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! 🥂

What a nice reunion tonight in NYC, w/ @jordanmarrocco.bsky.social @jaredwyoung.bsky.social & Chris Anacker ❤️

So good to catch up with my dear friend Armande who was visiting from Paris this weekend. Love seeing NYC from a tourist's lens, too... OMG, such an amazing city ... and sushi is top notch! 😍

Another great @sbn-bsky.bsky.social meeting! So good to see everyone and hear about exciting science! Until next time! ❤️ w/ @liisagalea.bsky.social @drglitterbear.bsky.social @lailaouldibbat.bsky.social @travisehodges.bsky.social @caromenard666.bsky.social @ciernialab.bsky.social #SBN2025

We need to keep the conversation going across academic societies on how to discuss sex and gender in research. Our science supports the importance & the current political climate demands it. Institutions and societies please 🙏🏼 keep the conversation going.

Great first day at #SBN2025 . We had a wonderful panel on sex and gender — thanks everyone for attending! Plus enjoyed the night out catching up with @drglitterbear.bsky.social & @megangmassa.com @sbn-bsky.bsky.social

In Vancouver for the @sbn-bsky.bsky.social meeting! If you are here, do not miss our panel on Sex and gender at 5 pm today! Panelists: Marija Kundakovic, Art Arnold, Liisa Galea, Kristina Smiley, Jacques Balthazart Moderated by: Kathleen Casto See you there! w/ @liisagalea.bsky.social #SBN2025

Always so happy to see one of my favorite scientists Julie Herbstman for our traditional lunch at #Community @columbiauniversity.bsky.social . So much to catch up on! ❤️

It is good to be back home (for a bit :). A warm but very relaxing holiday weekend ☀️. I hope everyone had an enjoyable July 4th! #GreenwichVillage

And the final destination for this incredible trip was … Paris! Couldn’t resist to stop by for a day to enjoy its beauty, the vibe, some art … and to have one final croissant 😃 Vive la France! 🇫🇷 NYC bound!

Enjoying the gala dinner and the beautiful city of Bordeaux last night, w/ @luisadema.bsky.social @jordanmarrocco.bsky.social @cate-cholamine.bsky.social @bohaceklab.bsky.social @ebbsociety.bsky.social #EBBS2025

This was a wonderful symposium at EBBS on fundamental processes in vulnerability to stress! Thanks to all the speakers for highly complementary and insightful talks! @kundakoviclab.bsky.social @jordanmarrocco.bsky.social @francescacirulli.bsky.social & Dogukan Ulgen from @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social

If you are at #EBBS2025, do not miss our symposium at 2:30 pm this afternoon: Sex-specific hormonal and genomic mechanisms in stress responses Chaired by @carmensandi10.bsky.social , w/ @jordanmarrocco.bsky.social @francescacirulli.bsky.social and myself @ebbsociety.bsky.social

Bonsoir from Bordeaux! Here for the @ebbsociety.bsky.social meeting. Great time catching up with @cate-cholamine.bsky.social and having a fantastic dinner w/ @carmensandi10.bsky.social @francescacirulli.bsky.social @jordanmarrocco.bsky.social @igorbranchi.bsky.social Ready for science! #EBBS2025

Goodbye, Côte d'Azur! It was amazing 5 days exploring Nice, Cannes, and Antibes, visiting the Picasso and Matisse museums, enjoying nice food and culture… beaches and many swims! Totally in 💙 with Nice! Until next time!

Bonjour - greetings from Nice! My first time in the French Riviera (finally!) and it feels so amazing to be here! The vibe, the architecture, the sea, everything.. it is glamorous but so relaxed, love it! ☀️ 💙

Time to continue my European tour… Had an extremely relaxing, wonderful week in Serbia. Feeling so recharged and grateful.. Until next time! ❤️❤️❤️

Many thanks to the Institute for Biological Research Siniša Stanković & Ivana Bjelobaba for hosting us for the IBISS - Fordham collaboration. IBISS has always been a special place for me as I made my 1st scientific steps there. We learned a lot & had great time together..to be continued! #Belgrade ❤️