Dopamine Society @dopaminesociety.bsky.social Dopamine Society brings together international scientists studying dopamine in the healthy and diseased brain.
SAVE THE DATE: 🧠📍May 17-21, 2026 Sevilla, Spain!
🚨Registration & abstract submissions: https://dopaminesociety.org/
Cat Zamorano @catazamorano.bsky.social UWPharmacology PhD candidate in the Bruchas Lab. she/her 🇨🇱
Jaeeon Lee @jel0624.bsky.social Currently Postdoc in the Uchida lab
Previously in Sabatini lab, Harvard
https://jel0624.github.io/
Diana Martinez @5footscientist.bsky.social Assistant professor @Coopermedschool | synaptic plasticity/neuromodulation in sleep & cardioresp disease. | Rotating Chaos | #jerseystrong l Yankees | We’re from Jersey baby, and you’re not. | A Diva Has Distractions | www.themartinezlab.com
Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social Affective neuroscientist studying how & why we feel from womb-to-tomb.
Chancellor’s Leadership Professor of Psychology @ UC Davis
Associate Director @ NBRI at UCDavis
blissmoreaulab.ucdavis.edu
CNY -> Chestnut Hill -> Yolo
Views my own.
Steve Maren @stevemaren.bsky.social Brains, emotions, memories. Director, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 🔶🔷
SJo @sjo09.bsky.social Short Canadian 
Jibran Khokhar @drjkhokhar.bsky.social Associate Professor, CRC in Translational Neuropsychopharmacology Western University Open-Source Behavioural Tools
Committed to knowing better and doing better!
Jackie Gio @jackiegio.bsky.social 🧠 Assistant Professor @ Temple SOM; part-time potter 🏺
Amelia Eisch 🧪🧠👩🔬 🐁 @eisch.bsky.social Philadelphia Neuroscience Professor obsessed w/dentate gyrus, mentoring, unsweet soymilk. Opinions & bad jokes are mine not my employer’s. She/her/cat.
https://sites.google.com/view/eischlab
Pics: 75% my smiling face, desk, laptop, blue sky with clouds
Nicola Grissom @nicolagrissom.bsky.social Rodent e-sports enthusiast. UMN Psychology and Neuroscience 
Erin Harris, PhD @neuroerin.bsky.social Neuroscientist at Georgia State University 🐀🧠👩🏻🔬 stress | sex differences | scicomm | singing
she/her
http://tiktok.com/@neuroerin
Rudebeck Lab @rudebecklab.bsky.social Neuroscience lab at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. 
Stephanie L. Grella, PhD @sgrella.bsky.social #firstgen 🇨🇦 Assistant Professor @LoyolaChicago - The MNEME Lab: memory-updating and neuromodulatory mechanisms • beh-systems neuro • stress, anxiety, addiction • she/her • stephaniegrella.com
Ashley Ingiosi @ashleyingiosi.bsky.social Neuroscientist | Assistant Professor at Ohio State | sleep & glia | BRAIN K99/R00 | singer | DIYer | mom of 3 | Go Blue! | in-JOH-zee | she/her
A^2 | Seattle | Spokane | Cbus
Lab website: https://www.ingiosilab.com
MarinaP63 @marinap63.bsky.social Yale INP Director, SfN Pres, nicotinian and Iso’s mom
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.
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
Mark Laubach @marklaubach.bsky.social Neurobiologist studying the prefrontal cortex
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Sophia Levis, MD, PhD @sclevis.bsky.social PGY-1 UC Irvine Psychiatry | MD/PhD from UC Irvine MSTP | NIDA NRSA Fellow | Interested in early life adversity, reward circuits, addiction | sc_levis on Twitter
Vinny Costa @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social Neuroscientist (PhD) exploring how the primate 🧠 learns and decides, while exploiting the consumption of 🍕 and 🥯
All posts made in a personal capacity and do not reflect the views of my employer.
Lab website: www.fullcolorbrain.com
SYR/GNV/DC/PDX/ATL
Jocelyn @jocelynrichard.bsky.social neuroscientist and friend to cats
she/her, st paul, mn
Lindsay Schwarz @lindsayschwarz.bsky.social Assoc Prof, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, neural circuits/norepinephrine, mom, sewist
Janine Kwapis (she/her) @j9kwapis.bsky.social Assistant Prof at Penn State studying the molecular biology of learning & memory. Lover of dogs, books, and nail polish.
Dr. Lisa Briand @lbriand.bsky.social Neuroscientist 🧠 Animal models of SUD. 🐭Glutamate is the most exciting neurotransmitter. 🤗 Bold & Bright 🌈 Nature photography enthusiast 📷
Abha Karki Rajbhandari, PhD @brainbodylab.bsky.social Assistant Professor @MountSinaiPsych ▪Brain+Vagus+Body interactions in stress, fear and energy metabolism Lab ▪Yoga teacher▪
https://labs.icahn.mssm.edu/karkilab/
Nepal/UofM/UW-Mad/UCLA/Sinai
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known"🧠🌌-CS
Chip Pickens @chippickens.bsky.social Neuroscientist, psychologist, and professor.
Living the dream out in the prairie.
Jordan Marrocco @jordanmarrocco.bsky.social Neuroendocrinologist • Assistant Professor of Biology, Psychology, and Neuroscience @ Touro University • New York Medical College • Board of Directors ALBA Network
Mel Sharpe @melissajsharpe.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of Sydney 🇦🇺
UNSW | NIDA/Princeton | UCLA | USyd
Neuroscience, Prefrontal Cortex, Dopamine, Lateral Hypothalamus, Reinforcement Learning, Wine. (She/Her).
Carrie Ferrario @cferrario.bsky.social Neuroscientist, musician, work in progress
Jones Parker @jonesparker.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at Northwestern University. Studying the dopamine system in normal and pathological behaviors.
http://www.parkerlaboratory.com
Kate Nautiyal @katenautiyal.bsky.social Behavioral neuroscientist, serotonologist, mom of two, wife of one, outdoor enthusiast, Associate Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College
Ben Samuels @bensamuels.bsky.social Dad. Associate Professor of Psychology at Rutgers. Yankees fan.
David Moorman @davidmoorman.bsky.social Neuroscientist; Associate Professor at UMass Amherst
moormanlab.org
Jenn Murray @jennemurray.bsky.social Assoc Prof | Addiction, Interoception, and Motivation Lab | U of Guelph | she/her | 🏳️🌈 | 📚 | 🌳
Jared Young @jaredwyoung.bsky.social Scottish neuropsychopharmacologist living in sunny San Diego for some reason! At UCSD but thoughts and rants certainly my own! Proud founder of several LGBTQIA2S+ socials at conferences! He/they, him/them 🏴🏳️🌈
Fabien Naneix @fabnaneix.bsky.social Lecturer at the Rowett Institute, University of Aberdeen. Former GS Bordeaux Neurocampus. Post are my own.
Science, pop culture and gifs. May content some left politics. He/him
www.naneixlab.com
ORCID 0000-0002-7888-338X
John Christianson @jcbc.bsky.social JCBC lab dad guitars boats biking in place insula and stress trying to make good http://christiansonlab.bc.edu
@davidbarkerphd.bsky.social @davidbarkerphd.bsky.social 
Georgia Hodes @georgiahodes.bsky.social Neuroscientist, Mom, art enthusiast, very, very tired.
Elizabeth West @ewbrains.bsky.social neuroscientist🧠, mom, Associate Professor
Rowan Virtua SOM, previously UNC, Georgetown, University of Delaware, she/her, opinions my own. west-lab.org
SMArtsynapses @smartsynapses.bsky.social Asst. Professor @ Northwestern
_Caribbean, Neuroscientist
#cAMP #PKA #endocannabinoids #dopamine #basalganglia
Lori Knackstedt @loriknacklab.bsky.social Neuroscientist/behavioral pharmacologist interested in the study of addiction & stress @UF. Opinions are my own and not those of my institution.- F Florence Varodayan @fvarodayan.bsky.social Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Binghamton University. She/her. https://bit.ly/2WNlbIQ
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
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Michael Saddoris @msaddor1.bsky.social Associate professor of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of Colorado: Learning, stress, drug abuse and development.
Catherine Thomas, PhD @dopacat.bsky.social Neuroscientist @ Mightex Systems
🇬🇧➡️🇨🇦
She/her
Lisa Taxier @lisataxier.bsky.social Neuroscience postdoc in the Kash lab at UNC-Chapel Hill. In search of the world's most perfect french fry.
Mitch Morningstar @neuromorning.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow at University of New Mexico | In vivo electrophysiologist. Interests in alcohol, addiction, FASD, decision making and spatial navigation. IU ➡️ IUI ➡️ UNM
Joyce Besheer @jbesheer.bsky.social Behavioral neuroscientist | Professor @ UNC-CH | Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies | Psychiatry
Stress, addiction, treatment targets
She/her
Angela @angelaozburn.bsky.social Scientist, mom to lulu (dog) and pookie (cat), love living in the PNW
TheBehaviourForum.org @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social www.TheBehaviourForum.org is an unique online to discuss all about animal behaviour: experimentation, protocols, articles, pro-tips, welfare, legislation, conferences, networking! Created and hosted by COST_TEATIME.
Asaf Keller @asafkeller.bsky.social Neuroscientist. Laboratory of Sensory Perception
Professor and Chairman, Dept. Neurobiology,
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Views are my own
Sam Woodburn @samcwoodburn.bsky.social Researching the neurobiology of stress and novel treatments for psychiatric disorders. Postdoc in the Kwan lab at Cornell. Mental health advocate and level 16 Orc Wizard. He/him.
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
Brandon Hughes PhD @brandonhughesphd.bsky.social Husband, neuroscientist, cat dad, first-gen
Ron Keiflin @ronkeiflin.bsky.social Behavioral Neuroscientist • Associative learning • Decision-making @UC Santa Barbara
KeiflinLab.com
@jtuscher.bsky.social @jtuscher.bsky.social 
Stephen V Mahler @svmahler.bsky.social Behavioral Neuroscientist, Prof, ICAN co-Director, Ivan Pavlov fan.
Interested in rats, drugs, motivation circuits, orexin, VP, DREADDs, psychedelics, neurodevelopment, etc
https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/mahlerlab/
http://www.youtube.com/@stephenvmahler56
Meghan Gallo @meghangallo.bsky.social Behavioral Neuroscientist
Postdoc, Kellendonk Lab | Visiting Postdoc, Radulescu Lab
Columbia University | NYSPI | Mount Sinai
https://meghangallo.com
#aging #stress #dopamine #acetylcholine #learning #decisionmaking
Jennifer Bussell PhD @jenbussell.bsky.social Neuroscientist studying information seeking and curiosity via mouse models at Columbia University. Previously at Vosshall Lab at Rockefeller University. Mom in Brooklyn, former S Carolinian www.jenniferbussell.org
Chen Ran @chenran.bsky.social Neuroscientist. Assistant Professor at Scripps Research.
https://www.ran-lab.org
Petra Mocellin @petramoce.bsky.social Neuroscientist studying midbrain circuits & motivated behaviors 🔎🧠🐭
Neuropeptides | Parental Behavior | Parkinson Disease
EMBO postdoctoral fellow
PostDoc @UCBerkeley - Lammel Lab
PhD @UniBonn - Remy Lab
Eelke Snoeren @eelkesnoeren.bsky.social Behavioral neuroscientist with a research focus on the neural regulation of natural rewarding behaviors. Living above the polar circle.
Full professor, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Oliver Bosch @olibosch.bsky.social Neurobiologist; interested in social attachment - from mother's love to bond disruption. CRF, oxytocin, vasopressin.
www.go.ur.de/maternal
Currently secretary general of @ebbsociety.bsky.social
Iris Ka-Yi Chat @iriskayichat.bsky.social postdoc at ucla | clinical psych phd, temple | reward processing, psychoneuroimmunology, & mood psychopathology | she/they 🌈🇭🇰🌱
Andrew MacAskill @macaskillaf.bsky.social UCL neuroscientist investigating the neural basis of contextual decision making. Views are my own.
Prof @uclnpp
lab website: www.macaskilllab.com
UCL profile: https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/5194
also @macaskillaf@fediscience.org
Chris Rozell @crozell.bsky.social Researcher & Educator | Neuroscience, Neurotechnology & Society | AI, Neuromodulation & Psychiatry | Neuromatch & #firstgen
Tallie Z Baram @talliezee.bsky.social Neuroscienist. Doc. Bren Prof. @UCI. Early-life #stress. #circuits #PVT🧪🧠 #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence reward, CRH #anhedonia. #memory #sexdifferences #epilepsy #epigenetics. Hiker. #classical music. #Travel. New here
Mathieu Wolff @mathieuwolff.bsky.social Thalamocortical circuits of adaptive decision-making
PhD / CNRS / University of Bordeaux / Bordeaux Neurocampus
https://t.co/GVb6rnRA2D
Guitar playing here: https://www.youtube.com/@mathieuwolff
Laura Bradfield (she/her) @bradfield-neuro.bsky.social Behavioural neuroscientist. With a 'u'. Slight obsession with astrocytes
Nancy Padilla-Coreano @drnancypadilla.bsky.social Studying the neural basis of social behaviors
https://www.padillacoreanolab.com/
Co-founder of @storiesofwin https://www.storiesofwin.org/
(ella,she,her)
McKnight and Klingenstein Fellow
Mary Kay Lobo @marykaylobo.bsky.social she/her neuroscientist studying stress, addiction, and stereotypy/ Professor, Vice Chair of Neurobio, Associate Director, Kahlert Institute for Addiction Medicine, @UMmedschool/ UCLA Alum
Jeremy Day @daylab.bsky.social Neuroscientist at UAB interested in molecular and genetic mechanisms in brain function. Director, UAB Comprehensive Neuroscience Center.
Lex Kravitz @kravitzlab.com Neuroscientist studying obesity, feeding, and dopamine
Daniel Castro @flanbrain.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Washington University in St. Louis. We study endogenous opioids in affect, motivation, and metabolism. I love food and puppies.
Zeena Rivera ✨they/them✨ is defending soon👀 @zeenarivera.bsky.social @UCLA Neuroscience #NSF GRFP #HHMI Gilliam | sleepy guy
Aaron Norris @aaronjnorris.bsky.social Anesthesiologist and Neuroscientist
Stress, sedation, and metabolism
Kappa receptor
Norrislab.wustl.edu
Alicia Izquierdo @aliciaizquierdo.bsky.social Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience at UCLA. Family-loving, vinyl-listening Angeleno 🫶🏼 she/her
Posts are my own and do not reflect my employer.
Brian Trainor @briantrainor.bsky.social Behavioral neuroscientist at Univ. of California at Davis. Studying stress, brains, puberty, and social behavior in a super large mouse. Here for science and other fun stuff. Trainorlab.ucdavis.edu
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4627-5478
Stacey Kigar @staceykigar.bsky.social Research Associate, University of Cambridge | Leading Edge fellow | first-gen academic | molecular biologist studying effects of stress across the lifespan 🧠🩸🧬
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 🥱
INCF @incforg.bsky.social INCF supports the development of FAIR and open standards and best practices for global neuroscience.
incf.org
Michael Kearse @michaelkearse.bsky.social Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics, Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University; we study ribosomes & mRNA translation in human biology & disease; advocate for equity & diversity; www.kearselab.org
The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com Weeknights 11/10c on Comedy Central and Paramount+
NPR's Planet Money @planetmoney.bsky.social Don't just understand the economy – understand the world.
linktr.ee/planetmoney
Meike van der Heijden @meikeesther.bsky.social Thinking about work, life, and balance. Looking for answers in the cerebellum.
Assistant Professor @ Virginia Tech
www.vanderheijdenlab.com
Freddy E Escorcia, MD/PhD @freddyeescorcia.bsky.social Radiation Oncologist, Scientist · Cancer imaging and therapy · Radiopharmaceuticals development ☢️ · Personal account
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0727-3242
#RadOnc #nucmed #Radiopharmaceuticals #LiverCancer #HCC #chemsky #medsky #oncsky
Aqilah McCane @drbediya.blacksky.app Mother || Neuroscientist || Jiu-jitsu athlete
Assistant professor in McCaneLab.org 🙌🏾
Vidita Vaidya @viditavaidya.bsky.social Mom, Neuroscientist, Serotonin enthusiast, Professor at TIFR
Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com Professor of Computational Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Aarhus University. PI @ the Embodied Computation Group. We study perception, interoception, & metacogniton.
https://www.the-ecg.org
Karen S Wilcox, PhD (she/her) @karenswilcoxphd.bsky.social Neuroscientist studying epilepsy and looking for cures. LGBTQ ally. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Warning from George Orwell “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” No DMs. Also, I am proud to be woke.
Sarah Borrie @sborrie.bsky.social Wandering neuroscientist. Currently De Strooper lab at @vibneuroleuven.bsky.social, incoming Senior research fellow at @aucklanduni.bsky.social in 2026.
alzheimer's, autism, rasopathies, microglia
Nicole RL Sparks @nicolersparks.bsky.social Asst Prof #UCIrvine in #Env&OccupHealth
Dev toxicologist, wife, mom. Working on toxicant exposure and adverse bone outcomes using pluripotent stem cells. 🦴⚠️🧬🔬👩🏾🔬 #FirstGen #NewPI #BlackInSTEM
Katherine Savell @katherinesavell.bsky.social Scientist. Addiction neuroscience, molecular biology, & bioinformatics | NIDA K99 Postdoc @ National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program, Hope Lab | Leading Edge Fellow | PhD UAB, Day Lab. Personal account
🧠🧬🐀 linktr.ee/katherinesavell
Rachel C. Rice (she/they) @rnachel.bsky.social Noncoding RNA & alcohol epigenetics 🧬
Doctoral candidate & NIAAA Fellow at Pitt, Farris & Homanics labs 🐁
Resident lab goth 🎃🦇
Views my own ✨️
Gergő A. Nagy @gergoanagy.bsky.social Researcher interested in the neurobiology of learned &innate behaviors;
main expertise: in vivo ephys, optogenetics & behavior
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JBYjngsAAAAJ&hl=hu
https://koki.hun-ren.hu/researchgroups/subcortical-modulation
Giacomo Maddaloni @giacomomaddaloni.bsky.social Group Leader @ Institute of Psychiatry and Neuroscience of Paris. Neural circuits for circadian and seasonal rhythms
https://sites.google.com/view/team-maddaloni/
christine liu / two photon art @christineliu.art 🧠 ucsf neuroscience postdoc
🍄 psychedelic researcher
🎨 www.twophotonart.com
🪡 weekend tattoo artist
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