Black In Neuro @blackinneuro.bsky.social A grassroots movement turned non-profit organization with a mission to diversify the neurosciences by building a community that celebrates and empowers Black scholars and professionals in neuroscience-related fields.
linktr.ee/BlackInNeuro
Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social Professor Dad. ATLien. Scientist.
Critical Cognitive Science
www.criticalcognition.org
Tia N. Donaldson, PhD @tiandonaldson.bsky.social SCIENTIST 🐭🧠 | Retired grad student | Tech writer
Amateur baker | Horror movie fan | 🐶🐶 mom
Views my own | We support ✊🏾🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️here | She/her
Gabriela (Gaby) Lopez, PhD @glopez.bsky.social Neuroscientist | First-Gen Afro-Latina 🇩🇴| Bronx, NY to Chicago 🗽➡️🌬
Rachel Honeyghan-Williams, PhD 🐝 @sciwithrach.bsky.social 👩🏾💻 A real scientist on made-up adventures🧚🏾♀️
💥 EAR FACTS 💥 BOARD GAMES 💥 TTRPGS 💥LOLS 💥
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Postdoc @ UCL Ear Institute
Trustee @britsciassoc.bsky.social ✨
Factual TV & media: casting@pastpreservers.com
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My own opinions 🥰
UK☔
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linktr.ee/sciwithrach
Desmond Warren, M.A. @desmondwarren.bsky.social Aspiring Clinical Neuropsychologist | Co-Founder of @Blackmeninpsych.bsky.social ✊🏾| Cognitive Aging, Traumatic Brain Injury (#TBI), Neuropsychological Assessments, #Neuroimaging, & #Neurorehabilitation | Views = own | #BlackInNeuro 🧠👨🏾⚕️🧑🏾🔬👨🏾🏫 |
Olu Ajilore, MD, PhD @pshrink.bsky.social Psychiatrist and neuroscientist.
Computational Neuroimaging
Digital Mental Health
House Music
Co-Director of the CoNeCT Lab @ UIC
Die Sankoré-Schriften @sankoreschriften.bsky.social https://scilogs.spektrum.de/die-sankore-schriften/
🧠🧬PhD in Neurogenetics
#Neurogenetics
#Neurodegeneration
#Neurolinguistics
#DeepLearning
#Surveillancecapitalism
#Chess
#Macroevolution
#Evo-Devo
#BrainMachineInterface
#BlackLiterature
#AfricanDiaspora
Sarah F. Phillips, PhD @sarahlinguist.bsky.social Linguist + Neuroscientist. Photographer.
sarahfphillips.com
Aqilah McCane @drbediya.blacksky.app Mother || Neuroscientist || Jiu-jitsu athlete
Assistant professor in McCaneLab.org 🙌🏾
kaela @kssphd.bsky.social neuroscientist with a propensity for pop culture & pop punk.
@forbes.com 30 under 30 ‘22, @vox.com #FuturePerfect50 ‘24
#DSPAN & #PDEP alum she/her 🖤🧠
kss-phd.com
Crystal M. Glover, Ph.D. @cgster.bsky.social Applied Social Psychologist. Mixed Methodologist. Rigor. Optimal Everything. EiC - Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Behavior & Socioeconomics of Aging.
Sydney Floryanzia 👑 @neurochemequeen.bsky.social Chemical Engineer 🧠 Blood-brain barrier (BBB), neurovasculature, & microfluidics research. HHMI Gilliam 🌱, NSF GRFP, GEM. SciComm + STEM Ed. Certified rat tickler 🐭
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0508-8510
What’s up with Downes? @gbdownes.bsky.social Dad of two, Professor of Biology @UMass, rare disease researcher and advocate, SPINES @MBL director, and runner. I use zebrafish to study the genetic control of locomotion and epilepsy genes. 🧪🧬🧠
Naima Dahir @naimadahir.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UTSW. Sensory processing, feeding, and other motivated behaviors.
Lisa Barnes @beyoung40.bsky.social Cognitive neuropsychologist and health equity researcher at the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center
Dr. Lily @lilyanadream.bsky.social Postdoc neuroscience researcher.
Brain networks, cognition, emotion, stress & mitochondria. Mental health.
Proud mom. I love music, poetry, & take photos sometimes. ND. 🏳️🌈
Wants ppl safe and happy.
Morgan Brody @mbrody1.bsky.social Undergrad student of Cognitive/Behavioral Neuroscience @ Loyola University Chicago
MNEME lab research assistant
tampa fl☀️—> chi🏙️
Dr. Zoe R. Smith @drzoersmith.bsky.social Child & adolescent clinical psychologist supporting Black and/or Latiné teens with ADHD. Liberation. Healing. Radical hope ✊🏽Basketball. Books. Neurodiversity. 🏀📚🧠
Daril Brown II, PhD @neuralspeak.bsky.social Neuroprosthetics postdoctoral fellow at UC Davis Health, developing next-gen communication devices. Breaking down barriers in science. Advocate for science literacy 🧠🦾🌎 #Neurotech
Schmidt Science Fellow & BWF PDEP Fellow
Donnisa (she/her) @donnisa.bsky.social 2026 AAAS Mass Media Fellow
Neuro Ph.D Candidate @Northwestern
NSF GRFP Fellow
donnisaedmonds.com
Whitney Stevens-Sostre, PhD Boricua @stevenssostre.bsky.social Wife & Mom 🤍 🇵🇷 | HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow | BWF PDEP | Neuro PhD 🧠 UW-Madison | NINDSDiversity F99/K00 #DSPAN Alumna | Retina #Ephys 👁️ #BlackInNeuro | Founder @BlackInBiophys.bsky.social 💪🏾
Andoni I. Asencor @aasencor.bsky.social Long ō || Vitamin B12 and the Brain 🧠 || UCSF Neuro PhD Candidate, Sam Pleasure Lab || #BlackInNeuro 🇯🇲🇪🇸 || Dompé Rita Levi Montalcini Scholar || SFN NSP Fellow || Boston U Alum 🐾
www.linktr.ee/andoniasencor
Lynn PhD @zdrlynn.bsky.social Neuropsychologist
🧠😷🦈💙🌻💪🏽💉🌎🛸👽💃🏽🪶
Cellas A. Hayes, PhD @c3llas.bsky.social Super Dad | Neuroscientist 🧠 | Postdoc | HABS HD HESP Fellow | PDEP Awardee | Almost an AD Researcher | YoungGiftedBlack l MS Boy | www.cellashayes.com
phil newsome @philnewsomejr.bsky.social affective/dev neuro | clinical science phd student at USC (quant conc.)
Jared Boyce @jared-boyce.bsky.social MD-PhD @UWMSTP #BlackInNeuro Mental health, children’s rights advocate. 🇹🇹🎻 Metalcore. Horror. Anime. He/Him @Dartmouth @BrownUniversity
Jasmine Hargrove @jaslhargrove.bsky.social Madore NEAT Lab assistant. Psychometrist at Essentia Health. Currently on Minnesota’s North Shore with my husband, 2 dogs, and my dog-ter. She/Her/They/Them
Ashley Cunningham, PhD @ashleyonthebrain.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow| Friedman Lab| Rockefeller University 🧬| DSPAN F99/K00 Fellow| @BlackInNeuro Co-Founder ✊🏾 | (she/her) #BiInSci🏳️🌈 🌱 🐶
Nicole 🧠🔬(she/her) @nquintus.bsky.social '24 HHMI Gilliam Fellow
UMNeuroscience PhD Candidate
#BlackInNeuro
Teon ⁂ @teonbrooks.com 🛠️ building @gothamdataclinic.org
🎒 @passports.social (in alpha)
🥾 avid traveler #buencamino
📍 Brooklyn #bkcb1
👨🏾💻 RC S1'23 W1'24
🌈 he/him/Dr. 🌹
👨🏾🔬 cognitive scientist 🧪🧠
🗣️ speaks: 🇺🇲 | 🇫🇷 | 🇧🇷
https://teonbrooks.com
Juliet Mwirigi @julietmwirigi.bsky.social HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow | PostDoc WashU | PhD UT Dallas | Neuroscience | Pain pathways | Single-cell EVERYTHING | Neurons | Cell culturing | Computational work | human dorsal root ganglia
MRI Carey @tory-teller.bsky.social Made you look 🙃
https://victoriamccray.github.io/
Thiago Arzua @thiagoarzua.com Brazilian Neuroscientist • Co-founder of Black In Neuro • Forbes 30 Under 30 • Triathlete • he/they
@bettybekele.bsky.social @bettybekele.bsky.social - S Courtney @sciencec.bsky.social Scientist. Synaptic transmission, ribbon synapses, vision and auditory/vestibular systems. Neuroscience, Physiology.
ASU Raised. FAMU, Brown, Yale
Favour Nerrise @fnerrise.bsky.social Stanford EE PhD Candidate | Digital Biomarkers x #NeuroAI x Geometric Deep Learning x Computer Vision | Also Quantum Sensing @SandboxAQ & DEI @ Int’l Neuroethics Society| Previously @UMD & @NSBE Chair #Neuroskyence
Whitnei , M.S. @whiddy.bsky.social (She/Her) Research Specialist 🧠| M.S. in Molecular and Cell Neuroscience #DSU | B.S. in Biology #USCU |Sci-fi & Horror fanatic - all opinions are my own
Lindsay🧠 @neuromelody.bsky.social Neuro PhD | she/her 🇨🇲 | #DSPAN F99/K00 Fellow | #BlackinNeuro #scicomm
📩neuromelody1@gmail.com
Lewis Nunez Severino (he/him) @lewisnunsev.bsky.social neuroscience phd candidate investigating neuroimmune pathways for the treatment of alcohol use disorder and comorbidities.
center for alcohol and addiction studies, brown university | nih bp-endure alum | #blackinneuro | 🇩🇴
Dr Esther Odekunle @estodek.bsky.social Scientist & Communicator | Biochem | Neurobiology | Drug Development in Biotech
Kelsey Person @kelseyperson.bsky.social UMN Neuro PhD Candidate🧠
MM @phdeez.bsky.social Neuroscientist »» civil servant committed to creating a biomedical workforce welcoming to all. Spelman BS 💙 Pitt PhD. ⟦Tweets my own⟧
Dr Felix Effah, MRes, MPhil, PhD @dreffah.bsky.social Neuropharmacologist, Toxicologist and Biomedical engineer @University of Rochester Medical Center
Cory J. White, Ph.D. @coryjwhite.bsky.social Metabolic neurochemist investigating the impact of HIV infection on brain lipids |Postdoc at Emory University in Dionna Williams, Ph.D. Lab | Hopkins BCMB Alum
Lydia Daboussi @daboussi.bsky.social Assistant Professor @UCLA - Department of Neurobiology.
#newPI
https://daboussilab.healthsciences.ucla.edu
Kynon J Benjamin @kjbenjamin90.bsky.social Neurodivergent Assistant Professor leading HEART-GeN.
We study health equity and neurological disorders through a genetic lens. Machine learning, big data, and computational biology.
#BlackinNeuro #BlackinGenetics 🏳️⚧️
krotosbenjamin.github.io
Danae @danaenm.bsky.social She/Her. An incredibly talented neuroscience trainee who likes food, tea, nerdy stuff, and martial arts #BlackInNeuro #BlackWomenMartialArts
Bank$LikeAshley @mooreforever.bsky.social hbcu grad | BlackInNeuro | DMV 🖤💛❤️
Chandler Zolliecoffer, Ph.D. @zolliecofferc.bsky.social UChicagoMed Clinical Neuropsych Fellow via UCSanDiego and UWM | views are my own • she/her • #blackinneuro
Jasmine Berry, Ph.D. @drjasberry.bsky.social Neuro-AI Research Scientist. Brains-Minds-Machines, Self-Awareness, Consciousness for Robotics and Health. 🧠🤖🦾
UMich 〽️ x USC ✌️ x NSU 🔰
Theanne Griffith, PhD 🇧🇧👩🏽🔬🇭🇷 @doctheagrif.bsky.social UC Davis |👩🏽🔬 Sensory <—> Motor 💪🏽| Women’s Basketball Fan | Award-winning Children’s Book Author 🧫📚 🧬 | she/her www.thegriffithresearchgroup.com
Monique S. Mendes, PhD @monique-ja44.bsky.social Neuroscientist | Neuron-glia communication | HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow | Doupe Fellow| Post-Doc @Stanford | F99/K00 #DSPAN Alum | PhD @URNeuroscience | she/her | 📷 StevenCotton
Shivon Robinson @shivonrobinson.bsky.social Neuroscientist studying the interaction of 💊 x 🧬 x🏡 on brain & behavior | Assistant Prof at Williams College| IRACDA, PennNGG, #ephalum | she/her
Arif A. Hamid, Ph.D. @arifahamid.bsky.social Professor of Neuroscience @UMN Medical School | Neurobiology of Reinforcement Learning #BlackinSTEM #NeuroscienceinAfrica
HamidLab.org
Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social Associate Prof | Columbia Biology & Zuckerman Institute
Freeman Hrabowski Scholar | HHMI
We study how the skin-brain axis drives somatosensory behaviors
https://www.abdus-saboorlab.com/
Gina R. Poe, Ph.D. @ginapoe.bsky.social Neuroscientist studying sleep’s role in learning and memory, emotion, insight, and cognition. Professor at UCLA.
Chinyere Iweka @chinyereiweka.bsky.social Assistant Professor
School of Medicine
Pharmacology department
Case Western Reserve University
Mind Under Matter @themindundermatter.bsky.social Semi-qualified sci comm. Exploring psychology, neuroscience, and biochemistry with profanity, sarcasm, and wonder.
youtube.com/mindundermatter.
Msc Cognitive Neuroscience. Personal @anatangent.bsky.social
Dr. Debora Kamin Mukaz, MS, PhD 🫀🥼 @deborascience.blacksky.app Assistant Professor. Molecular and social epidemiologist. Blerd. Views are my own. Not my employer’s or any organization I’m affiliated with.
Michaelle DiMaggio-Potter @michaelle.bsky.social Clinical Psych PhD Student, University of Michigan | EMA • Personality Pathology • Interpersonal Dynamics | NSF GRFP Fellow, Columbia University Alum
Catherine H @catherineneuro.bsky.social Paediatric Neuropsychologist. Cambridge. 
Shaun James, PhD @neurowhat.bsky.social Sacred Heart Univ Asst. Professor
EEG & Ca2+ imaging to 🔎 neuro disorders
Yale Med Postdoc #NeuroImaging
@UConn PhD #EPhys #Patching
🌍 Exposure leads to Expansion 🌎
@jheannellejohnson.bsky.social @jheannellejohnson.bsky.social 
Mitch The Scientist @mitchthescientist.bsky.social PhD student Ageing Neuroscience • BSc, MSc Biomedical Science Graduate • Scientific Animator and Communicator • Science, Philosophy, Music, Gaming and Media Fan.
TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@mitch_the_scientist?_t=8rtFKPMG5aL&_r=1
Taraz Lee @tarazlee.bsky.social Associate Professor UMich Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscientist, Basketball Junkie
sites.lsa.umich.edu/tarazlee-lab/
Worldview Theorie @worldviewtheorie.bsky.social Travel content for thoughtful travelers who value quality and comfort
Yasmin Hurd, PhD @neurovoice.bsky.social Director of Addiction Institute & Chair of Translational Neuroscience
at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. PI of the Hurd Lab. Research on genes x environment x addiction. Working to #EndStigma
labs.neuroscience.mssm.edu/project/hurd-lab/
Malien, PhD @de3nnawas3m.bsky.social West African, neuroscientist, mom, Catholic, foodie
Alex Barnett @alexbarnett.bsky.social assistant prof at McGill / memory / fMRI / epilepsy / opinions are my brain's / he / him
Keith B. Doelling @kbdoelling.bsky.social Chargé de Recherche, INSERM
Institut Pasteur
Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience in Auditory Perception
Brianna George, PhD @briannaegeorge.bsky.social Neuroscientist 🧠 | Postdoc at UNC in Kash Lab | D-SPAN K00 Fellow | DiversifyingCNS Scholar | #BlackInNeuro | She/her
dr. bri @brijwilliams.bsky.social pediatric psychologist. all things #healthpsych, #earlychildhood, #emotionregulation, #parenting, and cats.
listener first. professional yapper second.
www.brianajwilliams.com
@docgirlgrambles on IG & YT
Olivia Bizimungu @oliviabizi.bsky.social Neuroscience PhD Candidate @ McGill University
Speech perception | Sensorimotor integration
#BlackInNeuro she/her 🏳️🌈🍉
Eja Willis, MSc @ejaimani.bsky.social CSU Alum 🐏👩🏽🎓| Neuroscientist 🧠
She/Her
#BlackInNeuro
Tonie Farris, Ph.D. @toniefarris.bsky.social Nature Lover | Neuroscientist 🧠| Postdoc fellow at Duke University | Leading Edge Fellow 2025
Chantell Evans @channyskye.bsky.social Assistant Professor - Duke; Postdoc - U Penn; PhD - UW Madison
HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar - HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow - Duke DST Scholar
Studying mitochondrial quality control and neurodegeneration
Lindsay S. Anderson @yesthatlindsay.bsky.social 
@michellejolo.bsky.social @michellejolo.bsky.social 
Chino Nwakama @chinonwakama.bsky.social Icahn Mount Sinai MD-PhD student in Dr. Yasmin Hurd’s lab 🧠🐀| previously U of Minnesota | part time History nerd📚🌍
Aleyah E. Goins @goinsyeah.bsky.social Words are my own 😝
Sensory neuroscientist studying peripheral pain mechanisms.
Neuroimmunology • Electrophysiology • Cancer pain
Chloé (PhD) @scichloep.bsky.social PhD scientist | Stem cells/hPSCs, neural crest, neuroscience & cancer | Former MSCA ITN NEUcrest CM on Twitter | she/her | 🇫🇷/🇲🇶 | All views are mine, repost/likes are not endorsement
Edric Winford, Ph.D @edricdwinford.bsky.social Postdoc @Columbia | Neuroimmunology, Neuropsychology, Aging & Alzheimer’s disease | BRAINS | #BlackInNeuro AφΑ
Mehari Gebreyohanns , MD, FAHA, FAAN @meharig-md.bsky.social Associate Professor Neurology, Stroke Specialist, Global Neurology, Global Health-Chair African Stroke Organization Conference (ASOC) - Service knows no borders
https://profiles.utsouthwestern.edu/profile/141046/mehari-gebreyohanns.html
Rickey Lu @rickeylu.bsky.social 3rd year Ph.D (Ψ) at TSU | he/him |#BlackMentalHealth |😶🌫️| USN Veteran | NorthSide STL | aspiring neuropsychologist
Alecia T. Zellous @zellousalecia.bsky.social Black/Mexicana 🏳️🌈
Undergraduate Student at Georgia Gwinnett College | BS in Psy | Aspiring PhD Student in Neuroscience
Brielle Ferguson @brielleryan.bsky.social Neuroscientist | K99/R00 Fellow | @ForbesUnder30 | Asst. prof @harvardmed | Co-Founder of @BlackInNeuro | she/her
Bianca Jones Marlin, PhD @bjmarlin.bsky.social Neuroscientist at #Columbia #ZuckermanInstitute | #HHMIFHS | Mom & Beau studying parents and offspring | Science that serves humanity.
@davenalcsw.bsky.social @davenalcsw.bsky.social PhD candidate + Clinician - I research how social determinants influence individual and population health outcomes through psychological and biological processes + treat stress- and trauma-related mental health conditions
Shahzad Khan @zadkhan.bsky.social Asst. Professor @ UNC-CH | Molecular Neuroscientist | Neurodegenerative disease | Aging
Brittany Mays, MD @pmrheadachemd.bsky.social Asst. Professor @PennNeurology #Physiatrist #Headache Specialist| Trained @MassGenBrigham| @UMiami_PMR| @MedicalCollege| @Xavier
My opinions❌medical advice 💕💚
Defiant Jazz (aka Dr. Kwasa) @jkwasa.bsky.social BME and Neuro postdoc researcher @ Carnegie Mellon University. Chief Tech Officer. Inclusive and equitable neurotech design. 2024 U.S. Fulbright Scholar. The favorite auntie 😏
Living somewhere between Pittsburgh, Nairobi, and Chicago
Michael D. Burton @mdburton.bsky.social Neuroimmunology and Behavior Lab PI @lab_nib at @UT_Dallas. Lover of Genetics @UTDPainCenter #neuroimmunology, #BlackinNeuro #ritaallenscholar #ASCBFREDfellow
https://linktr.ee/mdburton
Manni Adam @manniadam.bsky.social @UCSF Postdoctoral Fellow in neuroscience at the Harwell lab | regulatory processes in neurodevelopment |
ManniAdam.com
Charmaine 🐰 @leetzo.bsky.social MSc Clinical Neuro-Psychology Candidate 🧠 | NeuroCognition | Cognitive Rehabilitation | Brain Imaging | Psychotherapy | #blackinclinicalneuropsych
Shadé @shadeeleazer.bsky.social Yale Neuro PhD student 🐿️
Cordaris Butler (he/him/his) Ph.D @elvenmagicarcher.bsky.social UT San Antonio Health Sciences - Adult Neuropsychology Fellow
Stephen Manchishi @smm204.bsky.social Academic; Mammalian Reproductive Neuroendocrinology - Kisspeptin & the HPG axis; University of Zambia