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Yale University
9 days ago
Ever notice how unfinished tasks are hard to stop thinking about? A new Yale study shows that the brain gives open tasks extra priority, helping explain why they stick with us and shape our focus and motivation.
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Why leaving things unfinished messes with your mind
A new Yale study explains the connection between visual memory and why that unchecked to-do list haunts you.
https://bit.ly/4jzXQo4
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This week at 100 College: Thursday, 1.29 | 9:15a - 12:30p WTI Postdoctoral Symposium Join us for a morning of outstanding research spanning experimental, computational + theoretical approaches to cognition. 🔗
wti.yale.edu/event/2026-01/postdoc-symposium
Open to the Yale community!
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12 days ago
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14 days ago
Winter in the Elm City ❄️ Swipe through some snowy scenes from this weekend's storm.
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Yale Center For Research Computing
23 days ago
Introduction to HPC on Yale's Clusters Hands-on Workshop: Thursday, January 22nd, 9am -12pm This workshop will introduce new users to the HPC resources available at Yale.
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YCRC Introduction to HPC Hands-On Workshop Thursday, Jan 22, 9am-12pm
In order to participate in this training, you need an account on one of Yale's clusters. If you do not currently have an account, please request an account and register for this workshop once your acc...
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28 days ago
Curiosity is leading researchers in surprising new directions. In the newest Insights & Outcomes column,
#Yale
scientists: ◾ Revisit a distant mass extinction to understand our world today ◾ Uncover hidden brain networks that shape behavior ◾ Test how “enhanced weathering” advances climate solutions
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Brain circuits, bioturbation, and a new physics doc
Yale researchers study a mass extinction from the distant past, uncover hidden brain networks, and share expertise at an international meeting on enhanced weathering.
https://bit.ly/48y740l
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Yale University
about 1 month ago
Stress plays a powerful role in how we learn and remember. A new Yale-led study shows how the hormone cortisol reshapes brain communication and strengthens emotional memories, while also exploring when stress might support learning and adaptation.
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Stress hormones can alter brain networks -- and strengthen emotional memories
A new Yale study investigates how cortisol, a stress-related hormone, helps the brain build emotional memories.
https://bit.ly/3Ys4UJM
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Today @ 100 College: Current Works in Neuroscience in Human Neuroscience: Brett Foster, “How arousal shapes memory formation across sleep and wake” Monday, January 12 | 4:00 - 5:15 pm | Floor 1, Room 180A 🔗
wti.yale.edu/event/2026-0...
Events are open to the Yale community.
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Clíona Murray, PhD (neé Kelly)
about 1 month ago
Happy New Year folks!! Start the year off with a submission into Black In Neuro’s first ever special issue. 18 days until the deadline, keep an eye out for the release 📝 ✨
@binmanhattan.bsky.social
@academic.oup.com
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about 1 month ago
A new approach could help AI answer complex questions faster and more accurately. In a prize-winning paper, Yale engineer Alex Lew shows how some guiding constraints can slow AI or distort results and offers a practical way to improve both speed and quality.
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An algorithm that generates faster and better responses to your inquiries
The new paper provides a faster and more accurate algorithm for generating structured text from language models.
https://bit.ly/44uSnbZ
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Tomorrow @ 100 College Street: WTI Inspiring Speaker: M. Marsel Mesulam Frontotemporal disorders and cognition Thursday, January 8 | 10 - 11:15 am 🔗
wti.yale.edu/event/2026-01/inspiring-speaker-marsel-mesulam
Events are open to the Yale community.
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about 1 month ago
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Yale Neuroscience
about 1 month ago
Founded in 2021,
@yale.edu
's Wu Tsai Institute 🏢 is advancing human neuroscience research by connecting cutting-edge neuroimaging, computation, and behavioral science to uncover how brain networks give rise to cognition 🧠 Read More 👇
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Wu Tsai Institute: Making the right connections
With state-of-the-art research facilities and collaborative spaces, Yale’s Wu Tsai Institute is on a mission to understand human cognition by bridging academic disciplines.
https://news.yale.edu/2025/12/05/wu-tsai-institute-making-right-connections
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Yale Kavli Institute for Neuroscience
2 months ago
🚨Applications for 2026's
@kavliatyale.bsky.social
Fellowships and Awards are officially open! 🚨 For more information on eligibility, application, and funding details 👇
medicine.yale.edu/kavli/initia...
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300+ researchers supported. 4,600+ hours of instrument use. New immersive + super-resolution technologies. See how WTI’s shared research facilities expanded to support interdisciplinary research across Yale in our Year in Review:
wti.yale.edu/year-in-review
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about 1 month ago
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15,000+ visits. 570+ events. 300+ coffee hours. See how 100 College Street brought the Yale community together in our Year in Review:
wti.yale.edu/year-in-review
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We celebrate our interdisciplinary research community! Look back + learn more about the humans, science + technologies advancing our understanding of cognition in the Wu Tsai Institute’s Year in Review:
wti.yale.edu/year-in-review
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about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
Understanding the mind takes many ways of seeing. Faculty at the Wu Tsai Institute are working across neuroscience, engineering, and psychology to study how the mind works. A look inside the institute’s new home shows how shared spaces and new tools are supporting discovery through collaboration.
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Wu Tsai Institute: Making the right connections
With state-of-the-art research facilities and collaborative spaces, Yale's Wu Tsai Institute is on a mission to understand human cognition by bridging academic disciplines.
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Cognitive Neuroscience Society
about 2 months ago
From Sam McDougle's love of music has sprung a focus on how people learn and get better at motor skills – an area he sees as sometimes neglected in cognitive neuroscience. Read a new Q&A with him, a preview of his
#CNS2026
YIA talk:
www.cogneurosociety.org/taking-actio...
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Taking Action Seriously in the Brain: Revealing the Role of Cognition in Motor Skills
Samuel McDougle, a CNS 2026 YIA recipient, studies both how people build motor skills through mental functions like “motor working memory."
https://www.cogneurosociety.org/taking-action-seriously-in-the-brain-revealing-the-role-of-cognition-in-motor-skills/
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Society for Neuroscience
about 2 months ago
Happening tomorrow! Reserve your spot for this Meet-the-Expert webinar with Daniel A. Colón- Ramos, PhD, to dive into the cell biology of energy metabolism. 🔗:
vist.ly/4irfb
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WTI is hiring a Research Software Engineer. Join our interdisciplinary community at Yale to collaborate with researchers on brain + behavioral data. Learn more at the link below + share this opportunity with your network! 🔗
wti.yale.edu/opportunities
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about 2 months ago
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Tristan Geiller
about 2 months ago
We had so much fun at our first Yale Hippocampus Symposium! Full house, thanks everyone for coming. Really grateful to
@wutsaiyale.bsky.social
for sponsoring the event and helping me organize it. I hope we can do it again!
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Phil Corlett
about 2 months ago
What a treat!
@alisongopnik.bsky.social
on the tension between exploration and exploitation across development, and the role of elders in care and transmission
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This week at 100 College: WTI Inspiring Speaker: Alison Gopnik, “Three ages and three intelligences: Exploit, explore, empower” 12.11.25 | 10 – 11:15a 100 College St, Workshop 1116 🔗
wti.yale.edu/event/2025-12/inspiring-speaker-alison-gopnik
All Yale community members are welcome.
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2 months ago
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Calling Yale undergrads from all majors + research experience levels! Applications are now open for WTI's Undergraduate Fellowships, supporting full-time summer research. 🔗
wti.yale.edu/initiatives/undergraduate
🗓️ Info Session | 12.8.25 | 1p | 100 College Rm 1167
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2 months ago
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Yale University
3 months ago
How does self-control really work in the moment? Yale psychologist Melissa Ferguson and her team used mouse-tracking to study what happens in the split seconds when we face temptation. The findings show that decision-making is often more gradual than we think.
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Measuring temptation one mouse click at a time
In a Q&A Yale psychologist Melissa Ferguson explains how “mouse-tracking” gives researchers a better glimpse into how people really summon self-control in the face of temptation -- or fail to.
http://bit.ly/3JyNOGr
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Tristan Geiller
3 months ago
5-day SfN step count: 48.3 km / 30 miles
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The deadline to apply for WTI's neurocomputation faculty position is December 1, 2025. Details below. ⬇️
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Wednesday posters to visit: 8a-12p | PSTR412.06 Omri Raccah Auditory and multisensory representations in the human hippocampus Raccah is a postdoc at Yale in the Turk-Browne Lab focused broadly on how the human brain supports the formation real-world episodic memories.
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Omri Raccah
3 months ago
Come check out my poster at
#SfN
, Wed (8am-12pm, NN1)! "Auditory and multisensory representations in the human hippocampus" Using high-resolution fMRI, we ask how does the human hippocampus represent sensory modalities beyond vision, and how does it integrate sense information across modalities?
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Rebecca Horne
3 months ago
Fave illo by
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: What are the fastest-growing areas in neuroscience? Respondents pointed to computational neuroscience, systems neuroscience, neuroimaging, among other subfields.
@thetransmitter.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/neuroscience...
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Survey: What are the fastest-growing areas in neuroscience?
Respondents pointed to computational neuroscience, systems neuroscience, neuroimmunology and neuroimaging, among other subfields.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/neuroscience/what-are-the-fastest-growing-areas-in-neuroscience/
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Tristan Geiller
3 months ago
📣Interested in doing a postdoc at Yale?📣 We’re looking for someone with a strong molecular biology/biochemistry background who’s eager to learn multiphoton imaging + behavior. No systems neuro experience needed! Our lab will be at SfN (poster PP3, Monday PM) - happy to chat!
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Tuesday 11.18 presentations to visit: 8a-12p | NANO035 🧠 Weikang Shi Neural dynamics of social evidence accumulation in cooperative interactions of freely moving marmosets
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3 months ago
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Dan Levenstein
3 months ago
Since so many people are here for
#sfn25
this week, maybe a good time to mention the algorithmic “For You” feed:
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which shows you posts that people who liked the same things as you liked 🫧📌
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The Wu Tsai Institute at Yale University is hiring! Two faculty searches are now open for neurocomputation and neurodevelopment. If you are at
#SfN25
, visit booth #3724 to learn more.
wti.yale.edu/opportunities
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3 months ago
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Happy Monday
#SfN25
! Posters to visit: 11.17 | 1-2p | PSTR253.29 Nilesh Jain Functional Encoding Units represent interpretable attractor-like dynamics in neural ensembles Visit
#Booth3724
on Tuesday, 3-5p, to learn more about Jain's research on dopamine and reinforcement learning.
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3 months ago
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Giovanna Guerrero-Medina, PhD
3 months ago
The new generation of Puerto Rican scientists had a spontaneous meeting at the
@wutsaiyale.bsky.social
booth to talk about STEM outreach and public engagement
#sfn25
#CienciaPR
#NeuroGrad
#NeuroID
#UPRRioPiedras
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Giovanna Guerrero-Medina, PhD
3 months ago
In his
#sfn25
session
@dacolon.bsky.social
draws lessons from his winding path in science: 1) follow your curiosity, 2) there is not 1 blueprint for being a scientist: learn from the diversity of experiences of others, and (3) to find your path, pay attention to what sparks your interest
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Giovanna Guerrero-Medina, PhD
3 months ago
En un excelente panel sobre neurociencia en español en
#sfn25
. Felicitaciones a
@fleabrained.bsky.social
por organizar esta sesión. Acaba de empezar así que tienen chance de sumarse si quieren ideas y consejos de cómo comunicar ciencia en español.
#Scicomm
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Sunday
#SfN25
session shout-out: Meet-the-Expert | 1–2 p | SDCC 5B Daniel Colón-Ramos Powering the Brain: A Journey Into the Cell Biology of Energy Metabolism
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3 months ago
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Erica Busch
3 months ago
Excited to be at
#SfN25
! Come catch my poster “Neural dimensionality expands over the course of brain-computer interface learning” wed PM (W15) if you’re interested in non-invasive BCIs, neural manifolds, human learning, etc. Building upon our recent work (
doi.org/10.1101/2025.03.29.646109
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Accelerated learning of a noninvasive human brain-computer interface via manifold geometry
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) promise to restore and enhance a wide range of human capabilities. However, a barrier to the adoption of BCIs is how long it can take users to learn to control them. W...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.29.646109v1
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Visit WTI at booth #3427 to meet researchers from the biological, psychological + computational sciences, plus learn about our open faculty positions, fellowship programs + state-of-the-art research facilities. Scan your badge for some excellent Yale swag!
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3 months ago
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Daniel Colón-Ramos
3 months ago
If you are at
#sfn2025
, please come by tomorrow! I will talk about energy metabolism, neurons and the winding roads of discovery and careers in science
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christine liu / two photon art
3 months ago
We are ready to see you tomorrow at
#SfN25
at the
#ArtofNeuroscience
exhibit! Meet the crew: Danny,
@isabel-luna.bsky.social
, Tera,
@ellieho21.bsky.social
and me!! We have lots of new stuff for you this year!
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Dan Levenstein
3 months ago
Will be presenting a poster on
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row, Tues AM, with an update our sequential predictive learning preprint: -CA3-like (sparse lognormal) connectivity gives a hippocampus-like (orthogonalized) map -non-spatial representation! splitters, lap/time cells, action plan…we got it all🤑
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Dan Levenstein
3 months ago
TFW you land in San Diego and the bsky is hopping
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The Transmitter
3 months ago
As
@sfn.org
kicks off, here is some guidance to help you get the most out of it—plus a request for principal investigators to train students in “soft skills.” By
@drnancypadilla.bsky.social
#SfN25
#neuroskyence
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Tips to navigate SfN as a trainee
As the mammoth annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience kicks off, here is some guidance to get the most out of it—plus a request for principal investigators to train students in “soft skills.”…
https://www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-careers/tips-to-navigate-sfn-as-a-trainee/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=org-social&utm_campaign=20251115-rp-tips-navigate-sfn
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Megan Carey
3 months ago
Pilot just came on and said that in addition to turbulence, “We are flying today with an unusually large number of tubes. Please make sure you exit the plane with the correct tube.” Non
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passengers very confused 😂
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Saturday poster to visit: 11.15 | 4-5p | PSTR045.12/JJ14 Yuchen Zhou Generative emergence of non-local representations in the hippocampus
www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...
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Sam McDougle
3 months ago
heading to
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Jacob Miller
3 months ago
Presenting on contingency representations in PFC during WM on Saturday at SfN! Featuring fMRI and multi-area RNN modeling from my time with John Murray 🤓 And, recruiting a PhD student for Fall ‘26 in my new lab at U-Miami! Check us out here, and feel free to reach out: jam-lab.org (apps due 12/1)
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Yale Neuroscience
3 months ago
TOMORROW 🙌 kicks off the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting—the world’s largest gathering of neuroscientists—in San Diego, Nov 15–19! 🧠☀️ Keep an eye out for all the members of the
@yaleneuro.bsky.social
community who are presenting their research! 💙
#SfN2025
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