Sohrab Ahmari @sohrabahmari.bsky.social US Editor, UnHerd.
Writing my next book, on the triumph for normal, for HarperCollins.
TheOmniZaddy 🌹🔰🏗️ @theomnizaddy.bsky.social Social democrat in the streets, liberal Georgist in the sheets. Mariah Carey stan & Marie Kondo enthusiast. YIMBY, NUMTOT, aspiring DILF.
Brooklyn, NY | Zillennial (27) | Bi🏳️🌈| he/him
omniaz.substack.com
Diego Guevara Beltran @psycheddiego.bsky.social Social psych + evo anthropology: Cooperation, interdependence, emotion. Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Arizona.
http://psycheddiego.mystrikingly.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/
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/
Sacha Altay @sachaltay.bsky.social 🔎 Misinformation, social media & the news 🗞️
🇨🇭 Postdoc at the University of Zurich, previously Reuters Institute & ENS 🇫🇷
https://sachaaltay.github.io/
Lisa DeBruine @debruine.bsky.social Professor of MetaScience 🏳️🌈 she/they
#metacheck #rstats #PsyTeachR #OpenResearch #ManyFaces #iyknyd (overwhelmed by social media)
Paul Bloom @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social Psychologist who studies and writes about human nature—including morality, pleasure, and religion. Sustack: https://smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/
Will Gervais @willgervais.com psych prof & author | culture & evolution | atheists | methodological pluralism FTW | comic & horror nerd | he/him
Disbelief: The Origins of Atheism in a Religious Species https://www.amazon.com/Disbelief-Origins-Atheism-Religious-Species/dp/1633889246/
Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social Director of the Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University London @brunelcce.bsky.social
https://www.rebeccasear.org/
Michael Bang Petersen @m-b-petersen.bsky.social Auditing the challenges of democracy in the 21st century for the Danish parliament with a particular focus on social media, mistrust and political alienation.
Political science professor at Aarhus University, Denmark.
Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social Primatologist. Biological anthropologist. Recovering academic. Writing non-fiction about evolution, culture, monkeys, trees, apes, and whales. Obsessed with my rescue dog.
Ed Hagen @edhagen.net Professor of Anthropology at Washington State University.
Faculty page: https://anthro.vancouver.wsu.edu/people/hagen/
Views expressed are my own and do not reflect those of my employer or other organizations I'm affiliated with.
Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Psychology at Duke studying kids & culture. PI of the Mind & Culture Lab. Mom x3. Some people just want to watch the world learn.
dorsaamir.com | mindandculturelab.com
Alex Danvers @drdanvers.bsky.social Social Psychologist, Data Scientist, Baseball Fan, Dog Dad, Improviser
Meltem Yucel @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social Assistant Professor @msupsychology.bsky.social • studying norms, morality, & gossip • Previously @ Duke, UVA, IMPRS LIFE • she/her • Founder: @psychresearchlist.bsky.social • Lab: @moralmindslab.bsky.social • www.meltemyucel.com
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).
John Hawks @johnhawks.net Paleoanthropologist | Chair and Professor of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin–Madison 🧪🏺💀https://www.johnhawks.net
David Lewis @davidclewis.bsky.social
Jason Fletcher @jasonmfletcher.bsky.social Professor of Public Affairs at University of Wisconsin. Health Economics, Social Genomics, Networks. Views my own.
https://fletcher.lafollette.wisc.edu
https://substack.com/@jasonmfletcher
Cat T @cattownsend.bsky.social Anthropologist, gardener, animal lover, fantasy & sci-fi fan. Climate anxious. She/they.
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
Talbot Andrews @talbotmandrews.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Cornell. I study disasters, public opinion, political economy, and climate change 🌲Oregonian🌲- J Joan Silk @jbsilk.bsky.social Evolutionary anthropologist, primate behavioral ecologist.
David DeSteno @daviddesteno.bsky.social Psychological Scientist, Author, and host of PRX podcast "How God Works: The Science Behind Spirituality." Studying the Science of Emotion, Morality, & Religion. Words frequently in NYT, WSJ, etc. https://davedesteno.com https://www.howgodworks.org
Katie McAuliffe @katiemcauliffe.bsky.social Cooperation, Morality, Justice, Norms, Evolution, Society, Culture, etc
bccooperationlab.com
bcvirtueproject.com
Associate Prof @ Psychology & Neuroscience, Boston College
Kurt Gray @kurtjgray.bsky.social Prof at UNC, studying morality, religion, AI.
Director: Deepest Beliefs Lab; Center for the Science of Moral Understanding.
Author: The Mind Club; Substack; forthcoming book
Mohammad Atari @mohammadatari.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Psychology at UMass Amherst.
Director of the Culture and Morality Lab.
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
Matt Zefferman @mzefferman.bsky.social Any views expressed are, at most, my own and do not reflect those of any organization.
Zoe Liberman @zoeliberman.bsky.social Associate Professor at UCSB. Interested in the origins and development of humans' understanding of social relationships. liberman.psych.ucsb.edu
manvir singh @manvir.bsky.social anthropologist at uc davis.
contributing writer at the new yorker.
author of SHAMANISM: THE TIMELESS RELIGION (knopf + allen lane).
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)
Dr Emily Emmott @ehemmott.bsky.social Associate Prof in Biological Anthropology, bringing Evolution to Public Health. Director of Education at UCL Anthropology.
Profile: https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/30051
Daniel Conroy-Beam @dconroybeam.bsky.social Associate professor at UCSB. Evolutionary and computational perspectives on human mating. Occasional nature photos. He/him.
https://www.danconroybeam.com/
Amber Wutich @awutich.bsky.social MacArthur Fellow. Anthropologist. Regents & President’s Professor. Director, ASU Center for Global Health & NSF Cultural Anthropology Methods Program. Editor, Field Methods. Proud co-founder of the AAG WISE (Water Insecurity) Research Community. Own Views
Bastian Jaeger @bxjaeger.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Tilburg University 🇳🇱
❤️🧠Moral Psychology & Altruism
🌚🌝First impressions & Social biases
🔬📊Meta-science
Jaimie Arona Krems @jaimiekrems.bsky.social Social psychologist, UCLA; Director, UCLA Center for Friendship Research
Jim Coan @jimmycoan.bsky.social Exploring human connection through science and art. Inventor of Social Baseline Theory. Director of the Virginia Affective Neuroscience Lab. Host of the podcast “Circle of Willis." https://linktr.ee/jimcoan
Kris Smith @kris-smith.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Anthropology at WSU studying how people work together to respond to environmental change and infectious disease across E. Africa. Interdisciplinary and plays well with others. He/him
Website: kristophermsmith.com
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
Lars Penke @larspenke.bsky.social Professor of Biological Personality Psychology at the University of Göttingen
Matthew Gervais @matthewmgervais.bsky.social Lecturer in Psychology @BrunelCCE.bsky.social.
Sentiments & sociality co-evolving with culture | Comparative field methods & ethics | Pickles & playgrounds & ponds on the side wee
https://www.brunel.ac.uk/people/matthew-gervais
David A. Sbarra @dsbarra.bsky.social Clinical Psychologist. Professor of Psychology. All views are personal, expressed as a private citizen. Curator of the Metascience Digest: https://metasciencedigest.substack.com/
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
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
Scott Claessens @scottclaessens.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Kent, interested in cultural evolution, cooperation, and moral psychology with a focus on artificial intelligence.
Mauro Silva Júnior @maurosilvajunior.bsky.social Assist. Prof. teaching Evolutionary Psychology at University of Brasília, Brazil 🇧🇷
social cognition | emotions | coalitional & political psychology | individual differences.
Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=HwGtFr
Colette Berbesque @cberbesque.bsky.social Former Biological Anthropologist moved from academia to data analytics. Generally interested in inequality, stress, and wellbeing.
Arvid Ågren @arvidagren.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist. Assistant Professor CCLCM/CWRU.
The Gene’s-Eye View of Evolution(OUP 2021) and The Paradox of the Organism (HUP 2025).
www.arvidagren.com
Catherine Molho @cmolho.bsky.social Psychologist studying cooperation, punishment, and norms.
Assistant professor at the Toulouse School of Economics and Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST).
https://catherinemolho.github.io/
Prof Nichola Raihani @nicholaraihani.bsky.social Professor & Author
Auckland & UCL
Books: THE SOCIAL INSTINCT (2021) || THE THINKING ANIMAL (2027, ✍🏼)
Website: www.nicholaraihani.com
Likes cycling.
Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social Faculty (Penn State), lab director (https://socialitylab.org), entrepreneur. Interdisciplinary anthropologist studying how people cooperate to manage risk. Foodie. 🌎🌍
Léo Fitouchi @lfitouchi.bsky.social Cognitive scientist. Studying moral cognition & culture
Research fellow at @iast.fr @tse-fr.eu. PhD ENS Paris.
Website: leofitouchi.github.io
Simon Columbus @simoncolumbus.bsky.social Lecturer, University of St Andrews | I work on cooperation, norms, institutions, & personality | http://simoncolumbus.com
Chris Krupenye @chriskrupenye.bsky.social Origins of the Social Mind • Apes • Dogs • Evolutionary Cognitive Scientist, Assistant Professor @JohnsHopkins • he/him
Adrian Viliami Bell @avbell.bsky.social professor and chair of anthropology at the university of utah; interested in evolution, culture, and migration
https://adrianbell.wordpress.com/
Jonathan F Schulz @jonathanschulz.bsky.social Asst. Prof. at George Mason University. Interested in cultural evolution, human behavior, economic development and history. https://sites.google.com/site/jonathanfschulz/
Eric Shattuck @ericshattuck.bsky.social Biological anthropologist working to understand what people do when they're sick and why. Assistant Professor at FSU. The views here are my own, etc., etc.
www.ericshattuck.com
David P. Schmitt, Ph.D. @psychoschmitt.bsky.social Professor of Psychology and Department Head at Oklahoma State University, USA. Interests include personality, health, gender/sex diversity; Founded or co-founded International Sexuality Description Project, Culture and Evolution, Dionysus Digital Health.
Jess Salerno @jesssalerno.bsky.social Social psychologist professor @ASU for a little longer, soon to be @Cornell, studying the intersection of moral/social psychology and legal issues.
Stacey Tecot 🌵 @stecot.bsky.social Primatologist, conservationist, evolutionary anthropologist at UArizona. I study the hormones, behavior, and ecology of wild primates. Currently researching cooperative infant care and maternal-child health in lemurs in Madagascar & people in Tucson, AZ.
Eric Schniter @humannature.bsky.social Naturalist with a particular interest in humans:
Evolutionary anthropologist,
evolutionary psychologist,
behavioral economist,
studying life history theory, cooperation, and communication.
https://sites.google.com/site/ericschniter/
Oliver Scott Curry @oliverscottcurry.bsky.social Chief Science Officer www.kindness.org | Research Affiliate https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk | www.oliverscottcurry.com
Evolution, cooperation, morality & politics. All posts are hypotheses.
Jeremy Koster @jeremykoster.bsky.social Aligning incentives for better science - quality over status
Signer of DORA: https://sfdora.org/
Co-director of ENDOW project: https://endowproject.github.io/
Interdisciplinary socio-ecological scientist advocating for congruence of theory, data, and stats
Luke Glowacki @lukeglowacki.bsky.social Anthropologist at Boston University. PI Human Systems and Behavior Lab. Co-Director of the Omo Valley Research Project.
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 🏳️🌈
Siobhán Cully 🇺🇸 🐱🥼🤓🩼 @siobhancully.bsky.social Anthropologist at #Rutgers studying disability, health, gender, inequality, evolution. Former program officer at #NSF. Mom, #DisabledinSTEM, musician. Passionate about #STEM #equity and #inclusion. Repost != endorsement. Views mine.
Jordan Moon @jordanmoon.bsky.social Social psychologist @ University of Southampton. Formerly at Brunel University of London and Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse. PhD from Arizona State University.
Religion, morality, etc.
W: https://www.jordanwmoon.com
Randolph Nesse @randynesse.bsky.social A founder of evolutionary medicine now trying to help psychiatry find its missing foundation in evolutionary biology.
Josh Tybur @joshtybur.bsky.social Professor of Psychology and Infectious Disease at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Cristina Moya @hyperadapthyrax.bsky.social evolutionary anthropologist, overly committed to adaptationist logic
https://sites.google.com/site/cristinasolermoya/ Can we agree to fight against this corporate oligarchy? https://indivisible.org/groups
Michael Gurven @mgurven.bsky.social Professor of Anthropology @ UC Santa Barbara. Aging, life history and sociality! Co-Director of Tsimane Health & Life History Project. Website: gurven.anth.ucsb.edu
Patrick Durkee @pdurkee.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Psychology at Fresno State studying hierarchy and personality at multiple levels of analysis.
Angelo Romano @aromano.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Leiden University and behavioral scientist interested in the evolutionary, cultural, and psychological foundations of conflict and cooperation among individuals and groups | cooperation, conflict, reciprocity, reputation & culture.
Christian Hilbe @chilbe.bsky.social Professor at @ituaustria.bsky.social, interested in math, game theory, and cooperation
http://web.evolbio.mpg.de/social-behaviour/
Haneul Jang @haneuljang.bsky.social Anthropologist studying motherhood, cooperative foraging & childcare, knowledge transmission and mother-child health among BaYaka foragers in the Congolese rainforest
Research scientist @ird-fr.bsky.social
https://sites.google.com/view/haneuljang
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.
Annie Wertz @anniewertz.bsky.social Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at UC Santa Barbara 🌱 Lab for Infant Learning and Cognition (LILAC) https://lilac.psych.ucsb.edu/ 🌱 Studying how babies learn about plants
Hans Fredrik Sunde @hfsunde.bsky.social Researcher at the Centre for Fertility and Health (NIPH) in Oslo. Interested in assortative mating, behavioral genetics, and bias in research.
www.hansfredriksunde.com
Dr. Erin R. Vogel @erinvogel.bsky.social Primatologist, ecologist, professor, working mom to 2 amazing kids, excited about anything to do with ecology🌏, diet and physiology, orangutans, peatlands, and Indonesia🇮🇩🦧
Marjorie Prokosch @mlprokosch.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Social Psych at RIT 🐅
Studying health, environments, disasters & climate, motivated cognition & decision-making. Music, nature, & sports enthusiast. Mlprokosch.mystrikingly.com
Gilbert Roberts @gilbertroberts.bsky.social Free-range academic studying the evolution of behaviour in animals including humans. Cooperation, reputation, interdependence.
Jessica D Ayers @jessicadayers.bsky.social Evolutionary Social Psychologist | Studies behavioral expressions of genetic conflict 🧬 | CSUF🐘and ASUpsych 🔱🌵alum | Assistant professor BoiseStatePsych jessicaayers.org
Ed Seabright @edseabright.bsky.social Anthropologist. Research and education fellow, UM6P School of Collective Intelligence.
Community organisation and leadership in rural Bolivia and Morocco.
edseab.github.io
Jordan S. Martin @jsmartin.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist, behavioral ecologist, data scientist. Postdoc @ Fish Ecology and Evolution, Eawag.
Interested in individual differences, phenotypic plasticity, and the interaction between social, ecological, and evolutionary dynamics.
David Pietraszewski @dpietra.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences at University of California, Santa Barbara. Previously Research Scientist at Max Planck for Human Development in Berlin, Germany.
Amy Boddy @amyboddy.bsky.social Prof @ UCSB
Chair of Integrative Anthropological Sciences (IAS)
Dan Major-Smith @djsmith90.bsky.social Recovering Evolutionary Anthropologist/Accidental Epidemiologist/Cat fosterer
PostDoc at Aarhus and Senior Research Associate at Bristol
Interests: cooperation; religion; causal inference; cohort studies
Site: https://danmajor-smith.netlify.app/about
Amanda Rotella @amrotella.bsky.social 👩🏻🔬 Researcher - Science of social incentives🧑🤝🧑👀
🔭 Cooperation & Competition; Inequality; Morality; Cultural Change
🍃 Evolutionary & ecological approaches
🎨 (Very) occasional fine artist
🕸️ amandarotella.ca
@davidpinsof.bsky.social @davidpinsof.bsky.social Evolutionary social scientist, research affiliate at UCLA, co-creator of Cards Against Humanity, writes about bullshit at http://everythingisbullshit.blog
Alex Pritchard (he/him) @pritcharda.bsky.social Postdoctoral Scholar @ UCDavis.
SNA | decision making | uncertainty | sociality | interdisciplinary | individual differences | experiments | multi-methods
Kristen Syme @kristensyme.bsky.social Utah State University, Medical Anthropology, Biocultural/Evolutionary Anthropology, Psychology
Adi Wiezel, Ph.D. @awiezel.bsky.social South(w)e(a)sterner & social psychologist studying political psychology, affect, leadership, & intergroup relations. Assistant Professor of Psychology and director of the BORG research lab (https://awiezel.wixsite.com/wiezelborglab) @ Elon University.
Nina Rodriguez Perez @cninaphore.bsky.social 💙Marine n' Micro💚, It’s not a phage mom!, USF PhD Student, Currently Sciencing at Breitbart Lab https://tinyurl.com/2p84r52h (She/Her) 🇨🇺
Adrian Jaeggi @jaeggiadrian.bsky.social Evolutionary anthropology, evolutionary medicine, behavioral ecology, hormones, comparative phylogenetic methods, Bayesian. Associate Professor @ University of Zurich. Same handle on X
Coltan Scrivner @morbidpsych.bsky.social Behavioral Scientist at The Recreational Fear Lab at Aarhus University and Department of Psychology at ASU▪️ Author▪️ Expert on morbid curiosity, true crime, and horror
https://coltanscrivner.substack.com
Josh Snodgrass @jjosh1313.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 | Dad (to human & dog) | Professor at the University of Oregon w/ research and teaching in biological anthropology, human biology, & global health | Community outreach work in Eugene, OR including the Homelessness Policy and Health Project
Raymond Hames @rayhames.bsky.social Evolutionary anthropologist (University of Nebraska - Lincoln) with interest in labor and food exchanges, small scale societies, war, wildlife conservation, marriage
Home-page at https://rhames.unl.edu/