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

Victoria Abraira reflects on a paper from Charles Zuker’s lab that made her wonder which aspects of somatosensory circuits are hardwired, which are plastic and how we can change them, in our latest “This paper changed my life.” #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c...

Framing human brains in terms borrowed from artificial intelligence is dangerous—writes Shohamy lab grad student @iddogefen.bsky.social in @latimes.com. He explores the harm of trying to “optimize” or “fine-tune” people—for education, health, law, art or science. tinyurl.com/2zjsv892

What was @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social up to in 2024? See for yourself in our Yearly Recap: bit.ly/ZIyearlyrecap

Is it possible to fix the problems a missing bit of chromosome might cause in the brain? The work of our own Gogos lab, featured in @forbes.com, explores how DNA fragments might one day help reverse such memory and learning problems: www.forbes.com/sites/willia...

🌈 📖 Explore memoirs, novels, essays, and more from Columbia authors that celebrate the unique stories and shared histories of the LGBTQ+ community.

Congrats to @columbiauniversity.bsky.social scientist @lintonvision.bsky.social, who received the David Marr Medal from the Applied Vision Association @theava-uk.bsky.social for "pioneering research on visual experience." 🏆 👁️ 🧠

Recent funding cuts have targeted the training of new scientists across the United States. What does this mean for the future of discovery and innovation? Reflect with us here on the dangers of losing today’s young scientists: youtu.be/AZCAs4N7alU?...

How do you make a decision in a situation you’ve never encountered? Memories do much of the thinking long before you have to make the choice. Read more by Daphna Shohamy, @jonathannicholas.bsky.social and Nathaniel Daw in @natcomms.nature.com zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/memories-can...

Come explore the workings of the brain at Saturday Science on June 7, and help us celebrate #ManhattanvilleCommunityDay with an amazing lineup of food, fun, and activities for all! More info: www.eventbrite.com/e/saturday-s...

How do knots of DNA help create our sense of smell? Learn more from new research by Joan Pulupa, Natalie McArthur and Stavros Lomvardas in ‪‪‪@nature.com‬ Read: zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/how-knots-dn... @columbiauniversity.bsky.social #neuroscience

This colorful brain image comes from a mouse with missing DNA. Its cells should be deformed and malfunctional. But scientists in the Gogos lab used DNA fragments (yellow and green) to reverse the damage. Could this help people with genetic disease? zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/restoring-br...

Creativity, neoteny and synaptic density may be what makes us human. In our latest interview, SWC Seminar speaker @franckp.bsky.social (@zuckermanbrain.bsky.social) traces our cognitive uniqueness from cave art to cortical circuits. Read the article: www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/qa/what-...

Why create an AI model of a fish? New research from our own Nate Sawtell & Larry Abbott, along with Denis Turcu, shows how real fish can use electricity to scan the world, findings that could help us understand our own senses, such as vision: zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/how-ai-fish-...