Ben Sheldon @sheldonbirds.bsky.social Ornithologist and Evolutionary Ecologist at the University of Oxford - natural history, science, cycling
@ayagoldshtein.bsky.social @ayagoldshtein.bsky.social
Dora Biro @dorabiro.bsky.social Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Uni Rochester, NY 🐦🐟🐵 Animal cognition, collective behaviour, navigation, tool use, social learning, culture
Mirjam Knörnschild @berlinbatlab.bsky.social Professor of Evolutionary Ethology at HU Berlin. Department Head at Museum for Natural History. Interested in animals and their voices. Bats rock.
Uri Roll @uriroll.bsky.social Conservation scientist, interested in biodiversity, spatial ecology, macroecology, culturomics, and iEcology.
Based at the Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Ben-Gurion University.
http://www.uriroll.com/
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
Lucy Aplin @lucymaplin.bsky.social Certified bird brain, researching cognitive and social ecology of parrots and parids. Currently holding down a dual position at the Australian National University and the University of Zurich
@ellafcole.bsky.social @ellafcole.bsky.social
Tecumseh Fitch @tecumsehfitch.bsky.social Professor of Cognitive Biology at the University of Vienna, interest in the evolution of music, language, art and consciousness. And a musician and artist on the side...
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
Andrea Ravignani @andrearavignani.bsky.social Professor @SapienzaRoma - Comparative psychology, music neuroscience & bioacoustics. Works on rhythm/sync/speech/communication across species (humans, primates, marine mammals, etc.)
Liran Samuni @lirsamuni.bsky.social Behavioral ecologist studying cooperation & intergroup dynamics in wild apes | Emmy Noether & Research Group Leader @ MPI-EVA
Maya Saar @mayasaar.bsky.social Ecology & Invasion Biology #ants 🐜🐜🐜 | Founder & CEO of "Dr. Fire Ants" | Former BARD & USDA postdoc fellow | Tryin’ to make sense to science to non-scientists 🤓 i.e., Scientific Director @lbscience.org #Scicomm | 🌈
saarmaya.weebly.com
drfireant.tiiny.site
Jake Graving @jgraving.bsky.social Interested in behavior and computation. Research Scientist at Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Prof. Sharlene Santana @sesantana.bsky.social Professor at UW Biology| Mammal Curator at the Burke Museum | Fulbright alumna | Living at the intersections | 🇻🇪🇺🇸 | She/her; Ella | 🦇
Lab: https://faculty.washington.edu/ssantana/wordpress/
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
Dr. Ralph Simon @ralsimon.bsky.social Sensory ecologist, bat-plant interactions, bioacoustics. Research group leader & staff scientist @ Nuremberg Zoo; associate scientist @FAU_MaD_Lab he/him
https://rsimon.de
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/
Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social Zoologist at Girton College, University of Cambridge. Author of 'The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy' and 'Why Animals Talk' https://bit.ly/482925U. Animal communication researcher, https://www.bioacousticsresearchgroup.org/
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
@erichjarvis.bsky.social @erichjarvis.bsky.social
Harry Marshall @harryhmarshall.bsky.social Principal Conservation Scientist at the RSPB | UKOTs and International | Island Restoration | Science Capacity Building | All views my own
@morganneuro.bsky.social @morganneuro.bsky.social
Morten H. Christiansen @mh-christiansen.bsky.social Cognitive scientist interested in the processing, acquisition and evolution of language; statistical learning; computational modeling.
Lab website: https://csl-lab.psych.cornell.edu
Friederike [freddy; she/her] Hillemann @fhillemann.bsky.social . behavioural ecologist
. Foraging Ecology And Social Ties (FEASTs)
. von Humboldt postdoc fellow @ Durham
. Preprint Editor ProcB
. General Editor Hunter Gatherer Research
🌱♻️🌈🧠🌶️
✊ally to 🏳️⚧️ and BLM
fhillemann.github.io
Lauren Brent @ljnbrent.bsky.social Social evolution, social aging & the benefits of social networks. Professor @crab-exeter.bsky.social, Dept. of Psych, Uni. of Exeter. Big team science collaborations: #MacaqueNet #CBRU. She/her. http://linktr.ee/laurenbrent
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho @rferrericancho.bsky.social
Zegni Triki @zegnitriki.bsky.social Behavioural ecologist/physiologist interested in animal minds and intelligence 🧠🐠🐟🤿🏝
Teague O'Mara @teagueo.bsky.social Building evidence to show that bat conservation works. Where do animals go, how do they get there, and what does it tell us about their lives.
Alex Mielke @alexmielke.bsky.social Studies cooperation, communication and social relationships in monkeys and apes. Lecturer QMUL. he/him
Stuart K Watson @chimpsahoi.bsky.social Postdoc at University of Zurich. Working on fuzzy insights into fluffy minds. He/him
Tali Magory 🐦🧬 @talimagory.bsky.social Research scientist studying anthropogenic effects on wildlife/ecosystems
Ecology/Evolution/Genomics/Microbiome/Hologenomics
Comparative Cognition Neuchâtel @cogcompneuch.bsky.social We explore the origins of language and culture by conducting research on non-human primates’ communication and cognition
Pawel Fedurek @pawel-fedurek.bsky.social Interested in animal behaviour and conservation. Senior lecturer in Psychology at the University of Stirling. Member of @berg-stirling.bsky.social
Ellis Langley @ellislangley.bsky.social She/her | Postdoc | Cognition and sociality | Bird bothering, music & fitness obsessed fidget.
Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social Associate Prof, Animal Behaviour & Welfare-Hong Kong https://www.alanmcelligott.co.uk/ Animal behaviour, cognition, welfare; research ethics & integrity; environment; science; higher education; Diversity Equity Inclusion (DEI) advocate. 🌈🇮🇪 he/him 🐂 🐃🐐🐥 🦆
Sarie Van Belle, Ph.D. (she/her) @sarievanbelle.bsky.social Behavioral ecologist; Field biologist; Primate Sociality; Intergroup Dynamics; Collective Action; Group Coordination; Vocal Communication; Black Howler Monkeys
Hannah Little @hanachronism.bsky.social Lecturer @University of Liverpool. Director @Open Rights Group. SETI Post-Contact hub. Science Communication researcher and practitioner. Alien Linguist (Rep. Alex Cochran). Linguist. Comedian. Data Rights Advocate. Writer. Socialist. Trade Unionist.
Vlad Demartsev @animal-sounds.bsky.social Behavioural ecologist #AnimalBehavior #VocalCommunication #Bioacoustics @unikonstanz @CBehav @MPI-AB
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.
Cedric Boeckx @cedricboeckx.bsky.social ICREA Research Professor. Evolution, Genetics, Neuroscience, Linguistic Cognition
https://www.cedricboeckx.com
Tim Sainburg @timsainburg.bsky.social Neuro, Cogsci, ML, and Ethology postdoc / Schmidt Science Fellow at Harvard.
Lotty Brand @lottybrand.bsky.social ex postdoc in human behaviour and evolution, social learning, cultural evolution, open science. Current trainee counsellor, secular buddhism enthusiast, and postpartum blob of myself.
Stephanie Manka, Ph.D. (formerly Schutler) @fancyscientist.bsky.social Wildlife biologist 🐘 Career Mentor👩🎓 Communicator 👥 | Showing animal lovers how to get their dream job✨ | Connecting people with nature for conservation 🌿 and community 🏙️
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
Sonja Wild @sonjawild.bsky.social Dr Wild • postdoc affiliate @ucdavis • behavioural ecology • env. change, animal cognition, social learning, personality, animal culture 🐬 🐦 🐿 • 🏳️🌈 ally • hobby photographer • she/her • https://sites.google.com/view/sonjawild
Thibaud Gruber @thibaudgruber.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Geneva. Primatologist. Comparative psychologist. Co-director Bugoma Primate Conservation Project.
Alice Bouchard @alicebouchard.bsky.social Behavioural Biologist | Social Relationships & Communication in Mammals | Data Science Enthusiast | Postdoc @UniBristol | Exploring how social bonds shape behaviour in dolphins & chimpanzees | Data wrangling, statistical analysis, storytelling
Raphaela Heesen @heesenr.bsky.social Comparative Behavioural Biologist @uni-konstanz.de | Comparative Joint Action Lab | communication, synchrony and emotions in humans & other primates | http://bit.ly/CJALab
Meg Crofoot @meg-crofoot.bsky.social
Christos C. Ioannou @ccioannou.bsky.social Professor Bristol uni Biological Sciences. Lots of #fishsci #behaviour #rstats #collectivebehaviour #predators. Grants Secretary for @asab.org
Maxime Derex @maximederex.bsky.social CNRS Researcher at IAST and Toulouse School of Economics
Working on cumulative culture, social learning, innovation
Alex Slavenko @alexsla.bsky.social Zoologist & ecologist
Obsessed with herps, birds, and PNG
Doing ecological modelling for a living and still shocked by that
Adriana Maldonado-Chaparro @adrimaldoc.bsky.social Behavioral ecologist
Nilo @nilomr.bsky.social Scientist at IMIB-CSIC, ex Senior Scientist at the RSPB & University of Oxford | Data visualization, computational science, ecology & anthropology | sedum.studio
The Bat Bot Lab🇺🇸 @thebatbotlab.bsky.social Bioinspired Science & Technology Center - Bat biosonar & flight from an engineering persperpective #bats #robots #bioinspiration #scicomm
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/
Davina Hill @davinahill.bsky.social Lecturer in Welfare Physiology @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk @glasgow.ac.uk. Climate change▪️Thermal biology▪️Biomarkers▪️Life history▪️Sociality |🐁🐄🦇🦔
@andydhigginson.bsky.social @andydhigginson.bsky.social
Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social Director of the Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University London @brunelcce.bsky.social
https://www.rebeccasear.org/
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
Chris Pulliam @chrispulliam.bsky.social I like cats. And treating human beings like human beings. And science. Also bowling, baseball, tennis, and biathlon, science-fiction. and word games. And a few people. Probably in that order.
LGBTQIA+ safe space.
Estoy aprendiendo español.
Ron Efrat @moveandconserve.bsky.social Conservation*Movement Ecology.
Postdoc, Max Planck Inst. of Animal Behavior.
Soaring, running, swimming, if it moves and can carry a GPS tag, I'm in.
Julie Teichroeb @teichroeb-lab.bsky.social Primate Behavioural Ecologist at the University of Toronto Scarborough; Evolution of social organization and decision making; easily amused and fascinated by things living and dead
Lars Chittka @larschittka.bsky.social Lars Chittka, Professor of Sensory and Behavioural Ecology and author of The Mind of a Bee
animal prattle @animal-prattle.bsky.social The latest n' greatest research about all things animal communication 🐔🐑🐁🐿🐳🦀🦚🕷🐝🗣🐦 @ me your favorite papers, new results, etc 💬
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/
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
Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social Professor, LSE. Philosophy of science, animal consciousness, animal ethics. Director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience.
Yinon Bar-On @yinonbaron.bsky.social PI @ Weizmann Institute of Science | Global Ecology | Carbon Cycle | https://www.weizmann.ac.il/EPS/bar-on/
Laura Kelley @lauraakelley.bsky.social Royal Society Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK. Interested in visual ecology, animal behaviour, illusions, and all things bowerbirdy www.laurakelleyresearch.wordpress.com
Ev Fedorenko @evfedorenko.bsky.social I study language using tools from cognitive science and neuroscience. I also like snuggles.
Rose Thorogood @informedbirds.bsky.social Behavioural ecologist, scientist, assoc/prof at University of Helsinki - how does ecology of information-use shape evolution?
raised in NZ, grew up in UK, now in Finland
Tal Linzen @tallinzen.bsky.social NYU professor, Google research scientist. Good at LaTeX.
Vanessa Wilson @vd0ubleu.bsky.social Researcher in comparative social cognition and individual differences. Lecturer in Psychology, University of Hull. Primarily but not exclusively primates.
Brynn Sherman @brynnsherman.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Ohio State studying how we remember what we learn + how we learn from our memories
www.momentslab.org
Marianne de Heer Kloots @mdhk.net Linguist in AI & CogSci 🧠👩💻🤖
PhD student @illc-uva.bsky.social
🌐 https://mdhk.net/
🐘 https://scholar.social/@mdhk
🐦 https://twitter.com/mariannedhk
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
LaurenGuillette.bsky.social @laurenguillette.bsky.social Animal Cognition Research Group leader, Associate Prof. @psychualberta.bsky.social, Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Ecology (she/her) ally 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @laurenguillette on X
Ellen Garland @ellengarland.bsky.social Royal Society University Research Fellow researching cetacean communication and culture @uniofstandrews.bsky.social and @seamammalresearch.bsky.social
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!
Christina Bergmann @chbergma.bsky.social Cognitive Science, #ManyBabies, Transparent Science, Networking, Communication, and a big helping from the Open Science Buffet
Cargo biker, Fairphoner, Parent
she/her
sie/ihr (Sg)
Amy Leedale @amyleedale.bsky.social Behavioural Ecologist, social evolution, reproductive strategies, bioacoustics. Zoology lecturer at Salford University. She/her.
Ari Strandburg-Peshkin @arispeshkin.bsky.social Research Group Leader at University of Konstanz & Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior studying communication and collective behavior in animal groups
www.cocomo.group
Tim Lamont @timlamont.bsky.social UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at Lancaster University
Researching restoration ecology and corporate sustainability with @lec-reefs.bsky.social and @pentlandcentre.bsky.social 🌍🪸🌱
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 🏳️🌈
Yitzchak Ben Mocha @benmocha.bsky.social Ethologist.
Postdoc at CASCB @cbehav.bsky.social.
Animal and human rights advocate.
Curator of the Cooperative Breeding Database: @co-breed.bsky.social
Stephen Ferrigno @sferrigno.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Psychology at UW-Madison. PI, Cognitive Origins Lab, investigating the evolutionary and developmental origins of thought. He/Him. cognitiveoriginslab.psych.wisc.edu
Emma Teeling @emmateeling.bsky.social Full Professor of Zoology @ucddublin | BatProtect (ERC Synergy Grant) Lead Researcher @batprotect.bsky.social @BatProtect | Bat1K Founding Director @bat1kgenomes
@angiesalles.bsky.social @angiesalles.bsky.social Bat Neuroethologist at University of Illinois Chicago 🦇
Silvan Spiess @babblingbirds.bsky.social PhD Student @UZH_ch in evolutionary biology, studying the variability of complex vocalisations in Chestnut-Crowned Babblers. Avian & non-avian dinosaur enthusiast.
Tom Dickins @pelagictom.bsky.social I am a behavioural scientist working on birds, humans and theory.
http://tomdickins.net/
Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social Researcher in child language development @MPI for Psycholinguistics & Radboud Uni. She/her. "All models are wrong but some are useful" (George Box 1978). https://www.mpi.nl/people/rowland-caroline
Matthew Silk @mattjsilk.bsky.social Research Fellow in the Institute of Ecology and Evolution at University of Edinburgh. Social networks, behaviour, disease, demography and some wildlife photos.
Annie Mason @annieemason.bsky.social Zooarchaeology
Palaeoanthropology
Osteoarchaeology
Biological anthropology
Domestication
Dogs (both personally and academically!)
If it's bones, then I dig it!
🐕🏺🦴🦷🐾
Nathaniel Daw @nathanieldaw.bsky.social Neuro prof at Princeton, social media cynic.
@edwardhurme.bsky.social @edwardhurme.bsky.social
AU Bioacoustics @bioacousticsau.bsky.social This lab is damn serious about understanding the ecophysiology of marine mammals 🐳🐬 🦭 and bats 🦇 🧛🏻♀️- mainly through sound 🔉energetics⚡️ and curiosity 🔍✨!
Lead by Prof Peter T Madsen 🥷 @AU.dk
Bat1K Genome Project @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social An international consortium dedicated to sequencing and analyzing the genomes of all ~1450 living bat species.
🦇 Join our membership at Bat1K.com
Nicolas Mathevon @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social Prof bioacoustics, University of Saint-Etienne, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Institut universitaire de France
Academia Europaea
Director ENES Bioacoustics Research Lab (http://eneslab.com)
Book @princetonupress.bsky.social: http://tinyurl.com/yuetutum