Democratizing science @Yale Ciencia Initiative & @WuTsaiYale, Ex-ED @CienciaPR, 🇵🇷 hasta en la luna, carry 🇪🇨&🇦🇷 in 💜, @Cal & @UPRRP alumna. Views my own
This week, I said goodbye to my role as Executive Director of @CienciaPR and had the opportunity to give thanks to the community that saw me grow as a professional. I’m deeply grateful to have had the chance to write this final message... 🥲❤️ 🧵 cienciapr.org/en/blogs/equip…
Congratulations to De-Shaine Murray, Cristian Cazares, @DrNancyPadilla & all the other outstanding scientists recognized by @_TheTransmitter as Rising Stars of Neuroscience 2025. Thank you for your inspiring work! 🧠 thetransmitter.org/early-car…
Today’s the last day we’ll be on the exhibit booth. Come by to talk to us about our faculty positions, postdoc fellowships, training programs and kickass community. And if you are interested in our mission, you could get a shirt, hat, survival kit, or even a Yeti! #sfn25#swag
Visit WTI at booth #3427 to meet researchers from the biological, psychological computational sciences, plus learn about our open faculty positions, fellowship programs state-of-the-art research facilities. Scan your badge for some excellent Yale swag!
#KnowTogether#ScienceAtYale#SfN25
#SfN25 Tuesday 11.18 presentations posters to visit:
8a-12p | NANO035
🧠 Weikang Shi
Neural dynamics of social evidence accumulation in cooperative interactions of freely moving marmosets
Shi is a Wu Tsai Postdoc Fellow in the Chang, Nandy Jadi labs researching prefrontal mechanism of cooperative social interactions.
8a-12p | PSTR301.07
🧠 Katherine Yao
Investigating the Internal States of Social Decision-Making in Macaques via Latent Variable Modeling
Yao is a Yale INP grad student in the Saxena Chang labs interested in computationally modeling the neural basis of social decision making, particularly in rhesus macaques. Talk to her about research at Yale on Tuesday from 1:15-3:15p.
11a | NANO035.13
🧠 Oakleigh Folkes
An Endocannabinoid-Regulated Social-Active Ensemble Encodes Negative Social Outcomes in the Nucleus Accumbens of Shank3e4-22KO Mice
Folkes is a Yale postdoc in the Jiang Lab.
#KnowTogether#ScienceAtYale#HumansOfWTI
A special edition of our Launch Newsletter, highlighting
@_TheTransmitter's State of Neuroscience 2025 report, features rising stars of neuroscience, 80 new labs, how funding cuts have affected the careers of young scientists, etc. bit.ly/49qsHAx#StateOfNeuroscience
11.17 | 1-5p | PSTR226 PSTR226.05
Taylor McClure
Reaching Control: Movement Psychophysics and Neurophysiology Selective attention in motor working memory
McClure is a Yale postgrad in @smickdougle's lab. She is interested in how the mind stores and represents movement information in working memory for short-term use, and if other cognitive processes, like attention, can modulate memory for recently-encoded movements.
Learn more about her work at #Booth3724 on Tuesday from 2-3p.
#KnowTogether#ScienceAtYale#SfN25
#SfN25 Monday posters to visit:
11.17 | 1-2p | PSTR253.29
Nilesh Jain
Functional Encoding Units represent interpretable attractor-like dynamics in neural ensembles
Jain is a Yale postgrad in the Allsop Lab working on the intersection of dopamine and reinforcement learning. Chat with him about his research at #Booth3724 on Tuesday from 3-5p.
#KnowTogether#ScienceAtYale
Come be my colleague!🧠🤖
The Wu Tsai Institute at Yale (@WuTsaiYale ) has two faculty searches ongoing:
- One in computational cognitive science (applications due Dec 1)
- One in neurodevelopment (rolling review)
For more info, see wti.yale.edu/opportunities
In his #sfn25 talk @dacolon draws lessons from his winding path in science: 1) follow your curiosity, 2) there isn’t 1 blueprint for being a scientist: learn from the diversity of experiences of others, 3) to find your path, pay attention to what sparks your interest #humansofWTI
Sunday #SfN25 session shout-out:
Meet-the-Expert | 1–2 p | SDCC 5B
Daniel Colón-Ramos
Powering the Brain: A Journey Into the Cell Biology of Energy Metabolism
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Add WTI's Director of the Center for Neurodevelopment and Plasticity Daniel Colón-Ramos to your SfN agenda for a tour through the cell biology of energy metabolism and the twists of scientific discovery. Find him at 1p in SDCC Rm 5B.
#KnowTogether#ScienceAtYale@dacolon
This is today! Should be a great exploration of science, serendipity, and purposeful sharing of the excitement of discovery. @dacolon is a masterful science communicator so come also if you want a workshop on how to do science analogies. #sfn25
If you are at #Sfn2025, come by tomorrow at 1! I will talk about energy metabolism, neurons and the winding roads of discoveries and my career in science
En un excelente panel sobre neurociencia en español en #sfn25. Felicitaciones a Cristian Cázares por organizar esta sesión. Acaba de empezar así que tienen chance de sumarse si quieren ideas y consejos de cómo comunicar ciencia en español. #Scicomm#YCAalumni
📣Interested in doing a postdoc at Yale?📣
We’re looking for someone with a strong molecular biology/biochemistry background who’s eager to learn multiphoton imaging behavior. No systems neuro experience needed!
Our lab will be at SfN (poster PP3, Monday PM) - happy to chat!
🤖🧠I'll be considering applications for PhD students & postdocs to start at Yale in Fall 2026!
If you are interested in the intersection of linguistics, cognitive science, & AI, I encourage you to apply!
PhD link: rtmccoy.com/prospective_stud…
Postdoc link: rtmccoy.com/prospective_post…
ALT Top: A syntax tree for the sentence "the doctor by the lawyer saw the artist".
Bottom: A continuous vector.
📣WTI is hiring! Welcoming curious minds from a broad range of backgrounds interested in our mission🧠
Two faculty calls:
- Open-rank search, Neurocomputation, Deadline: 12.1.25
- Senior search, Neurodevelopment, Rolling Review
Details: wti.yale.edu/opportunities@WuTsaiYale
ALT WU TSAI INSTITUTE
YALE UNIVERSITY
Hiring:
ASSISTANT/ ASSOCIATE/ FULL PROFESSOR
NEUROCOMPUTATION
COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE
THEORETICAL NEUROSCIENCE
APPLIED MATHEMATICS
DATA SCIENCE
MACHINE LEARNING
COMPUTER SCIENCE
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Apply by December 1st