Social Evolution Theory
A collection of the social evolution theorists kicking around this place.
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@dbkrupp.bsky.social
@kztwyman.bsky.social
PhD student at the University of St Andrews with Prof. Andy Gardner Evolution, theory, social behaviour, antiracism, trail running, climbing She/her
@mauriciogforero.bsky.social
Mathematical evolutionary biologist based in St Andrews, UK. Interested in mathematical evolutionary theory, evo-devo, brain evolution, eusociality, and more. https://mauriciogforero.github.io
@amrotella.bsky.social
👩🏻🔬 Researcher - Science of social incentives🧑🤝🧑👀 🔭 Cooperation & Competition; Inequality; Morality; Cultural Change 🍃 Evolutionary & ecological approaches 🎨 (Very) occasional fine artist 🕸️ amandarotella.ca
@eithnekavanagh.bsky.social
Senior lecturer and research fellow at NTU Psychology. Research on social and communicative behaviour in humans and other primates
@sramellini.bsky.social
PhD student at ANU (Ecology and Evolution) studying social behaviour of superb fairy-wrens MSc in Biogeosciences, BSc in Natural Sciences @LaStatale, Milano #birds #animalbehaviour #sociality https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=jgsCs8kAAAAJ&hl=it
@evodynamics.bsky.social
Mathematical biologist studying evolution. Associate professor of Mathematics at Emmanuel College, MA, USA. Queer, nonbinary (they/them). For social and ecological justice. Jewish as in Free Palestine. This is my account for science and politics.
@willgervais.com
psych prof & author | culture & evolution | atheists | methodological pluralism FTW | comic & horror nerd | he/him Disbelief: The Origins of Atheism in a Religious Species https://www.amazon.com/Disbelief-Origins-Atheism-Religious-Species/dp/1633889246/
@mgurven.bsky.social
Professor of Anthropology @ UC Santa Barbara. Aging, life history and sociality! Co-Director of Tsimane Health & Life History Project. Website: gurven.anth.ucsb.edu
@remylevin.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Economics @UConn. I Study the Co-Evolution of Risk & Utility. Recovering Thru-Hiker. https://sites.google.com/view/remy-levin
@lionelpage.bsky.social
Director of UQ Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences. Editor of the Journal of the Economic Science Association. Book: ‘Optimally Irrational’, Substack: https://www.optimallyirrational.com/
@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
@rebeccakoomen.bsky.social
Studying origins of cooperation for sustainability. Developmental, comparative, cross-cultural psychologist. UM6P School of Collective Intelligence she / her
@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
@acerbialberto.com
I am an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento (Italy): cognitive anthropology / cultural evolution / digital media / cultural analytics More info in the pinned post.
@chilbe.bsky.social
Professor at @ituaustria.bsky.social, interested in math, game theory, and cooperation http://web.evolbio.mpg.de/social-behaviour/
@nadiah.bsky.social
modeller of ecology, evolution, and cooperation | she/her | 🤘 | 🐘 fediscience.org/@nadiah | nadiah.org
@twaring.bsky.social
I study the evolution of human culture with a focus on environmental behaviors and institutions and an eye toward helping these become more sustainable on a single, limited planet. https://timwaring.info/
@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.
@sobchuk.bsky.social
I use big data to research the cultural evolution of arts @ Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology More: https://www.sobch.uk/
@babeheim.bsky.social
cultural evolution, behavioral ecology, math models, data provenance, MOSAIC group leader @ Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology + faculty at the Leipzig School of Human Origins https://babeheim.com/
@evolletters.bsky.social
OA journal publishing the best work in evolutionary biology. Jointly owned by ESEB & SSE, published by Oxford University Press. Journal website: https://academic.oup.com/evlett Blog website: https://evolutionletters.net/ Mastodon: @EvolLetters@ecoevo.so
@journal-evo.bsky.social
Evolution publishes articles in evolutionary biology focused on evolutionary phenomena and processes at all levels of biological organization. Evolution is owned by the Society for the Study of Evolution and is published by Oxford University Press.
@jevbio.bsky.social
#societyjournal (ESEB), covering #evolution across all organisms #genetics #genomics #selection #lifehistory #evodevo #popgen #theory #speciation #morphometrics #phylogenetics #phylogeography https://academic.oup.com/jeb http://jevbio.net
@zhgarfield.com
Evolutionary anthropologist & behavioral scientist. Leadership, punishment, conflict resolution, & cultural transitions. Asst. Prof at UM6P in FGSES & AIRESS. Co-Director of @omovalleyresearchproject.org. 📍 Rabat 🇲🇦 🌐 https://zhgarfield.github.io
@heidicolleran.bsky.social
Anthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. https://www.eva.mpg.de/ecology/staff/heidi-colleran/ Culture | Demography | Anthropology of Reproduction. Writing a popsci book PEOPLE LIKE US due out 2027
@vancleve.theoretical.bio
Associate Professor @ University of Kentucky. Evolution / Ecology / Math. Biker. Aikidoka. #BlackLivesMatter Editor in Chief of Theoretical Population Biology http://vancleve.theoretical.bio
@hyperadapthyrax.bsky.social
evolutionary anthropologist, overly committed to adaptationist logic https://sites.google.com/site/cristinasolermoya/ Can we agree to fight against this corporate oligarchy? https://indivisible.org/groups
@digglelab.bsky.social
Professor of Microbiology at Georgia Tech. Interested in bacterial interactions, biofilms, antimicrobial resistance and bacteriocins (R-pyocins). www.thedigglelab.com.
@bdecourson.bsky.social
PhD student in social sciences and criminology. Formal models, ABMs & lexicometry on press corpus. I program Gallicagram: https://shiny.ens-paris-saclay.fr/app/gallicagram_en
@joanstrassmann.bsky.social
Wrote Slow Birding; Evolutionary biologist at Wash U in St. Louis, social behavior and evolution, wasps and microbes, love social amoebae, Lake Michigan
@gilbertroberts.bsky.social
Free-range academic studying the evolution of behaviour in animals including humans. Cooperation, reputation, interdependence.
@geoffwild.bsky.social
Running shoe enthusiast, occasional insomniac, theoretical biologist, applied mathematician. He/him/his.
@denisfournier.bsky.social
Evolutionary biologist | social insects • ants • termites | genetic and reproductive systems • biological invasions | 🌍🐜📈🧬
@junotk.bsky.social
Philosopher of Science. The author of Thinking About Statistics (Routledge) and the Role of Mathematics in Evolutionary Theory (CUP). https://junotk.net/
@jbaptistandre.bsky.social
Evolutionary biologist studying human behavior and societies through adaptationist reasoning. CNRS researcher @ Ecole Normale Supérieure-PSL & Institut Jean Nicod.
@dpietra.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences at University of California, Santa Barbara. Previously Research Scientist at Max Planck for Human Development in Berlin, Germany.
@mikejennions.bsky.social
Because there are never enough social media sites to sign up to and then ignore. Evolutionary ecology | Behavioural Ecology | http://thejennionslab.weebly.com
@lottybrand.bsky.social
postdoctoral research scientist, human behaviour and evolution, social learning, cultural evolution, open science, secular buddhism lottybrand.wordpress.com
@arvidagren.bsky.social
Evolutionary biologist. Assistant Professor CCLCM. Author of The Gene's-Eye View of Evolution. www.arvidagren.com
@annepisor.bsky.social
Faculty (Penn State), lab director (https://socialitylab.org), entrepreneur. Integrative scientific anthropologist studying how people manage risk. Foodie. 🌎🌍
@annadewar.bsky.social
Career Development Research Fellow at St John's College, University of Oxford. Evolution, cooperation, comparative genomics, horizontal gene transfer, plasmids. https://www.anna-dewar.com/
@lfitouchi.bsky.social
Cognitive & evolutionary social scientist. Studying morality, religion, punishment, institutions. Research fellow at IAST Toulouse @tse-fr.eu. PhD ENS Paris. Website: https://sites.google.com/view/leofitouchi/home
@charlesmullon.bsky.social
Evolutionary ecologist into evolutionary theory, eco-evolutionary dynamics, evolution of genetic architecture and Drag Race 🏳️🌈 (he/him); Asst Prof @ UNIL https://lab-mullon.github.io/index.html
@thomscottphillips.bsky.social
Language, Psychology, Culture, Philosophy, Society, Evolution • When not doing science I dance the lindy hop https://www.thomscottphillips.com/
@andygardner.bsky.social
Evolution | Theory | Social Evolution | Population Genetics | Behavioural Ecology | Kin Selection | Multilevel Selection | Inclusive Fitness | Sex Ratio | Altruism | Professor of Biology at University of St Andrews, Scotland.
@tvpollet.bsky.social
I study social relationships (and a bunch of random other things) with an interest in statistics. Views are my own. https://tvpollet.github.io/
@alexmesoudi.com
Cultural evolution researcher at the University of Exeter (Penryn campus), UK. President of the Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social Website: alexmesoudi.com
@asherleeks.bsky.social
We study social evolution in viruses. Assistant Professor @zoology.ubc.ca & @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social asherleeks.com
@mzefferman.bsky.social
Any views expressed are, at most, my own and do not reflect those of any organization.
@davidwlawson.bsky.social
Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Barbara Applied Evolutionary Anthropology Lab 🌍🌏🌎 Human Behavioral Ecology Global Health, Family, Gender Norms 🏳️🌈 aea-lab.com
@birchlse.bsky.social
Professor, LSE. Philosophy of science, animal consciousness, animal ethics. Director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience.
@jorgeapenas.bsky.social
Professor of Interdisciplinary Stuff @ Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), and Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST). Mathematical models of cooperation and conflict. https://jorgeapenas.github.io
@rkmicrobes.bsky.social
Professor at University of Zurich, Microbiology, Evolution, Ecology, Microbial Interactions, Infections
@kokkonut.bsky.social
A.v.Humboldt professor at the University of Mainz. Evolutionary ecologist. Runs a research group that once prompted the description "in this [coffee] room there's almost always someone who is at least partially fun". (Which we then translated into Latin.)
@cedricp.bsky.social
Assistant Prof. in philosophy of science (Sorbonne University). Sociality, cooperation, consensus, diversity + phil. biology & economics.
@akcay.theoretical.bio
Ecology, evolution, and social dynamics at the University of Pennsylvania. He/him https://akcay.theoretical.bio
@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/
@edhagen.net
Professor of Anthropology at Washington State University. Evolutionary medicine with a focus on drug use and mental health. Evolutionary psychology. Faculty page: https://anthro.vancouver.wsu.edu/people/hagen/
@marshall0i.bsky.social
Philosopher of science and occasional scientist. Mainly philosophy of evolutionary biology, philosophy of probability, implications of modeling and statistical inference. Book: Evolution and the Machinery of Chance. https://marshallalmostsurely.com
@cailinmeister.bsky.social
Philosopher and applied mathematician at UC Irvine. Author of The Misinformation Age and Origins of Unfairness. Mother. Mother of Chickens.
@asn-amnat.bsky.social
The American Naturalist, scholarly journal of evolutionary biology and ecology, pioneer of Open Data, affiliated with American Society of Naturalists and our nonprofit publisher (UChicago Press). All articles are Green Open Access compatible.
@flodebarre.bsky.social
Evolutionary biologist, theoretician CNRS Senior Researcher at Sorbonne Université Interests: Infectious diseases, their origins and control; scientific publishing; diversity in science ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2497-833X #HelloESR Own views
@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/
@dbkrupp.bsky.social
Working on social evolution theory, kinship, inequality, and competition. Probably not the interdisciplinarian you’re looking for. https://www.saltlab.org