IASToulouse
Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse 🇫🇷
Interdisciplinary research hub aiming to understand fundamental determinants of human behaviour. #IASToulouse @tse-fr.eu
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@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
@alexjabbour.bsky.social
Assistant prof (part-time) & Max Weber Fellow at the EUI • Incoming Assistant prof at University of Warwick • Political economy, Public Opinion, Political Behaviour, Housing • #TeamOM • http://alexandrajabbour.github.io
@dermotlynott.bsky.social
CogSci, open research, PsyArXiv, music, terrible puns. Maynooth University, Ireland. https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/dermot-lynott
@jmeunierearwig.bsky.social
Behavioural ecologist studying earwigs (insects), parental care, social evolution, social immunity, pesticides, global warming... Defender of open science. CNRS Researcher at univ Tours (FR) - IRBI https://joelmeunier.wixsite.com/researchpage
@joenoonan.se
PhD student at the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University. Interested in political attitudes and behaviors. I enjoy working with #rstats. website: https://joenoonan.se/
@jbaptistandre.bsky.social
Evolutionary biologist studying human behavior and societies through adaptationist reasoning. CNRS researcher @ Ecole Normale Supérieure-PSL & Institut Jean Nicod.
@alexisjbreen.bsky.social
Senior postdoc at MPI-EVA | #CrowCoG co-leader | http://www.alexisbreen.com/ | 🇩🇪 🇳🇨
@ashartnett.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at USC POIR (On Leave - Visiting Scholar @ LSE Gov't, based in Kraków, Poland). Authoritarianism past and present, redistribution & inequality, land, elites. Mostly MENA. www.allisonhartnett.io
@drelenamiu.bsky.social
Cultural evolution, cultural adaptation, innovation Postdoc at Aarhus University with @felixthehauskat.bsky.social
@jliep.bsky.social
Math models to understand societies and social psychology. https://jliep.github.io/
@luisapallares.bsky.social
Evolutionary biologist. Max Planck Research Group Leader at MPI Biology Tübingen & Friedrich Miescher Laboratory. #CienciaCriolla pallareslab.org
@mikedenly.com
Assistant Professor at Texas A&M, conducting research on external validity and the political economy of development (corruption, foreign aid & natural resources) www.mikedenly.com
@ma-ramirez.bsky.social
Doctoral Researcher @mpi-evolbio @mpi-mis Evolutionary game theory 🎲 | Dynamical systems ✳️ |Agent-based modelling 👥 Dancing with numbers 〰️🌱
@isernmas.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Moral Philosophy at @uib.cat . Moral psychology (moral emotions, moral motivation) and applied ethics (mental health, ethics of emotion). Podcasts: https://beacons.ai/podcast_episodis
@paulajasheppard.bsky.social
Evolutionary Anthropologist and Behavioural Ecologist. Interested in people's decisions around having babies. I am not Alice Sweet Alice.
@nelsonamayad.bsky.social
@jordanloper.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Economics at Université Clermont Auvergne, @cerdi.bsky.social #FirstGen Political Economy, Development Economics, Social Media, Institutions, Cultural Economics, Climate Change https://sites.google.com/view/jordanloper/home
@augmilani.bsky.social
Wannabe applied microeconomist. Incoming (September '25) PhD track student at @tse-fr.eu. RA Bicocca and Bocconi. MsC/BA Unimi. Economic history, development economics, political economy and experimental economics.
@sarsf.bsky.social
The School for Advanced Research. Create. Connect. Understand. SAR: The only residential research institution supporting scholars & artists at the intersection of humanities, social sciences, & Native arts. Anthropology I Archaeology I Humanities I Art
@fhillemann.bsky.social
. behavioural ecologist . Foraging Ecology And Social Ties (FEASTs) . von Humboldt postdoc fellow @ Durham . SORTEE co-chair DEI committee . Preprint Editor ProcB . General Editor Hunter Gatherer Research 🌱♻️🌈🧠🌶️ ✊ally to 🏳️⚧️ and BLM fhillemann.github.io
@helenamiton.bsky.social
Cultural evolution - Cognitive Science - Cognitive Anthropology. Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford GSB. Formerly postdoc fellow at the Santa Fe Institute.
@amandinevisine.bsky.social
BaYaka Children & Foraging PhD student @durhampsych.bsky.social & @durhamanthropology.bsky.social Funded by @ninedtp.bsky.social (She/Her)
@dconroybeam.bsky.social
Associate professor at UCSB. Evolutionary and computational perspectives on human mating. Occasional nature photos. He/him. https://www.danconroybeam.com/
@nwerquin.bsky.social
Senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Taxation theory, fiscal policy, social insurance, inequality, poverty, sourdough baking. Views are my own. www.nwerquin.com 🇫🇷🇺🇸
@ceciliapad.bsky.social
Research Fellow @eegcam.bsky.social & Emmanuel College, Cambridge University 🍃| Public Scholars Fellow at Sapiens | Book Review Editor @ishe-society.bsky.social 📚| Editor, Hunter Gatherer Research | 👩🏽💻 https://ceciliapad.github.io/web/
@juliettes.bsky.social
PhD researcher at the EUI working on networks, protests and migration. https://www.juliettesaetre.com/ 🌞
@diogolpires.bsky.social
Social behaviour / network dynamics / evolutionary game theory Postdoc researcher at Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science Previously MSCA PhD @citystgeorges.bsky.social He/him 🏳️🌈 diogolpires.github.io
@chilbe.bsky.social
Professor at @ituaustria.bsky.social, interested in math, game theory, and cooperation http://web.evolbio.mpg.de/social-behaviour/
@drsarahmyers.bsky.social
Evolutionary anthropologist, researcher with BirthRites at MPI-EVA Leipzig. Reproduction, postnatal depression, infant feeding, cooperative childrearing, FGMC.
@qinyuxiao.bsky.social
PhD candidate in behavioural science and economic psychology at the University of Vienna. I study human cooperation, conflict, and social institutions. https://qinyuxiao.github.io https://social-econ-psych.univie.ac.at/team/qinyu-xiao
@saeinlee.bsky.social
Primatologist l Postdoc @UZH : curiosity, prosociality, social norm, social learning l Gibbon 🧑💻l DISI 2022 fellow l NGS explorer l FAMELAB
@ketikagarg.bsky.social
Postdoc @ Caltech. Makes games and models and kadak chai ☕. Interested in individual decisions ↔️ Group behavior. Enjoys books 📚 and podcasts 🎧on science & history. Spends too much time in etymology rabbit holes. Also goes by Ket. ketikagarg.com 🇮🇳
@cityeconomics.bsky.social
Economics Department at City St George’s, University of London: research, events, and insights from our academic community. https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/schools/policy-global-affairs/economics#accordion576967-header576972
@aseyq.bsky.social
My research is on cooperation, commons, social learning, and innovation. I use experiments and simulations. www.saral.it
@msaleh-econhistory.bsky.social
Professor of Economic History at London School of Economics. Works on Economic History of Identity and Historical Political Economy. Website: https://www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-History/People/Faculty-and-teachers/Dr-Mohamed-Saleh
@adamramey.bsky.social
Political science prof @nyuabudhabi, wannabe data scientist, cigar lover, globetrotter, & American politics junkie. RT != Endorsement.
@nicholaraihani.bsky.social
Professor of Evolution & Behaviour. @ucl @aucklanduni Likes cycling. 1st book: THE SOCIAL INSTINCT. 2nd book THE THINKING ANIMAL in progress ✍🏼
@zoepurcell.bsky.social
Postdoc working on human reasoning and the human-AI interaction at LaPsyDÉ, l'Université Paris-Cité 🇦🇺🏳️🌈 https://zoepurcell.org/
@arnaudphilippe.bsky.social
Economist, studying crime and gender, associate prof at the University of Bristol. French. Author of "La fabrique des jugements". https://sites.google.com/site/arnaudphilippe11/
@lmnovaes.bsky.social
Associate professor, Insper. Political economy, comparative politics. UC Berkeley grad. lucasmnovaes.com
@fearbrain.bsky.social
Professor at Caltech Director: Caltech Brain Imaging Center Institute of Advanced Studies Toulouse. (sabbatical 24-25). Www.deanmobbslab.com Dad of amazing daughter, Liverpool Fc, Retro synthwave(in order).
@gfgm.bsky.social
Economic historian at King's College London. Stock exchanges. 19th century. Networks. Bayes.
@ludovicmaisonneuve.bsky.social
Post doc at UNIL 🇨🇭 | Evolution of learning behaviour | Gene-culture coevolution | Theory https://ludovic-maisonneuve.github.io/
@l-sage.bsky.social
Sociologist interested in economic inequality, social networks, analytical sociology. Postdoc at the Laboratory of Agent-Based Social Simulations. Former Max Weber Fellow at @eui-eu.bsky.social. personal website: https://lsage.github.io
@hlarreguy.bsky.social
Working on misinformation, political economy, and development. @ITAM_mx @JPAL and often revisiting @IASToulouse and TSE. Formerly at @Harvard. @MITEcon PhD.