George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
Ehud @duhe.bsky.social Do you really don’t know?
(I’m a philosopher and historian of biology, interested in all things evolutionary, #genetic, or #cognitive. I find most things ridiculous.)
http://www.ehudlamm.com
Nigel Goldenfeld @nigelgoldenfeld.bsky.social Theoretical physicist at UCSD researching condensed & living matter, fluid mechanics, statistical mechanics.
Bad at staying in my lane. Interested in everything.
https://guava.physics.ucsd.edu/~nigel/
Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com Philosophy and Game Theory at Carnegie Mellon 🦚 Research the interface between philosophy, economics, and biology 💱 www.kevinzollman.com
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/
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.
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
Alex Green (文浩航) @glexareen.bsky.social Associate Professor (Law), CUHK (Hong Kong SAR, PRC); Academic Associate, 23ES Chambers (UK); (international law, statehood, philosophy, culture, climate change & sea-level rise).
Book 1: https://tinyurl.com/bdfa86ve
Book 2: https://tinyurl.com/yc4nmrnm
M R. X. Dentith @mrxdentith.com Philosopher of conspiracy theory theory. Editor (but not the) of “Social Epistemology” & the “Journal of Contemporary Chinese Philosophy”
they/them
Website: https://www.mrxdentith.com
Podcast: https://zencastr.com/The-Podcaster-s-Guide-to-the-Conspiracy
Jean-François Cudennec @limpetnerd.eurosky.social 🔬 Limpet scientist (PhD) | Marine biology, paleontology & coastal archaeology
📸 Also nature photographer
https://www.instagram.com/jfcudennec?igsh=MW9mbGVpdzF0YXdrcA%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
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
Markus Meister @mameister4.bsky.social Neuroscientist. Long-form opinions at https://markusmeister.com.
Jieyu Zheng @jieyusz.bsky.social www.jieyuzheng.com
Caltech Phd candidate in Neurobiology, Meister Lab
- Avid birder, wildlife photographer, hiker...
- Alumnae from SJTU, Cornell and Cambridge Uni
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
Yogi Jaeger @yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy 🇨🇭 in 🇦🇹 Life beyond dogma! Free-floating systems thinker & natural philosopher. Antifragilist extemporanian metamodernist. Open science, society & living […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://spore.social/@yoginho, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social Epigenetic Inheritance, Neuroscience & anything biology-related
https://www.odedrechavilab.com/
q.e.d: https://www.qedscience.com
Organizer of “The Woodstock of Biology”
TED: https://shorturl.at/myFTY
Huberman Lab Podcast: https://youtu.be/CDUetQMKM6g
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/
Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co Social science and other distractions. Old posts get deleted pretty quick.
https://kieranhealy.org /
https://theordinalsociety.com
Daron Acemoglu @dacemoglumit.bsky.social Institute Professor, MIT Economics. Co-Director of @mitshapingwork.bsky.social. Author of Why Nations Fail, The Narrow Corridor, and Power & Progress.
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/
Ariel Rubinstein @arielrubinstein.bsky.social School of Economics, Tel Aviv University
Department of Economics, New York University
https://arielrubinstein.org/
Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social Author of "Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the 20th Century". Too online since 1995. Sometime Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury. UC Berkeley Professor.
manvir singh @manvir.bsky.social anthropologist at uc davis.
contributing writer at the new yorker.
author of SHAMANISM: THE TIMELESS RELIGION (knopf + allen lane).
Dan Williams @danwphilosophy.bsky.social Philosopher. Interested in: Philosophy, Psychology, Evolution, Artificial Intelligence, Social Science, Politics.
danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society.
Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society
Professor of Communication, Cornell
https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
Nicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University. Sociologist. Network Scientist. Physician. Author of Apollo's Arrow; Blueprint; Connected; and Death Foretold. Director of the Human Nature Lab: https://humannaturelab.net- D David Poeppel @davidpoeppel.bsky.social
Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social Neurogeneticist interested in the relations between genes, brains, and minds. Author of INNATE (2018) and FREE AGENTS (2023)
Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social Physics, philosophy, complexity. @jhuartssciences.bsky.social & @sfiscience.bsky.social. Host, #MindscapePodcast. Married to @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social.
Latest books: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe.
https://preposterousuniverse.com/
Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social Historian of science, art, & ideas 🗃
Words: Smithsonian, LA Times, TLS, Aeon, Nature, Science.
Author: HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY
www.surekhadavies.org
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/surekhadavies?tag=bluesky
Speaker bureau: Chartwell Speakers
Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.bsky.social Lecturer/researcher in phil & neuro.
Éireannach en France/immigrant.
Education, evolution, embodied mind/metaphysiology, memory, deliberation, myside bias, representation, reasoning, perspectivism, pragmatism.
Universités de Bordeaux & Bdx-Montaigne.
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
Sara Imari Walker @saraimari.bsky.social Professor @ASU @sfiscience
Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social Professor of democracy and international affairs. http://www.henryfarrell.net and newsletter at http://www.programmablemutter.com. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554.
Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social Historian at Cambridge. In Search of the Phoenicians (2018) and How the World Made the West (2024). Photos by Sukant Deepak (in Jaipur, 2024) and Carlotta Cardana (at St John's College, Cambridge, 2025).
Philipp Lorenz-Spreen @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social Heading the Computational Social Science group within SynoSys & ifK at TU Dresden, where we study how online information environments impact public discourse and develop alternatives that benefit democracy.
CSS-Group: https://css-synosys.github.io/
Maxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social web: http://maxim.ece.illinois.edu
substack: https://realizable.substack.com
David Wengrow @davidwengrow.bsky.social Professor of Comparative Archaeology at UCL | co-author, New York Times bestseller #TheDawnOfEverything | working on a sequel #TheThirdFreedom | media enquiries: MFlashman@janklow.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).
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
Zanna Clay @zannaclay.bsky.social Professor, Psychology- Durham University. Comparative Cognition and Cross-Cultural Development Lab. Primatology, developmental psychology, bonobos, chimpanzees. Interested in evolution and development of empathy, language, culture, social cognition
Paul Bloom @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social Psychologist who studies and writes about human nature—including morality, pleasure, and religion. Sustack: https://smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/- N Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social Scientist, mentor, activist, explorer.
C. Thi Nguyen @add-hawk.bsky.social Philosophy professor. My new book is THE SCORE, about true play, the limits of data - and why scoring systems can lead to beautiful games and soul-killing metrics.
David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social I read a lot of research. Mostly ML.
Currently reading: https://dmarx.github.io/papers-feed/
Statistical Learning
Information Theory
Ontic Structural Realism
Morality As Cooperation
Free Culture, Open Access
YIMBY, UBI
Research MLE
Frmr FireFighter
@peterdoohan.bsky.social @peterdoohan.bsky.social
Kris Jensen @kristorpjensen.bsky.social Computational neuroscientist || Postdoc with Tim Behrens || Sainsbury Wellcome Centre @ UCL
Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social Slowly becoming a neuroscientist.
EiC @elife.bsky.social
Clementine Domine 🍊 @CCN @clementinedomine.bsky.social •PhD student @ https://www.ucl.ac.uk/gatsby 🧠💻
•Masters Theoretical Physics UoM|UCLA🪐
•Intern @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social|
@SapienzaRoma | @CERN | @EPFL
https://linktr.ee/Clementine_Domine
Anna Sadnicka @sadnicka.bsky.social Consultant Clinical Academic studying human movement disorders @ ucl.ac.uk/gatsby/ and Department of Clinical and Movement Neurosciences.
Computational Movement Disorders Lab
https://sadnickalab.org
Funded by @ wellcome.org/
Kate Sampson @katesampson.bsky.social Research Physiotherapist interested in hyperkinetic movement disorders
Cameron A. Stewart @cameronastew.art I am a PhD student at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit.
I study stochastic processes and their application to modelling neural dynamics.
https://cameronastew.art/
@jamesheald.bsky.social @jamesheald.bsky.social
UCL NeuroAI @ucl-neuroai.bsky.social UCL NeuroAI fosters collaboration between our neuroscience and AI communities. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/neuroscience/ucl-neuroai
🧠🤖
Kevin Han Huang @kevhhuang.bsky.social Founding researcher @ AI startup. Previously @ProbAIHub @warwickstats @Princeton @GatsbyUCL @Cambridge_Uni. ML theory & probability. He/him. 🌈
kevinhanhuang.page
Niko Sirmpilatze @nikosirmpilatze.com London-based neuroscientist 🧠 & research software engineer 💻 developing free and open-source tools for studying brains & behaviour, @neuroinformatics.dev @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social at UCL.
Committed to open, collaborative, and reproducible science.
Leena C Vankadara @leenacvankadara.bsky.social Lecturer @GatsbyUCL; Previously Applied Scientist @AmazonResearch; PhD @MPI-IS @UniTuebingen
Agostina Palmigiano @apalmigiano.bsky.social Lecturer at @GatsbyUCL
palmigianolab.com
Dimitri Meunier @dimitrimeunier.bsky.social PhD, Gatsby, UCL
Valentina Njaradi @vnjaradi.bsky.social Computational neuroscience PhD student @Gatsby unit, UCL
Basile Confavreux @bconfavreux.bsky.social Postdoc with Andrew Saxe at the Gatsby unit.
Adam Tyson @adamltyson.com Head Research Engineer at Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL. I lead @neuroinformatics.dev & @brainglobe.info. We build open source software for neuroscience and machine learning.
Runner, cyclist, sandwich enthusiast.
https://adamltyson.com- A Arthur Gretton @arthurgretton.bsky.social
Stefano Sarao Mannelli @stefsm.bsky.social Assistant Professor Chalmers and Göteborg University 🌱 ML + CogSci + StatPhys 🔎 stefsmlab.github.io 🌐
Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit @gatsbyucl.bsky.social We study the mathematical principles of learning, perception & action in brains & machines. Funded by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation. Based at UCL. www.ucl.ac.uk/life-sciences/gatsby
Antonio Colás Nieto @acolasn.bsky.social Systems neuro PhD student at SWC/The Crick (UCL, London). Cell types and decision-making.
Znamenskiy lab, Mrsic-Flogel lab
Antonio Sclocchi @antoniosclocchi.bsky.social Researcher in statistical physics and machine learning @UCL Gatsby | Previously @EPFL | Physics PhD @UnivParisSaclay | BCG The Future Makers | ASP XI
https://antonioscl.github.io/
@aaditya6284.bsky.social @aaditya6284.bsky.social
Carmen Falcone @carmenfalcone.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Towson University •
Neurobiologist in love w/ astrocytes, evolution & development •
co-founder #AstrocyteCafe and #ItalianGliaNewtork •
I look at glial cells in unconventional species •
https://carmenfalconelab.com/
Andrew Iwaniuk @evoneuro.bsky.social neurobiologist, ornithologist, scruffy looking nerfherder, social distancing since 1974, Canadian in Alberta, Treaty 7 lands
🇨🇦 🇦🇺 🧪🪶🧠 stuff
open access link for our book: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/6000/Bird-Brains-and-BehaviorA-Synthesis
Dr. Headbutt 🌈🧪 @nicoleackermans.com Assistant prof neuroscientist studying TBI in headbutters 🐏🐂🐐🪶 at U of Alabama CVN lab.
Science correspondent for DTNS.
I'll happily ID the random bone you found in the woods!
Pierre Vanderhaeghen @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social Neuroscientist at VIB KULeuven
Franck Polleux @franckp.bsky.social Neuroscientist and cell biologist. Investigator of the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute (ZMBBI) in New York
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
Alexandra A. de Sousa @alealisousa.bsky.social Brain evolution https://alealisousa.github.io/
katja heuer @k4tj4.bsky.social into brain evolution & development, open science, art & science https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hMNZHsrNHw, music, making, javascript, contemporary dance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZfHj7F2FzQ
website: katjaq.github.io
Alexandra Schuh @alexandraschuh.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Human Origins, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Paleoanthropology 💀 Bone growth 🦴
Lucia Prieto Godino @neuroluci.bsky.social Group Leader @TheCrick
// Neuroscience - Evolution // Africa development through scientific innovation // Founder of @TReNDinAfrica
https://prietogodinolab.org/
NeuroecologyLab @neuroecologylab.bsky.social Cognitive Neuroecology Lab at OxCIN/FMRIB (Oxford) and Donders Institute (Nijmegen) headed by Rogier Mars. Interested in what makes different brains tick. www.neuroecologylab.org
Roberto Toro @r3rt0.bsky.social Into brain development and evolution (+open science, generative art, genomics, music, 🇨🇱...). If you have questions about mechanical morphogenesis, I have more!
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6671-858X
Dr. Ornella Bertrand @ornellabertrand.bsky.social Ramón y Cajal PI Researcher | Paleoneurology | Neuroecology | Neurosensory evolution of mammals 🧠 Institut Català de Paleontologia 🇪🇸 | Contact me for PhD & Postdoc opportunities
https://ornellabertrand.wordpress.com/
https://go.bsky.app/7FEDFXK
Zegni Triki @zegnitriki.bsky.social Behavioural ecologist/physiologist interested in animal minds and intelligence 🧠🐠🐟🤿🏝
Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social Prince Philip Professor of Ecology & Evolution
@camzoology.bsky.social
I like brains.
www.shmontgomery.co.uk
Courtney Babbitt @cbabbitt.bsky.social Professor of evolutionary genomics at UMass Amherst. Astrocytes and neurons from iPSCs across primates.
Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net Biologist. Better Posters book and blog. Academic hoaxes. Academic slop graphics. Home: http://DoctorZen.net. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4049-7034
A.N. Atomist @a-n-atomist.bsky.social Dispatches from the Lowest Ethereal Plane of Academia. My Wu Tang name is The Respected Magician. I also know what Soylent Green is made of...
Leigha Lynch, PhD @squeacslab.bsky.social Statistical quantitative evolutionary analysis of carnivorans
evolutionary biologist, neuroanatomist, geneticist, gardener, birder
Steven Phelps @evolbrain.bsky.social Biology of intimacy: Evolutionary, neural & genomic studies of sexuality & social bonds (in weird rodents, mostly). Write a bit on biology & culture. First-gen. 🏳️🌈 Austin, TX. phelpslab.net
Andres Bendesky @bendeskylab.com Neuroscience – behavior – genetics – evolution
Columbia University
Brain Evolution News @brainevolutionnews.bsky.social Brain Evolution in the News posted here for you!
For events & opportunities in brain evolution research follow @EurNetBrainEvoR.bsky.social
http://brainevolutionnews.blogspot.com
ENBER mailing list @eurnetbrainevor.bsky.social European Network for Brain Evolution Research http://sites.google.com/site/eurobrainevolnet/ For Brain Evolution in the News follow @BrainEvolutionNews.bsky.social
Vera Terblanche Hunnekuhl @verabiol.bsky.social Evolutionary developmental biologist interested in embryonic patterning, nervous- and neuroendocrine system evolution. 🐛🐛 @Göttingen University
Eva Candal @evacandal.bsky.social Developmental neurobiologist interested in evo-devo, neurogenesis, plasticity & neurodevelopmental disorders.
Professor @usc.gal
#NeuroDevo #EvoDevo #DevBio #sharks #retina
Jason Shepherd @jasonsynaptic.bsky.social 🇿🇦🇳🇿🇺🇸Neuroscientist/amateur virologist. Professor and Director of the Molecular Biology Graduate Program, University of Utah. Molecular mechanisms of memory, repurposed transposons, and virus-like intercellular signaling. Personal views.
www.shepherdlab.org
Dr. Sophie Barton @sophiebarton.bsky.social Newly minted PhD of Hecht Lab of Harvard University. Studying how selection shapes the brains & behaviors of working dogs, village dogs, New Guinea singing dogs, and domesticated foxes 🐶 🦊 🧠 caninebrains.org sophiealexandrabarton.com ngsdconservation.org
Nacho Sanguinetti @neuroetho.bsky.social Uruguayo 🇺🇾 Asst. Prof. UPenn.
HSFP fellow at Harvard. PhD in HU Berlin. Systems Neuro, Neuroethologist of fun rodents, Natural Neuro! Painter, Improviser, Artist.
Nick Jourjine @nickjourjine.bsky.social Brains and bioacoustics // postdoc using animal diversity to understand animal behavior // nickjourjine.github.io // he, him
I organize the Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics seminar series: braincoustics.bsky.social // braincoustics.com
Saikat Ray @ray-neuro.bsky.social Real world neuroscience.
Neuroscience of animal societies and in the wild.
Flying bats, shrinking shrews, running rats.
Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social Fascinated by the evolution of the brain | Emmy Noether Group Leader at JGU Mainz | Section Speaker Neurobiology DZG | he/him
https://linktr.ee/max.farnworth
Kelsey Tyssowski @kelseytea.bsky.social genetic and neural basis of dexterity…in deer mice! | postdoc at Harvard OEB/MCB, BRAIN K99/R00 | plant grower, music maker, crafter, bike rider, sometimes mountain climber | she/her
https://ktyssowski.github.io/