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Debbie Bangasser
@bangasserlab.bsky.social
Neuroendocrinology & Behavior Lab| 3 parts neuro🧠 science🔬🧪 + 1 part Debbie’s weird hobbies 🐦💃🤿 | Debbie’s pronouns she/her/hers
#wildlifewednesday post:

black-winged stilt from Almería, Spain 🇪🇸

#birds #BirdsSeenIn2025 #EBPS2025
November 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
From the archives, 8 yrs ago my grad student at the time Kim carved this for our department pumpkin 🎃 carving contest (guess what task she was doing)
October 31, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Halloween 🎃 in the lab
October 31, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Two of my lab members were super excited to show me their Halloween costumes today 🤣🤣🤣
I wish my hair was actually that fun
October 29, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Our 2025-2026 Neuroendocrinology & Behavior Lab crew (most of them). I so honored to work with this brilliant team!!!! 🧠🧬🔬🧫🧪
October 23, 2025 at 12:34 PM
“Alright, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up”

This Eastern phoebe was really for the photo shoot.

#birds #BirdsSeenIn2025 #BigDayOfBirding #Atl
October 16, 2025 at 10:46 AM
For #WildlifeWednesday one of my fav species: Yellow-billed cuckoo!!

So elusive! I’ve only seen them a few times.

Taken at Lullwater Preserve #ATL

#birds #BirdsSeenIn2025
October 8, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Juvenile greater flamingos 🦩!!!!

How can you tell they’re juvenile? They haven’t eaten enough brine shrimp and crustaceans to become pink yet.

Taken in Cabo de Gata 🇪🇸

#EBPS2025 #BirdsSeenIn2025 #birds
September 30, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Amazing session at #EBPS2025 on sex differences in SUD, mood, & AD. @christinadalla.bsky.social organized a great group.
September 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Lab represented today at the summer UG research symposium. Posters from Valeria, Margie, Luwam, Abby & Jaelen, and Tomi. Super impressed w/ them & their primary mentors!!! Valeria & Tomi took 2nd & 3rd in the competition 👏👏
August 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
So proud of our ION Summer Interns, Violet & Ishaan! These high school students did amazing research in the lab this summer. I was extremely impressed with their contributions to our science & final presentations! The future of 🧠science is bright💡 #ProudPI
August 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
A photo of our @drtraceyshors.bsky.social lab reunion (+family) from #MNS2025 in Crete.

w/ @christinadalla.bsky.social @georgiahodes.bsky.social

Amazing to science with these ladies for a couple of decades!
July 27, 2025 at 12:40 PM
For #WildlifeWednesday orange-bellied flowerpecker (m). Taken in Infanta Philippines 🇵🇭

#birds #BirdsSeenIn2025
July 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
For #WildlifeWednesday orange-bellied flowerpecker (f). Taken in Infanta Philippines 🇵🇭

#birds #BirdsSeenIn2025
July 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Flaming sunbird taken in Infanta Philippines 🇵🇭!

#birds #WildlifeWednesday #BirdsSeenIn2025
July 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
🎉Celebrated @thefortylab.bsky.social’s move to her assistant professor position at University of Michigan

I love ❤️ this photo of Amelia with her mentees!

She’s had such a huge impact in the lab! We will miss her tons!! But we’re thrilled to see her in her new role 🧠🧬🔬
June 30, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Had a great time at the CNAP site visit with my mentee Maria Diehl! Caught up on her amazing science & got to meet her talented team!
June 26, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Had a blast at #SouthernFriedGaming w/ @jessicalbolton.bsky.social She’s as amazing at gaming as at 🧠science. She is the queen of hanging cats on wires in Nekojima! We made a great team 🙌
June 22, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Shors’ lab reunion at #MNS25 with MNS president Christina Dalla, co-chair Georgia Hodes, & speaker Tracey Shors.

Kerry Ressler was our “guest star ⭐️ “, rounding out the panel!
June 10, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Excited to reunite with my friends 💕at the Mediterranean Neuroscience 🧠 Society meeting 🇬🇷 !

The picture is from that meeting 3 years ago.
June 6, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Candid shots of our new lab undergrad orientation. Thrilled to welcome: Valeria, Petra, Montserrat, Abby, & Jaelen to the team!

& so excited for this summer’s 😎 discoveries!!!!!
June 5, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Amazing to see this 🦉 luzon boobok in the Sierra Madres in the Philippines 🇵🇭. I usually have poor luck with owls so this is a big win!

#birds #BirdsSeenIn2025 #WildlifeWednesday
June 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Amazing dive trip to the Puerto Galera, Philippines. Photos by my mom.

Most exciting spot: blue-ringed octopus.

Note the mantis shrimp is carrying eggs
May 31, 2025 at 6:06 PM
More Philippine 🇵🇭 #birds for #WilfelifeWednesday! I love cuckoos. So was thrilled to see this sunda brush cuckoo 💕

#BirdsSeenIn2025 #lifers
May 28, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Get ready for some philippine #bird photos, all #lifers

Amazed to see this scale-feathered malkoha!!!!

Taken in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Infanta 🇵🇭
May 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM