🧠 This week at 100 College: Tuesday, 5.12 | WTI Special Seminar: Stephan Saalfeld, "Learning interpretable models of complex dynamical systems with graph neural networks" wti.yale.edu/event/2026-0...

Improving AI may depend on finding what others overlook. For Yale computer scientist Yuejie Chi, that means identifying subtle signals hidden in vast amounts of data. In a Q&A, she explains how this work can help AI systems perform more complex tasks.

Music may play a bigger role in how we connect than we realize. A Yale study finds that listening to simple chord progressions during personal interactions increases brain activity linked to social connection, suggesting music may help us better understand and bond with one another.

📣 First-year Yale PhD students: Applications close TOMORROW, APRIL 16, for WTI's Graduate Certificate in Brains, Minds + Machines! Info: wti.yale.edu/initiatives/... Apply: yalesurvey.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #KnowTogether

🪩 This week at 100 College: Thursday, 4.9 | WTI Inspiring Speaker: Vivek Jayaraman Circuits for fast learning in navigation 🔗 wti.yale.edu/event/2026-0... View more upcoming events at wti.yale.edu/events. Open to the Yale community! #KnowTogether #ScienceAtYale

Applications are now open for WTI's Graduate Certificate in Brains, Minds, and Machines! Open to first-year Yale PhD students. Learn more: wti.yale.edu/initiatives/graduate-certificate 📅 Deadline: April 16, 2026 🚀 Cohort begins Fall 2026 #KnowTogether

WTI's research facility, BrainWorks, has launched two social media channels to take a closer look at its welcoming environment, state-of-the-art tools, and community outreach. Follow along on: Instagram: www.instagram.com/brainworksyale Facebook: www.facebook.com/brainworksyale #KnowTogether

Thanks to the folks at @wutsaiyale.bsky.social for hosting us. It was a pleasure to meet with the Yale neuroscience community at the institute to talk about how we cover the field and the resources we offer online. #neuroskyence

So cool to have @melaniemitchell.bsky.social with us as our @wutsaiyale.bsky.social Inspiring Speaker!

🚨 Keynote announcement: Joe Tsai '86, '90 J.D. — co-founder & chairman of Alibaba — is coming to the 2026 Yale Innovation Summit (May 27–28, New Haven). On AI, he's making the case to focus less on benchmarks and more on real-world impact. Don't miss it. ventures.yale.edu/news/alibaba...

✨ Monday at 100 College: WTI Symposium: Computation and Cognition 3.2 | 9a - 12:35p | Rm 1116 🔗 wti.yale.edu/event/2026-03/symposium Events are open to the Yale community! #KnowTogether

Neuroscientist @clionamurray.com knows the power of community. Murray explains how @blackinneuro.bsky.social expanded from its humble beginnings as a Slack channel to connect Black neuroscientists across the diaspora. By @alainaglevine.bsky.social #neuroskyence

What an inspiring talk! @wutsaiyale.bsky.social @denisejcai.bsky.social telling us about engrams, stability, and drift - as well as how to make new technology, collectively, and for the community

TODAY at 100 College: Monday, 2.9 | 4p | Rm 180A Current Works in Human Neuroscience: Clara Sava-Segal, "Cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying the subjective interpretation of complex experiences" Learn more: wti.yale.edu/events Events are open to the Yale community. #KnowTogether

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. #Yale

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! #KnowTogether

Winter in the Elm City ❄️ Swipe through some snowy scenes from this weekend's storm. #Yale

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. nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=http%3A%...

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

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. #Yale

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. #KnowTogether

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

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. #Yale

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. #KnowTogether

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 👇 news.yale.edu/2025/12/05/w...

🚨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...

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 #KnowTogether #ScienceAtYale

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 #KnowTogether #ScienceAtYale

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 #KnowTogether #ScienceAtYale

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.

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... @actlab.bsky.social

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 #neurosky #neuroskyence

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 #KnowTogether #ScienceAtYale

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!

What a treat! @alisongopnik.bsky.social on the tension between exploration and exploitation across development, and the role of elders in care and transmission @wutsaiyale.bsky.social

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. #KnowTogether

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 #KnowTogether #ScienceAtYale

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. #Yale

5-day SfN step count: 48.3 km / 30 miles

The deadline to apply for WTI's neurocomputation faculty position is December 1, 2025. Details below. ⬇️

#SfN25 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.

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?

Fave illo by @vahrammuradyan.bsky.social: 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... #sciart

📣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!

#SfN25 Tuesday 11.18 presentations to visit: 8a-12p | NANO035 🧠 Weikang Shi Neural dynamics of social evidence accumulation in cooperative interactions of freely moving marmosets #KnowTogether #ScienceAtYale #HumansOfWTI

Since so many people are here for #sfn25 this week, maybe a good time to mention the algorithmic “For You” feed: bsky.app/profile/did:... which shows you posts that people who liked the same things as you liked 🫧📌

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 #KnowTogether #ScienceAtYale

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. #KnowTogether

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

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