@caitvw.bsky.social
Founder & CEO at Stellate Communications. Midwest manners with Big Apple hustle. Ex-neuroscientist at MIT. She/her. Say hi 👋🏻 caitlin@stellatecomms.com
Book launch day is here 🚀
How to Change a Memory, in physical and audio form: www.amazon.com/How-Change-M...
and here's a preview of one of the book's central themes: memories change and, as a result, we change too🧠.
www.statnews.com/2025/11/04/a...
Work published today in @natbiotech.nature.com from Arc’s Luke Gilbert and Patrick Hsu labs presents a new way to insert large DNA sequences into the genome using engineered recombinases that don’t require DNA cutting or rely on the cell's repair machinery.
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Current research continues to emphasize that adolescents should not be consuming #cannabis and need to be better educated about its health impacts 🧠
Read more about the mental and physical effects of cannabis use on the brain ⬇️
www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/addi...
✨ Program Manager Job Alert ✨ Join our Mount Sinai team in NYC to steer a multi-institutional neuroscience initiative aimed at understanding Bipolar Disorder.
If you’re passionate about science, data & impact we’d love to hear from you!
Learn More & Apply 👇
careers.mountsinai.org/jobs/3032351...
As the Science Tooth Fairy, I love seeing teeth featured in fall decorations. Here are two of my favorites, featured by local dental offices 🦷🎃
What were your favorite Halloween / Fall sights recently?
Awesome work co-led by my student @annhuang42.bsky.social and @neurostrow.bsky.social on disentangling, then comparing recurrent and externally driven dynamics!
Look out for more incredible work from @annhuang42.bsky.social coming up at NeurIPS 👀
Congratulations to Arc Science Fellow, @uchemedoh.bsky.social, on being named a winner of the 2025 @science.org & @scilifelab.se Prize for Young Scientists!
His work solves a decades-old mystery in cell biology, revealing the enzyme responsible for BMP synthesis: www.aaas.org/news/researc...
🧠 The Cai Lab will be at #SfN25!
Be sure to stop by the poster sessions to check out Hailey's work on decision-making, @zachtpennington.bsky.social's work on stress, @zoechristensonwick.bsky.social's work on seizures, Alexa's work on cocaine seeking, and Sandra's work on context representations 🤓
For those of you headed to #SfN25 If you study social behaviors be sure to check out our posters.
We will be presenting how the brain represents prosocial decisions, how dopamine dynamics relate to social memory, whether respiration relates to social hierarchies, and more!
The Preston Lab will be at @sfn.org #SfN2025! Come see what we've been working on 🧠
We'll discuss how kids & adults remember when things happen, how memory changes impact reasoning & how we learn different actions have different consequences based on the setting.
Find us Monday & Wednesday 🤘
Calling all creative social media enthusiasts! 📷
The Dunn Lab is seeking support to share our science through videos & photos on social media. If you have a talent for content creation & are local to #PurdueUniversity Indianapolis campus, please apply by November 30, 2025!
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🧠 Did you know that kids remember time differently than adults? Our new preprint review w/ @drjeni-mdlab.bsky.social discusses the real implications for juvenile justice & why we need to ask about timing in ways that match kids' developing brains ⚖️
Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps...
A study out today in @natgenet.nature.com from Core Investigator Luke Gilbert, Haolong Li, & others identifies PTGES3 as a critical regulator of androgen receptor (AR) protein levels in prostate cancer, revealing a potential new target for tumors that become treatment-resistant.
05.11.2025 16:21 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
What does "Human-centered neural engineering and AI" mean?
It means prioritizing the patient across the entire pipeline: Discovery, Design, and Delivery of neuro-engineering treatments for psychiatric disorders.
Join me to discuss at @embs.org #NER25 hosted by @onemindaccelerator.bsky.social
Big thanks to #ThinkeryATX Children's Museum for hosting us at their STEAM Sunday Halloween celebration! 🎃
We love connecting with families and future scientists while sharing what we do at the Preston Lab 🤘
#SciComm #AustinScience
@okaysteve.bsky.social chatted with @undark.org about how memories can heal the brain and his new book, How to Change a Memory (publishing 11/4). Check out the interview:
29.10.2025 16:36 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
(7/8) Thanks to @deisseroth.bsky.social, @mishaahrens.bsky.social & Chris Harvey for their contributions, and to @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social & @harvardmed.bsky.social for supporting computational neuroscience research.
Read the paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2506.14957
It has been an immense honor to learn & grow with two of the greatest scientists I know: @zachtpennington.bsky.social & @joezaki.bsky.social 🧑🔬
Listen in on our conversation about mentorship, building trust and creating a safe space to disagree: neuronline.sfn.org/professional...
I can’t stop replaying the #memories from our first-ever New York Memory Hub conference! So grateful to everyone who made it a success and inspired us with their research 🧠
17.10.2025 14:52 — 👍 14 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Screenshot of the top of the article, including the title, authors, and abstract.
What’s better than a one-channel #Miniscope? 🥁 A TWO-CHANNEL Miniscope!
Our new Miniscope2C is a dual-channel, open-source Miniscope that lets you record 2 fluorescent signals simultaneously in freely moving animals.
Read the paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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PRESS RELEASE! @mountsinainyc.bsky.social receives $4.5 million @bipolardiscoveries.org grant! Led by @ignaciosaezphd.bsky.social, team will investigate neural mechanisms underlying #BipolarDisorder & pioneer novel neuromodulation-based treatment strategies 👉 www.mountsinai.org/about/newsro...
28.10.2025 14:11 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2How mood states shift in the brain remains one of psychiatry’s biggest mysteries.
With generous support from @bipolardiscoveries.org, our @sinaibrain.bsky.social team will apply cutting-edge techniques to map these transitions—aiming to build the most precise understanding of bipolar disorder yet.
We are proud to award $18M to four new Discovery Research teams exploring neuromodulation and brain circuits in #Bipolar 🧠📈
🔗bit.ly/48M1TKP
🎙️ Hear from Daniel Pham, PhD, and the teams about their innovative projects 👇
Published today in @natureportfolio.nature.com Biotechnology, Laine Goudy, Luke Gilbert, Alex Marson, & colleagues report an epigenetic editing platform that safely reprograms multiple genes in human T cells without many of the challenges & risks associated with traditional gene editing approaches.
21.10.2025 16:43 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Arc Core Investigator @genophoria.bsky.social will speak on a free, online panel with @tkaraletsos.bsky.social, @emmalundberg.bsky.social, and @ronalfa.bsky.social on Wed., Oct. 29, as part of GENbio's “The State of AI in Drug Discovery in 2025.” Register at: webinars.liebertpub.com/e/the-state-...
24.10.2025 17:32 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
The genetic code is full of synonymous codons that, for decades, were assumed to be interchangeable.
Today, with NVIDIA, co-led by @genophoria.bsky.social, we announce CodonFM, a family of open-source AI models that reveal the grammar underlying codon choice: developer.nvidia.com/blog/introdu...
Remember when Paul Krugman’s columns were soooo wonky.
“It sounds crazy to say that Republicans are making children go hungry to protect pedophiles, but it’s actually a reasonable interpretation of the situation.” - Paul Krugman
Now that it's fall, join the WIldflower Center in the Fall Challenge to give that rake a rest. 🍁 Fallen leaves are crucial for soil health, wildlife, and resilient ecosystems. Learn more here: www.wildflower.org/leave-some-l... #LeaveSomeLeaves #nativeplants #sustainability
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One important part of The Dunn Lab culture is to spend time together outside the lab!
It was so refreshing to be able to host a recent lab lunch for us to reconnect & share ideas in a different setting - always great for creativity ✨🧪
Looking forward to my CONNECT seminar on December 3, 2025!
I’ll share my path from MIT PhD to founding @stellatecomms.bsky.social, and show how we use research, strategy & design to tell science stories ✨👩🏻🔬🧪
Learn more about the series, other speakers + register here: cnlm.uci.edu/connect/
