What’s the best way to work as a team across continents on some of the biggest challenges in #neuroscience? Our researchers and colleagues at the @intlbrainlab.bsky.social reveal 20 lessons from their partnership: www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...

The Huston Lab @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social has an open Postdoctoral Research Scientist position. Candidates can apply via the following link: apply.interfolio.com/161100

"HazardPyMatch: A tool for identifying reproductive and other hazards in scientific laboratories" spkl.io/63328At0rn Emily Parker & colleagues @cp-cellrepmethods.bsky.social

Neuroscientists are always looking for new tools that can bring the brain into sharper focus. For postdoc Daniel Du, that means shooting lasers at state-of-the-art microscopes to take better snapshots of the building blocks of the brain: zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/science-life...

How do you make one of the best microscopes in biology even better? Postdoc Daniel Du of the Fitzpatrick lab zapped electrons with a laser. The new research in @elife.bsky.social with Cornell’s Maxson lab promises improved snapshots of the brain: zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/making-world...

This Valentine’s week, find out what fighting fish and jazz soloists have in common. 🐟🎷❤️ Next Thursday, 02/12, join us for Music on the Brain: The Dance Before the Embrace, an evening of live jazz and brain science at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem. bit.ly/MotBFeb2026 #jazz #neuroscience

Neuroscience for NYC high school students? Yes, please! We're celebrating the NYC educators that help us bring brain science from @columbiauniversity.bsky.social labs into the classroom. Read more! 🎓 🧠 🎓 zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/neuroscience...

Happy Black History Month from #BlackInNeuro! 🧠🖤 This month (and every month), we celebrate Black brilliance in neuroscience. Take time to reflect, rest, and honor your wins — you deserve it. ✨

One week to go: the circuits that move us. Our next Stavros Niarchos Foundation Brain Insight Lecture will bring together perspectives from computational, experimental, and clinical approaches to discuss how form meets function in the brain. zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/stavros-niar...

Join us on Feb. 19 for a powerful VR journey to 1937 Addis Ababa, where Ethiopian civilians sought refuge amidst devastating violence. Explore history with artist Ezra Wube, historian Dr. Angelo Caglioti and moderator Dr. Mulugeta Abebe. zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/art-ed-lab-y...

This Valentine’s week, find out what fighting fish and jazz soloists have in common. Join us for Music on the Brain: The Dance Before the Embrace, an evening of live jazz and brain science, at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem February 12, 7–8 pm 🧠🎼

Join us in March for the Teacher Institute for Neuroscience & Society! NYC middle school educators will explore how social media and screen time impact the developing brain through four interactive workshops. Earn a $400 stipend & 10 CTLE credits. Apply by Feb 1 bit.ly/teacher-neur...

Join us for our next Stavros Niarchos Foundation Brain Insight Lecture: The circuits that move us. Experts will bring together perspectives from computational, experimental, and clinical approaches to discuss how form meets function in the brain. zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/stavros-niar...

Congratulations to @franckp.bsky.social, awarded this year’s @fondationfyssen.bsky.social International Prize jointly with Pierre Vanderhaeghen! Read more about their research on genes that guide human brain development. www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/pro...

Our Alan Kanzer Postdoctoral Fellowship program is accepting new applications! The fellowship offers a competitive salary, broad-ranging collaboration opportunities and access to state-of-the-art facilities and equipment. Learn more!! zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/columbia-neu...

Columbia University’s Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons are seeking an outstanding Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in Neuroscience. Applications received by November 22, 2025 will receive full consideration. Learn more: bit.ly/columbianeuro

What makes @columbiauniversity.bsky.social's Center for Theoretical Neuroscience unique? A cadre of top-tier theoretical neuroscientists and a super-collaborative culture. Find out more about the center on its 20th anniversary: zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/how-mathemat...

Join us for Music on the Brain: From Tension to Groove. Pianist and composer Kelly Green teams up with Dr. Anna Zhukovskaya from @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social to uncover the science behind resilience, creativity, and rhythm. 🎼 ❤️🧠 Thursday 11/13 7:00 PM at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem.

Don't miss our Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Brain Insight Lecture: Driving Brain Breakthroughs with Data Science! Today at 6:30 EST 🧠

Neuroscience in middle school? Yes, please! With support from @danafoundation.bsky.social, our Teacher Institute for Neuroscience and Society program brings the latest science into the classroom, such as research on neurodiversity & generative AI. Read more: dana.org/article/meet...

Join us for our next Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Brain Insight Lecture: Driving Brain Breakthroughs with Data Science. Wednesday, November 5, 6:30 PM (EST). Learn more and register: zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/stavros-niar...

Oct 30, 4:30 "How does the Geometry of Brain Activity Shape Behavior?" Valeria Fascianelli; moderator Stefano Fusi, Zuckerman Institute, Columbia. Open seminars series; register here: tinyurl.com/379uda2z @valeriafascianelli.bsky.social , @columbiauniversity.bsky.social, @stefanofusi.bsky.social

Where did an underground mosquito in London come from? @yukihaba.bsky.social in @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social ’s lab found that it evolved 1,000+ yrs ago, showing how early societies helped it thrive in modern times and imperil our health. @science.org @princeton.edu www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our Alan Kanzer Postdoctoral Fellowship program is accepting new applications! The fellowship offers a competitive salary, broad-ranging collaboration opportunities and access to state-of-the-art facilities and equipment. Learn more!! zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/columbia-neu...

Congratulations to Vikram Gadagkar, named HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar, for his leadership in the lab! www.hhmi.org/programs/fre...

Thank you to everyone who participated in this year’s #ColumbiaGivingDay. Your support allows us to maintain and expand important neuroscience research at a critical time. The funding raised from Giving Day will directly fuel our mission and the talented people who make it possible.

Today is #ColumbiaGivingDay! In a rapidly changing world, with shifts and uncertainty in research funding, it is now more important than ever to invest and support basic science and the talented people that make it happen. givingday.columbia.edu/pages/the-mo...

How do the neurons in our brain connect to underlie thought? New free AI-powered software from @columbiauniversity.bsky.social and Ohio State can map these links automatically, rapidly, and accurately to help shed light on how the brain works. zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/ai-tool-reve...

Enthusiasm about discovery, at times with scientific hype squads, marked 2 days of research talks, poster sessions, and data blitzes by faculty, graduate students and postdocs. Read more about our science festival to kick off the academic year 🧠 zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/zuckerman-in...

Join us on October 25, 1–4 PM @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social to explore the electrifying world of energy, from static sparks to lightning bolts! 🔋✨ BIT.LY/SATSCIOCT Free, family-friendly, and open to all curious minds. Don’t miss this high-voltage afternoon of hands-on science fun!

I’m extremely honored to be a recipient of the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award!

Congratulations to @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social on receiving the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, celebrating “scientists with outstanding records of creativity.” His lab will explore how the sense of touch can help build relationships. 🫶🧠💡 See zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/zuckerman-in...

Why study the brain? We asked students, professors and administrators at our institute. Their response: understanding this extraordinary organ is key to understanding ourselves, tackling devastating diseases like Alzheimer’s and building a better future for us all. youtube.com/shorts/Vffog...

Curious about how your brain makes sense of the world? Come to Saturday Science and explore your senses with activities and demos for the whole family. 📅 Saturday, Sept 27 | 1–4 PM 📍Greene Science Center, 605 W 129th St, NYC 🎟️ Free and open to everyone! 👉 Sign up: bit.ly/SatSciSept2025

How does the brain connect with each muscle to control the body? Check out new videos from @columbiamed.bsky.social & @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social that reveal two key molecules behind this vital process in fruit flies. @genesdev.bsky.social zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/microscopic-... 🧠💪🪰

What happens when you listen to speech a different speeds? Does your brain change its processing speed too? It turns out, no @samnorman-haignere.bsky.social & researchers at @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social found the auditory part of the brain keeps clocking in at a fixed time via @natneuro.nature.com

📣 Calling all middle school #STEM teachers in NYC! New spots have become available for the October 2025 Teacher Institute for Neuroscience and Society at @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social. Apply by Sept. 22: zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/teacher-inst... #neurosociety #stemlearning #stemeducation

How does hunger spur us to consume? @columbiauniversity.bsky.social scientists have found a brain area that drives mice to consume sweets, fats, salt & food. This finding may inform novel treatments for both overeating and undereating: zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/brain-dial-c...

Our event "How Early Life Shapes the Developing Brain" was so popular that we’ve added more virtual tickets! Join experts as they discuss early life, brain development, and resilience. Sign up at bit.ly/SNFBILSept

Collaborations are moving neuroscience forward. Scientists from 20 institutions (including ours!) created the first brain-wide map of individual neurons’ activity in mice for the @intlbrainlab.bsky.social. www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/research...

Our latest paper on the development of an #ultrafast #laser #PhasePlate for #cryoET @fitzpatricklab.bsky.social @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social doi.org/10.1063/4.0000770

Last week we proudly celebrated the graduating BRAINYAC class with a poster session highlighting the students’ research! BRAINYAC partners 10th & 11th graders from schools in Upper Manhattan & the Bronx with @columbiauniversity.bsky.social neuroscientists.

Congratulations to @bendeskylab.com on being awarded a @hypothesisfund.bsky.social seed grant! He’s asking why some of an animal’s genes are switched on and others off, depending on which parent the genes came from. And how evolution shapes this phenomenon, called genetic imprinting. 🧠🧬

4/ Awardee @bendeskylab.com investigates how genetic conflict between paternal + maternal genes 👫 ('genomic imprinting') evolved & why this epigenetic phenomenon leads to developmental incompatibilities. 🎉 Congrats Dr. Bendesky! @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social 🙏 #HFScout @harmitmalik.bsky.social

🚨New Marlin Lab publication✨ app.jove.com/v/67112/prof... In this #JoVE, we share a method for extracting meaningful, uninstructed behavioral readouts from constrained video recording environments (🧵1/2) Led @brimcr.bsky.social & @AmirLawen, a @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social collab w/ @ItamarKahn.

Congratulations to @bjmarlin.bsky.social on being named a 2025 Pew Biomedical Scholar! Her research dives deep into what is innate, what is learned and what is chosen by biology to be passed down from generation to generation. 🧠 🌟 www.pew.org/en/projects/...

Join us on September 9 for our next Stavros Niarchos Foundation Brain Insight Lecture: how early life shapes the developing brain. Featuring Claudia Lugo-Candelas, PhD; Kevin G. Bath, PhD; moderated by Thiago Arzua, PhD. Learn more and register: zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/stavros-niar...

Our Teacher Institute for Neuroscience and Society is helping teachers explore neurodiversity, AI & screen time with students, @danafoundation.bsky.social notes. Are you a NYC middle school teacher? Apply by 8/8 for the fall, to dive into AI’s role in schools! bit.ly/teacher-neur...

By growing brain-like balls of cells in lab dishes, our own Joseph Gogos and colleagues are revealing how a missing chunk of chromosome can lead to major problems in the human brain—and potential ways to treat them. Read more in @natcomms.nature.com zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/3-d-brain-ce...

How do brains change over evolution? By comparing the brains of two worms in exquisite detail, research by Oliver Hobert, Steven Cook, et al. reveals evolutionary changes that might one day shed light on brain disorders. Read more in @science.org zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/tale-two-worms