NYU Grossman School of Medicine Postdoctoral Affairs

Now on bioRxiv! Astrocytes in one brain region (cyan) communicate in expansive networks (magenta). Through tool development, tissue clearing, and many hours on our @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social Z1, we now know these networks are repeatable across mice, plastic, and specific.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Whether you're a grad student or a seasoned postdoc, it's never too early—or too late—to start thinking about your next steps!

What Can You Be With a PhD? is back in person in NYC on October 25–26, 2025. Registration opens August 4!
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#WhatCanYouBeWithAPhD #PhDCareers #STEMcareers

SAVE THE DATE - The largest PhD career symposium in the country, What Can You Be With a PhD, is returning to NYC on Oct 25–26! Featuring 30+ panels & workshops and countless opportunities to build your network and explore diverse career paths in biomedical science. Don't miss it! buff.ly/vC8733B

Decoding words during sentence production with ECoG reveals syntactic role encoding and structure-dependent temporal dynamics Communications Psychology - Using electrical recordings taken from the surface of the brain, researchers decode what words neurosurgical patients are saying and show that the brain plans words in a...

🧠 Newly out: Paper-with-a-way-too-long-name-for-social-media! How does the brain turn words into sentences? We tracked words in participants' brains while they produced sentences, and found some unexpectedly neat patterns. 🧵1/9
rdcu.be/epA1J in @commspsychol.nature.com

Let's discuss how your PhD can get you a job in consulting!
🗓 Wed, June 11th, 5:00 - 6:00 PM (EST)
📍 Zoom
❗️ Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🌟A big congratulations to Santiago Coelho and Ilias Giannakopolous!

🌟 Congratulations to Megan Kirchgessner and Maria Bustillo on being named 2025 Leading Edge Fellows! @megkirch.bsky.social @mbustill.bsky.social

As the scientific landscape continues to shift, it is important to consider how transparency, rigor, and quality shape research and innovation.

Our May 29 webinar will highlight ways to uphold scientific integrity while driving progress.

Register: buff.ly/c26QiKA

Amyloid-β induces lipid droplet-mediated microglial dysfunction via the enzyme DGAT2 in Alzheimer’s disease Why microglia stop reducing amyloid deposits from Alzheimer’s disease (AD) brains is unknown. Prakash, Manchanda, et al. show that microglia increase their lipid droplets and lose their phagocytic cap...

Happy to share that our work "Amyloid-β induces lipid droplet-mediated microglial dysfunction via the enzyme DGAT2 in Alzheimer’s disease" is out now @cp-immunity.bsky.social! ➡️ www.cell.com/immunity/ful...

Who decides who gets Tenure and how do they make their decision with Prof. Emmanuel Tsekleves 

⭐What is the tenure track?
⭐When are you on the tenure track?
⭐ When does it start?

You don't want to miss this episode 
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lygoP_h4WTg&t=36s

TOMORROW, at 1:30pm EDT: Career consultant Doug Dluzen leads a workshop on resume-writing strategies to highlight your strengths as you look for new job opportunities in industry, followed by live demos using participant-submitted sample resumes & CVs.

Register now: buff.ly/XC0EHhT

NYC Postdocs! Join us for Night Science at the New York Genome Center on June 2nd for a discussion on the creative process of finding novel questions. This time we hit the bar after! Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/1s9W...
@stearnslab.bsky.social @kelseymonson.bsky.social @rmassonix.bsky.social

Take Charge of Your Research Training: Supporting Career Development using IDPs This webinar will explore the Individual Development Plan (IDP) framework and how doctoral students and postdocs in the sciences can use it to align their career goals with their transferable skills.…

Discover how to align your career goals with your skills using the Individual Development Plan. Melanie Sinche @UVA, will walk you through practical ways to use the IDP for long-term career success. Whether you're in grad school or a postdoc, this FREE webinar is for you!

All Things Considered for May 5, 2025 Hear the All Things Considered program for May 05, 2025

AAAS CEO Sudip Parikh spoke with @npr.org about what is at stake if Congress enacts the budget request from the White House — especially for early-career researchers.

Download and distribute our (massive) database of funding opportunities and fellowships for POSTDOCs

Cuts across all fields of research. 293 fellowships with info about deadline, amount, field, eligibility, etc.

Good luck!

Download this database freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Beyond the lab: trust, storytelling and the fight for America’s attention - Nature Reviews Immunology Shruti Naik, an immunologist and a strong advocate for diversity in science, has joined forces with Aaron Mertz, who leads programmes that help to explain, connect and maximize the benefits of science...

Misinformation is winning not because it's true, but because it’s loud, emotional, and everywhere.
It’s time for science to fight back. Aaron Mertz and I dissect the issue and offer solutions 👇
📖 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SciComm @sinaiimmuno.bsky.social @aspeninstitute.bsky.social

The New York Academy of Sciences and the Leon Levy Foundation Announce the 2025 Leon Levy Scholars in Neuroscience - NYAS The New York Academy of Sciences and the Leon Levy Foundation have announced the 2025 class of Leon Levy Scholars in Neuroscience.

✨😀Congratulations to postdocs Eyal Rozenfeld and Francesco Limone on being named 2025 Leon Levy Scholars by The New York Academy of Sciences!

@sciencelemon92.bsky.social
@eyalrozenfeld.bsky.social
@moccalin.bsky.social
@liddelowsa.bsky.social

www.nyas.org/press-releas...

YouTube video by EduKatedSTEM Overcoming A Fear Of Public Speaking

As I make a living giving presentations, it might surprise you to know that I had a fear of public speaking. During #gradschool and #postdoc years I gave presentations. I also♥️ #scicomm and participated in many events for my institutions, the MRC and @awisnational.bsky.social.
youtu.be/U5k_IB4o4-4

Congratulations to @runzach.bsky.social on his new grant from the History and Political Economy project 👏

Lung Immune Cell Type ‘Quietly’ Controls Inflammation in COVID-19 NYU Langone study shows a type of immune cell in the lungs may help prevent inflammation from spiraling out of control during COVID-19. Learn more.

🫁"Lung Immune Cell Type ‘Quietly’ Controls Inflammation in COVID-19". Congrats @payalyokota.bsky.social, @khannakm.bsky.social, and colleagues!

nyulangone.org/news/lung-im...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Crafting Your Postdoc Path: Why Pursue One & How to Design It. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Are you approaching a place in your PhD where you're starting to think about doing a postdoc. Deciding whether or not to pursue a postdoctoral position is not always a simple decision. It requires…

📢 FREE #webinar happening next week! 💡
Thinking about a #postdoc? 🤔 Choosing between academic & industry postdocs can shape your career path. Join us for a webinar and hear from experts @harvardmed & @AllenInstitute as they share insights on both paths. Register:

Drs. Damani-Yokota and Yeung in the ABSL3 working hard

This project’s journey began in the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic (Oct-2020), before any available vaccines, lots of anxiety induced hours in the ABSL3, and a profound sense of duty to contribute to the scientific community as the “lung people” @nyumedpostdocs.bsky.social . [2/n]🧵 #ABSL3 #SARS

Nerve- and airway-associated interstitial macrophages mitigate SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis via type I interferon signaling The local immunoregulatory mechanisms that safeguard the host from excessive lung infection inflammation remain unclear. Yeung, Yokota et al. uncover the essential role of nerve- and airway-associated...

Excited to share our latest study
@cp-immunity.bsky.social. Heartfelt thanks to the editorial and review teams , to my co-first @yeungadventures.bsky.social, our co-authors, and to @khannakm.bsky.social
for his outstanding mentorship throughout! Pls read/share!👇
www.cell.com/immunity/ful...

Happening tomorrow! Join us NYC postdocs!

Recently Discovered Immune Cell Type Is Key to Understanding Food Allergies An NYU Langone study shows that a special group of cells in the intestines tamps down the immune responses caused by exposure to food proteins. Learn more.

Newly published in @nature.com, this immune cell type is key to understanding food allergies, finds Liuhui Fu and collaborators in the Littman Lab.
nyulangone.org/news/recentl...

What can you do with a PhD? Find out next Thursday!
🗓️Thu, April 24th, 5 - 6PM (ET)
📍Zoom
‼️Register here: t.co/U6HhGll2uP
#science #stem #phd #policy #biotech

Science’s big problem is a loss of influence, not a loss of trust Evidence shows that science and scientists remain highly trusted. But genuine scientific voices are not shouting loud enough over the noise to hold sway.

Evidence shows that science and scientists remain highly trusted.

But genuine scientific voices are not shouting loud enough over the noise to hold sway

https://go.nature.com/4cup7oG

Fresh off the press! We found that degeneration in one retina causes astrocytes to respond retinotopically across *both* hemispheres of the brain. Perhaps astrocytes across the CNS are able to coordinate their responses more than we anticipated... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Join us this Friday at MSK for the next NYC Postdoc Night Science meeting! 🗽💫🧪🔬🧬

Our new work on astrocyte responses in glaucoma is out today! A tour de force of tissue clearing and analysis by @melcooperphd.bsky.social. It's one of those stories that leads to even more great questions, so stay tuned!