Diego A. Pizzagalli, PhD @diegopizzagalli.bsky.social Founding Director, Noel Drury, M.D. Institute for Translational Depression Discoveries
Distinguished Professor & Noel Drury MD Endowed Chair
University of California, Irvine
Society for Research in Child Development @srcdorg.bsky.social SRCD advances the developmental sciences and promotes the use of developmental research to improve human lives. #ChildDevelopment Tweets/RT≠endorsement
Casey Theriot @theriotmicrobe.bsky.social Professor in Infectious Disease, microbiologist, C. difficile, gut microbiome, metabolomics, microbial mediated bile acids, amino acids
Ciaran Murphy-Royal @murphyroyallab.org Neuroscientist | Associate Professor @ University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre
Astrocytes as contextual regulators of brain states & behaviour
PI @ murphyroyallab.org
Marcel van de Wouw, PhD @mvdwouw.bsky.social Microbiome Program Director at the Weston Family Foundation
Microbiome-gut-brain axis | Early life | Healthy aging | Canada
Danruo Zhong @danruozhong.bsky.social I am a postdoc research scientist @Monk_Lab @ColumbiaOBGYN studying early life stress, health and intervention.
International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research @isnpr.bsky.social Website: www.isnpr.org
Conference website: ispnrconf.com/2025
Corinna Schulz @corcerebrum.bsky.social Neuroscience PhD student 🧠 | curious about gut-brain-talk, dopamine, motivation, psychiatry | University of Tübingen & Bonn
@sherimadigan @sherimadigan.bsky.social Clinical Psych Prof @UCalgary, Tier I Canada Research Chair studying mental health, screens, adversity & resilience | firstgen | settler | mum
www.madiganlab.org | www.ACEsHub.org | www.copewithtrauma.org
Nick Wagner @nickjameswagner.bsky.social Dad x 4 - Associate professor studying social and emotional development at Boston University. https://www.bu.edu/cdl/baselab/
Natasha Seaton @natashaseaton.bsky.social Mostly known as Tash. Medical Research Council Doctoral Training Partnership Candidate at IoPPN, King's College London.
Interested in psychoneuroimmunology, health psychology, digital interventions and cool stats.
Alum University of Cambridge
Carolina de Weerth @cdeweerth.bsky.social I like early life, mixing psychology and biology, and our fantastic research group.
Pint of Science US @pintofscience.us Annual science festival taking place in pubs & cafes around the world.
We will be back for #pint26! Save the date: May 18-19-20 !
🗺️ @pintsWorld.bsky.social
More info 👉 https://pintofscience.us
Katie Ehrlich @katiebehrlich.bsky.social New here!
dog mom, wine enthusiast, developmental/health psychologist, UGA prof.
Maryse Berkhout @maryseberkhout.bsky.social Microbes & glycans 🤩 | Gut Microbial Ecology | Wageningen University, NL | https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=PhNYBVUAAAAJ&hl=nl&oi=ao
Razia Sahi @raziasahi.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Psychology at Rutgers-Newark | studying how social interactions shape emotion and well-being 👥 | siemo-lab.github.io
Meredith Faivre @faivrem.bsky.social Clinical psychology PhD student at Binghamton University 🧠 Perinatal mental health, intergenerational risk factors, and the physiology of stress & depression | she/her
Pint of Science World @pintsworld.bsky.social News from all our countries - annual science festival taking place in pubs, bars and cafés in 27 countries/520 cities across the world!
Follow the festival/ share your posts with #pint26
👉 18-20 May 2026
https://pintofscience.com/
Sarah McCormick @smccormick.bsky.social Postdoc in the PINE Lab @ Northeastern University | Adjunct Professor @ Boston College | Interested in neural development, social cognition, and family systems | she/her | 🏳️🌈
https://sites.google.com/northeastern.edu/sarahmccormick
Janet Tomiyama, Ph.D. @janettphd.bsky.social Professor of Psychology at UCLA | Mom | Devotee of cute animals like quokkas, fennec foxes, and Japanese flying squirrels
Arpana Church @arpanachurch.bsky.social Researcher @UCLAHealth | investigating #braingutmicrobiome in #obesity #diet #aging #sex #adversity #GoodmanLuskinMicrobiome #UCLAGI @ABioME
website: https://www.uclahealth.org/departments/medicine/gastro/church-lab
Nazgul Sakenova @nazgulsakenova.bsky.social HHMI-HHWF PostDoc in Bernhardt lab at Harvard | bacterial cell biology
PhD @typaslab.bsky.social at EMBL | systems microbiology
Dustin Haraden @dustinharaden.bsky.social Assistant Professor Clinical Psych @RIT
Sleep, Chronotype & Internalizing Disorders
Developmental Psychopathologist
Data WizaRd
Psychological Gangster
Dad
Genesis Flores @genesisflores.bsky.social Psychology PhD student at UCLA studying how early experiences shape brain, body, and behavioral development | NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Dan Wuori @danwuori.bsky.social Educator, Author of The Daycare Myth: What We Get Wrong About Early Care and Education (and What We Should Do About It) 
Staci Bilbo @sbilbo.bsky.social Brain-body scientist. Microglia, neurodevelopment, and fetal programming of adult disease. Prof and Interim Chair of Neurobiology at Duke Univ.
Jatin Nagpal @jatinnagpal.bsky.social 💭 Neuroscience. Microbiome. Optogenetics.
📍APC Microbiome Ireland. University College Cork.
👤 Lecturer. Co-chair, UCC Race Equality Network. Director, ALBA Network. SciComm Coord., EU COST AFFECT-EVO.
📜 https://research.ucc.ie/profiles/jatin.nagpal@ucc.ie
María R. Aburto @maburto.bsky.social Gut microbes & Neurodevelopment 🧠🦠|Neurovascular Interactions | Brain and Gut Barriers | Senior Lecturer at UCC and APC Microbiome Ireland | Member Young Academy Ireland
Madrid -> Frankfurt -> Cork
Aburto-lab.org
APC Microbiome Ireland @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social A world leading research centre
Host Institutions University College Cork & Teagasc
https://linktr.ee/APCMicrobiomeIreland
John F. Rawls @jfrawls.bsky.social Exploring the physiology of host-microbiome interaction
Professor at the Duke University School of Medicine
https://sites.duke.edu/rawlslab/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-rawls-71b8118/
Zoë A.P. Williams @zapwilliams.bsky.social PhD Student @UCC and @APC Microbiome studying the mechanistic underpinnings of exercise in Alzheimer's Disease - passionate about all things 🧠🏃♀🦠
Nathan @nathnuz.bsky.social Scientist exploring the links between gut bacteria, exercise, and the brain.
Currently a post doc at APC Microbiome Ireland.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yBtBIykAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao 
Mike O'Donnell @mike-od.bsky.social Worms, bacteria and the brain. Asst Prof @MCDB Yale. odonnelllab.yale.edu
Lily Keane @lilykeane.bsky.social Principal Investigator APC microbiome Ireland, Lecturer Anatomy and Neuroscience University College Cork #microglia #glioma #gut-brain-axis #DIPG #chadtough
James Collins, PhD @jcollinsneuro.bsky.social Neuroscientist interested in the effect of microbiota-targeted interventions on gut brain axis dysfunction following early life stress.
Valentine Turpin, PhD @valentineturpin.bsky.social 🇮🇪 INSPIRE MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social
👥 Chair @apcpostdocassoc.bsky.social
🍺 Cork Chapter Manager @pintofscienceie.bsky.social #pint25 #pint26
🎯 Neurodevelopment - Autism Spectrum Disorder - Microbiota Gut Brain axis
Sarah-Jane Leigh @sarah-janeleigh.bsky.social Research Associate at UNSW Sydney | Brain & Behaviour | Microbiome | Neuropsychopharmacology
Ketki Mulay @mulayketki.bsky.social PhD student | UCC Ireland
Adult neurogenesis | Gut-brain axis | Neuroscience
Boushra Dalile @bdalile.bsky.social a multilingual biological psychologist, studying the modulation of mood and cognition via the microbiota-gut-brain axis.
www.boushradalile.com
Katie Guzzetta @ktguzz.bsky.social All things #Microbiota-#Gut-#Brain Axis!👩🔬💩 Postdoc w/ Prof. Randall Platt @ETH Zurich's BSSE🇨🇭 Formerly Hamilton College🇺🇲 ➜ APC Microbiome🇮🇪 ➜ Harvard Med🇺🇲
Ramya balasubramanian @rabal97.bsky.social Postdocing at the McCoy Lab https://www.kathymccoylab.ca/ | Host-Microbiota interaction | When life gives you lemons, I study its impact on the gut microbiome 🦠
Lars Wilmes @larswilmes.bsky.social Postdoc with Anna Beyeler at Neurocentre Magendie. Former Cryanlab member
Thomaz Bastiaanssen, PhD @biothomaz.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at Amsterdam UMC
bioinformatics | microbiome | theoretical ecology | complex systems.
Night Scientist.
he/him
https://thomazbastiaanssen.github.io/
Ben Valderrama @bvalderrama.bsky.social Computational Biologis at APC microbiome Ireland 🇮🇪
Personal website: https://shorturl.at/meCEH
Microbiome-Gut-Brain axis | Gut permeability | Bioinformatics🦠🧬💻 | Stats
Professor Lesley Hoyles @bugsinyourguts.bsky.social And all this science I don't understand, it's just my job five days a week.
Professor of Microbiome and Systems Biology @ Nottingham Trent University. 🏳️🌈
Working predominantly on the human gut microbiota.
All views my own.
Sarah Nicolas @sarah-nicolas.bsky.social Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at CRCA-CBI
#Microglia #Exercise #microbiota #GutBrainAxis #Alzheimer
Omry Koren @omrykoren.bsky.social 
Hugo @hugoneuro.bsky.social PhD student at University College Cork Investigating the role of the maternal gut microbiota in offspring neurodevelopment 🦠🧠
Carlos Ribeiro @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social Neuroscientist at Champalimaud - #food #brain #microbiome using #Drosophila. PI @RibeiroLab and former Secretary General @FENSorg on X
Emma Todd, Gut Microbiome PhD Candidate @emma-microbiome.bsky.social I am a PhD candidate researching the interplay of the gut microbiome, lifestyle, and mental health at the Food and Mood Centre at Deakin University. Passionate science communicator.
Samuele Laudani @samuelelaud.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher passionate about neuroscience and the study of the gut microbiota in health and disease
Gilles Vanwalleghem @drgillesv.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark. Working with Zebrafish to understand the gut-brain axis 
Elizabeth Schneider @elizschneider.bsky.social Lecturer at School of Applied Psychology, University College Cork
MC Audet @mcaudet.bsky.social Associate Professor, School of Nutrition Sciences, University of Ottawa | Neuroscientist 🧠 who loves microbes 🦠, food 🥑, skiing ⛷️ and cats 😸.
audetlab.com
Dr Caitlin Cowan @cc-phd.bsky.social Neuroscientist • Psychologist • Microbiome-gut-brain-ist at UNSW
NHMRC Investigator • UNSW Scientia Fellow • NSW Health EMCR Fellow #SuperstarsOfSTEM 23-24 #TallPoppyNSW 22
Mathieu Thabault, PhD @mathieuthab.bsky.social MSCA INSPIRE Fellow 🇪🇺🇮🇪Psychiatric disorders - Electrophysiologist - Parvalbumin lover - List of publications below - Opinions expressed are my own
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/mathieu.thab
Tamara Tal @tamaratal.bsky.social Mechanistic toxicology group leader @UFZ in Leipzig, Germany. I want to understand how chemicals in the environment disrupt biology.
Varsha Singh @varshasinghuk.bsky.social PI at University of Dundee, UK.
Love my kids, C elegans, microbes and Art.
We study olfaction during development and disease (PD, anosmia) and odours produced by microbiome of animals.
Caroline Wee @carolineleiwee.bsky.social Neuroscience PI in Singapore, brain-body and diet-microbiome interactions, zebrafish researcher, SfN.SG president, cat lover
www.carolineweelab.com
Andrew Octavian Sasmita @aosasmita.bsky.social Walter Benjamin neuro postdoc at UCC 🇮🇪 PhD at MPI-NAT, 🇩🇪 | Alzheimer's x glia x sex differences x gut microbiome 🔬🧠 | (he/they) 🏳️🌈- D Rie Matsu @deriecious.bsky.social Neuroscientist studying the relationship between pesticides🌱 and microbiota–gut–brain axis 🦠🧠 International PhD student @APC microbiome 🇮🇪
Cristina Rosell Cardona @crosellcardona.bsky.social Postdoc INSPIRE MSCA
UCC, Cork, Ireland
@jfosterlab.bsky.social @jfosterlab.bsky.social 
Cat Camacho @catcamacho.bsky.social Neuroscientist at WashU in St. Louis studying emotions, brain development, anxiety, and depression | she/her pronouns | 🏳️🌈🇺🇸🇲🇽
https://sites.wustl.edu/crablab/
Helena Rutherford @hjvrutherford.bsky.social 
LillyBelle Deer, PhD @lillybelledeer.bsky.social Developmental Psychology Assistant Prof @ the University of Utah studying how prenatal and early experiences get under the skin to influence health and cognition. I have 3 dogs, like to swim and trail run.
Kate Nussenbaum @katenuss.bsky.social assistant professor at Boston University | learning, memory, development | bucoldlab.org
Koraly @drkoraly.bsky.social Developmental Psychologist; Coffee Addict; Boricua; Editor-in-Chief of Developmental Psychology
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/)
Hutlab @hutlab.bsky.social The Huttenhower Lab at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health: microbial community function and human microbiome population health;
Moderator: @chahat.bsky.social
Amanda Kentner @mindfulrat.bsky.social Just a mid-career behavioral neuroscientist ticking along, as long as the old heart keeps ticking. Developing #brains & #behavior with a side of #enrichment. Canadian in Boston MA | Posts and other reads are my own| #FirstGen http://www.kentnerlab.org
Natalie Tronson @natalie-t.bsky.social A person | neuroscientist | memory wrangler | sex & gender | immigrant 🦘 | slow at marathons and triathlons 🏊♀️🚴🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️| previously @tronsonlab on Twitter/X
Photo credit: Jeff Wilson.
Tamar Gur MD PhD @tamargurmdphd.bsky.social Scientist. Perinatal psychiatrist. Obsessed with the intrauterine environment and helping mothers. Endowed Director Soter Women’s Health Research Program|Assoc Director, MSTP Program @OSU
Ashley Kopec @ashleykopec.bsky.social Mom, wife, former neuro PI happily recovering as a Scientific Review Officer at CSR
Evan Bordt @evanbordt.bsky.social Assistant Professor @MGH/Harvard Med. Developmental neuroimmunologist. Fascinated by microglia, mitochondria, and behavior.
https://www.bordtlab.com
Georgia Hodes @georgiahodes.bsky.social Neuroscientist, Mom, art enthusiast, very, very tired.
Ashlyn Swift-Gallant @swiftneurolab.bsky.social Associate Professor | Behavioural Neuroscientist @ Memorial University of Newfoundland & Labrador studying #Sexdifferences #Neuroendocrinology #Socialbehavior #Neurodevelopment | she/her
Liz Leadbetter @eleadbetter.bsky.social Assoc Prof @UTHealth in San Antonio. Cellular Immunologist. B cells, iNKT cells, chronic inflammation and obesity. Mom. Too Persistent. Views are my own.
Katy Lenz @neurokaty.bsky.social Neuroscientist studying immune cells and hormones in the brain after stress, brain injury and during pregnancy. Lover of outdoors, cats, cookies, music, thrifting, family.
QMUL Microbiome Network @qmul-microbiome.bsky.social A research network of academics and clinicians engaged in microbiome research in Queen Mary University of London, hosting seminars, symposia and brain-storming sessions
Kate Ellacott @neuroendo.bsky.social Scientist & Educator @ UoExeter #Neuroendocrinology #glia #food intake #obesity #diabetes #metabolism.
Senior Editor at Journal of Neuroendocrinology
President of British Society for Neuroendocrinology.
Enthusiastic but average baker & equestrienne
Caroline Menard @caromenard666.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Associate Professor 👩🔬, Research Chair on Neurobiology of Stress & Resilience, foodie, gamer & metalhead. Menard Lab is @CERVO_ULaval @universitelaval in Quebec City
🧠🐭🔬🧪
Ruairi Robertson @ruairirobertson.bsky.social Lecturer in Microbiome Science, Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London. Studying host-microbiome interactions in early life
🍏Nutritionist
🔬Scientist
🎙️Public speaker
Simon McArthur @drsimonmcarthur.bsky.social Neuropharmacologist at Queen Mary, University of London, studying how diet, the gut/oral #microbiota and their products affect the #brain & #Alzheimer's disease (he/him) 🏳️🌈🇪🇺
Gabriel McKinsey @gabrielmckinsey.bsky.social Neuroimmunologist and developmental biologist.
Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ZaUcPIkAAAAJ&hl=en
Jonathan VanRyzin @jwvanryzin.bsky.social Postdoc at UNC Chapel Hill | Astrocytes and microglia in development and disease | Stress, Social Behavior, Addiction | On the job market 
Sofiya Hupalo @sofiyahupalo.bsky.social Neuroscientist interested in supporting mental health research & early career scientists. Posts ≠ endorsement.
Jayme McReynolds @jaymemcreynolds.bsky.social Assistant Professor at University of Cincinnati COM | Neurobiology of stress and addiction researcher 👩🏻🔬 🧠🧪 | CA ☀️ transplant to the Midwest ❄️ | Cat mom 🐈⬛🐈⬛ | Always tired 🥱
Siegenthaler Lab @siegenthalerlab.bsky.social Neuroscience, meninges, blood-brain barrier, cake (or cookies)
http://siegenthalerlabcu.weebly.com/
Maria Meier @mariame.bsky.social Postdoc at Uni Konstanz and University Hospital Ulm.
Psychologist interested in stress, relaxation & metabolism. 🧠🫀🧪
Likes (trail) running, biking & ski touring. Takes pictures. Loops R & guitar.
https://mariameier.eu
Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology
@ UPenn | Quant-curious | Lv. 11 Dwarf paladin
Inflammatory phenotyping, physiometrics, precision psychiatry
Statistics, Transparency, + Rigor Editor @ Psychological Science
Julie Lasselin @julielasselin.bsky.social Associate Prof in #Psychoneuroimmunology on Integrative Science of Sickness / #SicknessBehavior at Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University (Sweden).
Editor-in-Chief of Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology
Opinions expressed are my own. She/her
PNIRS @pnirs.bsky.social Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society: Discovering the brain-immune contributions to health and disease.
#PNIRS2026: PNIRS.org/meetings
PNIRS Presents: PNIRS.org/PNIRS-presents
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/pnirs
Instagram: @pniresearchsociety
Suzanne Segerstrom @segerstrom.bsky.social Aging, psychology, and health. The Oxford comma. Open science. Dogs and horses. Oregon. Books. Baking. 
Iris Ka-Yi Chat @iriskayichat.bsky.social postdoc at ucla | clinical psych phd, temple | reward processing, psychoneuroimmunology, & mood psychopathology | she/they 🌈🇭🇰🌱
John F. Cryan @jfcryan.bsky.social VP Research & Innovation, University College Cork @ucc.ie @uccresearch.bsky.social |PI @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social |Prof Dept. Anatomy & Neuroscience |MRIA @ria.ie|
Stress, Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis, Brain-Body Interactions, Research Policy
Holly Sullivan-Toole @hollysully.bsky.social Dev Affective Neuro, Reward, Reinforcement Learning, Anhedonia, Dopaminergic Circuitry, Brain Iron
she/her
Peggy Mycek Zoccola @pmzocc.bsky.social Professor at Ohio University | stress scientist | go birds!
Tory Eisenlohr-Moul (CLEAR Lab) @clearlab.bsky.social Assoc Prof @PsychiatryUIC using hormone RCTs to understand #pmdd, #suicide. Assoc Dir @uicmstp. she/they 🏳️🌈 #clinpsych #psychiatry https://linktr.ee/drtemo