeme.bsky.social Scientist interested in Ants / Molecular Evolution / Population genomics / Phylogenomics