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November 10 is the application deadline for WTI's Postdoc Fellowships. Apply today + join our mission to understand human cognition!

Learn more: wti.yale.edu/initiatives/postdoctoral
Explore mentors: wti.yale.edu/humans/faculty
Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/174525

#KnowTogether #ScienceAtYale
November 7, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Wu Tsai Investigator Harry McNamara uses stem cell models—gastruloids and neural organoids—as “miniature physics labs” to uncover how cell communication shapes body structure and neural networks.

Read more about his research: fas.yale.edu/news-announc...

#HumansOfWTI #KnowTogether #ScienceAtYale
The bioengineer investigating stem cell self-organization
New FAS faculty member Harry McNamara is combining developmental biology, neurobiology, and biophysics to answer basic science questions about how cells communicate.
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October 31, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Are you at #NDiSTEM2025? Come by tomorrow to hear how important questions about the brain benefit from interdisciplinary & inclusive approaches. Featuring amazing scientists Cristina Román + @wutsaiyale.bsky.social fellows @lester-rodriguez.bsky.social & @josueortc.bsky.social !
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October 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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At #NDiSTEM2025 & interested in cognition? Come by
@wutsaiyale.bsky.social booth #1144 tomorrow to learn abt research opportunities, a new graduate certificate, postdoc fellowships & faculty hiring! And if you tell us our full mission statement by memory, you’ll get some cool swag… 👀😉 #SACNAS
October 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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@josueortc.bsky.social @wutsaiyale.bsky.social explored spatiotemporal cholinergic & calcium signalling dynamics across learning.
🎨Using dual-color imaging and multimodal transformers 🤖, he showed how cortical neuromodulation reshapes with experience and task demands.
October 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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WTI's Inspiring Speaker Series continues this week with Timothy Lillicrap, “Model-based reinforcement language for reasoning in games and beyond”

10.9.25 | 10 – 11:15a
100 College St, Workshop 1116
🔗 wti.yale.edu/event/2025-10/inspiring-speaker-tim-lillicrap

All Yale community members are welcome.
October 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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📣 Calling experimental, computational, or theoretical researchers!

WTI's Postdoc Fellowships application is now open, offering a competitive salary, structured mentorship, world-class facilities + more: wti.yale.edu/initiatives/...

Apply by November 10: apply.interfolio.com/174525

#KnowTogether
October 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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📣 WTI is hiring faculty positions! Are you interested in advancing our understanding of the brain + how it gives rise to cognition?

Two calls are open:

Open-rank search, Neurocomputation, deadline: 12.1.25
Senior search, Neurodevelopment, rolling review

🔗 wti.yale.edu/opportunities

#KnowTogether
October 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Scientists from WTI will be participating in Fiesta Latina on September 27-28 in New Haven. Events are free and open from 12–5 pm. 🪇🪘 🧠

🔗 peabody.yale.edu/events/fiest...

#KnowTogether #FiestaLatina #NewHaven @dacolon.bsky.social @janitzamontalvo.bsky.social @gguerre.bsky.social
September 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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The Wu Tsai Institute is proud to launch the 2025–26 Inspiring Speaker Series, our signature talk series for exploring the mind and brain from every angle.

Through May, we present speakers whose research advances our understanding of cognition using a range of approaches: wti.yale.edu/events
September 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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TONIGHT: 9.4 at CCAM from 7:30–8:30 pm

Meet the Artist: Sigune Hamann, WTI's Artist-in-Residence (2024-25)

Experience Hamann's “Film-strips panning." Stay to discuss the work with Hamann + community members.

Learn more: ccam.yale.edu/event/meet-a...

Photos by Sam Gulliver, courtesy of CCAM.
September 4, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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In collaboration with @pebyale.bsky.social, WTI presents the 2025 Undergraduate Poster Symposium. Join us at 100 College Street on Wednesday, July 30, from 2-4 pm.

Faculty, students + trainees are encouraged to attend! Learn more: wti.yale.edu/event/2025-0...

#KnowTogether
July 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Neurons are hungry for energy, and carry their own batteries. Excited to share our latest study, on the use of glycogen by neurons as a "capacitor" to support glycolytic plasticity. You can find the article here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... and press release news.yale.edu/2025/07/15/n...
Neurons use built-in ‘backup batteries’ that fuel the brain under stress
A new Yale study reveals that neurons store their own sugar reserves that kick in to keep the brain functioning during metabolic stress.
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July 19, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Stay up-to-date on the latest research, news, events, and initiatives from the Wu Tsai Institute by subscribing to our monthly newsletter!

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July 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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chuffed!

news.yale.edu/2025/06/11/y... Yale honors three early-career faculty members for ‘groundbreaking’ research | Yale News
Yale honors three early-career faculty members for ‘groundbreaking’ research
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences this week recognized Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, Samuel McDougle, and Junliang Shen for scholarly achievements in their respective fields.
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June 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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🚨 The full #YaleInnovationSummit agenda is LIVE! 🚨

180+ speakers | 50+ sessions | 6 tracks: Arts, Biotech, Climate, Civic, Health, Tech

🔗 Agenda: yaleventures.swoogo.com/yale-innovat...

📲 Connect with attendees via the app mobile-mobile.swoogo.com/app/uu2d2c

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April 30, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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#HumansOfWTI #KnowTogether
urneuroscience.bsky.social Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience @urneuroscience.bsky.social · May 22
Honesty + Celebrating (Unexpected Results + Mistakes)=👇

Part of the formula Dr. Kia Nobre of @wutsaiyale.bsky.social
uses in her lab to cultivate a positive work environment that leads to success in science

via 🎙️ Neuroscience Perspectives
May 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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What if AI could model life at the cellular level? 🧬

Yale’s David van Dijk, working at Wu Tsai Yale and partners at Google Research + GoogleDeepMind are paving the way for "virtual cells" — a leap for biomedicine. bit.ly/42ZqN6g
April 24, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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✨ This week at 100 College, we close out our 2024-25 Inspiring Speaker Series with:

WTI Inspiring Speaker: Jane Wang, "On the importance of acting in a complex world"

Thursday, 5.15 | 4p
🔗 wti.yale.edu/event/2025-0...

Events are open to the Yale community! wti.yale.edu/events #KnowTogether
May 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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✨ This week at 100 College:

WTI Inspiring Speaker: Richard Zemel, "Integrating past and present in continual learning"

🗓️ Thursday, 4.24 | 4p
🔗 wti.yale.edu/event/2025-0...

Events are open to the Yale community! wti.yale.edu/events #KnowTogether
April 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Babies are terrible functional MRI participants: They wiggle, cry and nap. But a small group of scientists have figured out how to scan them. “I’ve held hands with probably 100 babies during these scans,” says Nick Turk-Browne.

By @callimcflurry.bsky.social

www.thetransmitter.org/cognitive-ne...
What infant fMRI is revealing about the developing mind
Cognitive neuroscientists have finally clocked how to perform task-based fMRI experiments in awake babies. Now they want watch cognition take shape.
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April 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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In a new @plos.org study, @yale.edu researchers led by Nachshon Korem & @ifatlevy.bsky.social developed a model 💻 that predicts decision-making 🤔 using qualitative 🖼️rather than traditional quantitative 🔢 datasets --shedding light on nuanced choices.

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How Does Your Brain Make Decisions? Researchers Develop a Novel Model
Researchers created a new decision-making model based on qualitative outcomes of available options. It could provide insight into how our brains value
medicine.yale.edu
April 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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The Yale Innovation Summit on May 28-29 brings together entrepreneurs, investors, & industry leaders for 2 days of inspiring panels, networking, & pitch competitions.

Discounted registration for the Yale community.

Secure your spot bit.ly/yaleinnovati...

#YaleInnovation25
April 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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✨ This week at 100 College:

WTI Inspiring Speaker: Elizabeth M. C. Hillman, "Trying to decode the real-time brain"

🗓️ Thursday, 4.10 | 4p
🔗 wti.yale.edu/event/2025-0...

Events are open to the Yale community! wti.yale.edu/events #KnowTogether
April 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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A new study in Science led by @tristansyates.bsky.social + WTI director Nick Turk-Browne offers evidence that babies can form episodic memories: doi.org/10.1126/scie...

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April 1, 2025 at 12:51 AM