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Bianca Jones Marlin, PhD
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Neuroscientist at #Columbia #ZuckermanInstitute | #HHMIFHS | Mom & Beau studying parents and offspring | Science that serves humanity.
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Excited to share our latest paper - now out in @science.org - we showed how oxytocin modulates maternally-directed behavior in young mice (P15).
September 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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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*

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How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past
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September 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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🚨New Marlin Lab publication✨ app.jove.com/v/67112/prof...

In this #JoVE, we share a method for extracting meaningful, uninstructed behavioral readouts from constrained video recording environments (🧵1/2)

Led @brimcr.bsky.social & @AmirLawen, a @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social collab w/ @ItamarKahn.
Profiling Maternal Behavior Responses During Whole-Brain Imaging
Recent advancements in whole-brain imaging tools have enabled neuroscientists to investigate how coordinated brain activity processes external cues, ...
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August 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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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 .✨
zuckermanbrain.bsky.social Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social · Aug 12
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. 🧠 🌟
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August 18, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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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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August 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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hypothesisfund.bsky.social
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! 🌟
zuckermanbrain.bsky.social Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social · Aug 12
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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August 12, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Come celebrate with me - I’m telling a story at @storycollider.bsky.social 15th anniversary show on June 3! ✨🧪

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May 31, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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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
May 14, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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🧵 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
May 15, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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✨Valentine’s Defense Day ✨

We invite you to learn from #MarlinLab ‘s Val Andreu learn why “Mother *Nose* Best!”
May 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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nourmimouni.bsky.social
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
April 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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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.
February 2, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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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.
March 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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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
March 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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matteofarinella.bsky.social
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)
March 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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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!
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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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March 11, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Sunday planner time is my golden hour ✨ 📖 ☕️
March 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Marlin Lab’s @nourmimouni.bsky.social ✨
zuckermanbrain.bsky.social Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social · Feb 11
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
March 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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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
February 11, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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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
February 28, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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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…
February 19, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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🎊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
February 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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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
February 5, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Congratulations to the newly minted and FIRST PhD of the Marlin Lab, DOCTOR Beka Stecky!!! The lab gifted her artwork by Greg Dunn of the olfactory system, which Dr. Stecky investigated. So proud. Please enjoy this beautiful candid photo. ♥️ @bjmarlin.bsky.social
A photo of Dr. Bianca Jones Marlin and newly minted Dr. Beka Stecky holding a photo of artwork by Greg Dunn of the olfactory system, which Dr. Stecky studied for her PhD research. The photo shows Dr. Marlin’s candid joy of Dr. Stecky’s surprise and enthusiasm with the gift.
January 30, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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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.👃🏽🧬🧪
January 29, 2025 at 1:25 PM