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Optogenetics Gordon Research Conference @optogrc.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

We can't wait to hear from #OptoGRC2026 keynote speaker, Sheena Josselyn! Be sure to catch her Sunday evening talk exploring engrams and how memories are encoded in the mouse brain 🐭 🧠 Haven’t registered yet? Applications are still open through April 12 👇 www.grc.org/optogenetic-...

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Optogenetics Gordon Research Conference @optogrc.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

#OptoGRC2026 is just around the corner! We are thrilled for this year's program, including keynote speakers @oyiz.bsky.social, Sheena Josselyn, and @rafaelyuste.bsky.social. Applications to attend are still being accepted through April 12. Register now👇 www.grc.org/optogenetic-...

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Optogenetics Gordon Research Conference @optogrc.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Get ready to map behavior in motion at #OptoGRC2026 🧠📊 With discussion by @neurrriot.bsky.social & speakers Christian Lüscher, @honglab.bsky.social, @biancasilvalab.bsky.social & @derynleduke.bsky.social, this Tuesday PM session highlights innovative ways to monitor, model & make sense of behavior.

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Bianca Jones Marlin, PhD @bjmarlin.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Beautiful LC work- we’ve been waiting for this ✨

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Optogenetics Gordon Research Conference @optogrc.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The #OptoGRC2026 Power Hour will be Monday, May 11 at 3pm, hosted by @ismail-ahmed.bsky.social & @tinakim-neuro.bsky.social! Join us to exchange ideas & take part in thoughtful conversations on how we can continue to support and grow our community 🤝 🧠 Register: www.grc.org/optogenetic-...

Opto GRC 2026 Power Hour with Ismail Ahmed (University of Utah) and Christina Kim (Princeton University)

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Optogenetics Gordon Research Conference @optogrc.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Excited to have @rafaelyuste.bsky.social as our third #OptoGRC2026 keynote speaker! Join us for his talk on how neural circuits & dendritic spines work together to "orchestrate" brain activity 🎹✨ Don’t miss the chance to attend — registration closes 4/12. www.grc.org/optogenetic-...

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Optogenetics Gordon Research Conference @optogrc.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Thrilled to welcome back 2024 chair @oyiz.bsky.social as one of our #OptoGRC2026 keynote speakers! Don’t miss his Sunday evening talk, framing the week ahead with a big-picture look at optogenetics and why it matters 🔦🤔 Apply to attend: www.grc.org/optogenetic-...

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Optogenetics Gordon Research Conference @optogrc.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Returning as #OptoGRC2026 co-chair, meet @bjmarlin.bsky.social! She's an assistant professor at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social & is most looking forward to seeing old friends & new data. Bianca is also a proud bug mom, welcoming her first walking stick bug babies to her collection in September 🐛

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Optogenetics Gordon Research Conference @optogrc.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

There’s still time to apply for #OptoGRC2026! 🙌 All applications are considered for support, including the opportunity for full registration coverage. Poster submissions & statements of interest encouraged! Apply by 2/20 to maximize your chances👇 www.grc.org/optogenetic-...

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Optogenetics Gordon Research Conference @optogrc.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Back again for #OptoGRC2026 — meet meeting co-chair @okaysteve.bsky.social! Steve is an associate professor at @bostonu.bsky.social and is especially excited about mentor-mentee lunches and supporting the next generation of researchers. Fun fact: he calls his parents twice a day, every day 📞❤️

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Optogenetics Gordon Research Conference @optogrc.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

We are officially less than two months away from #OptoGRC2026! 🤩 Submit your abstract by March 22 to be considered for a talk. Attendee applications are open until April 12, but we recommend applying soon before spots fill up! Register: www.grc.org/optogenetic-...

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Optogenetics Gordon Research Conference @optogrc.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

🚨 Reminder: Applications for #OptoGRC2026 are now OPEN! Don’t miss your chance to join an incredible week of science, discovery, and connection with the brightest minds in optogenetics 💡🧠 Apply now for the best chance of acceptance: www.grc.org/optogenetic-...

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Optogenetics Gordon Research Conference @optogrc.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Introducing co-vice chair @gisellavetere.bsky.social! Gisella is a team leader at @espciparispsl.bsky.social and is most excited about the immersive exchange and new ideas #OptoGRC2026 will inspire. Fun fact: when she’s not studying neurons, you can find her spinning on a pole 💃💪

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Optogenetics Gordon Research Conference @optogrc.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

In 2016, the first Opto GRC was created to bring together scientists pushing the boundaries of optogenetics research 🧠🌟 Join us to celebrate 10 incredible years of collaboration and discovery—applications for #OptoGRC2026 are now open! Apply now: www.grc.org/optogenetic-...

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Optogenetics Gordon Research Conference @optogrc.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

📆 Mark your calendars: #OptoGRC2026 is headed back to Tuscany, May 10-15, 2026! We look forward to reuniting with our amazing community for a week of great science, thoughtful discussions & shared time with colleagues. More details coming soon👇🏽 tinyurl.com/esvrabsu

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Optogenetics Gordon Research Conference @optogrc.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

It's time to meet your #OptoGRC2026 chairs! Co-vice chair @tinakim-neuro.bsky.social is an assistant professor at @princeton.edu who spent the summer building a van for weekend adventures 🚐✨ She's most looking forward to meeting new people & exploring areas outside of her usual wheelhouse!

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christine liu / two photon art @christineliu.art · 15/11/2025

You know SfN will be awesome when you run into old friends and meet new ones before the conference even starts!! Thank you @bjmarlin.bsky.social @thiagoarzua.com and @stutzman-alexis.bsky.social for stopping by on Friday! Also @nbaumgar.bsky.social (not pictured…yet!!!)

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Ofer Yizhar @oyiz.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Excited to share our latest paper - now out in @science.org - we showed how oxytocin modulates maternally-directed behavior in young mice (P15).

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Steve Ramirez @okaysteve.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Good morning everyone! So, I wrote a book (!!) and it’s coming out November 4th in physical and audiobook form. It’s called *How to Change a Memory* www.amazon.com/How-Change-M...

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How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past

Buy How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past on Amazon.com ✓ FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders

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Bianca Jones Marlin, PhD @bjmarlin.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Thank you Pew Trust for this honor. Thank you to my amazing communities who have supported me and our “radical and rigorous, ambitious and meticulous,” Marlin Lab Science .✨

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Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Congratulations to @bjmarlin.bsky.social on being named a 2025 Pew Biomedical Scholar! Her research dives deep into what is innate, what is learned and what is chosen by biology to be passed down from generation to generation. 🧠 🌟 www.pew.org/en/projects/...

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Hypothesis Fund @hypothesisfund.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Big congrats to Hypothesis Fund Awardee @bjmarlin.bsky.social! We're proud early supporters of her research on transgenerational epigenetic inheritance, and can't wait to see what she'll discover next! Go Bianca! 🌟

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Bianca Jones Marlin, PhD @bjmarlin.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Come celebrate with me - I’m telling a story at @storycollider.bsky.social 15th anniversary show on June 3! ✨🧪 events.humanitix.com/the-story-co...

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The Rockefeller University @rockefeller.edu · 14/05/2025

A collaborative study between the labs of @danmucida.bsky.social and @victora.bsky.social earlier this year showed how immune cells in the gut distinguish between food and harmful pathogens, shedding light on the origins of food allergies: bit.ly/4hyS18b #FoodAllergyAwarenessWeek

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Caroline Jia @carolinejia.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

🧵 1\New Preprint! Social pain, the emotional pain caused by aversive experiences with other individuals, is an umbrella term that includes experiences such as social isolation, social exclusion, social rejection, and social loss and can be used as a signal to drive a need state

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Bianca Jones Marlin, PhD @bjmarlin.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

✨Valentine’s Defense Day ✨ We invite you to learn from #MarlinLab ‘s Val Andreu learn why “Mother *Nose* Best!”

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Dr. Nour Mimouni 🧠🔬✨ @nourmimouni.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Today marks the first World Hormones Day! 🧠🫀 Hormones are the body’s messengers, guiding us through each phase of life with their subtle yet powerful influence 🙌🏼 @socendocrinology.bsky.social @women-in-endo.bsky.social @endocrinesociety.bsky.social 📸: Prof.Catteau Jonard at the ESE annual meeting

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Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @heydrdukes.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Dr. Bianca Jones Marlin is an @HHMINEWS Freeman Hrabowski Scholar & Assistant Professor at Columbia University 🧠 The Marlin Lab researches transgenerational epigenetic inheritance (how parents' lived experiences change the brains of future offspring) 🧬🐭 #BlackInNeuro @bjmarlin.bsky.social

Dr. Marlin, a Black woman neuroscientist, is smiling proudly in her lab space. She’s wearing a white shirt, simple necklace, small hoop earrings, dark red lipstick and has a beautifully shaved head.

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Kanaka Rajan @kanakarajanphd.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Attended my first @cziscience.bsky.social #Neuroscience 2025 Meeting 🧠 Grateful to speak alongside such amazing theorists, see old & new friends & connect across academia & industry Shoutout to @bjmarlin.bsky.social, @muraronara.bsky.social , @erinmgibson.bsky.social & all these wonderful folks🌟

Six women stand close together, smiling at the camera in a well-lit indoor space with arched windows at a professional conference. The background features black-framed doors and a glimpse of palm trees outside.

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Matteo Farinella (he/him) @matteofarinella.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Today, for #BrainAwarenessWeek I want to share this brainy map commissioned by The Brain Observatory for last Summer's Brain Explorer Camp. If you pass by San Diego, make sure to check out this little hidden gem of a museum: www.thebrainobservatory.org 🧠 #SciArt #neuroscience

The Brain Observatory's Brain Explorer Camp

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Matteo Farinella (he/him) @matteofarinella.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Since it's #brainawareness week, I want to take a break from the ongoing dystopia to celebrate my favorite organ and repost some of my favorite #neuroscience #sciart! Let's start with this #scifi brain city I just made for an upcoming Italian graphic novel 🧠 🏙 #cervello #comics #graphicmedicine

A giant brain at the center of a futuristic city, radiating a complex network of roads (a metaphor for the peripheral nervous system)

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Jeremy Day @daylab.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

UAB Neurobiology is hiring up to 4 new tenure-track faculty as part of 3 new open-rank searches. Come join our vibrant, supportive, and growing neuroscience community! uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/23916 uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/23944 uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/24010

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Academic Joint Departments-Open Rank/Tenure-Neurobiology

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Heersink School of Medicine invites applications for 4 open-rank faculty positions in the Department of Neurobiology. We are seeking candidates who apply ...

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Bianca Jones Marlin, PhD @bjmarlin.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Sunday planner time is my golden hour ✨ 📖 ☕️

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Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we celebrate the women advancing scientific discovery and working towards a better world. Like postdoc @nourmimouni.bsky.social, a neuroendocrinologist and champion for women’s health. Discover her story: tinyurl.com/53mue4pn #womeninscience

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Alexis Stutzman Lewis, PhD @stutzman-alexis.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Today marks the last day of Black History Month and this year was the first in my memory that I haven’t felt like the BHM was embraced by my educational community. Even as a child, February was always a time when we talked about historic figures like Dr. King but this year… 1/5

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Bianca Jones Marlin, PhD @bjmarlin.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Part of my twitter motivation was to follow reality TV. Y’all. I’m the biggest fan of love is blind. But…dayum this is painful 😂. I may have to bow out this season…

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Hypothesis Fund @hypothesisfund.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🎊Announcing our first awardees of 2025! These talented scientists are generating new knowledge about host immunity, bacterial pathogens, and gene-environment interactions. Read more about them: bit.ly/HFAwardees. Hear from our #HFScouts below!🧵/1

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Marine Biological Laboratory @mblscience.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Exciting news! MBL has received a $2.6M gift from an anonymous donor! This generous support fuels our mission of discovery, education, and innovation. Private philanthropy drives groundbreaking research and shapes the future of science. 🌎🔬 #ScienceStartsHere #Philanthropy

A drone picture of the Lillie Building at the Marine Biological Laboratory

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Bianca Jones Marlin, PhD @bjmarlin.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Marlin Lab’s 1st Thesis Defense ✨ Hear the science @2:30pm EST bit.ly/MarlinLab Have the cheers @5:00 pm EST JLG✨ Columbia Biology student Beka Stecky will share her discoveries on “What the Nose, Knows” after learning an odor predicts a stressful experience.👃🏽🧬🧪

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2Scientists @2scientists.org · 24/01/2025

We're stoked to learn that The Queen of Oxytocin herself is here on Bluesky! We have fond memories of meeting @bjmarlin.bsky.social in New York many moons ago to learn more about her work on the "love hormone" and inherited trauma. Listen in here 🎧: 2scientists.org/podcast/oxyt... #SciComm #podcast

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The queen of oxytocin — 2Scientists

Oxytocin is often touted as the “love hormone”, but it’s also the focus of neuroscientist Dr. Bianca Jones Marlin . Bianca sat down to tell us about her work on how trauma can be inherited, and how ...

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Black In Neuro @blackinneuro.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

The 100th addition to our Starter Pack is none other than THEE ✨ @bjmarlin.bsky.social ✨ #Neuroscience 🧪 go.bsky.app/F8PpdPe

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

YEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHH @bjmarlin.bsky.social is here on Bsky.

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HHMI @hhmi-science.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

ATTN: #Postdocs - Your opportunity to lead the future of #science starts now! Applications for the 2025 #HannaGrayFellows Program are OPEN. 📢 Take your first step toward joining a community of changemakers in science. Applications are due 2.26.25, @ 3:00 p.m. ET. 💫 Apply today! hhmi.news/48n2lfh 👈

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Andres Bendesky @bendeskylab.com · 15/01/2025

Humans and other animals take turns during conversations. In our new paper we study the aggressive visual conversations of betta fish. We discover how fish know when is their turn and how the telencephalon is not needed! 🧪 www.cell.com/cell-reports... More details in 🧵 ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/bend...

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Coordination and persistence of aggressive visual communication in Siamese fighting fish

Everett et al. investigate the visual cues and neural substrates that drive turn taking and persistent aggression in Siamese fighting fish aggressive displays. They identify the pallial amygdala as es...

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