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 had a fantastic time at #OptoGRC2026! Congratulations to Cai Lab member @austinbaggetta.bsky.social for winning best poster 🎉 Shout out to @tristanshuman.bsky.social & @lindsayschwarz.bsky.social for taking on the role of Vice Chairs for the next meeting 🤓

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.

Please join us in welcoming incoming chairs @tinakim-neuro.bsky.social & @gisellavetere.bsky.social, and newly elected vice-chairs @tristanshuman.bsky.social & @lindsayschwarz.bsky.social. We can’t wait to see what this team has in store for #OptoGRC2028!

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!

“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

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

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🧵

A heartfelt thank you to all of our wonderful sponsors for supporting #OptoGRC2026! Your generosity played a huge part in making this year’s event a success, and we are so grateful for your partnership 💚💙

Spatial cognition has been the theme at CRaNE 2026 @crane-navsci.bsky.social today. Loved @russellepstein.bsky.social's keynote on how the brain builds cognitive maps. Looking forward to my panel tomorrow with Danny Dilks & @noranewcombe.bsky.social on how spatial cognition develops!

Brain Exploration Day was a great chance for us to open up the doors at MPFI and share our science with the South Florida community! Thank you so much to everyone who came to explore brain research with us 🧠 🧪

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...

Congratulations to the Icahn Mount Sinai Class of 2026! 🎓🥳 A special shout-out to Drs. Qi Xiu Fu and Christina Maher on their hooding. Watching Qi Xiu and Christina grow into exceptional researchers and mentors has been a joy.

🧪 LAST CALL! We're hiring for 2 positions to work in The Dunn Lab at Purdue Indianapolis on the epigenetics of childhood adversity and #depression risk. Apply now! Learn more at www.thedunnlab.com/join-the-lab & in 🧵 below. Please share & repost! #ScienceJobs #Scientist

Huge congratulations to @ashleyonthebrain.bsky.social on her successful thesis defense 🥳 It has been a joy to serve on her thesis committee alongside @dr-autumnivy.bsky.social. We are glad to have you in the community of Black women neuroscientists, Ashley! 🧠✨

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.

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...

Ep 2 of my new podcast is out today! My guest is Ben Rapoport, co-founder and CSO of @precisionneuro.bsky.social, which has built Layer 7, an innovative BCI that reads from the cortex surface without penetrating it. Hope you enjoy the conversation! www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8-9...

Join us for an exciting #OptoGRC2026 session on advances in microscopy, tool development & sensors 🔬⚡ With @ismail-ahmed.bsky.social & speakers @ianoldenburg.bsky.social, Olivia Masseck, Linlin Fan, @sagescientific.bsky.social, Tommaso Fellin & Adam Gordon-Fennell!

From cells to behavior, this #OptoGRC2026 session explores how neural activity shapes behavioral outputs 🧠⚡ Featuring @j9kwapis.bsky.social, Catherine Peña, @nicoleferrara.bsky.social, Kevin Franks, Priya Rajasethupathy, Jennifer Lawlor & Yasmine Ayman, you won't want to miss this lineup!

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 👇

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...

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!

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

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 🧵👇

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 ❤️

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.

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!

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!

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...

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

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

Excited to share our lab's new website, designed by @stellatecomms.bsky.social They perfectly captured the spirit of the lab, our efforts to bridge different areas of neuroscience, and the amazing team that does such cool science every day! Please check it out... higleylab.org

While chemotherapy kills some tumor cells, others survive and can drive relapse. This variability isn't fully explained by DNA mutations. In a new preprint, Core Investigator @genophoria.bsky.social and lab identify RNF8 and MIS18A as drivers of tumor cell variability in breast cancer.

In Nature Review Bioengineering, Core Investigator Felix Horns and colleagues outline how engineered living cells could deliver mRNA to places lipid nanoparticles and viral vectors can't reach, homing to disease sites and activating only when they detect the right signals.

New work from @mattbanghart.bsky.social’s team identifies the brain circuitry responsible for placebo pain relief 🧠 These findings can lead to better pain management strategies in humans, including alternatives to addictive painkillers. Read more: today.ucsd.edu/story/neurob...

Many of today’s #cannabis products are manufactured to create addiction. Thank you to Dr. Jonathan Avery for speaking with me about the misconceptions we often hold about cannabis and the importance of understanding its impact on the brain 🧠 🎙️ Listen here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FLs...

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]

✍️ 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...

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

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 🧵

We held another incredible Memory Hub meeting at @sinaibrain.bsky.social last week, featuring @suthanalab.bsky.social and @antferrui.bsky.social, who presented their creative topic "One Rhythm, Two Species? Rethinking the functional role(s) of hippocampal theta" 🧠 🤓 It was great to see everyone!

Join us this summer for discussions about how neural circuits operate under normal conditions & disease states, with specialized workshops & hands-on experience ✨ Registration & abstract submissions open through May 1. All career stages welcome! Learn more: cncm.medschool.uci.edu/2026-cncm-co...

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! 🧪 🌍 🔭

mTOR inhibitors stop cancer cells from dividing, but they rarely kill them. New work in Molecular Cell from Luke Gilbert & lab reveals a mechanism connecting mTOR signaling, cholesterol biology, and ferroptosis that could turn growth arrest into cancer cell death.

New visual identity for @kishoreneuro.bsky.social Kuchibhotla’s Lab. Neural circuits, lifelong learning, and a nod to auditory research. 🎶 Logo + illustrations + website live at: kishorelab.org See more at: stellatecomms.com/creative-portfolio | @stellatecomms.bsky.social

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

Wishing this fabulously competent—and joyful—crew a safe return to a planet that, frankly, doesn't deserve them.

Last chance to attend #OptoGRC2026! Submit your application by April 12 to join a collaborative, discussion-driven meeting in Italy featuring a "brilliant" lineup of speakers! 💡🧠 Apply now: www.grc.org/optogenetic-...