We had a wonderful visit by Katharina Schultebraucks from @nyu.edu for our departmental seminar today. Very interesting lecture on how to use digital biomarkers & AI to predict risk for #MentalHealth disorders. I was also reminded how cinematic @fordham.edu #RoseHill campus is 🤍

Fordham launches its first Annual Trends Forecast with a piece on #menopause : "Menopause: Less Silence, More Science" featuring yours truly ☺️. Click on the link and scroll down to read! @fordham.edu now.fordham.edu/university-n...

Last week I was in the Bahamas sun bathing and swimming in the ocean and now this :). At least it looks beautiful and very romantic ❄️ 🤍

If you are at #ACNP2026, stop by the poster TH288 of my postdoc @luisadema.bsky.social this evening - a very cool study on hormone-driven X chromosome dynamics in the brain! 👇

Wonderful, well-attended session on Sex & Gender! 🔥 🏳️‍🌈 Thank you all for showing up & for all work you do @jaredwyoung.bsky.social @jordanmarrocco.bsky.social @mindfulrat.bsky.social Kale Edmiston! I had to leave early to teach but will dream about the Bahamas! Great to see all! ❤️ #ACNP2026

Don't miss our Special Topics Session Weds 4-4:50 PM: "Sex & Gender in Neuropsychopharmacology Research: Looking Forward" Organized by LGBTQIA2S+ Sub-committee: @jordanmarrocco.bsky.social @jaredwyoung.bsky.social @mindfulrat.bsky.social , Kale Edmiston (co-chair) & myself (chair)! 🔥🏳️‍🌈 #ACNP2026

Spent the day with the finest and my favorite #WomensHeath researchers here at #ACNP2026 . Grateful for having such great time and getting so much food for thought! ❤️ w/ @liisagalea.bsky.social @cogneuroend.bsky.social @luisadema.bsky.social @emilyjacobs.bsky.social ❤️

We had a wonderful symposium - thanks everyone for coming! @talliezee.bsky.social .. I squeezed a swim btw our session & reception that I enjoyed w @cogneuroend.bsky.social @liisagalea.bsky.social @luisadema.bsky.social + got to catch up w friend from grad school Brad. Great time! ❤️ #ACNP2026

#ACNP2026: Don't miss our symposium on Mon 3-5PM in Poseidon III-IV: "How Brain Estrogen Levels, Receptors & Signaling Govern Behaviors Across Sexes: Genes, Circuits, Synapses" w/ @polymniag.bsky.social @neurohoke.bsky.social @neurolg.bsky.social & myself. Looking forward! @acnporg.bsky.social

Warming up for #ACNP2026 with a premeeting #LGBTQIA2S+ social, and sushi at #Nobu with @liisagalea.bsky.social ! @acnporg.bsky.social @jaredwyoung.bsky.social @jordanmarrocco.bsky.social @descalzi.bsky.social @arrudacarvalho.bsky.social @milennavandijk.bsky.social ... So good to see you all! 🏳️‍🌈 ♥️

What a wonderful day today! I transitioned from the New Yorker to the Caribbean mode overnight 😊. Bright colors, mellow mood. Life is amazing! ☀️ 😎 #ACNP2026

Greetings from the #Bahamas ! Here for the @acnporg.bsky.social annual meeting. The weather is perfect and the sea is warm and calm - perfect for swimming! See you all soon - for a great time and excellent science, as always! ☀️ 🌴 💙 #ACNP2026

Enjoyed listening to Marina Abramovic talk about art and life this evening at the Great Hall of the Cooper Union. Always hilarious and inspiring! She also announced a new exhibition Balkan Erotic Epic happening in Dec 2026 at Park Avenue Armory!

Such an amazing evening celebrating @greally.bsky.social 's newly published book (on #Epigenetics!) and Serbian Christmas with fantastic sushi, sake, and fun chat about science and life. Feeling privileged to have such bright and inspiring colleagues and friends ♥️ #BlueRibbonSushi

Extremely excited & proud to share our new preprint - we provide for the first time a single cell map of the mouse brain across sex, the estrous cycle, and peripartum! Data are 🔥 👇 "Single-cell map of the female brain across reproductive transitions" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Wishing everyone a Happy, Healthy & Successful 2026! I have so much exciting travel already planned! I look forward to seeing all my dear people this year! And I can't wait to see the exciting science this year brings! May 2026 be an extraordinary year to all! 😀 ♥️

Ending 2025 w/ our new paper @natcomms.nature.com which shows that the immediate early gene Egr1 induces sex-dependent changes in ventral hippocampal (vHIP) structure and in anxiety- & depression-related behavior, via direct regulation of chromatin structure 🧵👇 1/ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Oh wow, our first snow in #NYC this year! ❄️ There were even some snowball fights on the street :) ... I love walking in the snow - so beautiful, peaceful, and relaxing ❤️

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!