- D David Poeppel @davidpoeppel.bsky.social
Siham Bouziane @sihambzn.bsky.social PhD student studying temporal predictions in baboons at Aix-Marseille University 🐒⏱️ Combining comparative psychology & ethology. Still in a friendly (and mostly one-sided) relationship with many baboons.
cheslieklein.bsky.social @cheslieklein.bsky.social Postdoc working on early cognitive and brain development at the @milestoneslab.bsky.social.
Milestones of Neurocognitive Development Lab @milestoneslab.bsky.social Jointly based at @mpicbs.bsky.social and UTN
Exploring the developing mind through neuroimaging and behavioral science 🦊🧠
https://www.cbs.mpg.de/independent-research-groups/early-cognitive-development
Zaki Alasmar @zklsmr.bsky.social Vanier PhD Scholar & Brain Canada Rising Star at McGill University & Douglas Research Centre | Bridging in-vivo and ex-vivo approaches in neuroimaging | EiC @CJAP | Blog Team Lead @OHBM | Translating science through public communication | 🇸🇾🇨🇦 | zklsmr.com
Elliot Howard-Spink @ehowaspi.bsky.social Researching primate behaviours | Postdoc at UZH Evo Anthro & NCCR Evolving Language | Former Postdoc at MPI Animal Behavior & DPhil at Oxford Biology | Tools & Culture, Language Evo, Development & Senescence | He/They 🌈
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.
Sabine Blütgen @sabinebluetgen.bsky.social PhD student at the Centre for Language Evolution @uoe-cle.bsky.social, University of Edinburgh. Interested in human and animal behaviour and evolution, gene–culture coevolution, social cognition. she/her
https://sabinebluetgen.github.io/
Marco Maiolini @marcomaiolini.bsky.social PhD candidate at @Universiteit Leiden inspecting the acoustic biases in birds and primates
Bioacoustics / Ethology / Rhythm and musicality across species
Jacob Maaz @jacobmaaz.bsky.social Ph.D in Psychology, Temp. Teaching/Research Fellow at CRPN, amU
UPDATE: soon working at UCL with P. Haggard
Cognitive psychologist studying the mechanisms of volitional control over internal states and action
Travels, nature, food and coffeeshops lover
Tristan White @tristan-white.bsky.social 3rd year PhD candidate: decision making, behavioural modelling, affective states and computational psychiatry.
Ecological Cognition and Computation team @ Stem Cell and Brain Research Institute (SBRI) - Lyon, France
Amélie Beaudet @ameliebeaudet.bsky.social Paleoanthropologist and CNRS junior professor at @palevoprim (CNRS & University of Poitiers).
Prof. Dr. Asli Ozyurek @asliozyurek.bsky.social Director,Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics; Multimodal Language Dept.Turkish expat studied in the US; lives @Netherlands,works for the German Max Planck Society - https://www.mpi.nl/people/ozyurek-asli - I am more active on Linkedin:)
Prof. Gillian Brown @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social Professor of psychology; University of St Andrews, UK; gender/sex, evolution, culture; she/her. 🌈
New edition: 'Sense & Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour' (https://tinyurl.com/yfv2kc27)
Lab: https://gillianbrown.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
Francesco Poli @francescopoli.bsky.social Rubicon research fellow at the University of Cambridge. Drinking massive amounts of tea and doing some research in between. Learning, information-seeking, cognitive and brain development. Comp modelling ethusiast. He/him. 🍉
https://francescpoli.github.io/
MPI-EVA Leipzig @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology investigates the #history and #evolution of #humans and other #primates.
Leipzig, Germany
https://www.eva.mpg.de/index.html 
Christine R. Lattin, PhD @clattin.bsky.social Associate Professor at LSU trying to understand how hormones & neurotransmitters help wild animals successfully cope with environmental challenges. She/her
@evolangconf.bsky.social @evolangconf.bsky.social 
Protolang @protolang.bsky.social Conference series "Ways to Protolanguage" http://protolang.org/
Next conference: #Protolang9, University of Vienna, September 15-17, 2025 https://protolang9.univie.ac.at/
Kate Wong @katewong.bsky.social Freelance science writer and editor. Formerly senior editor at Scientific American. I write about human origins, animals past and present, wildlife conservation, ecology and evolution. Birder.
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|🇪🇺|
Pauline Fleischmann @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social Cataglyphilosophine: Philosophisticated Anthusiast (she/her)🐜
#Neuroethology #Navigation #Magnetoreception, views my own
Auriane Le Floch @aurianelf.bsky.social Researcher in animal communication and cognition 🐒🌳
Soon-to-be postdoc at Geneva University with the NCCR Evolving Language studying grammar processing in dogs 🐕 🇨🇭 🇲🇦
Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social Redleaf Endowed Director, Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain (MIDB)
Professor, University of Minnesota
Co-Founder Turing Medical
MacArthur Fellow
Neuroscience, Brain Imaging, Mental Health, Data Science
La Société Francophone de Primatologie @lasfdp.bsky.social L’Association de la Société Francophone de Primatologie (SFDP)
The Association of the Francophone Society of Primatology
Créée le 25 mai 1987 / created on May 25th 1987
Pour tous et toutes les primatologues / For all kinds of primatologists
Julie Duboscq @connectthedots.bsky.social behavioural biologist, primatologist
study animal sociality at CNRS MNHN Univ Paris Cité
co-director of the Macaca Nigra Project in Tangkoko, Sulawesi
council of @LaSFDP
secretary of committee CNRS “brain behaviour cognition”
Gwen Wirobski @gwenwiro.bsky.social Behavioural biologist and canid researcher at Université de Neuchâtel 🐺🐶🐾
Elif Yildiz @elif-m-yildiz.bsky.social PhD candidate at Max Planck School of Cognition. Centre for Language Evolution graduate in Edinburgh. Interested in evolutionary genetics, aDNA and the neurobiological bases for linguistic cognition.
Cognition and Plasticity (CoPla) Lab @copla.bsky.social Research group @mpicbs.bsky.social in Leipzig 🧠 investigating plasticity in cognitive networks 🪢 using neuroimaging (e.g. fMRI) and non-invasive brain stimulation (e.g. TMS). 
Robin Gerrits @robingerrits.bsky.social Cognitive neuroscientist working as a postdoc @copla.bsky.social @mpicbs.bsky.social in Leipzig, Germany. Mainly interested in cerebral (language) laterality and individual differences in brain organisation. Also an unapologetic geek. He/him/his.
Oscar Nodé-Langlois @oscarnl.bsky.social PhD in neurosciences. Studying social learning in wild chimpanzees. Interested in ethology and visual arts.
Alexandre Pron @alexpron.bsky.social Research Engineer @Inria, Empenn team.
Interested in Magnetic Resonance Imaging, medical imaging data management, sharing and reuse, FAIR principles, reproducibility 
Nazife Ayyildiz @ayyildiz-nazife.bsky.social Neuroscientist, ScientificResearcher@MPI-CBS, PhD@AnkaraUni
Mac Woodburn, PhD @macwoodburn.bsky.social Senior Editor at Nature Communications. Cognitive Neuroscience. Neuroimaging.
Primate Research and News @ourprimatepast.bsky.social Posting the latest in primate research, conservation news, and insights into primate evolution #Primatology #BiologicalAnthropology
Video interview series: https://m.youtube.com/@ourprimatepast
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
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
Jianghao Liu @jianghaoliu.bsky.social postdoc on cognitive neuroscience. I’m interested in mental imagery, aphantasia, attention and consciousness.
my website: https://jianghao-liu.github.io
Noel Nguyen @noelnguyen.bsky.social Speech/cognitive scientist, Professor at Aix-Marseille University, with an interest for speech perception in social interactions, week-end road cyclist
Ladislas Nalborczyk @lnalborczyk.bsky.social Computational cognitive neuroscientist @cnrs.fr.
Visiting scholar at Duke University.
Inner speech, mental imagery, cognitive/statistical modelling, M/EEG, open and slow science.
More info and job/collab opportunities at https://lnalborczyk.github.io.
Société des Neurosciences @socneuro.bsky.social French Neuroscience Society's official account. Non-profit association. Member of @fens.org, @ibroorg.bsky.social & @societessavantes.bsky.social
Brain Awareness Week coordinator in France @semaineducerveau.bsky.social
Anjoom AV @anjoomav.bsky.social Individual Variations in Attention & Action
Handedness, Hemispheric Asymmetry, NeuroPsych Disorders
Fine movement control, Sequence processing & WM
Martin Giurfa @martingiurfa.bsky.social Neuroscientist & Professor @ Sorbonne University, Paris, France | Director of the Institute of Biology Paris-Seine of Sorbonne University | ERC_Research laureate - | El Corazon Mirando al Sur | Gorilas y Libertarios Abstenerse |
Irina Barnaveli @barnaveliirina.bsky.social Postdoc in Cognitive Neuroscience @doellerlab.bsky.social
Simone Viganò @vigano.bsky.social cognitive neuroscientist at CEA/NeuroSpin, Paris-Saclay
Doeller Lab @doellerlab.bsky.social Cracking the code for cognition.
Geladas For Cooperation @geladasbridges.bsky.social Research project on the social behaviour of geladas in Ethiopia (PI: Elisabetta Palagi; co-PI: Bezawork Afework). Follow our scientific and social journey!
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences @mpicbs.bsky.social Research at MPI CBS revolves around #human #cognitive abilities & processes in the #brain, with focus on functions like #language, #memory, #emotions & #action.
Volker Reisner @reisnerv.bsky.social Postdoc in cognitive neuroscience @wolberslab.bsky.social | Previously: PhD @mpicbs.bsky.social | Memory, navigation, computation
Samuel St-Jean @samstjean.bsky.social I usually do diffusion MRI stuff.
Alessandro Vitriolo @alessandrovitriolo.bsky.social I use computational tools to understand chromatin dynamics, transcriptional regulation, neurodevelopment, and human evolution.
Decision, Action, and Neural Computation (DANC) lab @danclab.bsky.social sensorimotor computations, beta bursts, laminar MEG, infant development 🧠🦾💥🍰👶
PI: James Bonaiuto
www.danclab.com
Matteo Maran he/him/his @matteomaran.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher https://sites.google.com/view/matteomaran/
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Alfred Anwander @alfredanwander.bsky.social Neuroscientist and connectome researcher. Human & chimpanzee brain connectivity / microstructure using diffusion MRI. Learning & brain plasticity @ MPI CBS, Leipzig
Pritty Patel-Grosz @prittypg.bsky.social Linguist (syn-sem-prag interface) • gesture & dance in human & non-human primates • cross-linguistic diversity • evolutionary biology
Professor of Linguistics, University of Oslo 🇬🇧🇳🇴🌱 PhD Linguistics MIT
Views expressed are mine, repost ≠ endorsement
Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social Director of Language & Genetics at Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen.
Tracing the complex connections between genes, brains, speech & language.
Website: https://www.mpi.nl/people/fisher-simon-e
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3132-1996
International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org Promoting the study of the neural bases of behavior.
Eva Vives @evalisavives.bsky.social PostDoc, Moral & Social Brain Lab, UGent.
Experimenting stuff on moral cognition in social contexts using (hyperscanning) EEG. Cortecs member. 👾 evavives.github.io//
Leonardo Pinto Arata @leopinara.bsky.social Neuropsychologist and PhD in cognitive psychology. Postdoctoral researcher at Université libre de Bruxelles.
Working on statistical learning, memory, chunking and language acquisition.
Dr. Marco A. C. Varella @marcovarella.bsky.social Biologist, researcher in evolutionary psychology, educator, science writer & editor. Evolutionary perspectives on aesthetics, arts, music, mating, sexual strategies, personality, twinning, anthropomorphism, COVID-19 pandemic, chronotype, & climate crisis🇧🇷
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
Kalanit Grill-Spector @kalanitgs.bsky.social Professor, Stanford
Vision Neuroscientist
Interested on how the interplay between brain function, structure & computations enables visual perception; and also what are we born with and what develops.
Dirk Gütlin @gutlin.bsky.social I post the latest Neuroscience, ML/AI, Complex Systems, and Stats papers.
Deciphering prediction and learning with @auksz.bsky.social at Freie Universität Berlin/CCNB/BCCN.
I also play bass in a pop punk band:
https://linktr.ee/goodviewsbadnews
Mawa Dafreville @mawadafreville.bsky.social Working on social cognition in human and non-human primates - currently Postdoc in the team 'Pathways to Language' (Department of Paleoanthropology, University of Tübingen)
ILCB_France @ilcb.bsky.social Institute of Language, Communication and the Brain at amU.
We post regularly about new job opportunities and recent work by our researchers. Stay tuned!
Aix Marseille Université @univ-amu.fr Explorer pour faire société - Transformer les défis contemporains en opportunités de progrès. Université citoyenne et responsable, nous explorons, nous inventons, nous partageons pour bâtir une société plus juste et durable.
https://www.univ-amu.fr
Ameline Bardo @amelinebardo.bsky.social Paleoanthropologist & primatologist CNRS @museedelhomme.fr HNHP UMR7194
Fondation Fyssen @fondationfyssen.bsky.social Depuis 1979 la Fondation Fyssen s'engage à servir le progrès des sciences cognitives et valorise l’excellence en anthropologie, archéologie, paléontologie, éthologie, psychologie et neurosciences.
Nicholas Menghi @nichome.bsky.social Postdoc @mpicbs.bsky.social, interested in Generalization, Transfer Learning, Cats and Pirates
Sitting on a corn flake @grrlscientist.bsky.social GrrlScientist: PhD zoology/ornithology, parrot researcher, birder, freelance science reporter & writer
Currently: Forbes
Formerly: The Guardian
Vegan. Atheist.
linktr.ee/grrlscientist- C Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social Palaeoanthropologist at the Natural History Museum London.
Posts are my own, and when I repost or like, it does not signify I necessarily agree with all content https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/departments-and-staff/staff-directory/chris-stringer.html
Loïc Labache @loiclabache.cpesr.fr Postdoctoral Fellow at Rutgers University
Previously CEA 🇫🇷, Yale 🇺🇸
Website: loiclabache.github.io
Cognitive neuroscientist and statistician interested in hemispheric specialization 🧠
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
Manuel Bohn @elmanubohn.bsky.social Developmental psychologist at Leuphana with an eye on ManyPrimates (@manyprimates.bsky.social)
Kayla Kolff @kaylakolff.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher studying chimpanzee social and medicative behaviour (she/her).
🇰🇪 & 🇳🇱 based in 🇩🇪.
https://www.kaylakolff.com/
ManyPrimates @manyprimates.bsky.social Establishing a Culture of Collaboration in Primate Cognition Research | manyprimates.github.io
Erin Wessling @northernlimitpt.bsky.social Pan behavioral ecologist + conservationist | co-director of Moyen Bafing Chimp Project and the BonDiv Project | Coordinator for the Western Chimp Action Plan
Theresa Matzinger @thematzing.bsky.social doing research on language evolution, language change, language learning and everything cognition-related; Post-doc: Uni Vienna; before: Post-doc Center of Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus Uni Torun and PhD Uni Vienna
Michael Pleyer @symbolicstorage.bsky.social nerd. cognitive/evolutionary linguist. Assistant Prof at Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland
(he/him)
www.michaelpleyer.com
@symbolicstorage@scholar.social
@symbolicstorage
Cédric Girard-Buttoz @tozbu.bsky.social Biologist, primate fan, sport addict, photographer, try to understand how animals process the world and communicate about it
Stuart K Watson @chimpsahoi.bsky.social Postdoc at University of Zurich. Working on fuzzy insights into fluffy minds. He/him
Dr Chris Young @drchrisyoung.bsky.social Senior lecturer in psychology at Nottingham Trent University, research focus on primate social behaviour, ecology and endocrinology
Paddy Tkaczynski @paddytkaczynski.bsky.social Behavioural ecologist at LJMU, UK. Studying how non-human primates grow up, how they make friends & their plasticity to the goings on of human primates (https://plasticprimateslab.com/)
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
Gal Badihi @galbadihi.bsky.social Interested in animal behaviour, evolution, conservation, and welfare.- J Joan Silk @jbsilk.bsky.social Evolutionary anthropologist, primate behavioral ecologist.
Marlen Fröhlich @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social Primatologist | Group leader & Lecturer @ Uni Tübingen | Freigeist Fellow | primate communication - behavioural plasticity - language evolution 🐵 🗣️
Coralie Chevallier @coraliechevallier.bsky.social Evolution and social cognition ENS-PSL
Cognitive and behavioural science; impact of poverty on cognition; uncertainty and decision making; evolutionary public policies; special interest in higher-education
Stephanie L King @stephanielking.bsky.social Professor of Animal Behaviour @ University of Bristol | cetacean communication and cognition group | loves dogs | PI @ Shark Bay Dolphin Research | she/her 🏳️🌈
Pat Savage @patrickesavage.bsky.social Author: Comparative Musicology (academic.oup.com/book/62353; open access)
Director: @compmusiclab.bsky.social
Host/PI @manyvoices.bsky.social
Rutherford Discovery Fellow @U Auckland
Assoc. Prof. @Keio U
Music, evolution, diversity
He/him
Tangata tiriti
Rachel Harrison @rachelaharrison.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Anthropology Department, Durham University. Studying social learning in humans and other primates. 
Cat Hobaiter @nakedprimate.bsky.social Primatologist studying communication and cognition in wild apes. Some time academic. Full time naked ape. PI Wild Minds Lab @ University of St Andrews. She/her.
www.wildminds.ac.uk
Verena Behringer @verenab.bsky.social Physiologist with a passion for primates especially bonobos @dpz.eu
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/
Anthony Atkinson @socialvisionlab.bsky.social Experimental psychologist & cognitive neuroscientist. I research the mechanisms that allow us to perceive social information from faces and bodies.
Professor at Durham University
https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/a-p-atkinson/
https://atkinsonap.github
SFB 1528 - Cognition of Interaction @sfb1528.bsky.social at University of Göttingen. We study behavior and cognition of humans and primates; funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG;
Web: http://www.sfb1528.uni-goettingen.de
YouTube: http://tinyurl.com/36dkn7uu
Impressum: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/
The Moyen Bafing Chimp Project @mbchimp.bsky.social Chimpanzee and monkey research project in the Moyen-Bafing National Park Guinea, led by @northernlimitpt @LirSamuni and @nakedprimate
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