How does your brain filter out the noise and focus enough to learn efficiently? In our newest preprint, we use intracranial recordings + computational modeling to explore how selective attention shapes learning and state representations in the human brain 🧠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/🧵

Really enjoyed meeting new colleagues and sharing some of our latest work at #SBBq earlier this month! Big thanks to Elis Cristina Araujo Eleutherio for the invitation and for organizing such a thoughtful session with a fantastic lineup of speakers.

I recently launched a podcast on the future of neurotech, computing, & intelligence First guest: @maxhodak.bsky.social, founder & CEO of @science.xyz building PRIMA, a retinal prosthetic restoring meaningful vision for patients with age-related macular degeneration. www.youtube.com/watch?v=24CM...

One thing I wish we talked about more explicitly with #earlycareer faculty is how gradually the pool of people who'll write their tenure letters develops. Impressions form slowly over the pre-tenure years, which makes visibility much easier to build over time than to manufacture later.

When you're stressed, what happens to the mental links that let you connect related experiences and draw new conclusions? In our new @science.org #ScienceAdvances paper, we show that stress disrupts that linking process in the hippocampus🧵

So happy to see @christinamaher.bsky.social recognized by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai with the Award for Outstanding Research in Neuroscience AND the Hausfeld Award honoring an exceptional PhD student! 🎉 Read more about Christina’s journey & all the 2026 awardees: icahnhonors.com

“Stellate produced a phenomenal new website for my lab. Their designs captured the energy, aesthetics, technology & science that define our group... It was a wonderful experience & I would certainly do it again!” Congrats on launch, @mhigley.bsky.social 🚀 www.higleylab.org

Looking forward to speaking at the Canadian Cannabis Research Summit this week about the neurodevelopmental effects of #cannabis exposure during pregnancy 🧠 Thank you to @ccicbluesky.bsky.social & @tc3consortium.bsky.social for hosting and inviting me to speak!

Most spatial CRISPR screens require trade-offs in throughput or readout depth. A new preprint introduces PerturbSpace: spatially resolved, multimodal, whole-transcriptome on standard single-cell workflows.

NEW: $3M in Fast Grants for AI-driven life sciences research. We’re funding pilot projects in AI diagnostics, prediction, and personalized therapeutics — with a two-week review turnaround. 35 grants · $25K–$100K · Deadline: June 15 Please share! www.biswasfamilyfoundation.org/science/fast...

Don’t miss this session exploring the computational side of brains and behavior at #OptoGRC2026 🧠 💻 Discussion to be led by Sweta Agrawal, featuring speakers Yaniv Ziv, @mazenkheirbek.bsky.social, Takashi Yamaguchi & Jesse Kaminsky, Wednesday evening!

Join us on May 21 for our annual Dr. Robert Newman Lecture on the topic Confronting Addiction: A New Chapter in Alcohol Recovery 🧠 The keynote lecture by Dr. Lorenzo Leggio is followed by a panel discussion on clinical care, research & policy. 👋 Open to all! RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Join us in Paris this summer for our #Miniscope Workshop 🔬 We'll teach you everything you need to know about miniscopes and have a blast while we're at it! Applications close on May 22, so don't wait 👇

Some big professional news! I'm so excited to be on this team!

Can the human brain provide the reference architecture for more human-like AI? Coming out of discussions at the PL Neuro Connectomics Workshop last month, Moritz Helmstaedter details a 10-year, $10–20B technical path to map every synapse in the human brain. Read more: zenodo.org/records/1973...

Can't wait for this #OptoGRC2026 keynote session that will shine a light on the ideas and tools driving optogenetics🔦🧠 Bringing together Tatiana Korotkova, @oyiz.bsky.social & Sheena Josselyn, expect a powerful discussion from leaders in the field!

So incredibly proud to celebrate these two remarkable researchers I've had the privilege to work with! @joezaki.bsky.social and Rimi are truly deserving recipients of the #LeonLevyScholars recognition for 2026. They continue to make invaluable contributions to the field!

I recently had the pleasure of visiting @upenn.edu & the University of Illinois Chicago to present our latest results developing glutamate sensors that can image multiple neurochemicals 🔬✨ This work helps us understand collective neurotransmitter release during synaptic transmission.

I had a wonderful time at the @umich.edu Department of Pharmacology’s Biology of Drug Abuse Symposium. The trainees are amazing, and their talks were great ❤️

Excited to share new work now published in @cp-iscience.bsky.social Using single-neuron recordings in humans, we show that dopamine neurons encode reward expectations derived from past experience––giving us a new look into how reward learning unfolds in the human brain 🧵👇

Be sure to join us for this session where we take opto beyond the brain at #OptoGRC2026 🧠⚡➡️🫀 Featuring discussion leader @katrinachoe.bsky.social & speakers Li Ye, Katharina Gapp, Andreas Lüthi & @timmachado.bsky.social

Welcome @avaskham.bsky.social 🥳 Angie joins us to lead media strategy and engagement across our clients. She is a former reporter and neuroscientist, with previous work spanning digital & radio journalism, writing, and scientific publishing. Learn more about our Team: www.stellatecomms.com/team

Delighted to be headed to Boston tomorrow for this career panel 💫 I'm free for lunch and a late dinner if anyone wants to connect! Email me: [email protected]

Visual identity for the Lautaro Rostoll Cangiano's Immunology Lab at UW-Madison — bovine immunology, across a lifetime. An immune cell. A cow inside it. One mark. stellatecomms.com/creative-portfolio | @stellatecomms.bsky.social

✍️ In the @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social blog: our new tool built to compare the dynamics of complex systems when both internal circuitry and external inputs shape their behavior. Catch @annhuang42.bsky.social presenting this work at #ICLR! kempnerinstitute.harvard.edu/research/dee...

Children get better at reasoning from memory as they grow up. But is it the same brain process getting stronger, or something more fundamental changing? In our new paper, we use fMRI and computational modeling to test that question directly 🧵

Congrats to @rhienhare.bsky.social for being named one of the top women in PR 🎉 Every year, @prnewsonline.com recognizes an elite group of women shaping the future of comms. Rhien is a 2026 Rising Star awardee — a category for women making their mark early in their career. Watch out world! 🧪 🌍 🔭

A throwback to illustrations we created for @zurisullivan.bsky.social and the Sullivan Lab — three illustrations, three color stories, one cohesive visual identity. 🧠🦠 🎨 More work on our website: stellatecomms.com/creative-portfolio | via @stellatecomms.bsky.social

🎉 The Hurd Lab has a new website! The new site beautifully captures our translational addiction research and the dedicated multidisciplinary team behind it all. Have a look around and learn more about my lab's work: yasminhurdlab.com

The playbook for science media has changed quietly but dramatically... TLDR of my latest @stellatecomms.bsky.social blog: 🌄 Pitch the Preprints 🔱 Embargoed Pitching is Essential 🤖 AI Research Is Rewriting the Publication Model 💤 Don’t Sleep on Trades Read it: www.stellatecomms.com/resources/th...

What is holding #neurotech back from being one of the greatest breakthroughs of our time? Infrastructure. Getting from approval to access takes years — delaying patient access & company capital. PL Neuro aims to break these bottlenecks. Here's our Roadmap: zenodo.org/records/1924...

Feeling a bit verklempt to be honored with the 2026 Breslau/Murphy Award from @appa-association.bsky.social. It’s hard to overstate how much an award like this means to me. I love science, and training the next generation of scientists isn’t part of the job; it IS the job.

We’re excited to welcome Maria Kalambokidis, PhD, to Stellate as an Account Coordinator ✨ Maria is an evolutionary biologist with expertise in academic research, STEM engagement, and science writing. We’re thrilled to have her on the team 💜 Learn more: stellatecomms.com/team

"I had a wonderful time working with Stellate building my new lab website... I would highly recommend them to anyone looking for a creative, responsive, and professional team." Thanks for the kind words @cglowther.bsky.social, and congrats on launch! 🧬 See it here: www.thelowtherlab.com

PL Neuro is officially live! plneuro.xyz We exist to break bottlenecks, accelerate progress in neurotech & NeuroAI, and to invest in innovations that benefit humanity. PL Neuro will focus on 3 core areas: - Neural augmentation - Biologically-inspired intelligence - Whole brain emulation

1/ Neurotechnology is one of the defining opportunities of this century. We’re already seeing the potential to restore function, treat disease, and eventually expand human capability.

When I started @stellatecomms.bsky.social, I was so excited about the new science I would learn... 🪲 Ticks weren't on my list, but they've been a recent highlight! Check out the Tick Global Network: tickgn.org

Excited to have @rafaelyuste.bsky.social as our third #OptoGRC2026 keynote speaker! Join us for his talk on how neural circuits & dendritic spines work together to "orchestrate" brain activity 🎹✨ Don’t miss the chance to attend — registration closes 4/12. www.grc.org/optogenetic-...

Great to work w/ @kordinglab.bsky.social and team on this important roadmap for linking molecular/structural features to function. The future of precision treatments for brain disorders, neurotechnology advances, and an understanding of intelligence itself depend on science that bridges btw scales

Congrats to Fauna Robotics on their acquisition by Amazon! Proud to have been a part of the early founding team 🤖🌱 abcnews.com/Business/wir...

You've been meaning to break ground on your website for months... or longer... ✨ Site Lab exists for exactly this ✨ Hand us content + a few aesthetic preferences, and we build it — color palette, fonts, layout, mobile optimization —& then launch it🚀 www.stellatecomms.com/creative

“The thing about Ph.D.s is they can figure stuff out.” In our latest Frameshift Q&A, @caitvw.bsky.social explains how she used her science-communication skills and entrepreneurial prowess to transform her passion into a successful company. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...

I’m so honoured to be featured in Stories of WIN this month - sharing my career journey and how storytelling changed everything for me! 🧪🎙️

Excited to join the Toronto Area Memory Group (TAMeG) for #TAMeG2026 in May as keynote speaker! I’m especially looking forward to the panel discussion on scientific mentorship and how we support the next generation of scientists.

🤓 Really excited to host this panel at COSYNE! Our incredible speakers Bing, Kenji, Kim & Saskia are sure to share insightful advice on making an impact in their career and community at every stage of their careers 🧑‍🔬 🧠

Had a blast co-hosting a booth with the Church Lab at @utwistem.bsky.social UT STEM Girl Day! So fun meeting curious kids and families and sharing our research on memory and brain development. Visit our website to learn more and get involved! 🧠 preston.clm.utexas.edu/participate

📍 #Cosyne26 bound? Thrilled to have PhD students @annhuang42.bsky.social and Sonja Johnson-Yu representing the Rajan Lab this year. Shout out to co-first authors @satpreetsingh.bsky.social and @neurostrow.bsky.social. Catch their sessions to learn about our newest work 🧠🤖 #NeuroAI #CompSci

Today in @nature.com, the @christophthaiss.bsky.social & @maayanlevy.bsky.social labs trace age-related memory loss to the gastrointestinal tract & map the complete gut-to-brain pathway driving it. Targeting this pathway can reverse cognitive aging in mice. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Back again for #OptoGRC2026 — meet meeting co-chair @okaysteve.bsky.social! Steve is an associate professor at @bostonu.bsky.social and is especially excited about mentor-mentee lunches and supporting the next generation of researchers. Fun fact: he calls his parents twice a day, every day 📞❤️

A protein that stabilizes cancer-suppressing mRNAs turns out to be a key brake on breast cancer metastasis. A paper from Core Investigator @genophoria.bsky.social and lab in Science Advances traces the mechanism to RNA decay and an RNA-binding protein most studies have overlooked.