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
Dr. Joyce T. Da Silva @drjoycedasilva.bsky.social Rodent and Human Brain Imaging of Pain🧠Asst. Prof at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Latina🇧🇷Neuroscientist studying sex and age differences in chronic pain
Esteban M Lucero, PhD @elucero.bsky.social Chicano , Geneticist, Former 11B | K00 DSPAN Scholar | NMSU Alum | CU PhD - Genetics of AD
Tracy Bale @thebalelab.bsky.social Neuroscientist. CU Anschutz Professor studying stress and brain development. @IBRO Past President. Community advocate. Lab website: balethompsonLTP.org
Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social Husband, Father, Grandfather, Datahound, Dog lover, Fan of Celtic music, Former NIGMS director, Former EiC of Science, Stand Up for Science advisor, Shananigator, Pittsburgh, PA
NIH Dashboard: https://jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.github.io/index.html
Diana Cejas, MD, MPH @dianacejasmd.bsky.social child neurologist | occasional author | MacDowell '24 | Ucross '25 | Cancer Survivor | Stroke Survivor | Disabled | she / her / hers | my opinions
Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social Professor Dad. ATLien. Scientist.
Critical Cognitive Science
www.criticalcognition.org
Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @heydrdukes.bsky.social ✊🏾🧠 Founding President of #BlackInNeuro 🌍 📚 Neuroscience Professor 👩🏾🏫 #HBCUgrad ✨ International Invited Speaker 🇹🇹🇭🇹 ΔΣΘ🔺 she/her
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
Clíona Murray, PhD (neé Kelly) @clionamurray.com Cognitive Neuroscientist and avid Yorkshire Tea drinker • Co-founder and Programing Co-Director of Black In Neuro • All things VR/XR & neuroimaging research into social interaction and the maternal brain
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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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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
De-Shaine Murray, Ph.D @shaine.bsky.social Neuroengineer creating neural implants to monitor the injured 🧠 • President & co-founder @blackinneuro.bsky.social •
Co-editor of The Black PhD Experience
https://a.co/d/e41qwVc •
Partner in crime @clionamurray.com
www.de-shaine.com
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 🙌🏾
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
Lewis A Wheaton @lwheaton.bsky.social Professor, Biological Sciences; Director, Cognitive Motor Control Laboratory; Director, Center for Programs to Increase Engagement in the Sciences
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
Dr. Nathan A Smith @drnathanasmith.bsky.social Neuroscientist, Martial Artist, and Mentor
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
Nicole 🧠🔬(she/her) @nquintus.bsky.social '24 HHMI Gilliam Fellow
UMNeuroscience PhD Candidate
#BlackInNeuro
Teon ⁂ @teonbrooks.com 🌈 he/him/Dr. 🌹
👨🏾🔬 cognitive scientist 🧪🧠
🛠️ building @gothamdataclinic.org
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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
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🧠
Heather Snell @heatherdsnell.bsky.social Neuro. Cerebellum. Assistant Professor at Yale School of Medicine, Allen Institute Next Gen Leader, Board Member of The Swaliga Foundation, Lead organizer/matriarch of People of Color Burning Man camp. My words. She/her
www.snelllab.org
Dr Felix Effah, MRes, MPhil, PhD @dreffah.bsky.social Neuropharmacologist, Toxicologist and Biomedical engineer @University of Rochester Medical Center
James Finley @jamesmfinley.bsky.social Associate Prof. and Director of the Locomotor Control Lab at USC. Father x3, slow runner and cyclist, hip hop enthusiast. 
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
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. 
Jefferson Ortega @jortega.bsky.social PhD Student in Cognitive Neuroscience at the Whitney Lab @UCBerkeley, researching social perception, cognition, and vision science 👁🎭 | Born in 🇩🇴, raised in Wash. Heights | NIH D-SPAN F99 Fellow
Ben Shaw @shawdoesscience.bsky.social PhD in Physiology at University of Kentucky | Postdoc in the Williams lab at Cleveland Clinic | Neuroimmunology and cognition | #DSPAN #firstgen
Meghan @meghankramirez.bsky.social PhD candidate | Neuroimaging, memory & Alzheimer’s disease | F99/K00 DSPAN Scholar | she/her
Victoria Honnell @victoriahonnell.bsky.social Developmental Neurobiologist | Postdoc in the Amamoto lab at @harvardmed.bsky.social /MEEI studying regeneration | @stjude.bsky.social alum | NIH DSPAN | BWFUND PDEP
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
Joy Franco, PhD @engineeringjoy.bsky.social Sensory neuroscientist and biomeasurements engineer obsessing over calcium regulation in neurons and therapies for sensorineural hearing loss. NIH DSPAN fellow. NIA K00 Awardee. Bike racer. About me -> Neurojoy.net
Ashley Cunningham, PhD @ashleyonthebrain.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow| Friedman Lab| Rockefeller University 🧬| DSPAN F99/K00 Fellow| @BlackInNeuro Co-Founder ✊🏾 | (she/her) #BiInSci🏳️🌈 🌱 🐶
Lindsay🧠 @neuromelody.bsky.social Neuro PhD | she/her 🇨🇲 | #DSPAN F99/K00 Fellow | #BlackinNeuro #scicomm
📩neuromelody1@gmail.com
Dena Goldblatt @denagoldblatt.bsky.social Postdoc at NINDS. Interests in spinal circuit assembly & function, neuro-evo-devo. 🐟—>🐭. Prev. Brandeis, NYU Neuro, DSPAN fellow
Krissy Lyon @krissylyon.bsky.social Neuroscientist & astrocyte enthusiast | Postdoc in the Allen lab @SalkInstitute.bsky.social | NINDS K99 | @lclark.bsky.social and Harvard PiN alum | she/her
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
Christian Cazares, Ph.D. @fleabrained.bsky.social Neuroscientist researching neurodevelopmental conditions | Postdoc | UC San Diego: Voytek / Salk Institute: Callaway Labs | DSPAN F99/K00 | San Diego IRACDA | BWFUND PDEP | UC San Diego Chancellor's Fellow | Co-founder of Colors of the Brain 501(c)(3)
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 💪🏾
MM @phdeez.bsky.social Neuroscientist »» civil servant committed to creating a biomedical workforce welcoming to all. Spelman BS 💙 Pitt PhD. ⟦Tweets my own⟧- G Lolo @golologo.bsky.social
Society for Neuroscience @sfn.org The largest nonprofit of scientists & physicians devoted to understanding the brain & nervous system. SfN.org
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
Lucina Uddin @lucinauddin.bsky.social Professor, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Behavior, UCLA (https://profiles.ucla.edu/lucina.uddin)
Director, Brain Connectivity and Cognition Lab (https://www.semel.ucla.edu/initiatives/brain-connectivity-and-cognition-lab/)
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