Conference on Language Modeling @colmweb.org The 2025 Conference on Language Modeling will take place at the Palais des Congrès in Montreal, Canada from October 7-10, 2025
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Lucie Wolters @luciewolters.bsky.social PhD student in Cognition at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: https://www.arnonlanguagelab.com/. Interested in language evolution, cultural transmission, language learning/acquisition. MSc in Evolution of Language and Cognition, Edinburgh University.
Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social Cognitive scientist studying how we see + think @ Johns Hopkins University. 🇨🇦
Lab: https://perception.jhu.edu/
Jonathan Tsay @tsay.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University | Studying how we acquire, adapt, and retain skilled movements | Physical Intelligence Lab: www.tsaylab.com
Björn Lindström @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social Researching (social) learning and cultural evolution at Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Julian Jara-Ettinger @julianje.bsky.social Cognitive scientist at Yale
http://cscl.yale.edu
Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com A Nature Portfolio journal bringing you research and commentary on all aspects of human behaviour.
https://www.nature.com/nathumbehav/
Julia M. Smith @julia-m-smith.bsky.social Social psychologist studying morality and the self.
Postdoc in the Mind and Culture Lab @dukemaclab.bsky.social at Duke University.
Anna (Anya) Ivanova @neuranna.bsky.social Language and thought in brains and in machines. Assistant Prof @ Georgia Tech Psychology. Previously a postdoc @ MIT Quest for Intelligence, PhD @ MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences. She/her
https://www.language-intelligence-thought.net
Joe Barnby @joebarnby.com Assoc. Professor & AI+ Senior Fellow @ KCL & UWA | PI @ socrlab.net
Computation, representation, and social cognition in biological 🧠 and artificial 🤖 intelligence
Rachel Flood Heaton @rachelfloodheaton.bsky.social Cognitive and perceptual psychologist, industrial designer, & electrical engineer. Assistant Professor of Industrial Design at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I make neurally plausible bio-inspired computational process models of visual cognition.
Marc Malmdorf Andersen @ndersen.bsky.social Cognitive scientist, associate professor at Aarhus University.
Predictive Processing, Emotion, Play, Recreational Fear, Cognitive Development.
James Winters @replicatedtypo.bsky.social Simulating sci-fi novels and calling it cultural evolution
Centre for Culture and Evolution | Brunel University London | https://j-winters.github.io
Tim Waring @twaring.bsky.social I study the evolution of human culture with a focus on environmental behaviors and institutions and an eye toward helping these become more sustainable on a single, limited planet. https://timwaring.info/
Jan Engelmann @janengelmann.bsky.social Comparative and Developmental Psychologist at UC Berkeley and Director of the Social Origins Lab: https://socialoriginslab.com/
Laura Simone Lewis @laurasimonelewis.bsky.social Asst. Prof. in Psychological and Brain Sciences and Anthropology @ UC Santa Barbara | UC PPFP Fellow | Fascinated by great ape social cognition!
https://www.laurasimonelewis.com/
https://www.originsofmindlab.com/
Anna Jon-And @annajonand.bsky.social Researcher of language evolution and cultural evolution. Director of the Centre for Cultural Evolution at Stockholm University. Passionate about broad interdisciplinary collaboration, associative learning, simple models and complex systems.
Tamas Spisak @tspisak.bsky.social Neuroscience Professor at UK Essen, Germany
CoNLL 2026 @conll-conf.bsky.social #CoNLL, the Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (co-located with ACL 2026)
conll.org
July 3 & 4, 2026
Max Taylor-Davies @maxtaylordavies.bsky.social phd student building computational models of social cognition + culture @ UoE 🏴 prev imperial, ucl, inria, vu
https://maxtaylordavi.es
Kate Nave @kathrynnave.eurosky.social ° Visiting Scientist, The University of Göttingen
° Book: A Drive to Survive http://bit.ly/3CQP9EZ
° Purposiveness, autonomy, agency
° CogSci, Philosophy, and Theoretical Biology
° Former science & technology journalist
James Strachan @jwastrachan.bsky.social Cognitive scientist interested in joint action, learning, and culture.
Researcher at Université Mohamed VI Polytechnique in Rabat, Morocco
Sara Constantino @smconstantino.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Stanford’s Doerr School of Sustainability, Visiting Scholar Princeton SPIA. Sustainable dev’t, climate, energy, collective action, crises, behavior, decision making. 🇵🇹🇧🇷🇨🇦
Somayeh Tohidi @somayehtohidi.bsky.social Postdoc at the University of Bristol working on Longtermism; Mum; #WomanLifeFreedom
https://somayehtohidi.github.io/
Manuel Bohn @elmanubohn.bsky.social Developmental psychologist at Leuphana with an eye on ManyPrimates (@manyprimates.bsky.social)
Dan Sperber @dansperber.bsky.social 
Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
Anglican Priest
https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
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Teppo Felin @teppofelin.bsky.social ion foundation endowed prof | university of utah | cognition, AI, generative rationality, theory-based view, causal reasoning, economics, strategy
Abdellah Fourtassi @fourtassi.bsky.social Multimodal Communication and Learning in Social Interactions (CoCoDev team). Associate Professor of Computer/Cognitive Science at Aix-Marseille University.
afourtassi.github.io
Sydney Levine @sydneylevine.bsky.social Cognitive scientist working at the intersection of moral cognition and AI safety. Currently: Google Deepmind. Soon: Assistant Prof at NYU Psychology. More at sites.google.com/site/sydneymlevine.
Language and Cognitive Development Lab @lcdlab.bsky.social Our research focuses on how children learn different aspects of language, what this might tell us about the nature of cognitive & social development, and how these aspects of development interact | PI: Mahesh Srinivasan | https://lcdlab.berkeley.edu
Charley Wu @thecharleywu.bsky.social Prof. of Computational Cognitive Science at TU Darmstadt & PI of the Human and Machine Cognition lab | hmc-lab.com
Pierre-Yves Oudeyer @pyoudeyer.bsky.social Research director @Inria, Head of @flowersInria
lab, prev. @MSFTResearch @SonyCSLParis
Artificial intelligence, cognitive sciences, sciences of curiosity, language, self-organization, autotelic agents, education, AI and society
http://www.pyoudeyer.com
Chris Summerfield @summerfieldlab.bsky.social Neuronerd, Prof, head of HIP lab in Experimental Psychology, Oxford. Researcher, UK AI Safety Institute. https://humaninformationprocessing.com/.
Josh Lappen @jlappen1.bsky.social energy historian | infrastructure, decarbonization, and landscapes | Angeleno | always on the lookout for a good fun fact
coming soon to a disciplinary boundary near you!
Michael Franke @meanwhileina.bsky.social 
Mariel Goddu @marielgoddu.bsky.social Philosophy of mind & cognitive science in bio-metaphysical perspective
https://philosophy.stanford.edu/people/mariel-goddu
Proud ex-dev psychologist
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.
Marina Dubova @mdubova.bsky.social assistant professor @ucberkeley psych | cognitive scientist studying mechanisms of discovery
mdubova.com
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
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.
Falk Huettig @falkhuettig.bsky.social Professor of Psychology @ Max Planck
https://www.falkhuettig.com/
Author of 'Looking Ahead: The New Science of the Predictive Mind' and 'The Perks of Being a Bookworm: The Science of the Benefits of Reading' published by Cambridge University Press
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
Emily M. Sanford @emilymsanford.bsky.social Cognitive Scientist
Postdoc at UC Berkeley
Studying the evolution & development of quantitative reasoning
Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social Representing the heart of Texas from East Austin to West San Antonio #TX35. Chair of @USProgressives.bsky.social. Labor organizer. Lover of migas and long runs, just not at the same time.
Casey Lewry @caseylewry.bsky.social Postdoc at Cornell studying causal reasoning, moral judgments, and learning.
Formerly PhD student at Princeton
caseylewry.com
ELLIS @ellis.eu Strengthening Europe's Leadership in AI through Research Excellence | ellis.eu
Edvard I Moser @edvardmoser.bsky.social Scientific Co-Director and Professor at Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, NTNU, Norway. Neural network computation, grid cells. Nobel Prize Physiology-Medicine 2014.
Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social 🌐Studies influence, propaganda, platform design@Georgetown
✍🏼Lawfare,The Atlantic, Substack/Ghost Newsletter (signup on my site if you want Ghost)
📕Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality (invisiblerulers.com)
🦹🏻♀️Twitter Files supervillain
Will Orwig @willorwig.bsky.social PhD candidate in the Schacter Memory Lab at Harvard University studying the Cognitive Neuroscience of Creativity | www.willorwig.com
Fausto Carcassi @faustocarcassi.bsky.social Sardinian. Assistant prof at the illc in Amsterdam. Language & cognition w/ models & experiments. Roughly Bayesian. Past: Tübingen, Centre for Language Evolution in Edinburgh (He/Him)
Inbal Arnon @inbalarnon.bsky.social Cognitive scientist, linguist and developmental psychologist. Studying language learning, language evolution, and the links between them. https://www.arnonlanguagelab.com/ 
Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com NYT Bestselling Author – ON COURAGE: HOW TO BE A DISSIDENT IN AN AGE OF FEAR (HarperCollins/Mariner) tinyurl.com/yxpvn488
Fmr White House Sr Policy Advisor | Fmr Sr Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School
Contact: fieldsmeyer.com
More: amifieldsmeyer.substack.com
Maxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social web: http://maxim.ece.illinois.edu
substack: https://realizable.substack.com
samuel mehr @mehr.nz i am a cognitive scientist studying auditory perception at the University of Auckland and the Yale Child Study Center 🇳🇿🇺🇸🇫🇷🇨🇦
lab: themusiclab.org
personal: mehr.nz
intro to my research: youtu.be/-vJ7Jygr1eg
book: WHY WE HEAR WHAT WE HEAR (2028, Bloomsbury)
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
Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social Neurogeneticist interested in the relations between genes, brains, and minds. Author of INNATE (2018) and FREE AGENTS (2023)
Chris Potts @cgpotts.bsky.social Stanford Professor of Linguistics and, by courtesy, of Computer Science, and member of @stanfordnlp.bsky.social and The Stanford AI Lab. He/Him/His. https://web.stanford.edu/~cgpotts/
Noga Zaslavsky @nogazs.bsky.social Computational cognitive scientist, developing integrative models of language, perception, and action. Assistant Prof at NYU.
More info: https://www.nogsky.com/
Mary Beth Hunzaker @mbhunzaker.bsky.social Researcher just doing her best to build toward kinder, healthier online spaces
Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy and Director of the EPP BA/BSc at the University of Warwick. My UKRI-funded FLF Communicative Mind project researches human and non-human great ape communication and cognition, and the evolution of language. 🇪🇺🍉 he/him
Judy Kim @joodykeem.bsky.social assistant professor in psych @American U| language & thought| labor & tenant organizer
judyseinkim.github.io/cat-lab-site
Brenden Lake @brendenlake.bsky.social Associate Professor of Computer Science and Psychology @ Princeton. Posts are my views only. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bl8144/
Kevin Smith @thiskevinsmith.bsky.social Research Scientist @MIT | Computational Cognitive Science + Robotics / AI | www.mit.edu/~k2smith/- B Brad Wyble @bwyble.bsky.social Academic, cognitive & vision scientist, computational modeller, cofounder @neuromatch Academy, He/His. This is a personal account.
Marcus Perlman @mperlman.bsky.social Cognitive scientist interested in iconicity, language, gesture, evolution, gorillas, and the future of intelligent life.
Constantina Theofanopoulou @constantinatheo.bsky.social Neuroscientist 🧠 neurobiology of speech and dance 🗣💃🏽
▪️Herb and Nell Singer Research Assistant Professor -Rockefeller University
▪️Visiting Scholar -NYU
▪️Research Associate -Emory & US Dept of Veteran Affairs
🔗https://www.constantinatheofanopoulou.com/
CogCompNeuro @cogcompneuro.bsky.social The Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Conference is an annual forum for discussion among researchers in cognitive science, neuroscience, and AI, dedicated to understanding the computations that underlie complex behavior.
https://ccneuro.org/
Alane Suhr @suhr.bsky.social Assistant Prof, UC Berkeley EECS, research on language, language use, and language technologies
I am not a language model.
Courtney Hilton @courtneybhilton.bsky.social studies how the world we live in shapes our perception and cognition
ARC DECRA Fellow @unimelb.edu.au • @psychunimelb.bsky.social | Complex Human Data Hub
Jordan Suchow @jordansuchow.bsky.social Cognitive science + information systems at Stevens Institute of Technology. Studying minds, brains, and machines. 💡🧠🤖
Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org Discover new research from across the sciences and highlights from the world's longest-running journal archive. Part of @royalsociety.org royalsociety.org/journals
Natasha Jaques @natashajaques.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UW and Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. Social Reinforcement Learning in multi-agent and human-AI interactions. PhD from MIT. Check out https://socialrl.cs.washington.edu/ and https://natashajaques.ai/.
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
Katie Hoemann @katiehoemann.bsky.social Fascinated by emotion, language, & how we make meaning | Psychology faculty at the University of Kansas | Runs slowly, sweatily, regularly | She/her
Jean-Rémi King @jeanremiking.bsky.social Researcher in Neuroscience & AI
CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure, PSL
currently detached to Meta
Stephen Chrisomalis @schrisomalis.bsky.social Linguistic anthropologist, Wayne State University. Numbers, cognition, writing and literacy, mathematics. Left, 🇨🇦, he/him. https://glossographia.com/ https://phrontistery.info
Roope Kaaronen @roopekaaronen.net Forager of information and mushrooms • "String theorist" • Cognitive science, cultural evolution, cognitive anthropology, ethnomathematics • https://roopekaaronen.net • Kayaking, music, nature, photography
Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social Behavioral Scientist & Science Communicator.
Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences and Associate Professor of Communication, Medicine, and Public Policy at Cornell University.
More here: neillewisjr.com
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Sophia Sanborn @naturecomputes.bsky.social Searching for principles of neural representation | Neuro + AI @ enigmaproject.ai | Stanford | sophiasanborn.com
Frank Thiel @betrayerofhope.bsky.social Director of Learning Innovation and Digital Strategy at UNK
Packers, Bulls, Orioles, Huskers…forever and always a Loper!
Mariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social I study brains and sometimes use one.
https://www.alylab.org/
Rachit Dubey @rachitdubey.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UCLA | Alum @MIT @Princeton @UC Berkeley | AI+Cognitive Science+Climate Policy | https://ucla-cocopol.github.io/
Evan Russek @evanrussek.bsky.social Assistant professor at Hunter College-CUNY, studying the cognitive science of decision-making.
https://www.evanrussek.com/
Maria Eckstein @mariaeckstein.bsky.social Research scientist at Google DeepMind.
Intersection of cognitive science and AI. Reinforcement learning, decision making, structure learning, abstraction, cognitive modeling, interpretability.
jsPsych @jspsych.org Create behavioral experiments that run in a web browser
https://www.jspsych.org
Jing-Jing Li @drjingjing.bsky.social PhD student, UC Berkeley. AI and cognitive science. Intelligence, learning, decision-making. jl3676.github.io
Cedric Boeckx @cedricboeckx.bsky.social ICREA Research Professor. Evolution, Genetics, Neuroscience, Linguistic Cognition
https://www.cedricboeckx.com
Simon Kirby @simonkirby.bsky.social Prof Language Evolution FBA FRSE MAE. Head of Dept, Linguistics & English Language, Uni Edinburgh. With my students & collaborators I do science & art. he/him. simonkirby.net
Marcel Binz @marcelbinz.bsky.social Natural and artificial general intelligence.
https://marcelbinz.github.io/
tyler bonnen @tylerbonnen.bsky.social neuroscientist @berkeley_ai. NIH K00 + UC Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow. he/him
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
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)
Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social Building open models @ Reflection AI. Previously: Google DeepMind, UC Berkeley, MIT. I post about: AI 🤖, flowers 🌷, parenting 👶, public transit 🚆. She/her.
Elisabeth Norcliffe @enorcliffe.bsky.social Linguist and psycholinguist
David Barner @drbarner.bsky.social Professor of Psychology at UCSD interested in language & conceptual development. 
Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social I am a principal investigator at the Center for Mind/Brain, CiMeC, at the University of Trento, where I research language and cognition in humans and machines.