Comparative / animal cognition
Researchers, scholars, and others thinking about and working on how animals learn and think, what they think, what they're thinking about!
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@dremalt.bsky.social
@ckecz.bsky.social
🐦 Team from the University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic 🐦⬛ Investigating cognition and behavioral ecology of birds🦉Predator-Prey Interactions 🦅 Brood Parasitism 🪺 Bioacoustics ♪ Foraging 🌰 Competition ⚔️ https://cke.cz/en_GB/
@magdalenaboch.bsky.social
🧠 imaging neural correlates of social cognition and brain evolution of 🐩🐕🐺🐈🐅& 👫🏻 @NeuroecologyLab
@si-monkeys.bsky.social
Can animals learn to adapt? Primates | Behaviour | Culture | Conservation Trying to find a decent bitter in London 🍺 He/Him
@jimeloism.bsky.social
Biologist, PhD. Postdoctoral researcher at University of Buenos Aires / CONICET
@anacrgomes.bsky.social
PostDoc at Stockholm University Behavioral ecology, phenotypes evolution, sexual selection, social behaviour, coloration, cognition, personality PhD (she/her)
@ray-neuro.bsky.social
Real world neuroscience. Neuroscience of animal societies and in the wild. Flying bats, shrinking shrews, running rats.
@neurophysicstn.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary research lab, Center for Mind/Brain Sciences #CIMeC PI: Albrecht Haase | #Neuroscience | #QuantumBiology | #Olfaction | #Vision | #Magnetoreception | #CalciumImaging | #Insects | #Honeybees | #UniTrento https://r.unitn.it/en/cimec/nphys
@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
@catherinemacri.bsky.social
🔬PhD candidate in neuroethology 📍Paris - Sorbonne uni / Toulouse 🐝Studying consciousness indicators in honey bees 📚Interested in cognition, philosophy, emotions, ethology, animal welfare and anything in between
@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.
@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.
@octoscience.bsky.social
PostDoc at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience at NTNU Trondheim. Whitman Scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, MA. I am studying sleep in octopuses and cuttlefish. 🐙
@drjessieadriaense.bsky.social
• Emotions, empathy, & social behavior/cognition in mammals and birds • Interdisciplinary & comparative psychologist • PostDoc in Zurich https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9ebdkaQAAAAJ&hl=en
@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
@laniusondrej.bsky.social
Ornithologist 🐦 Ethologist 🦉 Ph.D. student 🦅 Avian Cognition 🐦⬛ Predator-Prey Interactions 🦤 Predator Recognition🦜Member of Czech Centre of Cognitive Ethology 🇨🇿 https://scholar.google.cz/citations?user=-FQoESwAAAAJ&hl=cs&oi=sra
@giuliapalazzolo.bsky.social
Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. Interested in animal communication and the evolution of language | Philosophy of mind, philosophy of science. She/her https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/people/palazzolo/
@sarahdalesman.bsky.social
Researcher in animal behaviour and cognition, mostly working with aquatic snails and dogs. And sometimes both! Dog agility trainer, judge and competitor in my spare time. Lecturer at Aberystwyth University in Wales @aberdlsagb.bsky.social
@vd0ubleu.bsky.social
Researcher in comparative social cognition and individual differences. Lecturer in Psychology, University of Hull. Primarily but not exclusively primates.
@vedranaslipogor.bsky.social
postdoc @dee-unil.bsky.social @thesensech.bsky.social @InkawuP | PhD @univie.ac.at | L'ORÉAL-UNESCO "FWIS" alumna | personality, comparative cognition | primates, naked mole-rats | @TheManyBirds | #LINO23
@amiscov.bsky.social
PhD student at University of St Andrews. Animal cognition & behaviour. Cognitive control, working memory, virtual environments. She/her. Ro🇷🇴
@hljim.bsky.social
JSPS International Research Fellow @ Kyoto University 🌳 Comparative psychology, animal behaviour & social cognition in elephants & canids 🐘🐾 One of @manydogsproject.bsky.social 🐕 🇬🇧🇭🇰
@xmsmomo.bsky.social
PhD candidate in comparative cognition at Kyoto University / DOG 🐕 / social cognition / emotion / naïve sociology
@auersperga.bsky.social
Cognitive Biology Professsor, Comparative Cognition Researcher, Head of the Goffin Lab, Messerli Research institute, @VetmeduniVienna
@francescaraffini.bsky.social
Evolutionary biology, genetics, conservation & beyond @szndohrn.bsky.social 🧜♀️ 🌊 @cemeb.bsky.social Bio-diverse & inclusive community 🌈 raffinifrancescalab.weebly.com littorina.at.biopolis.pt gu.se/en/cemeb-marine-evolutionary-biology
@ecobird.bsky.social
Centre for Research on Ecology, Cognition and Behaviour of Birds Ghent University, Belgium Posts by Frederick Verbruggen & Katy Willcox
@thibaudgruber.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at the University of Geneva. Primatologist. Comparative psychologist. Co-director Bugoma Primate Conservation Project.
@tattersallg.bsky.social
Thermal Ethologist / Animal Physiologist Professor, Biological Sciences Associate Editor, Journal of Thermal Biology TattersallLab.com Been working in thermal biology before it was such a hot topic, back when it was cool...
@gillyforrester.bsky.social
Prof of comparative cognition investigating how we evolved & develop cognitive abilities (w/wo neurodiverse conditions) Researching brains & behaviours of human infants & children, gorillas, chimpanzees & orangutans. Passionate about science communication
@aaronblaisdell.bsky.social
Neuroscientist, comparative cognition researcher, pigeon art NFT curator
@kirstyegraham.bsky.social
I study how primates communicate 🐒 Faculty @ Hunter College 🦝 Organiser @abcmicrogrants.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
@drfayclark.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer: University of Bristol | PI: Comparative Challenge Lab | Co-Founder: ManyZoos | Finding Flow in animals | Primates | Cetaceans | 🧠🧩
@ggnanadesikan.bsky.social
Biologist & Comparative Psychologist || Social Behavior & Cognition, Oxytocin, (Epi)genetics || 🐶🐕🦺🐒 || (Terminated) FIRST/IRACDA postdoctoral fellow @ Emory University, now on the job market https://ggnanadesikan.github.io/
@eithnekavanagh.bsky.social
Senior lecturer and research fellow at NTU Psychology. Research on social and communicative behaviour in humans and other primates
@asimpleprimate.bsky.social
MSc in Comparative Psychology🐒 University of St Andrews | Comparative cognition, Primatology, Cultural Evolution, Tool Behaviour and Behavioural Flexibility
@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 🐒🦦🐙🐦⬛🐝🕷️🦧🐴🐠🪲🦜🐿️🐋🦀
@emmasmcewen.bsky.social
Post-doc @uniofstandrews.bsky.social studying primate cognition | Virtual environments, metacognition, cognitive control, cooperation | @cardiffuni grad | She/her 🏴🇫🇮🌈
@camilletroisi.bsky.social
Behavioural ecologist studying cognition, social behaviour, gut microbiota & urbanisation | R enthusiast | Assistant Prof. at Université de Rennes #NewPI | She/her http://camilletroisi.weebly.com
@berthetmelissa.bsky.social
Researcher in primatology 🐒 and animal linguistics 🎤🙊 Titi monkeys & bonobos ❤️🦍 Postdoc at University of Zürich, Switzerland She/Her https://sites.google.com/view/melissa-berthet
@sferrigno.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Psychology at UW-Madison. PI, Cognitive Origins Lab, investigating the evolutionary and developmental origins of thought. He/Him. cognitiveoriginslab.psych.wisc.edu
@chimpsahoi.bsky.social
Postdoc at University of Zurich. Working on fuzzy insights into fluffy minds. He/him
@kohngregory.bsky.social
Professor specializing in bird social behavior and ethology. Broad interests in enactive cognition, developmental systems thought, ontogenetic niches, organismal agency, anti-racism. PI: Animal Social Interaction lab, kohnlab.wordpress.com.
@elmanubohn.bsky.social
Developmental psychologist at Leuphana with an eye on ManyPrimates (@manyprimates.bsky.social)
@simpson.bsky.social
Associate professor of psychology at the University of Miami. Developmental science, infant social behavior. She/her Director of @soccoglab.bsky.social ManyBabies6 - Neonatal imitation: https://manybabies.org/MB6/
@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
@cantlonlab.bsky.social
Professor studying origins of concepts @CarnegieMellon; Brain development, cognition, evolution, math & logic; Primate Portal @TIME 2017 Silence Breakers; she Science Homecoming @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social
@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/
@masonyoungblood.bsky.social
Postdoc fellow researching cultural evolution at the Institute for Advanced Computational Science - Electronic music as Callosum - masonyoungblood.com
@tozbu.bsky.social
Biologist, primate fan, sport addict, photographer, try to understand how animals process the world and communicate about it
@lucycheke.bsky.social
Cambridge psychologist studying learning & memory. Focus on translational cognitive tests and batteries across animals, AI and humans to help us understand all kinds of intelligence and where it goes wrong
@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
@donnakean.bsky.social
Postdoc @ Animal Minds Lab🐀🦜@UABBarcelona researching convergent evolution of intelligence Committee member @ComparativeCog Previous: APOPO @Herorats and @Berg_Stirling
@skeupp.bsky.social
Research scientist | studying cognitive development, social cognition, comparative psychology, animal cognition | she/her
@alexmielke.bsky.social
Studies cooperation, communication and social relationships in monkeys and apes. Lecturer QMUL. he/him
@birchlse.bsky.social
Professor, LSE. Philosophy of science, animal consciousness, animal ethics. Director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience.
@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 🧺 🦧
@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]
@shokosugasawa.bsky.social
Academic Track Research Fellow at Newcastle University. Studying object manipulation by animals without hands 🐝🐥🪺 animal behaviour, ecology, cognition, evolution. Dog and food lover. Mum. Views my own. she/her https://shokosugasawa.weebly.com/
@rebeccakoomen.bsky.social
Studying origins of cooperation for sustainability. Developmental, comparative, cross-cultural psychologist. UM6P School of Collective Intelligence she / her
@debottam1991.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Fellow @CityUHongKong, Previously Marie Curie Fellow @UniUtrecht, PhD in animal behaviour from @iiserkol. 🐾🐒 🐃 Associate Editor: iScience-Cell Press Animal behaviour, Comparative psychology, Behavioural ecology https://www.dbcognition.co.in
@burt15theresa.bsky.social
Professor of Animal Behaviour, Department of Biology, University of Oxford. St John’s College. Researches navigation, spatial cognition. Happiest outdoors.
@vernouilleta.bsky.social
PhD Bio Sci. Behavioural ecology & comparative cognition, mostly on birds. Loves corvids & D&D. she/her 🐦
@raccoonologist.bsky.social
PhD researching cockatoo cognition at Uni Vetmed Vienna. Master of Raccoons. Urban wildlife nerd & bin animal aficionado. She/her. Manages @asab.org
@valkuhlmeier.bsky.social
Professor and Associate Head in the Department of Psychology at Queen's University 🇨🇦 — Developmental Psychology and Animal Cognition — Assistant Director at ManyDogs
@biotay.bsky.social
Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró, Goffin Lab, Vienna, Austria PhD^2 and Ninja Biologist. Animal Behavior and Comparative Cognition. Human perch for cockatoos. Also here: twitter.com/BioTay More about me here: https://osunamascaro.weebly.com/
@caglarakcay.bsky.social
Animal social behaviour and cognition. https://caglarakcay.wordpress.com/ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sZ4qvtwAAAAJ&hl=en
@martahalina.bsky.social
philosophy of science, comparative cognition, animal minds, artificial minds, AI in scientific practice, HPS Cambridge
@sophiadaoudi.bsky.social
Lecturer, Newcastle University ASAB Communications Officer PhD, MSc Primate Conservation, BSc Psychology: Specialisms - animal behaviour, behavioural ecology, cognition, animal welfare, conservation, primatology & human-animal interactions.
@daphnab.bsky.social
Children, Dogs, Monkeys, Robots. Assistant Professor at Brown University. https://sites.brown.edu/cocodevlab/ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4LRxXyIAAAAJ&hl=en
@elizabethhobson.bsky.social
Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati, working on animal sociality, cognition, networks, conflict, & hierarchies. (she/her)
@chriskrupenye.bsky.social
Origins of the Social Mind • Apes • Dogs • Evolutionary Cognitive Scientist, Assistant Professor @JohnsHopkins • he/him
@milliejohnston.bsky.social
Postdoc researching avian cognition 🦜 🇳🇿 ~ kea, crows, jackdaws, pigeons ~ ~ working memory, probabilistic reasoning, timing behaviour ~
@drspidernz.bsky.social
Arachnologist at University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Spider cognition, SciComm, and writer 🕷 #LoveSpiders www.doctorspider.net
@viveknityananda.bsky.social
I research behaviour. Writing. Illustration. Improv. Scicomm. Views my own. (He/Him) 🏳️🌈 website: www.viveknityananda.com
@larschittka.bsky.social
Lars Chittka, Professor of Sensory and Behavioural Ecology and author of The Mind of a Bee
@tomerczaczkes.bsky.social
Social insects (mainly ants). Cognition. Comparative psychology. Collective behaviour. Invasive ants. Information use. Oh dear, this is a very boring profile! Sorry! Animal-economics.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.
@marinemjoly.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology, University of Portsmouth, UK• Interested in #primate #behaviour #evolution #cognition #conservation #climatechange• One of @ManyPrimates • I love maps 🗺️ • 🇪🇺
@elisafelsche.bsky.social
Postdoc at MPI EVA studying cognition in human children and other primates 🐒
@emmatecwyn.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Psychology | Cognitive development & comparative cognition | Open science | Kidney transplant recipient Academic webpage: https://emmatecwyn.weebly.com/ I make earrings: https://tinyurl.com/dottysparrow
@louisemackie.bsky.social
Final-year PhD Student • Comparative Psychology • Messerli Research Institute • 🐕 Dogs 🤸 Children 🐵 Chimpanzees Interested in social learning & culture, cooperation & social cognition MSc was at the University of St Andrews Scottish 🏴 she/her
@drrmiller.bsky.social
Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Exeter University | Visiting Researcher, Cambridge University | Comparative Psychology | Cognition & Conservation | TheManyBirds Co-Founder | 🪶🐦👶🐵🧠 | Website: www.drrachaelmiller.com
@yurikawaguchi.bsky.social
Postdoc in Nottingham Trent University. My research area is comparative psychology and primatology.
@jeffreyrstevens.com
Professor of Psychology at @unlincoln.bsky.social Lead the Canine Cognition and Human Interaction Lab @unlcchil.bsky.social Co-direct the ManyDogs Project @manydogsproject.bsky.social Data science mentor at @Posit.co. #RStats #OpenScience he/him
@nomascus.bsky.social
Zoology lecturer @hhu.bsky.social | Armchair biologist | Focus on rodents underground and gibbons in the trees, also one of @themanybirds.bsky.social | Organismic vertebrate biology
@christophvoelter.bsky.social
Comparative & Developmental Psychologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology 🦍 and the Messerli Research Institute 🐕
@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
@shona-d.bsky.social
Lecturer in Psychology | Cooperation, coordination and communication in humans and other primates | ManyPrimates https://shonaduguid.weebly.com/
@realprimatthias.bsky.social
Studies great ape cognition and behavior at Leipzig Zoo. Themes: metacognition, communication, cultural learning, animal emotions. ManyPrimates 3.
@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.