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Reminder! The #CivicScience Fellows program is accepting applications for 2026-27 host partners until December 15.

Learn more and apply here:
https://civicsciencefellows.org/stories/civic-science-fellows-program-invites-applications-to-host-a-2026-27-fellow/
November 11, 2025 at 6:36 PM
November 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
(1/4) In the 2020s, the Dana Foundation refines its longstanding commitment to research and public education on the brain to a focus on the intersection of neuroscience and society. #neurosociety #neurosky #philanthropy #neuroscience
November 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
(1/2) University of Pennsylvania computational neuroscientist and @neuromatch.bsky.social co-founder @kordinglab.bsky.social shares his advice for career success in neuroscience.

“The field has so much of an appetite for new ideas,” he says.

#neurosociety #compsci #neuroscience
October 28, 2025 at 2:32 PM
(1/2) Considering a career in neuroscience? In this bonus clip from NeuroSociety Stories, @sergiuppasca.bsky.social, a neuroscientist pioneering technology to recreate human brain tissue and neural circuits in the lab, shares why this is a pivotal moment for neuroscience. #neurosociety #neuroscience
October 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Meet the Leadership Alliance Scholars who worked at the University of Pennsylvania! These students expanded their research experience, received mentorship, and gained a better understanding of the opportunities ahead of them following their undergraduate studies. #neurosociety #leadership
October 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
The #CivicScienceFellows program is accepting applications for 2026-27 host partners! The new cohort of #CivicScience Fellows will focus on change: change rooted in science, change rooted in communications, and change rooted in policy.

Applications are due December 15.
October 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
(1/2) Meet the Leadership Alliance Scholars who worked out of Johns Hopkins University and learn more about their summer research projects.

#neurosociety #neurosky #leadership
October 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM
(1/2) Neuroscientist and circadian physiologist Jamie Zeitzer shares why he thinks it’s important for early-career researchers to pose interesting questions in their research, even if they might be wrong. @youthneuro.bsky.social #neurosociety #neuroscience #brainresearch
October 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
(1/2) On Nov. 10-12, scientists, ethicists, policymakers, patient advocates, and science communicators will convene to explore the ethical and societal questions posed by #organoid and #assembloid research.

Hear more from @sergiuppasca.bsky.social in this clip from #NeuroSociety Stories.
October 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
(1/3) Steven E. Hyman, M.D., joined the Dana Foundation’s Board of Directors in 2004, later becoming its chairman in 2019, a role he still holds. He brought deep expertise in #neuroscience and mental health at a time when the Foundation was expanding its support for neuroscience #research.
October 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
(1/2) The Dana Foundation has launched a rapid response bridge funding opportunity for work impacted by recent shifts in federal funding. We encourage scholars, practitioners, and teams doing work that falls within the Foundation's mission area of neuroscience and society to apply. #neurosky
September 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
📣 Calling all middle school #STEM teachers in NYC!

New spots have become available for the October 2025 Teacher Institute for Neuroscience and Society at @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social.

Apply by Sept. 22: zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/teacher-inst...

#neurosociety #stemlearning #stemeducation
September 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
(1/2) On September 25, the Dana Foundation is hosting the panel, “Community-Partnered Neuroscience Research: Strengthening Trust and Engagement,” in partnership with the European Brain Council (@braincouncil.eu) at the 80th United Nations General Assembly 2025 Science Summit. #UNGA80 #sciencesummit
September 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
(1/2) In the 2010s, the Dana Foundation dove deeper into the emerging areas of #neuroethics and #neurolaw, while continuing to champion public outreach about the brain and fund research studies in human clinical neuroscience, neuroimaging, and neuroimmunology. #neurosociety #brainresearch #neurosky
September 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Akila Kadambi is a postdoctoral researcher and fellow at the UCLA-CDU Dana Center for Neuroscience and Society. She sees first-hand the importance of engaging with the local community to help advance neuroscience and benefit society. #neurosociety #neuroscience #research #communityengagement
August 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
(1/2) Burton M. Mirsky joined the Dana Foundation in 1996, bringing with him a wealth of experience in taxation and finance from his distinguished career at KPMG. For over two decades, Mirsky served the Foundation in a number of roles before assuming the presidency himself in 2017.
August 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Hear from Sierra Webber, program manager for the Dana Program for Neuroscience & Society at Loyola University Chicago, on her work with middle and high school students on their neuroethics research projects and the manual she's creating to expand the program nationwide. #neurosociety #stemeducation
August 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
💡 Ethical and Societal Implications of Neural Organoids, Assembloids and their Transplantation

📅 November 10-12, Pacific Grove, CA

📝 Apply to attend by August 30. Participation limited to 70–80 individuals.

🔗 https://on.dana.org/4oGs6jz

#neurosociety #organoids #brainresearch
August 21, 2025 at 7:14 PM
New NeuroSociety Story coming soon! Sergiu Pasca, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at @stanforduniversity.bsky.social is pioneering research to understand human brain development and neuropsychiatric diseases by using innovative organoid-based technologies. #neurosociety #organoids
August 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The Dana Foundation will have plenty of opportunities this fall to dive deeper into neuroscience and society through news, events, and grants. Sign up for the Dana Foundation monthly newsletter so you can stay in the loop for what’s to come.

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#neurosociety #newsletter #grants
August 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
(1/2) During the 2000s, the Dana Foundation grew its publishing efforts through the Dana Press, and expanded its grants focus to explore new areas in #education and intersections in #neuroscience.

Learn more about our 75 year history: dana.org/75th-anniver...
July 31, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Discover the contributions of #neuroethics to research, industry, and policy at the Oxford Winter Neuroethics School. Gain the practical skills needed for planning and delivering interdisciplinary research projects in neuroethics. Applications due August 10.

🔗 www.owns.org.uk
July 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Congratulations to @chinmayibalusu.bsky.social, Dana Fellow in Neuroscience & Society, who is off to medical school! We are grateful for the work you've contributed to the Foundation’s NextGen program in support of neuroscience and society. We wish you much success in this next chapter!
July 23, 2025 at 2:12 PM
(1/3) Building on the Foundation’s legacy of supporting science communication to public audiences, and drawing on his own expertise in law, Edward F. Rover, Dana Foundation president from 2009-2017, expanded the organization’s #neuroscience outreach footprint at the intersections of policy and law.
July 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM