Thom Scott-Phillips
Language, Psychology, Culture, Philosophy, Society, Evolution • When not doing science I dance the lindy hop
https://www.thomscottphillips.com/
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Language Evolution
A starter pack for researchers investigating the origins and evolution of language. 'Evolution' here means both biological origins in our species, and cultural emergence.
@newyorker.com
Unparalleled reporting and commentary on politics and culture, plus humor and cartoons, fiction and poetry. Get our Daily newsletter: http://nyer.cm/gtI6pVM Follow The New Yorker’s writers and contributors: https://go.bsky.app/Gh5bFwS
@emilyherring.bsky.social
Writer My biography of Henri Bergson – Herald of a Restless World – is out now! "The most intellectually stimulating book I read this year.” John Banville Bylines Aeon, The TLS, The New European She/Her https://linktr.ee/eherring
@bpomie.bsky.social
Cognitive neuroscientist fascinated by human development. Interested in learning, creativity, compositionality, abstract knowledge. Assistant professor, Centre for Developmental Science, Centre for Human Brain Health, University of Birmingham.
@modinmetro.bsky.social
Art Deco, Modernism and Brutalism in London's suburbs and beyond. https://www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk
@osventuresllc.bsky.social
Empowering & inspiring creators to bring their ideas to life. We're passionate about supporting the next generation of innovators through strategic investments.
@ilarimakela.bsky.social
What kind of animals are we? I search for answers with leading anthropologists, philosophers, social scientists and more. Posting as Ilari Mäkelä, host of On Humans. https://onhumans.substack.com/about
@ariedamuco.bsky.social
Economist @CEU. PhD from SSE/Stockholm Graduate Program +CEMFI. Posts related to Econ & Science, NLP, ML, Code, (Mental) Health, etc. Vienna based, but citizen of the 🌍. I also write on Medium http://medium.com/@arieda.muco
@nigelgoldenfeld.bsky.social
Chancellor's Distinguished Professor of Physics, UCSD. Interested in everything. Theoretical physicist researching condensed & living matter, fluid mechanics, statistical mechanics. Bad at staying in my lane. https://guava.physics.ucsd.edu/~nigel/
@kevinzollman.com
Philosophy and Game Theory at Carnegie Mellon 🦚 Research the interface between philosophy, economics, and biology 💱 www.kevinzollman.com
@psmaldino.bsky.social
Paradigmatically promiscuous scientist. Modeler of cultural evolution and related topics. Professor at UC Merced and the Santa Fe Institute. Web: https://smaldino.com/wp/
@neurograce.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Psychology & Data Science @ NYU | Working on brains & climate (separately) | Author of "Models of the Mind: How physics, engineering, and mathematics have shaped our understanding of the brain" http://tinyurl.com/h9dn4bw7
@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.
@melaniemitchell.bsky.social
Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems. Website: https://melaniemitchell.me Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
@glexareen.bsky.social
Associate Professor (Law), CUHK (Hong Kong); Academic Associate, 23ES Chambers (UK); Trustee, SLSA (international law, philosophy, culture, climate change & sea-level rise). Book 1: https://tinyurl.com/bdfa86ve Book 2: https://tinyurl.com/yc4nmrnm
@mrxdentith.com
Philosopher at BNU-ZH who works on conspiracy theories, fake news and other "weird" beliefs. Pronouns: they/them Website: https://www.mrxdentith.com Podcast: https://zencastr.com/The-Podcaster-s-Guide-to-the-Conspiracy
@fedeadolfi.bsky.social
Computation & Complexity | AI Interpretability | Meta-theory | Computational Cognitive Science https://fedeadolfi.github.io
@jfcudennec.bsky.social
PhD. Old mollusks lover : Sclerochronology and isotopes in archaeological or paleontological context. Also nature photographer: https://bsky.app/profile/jfcphotos.bsky.social
@urihertz.bsky.social
PI at the cog-sci dept at the university of Haifa. Social-cognitive-computational psychology, and sometimes neuroscience. www.socialdecisionlab.net
@mameister4.bsky.social
Neuroscientist. Long-form opinions at https://markusmeister.com.
@jieyusz.bsky.social
jieyusz.github.io; Twitter was @Jieyusz Caltech Phd candidate in Neurobiology, Meister Lab - 23-25 President of NeuroTechers - Alumnae from SJTU, Cornell and Cambridge Uni - Avid birder, wildlife photographer, hiker...
@carlbergstrom.com
UW biology prof. 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 I don't like fascists. he/him
@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 on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
@tonyzador.bsky.social
Neuroscientist at CSHL. Interests: neuroAI, molecular connectomics, & cortical circuits. Co-founder of Cosyne and NAISys meetings.
@odedrechavi.bsky.social
Epigenetic Inheritance, Neuroscience & anything biology-related https://www.odedrechavilab.com/ TED: https://shorturl.at/myFTY Huberman Lab Podcast: https://youtu.be/CDUetQMKM6g
@rmcelreath.bsky.social
Anthropologist - Bayesian modeling - organic modem converting poetry into code - cat and cooking content too - Director @ MPI for evolutionary anthropology https://www.eva.mpg.de/ecology/staff/richard-mcelreath/
@kjhealy.co
Social science and other distractions. Old posts get deleted pretty quick. https://kieranhealy.org / https://theordinalsociety.com
@dacemoglumit.bsky.social
Institute Professor, MIT Economics. Co-Director of @mitshapingwork.bsky.social. Author of Why Nations Fail, The Narrow Corridor, and Power & Progress.
@celiaheyes.bsky.social
Theoretical psychologist studying the evolution of human cognition. All Souls College, University of Oxford https://users.ox.ac.uk/~ascch/
@arielrubinstein.bsky.social
School of Economics, Tel Aviv University Department of Economics, New York University https://arielrubinstein.org/
@delong.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.
@zephoria.bsky.social
STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society. Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society Microsoft Research -> Cornell (2025) https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
@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
@davidpoeppel.bsky.social
@wiringthebrain.bsky.social
Neurogeneticist interested in the relations between genes, brains, and minds. Author of INNATE (2018) and FREE AGENTS (2023)
@seanmcarroll.bsky.social
#Physics, #philosophy, #complexity. Johns Hopkins & @sfiscience.bsky.social. Host, #MindscapePodcast. Married to @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social. Latest: Quanta & Fields, book 2 of The Biggest Ideas in the Universe. https://preposterousuniverse.com/ He/him.
@drsurekhadavies.bsky.social
Historian of science, art, & ideas. Curious about how science & society shape each other? Preorder HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY now: https://www.surekhadavies.org/humans-a-monstrous-history https://buttondown.com/surekhadavies?tag=bluesky
@metaphysiology.bsky.social
Lecturer/researcher in philosophy & neuroscience Éireannach in France Education, evolution, embodied mind/metaphysiology, deliberation, myside bias, representation, empirical reasoning, perspectivism, pragmatism Universités de Bordeaux & Bdx-Montaigne
@dorsaamir.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Psychology at Duke University studying kids & culture. Director of the Mind & Culture Lab. Iranian-American. Mom. Some people just want to watch the world learn. dorsaamir.com | mindandculturelab.com
@neuroai.bsky.social
Principal Researcher @ Microsoft Research. Cognitive computational neuroscience & AI. Writer. Nature wanderer. www.momen-nejad.org
@saraimari.bsky.social
Physicist interested in life and it’s origin. Professor at Arizona State University; External Faculty at Santa Fe Institute
@cognitations.bsky.social
Explore the mind's quirks through cognitive science on the cognitations podcast. Recorded @ Cambridge, ENS-PSL & Uni Grenoble Alpes. Listen now: tinyurl.com/4xcczc4n
@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
@olafborghi.com
Researching the political mind and how political beliefs develop 🧠 Doctoral candidate in the MSCA Network ippad.eu - @rhulpsychology.bsky.social 👥 Previously research assistant @univie.ac.at 🐕
@tysoegardens.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Nara Women’s University, Japan. PhD in linguistics, specialised in cognitive pragmatics 言語学 認知語用論・関連性理論 オノマトペ テロップ 感情表現 院生募集中！！ Osaka-Manchester-Dublin-Nara
@roope.bsky.social
Forager of information and mushrooms • Cognitive science, cultural evolution, cognitive anthropology • https://roopekaaronen.net
@socialitylab.bsky.social
We're the HSL, a lab of integrative scientific anthropologists passionate about basic plus applied work. We span Penn State and Washington State 🐾 and work primarily in the US 🌎 and East and Southern Africa 🌍 www.socialitylab.org
@cadlin.bsky.social
A #DiamondOA journal sponsored by the Brazilian Linguistics Association (Abralin), promoting responsible research practices, collaboration, diversity, inclusion, and openness in academia. 🌐 cadernos.abralin.org 🌐 linktr.ee/cadlin
@adamclery.bsky.social
Creative Director at The Independent | ACFC on YouTube | 87 Minutes on Substack | North London via North Shields