DISI alums and former faculty
Alums and former faculty of the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI)
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@divintelligence.bsky.social
@faustocarcassi.bsky.social
Sardinian. Assistant prof at the illc in Amsterdam. Language & cognition w/ models & experiments. Roughly Bayesian. Past: Tübingen, Centre for Language Evolution in Edinburgh (He/Him)
@saeinlee.bsky.social
Primatologist l Postdoc @UZH : curiosity, prosociality, social norm, social learning l Gibbon 🧑💻l DISI 2022 fellow l NGS exlporer l FAMELAB
@jesology.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in Philosophy writing about gut feelings, embodiment, social epistemology & teaching meditation
@nedcpr.bsky.social
PhD candidate at ANU and affiliate at the MINT lab. Previously at Google Research, human rights law, some other things
@stavyros.bsky.social
doctoral researcher/satirist. Interests: emotion and culture, emergence of norms, artificial life and agent based modelling
@kaydenstockwell.bsky.social
From undergrad at Binghamton University to PhD candidate at UVA. Interested in autism + interaction. #DisabledInSTEM. #LGBTinSTEM. Dungeons & Dragons enthusiast. He/him.
@haneuljang.bsky.social
Anthropologist & behavioral scientist studying motherhood, cooperative foraging & childcare, and knowledge transmission among BaYaka foragers in Congo Research fellow @IAST Data editor @ProcB PhD @MPI-EVA DISI 2018 https://www.iast.fr/people/haneul-jang
@diyiyang.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @Stanford CS @StanfordNLP @StanfordAILab Computational Social Science & NLP
@mattiwilks.bsky.social
Lecturer (Assistant Prof) in Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. Interested in morality and related things.
@neuroai.bsky.social
Principal Researcher @ Microsoft Research. Cognitive computational neuroscience & AI. Writer. Nature wanderer. www.momen-nejad.org
@c4computation.bsky.social
Santa Fe Institute Professor | Collective Computation + Emergence | BabelBlog: jessicaflack.wordpress.com + c4computation.substack.com + https://substack.com/@c4computation/notes
@judithfan.bsky.social
Cognitive scientist seeking to reverse engineer the human cognitive toolkit. Asst Prof of Psychology at Stanford. Lab website: https://cogtoolslab.github.io
@case.bsky.social
Cyborg anthropologist studying humans and technology! Attention, UX and physical design. Former MIT Media Lab, Harvard Berkman and Mozilla Fellow. calmtech.institute // calmtech.com // cyborganthropology.com
@beebytes.bsky.social
Asst Prof of Bio @ IUPUI; Director of the Insect Welfare Research Society; Insect neuroscience, farmed insect welfare meghan-barrett.com opinions mine & do not reflect views of IUPUI
@amaatouq.bsky.social
@nakedprimate.bsky.social
Primatologist studying communication and cognition in wild apes. Some time academic. Full time naked ape. PI Wild Minds Lab @ University of St Andrews. She/her. www.wildminds.ac.uk
@roope.bsky.social
Forager of information and mushrooms • Cognitive science, cultural evolution, cognitive anthropology • https://roopekaaronen.net
@clairebergey.bsky.social
discourse pragmatics & language development. linguistics postdoc. clairebergey.net
@pialdecoa.bsky.social
Dr. Behavioral Biology 🎓 Curious about what tickles human & bird minds 🧠 Ecological & cognitive underpinnings of #innovation💡 Postdoc @IASToulouse • PhD from @univie.ac.at • STEMinist 💜 Scicomm 📢 Never stop learning • #FirstGen
@galbadihi.bsky.social
Interested in animal behaviour, evolution, conservation, and welfare.
@camillephaneuf.bsky.social
🧠 Learning, making decisions, exerting cognitive control, & studying the neurodevelopment of these processes as a PhD Candidate @ Harvard Psych 👩💻 https://sites.google.com/umich.edu/camillephaneuf/home
@xrmasiso.bsky.social
now: neuro postdoc with Janice Chen & Chris Honey @ Johns Hopkins. before: neuro phd student with Ken Norman @ Princeton & Chris Baldassano @ Columbia | dspan
@leonsk.bsky.social
PhD Student in maths at Uni of St Andrews researching digital discourse and culture
@sashawinkler.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher studying primate social behavior, emotion, communication & learning. Based in Portland, Oregon.
@federicorossano.bsky.social
Cognitive scientist and conversation analyst. Associate Professor at UC San Diego. Director of Comparative Cognition Lab at UCSD. Proud father of two.
@wikror.bsky.social
philosopher of biology and cognitive science based in Warsaw, PL; currently a Writing-Up Fellow at the Konrad Lorenz Institute in Klosterneuburg, AT
@rebeccazoo.bsky.social
Post-doc in Psychology at Stanford studying children's acquisition of symbolic systems
@rebeccakoomen.bsky.social
Studying origins of cooperation for sustainability. Developmental, comparative, cross-cultural psychologist. UM6P School of Collective Intelligence she / her
@oryanzacks.bsky.social
PhD student in philosophy of biology, researching memory, imagination and consciousness. Also interested in teaching, sci-comm, pedagogy and dance.
@grf.bsky.social
Research Institute on Applied Mathematics and Systems at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Currently thinking about collective behavior and cognition.
@lucahahn.bsky.social
Fascinated by (social) minds - cognition, sociality, culture. PhD student at University of Exeter, Cornwall, UK @uniexecec.bsky.social. Investigating social relationships/networks and social information use in wild jackdaws @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social.
@favourboroks.bsky.social
Recovering *anemoiac*. Law PhD researcher researching legal materiality in avatar/tech design and use. Legal Materiality. Legal Humanities. University of Nottingham, Horizon CDT. Nigerian. Gawking Akure girl.
@harinlee.info
Exploring world in sounds. PhDing at MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (Leipzig) & MPI for Empirical Aesthetics (Frankfurt) Former intern at Deezer Research (Paris) www.harinlee.info
@svenkasser.bsky.social
Genes & culture & coevolution, oh my EvoAnth MSc @ Oxford Bio PhD @ St Andrews (w/ Kevin Lala) | Oxford | Stanford Opinions are my mom’s due to vertical cultural transmission - he/him.
@kensycoop.bsky.social
Cognitive scientist, writer, podcaster. Interested in the diversity of communication & cognition. Language, gesture, concepts, time, space, metaphor. Host of Many Minds (@manymindspod.bsky.social) www.kensycooperrider.com
@drfayclark.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer: University of Bristol | PI: Comparative Challenge Lab | Co-Founder: ManyZoos | Finding Flow in animals | Primates | Cetaceans | 🧠🧩
@chimpanzeve.bsky.social
Developmental & comparative psychologist. Human & nonhuman primates. Observational methods. Culture. Sociocognitive development, sex, gender, diversity. Postdoc @DurhamPsych. Fieldwork lover. Cat & plant mother. ADHD
@marielgoddu.bsky.social
[philosophy of] Learning, evolution, & development. It‘s not a point of view, it’s a point of *do*. Cognition is like digestion. Plant I > AI. Philosophy [2nd] PhD @Stanford™️ Proud ex-cog dev psychologist 👶✊ Big Footnote Energy
@soniashah.bsky.social
Homegrown science journalist/author, The Next Great Migration (2020), Pandemic (2016) + more. 2024 Guggenheim fellow. Bylines NYT Mag, New Yorker, The Nation, etc. Writing a new book on human exceptionalism! www.soniashah.com
@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 🇮🇳
@paleotesla.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Biological Anthropology at Western Washington University. BEGINNINGS: HOW THE EVOLUTION OF PREGNANCY MADE US HUMAN out with Flatiron Books in 2027. On Salish land. Don’t dream it, be it.
@keremoktar.bsky.social
Princeton Ph.D Candidate studying disagreement & decision-making. Visit: https://keremoktar.com Enjoys music, chess, & literature. On a break from oats.
@emmasmcewen.bsky.social
Post-doc @uniofstandrews.bsky.social studying primate cognition | Virtual environments, metacognition, cognitive control, cooperation | @cardiffuni grad | She/her 🏴🇫🇮🌈
@mariannazhang.bsky.social
developmental cognitive scientist & (terminated) NSF postdoc fellow @ NYU | social categories, development, language, climbing, caving | 🗽🌬️🌉🗽 | she/她 mariannazhang.github.io
@manymindspod.bsky.social
Exploring our world's diverse forms of mind—human, animal, machine—from diverse perspectives. A project of @divintelligence.bsky.social, @kensycoop.bsky.social, @laukas.bsky.social www.disi.org/manyminds/
@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
@eduede.bsky.social
epistemology of science and artificial intelligence // asst prof purdue university // argonne national lab // phd, university of chicago www.eamonduede.com
@jacyanthis.bsky.social
Humanity is learning to coexist with a new class of beings. I research the rise of these “digital minds” from perspectives of HCI, ML, sociology, and statistics @SentienceInst @Stanford @UChicago.
@culturologies.co
Incoming Assistant Professor, UM6P School of Collective Intelligence | PhD UCMCogSci: collective intelligence, systems collapse, complex systems, networks, etc.
@chriskrupenye.bsky.social
Origins of the Social Mind • Apes • Dogs • Evolutionary Cognitive Scientist, Assistant Professor @JohnsHopkins • he/him
@robvoigt.bsky.social
using computational methods to understand the linguistic mechanisms of social problems | NLP, socioling, discourse-pragmatics | asst prof at Northwestern Linguistics https://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/robvoigt/
@michael.muthukrishna.com
Prof. #LSE. Author: A Theory of Everyone. Researching & spreading the word on how humans evolved & what that means for us today. www.atheoryofeveryone.com
@laukas.bsky.social
Postdoc, philosophy in psychiatry/medicine/biology - functional disorder (FND), predictive processing, basal cognition. Producer @manymindspod.bsky.social; freelance writer; fine arts photographer. https://www.linkedin.com/in/urte-laukaityte
@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/
@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
@kathrynnave.bsky.social
@Leverhulme Trust research fellow @EdinburghUni Working on biological purposiveness & the meaning of life. Occasional sci/tech journalist. Better in writing.
@mysdick.bsky.social
Historian of math, computing, and the mind. Assistant Prof. of Communication at SFU. Co-editor of Abstractions and Embodiments. PhD from Harvard. Likes cats, writes pysanky eggs, working on a comic book about AI ✨
@mdhk.net
Linguist in AI & CogSci 🧠👩💻🤖 PhD student @ ILLC, University of Amsterdam 🌐 https://mdhk.net/ 🐘 https://scholar.social/@mdhk 🐦 https://twitter.com/mariannedhk
@timsainburg.bsky.social
Neuro, Cogsci, ML, and Ethology postdoc / Schmidt Science Fellow at Harvard.
@masonyoungblood.bsky.social
Postdoc fellow researching cultural evolution at the Institute for Advanced Computational Science - Electronic music as Callosum - masonyoungblood.com
@dansperber.bsky.social
@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.
@markkho.bsky.social
computational cog sci • problem solving and social cognition • asst prof at NYU • https://codec-lab.github.io/
@andrewbuskell.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ Georgia Tech HSOC. He|Him. History and Philosophy of Science; Culture and Cultural Evolution; Ethics; Cognition. www.andrewbuskell.com
@nicolasrestrepo.bsky.social
Post-Doc at UC Davis working on the cultural evolution of collective rituals, bad at lists, a third thing. Some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. https://nicolasrestrep.github.io/restrepo_website/
@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
@glupyan.bsky.social
@martahalina.bsky.social
philosophy of science, comparative cognition, animal minds, artificial minds, AI in scientific practice, HPS Cambridge
@kevinlala.bsky.social
Evolution; animal behaviour; animal culture; human cognitive evolution; niche construction; anti-racism #evolution #evodevo #philbio #philsci #animalculture #animalbehavior
@patrickshafto.bsky.social
Prof: Rutgers; Program Manager: DARPA; Scientist-at-Large: Redpoll. Math! Machine learning! Cognitive Science!
@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]
@cocoscilab.bsky.social
Tom Griffiths' Computational Cognitive Science Lab at Princeton. Studying the computational problems human minds have to solve.
@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
@celiaheyes.bsky.social
Theoretical psychologist studying the evolution of human cognition. All Souls College, University of Oxford https://users.ox.ac.uk/~ascch/
@fumblebeefae.bsky.social
PhD student and cognitive bee scientist at Macquarie Uni's bee Lab based in Sydney 🇦🇺 faemourmourakis.wordpress.com
@mzettersten.bsky.social
Asst Prof UCSD Cognitive Science language development | cognitive development | learning https://mzettersten.github.io/ (he/his)
@melaniemitchell.bsky.social
Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems. Website: https://melaniemitchell.me Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
@neuranne.bsky.social
I write about creative thinking, mindful productivity & metacognition. Researcher at King’s College London & Founder of Ness Labs ⇢ https://nesslabs.com
@asifamajid.bsky.social
Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Oxford @oxexppsy.bsky.social
@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.
@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 🧺 🦧
@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
@stephenvaisey.com
Professor at Duke University. Cultural evolution, political attitudes, social change, nerdy stuff in R. YNWA. https://vaiseys.github.io/
@sethlazar.org
Philosopher working on normative dimensions of computing and sociotechnical AI safety. Lab: https://mintresearch.org Self: https://sethlazar.org Newsletter: https://philosophyofcomputing.substack.com
@divintelligence.bsky.social
Fostering interdisciplinary collaboration among scholars and storytellers interested in the origins, nature, and future of intelligences. Web: www.disi.org Podcast: Many Minds (@manymindspod.bsky.social)