Sam Lacquaye @samlacquaye.bsky.social PhD Candidate investigating cultural evolution and learning processes at the Evolutionary Modelling Group at KU Leuven (@vandenberglab.bsky.social)
Matt Henderson @matthen.com Maths animations, dialogue systems research
Research @ PolyAI, previously Google, Apple, Reka. PhD Cambridge
Edinburgh, UK
Bram van Dijk 🏳️🌈 @bramvandijk.bsky.social Assistant professor at Utrecht University (Theoretical Biology). Simulating microbes, mobile elements, horizontal gene transfer, and whatever else happens on a grain of sand | 🏳️🌈 | he / they | thevirtuallaboratory.com
Chiara Pertile @chiarapertile.bsky.social Doctoral researcher at the University of Bordeaux | PACEA
Philosophy of Biology • Cultural Evolution • Primatology • Archaeology
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
Thomas Metzinger @metzinger.bsky.social https://thomasmetzinger.com
Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social Neuroscientist: consciousness, perception, and Dreamachines. Author of Being You - A New Science of Consciousness.
Sebastian Ahnert @sebastianahnert.bsky.social Physicist with interdisciplinary interests. https://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~sea31/
@maya-louage.bsky.social @maya-louage.bsky.social Ponderings from a non-evolutionary biologist: questions and frustrations.
Key words: drug resistance, evolution, parasitic worms, bacteria, theoretical biology
PhD student at EAWAG/ETH Zürich. Avid climber.
Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social The Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) at the Institute of Philosophy (@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social) focuses on #logic and #philsci, with a concentration on the philosophies of the special sciences • https://hiw.kuleuven.be/clps #philsky
LAVA - Lees- en Adviesgroep Volwassenen met Autisme vzw @lavavzw.bsky.social Autistic Adults’ Reading and Advisory Group
Flanders - Belgium
@anvandoren.bsky.social @anvandoren.bsky.social
Microbes.Info @microbesinfo.bsky.social Relaying microbiology news, articles and comments relevant to aspects on bacteria, fungi, viruses and other microbes / microorganisms. Microbes are 💪
Charles Mullon @charlesmullon.bsky.social Evolutionary ecologist into evolutionary theory, eco-evolutionary dynamics, evolution of genetic architecture and Drag Race 🏳️🌈 (he/him); Asst Prof @ UNIL
https://lab-mullon.github.io/index.html
Evolution @journal-evo.bsky.social Evolution publishes articles in evolutionary biology focused on evolutionary phenomena and processes at all levels of biological organization. Evolution is owned by the Society for the Study of Evolution and is published by Oxford University Press.
Enrico Sandro Colizzi @escolizzi.bsky.social Tenured scientist @INRIA, Lyon. Studying how microbes evolve new stuff with computer simulations.
Mo @mogreen.bsky.social Only talk about science, Sudanese 🇸🇩Botanist🍀, evolutionist, classic music lover, kitten lover 😺, obsesses with origin of life 🧬 & Complexity 📍UAE
Marjon de Vos @lizscurious.bsky.social Cares about tiny things in a larger context
Assoc. prof @uniGroningen
Microbiology, ecology, evolution
#AMR, #UTI
microbecoevo.com- D Dame lab at Leiden University @damelab.bsky.social Interested in the organisation of chromatin in bacteria and archaea, its interplay with transcription and evolution. Methods: single-molecule and ensemble biochemistry, genetics, molecular microbiology, 3D genomics, (computational) structural biology.
KNAW - Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen @knaw-nl.bsky.social Wij ondersteunen en stimuleren de wetenschap in Nederland, sinds 1808.
Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social Luna's dad | biodiversity monitoring, conservation, ecology, genomics | PI Laboratory of Fungal Ecology and Evolution, Biology Centre CAS #TeamLaboul | Guest Prof Ghent University | #scicomm | 1stgen/queer/he/him | PhD #Harvard | dannyhaelewaters.com
@no2ross.bsky.social @no2ross.bsky.social Computational biology post-doc at Leiden University Medical Centre. Looking at vaccine-induced cellular differences across regions with multi-omics.
Ben Wielstra @benwielstra.bsky.social Associate Professor Evolution & Biodiversity @ Institute of Biology Leiden, Leiden University & Naturalis Biodiversity Center | Wielstra lab website: benwielstra.wordpress.com | Newts newts newts!
Stefan Semrau @semrau.bsky.social VP computational biology at the New York Stem Cell Foundation Research Institute. Adjunct professor of physics at Leiden University.
Eelco Tromer @eelcotromer.bsky.social NWO-Veni Fellow @GBB Rijksuniversiteit van Groningen | eukaryotic diversity | chromosome segregation | evolutionary cell biology | exploring meiosis
Enrique Asin-Garcia @asinthetic.bsky.social 👨🏻🔬 Assistant Professor at Wageningen University | Synthetic Biology → Biomanufacturing | Biointelligence, biosensors & biosafety | Co-Founder and Board SynBioNL |
Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids @jenteo.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Wageningen University | Evolutionary Biology, Genomics and Ornithology | Blogging at Avian Hybrids
Joris M. Koene @joriskoene.bsky.social Professor of Integrative Biology at VU Amsterdam🇳🇱🐌🐚🔬🧬
BSc programme director
Chief Science Officer of Anitomical
Collaborator in Bio-Art projects
Previously: 🇨🇦McGill Univ. (PhD), 🇩🇪Univ. Münster, Alexander von Humboldt awardee
Alexander van Oudenhoven @avanoudenhoven.bsky.social Environmental scientist at Leiden University @unileiden.bsky.social
Programme Director MSc Governance of Sustainability
Co-Editor in Chief of @esandpeople.bsky.social journal.
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/alexander-van-oudenhoven
DisabledInSTEM @disabledinstem.bsky.social We are here to affirm that you DO belong in STEM! This is a safe space for people with disabilities in STEM to connect. Contact: disabledinstem@gmail.com
@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.
Ilse Noens @ilsenoens.bsky.social Professor at KULeuven, chair of Leuven Autism Research (LAuRes) and the Academic Collaborative Centre for Autism (ACCA). Passionate about participatory and neurodiversity-affirmative research, care, and education.
Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social Director of the Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University London @brunelcce.bsky.social
https://www.rebeccasear.org/
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/
Zach Garfield @zhgarfield.com Evolutionary anthropologist. Leadership, punishment, & conflict resolution.
Asst. Prof of Anthropology @grinnellcollege.bsky.social.
Co-Director @omovalleyresearchproject.org.
Former RF @iast.fr.
https://www.zhgarfield.com
Andrew Buskell @andrewbuskell.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Georgia Tech HSOC. He|Him. History and Philosophy of Science; Culture and Cultural Evolution; Ethics; Cognition. www.andrewbuskell.com
Lisa DeBruine @debruine.bsky.social Professor of MetaScience 🏳️🌈 she/they
#metacheck #rstats #PsyTeachR #OpenResearch #ManyFaces #iyknyd (overwhelmed by social media)
Alberto Acerbi @acerbialberto.com I am an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento (Italy): cognitive anthropology / cultural evolution / digital media / cultural analytics
More info in the pinned post.
Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social Paradigmatically promiscuous scientist. Ankylosaur enthusiast. Modeler of cultural evolution and related topics. Anti-fascist. Professor at UC Merced, external prof at the Santa Fe Institute and CSH-Vienna.
Web: https://smaldino.com/wp/
Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social Professor of Ethics & Technology @ Hertie School, Berlin. Interests: Artificial & Natural Intelligence; Behavioural Ecology; Cooperation; Digital Governance. Social media policy: https://joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2024/10/guidance-to-my-social-media.html
Björn Lindström @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social Researching (social) learning and cultural evolution at Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Robert Böhm @robertboehm.bsky.social Behavioral scientist studying judgment and decision making in response to societal challenges; robertboehm.info; Professor @univie.ac.at & @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social; Director https://whocc-sabrar.univie.ac.at; Co-director https://health.univie.ac.at/en/
Erol Akcay @akcay.theoretical.bio Ecology, evolution, and social dynamics at the University of Pennsylvania. He/him
https://akcay.theoretical.bio
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)
Josh Tybur @joshtybur.bsky.social Professor of Psychology and Infectious Disease at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Claudio Tennie @ctennie.bsky.social A PI of the HUMAN ORIGINS project (Tübingen, GER)
Humans, hominins & apes -> evolution of human cultural evolution
-> How did we get from an ape-like baseline to human cultural learning/ cultural cognition?
https://sites.google.com/view/claudiotennie
Carsten De Dreu @dedreu.bsky.social Behavioral scientist @rug.nl; curious about mechanisms and functions of cooperation, conflict and creativity in (non)human animals.
Spinoza Laureate | Humboldt Forschungspreis. Professor at Univ. of Groningen, affiliated with German Primate Center
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
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- J Joan Silk @jbsilk.bsky.social Evolutionary anthropologist, primate behavioral ecologist.
Maxime Derex @maximederex.bsky.social CNRS Researcher at IAST and Toulouse School of Economics
Working on cumulative culture, social learning, innovation
Lars Penke @larspenke.bsky.social Professor of Biological Personality Psychology at the University of Göttingen
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).
Thom Scott-Phillips @thomscottphillips.bsky.social Language, Psychology, Culture, Philosophy, Society, Evolution • When not doing science I dance the lindy hop
https://linktr.ee/thomscottphillips
Jean-Baptiste André @jbaptistandre.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist studying human behavior and societies through adaptationist reasoning. DR CNRS @ Ecole Normale Supérieure-PSL & Institut Jean Nicod.
@nicolewalasek.bsky.social @nicolewalasek.bsky.social Postdoc @IBED_UvA working on formal models of sensitive periods. https://walaseknicole.wixsite.com/site
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)
Ruth Mace @ruthmace.bsky.social Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, UCL
Thomas Pollet @tvpollet.bsky.social I study social relationships (and a bunch of random other things) with an interest in statistics. Views are my own. https://tvpollet.github.io/
Jorge Peña 🇵🇸 @jorgeapenas.bsky.social Professor of Interdisciplinary Stuff @ Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), and Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST).
Mathematical models of cooperation and conflict.
https://jorgeapenas.github.io- D Miguel dos Santos @drmigo.bsky.social Evolutionary theory, social evolution, Oxford University
Center for Adaptive Rationality (MPIB, Berlin) @arc-mpib.bsky.social Interdisciplinary research group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (@mpib-berlin.bsky.social). We study decision making in today’s complex and fast-changing world.
Website: https://tinyurl.com/bdfy736y
Podcast: unravelingbehavior.org
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 🏳️🌈
Laura Fortunato @anthrolog.bsky.social Biologist turned anthropologist, I study the evolution of human social / cultural behaviour. Also open research, reproducibility, free and open-source software, and their intersections.
Professing at Oxford / Magdalen College and the Santa Fe Institute.
Sheina Lew-Levy @sheinalew.bsky.social Associate Professor at @durhampsych.bsky.social. I look at how culture influences children's learning, and how learning makes us human.
Luke Glowacki @lukeglowacki.bsky.social Anthropologist at Boston University. PI Human Systems and Behavior Lab. Co-Director of the Omo Valley Research Project.
Celia Heyes @celiaheyes.bsky.social Theoretical psychologist studying the evolution of human cognition.
All Souls College, University of Oxford
https://users.ox.ac.uk/~ascch/
Çağlar Akçay @caglarakcay.bsky.social Animal social behaviour and cognition.
https://caglarakcay.wordpress.com/
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sZ4qvtwAAAAJ&hl=en
Ludovic Maisonneuve @ludovicmaisonneuve.bsky.social Research Fellow at IAST Toulouse | Evolution of social learning strategies | Mathematical modeling
https://ludovic-maisonneuve.github.io/
Human Behavior & Evolution Society @humbehevosoc.bsky.social The Human Behavior & Evolution Society (HBES) is an international society for scientists studying the evolution of human behavior. Find us at https://www.hbes.com, or read our journal Evolution & Human Behavior. Account managed by Yunsuh (Nike) Wee
MPI-EVA Leipzig @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology investigates the #history and #evolution of #humans and other #primates.
Leipzig, Germany
https://www.eva.mpg.de/index.html
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.
Michael Muthukrishna @michael.muthukrishna.com Prof. #NYU & #LSE. Author: A Theory of Everyone. Researching & spreading the word on how humans evolved & what that means for us today. www.atheoryofeveryone.com
Kevin Lala @kevinlala.bsky.social Evolution; animal behaviour; animal culture; human cognitive evolution; niche construction; anti-racism. Editor-in-Chief of Biological Theory
#evolution #evodevo #philbio #philsci #animalculture #animalbehavior
Ashleigh Griffin @asgriffin.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist based in Oxford
Stu West @stuwest.bsky.social Evolution. He/him/his. Views not my own. 🐵🦄🏳️🌈👨🔬🍜
Richard Lenski @relenski.bsky.social Evolving better E. coli for 75,000 generations. Prof at MSU, but opinions my own. (Ok, I also speak for billions -- er, TRILLIONS -- of E. coli.)
Website for LTEE: the-ltee.org
Banner pic from NYC, shared by Darwin. (The microbiologist, not the other one.)- L Lucas Molleman @lucasmolleman.bsky.social
Alex Mesoudi @alexmesoudi.com Cultural evolution researcher at the University of Exeter (Penryn campus), UK. I study human social learning and culture using evolutionary theory.
Past President of the Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social
Website: alexmesoudi.com
Grocott Lab @grocottlab.bsky.social Dr Tim Grocott's research group, University of East Anglia UK. 🐣 embryology & new adventures in human development via stem cells. Modelling in silico/vitro. Fascinated by signalling networks, patterning, all things early development and the eye.
Maarten Larmuseau @maartenlarmuseau.bsky.social Professor in Genetic Genealogy @KU_Leuven
Biologist & geneticist inspired by genealogy, history, museums & art
Eve Seuntjens @eveseuntjens.bsky.social Developmental neurobiology and brain evolution beyond vertebrates
Suckered into cephalopod and killifish biology
Full Professor of Biology at KU Leuven, Belgium
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.)
SMB - Society for Mathematical Biology @smbmathbiology.bsky.social The SMB is dedicated to the advancement of research at the interface between the mathematical and biological sciences. smb.org
Philosophy of Science Association @philsci.bsky.social Founded in 1933, the Philosophy of Science Association promotes research, teaching, and free discussion of issues in the philosophy of science from diverse standpoints.
SMTPB @smtpb.bsky.social Account for the Society for Modeling & Theory in Population Biology, a professional scientific society focused on mathematical models and theory-based research in population biology.
smtpb.org
Folgert Karsdorp @folgertk.bsky.social KNAW Meertens Institute & Utrecht University; Interested in cultural change/diversity/bias; book: “Humanities Data Analysis” https://www.humanitiesdataanalysis.org; new journal: CHR https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/computational-humanities-research
Matt Spike @matspike.bsky.social > Language + CogSci + Evolution + NLP/ML/AI
COMPLEXITY, FUNCTION & FORM in
- language, culture, cognition
- evo dynamics
- info & computation
- explanation
homeostatic property cluster at large
LangEvo is Hard Reading List
https://t.ly/gfGj
Miguel @miguelepipe.bsky.social Pfft!
Tanguy Solliec @kiminell.eurosky.social Words, words, words wherever they come from but mostly everything inside them, around them and in between. Des mots et des choses. Gerioù toud. Слава словам!
https://lacito.cnrs.fr/en/directory/tanguy-solliec/
Els De Keyzer @elsdekeyzer.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist. Postdoctoral researcher at the Evolutionary Ecology group of UAntwepen, Belgium. Interested in speciation and hybridisation. Fieldwork enthousiast.
Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social Japan. ALife & Astrobiology researcher https://lanasina.github.io/
Research @ Sony CSL, Associate Prof. National Institute for Basic Biology.
talking dog insta @iikocookie
🚫 I block empty profiles
Dennis P Waters @dpwaters.bsky.social Author, Behavior & Culture in One Dimension (http://1dimensional.com; Routledge 2021); Visiting Scientist, Rutgers DEENR & CHRB; Founder, GenomeWeb.com, WatersTechnology.com; Lichenologist; Patteeist; fan of @hanner.bsky.social
@rytos6.bsky.social @rytos6.bsky.social
@michael-barnett.bsky.social @michael-barnett.bsky.social
Remi van Trijp @remivantrijp.bsky.social Research Leader at https://csl.sony.fr. My work blends linguistics, artificial intelligence, and complex systems science to understand how humans create and share meaning through language and narrative. Read more at https://remivantrijp.com
Molecular Biology and Evolution @molbioevol.bsky.social MBE publishes fresh insights into the patterns and processes that impact the evolution of life at molecular levels.
🔗 academic.oup.com/mbe
🏠 @official-smbe.bsky.social
🤝 @genomebiolevol.bsky.social
#evobio #molbio #science #biology #societyjournal
Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen (FWO) @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social Financiering van excellent wetenschappelijk onderzoek mét impact
Stimulates excellent scientific research with impact
Marlies Vanden Bempt @marliesvandenbempt.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Hematology in Belgium🩸 KU Leuven & University of Oxford🩸 youngEHA committee member & TRTH 2025🩸I love science, talking, and talking about science!