Eliza Bliss-Moreau
Affective neuroscientist studying how & why we feel from womb-to-tomb.
Chancellor’s Leadership Professor of Psychology @ UC Davis
Core Scientist @ the CNPRC
blissmoreaulab.ucdavis.edu
CNY -> Chestnut Hill -> Yolo
Views my own.
- “Nerd tunnel vision” apparently includes narcissism, misogyny, and a defunct moral compass. This behavior just scratches the surface of want (most? many?) women in science deal with on a daily basis.
- From 2019: Jeffrey Epstein liked to describe himself as a “science philanthropist,” and academics liked to take his money. As more of Epstein’s enablers are uncovered, it’s worth asking why it was so easy for him to infiltrate science in the first place. Read more from @lopatto.bsky.social:
- The Venn diagram of “psychologists & neuroscientists that women said were creeps” & “psych and neuro dudes in the Epstein files” isn’t a perfect overlapping circle. The latter is nested within the former. We’ve been screaming this for ages & there more out there. For the love of god, trust women.
- "Momma, why you so sad? You angry? You frustrated? I give you hug and make you happy?" Soul crushingly on repeat from my (almost) 3 year old this weekend, blissfully unaware of the world he's growing up in and how his namesake fought in WW2 to ensure this wouldn't be the world order.
- Reposted by Eliza Bliss-MoreauA video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
- Reposted by Eliza Bliss-MoreauLet’s be clear about what the Trump regime is saying to Minnesota: “We will continue murdering your citizens unless you help us rig your election.”
- Pam Bondi's conditions for Minnesota: 1) give us all your state data on your food programs, including SNAP 2) repeal all your sanctuary policies in the state (since it has led to "so much crime and violence") and 3) hand over your state voting rolls. Letter here: www.fox9.com/news/minneap...
- Hope. Maybe a tiny bit of hope.
- Reposted by Eliza Bliss-MoreauAs ICE terrorizes our communities, farmworkers are still feeding this country — every single day. #WeFeedYou
- Reworking an assignment for my big undergrad class and checking the questions in dif AI monsters and this is new (compared to a year ago)...
- I do love a day on here when it becomes clear that a lot of senior scientists in bio or bio adjacent fields need to read an intro bio textbook.
- Protip: If you are requesting rec letters, please follow up and make sure they get submitted. I just found requests in my Junk mail, some of which are outdated. Those of us who submit hundreds of letters each year often do not keep track of specific requests. Some may go missed w/o follow up.
- This headline is so dystopian.
- I am very thankful that my wonderful colleague Karen Bales (baleslab.bsky.social ) has signed on to direct our center moving forward. She's been a breath of fresh air and incredibly effective in the 2 years that she's been the interim in the role. www.ucdavis.edu/news/karen-b...
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- This. Same/similar deal at NSF, etc.
- Reposted by Eliza Bliss-MoreauWhen I explain to people what is involved with writing a successful grant, they simply don’t believe me. I explained it once to a famous person from Pixar, and he looked me square in the eye and said: You mean all the cancer and Alzheimer’s grants work that way? You’ve gotta be &$%#ing kidding me!
- Reposted by Eliza Bliss-MoreauOne thing to add here is the immense impact this incredibly tiny fraction of PIs has had on our knowledge of the brain! To quote a great NHP neuroscientist that shall remain anonymous: this is real science!
- Reposted by Eliza Bliss-MoreauI definitely didn’t just scrape the web to get the h-index and total citation count as of 12/30/2025 for 319 living and dead nonhuman primate researchers to get a sense of publication metrics by rank on tenure-track.
- Starting next week, I’m teaching courses heavy in scientific writing at both the undergrad and grad level. If successful, each will produce an actual manuscript. What are your favorite resources for teaching people to write science well?
- Every quarter that I teach. Without fail.
- In related news, I am nearly done w rec letters. The folks I've had the privilege to teach/mentor are so smart and creative. They inspire hope and writing their letters is joyful. So the Team AI folks are also opting out of those positive reflective moments. Sucks for them.
- Apropos of... well... I'm reviewing applications for a variety of things right now and can tell when letters are written by AI. There aren't many of them but they do exist. They are... not good. If you're an academic trainee, choose your mentors wisely.
- Reposted by Eliza Bliss-Moreau❤️ Bluesky fMRI people! 3-day #fMRI course live online Jan 7-9, 2026. #SPM, #ICA, GLM, connectivity, mediation, MRI physics, #DataScience with @vcalhoun.bsky.social and Kent Kiehl. We love talking methods & connecting with colleagues! Come join us! Register here: sites.google.com/dartmouth.ed...
- Last year, I taught a seminar w the goal of unhiding the hidden curriculum re: research and grad school. Folks are now applying for grad school, I'm writing them letters, & I have this sense the course "worked" based their trajectories & materials which are awesome! Pure joy writing their letters!
- I am begging of grad admissions software to not require accounts and resetting passwords and just send a single link we can use to upload letters. On years when I write dozens of letters, I waste hours dealing with clunky interfaces.
- Reposted by Eliza Bliss-MoreauThrilled that our paper is out today in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s4...
- This, and also, create a food cupboard where you work to lower the barriers to accessing food. We just did this at our research center because, as illustrated in the thread below it's not just access to food, but efficient access to food. Having to wait in long lines makes the situation worse.
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- Just got the unofficial news that a former lab member got tenure and alum wins are one of the best parts of my job.
- So super important and such top notch science from an incredible team!
- A spatially resolved transcriptomic atlas of the primate amygdala (human, macaque, and baboon) now out in Science Advances (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...). The amygdala contains 32 types of neurons with many neuron types specific to particular subdivisions. Lots of updates from the preprint!
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- Our department is hiring!
- UC Davis is hiring! A tenure-track assistant professor of psychology, in human cognition or cognitive neuroscience #psychjobs recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300
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- We call this “conversational riffing”in my family and the expectation is you keep track of your own brackets and those of everyone else in the conversation and are ready at any moment to jump back to a previous conversational melody at any point. It is one of my most important scientific skills.
- I've started blocking of time with different configurations of lab members to advance some of our papers and we work in a shared document. Just sat down for a session to work on one of our affect development papers. Coming back to gems like this makes me LOL.
- If people have suggestions about how to get creatively scientifically inspired in these challenging times, I'm all ears.
