✨ That’s a wrap on 2025! From research milestones to community connections, we’ve accomplished so much this past year. Here’s a look back at everything we did together...

(1/5) 🧵Our new preprint shows how the brain develops to transform how kids, teens & adults represent & navigate their world: shifting from local, moment-to-moment memories in childhood to integrated, global cognitive maps in adulthood 🧠 Paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Celebrating the Rajan Lab’s papers at #NeurIPS2025! Stop by to chat with these talented students and postdocs 🎉

Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is not dangerous. Timing and formulation are critical components of benefit vs. harm. I’m glad to see the FDA warnings removed from HRT. Thanks @bloomberg.com for covering this important topic: www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...

Can biology, lifestyle & technology redefine ageing? At @mountsinainyc.bsky.social, a multidisciplinary team, led by Miriam Merad, Zahi Fayad and Fanny Elahi, is working to understand and intervene in biological processes that drive ageing. @natureportfolio.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d42...

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!

@thetransmitter.bsky.social's portrait of the state of neuroscience presents a great opportunity to look back & reflect as we come toward the end of 2025. I'm quoted alongside leaders in the field as we reflect on the current challenges & hopes for the future: www.thetransmitter.org/state-of-neu...

🚨 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-...

This paper truly changed my life!!

Looking for a nice way to build team connection before the holiday? Our lab drew names (gift exchange style) & shared aloud why we're grateful for that teammate, what makes us proud of them & how they strengthen the team. Such a sweet, grounding moment. Highly recommend 💛🧠

Joyful, connected design for @manuellayassa.bsky.social's NeuroEngage Lab. What an absolute pleasure to bring this group's logo and website to life! Check it out: www.neuroengagelab.com

New from @stellatecomms.bsky.social ✨❄️ An icy website design for @nelsontotah.bsky.social's group at Helsinki Institute of Life Science! Go check out the *STUNNING* research illustrations. You won't be disappointed... totahlab.org/research

#SfN25, what a week! So proud watching lab members Omer, Nicole & Owen shine at their posters. Loved catching up with colleagues, former students & neuroscientists I deeply admire. Thank you for a fantastic event @sfn.org! 🧠

I'll be at Zoé and Zach's posters today, giving out VIP access bracelets for the Cai-Tye Collective event tonight! If you're at #SfN25, come check out Zoé and Zach's work and snag a bracelet before we run out!

Book launch day is here 🚀 How to Change a Memory, in physical and audio form: www.amazon.com/How-Change-M... and here's a preview of one of the book's central themes: memories change and, as a result, we change too🧠. www.statnews.com/2025/11/04/a...

Work published today in @natbiotech.nature.com from Arc’s Luke Gilbert and Patrick Hsu labs presents a new way to insert large DNA sequences into the genome using engineered recombinases that don’t require DNA cutting or rely on the cell's repair machinery.

Current research continues to emphasize that adolescents should not be consuming #cannabis and need to be better educated about its health impacts 🧠 Read more about the mental and physical effects of cannabis use on the brain ⬇️ www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/addi...

✨ Program Manager Job Alert ✨ Join our Mount Sinai team in NYC to steer a multi-institutional neuroscience initiative aimed at understanding Bipolar Disorder. If you’re passionate about science, data & impact we’d love to hear from you! Learn More & Apply 👇 careers.mountsinai.org/jobs/3032351...

As the Science Tooth Fairy, I love seeing teeth featured in fall decorations. Here are two of my favorites, featured by local dental offices 🦷🎃 What were your favorite Halloween / Fall sights recently?

Awesome work co-led by my student @annhuang42.bsky.social and @neurostrow.bsky.social on disentangling, then comparing recurrent and externally driven dynamics! Look out for more incredible work from @annhuang42.bsky.social coming up at NeurIPS 👀

Congratulations to Arc Science Fellow, @uchemedoh.bsky.social, on being named a winner of the 2025 @science.org & @scilifelab.se Prize for Young Scientists! His work solves a decades-old mystery in cell biology, revealing the enzyme responsible for BMP synthesis: www.aaas.org/news/researc...

🧠 The Cai Lab will be at #SfN25! Be sure to stop by the poster sessions to check out Hailey's work on decision-making, @zachtpennington.bsky.social's work on stress, @zoechristensonwick.bsky.social's work on seizures, Alexa's work on cocaine seeking, and Sandra's work on context representations 🤓

For those of you headed to #SfN25 If you study social behaviors be sure to check out our posters. We will be presenting how the brain represents prosocial decisions, how dopamine dynamics relate to social memory, whether respiration relates to social hierarchies, and more!

The Preston Lab will be at @sfn.org #SfN2025! Come see what we've been working on 🧠 We'll discuss how kids & adults remember when things happen, how memory changes impact reasoning & how we learn different actions have different consequences based on the setting. Find us Monday & Wednesday 🤘

Calling all creative social media enthusiasts! 📷 The Dunn Lab is seeking support to share our science through videos & photos on social media. If you have a talent for content creation & are local to #PurdueUniversity Indianapolis campus, please apply by November 30, 2025!

(1/4) 🧠 Did you know that kids remember time differently than adults? Our new preprint review w/ @drjeni-mdlab.bsky.social discusses the real implications for juvenile justice & why we need to ask about timing in ways that match kids' developing brains ⚖️ Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps...

A study out today in @natgenet.nature.com from Core Investigator Luke Gilbert, Haolong Li, & others identifies PTGES3 as a critical regulator of androgen receptor (AR) protein levels in prostate cancer, revealing a potential new target for tumors that become treatment-resistant.

What does "Human-centered neural engineering and AI" mean? It means prioritizing the patient across the entire pipeline: Discovery, Design, and Delivery of neuro-engineering treatments for psychiatric disorders. Join me to discuss at @embs.org #NER25 hosted by @onemindaccelerator.bsky.social

Big thanks to #ThinkeryATX Children's Museum for hosting us at their STEAM Sunday Halloween celebration! 🎃 We love connecting with families and future scientists while sharing what we do at the Preston Lab 🤘 #SciComm #AustinScience

@okaysteve.bsky.social chatted with @undark.org about how memories can heal the brain and his new book, How to Change a Memory (publishing 11/4). Check out the interview:

(7/8) Thanks to @deisseroth.bsky.social‬, @mishaahrens.bsky.social & Chris Harvey for their contributions, and to @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social & @harvardmed.bsky.social‬ for supporting computational neuroscience research. Read the paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2506.14957

It has been an immense honor to learn & grow with two of the greatest scientists I know: @zachtpennington.bsky.social & @joezaki.bsky.social 🧑‍🔬 Listen in on our conversation about mentorship, building trust and creating a safe space to disagree: neuronline.sfn.org/professional...

I can’t stop replaying the #memories from our first-ever New York Memory Hub conference! So grateful to everyone who made it a success and inspired us with their research 🧠

What’s better than a one-channel #Miniscope? 🥁 A TWO-CHANNEL Miniscope! Our new Miniscope2C is a dual-channel, open-source Miniscope that lets you record 2 fluorescent signals simultaneously in freely moving animals. Read the paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (1/10)

PRESS RELEASE! @mountsinainyc.bsky.social receives $4.5 million @bipolardiscoveries.org grant! Led by @ignaciosaezphd.bsky.social, team will investigate neural mechanisms underlying #BipolarDisorder & pioneer novel neuromodulation-based treatment strategies 👉 www.mountsinai.org/about/newsro...

How mood states shift in the brain remains one of psychiatry’s biggest mysteries. With generous support from @bipolardiscoveries.org, our @sinaibrain.bsky.social team will apply cutting-edge techniques to map these transitions—aiming to build the most precise understanding of bipolar disorder yet.

We are proud to award $18M to four new Discovery Research teams exploring neuromodulation and brain circuits in #Bipolar 🧠📈 🔗bit.ly/48M1TKP 🎙️ Hear from Daniel Pham, PhD, and the teams about their innovative projects 👇

Published today in @natureportfolio.nature.com Biotechnology, Laine Goudy, Luke Gilbert, Alex Marson, & colleagues report an epigenetic editing platform that safely reprograms multiple genes in human T cells without many of the challenges & risks associated with traditional gene editing approaches.

Arc Core Investigator @genophoria.bsky.social will speak on a free, online panel with @tkaraletsos.bsky.social, @emmalundberg.bsky.social, and @ronalfa.bsky.social on Wed., Oct. 29, as part of GENbio's “The State of AI in Drug Discovery in 2025.” Register at: webinars.liebertpub.com/e/the-state-...

The genetic code is full of synonymous codons that, for decades, were assumed to be interchangeable. Today, with NVIDIA, co-led by @genophoria.bsky.social, we announce CodonFM, a family of open-source AI models that reveal the grammar underlying codon choice: developer.nvidia.com/blog/introdu...

Remember when Paul Krugman’s columns were soooo wonky. “It sounds crazy to say that Republicans are making children go hungry to protect pedophiles, but it’s actually a reasonable interpretation of the situation.” - Paul Krugman

Now that it's fall, join the WIldflower Center in the Fall Challenge to give that rake a rest. 🍁 Fallen leaves are crucial for soil health, wildlife, and resilient ecosystems. Learn more here: www.wildflower.org/leave-some-l... #LeaveSomeLeaves #nativeplants #sustainability

One important part of The Dunn Lab culture is to spend time together outside the lab! It was so refreshing to be able to host a recent lab lunch for us to reconnect & share ideas in a different setting - always great for creativity ✨🧪

Looking forward to my CONNECT seminar on December 3, 2025! I’ll share my path from MIT PhD to founding @stellatecomms.bsky.social, and show how we use research, strategy & design to tell science stories ✨👩🏻‍🔬🧪 Learn more about the series, other speakers + register here: cnlm.uci.edu/connect/

Must-read #NYBCI25 coverage by @neurotechnology.substack.com in @forbes.com. My key takeaway on cognitive BCI: Our biggest limiting factor isn't tech—it's fundamental scientific understanding. We can’t advance the tech until we define the disorder. Basic research must lead the way!

The NIH institute director firing last Friday is very bad. I made a video explainer about why. Stay for last post, w link to @science.org story from @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social 1/4 🧪

I wrote an op-ed for the Washington Square News about the government's attempt to extort universities. nyunews.com/opinion/gues...

🧠🥼🧬🧪🔬 Last year at @sfn.org I ran a workshop on "Opening the File Drawer" with Ben Kolber, Stacey Winham, Paul Sternberg, & Alex Freeman (@alexandrafreeman.bsky.social). We've shared the resources that we compiled for that workshop in this new paper. ❤️ @comm4rigor.bsky.social @ummni.bsky.social

Sold out! Thanks for the love - I’ll be sure to post here too next time I have a release. (there are a few rainbow brains left in the shop from the last drop btw!)

A quick thread of some great Purdue representation sharing our amazing science at @ispg.bsky.social annual conference #WCPG2025! 🧬 🧠 🧪 First up: @ktnthompson.bsky.social presented work investigating whether family acceptance & belonging mitigate depression risk 👪