Columbia's Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute is seeking a Magnetic Resonance Technologist and Safety Officer (MRSO) to support the Magnetic Resonance Research Platform. Applicants interested, please apply here: opportunities.columbia.edu/jobs/mr-tech...

A lab within the Zuckerman Institute @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social has an open Associate Research Scientist position. Candidates can apply using the following link: apply.interfolio.com/189593

A lab within the Zuckerman Institute @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social has an open Associate Research Scientist position. Candidates can apply using the following link: apply.interfolio.com/189598

Where does curiosity come from? Neuroscientist @jenbussell.bsky.social wants to know. She found that mice, like us, seek information with no external benefit. Her new Nature Neuroscience research links this desire for knowledge to cells in the brain's orbitofrontal cortex. See tinyurl.com/3xjt8e5c

A lab within @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social has an open Associate Research Scientist position. Candidates can apply using the following link: apply.interfolio.com/189600

A lab within @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social has an open Associate Research Scientist position. Candidates can apply using the following link: apply.interfolio.com/189572

Summer is here, with camps and cook-outs — and the flies they bring! What's the best way to swat these seasonal pests? Join neuroscientist Gwyneth Card for a peek inside their brains, which contain not only the secret to squishing the bugs but also lessons in how our brains work youtu.be/-bOi8pBSdIc

How to Think Like a Fly

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🎥 Faces of IICD: Meet Dr. Genevera Allen! A professor at @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social and @columbiauniversity.bsky.social and an IICD core member, she develops machine learning and statistical methods to uncover insights from complex data. Watch: youtu.be/ReVQT3MAjuw

Scientists have long debated whether neurons are jacks of all trades or tend to specialize in one thing. Now @stefanofusi.bsky.social, @lorenzoposani.com & Liam Paninski present new evidence in @nature.com shedding light on how the brain performs complex tasks. tinyurl.com/yj3ew8en

The Zuckerman Institute is seeking a Scientific Programs Manager. Candidates can apply using the following link: opportunities.columbia.edu/jobs/manager...

What was the Zuckerman Institute up to in the 2025-2026 academic year? See for yourself in our Yearly Recap: zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/2025-2026-ac...

A lab within the Zuckerman Institute has an open Associate Research Scientist position. Candidates can apply using the following link: apply.interfolio.com/188457

🧠✨Saturday Science will be at Manhattanville Community Day! Free activities for children of all ages to explore the science of the brain. And featuring the BioBus Mobile Lab! 📍605 W 129th St 🗓️ Saturday, June 27 ⏰ Drop in anytime from 12–3 PM Register at bit.ly/SatSciJune2026

A lab within @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social has an open Associate Research Scientist position. Candidates can apply using the following link: apply.interfolio.com/188236

Join us on June 29 for a closing conversation between acclaimed playwright Sarah Ruhl, the Alan Kanzer Writer-in-Residence, and Daphna Shohamy, Director of @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social Learn more and register: zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/stories-we-c...

What does a perfect soccer play look like to a neuroscientist? The actions we see on the field, which seem to happen one after another, actually overlap inside the player’s head, says Miguel Vivar-Lazo, PhD @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social @columbiamed.bsky.social #FWC26 ⚽ youtube.com/shorts/xVEym...

The Brain Science of a Perfect Soccer Play

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What does neuroscience research look like in practice? 🧠 IICD Summer Research Program students visited Dr. Darcy Peterka’s lab at @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social, where they took a look at the IICD two-photon microscope and learned how researchers study the brain in cancer research. #SummerResearch

Is forgetting useful? This was among the deep questions about how memories are formed and used explored at Local Circuits, a symposium that brought together leading experts in biological and artificial intelligence @columbiauniversity.bsky.social zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/symposium-me...

Join us on June 18 for the capstone event of our Jazz Artist-in-Residence, Linda May Han Oh. The performance will be followed by a conversation reflecting on her residency, key learnings, ongoing questions, future projects, and collaborations: zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/afternoon-li... 🎶🧠🎶

A lab within the Zuckerman Institute @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social has an open Senior Staff Associate I position. Candidates can apply using the following link: apply.interfolio.com/187676.

💭 Do cockroaches get lonely? ✍️ @inkfish.bsky.social: knowmag.org/4uLtFPx

Why we crave company

Neuroscientists are discovering that spending time with others may be a basic biological necessity, like need for food or water

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🧠✨ What is the physical form of a memory? Join us on 06/18 for the opening of The Shape of Memory, a new site-specific installation by artist Maya Ciarrocchi, created in collaboration with neuroscientists @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social RSVP: bit.ly/AELmemory

Tiny changes can have profound effects on life. Lochlan Krupa, an undergraduate working in the @bendeskylab.com lab, knows this well. He recently discovered that the duplication of a single gene gave fish a new ability to make a vitamin from their food zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/science-life...

This week, IICD and @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social hosted middle school students from Q StudioLab for a visit focused on science, research, and discovery. Students had the opportunity to connect with IICD scientists over lunch and learn more about careers in STEM! #CancerResearch #Outreach #Education

In a paper published today in Nature Neuroscience, researchers led by Nima Mesgarani have shown for the first time that brain-controlled hearing technology can help people single out one conversation in a crowd in real time.

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Hearing aids amplify all incoming sound, and so struggle with noisy surroundings. Brain-controlled hearing tech from Nima Mesgarani, Vishal Choudhari & team could lead to a new generation of hearing systems that help people single out a voice in a crowd. youtube.com/shorts/TONWQ...

Hearing aids amplify all incoming sound, and so struggle with noisy surroundings. Brain-controlled hearing tech from Nima Mesgarani, Vishal Choudhari & team could lead to a new generation of hearing systems that help people single out a voice in a crowd. youtube.com/shorts/TONWQ...

Can Mind-Reading Tech Help People Hear Better?

YouTube video by Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute

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Congratulations to Haroon Arain, an alum of our high school BRAINYAC program, who will be starting medical school at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social this fall! Read more about how Haroon is already making (brain) waves: www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/incomin...

Incoming VP&S Student Already Making (Brain) Waves

Having benefited from NYP and Columbia pre-college programs, incoming VP&S student Haroon Arain ‘pays it forward’ by teaching neuroscience to local high school students.

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What different insights might a playwright and a neuroscientist have about memory? Our own Daphna Shohamy, Alan Kanzer Writer-in-Residence Sarah Ruhl and Carol Becker shared stories from their lives about how memory affects their work: news.columbia.edu/news/neurosc...

Check out the new @pbs.org South Florida documentary “The Resilient Brain” featuring our own @columbiauniversity.bsky.social @kenmiller.bsky.social discussing the mind, brain and behavior: allhealthtv.com/program/the-...

The recording of my joint talk on @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social Teacher Institute for Neuroscience and Society with Kathleen Roina of @danafoundation.bsky.social is now online! Thank you @ucirvine.bsky.social CONNECT Initiative for having us! youtu.be/lYOdyQrB-EY?...

Dana Education with Katherine Roina and Dr. Diana Li | CONNECT Series

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Dr. Diana Li@dianateuthis.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Join me online today at 1pm ET to hear how the @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social Public Programs team built our Teacher Institute for Neuroscience and Society program for NYC middle school teachers: cnlm.uci.edu/connect Thank you to @danafoundation.bsky.social for making this program possible! 🧪🧠