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

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 #YCAalumni

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 eppro02.ativ.me/appinfo.php?... #ScienceAtYale

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)

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! #KnowTogether #ScienceAtYale #SfN25

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

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!

Will be presenting a poster on @apeyrache.bsky.social 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🤑

TFW you land in San Diego and the bsky is hopping #sfn25

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 www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...

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 #SFN25 passengers very confused 😂

👋 #SfN25 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... #KnowTogether #ScienceAtYale @georgedragoi.bsky.social @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social

heading to @sfn.org? Check out our group's posters -->

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)

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 #SfN25

Come checkout our poster if you are interested!

WTI is heading to #SfN25! Connect with us at #Booth3724 to chat with Yale scientists about the interdisciplinary research opportunities at the Institute + grab some swag! 🌴 November 15-18 | San Diego, CA 🤝🏽 Find us here Sunday - Tuesday: s19.a2zinc.net/clients/sfn/... #KnowTogether #ScienceAtYale

Happening this week at 100 College: 2025-26 Artist-in-Residence Premiere Spaces: An exploration of art and memory, with Artist Serena Scapagnini TODAY 11.12 | 3:30p 🔗 wti.yale.edu/event/2025-1...

November 10 is the application deadline for WTI's Postdoc Fellowships. Apply today + join our mission to understand human cognition! Learn more: wti.yale.edu/initiatives/postdoctoral Explore mentors: wti.yale.edu/humans/faculty Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/174525 #KnowTogether #ScienceAtYale

Wu Tsai Investigator Harry McNamara uses stem cell models—gastruloids and neural organoids—as “miniature physics labs” to uncover how cell communication shapes body structure and neural networks. Read more about his research: fas.yale.edu/news-announc... #HumansOfWTI #KnowTogether #ScienceAtYale

Are you at #NDiSTEM2025? Come by tomorrow to hear how important questions about the brain benefit from interdisciplinary & inclusive approaches. Featuring amazing scientists Cristina Román + @wutsaiyale.bsky.social fellows @lester-rodriguez.bsky.social & @josueortc.bsky.social ! @sacnas.bsky.social

At #NDiSTEM2025 & interested in cognition? Come by @wutsaiyale.bsky.social booth #1144 tomorrow to learn abt research opportunities, a new graduate certificate, postdoc fellowships & faculty hiring! And if you tell us our full mission statement by memory, you’ll get some cool swag… 👀😉 #SACNAS

@josueortc.bsky.social @wutsaiyale.bsky.social explored spatiotemporal cholinergic & calcium signalling dynamics across learning. 🎨Using dual-color imaging and multimodal transformers 🤖, he showed how cortical neuromodulation reshapes with experience and task demands.

WTI's Inspiring Speaker Series continues this week with Timothy Lillicrap, “Model-based reinforcement language for reasoning in games and beyond” 10.9.25 | 10 – 11:15a 100 College St, Workshop 1116 🔗 wti.yale.edu/event/2025-10/inspiring-speaker-tim-lillicrap All Yale community members are welcome.

📣 Calling experimental, computational, or theoretical researchers! WTI's Postdoc Fellowships application is now open, offering a competitive salary, structured mentorship, world-class facilities + more: wti.yale.edu/initiatives/... Apply by November 10: apply.interfolio.com/174525 #KnowTogether

📣 WTI is hiring faculty positions! Are you interested in advancing our understanding of the brain + how it gives rise to cognition? Two calls are open: Open-rank search, Neurocomputation, deadline: 12.1.25 Senior search, Neurodevelopment, rolling review 🔗 wti.yale.edu/opportunities #KnowTogether

Scientists from WTI will be participating in Fiesta Latina on September 27-28 in New Haven. Events are free and open from 12–5 pm. 🪇🪘 🧠 🔗 peabody.yale.edu/events/fiest... #KnowTogether #FiestaLatina #NewHaven @dacolon.bsky.social @janitzamontalvo.bsky.social @gguerre.bsky.social

The Wu Tsai Institute is proud to launch the 2025–26 Inspiring Speaker Series, our signature talk series for exploring the mind and brain from every angle. Through May, we present speakers whose research advances our understanding of cognition using a range of approaches: wti.yale.edu/events

TONIGHT: 9.4 at CCAM from 7:30–8:30 pm Meet the Artist: Sigune Hamann, WTI's Artist-in-Residence (2024-25) Experience Hamann's “Film-strips panning." Stay to discuss the work with Hamann + community members. Learn more: ccam.yale.edu/event/meet-a... Photos by Sam Gulliver, courtesy of CCAM.