Just another evening hanging out w/ friends in #NYC -dinner at #VillageTaverna & seeing an incredible new movie #FatherMotherSisterBrother by #JimJarmusch w/ Cate Blanchett, Tom Waits & Adam Driver.. hilarious, deep, all you may ask for! Merry Christmas to all who celebrate! 🎄❤️

Always so great to catch up with my dear colleague and friend Julie Herbstman! This time for a pre-holiday lunch at our favorite spot #Community @columbiauniversity.bsky.social ❤️

A growing list of medications—such as zuranolone for postpartum depression, suzetrigine for pain, and the gepants class of migraine medicines—exist because of insights from basic research, writes @alexkwan.bsky.social. www.thetransmitter.org/drug-develop... #neuroskyence

I had such a great visit to the Yale Psychiatry Department @yale.edu - enjoyed stimulating discussions with faculty and trainees, very receptive audience for my talk, and the overall vibe of the place! Thank you @mattgirgenti.bsky.social for a great day and a wonderful dinner as well!

Incredible to see and hear #HarukiMurakami live tonight at the Town Hall! A wonderful event "Murakami Mixtape" with curated live performances of Murakami's favorite music and readings of his work. A magical night that felt like being lost in his novel... 🤯 🙏 ♥️

Excited to give a seminar & visit Yale Psychiatry Dept @yale.edu next Monday, December 15th! Please join us if you are around: "Leveraging mouse and human (epi)genomics to improve #WomensMentalHealth " Looking forward to it! Many thanks to @mattgirgenti.bsky.social for this kind invitation!

Really enjoyed a pre-Thanksgiving sushi #omakase dinner at #SushiW #UWS tonight .. I will be writing a paper and a grant this Thanksgiving - love this time of the year for uninterrupted, immersive work.. but hope everyone enjoys the holiday! ❤️

Here's the standout fiction and nonfiction of the year, selected by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

Goodbye San Diego! Thank you @sfn.org for another great meeting & exciting science! In the future, I hope to see more progressive work on sex/gender & critical #WomensHealth - related factors -ovarian cycle, menopause, pregnancy- featured in lectures & symposia! See you next year! #SfN25

Come to poster II12 - @luisadema.bsky.social and I are waiting to show you some beautiful UMAPs of single cell multiome data of the ventral hippocampus across the estrous cucle, sex, and peripartum! 🔥 Cool stuff — come say hi!

Day 2 #SfN25: There was some sun in SD! ☀️ @lailaouldibbat.bsky.social gave a great presentation & we spent some time w/ @fordham.edu neuro community. Many interesting talks & sessions... finished w/ a great night hanging out w/ @JaredWYoung at a cute Filipino rest & the dopamine social! @sfn.org

Still some time left to stop by @lailaouldibbat.bsky.social ‘s poster X15! Check out her new single cell study showing how reproductive state - the estrous cycle and OVX - affects the hypothalamus! #SfN25 @sfn.org

A great first day at #SfN25 - quite strange to see rainy San Diego but it still feels good to be here! @luisadema.bsky.social killed her presentation... on her Bday! We celebrated with a nice dinner in one of my SD favs Osteria Panevino with @lailaouldibbat.bsky.social & Ana Milosevic @sfn.org

Come to Q11, still one hour left to hear @luisadema.bsky.social talk about her cool project on X chromosome dynemics in the adult female brain across the estrous cycle. This is the first time this data is being presented in the US! :) Come say hi! #SfN25

Visit our posters on Sat, Sun & Weds @sfn.org ! @luisadema.bsky.social & @lailaouldibbat.bsky.social will present at #TPDA session too. I'll be around for all posters - let's chat about single-cell studies across the cycle, peripartum, OVX.. & the cool dynamics of the X chrom! See you there! #SfN25

Many well-known perimenopause symptoms arise in the brain, but we still know little about the specific mechanisms at play. More research—both in animals and humans—is essential, writes @kundakoviclab.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/sex-hormones...

Excited to have my piece on perimenopause published @thetransmitter.bsky.social "Perimenopause: An important—and understudied—transition for the brain" We need more studies & better education -we need this to be mainstream- knowledge is power! #WomensHealth www.thetransmitter.org/sex-hormones...

What a privilege to spend an evening with Salman Rushdie in person at the 92nd Street Y. So charismatic and free spirited, he talks about his new book, inspiration, attack on free speech.. With his fatwa, the room feels electric… and he still thinks that some writers had it worse! ✊

A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM

My first time to vote in #NYC mayoral election! We can do this NYC, let’s go! ❤️ #voteNYC

Just received the *new* book by our favorite epigeneticist - my dear colleague and friend Johh @greally.bsky.social - on #Epigenetics: History, Molecules, & Diseases 🔥. Congrats and thank you for the mention, my friend - am honored that the work of my lab is included. Excited to read it! ❤️

Join us on November 21st at 12PM ET for a PANS symposium on clinical and basic aspects of menopausal hot flushes - including novel neurokinin receptor antagonists. Register here: mgb-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @menopausesociety.bsky.social @menopause

Fantastic weather today in #NYC for an enjoyable, relaxing Sunday afternoon and catching up with friends… And this Highland Bowl at the Spring Cafe Aspen is definitely one of my favorite meals in the city! 🌺 🤍 #Soho

Finally got to hang out with @jordanmarrocco.bsky.social at #BlueRibbonSushi . What a great night … and sushi was amazing, as always! ❤️ #Soho

A relaxing Wednesday night in #Manhattan , with a nice meal at a cute Japanese place KEI in Chelsea and a nice French movie 'Love letters' at the The New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival NewFest 🌈

Happy Birthdays to the two Libras in the Kundakovic lab - @lailaouldibbat.bsky.social and Ana Milosevic! Glad we got a chance to celebrate you and everything you do before the long weekend! 🎉 🥂 w/ @luisadema.bsky.social @bruzzone-sep.bsky.social

Congratulations @karalmckinley.bsky.social & lab on their groundbreaking recent preprint establishing + characterizing a chemically inducible model of menstruation in mouse: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... My jaw dropped when I heard this presented earlier this year. Incredible.

📢 Dear all, just a reminder that proposals for the 2026 @ossdcomm.bsky.social meeting in Kona, Hawaii are due this Friday, October 10. We look forward to receiving your best proposals for symposia and individual talks! Please find the links here: ossdweb.org/ossd-2026-sy... #OSSD2026

A small primer on the #NobelPrize awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi today. This prize was for combining two separate fields of immunology research - genetic research on IPEX and immunology research of regulatory T cells (#Tregs), with enormous impact on biology/medicine

Feeling so blessed to see one of my favorite pieces of literature, Beckett’s #WaitingForGodot , being played on #Broadway at the Hudson Theatre by… imagine…Keanu Reeves! This is magic! Don’t miss if you are in NYC.. things that make this city so amazing! ❤️

Check out this nice story from @fordham.edu News on our work on #menopause transition recently published in Molecular Psychiatry & funded by the NIH. Knowledge is power! #WomensHealth 🔥 "Professor Leads Groundbreaking Study on Menopause-Mental Health Connection” now.fordham.edu/university-n...

Many thanks to @fordham.edu for organizing the celebration of the recently promoted & tenured faculty. It is incredible honor to be celebrated by the President, the Provost & the Deans. So proud of my dear colleague Eduardo Gallo & many thanks to our chair @ehekkala.bsky.social for her support!

So much enjoyed the night out with @jordanmarrocco.bsky.social & Co. tonight. We are having just incredible weather in NYC this week…let’s enjoy while it lasts! ❤️

Happy to give a talk on sex differences to @springernature.com editors focusing on neuroscience. I highlighted factors & mechanisms underlying sex differences in the brain, behavior & brain disease risk. Hope this helps editors and our field. Great Qs & thanks to Ben Bessieres for the invitation!

Big lab celebration: my 10 year anniversary @fordham.edu ; papers accepted @natcomms.nature.com Mol. Psychiatry @npp-journal.bsky.social ; @luisadema.bsky.social & @lailaouldibbat.bsky.social won #TPDA @sfn.org ; new postdoc @bruzzone-sep.bsky.social ; w/ Devin Rocks 🍾 Killing it - so proud! 🔥

Very interesting new @wbickmor.bsky.social commentary on the mechanistic mystery that is very distal enhancer-promoter interactions www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Incredible day today as Devin Rocks' main PhD thesis manuscript was accepted @natcomms.nature.com ! Please stay tuned for all the updates we made to the paper since *2023*! - so proud of Devin for all the fantastic work! Also, I got 15% funding cut on my R01 restored today! Lets go! 🏆 🔥

Morrissey opening tonight’s show at the Radio City Music Hall with ‘There is a light that never goes out’. My heart jumped ❤️☺️… Amazing night! 🙏

Still a bit jet lagged… the last part of my European trip was beautiful, stylish (& sustainable!) Copenhagen! Enjoyed this visit immensely… many thanks to Vibe Frokjaer for invitation to give a seminar at the University of Copenhagen. This is indeed the best job in the world! 💙💛♥️

#ThisWeekInNPP This 🔥 Hot Topic 🔥 emphasizes that ovarian hormone fluctuations - across the menstrual cycle, postpartum, & menopause - are key drivers of psychiatric risk in ♀️, yet remain understudied / @kundakoviclab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Many thanks to Joram Mul and the Brain Plasticity group for hosting my talk at the University of Amsterdam . Really enjoyed visiting the university and meeting everyone — such a great group! w/ @anikokorosi.bsky.social

Next step of the trip was beautiful #Amsterdam ! So lively, vibrant & free-spirited.. enjoyed every moment of the visit! Spent time with a dear friend and exploring the city, the Moco museum & my favorite Van Gogh museum, saw mesmerizing #AlmondBlossom again! 🌸 ❤️

Goodbye beautiful #Helsinki ! This was an amazing visit to @helsinki.fi , Helsinki Biennial at the wonderful Vallisaari island w/ @iirishovatta.bsky.social lab , beautiful art at the Kiasma museum , swimming & sauning at the Allas pools. 🙏 Iiris, until next time! ❤️

A new 🔥 Hot Topic 🔥 from @kundakoviclab.bsky.social is out now in @npp-journal.bsky.social

Thrilled to share our Hot Topics article just published @npp-journal.bsky.social : "Leveraging high-resolution brain imaging & (epi)genomic approaches to improve women’s mental health" Always huge pleasure to work w/ @cogneuroend.bsky.social on revolutionizing #WomensMentalHealth 🔥 rdcu.be/eCy6i

On my way to begin my Northern European tour! ☺️ The first stop is Helsinki and seminar at the University of Helsinki @helsinki.fi Many thanks to @iirishovatta.bsky.social for this kind invitation. Can’t wait to visit the uni and the city! 😍

Amazing day in the lab today... we first got our menopause biomarker paper accepted in Molecular Psychiatry and then... BOTH @lailaouldibbat.bsky.social and @luisadema.bsky.social received the Trainee Professional Development Award #TPDA from @sfn.org . So proud of the lab and my lab members! 🔥

Dear all, call for proposals for the next @ossdcomm.bsky.social meeting, May 11-14 2026, in Kona, Hawaii, is now open! Deadline: October 10, 2025. Pls send us your best proposals for symposia & individual talks! Excited to be program chair w/ co-chair Cindy Barha: www.ossdweb.org/ossd-2026-sy...

Just had the most magical run at the #OnassisReservoir . Wow! ☀️😍

A perfect day in NYC today... So great to relax in the beautiful Central Park and I got to hang out with a dear colleague Chris with fine conversation, sushi and drinks ... Life is good! 🥂