Dániel Barabási
@bdanubius.bsky.social
Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fellow @BroadInstitute || Harvard Biophysics PhD '23 || ND Physics ‘17 || 🇺🇸🇭🇺🇸🇪🇷🇴
OSNAP!
I received an NIH Outstanding Scholars in Neuroscience Award
This award makes my heart sing -- between college and PhD I spent a year researching at the NIMH, and loved every minute of the campus and community.
Feels full circle to be honored by NIMH post-PhD!
I received an NIH Outstanding Scholars in Neuroscience Award
This award makes my heart sing -- between college and PhD I spent a year researching at the NIMH, and loved every minute of the campus and community.
Feels full circle to be honored by NIMH post-PhD!
July 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
OSNAP!
I received an NIH Outstanding Scholars in Neuroscience Award
This award makes my heart sing -- between college and PhD I spent a year researching at the NIMH, and loved every minute of the campus and community.
Feels full circle to be honored by NIMH post-PhD!
I received an NIH Outstanding Scholars in Neuroscience Award
This award makes my heart sing -- between college and PhD I spent a year researching at the NIMH, and loved every minute of the campus and community.
Feels full circle to be honored by NIMH post-PhD!
Recent PhD Grad, or planning on defending soon?
With current funding uncertainties, postdoc fellowships, often funded by private donations, can provide job stability in the coming years.
I put together a short guide and list of fellowships I applied to 👇
With current funding uncertainties, postdoc fellowships, often funded by private donations, can provide job stability in the coming years.
I put together a short guide and list of fellowships I applied to 👇
June 16, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Recent PhD Grad, or planning on defending soon?
With current funding uncertainties, postdoc fellowships, often funded by private donations, can provide job stability in the coming years.
I put together a short guide and list of fellowships I applied to 👇
With current funding uncertainties, postdoc fellowships, often funded by private donations, can provide job stability in the coming years.
I put together a short guide and list of fellowships I applied to 👇
Tragically beautiful article from @harvardmagazine.bsky.social about the absurdity of letting death machines into our cities, and how simple fixes can return "complete" streets to the people.
Amsterdam and Copenhagen transformed, what's stopping Boston?
www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/03/harv...
Amsterdam and Copenhagen transformed, what's stopping Boston?
www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/03/harv...
Making Roads Safer for Pedestrians and Cyclists | Harvard Magazine
Working to curb road deaths
www.harvardmagazine.com
March 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Tragically beautiful article from @harvardmagazine.bsky.social about the absurdity of letting death machines into our cities, and how simple fixes can return "complete" streets to the people.
Amsterdam and Copenhagen transformed, what's stopping Boston?
www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/03/harv...
Amsterdam and Copenhagen transformed, what's stopping Boston?
www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/03/harv...
In the vein of Women's History Month and International Women's Day, Nature published a number of fascinating women's health studies recently, including:
Hormone cycle's effect on breast cancer treatment.
Brain restructuring under pregnancy.
X chromosome + brain aging.
Links👇
Hormone cycle's effect on breast cancer treatment.
Brain restructuring under pregnancy.
X chromosome + brain aging.
Links👇
March 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
In the vein of Women's History Month and International Women's Day, Nature published a number of fascinating women's health studies recently, including:
Hormone cycle's effect on breast cancer treatment.
Brain restructuring under pregnancy.
X chromosome + brain aging.
Links👇
Hormone cycle's effect on breast cancer treatment.
Brain restructuring under pregnancy.
X chromosome + brain aging.
Links👇
Reposted by Dániel Barabási
1/ Our paper appeared in @Nature today! www.nature.com/articles/s41... w/ Fiete Lab and @khonamikail.bsky.social .
Explains emergence of multiple grid cell modules, w/ excellent match to data! Novel mechanism for applying across vast systems from development to ecosystems. 🧵👇
Explains emergence of multiple grid cell modules, w/ excellent match to data! Novel mechanism for applying across vast systems from development to ecosystems. 🧵👇
Global modules robustly emerge from local interactions and smooth gradients - Nature
The principle of peak selection is described, by which local interactions and smooth gradients drive self-organization of discrete global modules.
www.nature.com
February 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
1/ Our paper appeared in @Nature today! www.nature.com/articles/s41... w/ Fiete Lab and @khonamikail.bsky.social .
Explains emergence of multiple grid cell modules, w/ excellent match to data! Novel mechanism for applying across vast systems from development to ecosystems. 🧵👇
Explains emergence of multiple grid cell modules, w/ excellent match to data! Novel mechanism for applying across vast systems from development to ecosystems. 🧵👇
Are you a PhD student thinking about PostDoc options?
Fellowships provide early independence, and some early deadlines are in spring and summer!
Check out my guide below for navigating the process, plus a curated fellowship list with deadlines, salaries & more.
Fellowships provide early independence, and some early deadlines are in spring and summer!
Check out my guide below for navigating the process, plus a curated fellowship list with deadlines, salaries & more.
March 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Are you a PhD student thinking about PostDoc options?
Fellowships provide early independence, and some early deadlines are in spring and summer!
Check out my guide below for navigating the process, plus a curated fellowship list with deadlines, salaries & more.
Fellowships provide early independence, and some early deadlines are in spring and summer!
Check out my guide below for navigating the process, plus a curated fellowship list with deadlines, salaries & more.
We call those the "Four Ss," but unfortunately the title got cut.
Also in the paper, the "Four Fs": Feeding, Fleeing, Fighting, and Mating.
Also in the paper, the "Four Fs": Feeding, Fleeing, Fighting, and Mating.
Sometimes fancy science-y words are unnecessary (from Nature Reviews Neuroscience www.nature.com/articles/s41...).
March 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
We call those the "Four Ss," but unfortunately the title got cut.
Also in the paper, the "Four Fs": Feeding, Fleeing, Fighting, and Mating.
Also in the paper, the "Four Fs": Feeding, Fleeing, Fighting, and Mating.
Thanks @harvardmcb.bsky.social for sharing this recap of our work!
Click through at the mcb.harvard link, or in my tweetorial below for full text access!
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Click through at the mcb.harvard link, or in my tweetorial below for full text access!
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Innate or Earned? Rethinking the Role of Activity in Brain Development #Science #SciPub #ResearchPublis 🧠 🧫🧪🧬 🤖 💡
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n...
@bdanubius.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social
@naoshigeuchida.bsky.social
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n...
@bdanubius.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social
@naoshigeuchida.bsky.social
Innate or Earned? Rethinking the Role of Activity in Brain Development - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology
Sixty years ago, Harvard scientists David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel famously showed that altering visual input in young cats irreversibly changed the organization of neurons in the visual […]
www.mcb.harvard.edu
February 27, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Thanks @harvardmcb.bsky.social for sharing this recap of our work!
Click through at the mcb.harvard link, or in my tweetorial below for full text access!
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Click through at the mcb.harvard link, or in my tweetorial below for full text access!
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Reposted by Dániel Barabási
Interesting review on the acquisition of motor skills through (1) innate (2) opportunity-based and (3) systematic tuning processes. The framework is compelling although (2) and (3) may I think be the same process at different time scales.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Three systems of circuit formation: assembly, updating and tuning - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
In this Perspective, Barabási, Ferreira Castro and Engert challenge the notion that learning and plasticity primarily drive the assembly of neural circuits. They present a tripartite framework for how...
www.nature.com
February 25, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Interesting review on the acquisition of motor skills through (1) innate (2) opportunity-based and (3) systematic tuning processes. The framework is compelling although (2) and (3) may I think be the same process at different time scales.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Thanks for sharing!!
For anyone interested in a quick recap, see our thread here: bsky.app/profile/bdan...
For anyone interested in a quick recap, see our thread here: bsky.app/profile/bdan...
Very good Perspective piece by @bdanubius.bsky.social
and colleagues in @natrevneurosci.bsky.social
For nature-nurture fans: looking at neural circuit formation, and the role of development, learning + the complexities of the genotype-phenotype mappings
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
and colleagues in @natrevneurosci.bsky.social
For nature-nurture fans: looking at neural circuit formation, and the role of development, learning + the complexities of the genotype-phenotype mappings
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Three systems of circuit formation: assembly, updating and tuning - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
In this Perspective, Barabási, Ferreira Castro and Engert challenge the notion that learning and plasticity primarily drive the assembly of neural circuits. They present a tripartite framework for how...
www.nature.com
February 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Thanks for sharing!!
For anyone interested in a quick recap, see our thread here: bsky.app/profile/bdan...
For anyone interested in a quick recap, see our thread here: bsky.app/profile/bdan...
How much do we *really* learn?
In @natrevneurosci.bsky.social with Florian Engert and
André Ferreira Castro, we address why most of you humans firmly believe that patterned activity plays a necessary and instructive role in shaping neural circuits.
In @natrevneurosci.bsky.social with Florian Engert and
André Ferreira Castro, we address why most of you humans firmly believe that patterned activity plays a necessary and instructive role in shaping neural circuits.
Three systems of circuit formation: assembly, updating and tuning — a Perspective by Dániel L. Barabási, André Ferreira Castro & Florian Engert
@bdanubius.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@bdanubius.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Three systems of circuit formation: assembly, updating and tuning - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
In this Perspective, Barabási, Ferreira Castro and Engert challenge the notion that learning and plasticity primarily drive the assembly of neural circuits. They present a tripartite framework for how...
www.nature.com
February 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
How much do we *really* learn?
In @natrevneurosci.bsky.social with Florian Engert and
André Ferreira Castro, we address why most of you humans firmly believe that patterned activity plays a necessary and instructive role in shaping neural circuits.
In @natrevneurosci.bsky.social with Florian Engert and
André Ferreira Castro, we address why most of you humans firmly believe that patterned activity plays a necessary and instructive role in shaping neural circuits.
Mating proximity blinds threat perception
Valentine's Day themed paper: how a dopamine-governed filter during courtship turns off the serotonergic wave that would otherwise force them to abort and flee.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07890-3
Valentine's Day themed paper: how a dopamine-governed filter during courtship turns off the serotonergic wave that would otherwise force them to abort and flee.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07890-3
February 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Mating proximity blinds threat perception
Valentine's Day themed paper: how a dopamine-governed filter during courtship turns off the serotonergic wave that would otherwise force them to abort and flee.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07890-3
Valentine's Day themed paper: how a dopamine-governed filter during courtship turns off the serotonergic wave that would otherwise force them to abort and flee.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07890-3
Not sure why @macshine.bsky.social @drbreaky.bsky.social + co are not posting more about their fantastic paper from last week:
"Multiscale organization of neuronal activity unifies scale-dependent theories of brain function"
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
"Multiscale organization of neuronal activity unifies scale-dependent theories of brain function"
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
December 15, 2024 at 4:09 PM
Not sure why @macshine.bsky.social @drbreaky.bsky.social + co are not posting more about their fantastic paper from last week:
"Multiscale organization of neuronal activity unifies scale-dependent theories of brain function"
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
"Multiscale organization of neuronal activity unifies scale-dependent theories of brain function"
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
I was part of two (successful) union fights at Harvard, Grad Student and Postdoc. All the best to the @forbesunion.bsky.social team in the coming days!
Congratulations, Daniel! The newsroom is calling out
@Forbes for paying some of the lowest salaries in news journalism and proposing a miserly 1% bump each year. Repost to tell @Forbes you believe in fair pay!
@Forbes for paying some of the lowest salaries in news journalism and proposing a miserly 1% bump each year. Repost to tell @Forbes you believe in fair pay!
Massively humbled to be on the 2025 Forbes Science 30 under 30 List
Huge thanks to my mentors, family, friends and collaborators — I would not be here with you all.
Now here's to living up to his honor in my next 30 years!
#ForbesUnder30
Huge thanks to my mentors, family, friends and collaborators — I would not be here with you all.
Now here's to living up to his honor in my next 30 years!
#ForbesUnder30
December 3, 2024 at 8:09 PM
I was part of two (successful) union fights at Harvard, Grad Student and Postdoc. All the best to the @forbesunion.bsky.social team in the coming days!
Massively humbled to be on the 2025 Forbes Science 30 under 30 List
Huge thanks to my mentors, family, friends and collaborators — I would not be here with you all.
Now here's to living up to his honor in my next 30 years!
#ForbesUnder30
Huge thanks to my mentors, family, friends and collaborators — I would not be here with you all.
Now here's to living up to his honor in my next 30 years!
#ForbesUnder30
December 3, 2024 at 6:41 PM
Massively humbled to be on the 2025 Forbes Science 30 under 30 List
Huge thanks to my mentors, family, friends and collaborators — I would not be here with you all.
Now here's to living up to his honor in my next 30 years!
#ForbesUnder30
Huge thanks to my mentors, family, friends and collaborators — I would not be here with you all.
Now here's to living up to his honor in my next 30 years!
#ForbesUnder30
Hotspot shelters stimulate frog resistance to chytridiomycosis by Waddle et al
🔥 frogs sauna to fight fungal infection 🔥
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07582-y
🔥 frogs sauna to fight fungal infection 🔥
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07582-y
December 2, 2024 at 1:32 PM
Hotspot shelters stimulate frog resistance to chytridiomycosis by Waddle et al
🔥 frogs sauna to fight fungal infection 🔥
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07582-y
🔥 frogs sauna to fight fungal infection 🔥
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07582-y
Are you a graduate student in NeuroAI?
Check out this fantastic summer internship at CSHL, where you can work with @tonyzador.bsky.social and the crew.
I had a lot of fun in the first cohort, and they've only gotten more GPUs since then :)
www.schooljobs.com/careers/cshl...
Check out this fantastic summer internship at CSHL, where you can work with @tonyzador.bsky.social and the crew.
I had a lot of fun in the first cohort, and they've only gotten more GPUs since then :)
www.schooljobs.com/careers/cshl...
Career Opportunities | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Careers
www.schooljobs.com
November 22, 2024 at 11:02 PM
Are you a graduate student in NeuroAI?
Check out this fantastic summer internship at CSHL, where you can work with @tonyzador.bsky.social and the crew.
I had a lot of fun in the first cohort, and they've only gotten more GPUs since then :)
www.schooljobs.com/careers/cshl...
Check out this fantastic summer internship at CSHL, where you can work with @tonyzador.bsky.social and the crew.
I had a lot of fun in the first cohort, and they've only gotten more GPUs since then :)
www.schooljobs.com/careers/cshl...
Reposted by Dániel Barabási
For senior grad students. Please spread the word!
November 21, 2024 at 11:49 AM
For senior grad students. Please spread the word!
Emergence of social phases in human movement by Zhang et al
We are nothing but water vapor tumbling around in the universe (at least that's what I learned from this paper)
journals.aps.org/pre/abstract...
We are nothing but water vapor tumbling around in the universe (at least that's what I learned from this paper)
journals.aps.org/pre/abstract...
Emergence of social phases in human movement
Ultra-wideband radio frequency identification technology was used to collect spatiotemporal data on movements in four different classroom and playground settings. The data explore predominantly low-sp...
journals.aps.org
November 18, 2024 at 2:41 PM
Emergence of social phases in human movement by Zhang et al
We are nothing but water vapor tumbling around in the universe (at least that's what I learned from this paper)
journals.aps.org/pre/abstract...
We are nothing but water vapor tumbling around in the universe (at least that's what I learned from this paper)
journals.aps.org/pre/abstract...
Finishing up your PhD, and looking for a postdoc?
Check out my guide on applying for postdoc fellowships:
barabasi.me/fellowships/
I also curate a list of fellowships here:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
DMs are open, please send feedback and questions!
Check out my guide on applying for postdoc fellowships:
barabasi.me/fellowships/
I also curate a list of fellowships here:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
DMs are open, please send feedback and questions!
Barabási Dániel
barabasi.me
November 15, 2024 at 9:24 PM
Finishing up your PhD, and looking for a postdoc?
Check out my guide on applying for postdoc fellowships:
barabasi.me/fellowships/
I also curate a list of fellowships here:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
DMs are open, please send feedback and questions!
Check out my guide on applying for postdoc fellowships:
barabasi.me/fellowships/
I also curate a list of fellowships here:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
DMs are open, please send feedback and questions!
Reposted by Dániel Barabási
Two more tenure-track (or tenured in one case!) positions at Harvard, through the Kempner Institute - in Computer Science and in Applied Math! Please spread the word. Deadlines on Dec 15, 2023. 🧪
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/12963
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/12964
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/12963
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/12964
Tenure-track or Tenured Professor in Computer Science and Kempner Institute Investigator
The Computer Science area of the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University ...
academicpositions.harvard.edu
November 1, 2023 at 12:06 AM
Two more tenure-track (or tenured in one case!) positions at Harvard, through the Kempner Institute - in Computer Science and in Applied Math! Please spread the word. Deadlines on Dec 15, 2023. 🧪
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/12963
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/12964
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/12963
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/12964
#221: Scalable genetic screening for regulatory circuits using compressed Perturb-seq by Yao et al
Compute twice, measure once?
How sparse sensing can get you more insight with fewer scRNA experiments.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Compute twice, measure once?
How sparse sensing can get you more insight with fewer scRNA experiments.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 1, 2023 at 2:38 PM
#221: Scalable genetic screening for regulatory circuits using compressed Perturb-seq by Yao et al
Compute twice, measure once?
How sparse sensing can get you more insight with fewer scRNA experiments.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Compute twice, measure once?
How sparse sensing can get you more insight with fewer scRNA experiments.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#220: A d factor? Understanding trait distractibility and its relationships with ADHD symptomatology and hyperfocus by Han Zhang et al
A link between a general predictor of distractibility and hyperfocus, both on work and distractions.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
A link between a general predictor of distractibility and hyperfocus, both on work and distractions.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
A d factor? Understanding trait distractibility and its relationships with ADHD symptomatology and h...
People differ substantially in their vulnerability to distraction. Yet, many types of distractions exist, from external stimulation to internal thoughts. How should we characterize individual differen...
journals.plos.org
October 31, 2023 at 3:54 PM
#220: A d factor? Understanding trait distractibility and its relationships with ADHD symptomatology and hyperfocus by Han Zhang et al
A link between a general predictor of distractibility and hyperfocus, both on work and distractions.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
A link between a general predictor of distractibility and hyperfocus, both on work and distractions.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
#219: Multi-donor human cortical Chimeroids reveal individual susceptibility to neurotoxic triggers by Antón Bolaños et al
Multiplexing developmental perturbation testing in organoid cultures!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Multiplexing developmental perturbation testing in organoid cultures!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Multi-donor human cortical Chimeroids reveal individual susceptibility to neurotoxic triggers
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
www.biorxiv.org
October 31, 2023 at 3:49 PM
#219: Multi-donor human cortical Chimeroids reveal individual susceptibility to neurotoxic triggers by Antón Bolaños et al
Multiplexing developmental perturbation testing in organoid cultures!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Multiplexing developmental perturbation testing in organoid cultures!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#218: Comprehensive cell atlas of the first-trimester developing human brain by Emelie Braun et al
An unbelievable dataset, the BICCN papers provide a massive resource for follow-up explorations.
science.org/doi/10.1126/...
An unbelievable dataset, the BICCN papers provide a massive resource for follow-up explorations.
science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Comprehensive cell atlas of the first-trimester developing human brain
The adult human brain comprises more than a thousand distinct neuronal and glial cell types, a diversity that emerges during early brain development. To reveal the precise sequence of events during ea...
science.org
October 31, 2023 at 3:48 PM
#218: Comprehensive cell atlas of the first-trimester developing human brain by Emelie Braun et al
An unbelievable dataset, the BICCN papers provide a massive resource for follow-up explorations.
science.org/doi/10.1126/...
An unbelievable dataset, the BICCN papers provide a massive resource for follow-up explorations.
science.org/doi/10.1126/...