Our next Family Night — exploring how the environment affects the brain — is Tuesday, Nov. 18 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. RSVP today to join the IlluminationSpace for an exciting evening of hands-on science activities for all ages. https://bit.ly/4qYc5Gu

CUNY ASRC researchers — led by Andrea Alù, Distinguished and Einstein Professor of Physics at the CUNY Graduate Center and director of our Photonics Initiative, — and colleagues' recent discovery could revolutionize quantum communication and ultra-compact photonic devices. https://bit.ly/49cq4lT

Congratulations to my PHD student Georgie Humphries @asrc-gc.bsky.social for sharing her poster on our recent trial AUV #phytoplankton and #waterquality survey in #JamaicaBay. #CERF2025

Join us on Thursday, Nov. 13 at the CUNY ASRC for the second Nanofabrication Research Showcase Day! The day will feature presentations by ASRC Nanofab users, an interactive poster session, and more. Don't miss out on this opportunity to connect with peers. RSVP today. https://bit.ly/499Nkko

#WritingTip: Sometimes it can be helpful to step away from the screen and do something more tactile. For instance, write out your key points on index cards and test out different structures, draft a paragraph longhand to slow yourself down, or print a draft and annotate it to plan for revision.

www.cell.com/cell-reports... new paper in cell reports sustainability with @asrc-gc.bsky.social colleagues

An interdisciplinary team of CUNY ASRC scientists unveil a groundbreaking conceptual model & integrative monitoring framework designed to reveal how climate change stresses life across the planet. This study could transform how detect, understand, & respond to climate threats. https://bit.ly/4p06rBU

Prof. @pinar-ayata.bsky.social, CUNY ASRC Neuroscience Initiative, and colleagues identified a previously unrecognized protective state of microglia (the brain’s primary immune cells) that may open new avenues for treating Alzheimer’s disease. Check out their paper in Nature! go.nature.com/3JMJovx

Props to my colleague here at the @asrc-gc.bsky.social , @fravallese.bsky.social , for this wonderful piece about the uniquely strong structural biology community here in NYC. I often feel lucky to be here. Let's keep up the good vibes and forward momentum -- exciting times for struct bio!

Prof. Delaram Kahrobaei shares her path to mathematics and her research www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQrp...

A\Prof. Qiushi Guo of @asrc-gc.bsky.social giving his Feliks Gross/Henry Wasser award lecture @cunyacademygc.bsky.social

@asrc-gc.bsky.social Halloween social!

Helping staff this awesome space today (Climate w/ @asrc-gc.bsky.social ), tomorrow (Innovating For Inclusion), & Wednesday (Community Engagement), with @beta.nyc, @cunypitlab.bsky.social . Check out the schedule & come by, or watch the stream at twitch.tv/cunypitlab! @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

ICYMI, watch a great City of Science discussion. Venki Ramakrishan, Nobel winner & author of Why We Die, spoke w/Prof David Jeruzalmi of CCNY & CUNY Graduate Center. Intro’d by GC Pres @joshbrumberg.bsky.social & Pres Bruce Stillman, Cold Spring Harbor Lab youtu.be/vzlYoH0jYYs @asrc-gc.bsky.social

Ready to share, participate, and collaborate in an open knowledge network? On Thursday 10/23/25 at 12:00pm, come join our workshop and learn "How to Use Knowledge Commons." RSVP now at cuny.is/gcdiworkshops

A team of scientists led by Prof. Andrea Alù, Einstein & Distinguished Prof. of Physics @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social & director of the ASRC's Photonics Initiative, discovered a groundbreaking way to control sound & vibrations using a phenomenon originally developed for electronics. bit.ly/43klI8i

Guest speaker Maria Antonietta Loi joins the CUNY ASRC Photonics Initiative on Oct. 27 for a presentation on the fabrication of 3D superlattices, a promising candidate for the next generation of optoelectronic devices. https://bit.ly/4h1BvP0

The inaugural Roosevelt House Forum event, "The Science-to-Sustainability Dialogue Series," returns tomorrow. Join expert scientists, policymakers, and public and private practitioners for panel discussions on climate change, artificial intelligence, and global health challenges. bit.ly/478Hvkz

How do young parasites recognize their own species, and why do some, but not other, hosts accept foreign eggs in their nests? Explore this mystery with Dr Mark E Hauber, executive director of the CUNY ASRC, on Oct. 20 at our latest “Interdisciplinary Seminar Series" talk. https://bit.ly/48u1QTH

A team of scientists led by Prof. Andrea Alù, Einstein & Distinguished Prof. of Physics @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social & director of the ASRC's Photonics Initiative, discovered a groundbreaking way to control sound & vibrations using a phenomenon originally developed for electronics. bit.ly/43klI8i

🎉🎉🎉Please join us to congratulate @rebeccalopez.bsky.social on receiving @asrc-gc.bsky.social 2025 Epigenetics Core Pilot Award, co-sponsored by @10xgenomics.bsky.social @genewiz.bsky.social!

Mark Hauber (@thecowbirdlab.bsky.social), executive director of the CUNY ASRC, and an international team of researchers have discovered that the hosts of birds that lay their eggs in other species' nests (known as brood parasites) use the same sound to warn of nearby threats. bit.ly/4nDQCRj

Nobel Prize-winning chemist and author of "Why We Die," Venki Ramakrishnan, is set to speak with Prof. David Jeruzalmi about his groundbreaking work at next month's City of Science event. Join the conversation in person at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social, or remotely! bit.ly/42ayRR1

Brains, crystals, lasers — oh, my! 😱 Join us on Oct. 28 for a spooky night of fun science activities for all ages and trick-or-treating throughout the CUNY ASRC. RSVP to attend. bit.ly/4pWKPrD

✨ Big news! The CUNY Corpus of New York City English is launching Oct. 17 at the CUNY Graduate Center. Come hear about this NSF-funded resource for studying language variation & change. 📅 Oct. 17, 12–2 pm 📍 GC, Room 9206 🔗 Register by Oct. 15: tinyurl.com/4ycdyf4f

Saying farewell to Mande Holford, a frequent @asrc-gc.bsky.social coauthor!

Brains, crystals, lasers — oh, my! 😱 Join us on Oct. 28 for a spooky night of fun science activities for all ages and trick-or-treating throughout the CUNY ASRC. RSVP to attend. bit.ly/4pWKPrD

Happy to Share my Just Joshing Comments for this month www.gc.cuny.edu/news/just-jo...

Can we use maps to plot our five senses? Yes! And DF Anna Corbett shares examples of these maps with us in this week's Tagging the Tower blog post, "Maps of Multi-Sensorial Learning." Read it at gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2025/10/03/m...

📢Join us this Thursday, October 9th, for our next Seminar! Featuring Dr. Antonio Aubry, Instructor, Dept. of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Interested in exploring ways to visualize data? Take the first steps toward creating your own maps and visualizing spatial data at the @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social's Digital Initiatives' Oct. 6 intro-level workshop. No prior experience is necessary. bit.ly/4mPJjoy

www.nature.com/articles/s41... @asrc-gc.bsky.social #NSFfunded with data from from 6 different continents

@asrc-gc.bsky.social hosting prof Brad Sutton, from @beckmanillinois.bsky.social to talk about MRI systems

Professor Makoto Fujita, who specializes in supramolecular coordination chemistry, is leading a talk at the CUNY ASRC on Monday, Oct. 6. The talk, hosted by the Nanoscience Initiative, is titled “Coordination Self-Assembly: From Origins to the Latest Advances.” RSVP at bit.ly/3VLvE6S

@leslievosshall.bsky.social giving the @ccnyresearch.bsky.social lecture @asrc-gc.bsky.social

Happening today: The CUNY ASRC IlluminationSpace is hosting its first Community Night of Fall from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Bring your friends and family (children are, of course, welcome!) for a night filled with activities, snacks, and a tour of our facilities. bit.ly/3ILLyuW

Nobel Prize-winning chemist and author of "Why We Die," Venki Ramakrishnan, is set to speak with Prof. David Jeruzalmi about his groundbreaking work at next month's City of Science event. Join the conversation in person at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social, or remotely! bit.ly/42ayRR1

See you in 10? 😊

Happening today: Prof. Patrizia Casaccia, director of the Neuroscience Initiative, is hosting a talk with Ella Doron-Mandel, who works at the intersection of neuroscience and cell biology. Explore Doron-Mandel's research on complex matters at 12 p.m. in person or remotely! bit.ly/3VB98gW

CUNY's new rapid response legal resource is now available for current students and employees who have been impacted by immigration policy changes, are facing issues traveling in and out of the country or have been detained by law enforcement. For more information, visit cuny.edu/CIAP.

Planning a collaboration with www.skylab.dtu.dk @asrc-gc.bsky.social and @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

Visitors from the Taipei Dept of Education @asrc-gc.bsky.social today!

Join Prof. Peter Groffman on 9/24 for a collaborative & expert visioning session about integrating natural climate solutions into renewable energy infrastructure. The event, hosted by and located at the National Wildlife Federation at the Treehouse at Doris Duke Center, is from at 12 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Have you registered for the Third Annual NanoBioNYC Symposium? Join us to learn about cutting-edge developments in Bio-Inspired Nanoscience and connect with groundbreaking researchers! bit.ly/4mzyfw9 📅 Friday, Sept. 19 ⏰ 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 📍 CUNY ASRC 1st Floor Auditorium and Café

🎙️ Season 4 of CUNY Uncut kicks off! Host David Horn sits down with Denice Morán Ramirez — a 1st-gen Latina + PhD candidate in Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology at the Grad Center CUNY.🌟 From the lab to social media, she’s breaking barriers in STEM! Watch now 🔬🎧: youtu.be/fbiEgulO0z4?...

NASA GISS talk @asrc-gc.bsky.social interdisciplinary seminar series!

@asrc-gc.bsky.social visited by our Provost and Dean from @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

Dean for the Sciences Brian R. Gibney opens up about his priorities and how he plans to enhance science research and education at the Graduate Center

Have you registered for the Third Annual NanoBioNYC Symposium? Join us to learn about cutting-edge developments in Bio-Inspired Nanoscience and connect with groundbreaking researchers! bit.ly/4mzyfw9 📅 Friday, Sept. 19 ⏰ 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 📍 CUNY ASRC 1st Floor Auditorium and Café