Melissa Franch, PhD @mfranch.bsky.social Postdoc in the Hayden lab at Baylor College of Medicine studying neural computations of natural language & communication in humans. Sister to someone with autism. F32 NIDCD Fellow | Autism Research Institute funded | Simons F2F | she/her. melissafranch.com
Open Mind @openmindjournal.bsky.social Cognitive science journal published by MIT Press.
https://direct.mit.edu/opmi
Andrew Bahle @andrewbahle.bsky.social neuroscience and behavior in parrots and songbirds
Simons junior fellow and post-doc at NYU Langone studying vocal communication, PhD MIT brain and cognitive sciences
Data on the Brain & Mind @NeurIPS2025 @dataonbrainmind.bsky.social Workshop at #NeurIPS2025 aiming to connect machine learning researchers with neuroscientists and cognitive scientists by focusing on concrete, open problems grounded in emerging neural and behavioral datasets.
🔗 https://data-brain-mind.github.io- D David Poeppel @davidpoeppel.bsky.social
@samnorman-haignere.bsky.social @samnorman-haignere.bsky.social 
Tahereh Toosi @taherehtoosi.bsky.social Associate Research Scientist at Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute
Kavli Institute for Brain Science
K99-R00 scholar NEI NIH
Experimentalist->Computationalist!
https://toosi.github.io/
Matteo Carandini @carandinilab.net Neuroscientist at University College London (www.ucl.ac.uk/cortexlab). Opinions my own.
Zahra Kadkhodaie @zahra-kadkhodaie.bsky.social Flatiron Research Fellow at @CCN and CCM
Junyi Chu @junyi.bsky.social Cognitive scientist studying play & problem solving
jchu10.github.io
@carolinehaimerl.bsky.social @carolinehaimerl.bsky.social 
NeurIPS Conference @neuripsconf.bsky.social San Diego Dec 2-7, 25 and Mexico City Nov 30-Dec 5, 25. Comments to this account are not monitored. Please send feedback to townhall@neurips.cc.
Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social Scripps Research Professor. HHMI Investigator. Nobel Prize Physiology or Medicine 2021. Opinions are my own and do not reflect those of my employer.
Andreas Tolias @andreastolias.bsky.social Stanford Professor | NeuroAI Scientist | Entrepreneur working at the intersection of neuroscience, AI, and neurotechnology to decode intelligence @ enigmaproject.ai
Binxu Wang 😸 @binxuwang.bsky.social 
Hafez Ghaemi @hafezghm.bsky.social Ph.D. Student @mila-quebec.bsky.social and @umontreal.ca, AI Researcher
Rosa Lafer-Sousa @rosalafersousa.bsky.social 🧠 Scientist | UW-Madison Asst. Prof 🦡 |
| Former NIH Postdoc |
Organizer & Advocate for Science, Democracy, and Labor 🧪🇺🇸✊
(opinions are my own)
Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org Illuminating math and science. Supported by the Simons Foundation. 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting. www.quantamagazine.org
Meenakshi Khosla @meenakshikhosla.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UCSD Cognitive Science and CSE (affiliate) | Past: Postdoc @MIT, PhD @Cornell, B. Tech @IITKanpur | Interested in Biological and Artificial Intelligence
Paul Masset @paulmasset.bsky.social Assistant Professor, McGill University | Associate Academic Member, Mila - Quebec AI Institute | Neuroscience and AI, learning and inference, dopamine and cognition
https://massetlab.org/
Tim Verstynen @tdverstynen.bsky.social Professor
Department Gadfly
Data Alchemist
Synthetic Psychologist
Zombie Apologist
“The enemy” - JD Vance
This is an anti-ICE account
Opinions are my own. Not gonna let my employer take credit for them.
Adrien Doerig @adriendoerig.bsky.social Cognitive computational neuroscience, machine learning, psychophysics & consciousness.
Currently Professor at Freie Universität Berlin, also affiliated with the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience.
Zoe Boundy-Singer @zoebsinger.bsky.social Postdoc in the Jazayeri lab at MIT, formerly Phd student in the Goris lab at UT Austin. Interested in the neural mechanisms which enable us to tell good from bad decisions.
Apurva Ratan Murty @apurvaratan.bsky.social Neuroscientist. Assistant Professor of Cognition and Brain Science @ GeorgiaTech Prev: Postdoc @ MIT, PhD @ IISc Bangalore
www.murtylab.com
Meenakshi Asokan @meenakshiasokan.bsky.social Neuroscience postdoc, Jane Coffin Childs & Leading Edge Fellow, Falkner Lab @ Princeton| Interested in hormones, brain & behavior| PhD @ Harvard| BTech @ IIT Madras| Stories of WiN🎙️| https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Ql5Nm9UAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Sonica Saraf @sonicasaraf.bsky.social Neuroscience PhD student at NYU in the Movshon and Chung Labs.
https://www.cns.nyu.edu/~saraf/
ss6786@nyu.edu
Emily J Allen @emjallen.bsky.social Research Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota 
Gouki Okazawa @gouki-okazawa.bsky.social PI at Institute of Neuroscience, CAS, Shanghai. Studying neural mechanisms of object recognition and decision making. Previously, PhD in Japan, postdoc at NYU
https://okazawagouki.github.io/
Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit @gatsbyucl.bsky.social We study the mathematical principles of learning, perception & action in brains & machines. Funded by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation. Based at UCL. www.ucl.ac.uk/life-sciences/gatsby
Laura Driscoll @lndriscoll.bsky.social neuro and AI (they/she)
Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics, theory lead | UW affiliate asst prof
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
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Jonathan Tsay @tsay.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University | Studying how we acquire, adapt, and retain skilled movements | Physical Intelligence Lab: www.tsaylab.com
@whatwouldmariesay.bsky.social @whatwouldmariesay.bsky.social 
Amin Nejatbakhsh @aminejat.bsky.social Research Scientist @META | Visiting Scholar @NYU | PhD @ZuckermanBrain @Columbia | Neuro & AI Enthusiast
CMU Mellon College of Science @cmuscience.bsky.social Carnegie Mellon University's Mellon College of Science is a leader in diverse fields of scientific research and prepares students to become 21st century scientists.
@schrodingers-kat.bsky.social @schrodingers-kat.bsky.social 
Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition @the-cnbc.bsky.social A cross-university research and educational program between CMU and Pitt to investigate the cognitive and neural mechanisms that give rise to biological intelligence and behavior.
https://www.cnbc.cmu.edu
MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social Committed to the daily re-imagining of what a university press can be since 1962.
Website: https://mitpress.mit.edu
The Reader (our home for excerpts, essays, & interviews): https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
MIT Press Direct: https://direct.mit.edu/
Cephalopods Daily @cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social 🐙🦑 Cephalopod Enthusiast 🇨🇦 iNaturalist Junkie 🦑🐙
Yael @yaelniv.bsky.social she/her pronounced Ya'elle, not like the university. Comp cog neuro, feminist, activist, mom. Stop the war NOW. End the occupation. Equality will bring security.
Altmetric @altmetric.com We measure the attention that research outputs receive from policy documents, mainstream news outlets, Wikipedia, social media and online reference managers. We detect sentiment of Bluesky/X posts.
Come for the attention to research. Stay for the memes.
COSYNE @cosynemeeting.bsky.social Computational & Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE) Conference
11-16 March 2027, Montreal, QC, Canada
Here too:
🧠Instagram: @cosynemeeting
🧠X: @CosyneMeeting
🧠Neuromatch.social: @CosyneMeeting
Eero Simoncelli @eerosim.bsky.social Professor at NYU; Scientific Director at Ctr for Computational Neurocience, Flatiron Institute. Research in Computational Vision (neurons, perception, machines). Opinions my own.
@erik-schomburg.bsky.social @erik-schomburg.bsky.social 
Ralph Emilio Peterson @ralphpeterson.bsky.social Neuroscientist & musician interested in sensory processing, natural neuroscience, biological/artificial collective intelligence.
Northeastern -> Harvard -> NYU -> Basis Research Institute
Wiktor Młynarski @samplingrage.bsky.social Computational Neuroscience at LMU Munich | https://compneurobio.org | 🇵🇱🇪🇺
allen institute @alleninstitute.org accelerating science for a healthier world
Leonid Grinberg @leonidg.bsky.social A lawyer, but I try not to be annoying about it. (he/him)
Sarah Harvey @sarah-harvey.bsky.social Research fellow at @flatironinstitute.org Center for Computational Neuroscience
Kate Nussenbaum @katenuss.bsky.social assistant professor at Boston University | learning, memory, development | bucoldlab.org
Bria Long @brialong.bsky.social Interested in how we learn to derive visual meaning. Asst. Prof. at UCSD Psych. Mom x2, open science advocate. She/her.
brialong.com | vislearnlab.org
Anne Carpenter @drannecarpenter.bsky.social Dedicated to drug discovery, enthralled by science. 5 kids. She. SAB Recursion. Founder SyzOnc. Lab at Broad Institute. Opinions my own.
Florentin Guth @florentinguth.bsky.social Postdoc at NYU CDS and Flatiron CCN. Wants to understand why deep learning works.
Aramis T. @arajt.bsky.social Research Analyst at Flatiron Institute.
Joshua Pughe-Sanford @jpewpewpew.bsky.social Post-Doc at the Flatiron Institute in NYC. Interested in complex nonlinear dynamical systems and describing the formation of large scale coherent behavior in such systems. 
Alex Williams @itsneuronal.bsky.social Asst Prof at NYU + Flatiron Institute
Computational + Statistical Neuroscience
https://neurostatslab.org/
Pierre-Etienne Fiquet @pfiquet.bsky.social Theoretical Neuroscientist
Research Fellow @ Flatiron
https://users.flatironinstitute.org/~pfiquet/
Flatiron Institute @flatironinstitute.org Advancing scientific research through computational methods and software tools. Centers: #FlatironCCA, #FlatironCCB, #FlatironCCM, #FlatironCCN and #FlatironCCQ
David Lipshutz @lipshutz.bsky.social Studying neural computation • Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine • lipshutzlab.com
Dimitra Maoutsa @dimma.bsky.social Theor/Comp Neuroscientist (postdoc)
Prev@TU Munich
Stoch&nonlin dynamics @TU Berlin&@MPIDS
...
Learning dynamics, plasticity&geometry of representations
https://dimitra-maoutsa.github.io
https://dimitra-maoutsa.github.io/M-Dims-Blog
Pedro J. Goncalves @ppjgoncalves.bsky.social Computational Neuroscience and Machine Learning. Group Leader at VIB.AI (vib.ai/en) and Associate Professor at KU Leuven (www.kuleuven.be/english/kuleuven). Affiliated with VIB-KUL CN (vibneuroscienceleuven.be).
More details at goncalveslab.sites.vib.be
Anand Subramoney @anandsubramoney.bsky.social Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at Royal Holloway, University of London
ML and Computational Neuroscience
🧠🇬🇧🇩🇪🇦🇹🇺🇸🇮🇳
Mastodon: @anandsubramoney@sigmoid.social
https://anandsubramoney.com
Teddy Yerxa @tedyerxa.bsky.social Neuroscience PhD candidate in the Simoncelli and Chung labs at NYU. Trying to force computers to see the way people do.
A Erdem Sagtekin @aesagtekin.bsky.social theoretical neuroscience phd student at columbia
Colin Bredenberg @colin-bredenberg.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Montreal and Mila - Quebec AI Institute. Amateur writer.
Cian O'Donnell @cianodonnell.bsky.social Computational neuroscientist.
Senior Lecturer at Ulster University in the Great City of Derry, Northern Ireland.
"not articulate enough"
https://odonnellgroup.github.io
Evan Schaffer @esschaffer.bsky.social Computational neuroscientist, Assistant Professor at @sinaibrain.bsky.social, Mount Sinai. Views are my own. New York, NY. He/him. schafferlab.com
Cengiz Pehlevan @cpehlevan.bsky.social theory of neural networks for natural and artificial intelligence
https://pehlevan.seas.harvard.edu/
Rui Ponte Costa @somnirons.bsky.social Computational neuroscientist bringing machine and neural learning closer together [Oxford NeuroAI] @ox.ac.uk @oxforddpag.bsky.social 🇵🇹🇪🇺🇬🇧🌳
neuralml.github.io
www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/neuroai
The Viking (Gunnar Blohm) @gunnarblohm.bsky.social CoSMO, Neuromatch, Neuro4Pros co-founder.
Comp neuro at Queen's U 🇨🇦 studying sensorimotor control.
Vice-Director (Queen's) of Connected Minds.
Mentor, dad, brewing, gardener, artist, antifa.
Renaissance man. Believer in humanity!
http://compneurosci.com/
Philipp Berens @philipp.hertie.ai Professor of Data Science @ University of Tübingen, Director of Hertie AI (www.hertie.ai) and Speaker of ML4Science (www.machinelearningforscience.de)
Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org Computational neuroscientist at Imperial College. I like spikes and making science better (Neuromatch, Brian spiking neural network simulator, SNUFA annual workshop on spiking neurons).
🧪 https://neural-reckoning.org/
📷 https://adobe.ly/3On5B29
Shervin Safavi @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social searching for principles, adaptive behaviors, empirical approach, integration | doing comp neuroscience & psychiatry | PI @cmc-lab.bsky.social | previously @maxplanckcampus.bsky.social (Peter Dayan & Nikos Logothetis)
Sacha van Albada @albada.bsky.social Computational neuroscientist chasing the secret of the brain. Junior professor at Jülich Research Center & University of Cologne.
Ezekiel Williams @ezekielwilliams.bsky.social Math, Neuroscience, ML. Postdoc at Imperial College London; also writes music and dreams of post-growth economies 🧠🪴🇵🇸 Website: https://computationalcognition.ca/author/
Adrien Peyrache @apeyrache.bsky.social Space, Sleep, and Spikes | Associate Prof @ McGill, Montreal Neurological Institute | Co-director, The Quebec Sleep Research Network
Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org INSERM group leader @ Neuromodulation Institute and NeuroSpin (Paris) in computational neuroscience.
How and why are computations enabling cognition distributed across the brain?
Expect neuroscience and ML content.
jbarbosa.org
parisneuro.fr
Yohan J John @dryohanjohn.bsky.social 🧠 computational neuroscientist 🤖
Research Staff Scientist, Neuroblox
(views here are my own)
Yue Kris Wu @kriswu.bsky.social Postdoc at the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at Columbia University
yuekriswu.github.io
Robert Rosenbaum @robertrosenbaum.bsky.social Associate Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics and Biological Sciences at U Notre Dame. Theoretically a Neuroscientist.
Ben Lyo @blyo.bsky.social what kind of world do we wish to live in?
neuroscience phd candidate at NYU CNS • advised by Cristina Savin and @eerosim.bsky.social • interested in neural principles governing adaptive behavior
Jakob Macke @jakhmack.bsky.social #AI4Science #CompNeuro #NeuroAI #SBI
www.mackelab.org @mackelab.bsky.social
· PI and Hector Fellow ELLIS Institute @ellisinsttue.bsky.social tue.ellis.eu
· Prof Uni Tuebingen @ml4science.bsky.social BCCN tue.ai
Alireza Modirshanechi @modirshanechi.bsky.social Incoming professor and Emmy Noether awardee at University of Göttingen || Working on computational principles of intelligent decision-making in humans and machines || https://modirlab.github.io/
Guillaume Bellec @bellecguill.bsky.social AI, Neuroscience and Music
Jonathan Cornford @repromancer.bsky.social Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Computational Neuroscience at Leeds University School of Computer Science.
Combining insights from biological and artificial intelligence to develop resource-efficient AI.
Roxana Zeraati @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social Minerva Fast Track Group Leader @mpicybernetics.bsky.social. In search of computational principles of natural adaptive behavior.
Previously, postdoc with Peter Dayan; PhD with Anna Levina and Tatiana Engel.
Website: http://roxanazeraati.org/
Julie Charlton @juliecharlton.bsky.social Postdoc in the Brody lab at Princeton. Trying to understand how multiple brain regions coordinate to make decisions
Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social Boutique Neurotheory & Snazz Compneuro at IST Austria
Gaute Einevoll @gauteeinevoll.bsky.social Physics Professor, NMBU & University of Oslo. Host of two podcasts: Theoretical Neuroscience Podcast (http://theoreticalneuroscience.no) & Vett og vitenskap (http://vettogvitenskap.no). Likes brain physics and Sunderland football club.
Ilenna Jones @ilennaj.bsky.social | Cellular/Molecular-turned-Computational Neuroscientist |
| What do neurons even do?? | Neural Computation with Dendrites |
| Biophysical Optimization | AI <-> Neuro |
| Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Harvard Kempner Institute |
| www.ilenna.com
Jascha Achterberg @achterbrain.bsky.social Neuroscience & AI at University of Oxford and University of Cambridge | Principles of efficient computations + learning in brains, AI, and silicon 🧠 NeuroAI | Gates Cambridge Scholar
www.jachterberg.com
Jaan Aru @jaanaru.bsky.social Raising two kids, co-PI-lot of the Natural and Artificial Intelligence Lab & trying to do some funky research on the intersection of neuroscience, psychology and AI. Estonian
nail.cs.ut.ee
https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=FvFOzS8AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=a
John Pearson @jmxpearson.bsky.social Computational neuroscience, neuroML, natural behavior. I charge more for miracles. PI @ pearsonlab.github.io. Center for Neural Science, NYU and Center for Computational Neuroscience, @flatironinstitute.org.
Antonino Greco @agreco.bsky.social Computational Cognitive Scientist 🧠🤖 • NeuroAI, Predictive Coding, RL & Deep Learning, Complex Systems • Postdoc at @siegellab.bsky.social, @unituebingen.bsky.social • Husband & Dad
🎓 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=k5eR8_oAAAAJ
Venkat Ramaswamy @venkramaswamy.bsky.social Theoretical Neuroscience, Deep Learning, & the space between.
Assistant Professor, Birla Institute of Technology & Science.
http://brain.bits-hyderabad.ac.in/venkat/
Aitor Morales-Gregorio @aitormg.bsky.social Computational neuroscientist 🧠🇪🇺 @ Charles Uni (previously @fz-juelich.de) | Catching up on graphic design | Electrical engineer vibes⚡ | he/him 🏳️🌈
Personal website: https://www.aitormg.eu
Maryeme Ouafoudi @maryouaf.bsky.social All about AI & 🧠
Cole Hurwitz @colehurwitz.bsky.social AI Architect, Core AI, IBM | Agentic AI & AgentOps - find my posts on LinkedIn
DurstewitzLab @durstewitzlab.bsky.social Scientific AI/ machine learning, dynamical systems (reconstruction), generative surrogate models of brains & behavior, applications in neuroscience & mental health
Daniel Gonzales @dgonzales1990.bsky.social • Asst. Professor @ Vanderbilt BME
• HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow
• Neurotechnology & BMIs
• Technically a physicist
• Husband • Dad • BBQ • Texan • he/him
https://gonzales.science/