animal behaviour / ethology
Starter pack for animal behaviour researchers/ethologists. Please feel free to self-nominate and/or suggest others to be included (and if you would like to be removed just let me know!) A 2nd version of this pack can be found here - https://bsky.app/starter-pack/blahttodea.bsky.social/3lbc75xpq5p2w
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@blahttodea.bsky.social
@stotra.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @Macalester College, MN, USA | #AnimalBehavior & #Conservation Research | Mammals 🦁🐺🐘🦌🦫| #NewPI | #POCInSTEM | Sci Ed | Team @abcmicrogrants.bluesky.social | he/him Lab Website: stotrachakrabarti.com
@leanneproops.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology, University of Portsmouth, UK · comparative psychology · evolution · social cognition · thanatology · equid behaviour · animal welfare · working equids 🐎 · she / they 🏳️🌈
@xiscacassola.bsky.social
PhD in Animal Behaviour - Biodiversity Conservation - creator of Drops of Science - News from Natural Science @dropsofsciencenews.bsky.social - ITA ENG ESP. I post about random things from science, comics, music, tv show, politics...
@ctestard.bsky.social
Neuroethology and Ecology of social behavior in mammals. Special interest in how animals cope with extreme environmental challenges. PhD in Platt lab @Penn, now Junior Fellow @Harvard with Dulac lab
@cwmiller.bsky.social
Behavioural ecologist @ U Cambridge 🇬🇧 | Formerly at the University of Florida | PhD from the University of Montana 🇺🇸🏔️🚵♀️ Obsessed with Yellowstone National Park 🦬🫎🐻🌲 | she/her | www.millerlab.net
@junglesfury.bsky.social
Animal behaviorist, neuroscience research, former zookeeper, failed jedi, amateur camel trainer, mouse pimp. I spend a lot of time running mice through mazes. Current research is focused on improving welfare through enrichment. 🐪🦍🦒🐁🐾🧠
@oliehrmann.bsky.social
PhD, post doctoral researcher working on animal welfare, cognition and emotions in the context of human animal interactions. 🐎🦌🐘🦎 Uni of Turku, Finland oceane-liehrmann.webador.fr/cv
@unpopularscience.bsky.social
marine ecologist 🤿 investigative journalist 🎥 environmental activist 🐠🐟🐡 diver, musician, coder, engineer words in Science, Wired, The Intercept… Blue Marble lab at U Miami RSMAES 🌴 linktr.ee/fish_defender ⓥ
@svenjatidau.bsky.social
Lecturer in 🌊 #Wildlife #Ecology #marinebiology #marineecology 🦀🦪🐚 #rockyintertidal Bangor University | UK #globalchange #lightpollution #noisepollution #sensoryecology #animalbehaviour Views are my own
@dmennill.bsky.social
Biology Professor & Associate Dean @UWindsor. I study bioacoustics, behaviour, and birds. Husband & father. Proud Canadian 🇨🇦. I post about our team's research adventures. www.uwindsor.ca/dmennill
@frantsjensen.bsky.social
Senior Researcher @ Aarhus University, DK. Acoustic communication, acoustic AI, acoustic monitoring, acoustic individual ID, focus on cetaceans
@lisandrinamari.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher & MSCA Alumna at the University of Jyväskylä working on transgenerational effects of pollution in birds 🕊️🪺 behavior, cognition, ecophy, epigenetics. she/her
@sammatchette.bsky.social
The trumpetfish guy | PDRA with the #Marine #BehaviouralEcology Group, University of Cambridge | Enduring LUFC fan (he/him)
@animal-prattle.bsky.social
The latest n' greatest research about all things animal communication 🐔🐑🐁🐿🐳🦀🦚🕷🐝🗣🐦 @ me your favorite papers, new results, etc 💬
@jennaowens.bsky.social
🐒🌴🧬🧠 primatologist, PhD candidate, and monkey enrichment specialist utsa department of anthropology // southwest national primate research center all things primate behavior, conservation, welfare, and enrichment
@simongadbois.bsky.social
Ethologist. Canids, Anatids, Emydids. Wildlife Conservation Canines. Dalhousie University. https://www.simon.gadbois.org
@inesfuertbauer.bsky.social
Behavioural endocrinologist, Associate Professor http://ines.fuertbauer.com/
@jacanamama.bsky.social
Research on behavior, genomics, and evolution in birds. Often thinking about sex diversity and variation. Assistant Professor at Duke Biology
@kristinandrews.bsky.social
Philosopher and writer. How animal cognition research informs philosophy, and vice versa. Social norms, evolution of tech, ToM, personhood, consciousness, AI. Prof and York Research Chair in Animal Minds at YorkU in Toronto. www.kristinandrews.org 🧺 🦧
@alexophir.bsky.social
father of 3, husband of 1, mentor to some, student of most. works on mechanisms of social behavior and reproductive decision making. jack of some trades. he/him
@cmarler.bsky.social
My lab studies oxytocin and cooperation, hormonal and neurochemical effects on communication, social bonding, behavioral synchrony and division of labor, and we dabble in neuroplasticity and the immune system. Science is fun! Animal behavior is my passion.
@tlinksvayer.bsky.social
Evolution of social complexity & evolutionary genetics of social insects. Assoc Prof at Arizona State University
@mathildetissier.bsky.social
Scientist, passionate about life, wildlife & vitamin B3! | Conservation, biodiversity, nutrition, agroecology, behavior, health | Liber Ero (CA), CNRS researcher (FRA), QCBS & adjunct prof. UQÀM (QC) | She/her FR/EN | 🐿️🍁🐝🌻🌾 https://www.sppb-sffb.net/
@jon-aguinaga.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Laskowski lab at UC Davis || collective behavior, automated tracking, animal personality || UCSC & WSU alumnus || professional wildlife/nature photographer
@coatiben.bsky.social
Behavioral ecologist, all things coati, chital deer, seed dispersal, camera traps, movement ecology, etc....
@bmioduszewska.bsky.social
Animal cognition researcher | Deputy head @ Goffin Lab Tanimbar | Research assistant @ VetmeduniVienna | PhD candidate @ MPI for Biological Intelligence
@mohara.bsky.social
@neoprego.org
Neotropical Primates Research Group (NeoPReGo) is a NGO founded by primatologists to support long-term research and education outreach on Neotropical Primates🐒
@henriquerufo.bsky.social
Biólogo e Primatólogo 🐵🐒 Pesquisando macacos-prego no Parque Nacional Serra da Capivara 🏜 Membro da Neoprego Doutorando USP
@tfalotico.bsky.social
Brazilian primatologist🐒, beer lover🍺, and amateur photographer📸. Researcher and cofounder at @Neoprego.org. National Geographic Explorer 🌎💛.
@susanamonso.com
She/her. Associate professor of philosophy at UNED, Madrid. Interested in all things animal. Author of PLAYING POSSUM: HOW ANIMALS UNDERSTAND DEATH. susanamonso.com [Profile pic: © Gianfranco Tripodo]
@richardmoore.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the EPP BA/BSc at the University of Warwick. My UKRI-funded FLF Communicative Mind project researches human and non-human great ape communication and cognition, and the evolution of language. 🇪🇺 he/him
@btuliozi.bsky.social
Evolutionary Biologist; quantitative genetics of social behaviour scientist; PostDoc at Alberts Lab, Duke University; birder. He/him. https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=7dx86RwAAAAJ&hl=en
@benjulab.bsky.social
brainwide circuits, animal communication, danionella, microscopy https://jlab.berlin
@primbehavecol.bsky.social
At the Ostner-Schülke Lab at University of Göttingen and German Primate Center we focus on primate behavioral ecology & endocrinology and run the Phu Khieo Assamese Macaque Project in Thailand
@eithnekavanagh.bsky.social
Senior lecturer and research fellow at NTU Psychology. Research on social and communicative behaviour in humans and other primates
@drracheldale.bsky.social
Senior scientist with 2 science hats: Mental health (humans) & animal behaviour (canids/elephants). Co-host @wildbehaviorpod.bsky.social Mountain addict. Scot in Austria. 🏳️🌈
@nikohensley.bsky.social
🧠🦗 base pairs, brains, behavior, biodiversity💡🦐 Herchel-Smith Fellow @ Cambridge in Zoology 🏳️🌈 he/him 🇵🇭 | no justice, no peace
@nigeleraine.bsky.social
Rebanks Family Chair in Pollinator Conservation, Professor at the University of Guelph. 🐝 Studies wild #pollinator #behaviour, #ecology & #conservation. 🦋 🇨🇦🇬🇧 He/him/his https://1in3mouthfuls.org
@drmathildetahar.bsky.social
Leverhulme Research fellow in Philosophy of Biology at UCL working on animal inventions. Animal behaviour, evolutionary theory, evolutionary ecology. Also: I am a Bergson lover, dog lover, cat lover, and running addict. https://www.drmathildetahar.com
@asimpleprimate.bsky.social
MSc in Comparative Psychology🐒 University of St Andrews | Comparative cognition, Primatology, Cultural Evolution, Tool Behaviour and Behavioural Flexibility
@jay-gallagher.bsky.social
Postdoc at UC Davis • Evolutionary biologist and behavioral ecologist Rapid evolution • Sexual selection • Bioacoustics • Behavioral individuality 🦗🐟 Composer • Cellist • Game designer • Tennis player jameshgallagher.weebly.com
@geoffreymesbahi.bsky.social
PhD - Agroecology and animal husbandry. Grasslands, agroforestry, ruminant nutrition and animal behaviour. FiBL, Switzerland 🇨🇭 He/Him
@biobiiana.bsky.social
Asst. Prof at KLIVV–VetmeduniVienna 🇦🇹 studying the impact of global change on amphibians | AE @evoecology | Mum of Leah | #CienciaCriolla 🇨🇴 | #LatinaInSTEM | 🇨🇴➡️🇬🇧➡️🇬🇫➡️🇦🇺➡️🇫🇮➡️🇦🇹 bibianarojas.co
@christophvoelter.bsky.social
Comparative & Developmental Psychologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology 🦍 and the Messerli Research Institute 🐕
@elisafelsche.bsky.social
Postdoc at MPI EVA studying cognition in human children and other primates 🐒
@shona-d.bsky.social
Lecturer in Psychology | Cooperation, coordination and communication in humans and other primates | ManyPrimates https://shonaduguid.weebly.com/
@stecot.bsky.social
Primatologist, conservationist, evolutionary anthropologist at UArizona. I study the hormones, behavior, and ecology of wild primates. Currently researching cooperative infant care and maternal-child health in lemurs in Madagascar & people in Tucson, AZ.
@dremalt.bsky.social
Lecturer in Psychology @ Newcastle University. Studying the evolution of hierarchies and hierarchical thinking, mostly in primates. Open science, BTS, ManyPrimates/ManyManys. Living organism. Psoriatic arthritic. Age dyschronic. Writer. Buddhist.
@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/)
@drchrisyoung.bsky.social
Senior lecturer in psychology at Nottingham Trent University, research focus on primate social behaviour, ecology and endocrinology
@adriatica.bsky.social
I study #socialfluids. Ponderer of the #behavior of myself & other organisms. #SocialInsects / #DistributedMetabolism / #CollectiveBehavior / #CompBio Assoc. Prof @ University of Cambridge; previously Fribourg, Weizmann, Lausanne, Rockefeller, UCSB.
@lenagrinsted.bsky.social
Evolutionary biologist; social spiders; animal behaviour. Equity, diversity and inclusion in science. Senior Lecturer in Zoology @ University of Portsmouth, UK
@neuroetho.bsky.social
Uruguayo 🇺🇾 Incoming Asst. Prof. UPenn. HSFP fellow at Harvard. PhD in HU Berlin. Systems Neuro, Neuroethologist of fun rodents, Natural Neuro! Painter, Improviser, Artist.
@bugbaer.bsky.social
Ecological Genetics Research Asst Prof in the First-year Research Immersion (FRI) Program at Binghamton University. Temperate & tropical #insects 🐛🐜🦗 #plants 🌱🌴🌳#ClimateChange | she/her
@alltheperkes.bsky.social
Computational ethologist (I like animals and coding). Ask me about vision based animal tracking. Other topics may include rock climbing, DnD, and parenting. PhD in cowbird courtship. Currently tracking clonal guppies in the Laskowski Lab at UC Davis.
@eelkesnoeren.bsky.social
Behavioral neuroscientist with a research focus on the neural regulation of natural rewarding behaviors. Living above the polar circle. Full professor, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
@arachnonaut.bsky.social
Invasion Biology, Arachnology, Ethology, Agroecology | Postdoc @ Clemson | board game enthusiast and reviewer
@juncowren.bsky.social
Behavior, Evolution, Endocrinology, and Birds. Associate Professor at OWU, a PUI/SLAC. Research with undergraduates!
@jespinosa.bsky.social
Comparative psychology & biology | #NSF postdoc using neuroimaging and genetics to study individual differences in canine affect/behavior/cognition @ Harvard | #ManyDogs Founder & Co-Director | My job is just dog 🐶 | she/ella #LatinaInSTEM
@ctennie.bsky.social
Group Leader, Uni Tübingen. Comparing humans, hominins, and apes & the study of the evolution of human cultural evolution. -> How did we get from ape-like hominin cultures to open-ended cultural evolution? https://sites.google.com/view/claudiotennie
@elizabethhobson.bsky.social
Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati, working on animal sociality, cognition, networks, conflict, & hierarchies. (she/her)
@cassandraraby.com
Conservation biologist: animal behaviour and health. Studies 🐒 🦔 🐇 🙋 | Stats, GIS, Fieldwork Teaching Fellow, University of Leeds. FHEA. Outdoor adventures and allotment grower she/her (Cass/Cassie)
@blaircostelloe.bsky.social
Behavioral ecologist using drones to study collective behavior of African ungulates. Leader of HerdHover project and co-PI of WildDrone project. Project Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior, currently on TT job market. She/her.
@rachkendal.bsky.social
Interested in cultural evolution, evolutionary anthropology, psychology, primatology, equitable academia, cats, dogs, wild swimming and camping. Prof at Durham Uni, UK (she/her)
@cmbettridge.bsky.social
Zoology Lecturer. Behavioural Ecology, primates, sociality, dogs, wildlife, science, conservation, nature.
@twigtechnology.bsky.social
Australian archaeologist, PhD, obsessed with tool-using animals. Steward at Skara Brae, Orkney. I write about creative critters at http://twig.technology 🐒🦦🐙🐦⬛🐝🕷️🦧🐴🐠🪲🦜🐿️🐋🦀
@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
@neiltsutsui.bsky.social
#RESIST Professor-UC Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy, & Management Director-UCB Central Sierra Field Stations President-El Cerrito Democratic Club Elected ADEM delegate to CA Dem Party Insect behavior & genetics. Wildland protection and management.
@lrendell.bsky.social
Reader in Biology @_SMRU_ @SchoolofBiology @univofstandrews. Ocean Yachtmaster for hire! Marine conservation, cetacean & fish behaviour, cultural evolution. He/him. Thalassophile. Sailor. #Fife https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/biology/people/ler4
@beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social
Mics. Cameras. Echolocation! Studying active sensing in collectives: bat echolocation in groups, Ro-BATs, and writing some niche Python packages. Group leader at CASCB, Uni Konstanz. Check out more at thejasvibr.github.io and activesensingcollectives.com
@ivojacobs.bsky.social
Cognitive zoologist investigating the evolution of animal cognition, particularly in response to fire (pyrocognition). Amateur wildlife photographer based in southern Sweden. More interested in rare behaviours than rare species.
@katelaskowski.bsky.social
Asst Prof UC Davis. Developmental drivers of individuality in the Amazon molly. Nature through nurture and a lot of noise. Really into random effects. Hard no to autocrats
@sonjawild.bsky.social
Dr Wild • postdoc @ucdavis • behavioural ecology • env. change, animal cognition, social learning, personality, animal culture 🐬 🐦 🐿 • 🏳️🌈 ally • hobby photographer • she/her • https://sites.google.com/view/sonjawild
@kaylakolff.bsky.social
UNEP - Great Ape Survival Partnership & PhD candidate at Osnabrück University | Communicative interactions of wild chimpanzees (Ngogo) in 🇺🇬. (she/her) https://www.kaylakolff.com/
@annemariemarel.bsky.social
Behavioural ecologist | social evolution | small mammals and birds | FONDECYT 2022 postdoctoral fellow in Chile
@jolindevlaeyen.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at Osnabrueck University, studying communication skills (turn-taking) in wild bonobos in Kokolopori, DRC, and wild dolphins around the Cedar Keys, Florida. She/her.
@manuelsapage.bsky.social
Behavioural Ecologist from the University of Lisbon. Did my PhD in Mate-Choice Copying. Currently looking for Postdoc Opportunities.
@arianeveit.bsky.social
Studies social cognition and behaviour in pigs 🐽 Creating further education materials for school teachers #aliceproject
@khblakey.bsky.social
Postdoc at University of Toronto • Studying cognitive development, belief revision, information seeking & social learning • she/her
@mikemwebster.bsky.social
Biologist at the University of St Andrews, interested in animal behaviour. Will probably mostly post on our research group account: @animalsdoingstuff.bsky.social so maybe give that a follow.
@j-dunning.net
I am an ornithologist, broadly interested in the social behaviour of birds. Research - https://www.j-dunning.net
@askaboutanimals.bsky.social
Zoologist | (he/him) | Asst. Prof. @ Fort Lewis College #PUI #newPI | Animal Behavior/Evolution | www.socialethology.org | not my employer's posts | Socials: Ask About Animals® | Almae Matres: HCHS, Hampshire College, GC CUNY www.afulmer.com
@birgitszabo.bsky.social
Researcher @ Gent University studying behaviour, cognition & welfare in reptiles (feathery & scaly). Passions: science, animals, cooking & eating, gaming, sleeping & weekends off. They/them
@jtroscianko.bsky.social
Visual ecologist at Exeter University. I study how visual information affects the ecology, behaviour, survival and conservation of many different animals. Areas of interest include camouflage, signalling, visual modelling and artificial light at night
@ambresalis.bsky.social
Https://ambresalis.wordpress.com Research Fellow at Imperial College, London. Working on animal linguistics and behavioural ecology, mostly on house sparrows' calls 🔊
@sarievanbelle.bsky.social
Behavioral ecologist; Field biologist; Primate Sociality; Intergroup Dynamics; Collective Action; Group Coordination; Vocal Communication; Black Howler Monkeys
@monilaschober.bsky.social
from Vienna, Austria; MSc in Human-Animal Interactions; BSc in Biology (Zoology); biology, welfare, behaviour, cognition, academia; I share job offers & useful stuff
@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
@dranipermana.bsky.social
Post doc primatologist interested in cognition and culture. Work on vocalisations and nest building in 🦧. Uni Warwick and MPI
@milliejohnston.bsky.social
Postdoc researching avian cognition 🦜 🇳🇿 ~ kea, crows, jackdaws, pigeons ~ ~ working memory, probabilistic reasoning, timing behaviour ~
@nicolakoyama.bsky.social
Biologist (she/her). Reader in Primate Behaviour at LJMU. Equity in science.
@emmasmcewen.bsky.social
Post-doc @uniofstandrews.bsky.social studying primate cognition | Virtual environments, metacognition, cognitive control, cooperation | @cardiffuni grad | She/her 🏴🇫🇮🌈
@carodittrich.bsky.social
Behavioural and evolutionary ecologist with a penchant for frogs 🐸 and a love of beer 🍺 | HERper | Brewer | interested in Ethnoherpetology, Art & Music (she/her) https://sites.google.com/view/carolindittrich/
@rosvall-lab.bsky.social
Assoc Prof of Biology. Indiana U. Interested in: mechanisms of behavior + how they evolve. she/her. https://rosvall.lab.indiana.edu/
@barneyluttbeg.bsky.social
behavioral ecologist, theoretical ecologist, interested in predator-prey dynamics and optimal decision-making, Professor at Oklahoma State, music lover, Red Sox fan
@benmocha.bsky.social
Behavioural ecologist. Associate editor at #ProcB. Animal and human rights advocate. Curator of the Cooperative Breeding Database: @co-breed.bsky.social
@alexvgeorgiev.bsky.social
Primatologist at Bangor University, UK. Studying Zanzibar red colobus https://www.zanzibarredcolobusproject.org