Jun Otsuka @junotk.bsky.social Philosopher of Science. The author of Thinking About Statistics (Routledge) and the Role of Mathematics in Evolutionary Theory (CUP).
https://junotk.net/
Cailin O’Connor @cailinmeister.bsky.social Philosopher and applied mathematician at UC Irvine. Author of The Misinformation Age and Origins of Unfairness. Irish dancer. Mother. Mother of Chickens.
worms cited @christa.bsky.social
Australasian Association of Philosophy @aaphilosophy.bsky.social Founded 1922. Peak body for promoting philosophical pursuits in Australia, New Zealand & Singapore.
The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience @lseanimalsentience.bsky.social We use the science of animal minds to design better policies, laws and ways of caring for other animals. https://www.lse.ac.uk/sentience / https://www.linkedin.com/company/lseanimalsentience/
Alex Gregory @alexgregory.bsky.social Associate Professor in Philosophy, at Southampton, UK. Working on happiness, wellbeing, desire, metaethics, etc. http://alexgregory.name.
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
Rob Sica @robsica.bsky.social Knowledge would have little allure if we did not have to overcome so much shame on the way to acquiring it. -Nietzsche
Oneworld Publications @oneworldbooks.bsky.social 📖Independent Publishers founded in 1986
💌Literary fiction and non-fiction from around the world
🌊YA @rocktheboatnews
Ed Gibney @edgibney.bsky.social Writer of fiction and philosophy. I explore how evolutionary views can lead to a more cooperative culture that robustly survives and thrives over the long term. evphil.com.
US-Brit now in Vienna 🇦🇹. Ex-FBI and Secret Service. Peace Corps 🇺🇦. Slava Ukraini!
Anastasia Christakou 💙 @christakou.bsky.social Professor of Neuroscience 👩🎓
own views 🐙 anastasia.christakou.org
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4267-3436
children's welfare | science | 🧠 brains & their people
Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social Retired, old guy attempting to make sense of the world. Psychology, Evolution, Physics, Archaeology, and maybe Philosophy.
WIP: Toward A New Foundation for Understanding Human Behavior
@benthamsbulldog.bsky.social @benthamsbulldog.bsky.social
Chris Woodard @utiliwood.bsky.social Moral and political philosophy, University of Nottingham
christopherwoodard.org
David Hunter @dhunterto.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson). I paddle my own canoe. To find my publications, visit PhilPeople. https://philpeople.org/profiles/david-hunter
Anna Tsvetkov @annatsv.bsky.social Postdoc @ Princeton AI
Natural and Artificial Minds
Prev: Philosophy PhD @ Brown, MIT FutureTech
Website: https://annatsv.github.io/
James Openshaw @openshaw.bsky.social Philosopher with interests in memory, reference, and mind. Asst prof at NTU Singapore. www.jamesopenshaw.com
Janire Castellano Bueno, PhD @janirecas.bsky.social 🦜 Researcher at @wildanimals.bsky.social
🐒 #AnimalWelfare Postdoc at @newcastleuni.bsky.social
Opinions are my own (she/her)
Awais Aftab @awaisaftab.bsky.social Psychiatrist with philosophical interests | Conversations in Critical Psychiatry (Oxford University Press, 2024) | Psychiatry at the Margins www.psychiatrymargins.com
@giulianotorrengo.bsky.social @giulianotorrengo.bsky.social
Çağlar Koç @caglarkoc.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Philosophy. Ailurophile. External Associate Researcher at Husserl Archives – Paris (ENS/CNRS)
https://topkapi.academia.edu/ÇağlarKoç
Michael David Kirchhoff @kirchhoffmd.bsky.social Professor in the School of Liberal Arts, University of Wollongong, Australia.
Current research: The function and implication of using idealized methods to model the mind/brain in computational neurosience. Ongoing: FEP, 4E, metaphysical musings
Sophia Crüwell @cruwelli.bsky.social Civil service trainee academic librarian in Frankfurt 📚
Previously Philosophy of Science @ Cambridge HPS | Metaresearch | ReproducibiliTea
www.cruwell.com
Tony Bruce @tonyjbruce.bsky.social Commissioning and publishing philosophy books at Routledge and running Routledge Classics.
Wild Animal Initiative @wildanimals.bsky.social Conducting research, providing funding, and supporting researchers to accelerate science that helps wild animals. wildanimalinitiative.org
Victor Ajuwon @victorajuwon1.bsky.social Postdoc in the Comparative Cognition Lab, Cambridge Psychology Department working on cognition and curiosity in cuttlefish🐙 and other animals. Formerly DPhil student at Oxford Biology. https://vajuwon.weebly.com
Wes Siscoe @wessiscoe.bsky.social Philosophy professor at The Ohio State University thinking about Rationality, Virtue, & Democracy. Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of @thephillibrary.bsky.social
Nadine Meertens @nadinemeertens.bsky.social PhD student in Philosophy of Mind at LMU Munich.
Working on nonhuman cognition and consciousness🤖🐦 🐝🦠
Andra Meneganzin @andrameneganzin.bsky.social Philosopher of Biology working on Human Evolution 💀🧬🏺• FWO Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at KU Leuven• PhD from DiBio 🧪, University of Padova • Science Writer and Communicator.
🌐 https://sites.google.com/view/andrameneganzin/
Oryan Zacks @oryanzacks.bsky.social PhD student in philosophy of biology, researching memory, imagination and consciousness.
Also interested in teaching, sci-comm, pedagogy and dance.
University of Reading @uniofreading.bsky.social Official account of the UK's Sustainable University of the Year 2025 (The Times). We're inspiring the next generation of climate and environmental leaders, with world-class research, incredible students achieving their potential + geese. www.reading.ac.uk
Wild Behavior Podcast @wildbehaviorpod.bsky.social Ever wondered how dolphins recognize each other? Or how to train an alligator? Then you're in the right place!
Join us as we sit with fellow animal behavior experts to learn all about what makes animals tick.
linktr.ee/wild_behavior_pod
Stephan Reber @stephanreber.bsky.social 🇨🇭Cognitive Zoologist @ Lund University 🇸🇪 Evolutionary Biology - Crocodilian Cognition & Communication - Bioacoustics - Animal Behaviour - Comparative Cognition - IUCN Crocodile Specialist Group member
David Spurrett @doctorspurt.bsky.social Philosopher, working on evolution of mechanisms of action selection, and their variously situated subversion. https://davidspurrett.com/
Pepper Qi @pepperqi.bsky.social ☸️🕉️📿 surfer of event horizon & hellfire breathing demonic muse of OG founder/s of Antifa™ Vote 1 🦔
“As an ideology of Jewish nationalism, Zionism is open to political discussion & criticism, notably on grounds concerning the rights of the Palestinians!”
Claudia Wascher @wascherclaudia.bsky.social Prof. of Behavioural Biology | cooperation, communication, cognition, corvids and physiology | equity & diversity research | addressing biases in animal behaviour
https://claudiawascher.github.io/
she/her ♻️🌍💚|🏳️🌈 & 🏳️⚧️ ally|✊🏿 ally|🇪🇺|
RUB History & Philosophy of Science @roto-rub.bsky.social History and Philosophy of Science at Ruhr University Bochum • www.pe.rub.de/philosophie/i/wtwg • #PhilSci #HPBio #HistSTM #HistSci
Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition @primatecognition.bsky.social We study cognition and behavior of human and nonhuman primates at the German Primate Center and University of Göttingen. Funded by Leibniz Association;
http://www.primate-cognition.eu
YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/36dkn7
Impressum: www.dpz.eu/impressum
Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social Economic historian w broad interests including population health, First Nations, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. Directing https://thecanadianpeoples.com & editing Asia-Pacific EcHR https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832157x
🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿🏴
Sophia Bullock @soph-bullock.bsky.social PhD student at Newcastle Uni interested in improving the welfare of laboratory animals. Enjoys: animals, fungi, photography and baking.
Dislikes: aubergine.
Ljerka Ostojic @ljerkaostojic.bsky.social Comparative Cognition and Meta-science | MSc University of Vienna | PhD University of Cambridge | Lecturer University of Rijeka | Head of Studies @ricogsci.bsky.social cogsci.uniri.hr she/her
Eileen Kelly-Allen @heartliftclimate.bsky.social Mother, school leader turned climate activist, born @317ppm living in Shepaug River valley CT/USA/Turtle Island. Volunteer w/ Work That Reconnects and focussed on re-envisioning and re-making self, community, culture to sustain life.
Sarah Scott 🌲🌳🏳️⚧️ @landielf.com Aerodynamicist | Avid wildlife nerd | Amateur photography & videography
Stone bothering bog witch
www.landielf.com (prints and zines)
www.youtube.com/@Landielf
Dr Mark E Hauber @thecowbirdlab.bsky.social Executive Director at CUNY ASRC, comparative psychology professor at GC CUNY with an eye on brood parasites; Nat Geo Explorer, married 🏳️🌈; I post my own mind. www.cowbirdlab.org
Nick Merry @nickmerry.bsky.social Socially minded Geologist, Ceramic Artist and hobby Beekeeper. Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
Cornish Jackdaw Project @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social Research team led by Alex Thornton at the University of Exeter's Centre for Ecology and Conservation, studying cognition in wild jackdaws and other creatures.
wildcognitionresearch.com
dr Katarzyna Nowak @katzyna.bsky.social adjunct @mripas.bsky.social in #BiałowieżaForest; keen on #transboundary #mammals, #forests, #wildlife #conservation, #OneHealth, #anthropology, #RightsOfNature, knowledge-sharing, peace-building, walking; former asylee; east of the west.
Matthijs van der Meer @mvandermeer.bsky.social Associate prof & cognitive neurophysiologist at Dartmouth. www.vandermeerlab.org, https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=cGMeE7UAAAAJ&hl=en
Jason Keagy @jasonkeagy.bsky.social Animal behavior, cognition, and genomics; dad; biker (of the pedal variety); likes finding and watching critters; keagylab.com
@tylerdelmore.bsky.social @tylerdelmore.bsky.social PhD candidate at York University; studying the history & philosophy of animal mind.
https://sites.google.com/view/tylerdelmore/home
Dr Alice Bridges @adbridges.bsky.social Postdoc studying social learning, culture and behaviour in bumblebees & other insects at the University of Sheffield (@minibraincognition.bsky.social) 🌱🐝 She/her, views my own. 🇬🇧🇪🇺
I’m a (very) amateur nature photographer, & I’m also writing a novel!
dilong @ledilong.bsky.social Bird and dinosaur nerd. Loves paleoart. Crazy for crows 🖤
Find me also on Mastodon: @dilong@sauropods.win
Banner art by @indiwolfonline.co.uk
Pablo Gella @pgella.bsky.social Associate Professor in Anatomy at #URJC
Bridging experimental and social sciences through out-of-box analyses of the body and interspecies relations 🦠🌱🐗🫁
He/him 🌈
MurkyConsequences 🏳️🌈 @murkyconsequences.bsky.social building a new 🧠 in the skull of the old [ADHD enjoyer] ~ wriggle 'n twist like ⚡ to the ground, freedom is an endless 🔥 [🏴] ~ vulgar pseud [call center worker] ~ confused by nonhuman ethics & agency; studying biophysics & geometry 101 [🆘️]
Orpheus Lummis @orpheuslummis.info Advancing AI safety through convenings, coordination, software, analysis
Founder of HΩ (https://horizonomega.org), based in Montréal
Ruben Comitini @rubencomitini.bsky.social 🎓 BSc in Natural Sciences 🇮🇹
🎓 Ongoing MSc in Palaeontology 🇫🇷 & 🇸🇪
Palaeontology (dinos and other reptiles + fossil plants sometimes) | Clean tech and sustainability | Biodiversity and nature conservation | I'm gay 🏳️🌈 & love BL series 🏳️🌈🇹🇭 | K-pop & T-pop 🇰🇷🎸🇹🇭
PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social Luiz Pessoa, University of Maryland, College Park
Neuroscientist interested in cognitive-emotional brain
Author of The Entangled Brain, MIT Press, 2022
Author of The Cogitive-Emotional Brain, MIT Press, 2013
Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon (YouTube)
Janel Le Belle @janellebelle.bsky.social UCLA Associate Professor, PhD Researcher of brains 🧠 (development, stem cells, neuroinflammation, autism, sensory processing, brain injury & repair)
Teacher of Neuroanatomy, Neurophilosophy (consciousness, cognitive science), & Stem Cell Biology
Humanist Animal @humanistanimal.bsky.social Animals, history, philosophy, ecology, veganism, food, science, art, design, photography, music, politics, poetry, psychology, books, oceans, law, activism, secularism, space, storms. Assorted combinations thereof. Cats.
@sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social Swearing, feminism, lefty, eco, argumentativeness, home education, science, public engagement with science. Occasional pedantry.
And maybe some menopause jokes.
I failed to copy over my contacts from the other place. I’ve not ditched you on purpose.
Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social Philosophy of science, methodology of social sciences, wellbeing, evidence based policy, measurement.
Professor @hpscambridge.bsky.social
Fellow @kingscollege.bsky.social
Russian Brit
She/her
https://philpeople.org/profiles/anna-alexandrova
georgia 🏴 @blahttodea.bsky.social phd student studying the evolution of sociality in subsocial insects (aka cockroach whisperer) @ the uni of aberdeen 🏴
entomology, animal behaviour, horror films, and all things welsh
all views my own 🏴🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🍉
ASAB @asab.org We promote the study of animal behaviour, organise conferences, fund research & support the teaching of animal behaviour. Co-publisher of #AnimalBehaviourJournal. For meeting coverage, follow @asab-meetings.bsky.social
Animal Behaviour Collective @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social We are a collective of animal behaviour researchers organising microgrants and mentorship for undergraduate & graduate students in animal behaviour
bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social
Gregory Kohn @kohngregory.bsky.social Professor specializing in bird social behavior. Interested in developmental systems thought, ontogenetic niches, organismal agency, and ייִדיש. PI: Animal Social Interaction lab
Julie K. Young @drjuliekyoung.bsky.social Scientist. Professor & Institute Director. I research wildlife ecology & animal behavior, primarily studying 🐻🦊🐺🐱, their prey, & 🦫 to reduce conflicts and increase coexistence | she, her
https://drjuliekyoung.weebly.com
Matthias Allritz @realprimatthias.bsky.social Studies great ape cognition and behavior at Leipzig Zoo.
Themes: metacognition, communication, spatial cognition.
ManyPrimates 3 - Inference by exclusion.
Alizée Vernouillet @vernouilleta.bsky.social Behavioural ecology & comparative cognition, with a predilection for corvids. Currently Research Fellow at Cambridge, working with magpies. she/her 🐦
Mélissa Berthet @berthetmelissa.bsky.social Researcher in primatology 🐒 and animal linguistics 🎤🙊
Titi monkeys, bonobos and gorillas ❤️🦍
Postdoc at the University of Milan, Italy
She/Her
https://sites.google.com/view/melissa-berthet
Vivek Nityananda @viveknityananda.bsky.social I research behaviour, mostly with insects.
I write (Book out here: https://tinyurl.com/ypu67rb9; Play: https://tinyurl.com/cjscz4c4).
Illustration. Improv. Scicomm. Personal account. (He/Him) 🏳️🌈
website: www.viveknityananda.com
Carolin Niederbremer @caronie.bsky.social PhD student in the Cognitive Ethology lab at the German primate center. Studying mate competition in female Guinea baboons. Doing field work in the Niokolo Nationalpark in Sénégal.
Dr. Gita Gnanadesikan @ggnanadesikan.bsky.social Biologist & Comparative Psychologist || Social Behavior & Cognition, Oxytocin, (Epi)genetics || 🐶🐕🦺🐒 || Postdoctoral fellow @ Emory University (formerly FIRST/IRACDA)
https://ggnanadesikan.github.io/
Debottam Bhattacharjee @debottam1991.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher @University of Göttingen 🇩🇪, Previously Marie Curie Fellow @UniUtrecht 🇳🇱 & Postdoc @CityUHK 🇭🇰, PhD in animal behaviour from @iiserkol 🇮🇳. 🐾🐒 🐃
Associate Editor: @cp-iscience@bsky.social
https://www.dbcognition.co.in
Theresa Burt @burt15theresa.bsky.social Professor of Animal Behaviour, Department of Biology, University of Oxford. St John’s College. Researches navigation, spatial cognition. Happiest outdoors.
ASAB Education Committee @asabeducation.bsky.social The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) has an Education Committee that supports colleagues teaching animal behaviour from schools through to higher education.
Dr Hella Péter @hellapeter.bsky.social mbchimp.bsky.social data wrangler 💻 PhD - are your chimps drinking? 🐵💧 team abcmicrogrants.bsky.social 🐝
ADHD & disabled✨ she/her 🏳️🌈
George Hodgson @ghodgson.bsky.social Postdoctoral fellow interested in sociality, social cognition and animal behaviour. Fond of fish, molerats and trees 🐄
Camille Troisi @camilletroisi.bsky.social Behavioural ecologist studying cognition, social behaviour, gut microbiota & urbanisation | R enthusiast | Assistant Prof. at Université de Rennes #NewPI | She/her
http://camilletroisi.weebly.com
Dr Jen Colbourne 🇨🇦🏳️🌈 @raccoonologist.bsky.social Postdoc in Vienna specializing in tooling and object manipulation research 🦜🐒🦝 Urban wildlife nerd & bin animal aficionado. She/her. Manages @asab.org @araa.at @behaviour2027.bsky.social
Chiara Benvenuto @cbenvenuto.bsky.social Evolutionary behavioural ecologist born on the Mediterranean Sea, in love with aquatic organisms. Coffeeholic. I like to see the world through camera lens, to get it in focus. 🐟🦈🦐🦀 Sexual systems-sequential hermaphroditism-biodiversity
Zoe Turner @zoejturn.bsky.social 😸 Mammal enthusiast.
👀 Watching all the silly (mon)gooses 🪿
👩🏼🔬 zoologist by day, 📚🐛 bookworm by night.
📍🇬🇧 🇺🇬 PhD student - INTERGROUP, Banded Mongoose Research Project.
Uni of Exeter, Cornwall
Gerry Carter @gerrycarter.bsky.social studies cooperation, communication, social bonds, vampire bats | Assoc Prof at Princeton | Freeman Hrabowski Scholar at HHMI
Samuele Ramellini @sramellini.bsky.social PhD student at ANU (Ecology and Evolution) studying social behaviour of superb fairy-wrens
MSc in Biogeosciences, BSc in Natural Sciences @LaStatale, Milano
#birds #animalbehaviour #sociality
https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=jgsCs8kAAAAJ&hl=it
Amiyaal Ilany @amiyaal.bsky.social Associate Professor at School of Zoology & the Natural History Museum, Tel Aviv University. Animal sociality, hyraxes
https://thehyrax.wixsite.com/ilanylab
Damien Farine @damienfarine.bsky.social Analysing collectives of living dinosaurs. Discoverer of multilevel societies. Watcher of fishers and dolphins. Modeller of emergent phenomena. Caretaker of long term guineafowl, fairywren and chough projects. A/Prof @ Australian National Uni.
Sam Ellis @samellisq.bsky.social Lecturer at the University of Exeter. Interested in general but especially in life history evolution and social behaviour.
Josefine Bohr Brask @jbbrask.bsky.social Social networks | network science | animal behaviour | behavioural ecology | complex systems. Assistant professor at University of Copenhagen.
https://josefinebohrbrask.weebly.com/
Joacim Näslund @jnaslund.bsky.social Fish biologist (Researcher) at SLU Aqua (Sweden). Swedish fish fauna, river restoration, monitoring, invasive species, stock fish aquaculture, electrofishing, species reintroduction, ethology/behaviour, and general fish ecology. Expressed views are my own.
TheBehaviourForum.org @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social www.TheBehaviourForum.org is an unique online to discuss all about animal behaviour: experimentation, protocols, articles, pro-tips, welfare, legislation, conferences, networking! Created and hosted by COST_TEATIME.
Vishwesha (Vishu) Guttal ವಿಶ್ವೇಶ ಗುತ್ತಲ್ @vishuguttal.bsky.social Professor, Centre for Ecological Sciences, IISc.
Avery Russell @draverbee.bsky.social #RussellLab studies #bees #behaviour #microbes & #flower #evolution @MissouriState https://therusselllab.net/
| #PUI | #SciComm #DiversityInSTEM #BLM #WomenInSTEM #Humanities | he/him
Jennifer Bussell PhD @jenbussell.bsky.social Neuroscientist studying information seeking and curiosity via mouse models at Columbia University. Previously at Vosshall Lab at Rockefeller University. Mom in Brooklyn, former S Carolinian www.jenniferbussell.org
Fiona Cross @drspidernz.bsky.social Arachnologist at University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Spider cognition, SciComm, and writer 🕷 #LoveSpiders
www.doctorspider.net
Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social Prince Philip Professor of Ecology & Evolution
@camzoology.bsky.social
I like brains.
www.shmontgomery.co.uk
Tomer J. Czaczkes @tomerczaczkes.bsky.social Social insects (mainly ants). Cognition. Comparative psychology. Collective behaviour. Invasive ants. Information use.
Professor of Applied Zoology and Animal Ecology at the Freie Universität Berlin.
Norman Lee @normanlee.bsky.social Neuroethologist, Associate Professor of Biology, PI of Lee Lab Neural Systems and Behavior and Director of the Neuroscience Program @ St. Olaf College, Northfield MN
Aimee Dunlap @msaimeesue.bsky.social Prof at University of Missouri- St. Louis. Studying the ecology and evolution of cognition in bees, flies, and other critters. Biophile. Urban gardener. Trekkie. Sciencing while chronically ill. #DisabledinSTEM
Nicole M. Baran, Ph.D. @nmbaran.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Biology at Davidson College | Evolution & development of songbird social behavior, neuroendocrinology, & comparative genomics | STEMinist | Mostly here for the reading recommendations. (she/her) 🐦🧠🧬🌎🔬🌿🎺