Never thought this worm person would be posting about fly connectomes, but they really are pretty cool when you get to watch a bunch of bright-eyed undergrads light up over them. #StillaWormPerson

absolutely fascinating story on *acquiring* perfect pitch as an adult

The Brain Injury That Made Edward Freytag a Musical Genius (Gift Article)

When Ed Freytag suffered a brain injury in a motorcycle accident, it unlocked a rare musical talent.

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Updated this neuroscience faculty job list with about 30 new postings from Oct 12 to Nov 1. Now there're over 150 assistant professor positions. Best of luck to everyone on the job market this season! #neuroscience #postdoc

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Chen@xenopuselegans.bsky.social · 3w ago

I put together a list of neuroscience job openings to make it easier for people at my Institute to find jobs. I wanted to share it here too 🧠 Tabs cover assistant professor, senior, and related non-PI roles. Updated Oct 12. The Read Me explains more. Please share! #neuroscience #neurojobs #postdoc

Happy #Halloween. Feels only appropriate to bring back this gem 👁️👁️👁️👁️. This video shows cortical reaction in 🐸 embryos after fertilisation. When a sperm enters an egg, ions are released into the space between the viteline membrane and the egg surface, drawing in water, and causing the egg to rotate.

What can math tell us about the mind? Our Center for Theoretical Neuroscience builds mathematical models of the brain that help explain everything from how its electrical activity remains stable to how memories are stored. Meet some of the scientists advancing this field: youtu.be/J1EOgsqyYn0?...

What is Theoretical Neuroscience?

YouTube video by Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute

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The only slide I could appreciate in Hong Wang’s talk (on Kakeya sets) … and I’m pretty happy about it! #fouriertransform

Science isn't finished until it's communicated! Find out how to tell your scientific story at the @biologists.bsky.social @focalplane.bsky.social @the-node.bsky.social @prelights.bsky.social online workshop 10 November 13:00-17:00 GMT Register now! tinyurl.com/4tndhueb 🔁

Should you get a PhD? — Seven questions to ask yourself David Fay discusses seven questions l to ask yourself when deciding about graduate school. thenode.biologists.com/should-you-g...

Should you get a PhD? — Seven questions to ask yourself - the Node

https://helpimascientist.com/2022/12/24/should-you-go-to-graduate-school/ I wrote this a few years ago... and then a lot of stuff happened including PhD

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Inspiring women working on everything from microglia to exoplanets at this year’s L’ORÉAL women in science award ceremony. What a good time to be supporting science. #womeninscience

diffusion of responsibility 🤝 diffusion of heat

In Preparation@inprep.bsky.social · 2w ago

Calling all rising undergrad juniors & seniors: 9 weeks, mentorship from top scientists, up to $15K stipend to support "the most incredible" summer research experience. Want to learn more? Register for our live, #CechFellows webinar 10/26, 4pm ET! ➡️ bit.ly/4zKhIM8 | Program page: bit.ly/4dRWYJZ 🧪

I didn’t know this would be one of the perks of being a scientific programs manager, but I’m absolutely loving sitting in on undergrad classes and hearing the people behind discoveries I’ve read about and built on explain them in plain language. So satisfying! #olfaction #GreekIslands

My department at UCSF (Cell & Tissue Biology) is recruiting for a tenure-track Assistant/Associate Professor studying the fundamental cell biology underlying disease. Join us! App due Dec 1. aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF06272

Cell Biology of Disease - Tenure-Track Faculty Position

University of California, San Francisco is hiring. Apply now!

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Merriam Webster out here fighting for its life

A colleague is setting up for a science outreach program, and this scope has temporarily moved in next to my desk. I can’t believe it’s been 3 weeks since I last touched one (and I’m still alive).

I put together a list of neuroscience job openings to make it easier for people at my Institute to find jobs. I wanted to share it here too 🧠 Tabs cover assistant professor, senior, and related non-PI roles. Updated Oct 12. The Read Me explains more. Please share! #neuroscience #neurojobs #postdoc

Oct_12_2026_Neuroscience_Openings_Columbia_Zuckerman_Institute_Chen_Wang.xlsx

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I put together a list of neuroscience job openings to make it easier for people at my Institute to find jobs. I wanted to share it here too 🧠 Tabs cover assistant professor, senior, and related non-PI roles. Updated Oct 12. The Read Me explains more. Please share! #neuroscience #neurojobs #postdoc

Oct_12_2026_Neuroscience_Openings_Columbia_Zuckerman_Institute_Chen_Wang.xlsx

docs.google.com

C.H. Waddington's iconic landscape drawings have hugely influenced biology and predicted the field of epigenetics. But are they anything more than a metaphor? https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-does-life-unfold-a-landscape-metaphor-comes-into-its-own-20261009/

This serene and hopeful melody was written in the 1920s by the African American female composer Florence Price. Courage = beauty. Musicians: the Renaissance Quartet #florenceprice

Got to bring up Jeff Coller’s recent op-ed on GLP-1 again.

Opinion | The Science That Turned Lizard Venom Into GLP-1s Is Under Attack (Gift Article)

Science turned a serendipitous finding about lizard venom into one of the most important drugs of the century, but that type of research is getting harder to do.

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Itai Yanai@itaiyanai.bsky.social · 4w ago

1. CRISPR came from basic research on bacteria. 2. Optogenetics started with a discovery in algae. 3. The GFP protein comes from jellyfish. The biggest breakthroughs all trace to scientists following their curiosity, and this is one huge reason why we must keep funding basic research!

Excited to see our fMRI paper is out, led by Itamar Kahn’s lab. Our grad students, Amir Lawen and Bella Succi, in collab with Darcy Peterka, built a setup for simultaneous fMRI and dopamine fiber photometry in awake behaving mice. We learned some new biology too. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Dopamine release-associated striatal blood oxygenation and whole-brain dynamics during associative learning

Dopaminergic signaling in the nucleus accumbens (NAc) is central to reward-based learning, but its relationship to brain-wide hemodynamics remains unclear. Using concurrent fMRI and dopamine photometr...

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The best image caption I have seen so far on Wikipedia. (To be fair, it's in the section about sending the newts to space but I still love the clarification.) 🧪

Seems like a good time to recommend this book!

Projections by Karl Deisseroth: 9781984853714 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A groundbreaking tour of the human mind that illuminates the biological nature of our inner worlds and emotions, through gripping, moving—and, at times, harrowing—clinical stories...

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Columbia Psychology is hiring for a Cognitive Science/Neuroscience Assistant Professor position as part of our ongoing push to expand our Cognitive research program (including two hires last year). We'll be starting application reviews next week so get materials in asap! apply.interfolio.com/193975

Come to be my colleague! We have a broad search for a tenure track position in the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia. Amazing students and collegial environment in the ❤️ of NYC jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/680518/t...

Tenure-track, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences - New York City, New York (US) job with Columbia University Department of Biological Sciences | 680518

The Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University invites applications for a tenure-track, Assistant Professor position. The successful ...

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Review: Sex-specific mechanisms of chronic pain www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Sex-specific mechanisms of chronic pain

For decades, we have known that women, especially younger women, are disproportionately affected by pain disorders, including irritable bowel syndrome, endometriosis, menstrual migraines, fibromyalgia...

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It's always humbling to talk about what basic science can teach us about ourselves with people outside my usual circle of scientists. Thanks to the Livelong Women's Health Summit for having me on this past weekend's roundtable. #basicscience #celegans

Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc

Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

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I’ve spent a decade in New York and my brain is still reading this into BDNF every single time.

Third day on the new job, and I just heard @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social giving a lecture on the super cool naked mole-rats to our neuroscience undergrads. Loved it!