🚨 Reminder: Applications for #OptoGRC2026 are now OPEN! Don’t miss your chance to join an incredible week of science, discovery, and connection with the brightest minds in optogenetics 💡🧠 Apply now for the best chance of acceptance: www.grc.org/optogenetic-...

Introducing co-vice chair @gisellavetere.bsky.social! Gisella is a team leader at @espciparispsl.bsky.social and is most excited about the immersive exchange and new ideas #OptoGRC2026 will inspire. Fun fact: when she’s not studying neurons, you can find her spinning on a pole 💃💪

In 2016, the first Opto GRC was created to bring together scientists pushing the boundaries of optogenetics research 🧠🌟 Join us to celebrate 10 incredible years of collaboration and discovery—applications for #OptoGRC2026 are now open! Apply now: www.grc.org/optogenetic-...

📆 Mark your calendars: #OptoGRC2026 is headed back to Tuscany, May 10-15, 2026! We look forward to reuniting with our amazing community for a week of great science, thoughtful discussions & shared time with colleagues. More details coming soon👇🏽 tinyurl.com/esvrabsu

It's time to meet your #OptoGRC2026 chairs! Co-vice chair @tinakim-neuro.bsky.social is an assistant professor at @princeton.edu who spent the summer building a van for weekend adventures 🚐✨ She's most looking forward to meeting new people & exploring areas outside of her usual wheelhouse!

You know SfN will be awesome when you run into old friends and meet new ones before the conference even starts!! Thank you @bjmarlin.bsky.social @thiagoarzua.com and @stutzman-alexis.bsky.social for stopping by on Friday! Also @nbaumgar.bsky.social (not pictured…yet!!!)

Marlin Lab #SfN2025✨

Excited to share our latest paper - now out in @science.org - we showed how oxytocin modulates maternally-directed behavior in young mice (P15).

Good morning everyone! So, I wrote a book (!!) and it’s coming out November 4th in physical and audiobook form. It’s called *How to Change a Memory* www.amazon.com/How-Change-M...

🚨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.

Thank you Pew Trust for this honor. Thank you to my amazing communities who have supported me and our “radical and rigorous, ambitious and meticulous,” Marlin Lab Science .✨

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/...

Big congrats to Hypothesis Fund Awardee @bjmarlin.bsky.social! We're proud early supporters of her research on transgenerational epigenetic inheritance, and can't wait to see what she'll discover next! Go Bianca! 🌟

Come celebrate with me - I’m telling a story at @storycollider.bsky.social 15th anniversary show on June 3! ✨🧪 events.humanitix.com/the-story-co...

A collaborative study between the labs of @danmucida.bsky.social and @victora.bsky.social earlier this year showed how immune cells in the gut distinguish between food and harmful pathogens, shedding light on the origins of food allergies: bit.ly/4hyS18b #FoodAllergyAwarenessWeek

🧵 1\New Preprint! Social pain, the emotional pain caused by aversive experiences with other individuals, is an umbrella term that includes experiences such as social isolation, social exclusion, social rejection, and social loss and can be used as a signal to drive a need state

✨Valentine’s Defense Day ✨ We invite you to learn from #MarlinLab ‘s Val Andreu learn why “Mother *Nose* Best!”

Today marks the first World Hormones Day! 🧠🫀 Hormones are the body’s messengers, guiding us through each phase of life with their subtle yet powerful influence 🙌🏼 @socendocrinology.bsky.social @women-in-endo.bsky.social @endocrinesociety.bsky.social 📸: Prof.Catteau Jonard at the ESE annual meeting

Dr. Bianca Jones Marlin is an @HHMINEWS Freeman Hrabowski Scholar & Assistant Professor at Columbia University 🧠 The Marlin Lab researches transgenerational epigenetic inheritance (how parents' lived experiences change the brains of future offspring) 🧬🐭 #BlackInNeuro @bjmarlin.bsky.social

Attended my first @cziscience.bsky.social #Neuroscience 2025 Meeting 🧠 Grateful to speak alongside such amazing theorists, see old & new friends & connect across academia & industry Shoutout to @bjmarlin.bsky.social, @muraronara.bsky.social , @erinmgibson.bsky.social & all these wonderful folks🌟

Today, for #BrainAwarenessWeek I want to share this brainy map commissioned by The Brain Observatory for last Summer's Brain Explorer Camp. If you pass by San Diego, make sure to check out this little hidden gem of a museum: www.thebrainobservatory.org 🧠 #SciArt #neuroscience

Since it's #brainawareness week, I want to take a break from the ongoing dystopia to celebrate my favorite organ and repost some of my favorite #neuroscience #sciart! Let's start with this #scifi brain city I just made for an upcoming Italian graphic novel 🧠 🏙 #cervello #comics #graphicmedicine

UAB Neurobiology is hiring up to 4 new tenure-track faculty as part of 3 new open-rank searches. Come join our vibrant, supportive, and growing neuroscience community! uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/23916 uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/23944 uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/24010

Sunday planner time is my golden hour ✨ 📖 ☕️

Marlin Lab’s @nourmimouni.bsky.social ✨

On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we celebrate the women advancing scientific discovery and working towards a better world. Like postdoc @nourmimouni.bsky.social, a neuroendocrinologist and champion for women’s health. Discover her story: tinyurl.com/53mue4pn #womeninscience

Today marks the last day of Black History Month and this year was the first in my memory that I haven’t felt like the BHM was embraced by my educational community. Even as a child, February was always a time when we talked about historic figures like Dr. King but this year… 1/5

Part of my twitter motivation was to follow reality TV. Y’all. I’m the biggest fan of love is blind. But…dayum this is painful 😂. I may have to bow out this season…

🎊Announcing our first awardees of 2025! These talented scientists are generating new knowledge about host immunity, bacterial pathogens, and gene-environment interactions. Read more about them: bit.ly/HFAwardees. Hear from our #HFScouts below!🧵/1

Exciting news! MBL has received a $2.6M gift from an anonymous donor! This generous support fuels our mission of discovery, education, and innovation. Private philanthropy drives groundbreaking research and shapes the future of science. 🌎🔬 #ScienceStartsHere #Philanthropy

Congratulations to the newly minted and FIRST PhD of the Marlin Lab, DOCTOR Beka Stecky!!! The lab gifted her artwork by Greg Dunn of the olfactory system, which Dr. Stecky investigated. So proud. Please enjoy this beautiful candid photo. ♥️ @bjmarlin.bsky.social

Marlin Lab’s 1st Thesis Defense ✨ Hear the science @2:30pm EST bit.ly/MarlinLab Have the cheers @5:00 pm EST JLG✨ Columbia Biology student Beka Stecky will share her discoveries on “What the Nose, Knows” after learning an odor predicts a stressful experience.👃🏽🧬🧪

The amazing @bjmarlin.bsky.social has entered the chat!

We're stoked to learn that The Queen of Oxytocin herself is here on Bluesky! We have fond memories of meeting @bjmarlin.bsky.social in New York many moons ago to learn more about her work on the "love hormone" and inherited trauma. Listen in here 🎧: 2scientists.org/podcast/oxyt... #SciComm #podcast

The 100th addition to our Starter Pack is none other than THEE ✨ @bjmarlin.bsky.social ✨ #Neuroscience 🧪 go.bsky.app/F8PpdPe

YEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHH @bjmarlin.bsky.social is here on Bsky.

Please give a warm welcome to my amazing postdoc mentor @bjmarlin.bsky.social to bluesky!! #neuroskyence

ATTN: #Postdocs - Your opportunity to lead the future of #science starts now! Applications for the 2025 #HannaGrayFellows Program are OPEN. 📢 Take your first step toward joining a community of changemakers in science. Applications are due 2.26.25, @ 3:00 p.m. ET. 💫 Apply today! hhmi.news/48n2lfh 👈

Humans and other animals take turns during conversations. In our new paper we study the aggressive visual conversations of betta fish. We discover how fish know when is their turn and how the telencephalon is not needed! 🧪 www.cell.com/cell-reports... More details in 🧵 ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/bend...

Professor Farah Jasmine Griffin shares how James Baldwin's work is an ever-present inspiration for her and her students and colleagues at Columbia.

2 days of brain development in a few seconds ⚡️ Magnified 40x, blue- & red-coloured axons extend out in search of new connections. Captured in a chick embryo, but a similar process takes place in our brains 🧠 🎥: Dr. Alexandre Dumoulin; 1st place in the 2023 Nikon Small World in Motion Competition 🧪

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