Science Figures That Look Like Shitposts @science-shitpost.bsky.social This was a classic account on science twitter but it never made it to bsky so I rebooted it.
Submit figs at science.shitpost@fastmail.ca
Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social Minnesota guy.
"This particular activist will not stop." Sen. Chris Murphy
Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social trailcams
no AI ever
Nele-Pauline Suffo @nelesuffo.bsky.social Machine Learning & Developmental Psychology @ Leuphana University
Aleksandra Lazić, PhD @alelazic.bsky.social Psychology researcher • Advocating for equitable #OpenScience • Into #RStats #SocialPsyc #HealthPsychology #SciComm #Running & recently #MarketResearch
orcid.org/0000-0002-0433-0483
https://mastodon.social/@alelazic
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alelazic
Stuart Ritchie @stuartjritchie.bsky.social
Jason Yeatman @jyeatman.bsky.social Professor at Stanford. Education, Psychology, Pediatrics and Neuroscience. Brain Development & Education Lab. roar.stanford.edu
Julia Leonard @julia-a-leonard.bsky.social Developmental cognitive scientist | Assistant professor of psychology at Yale
Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net occasionally reasonable
Babelfisch Lab @babelfischlab.bsky.social Our aim is to uncover how we learn language across the lifespan and how we use it as a tool for cognition. Our lab is led by Jutta L. Mueller @univie.ac.at
Nature @nature.com Research, news, and commentary from Nature, the international science journal. For daily science news, get Nature Briefing: https://go.nature.com/get-Nature-Briefing
Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social linguist, experimental work on meaning (lexical semantics), language use, representation, learning, constructionist usage-based approach, Princeton U https://adele.scholar.princeton.edu/publications/topic
Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social Professor at Wharton, studying AI and its implications for education, entrepreneurship, and work. Author of Co-Intelligence.
Book: https://a.co/d/bC2kSj1
Substack: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/
Web: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick- L languagemit.bsky.social @languagemit.bsky.social I am Ted Gibson, and I study human language in MIT's Brain and Cognitive Sciences. My lab is sometimes called the Language Lab or Tedlab. I edit Open Mind, MIT Press's Diamond Open Access cognitive science journal.
eLife @elife.bsky.social The funder-researcher collaboration and open-access publisher for research in the life and biomedical sciences.
Follow @eLifeCommunity.bsky.social
Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz R, data, 🐕, 🍸, 🌈. He/him.
Sean Mackinnon @seanpmackinnon.bsky.social Instructor at Dalhousie University. Personality, statistics, mixed methods
Hyowon (Hyo) Gweon @hyogweon.bsky.social Associate Professor, Dept of Psychology, Stanford University
Social Learning, Cognition, Development | sll.stanford.edu
Social Learning Lab @sociallearninglab.bsky.social Social Learning Lab at Stanford University. We study children's cognitive development and how they learn from the social world.
PI: Dr. Hyowon Gweon @hyogweon.bsky.social
Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social Cognitive Science at Aarhus Uni. Curious about social interactions, symbolic behaviors, and meta-science. Focus on stats, computational modeling, machine learning, complex systems, language, exp semiotics and neuropsychiatric conditions. He/They.
Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social New Book out this summer: Sawyer Lee and the Quest to Just Stay Home.
Other things of mine: Bea Wolf, A City on Mars, and SMBC
Website: www.smbc-comics.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersmith?ty=h
Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social Mood & Memory researcher with a computational bent. https://www.nicolecrust.com. Science advocate. Prof (UPenn Psych) - Author: Elusive Cures. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691243054/elusive-cures
Z-curve @replicationindex.com MetaScience, MetaScientist, MetaPsycholog, UberScientist
Erik Brockbank @erikbrockbank.bsky.social Postdoc @Stanford Psychology
Martha Wells @marthawells.com SF/F Writer - The Books of the Raksura, The Murderbot Diaries, Witch King, Queen Demon, and more. Nebula and Hugo Award winner. NYT and Sunday Times Bestseller. (She/her) Agent: Jennifer Jackson
Morten H. Christiansen @mh-christiansen.bsky.social Cognitive scientist interested in the processing, acquisition and evolution of language; statistical learning; computational modeling.
Lab website: https://csl-lab.psych.cornell.edu
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social
MIT Kids Brains @kidsbrains.bsky.social We are neuroscientists and psychologists at MIT who love to learn about kids' brains and help kids learn about their own brains!
PI: Rebecca Saxe
Lab: https://saxelab.mit.edu/
Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social Science-ing, trying to improve science. Metascience, open access, reforming scholarly authorship practices. Cognitive and perceptual psychologist.
Mastodon: @alexh@fediscience.org
Matthew B. Jané @matthewbjane.bsky.social PhD student at UConn | matthewbjane.com
Manuel Bohn @elmanubohn.bsky.social Developmental psychologist at Leuphana with an eye on ManyPrimates (@manyprimates.bsky.social)
Leher Singh @lehersingh.bsky.social Developmental science, infancy, bilingualism. Views are my own.
Adani Abutto @adani.bsky.social Ph.D. candidate @ Stanford studying children's 💭 and 🧠 to do better by them in the laws, policies, and technologies of the modern world
https://stanford.edu/~aabutto
Cameron Ellis @camerontellis.bsky.social Wannabe baby mind reader. Also, I'm from New Zealand.
Lab website: https://soc.stanford.edu/
Virginia Marchman @vmarchman.bsky.social Semi-retired language development researcher at Stanford Psych and Stanford School of Medicine, MacArthur-Bates CDI Advisory Board, baseball fan
Howard Chiu @howardchiu.bsky.social Developmental Cognitive Neuroscientist; PhD Candidate at Brain Development and Education Lab @stanfordeducation.bsky.social and @stanfordcec.bsky.social; Stanford Graduate Fellow. BA @oxexppsy.bsky.social, MEd @unimelb.edu.au. chiuhoward.github.io
Christopher Manning @chrmanning.bsky.social Stanford Linguistics and Computer Science. Director, Stanford AI Lab. Founder of @stanfordnlp.bsky.social . #NLP https://nlp.stanford.edu/~manning/
Andrew Lampinen @lampinen.bsky.social Interested in cognition and artificial intelligence. Researcher at Anthropic; previously DeepMind, cognitive science at Stanford. Posts are mine.
lampinen.github.io
Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com A project of The Center For Scientific Integrity https://centerforscientificintegrity.org/
Daily newsletter http://eepurl.com/bNRlUn
Database http://retractiondatabase.org
Tips team@retractionwatch.com (better than @ replies)
Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social Researcher in child language development @MPI for Psycholinguistics & Radboud Uni. She/her. "All models are wrong but some are useful" (George Box 1978). https://www.mpi.nl/people/rowland-caroline
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social We undertake fundamental research into the psychological, social and biological foundations of #language | Onderzoeksinstituut voor #taal, van genetica tot gedrag
Julien Mayor @julienmayor.bsky.social Developmental Scientist - how are babies learning languages?
Word learning, infant speech perception, language assessments and open science.
https://www.sv.uio.no/psi/english/people/academic/julienma/index.html
Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social SFF author, triple Hugo award winner (and three times Locus award too), over a million books sold.
Mostly on Mastodon: @cstross@wandering.shop
Blog: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Open Mind @openmindjournal.bsky.social Cognitive science journal published by MIT Press.
https://direct.mit.edu/opmi
Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com Professor of Computational Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Aarhus University. PI @ the Embodied Computation Group. We study perception, interoception, & metacogniton.
https://www.the-ecg.org
Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social Ecological psychologist just trying to make psychology better at explaining us. I study the perceptual control of action and get cranky about politics and AI technologies. He/him
Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience.
Co-director of York Neuroimaging Centre (YNiC).
Interested in memory, spatial navigation and brain imaging.
He/Him
http://www.aidanhorner.org/
Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social Cognitive psychologist interested in perception, illusions, sensorimotor control, and virtual reality.
I also blog for early-career academics: https://gavinbuckingham.wordpress.com/
Isabel Papadimitriou @isabelpapad.bsky.social (jolly good) Fellow at the Kempner Institute @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social, incoming assistant professor at UBC Linguistics (and by courtesy CS, Sept 2025). PhD @stanfordnlp.bsky.social with the lovely @jurafsky.bsky.social
isabelpapad.com
The Research Center for Group Dynamics @rcgd-isr.bsky.social The birthplace of foundational concepts in social science, RCGD conducts research on observed behavior at the U-M Institute for Social Research.
xuan (ɕɥɛn / sh-yen) @xuanalogue.bsky.social Assistant professor at NUS. Scaling cooperative intelligence & infrastructure for an increasingly automated future. PhD @ MIT ProbComp / CoCoSci. Pronouns: 祂/伊
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/
Dileep George @dileeplearning @dileeplearning.bsky.social AGI research @DeepMind.
Ex cofounder & CTO Vicarious AI (acqd by Alphabet),
Cofounder Numenta
Triply EE (BTech IIT-Mumbai, MS&PhD Stanford). #AGIComics
blog.dileeplearning.com
Raphaël Millière @raphaelmilliere.com Philosopher of Artificial Intelligence & Cognitive Science
https://raphaelmilliere.com/
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
Max Kleiman-Weiner @maxkw.bsky.social professor at university of washington and scientist at Google DeepMind. computational cognitive scientist. working on social and artificial intelligence and alignment.
http://faculty.washington.edu/maxkw/
Murray Shanahan @mpshanahan.bsky.social Professor at Imperial College London and Principal Scientist at Google DeepMind. Posting in a personal capacity. To send me a message please use email.
Jonathan Phillips @jsphillips.bsky.social Cognitive scientist / philosopher working on modality and high level cognition.
Cognitive science at Dartmouth
https://phillab.host.dartmouth.edu/
Photo credit: Justin Khoo
Griffiths Computational Cognitive Science Lab @cocoscilab.bsky.social Tom Griffiths' Computational Cognitive Science Lab at Princeton. Studying the computational problems human minds have to solve.
Tracey Mills @traceym.bsky.social PhD student @ MIT BCS
Kai Sandbrink @ackaisa.bsky.social Computational cognitive neuroscience PhD Student, Oxford & EPFL
Kanishk Gandhi @gandhikanishk.bsky.social PhD Student Stanford w/ Noah Goodman, studying reasoning, discovery, and interaction. Trying to build machines that understand people.
StanfordNLP, Stanford AI Lab
Bonan Zhao (赵博囡) @bonan.bsky.social PI Computational Cognitive Science (BoCoCo) lab in Edinburgh 🏴
https://zhaobn.github.io
Brandon Woo @brandonwoo.bsky.social Assistant professor at UCSB, studying the development of the social mind. 🇨🇦🏳️🌈 (he/him)
bmwoo.github.io
Emory Richardson @emoryrchrdsn.bsky.social cognitive scientist.
intuitive theories, collaboration, cumulative culture, networks, philosophy of science/mind/bio, language. Also kettlebells.
past: @UMich @Yale @UChicago @stjohnscollege.
https://rchrdsnemory.github.io/site/
Nathaniel Daw @nathanieldaw.bsky.social Neuro prof at Princeton, social media cynic.
Alison Gopnik @alisongopnik.bsky.social Cognitive scientist, philosopher, and psychologist at Berkeley, author of The Scientist in the Crib, The Philosophical Baby and The Gardener and the Carpenter and grandmother of six.
Beau Sievers @beausievers.bsky.social Psychology, neuroscience, music, game design.
Yarrow Dunham @yarrowdunham.bsky.social Studies social cognition in children and grown-ups. Teaches in the psychology and cognitive science programs at Yale.
Lab: socialcogdev.com
Jennifer Hu @jennhu.bsky.social Asst Prof at Johns Hopkins Cognitive Science • Director of the Group for Language and Intelligence (glint) ✨• Interested in all things language, cognition, and AI
jennhu.github.io
Leyla Isik @lisik.bsky.social Associate Prof of Cog Sci at JHU studying vision and social cognition: isiklab.org
Co-EiC Minds, Machines & Brains: direct.mit.edu/mmb
she/her
Erin Grant @eringrant.me Assistant Professor @ualberta.bsky.social & Fellow @amiithinks.bsky.social studying cognition in mind & brain with neural nets, Bayes, and other tools (eringrant.github.io).
elsewhere: sigmoid.social/@eringrant, twitter.com/ermgrant @ermgrant
andrea e. martin @andreaeyleen.eurosky.social ::language, cognitive science, neural dynamics::
Lise Meitner Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics |
Principal Investigator, Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud University |
http://www.andreaemartin.com/
lacns.GitHub.io
Liberty Severs @libertysevers.bsky.social Philosopher of biology and cognitive scientist. PhD Fellow at Uni. Lisbon/Bochum. Learning, decision-making, agency and control.
Co-founder @nonneuralcognition.bsky.social, VP @ispsm.bsky.social.
Daphna Buchsbaum @daphnab.bsky.social Children, Dogs, Monkeys, Robots. Associate Professor at Brown University.
https://sites.brown.edu/cocodevlab/
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4LRxXyIAAAAJ&hl=en
Patrick Shafto @patrickshafto.bsky.social Prof: Rutgers; Program Manager: DARPA; Scientist-at-Large: Redpoll.
Math! Machine learning! Cognitive Science!
Maxwell Ramstead @mjdramstead.bsky.social Cofounder @noumenal-labs.bsky.social. Honorary Fellow at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology. Free energy principle, active inference, Bayesian mechanics, artificial intelligence, phenomenology
Mark Ho @markkho.bsky.social computational cog sci • problem solving and social cognition • asst prof at NYU • https://codec-lab.github.io/
Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social Computation & Complexity | AI Interpretability | Meta-theory | Computational Cognitive Science
Max Planck Institute ESI.
Dept. of Computer Science & Mathematics,
Goethe University Frankfurt.
https://fedeadolfi.github.io
On the job market!
Liane Young @lianeleeyoung.bsky.social Prof of Psychology and Neuroscience at Boston College | Director of Morality Lab | Academic Mama | she/her | https://moralitylab.bc.edu/
Andrew Saxe @saxelab.bsky.social Professor at the Gatsby Unit and Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL, trying to figure out how we learn
Guy Davidson ✈️ NeurIPS 2025 @guydav.bsky.social @guyd33 on the X-bird site. Machine learning researcher at Jane Street. Formerly, PhD student at NYU, cognitive science x AI, specifically goal and task representations in minds/machines. Otherwise, cooking, playing ultimate frisbee, and making hot sauces.
Society for Philosophy and Psychology @socphilpsych.bsky.social minding minds since 1974
Marcelo Mattar @marcelomattar.bsky.social Assistant professor at NYU.
Martin Schrimpf @mschrimpf.bsky.social NeuroAI Prof @EPFL 🇨🇭. ML + Neuro 🤖🧠. Brain-Score, MIRAGE, TopoLM. Previously: PhD @MIT, ML @Salesforce, Neuro @HarvardMed, & co-founder @Integreat. go.epfl.ch/NeuroAI
Jenelle Feather @jfeather.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Neuroscience and Psychology at #CarnegieMellon. I study how humans and computers hear and see.
wasita @wasita.bsky.social 🇹🇭
postdoc @ nyu + mt. sinai
recent phd w/ luke chang @ dartmouth
i study social interactions & communication
wasita.space
Ben Lipkin @benlipkin.bsky.social researcher. prev: phd @ mit, intern @ apple
https://benlipkin.github.io/
Uri Hertz @urihertz.bsky.social PI at the cog-sci dept at the university of Haifa. Social-cognitive-computational psychology, and sometimes neuroscience.
www.socialdecisionlab.net
Kartik Chandra @kartikchandra.bsky.social I'm a PhD student at MIT CSAIL.
More about me: https://cs.stanford.edu/~kach
Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox @wegotlieb.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics @ Georgetown; formerly postdoc @ ETH Zurich; PhD @ Harvard Linguistics, affiliated with MIT Brain & Cog Sci. Language, Computers, Cognition.- R Rachel Calcott @rcalcott.bsky.social
Maya Malaviya @maya-malaviya.bsky.social PhD Student in the Computation & Decision-Making Lab
https://codec-lab.github.io
Researching computational models of problem-solving & pedagogical reasoning!
🐻->🐯->🦆->🐱
Carlos G. Correa @cgcorrea.bsky.social postdoc with Marcelo Mattar - https://carlos.correa.me/
Sam Cheyette @samcheyette.bsky.social I study thinking. Postdoc in the CoCoSci lab at MIT.
Setayesh Radkani @setayeshradkani.bsky.social Cognitive neuroscientist | Currently postdoc fellow @Brown developing ideas at the intersection of social neuroscience and cognitive control | PhD @MIT social learning, decision making and punishment
Julian Jara-Ettinger @julianje.bsky.social Cognitive scientist at Yale
http://cscl.yale.edu
Vivian Paulun @vivianpaulun.bsky.social Cognitive neuroscientist studying how we see and think about the physical world.
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
https://paulunlab.psych.wisc.edu/
she/her