Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fellow @BroadInstitute || Harvard Biophysics PhD '23 || ND Physics ‘17 || 🇺🇸🇭🇺🇸🇪🇷🇴https://bsky.app/profile/bdanubius.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/bdanubius.bsky.social/post/3lt5hhqwkuc2oOSNAP! I received an NIH Outstanding Scholars in Neuroscience Award This award makes my heart sing -- between college and PhD I spent a year researching at the NIMH, and loved every minute of the campus and community. Feels full circle to be honored by NIMH post-PhD!04 Jul 2025 14:32 +0000at://did:plc:4ftdn4wizp5pp4ebg4cjwbc3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lt5hhqwkuc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/bdanubius.bsky.social/post/3lrpq5vowoc2tRecent PhD Grad, or planning on defending soon? With current funding uncertainties, postdoc fellowships, often funded by private donations, can provide job stability in the coming years. I put together a short guide and list of fellowships I applied to 👇16 Jun 2025 10:05 +0000at://did:plc:4ftdn4wizp5pp4ebg4cjwbc3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrpq5vowoc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/bdanubius.bsky.social/post/3llewmsmkj22bTragically beautiful article from @harvardmagazine.bsky.social about the absurdity of letting death machines into our cities, and how simple fixes can return "complete" streets to the people. Amsterdam and Copenhagen transformed, what's stopping Boston? https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/03/harvard-safer-roads-pedestrians-cyclists27 Mar 2025 18:30 +0000at://did:plc:4ftdn4wizp5pp4ebg4cjwbc3/app.bsky.feed.post/3llewmsmkj22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/bdanubius.bsky.social/post/3ljzo7cwxr226In the vein of Women's History Month and International Women's Day, Nature published a number of fascinating women's health studies recently, including: Hormone cycle's effect on breast cancer treatment. Brain restructuring under pregnancy. X chromosome + brain aging. Links👇10 Mar 2025 13:35 +0000at://did:plc:4ftdn4wizp5pp4ebg4cjwbc3/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljzo7cwxr226https://bsky.app/profile/bdanubius.bsky.social/post/3ljn56bq6fs2lAre you a PhD student thinking about PostDoc options? Fellowships provide early independence, and some early deadlines are in spring and summer! Check out my guide below for navigating the process, plus a curated fellowship list with deadlines, salaries & more.05 Mar 2025 13:58 +0000at://did:plc:4ftdn4wizp5pp4ebg4cjwbc3/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljn56bq6fs2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/bdanubius.bsky.social/post/3ljkiz6lvs22mWe call those the "Four Ss," but unfortunately the title got cut. Also in the paper, the "Four Fs": Feeding, Fleeing, Fighting, and Mating. [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Mar 2025 12:52 +0000at://did:plc:4ftdn4wizp5pp4ebg4cjwbc3/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljkiz6lvs22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/bdanubius.bsky.social/post/3lj5w3dbqw22jThanks @harvardmcb.bsky.social‬ for sharing this recap of our work! Click through at the mcb.harvard link, or in my tweetorial below for full text access! https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4ftdn4wizp5pp4ebg4cjwbc3/post/3liwxfwscos2m [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Feb 2025 12:41 +0000at://did:plc:4ftdn4wizp5pp4ebg4cjwbc3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lj5w3dbqw22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/bdanubius.bsky.social/post/3liz436rrfc22Thanks for sharing!! For anyone interested in a quick recap, see our thread here: https://bsky.app/profile/bdanubius.bsky.social/post/3liwxfwscos2m [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Feb 2025 14:45 +0000at://did:plc:4ftdn4wizp5pp4ebg4cjwbc3/app.bsky.feed.post/3liz436rrfc22https://bsky.app/profile/bdanubius.bsky.social/post/3liwxfwscos2mHow much do we *really* learn? In @natrevneurosci.bsky.social‬ with Florian Engert and André Ferreira Castro, we address why most of you humans firmly believe that patterned activity plays a necessary and instructive role in shaping neural circuits. [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Feb 2025 18:16 +0000at://did:plc:4ftdn4wizp5pp4ebg4cjwbc3/app.bsky.feed.post/3liwxfwscos2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/bdanubius.bsky.social/post/3li5apmvdwn2nMating proximity blinds threat perception Valentine's Day themed paper: how a dopamine-governed filter during courtship turns off the serotonergic wave that would otherwise force them to abort and flee. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07890-314 Feb 2025 12:54 +0000at://did:plc:4ftdn4wizp5pp4ebg4cjwbc3/app.bsky.feed.post/3li5apmvdwn2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/bdanubius.bsky.social/post/3lde776tcmk2sNot sure why @macshine.bsky.social @drbreaky.bsky.social + co are not posting more about their fantastic paper from last week: "Multiscale organization of neuronal activity unifies scale-dependent theories of brain function" https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(24)01152-815 Dec 2024 16:09 +0000at://did:plc:4ftdn4wizp5pp4ebg4cjwbc3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lde776tcmk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/bdanubius.bsky.social/post/3lcggz5j4322rI was part of two (successful) union fights at Harvard, Grad Student and Postdoc. All the best to the @forbesunion.bsky.social team in the coming days! [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Dec 2024 20:09 +0000at://did:plc:4ftdn4wizp5pp4ebg4cjwbc3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcggz5j4322rhttps://bsky.app/profile/bdanubius.bsky.social/post/3lcgc45r7o22uMassively humbled to be on the 2025 Forbes Science 30 under 30 List Huge thanks to my mentors, family, friends and collaborators — I would not be here with you all. Now here's to living up to his honor in my next 30 years! #ForbesUnder3003 Dec 2024 18:41 +0000at://did:plc:4ftdn4wizp5pp4ebg4cjwbc3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcgc45r7o22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/bdanubius.bsky.social/post/3lcdadjcmm22xHotspot shelters stimulate frog resistance to chytridiomycosis by Waddle et al 🔥 frogs sauna to fight fungal infection 🔥 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07582-y02 Dec 2024 13:32 +0000at://did:plc:4ftdn4wizp5pp4ebg4cjwbc3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcdadjcmm22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/bdanubius.bsky.social/post/3lbl3f7f2o22mAre you a graduate student in NeuroAI? Check out this fantastic summer internship at CSHL, where you can work with @tonyzador.bsky.social and the crew. I had a lot of fun in the first cohort, and they've only gotten more GPUs since then :) https://www.schooljobs.com/careers/cshl/jobs/4711679/neuroai-research-intern?keywords=neuro&pagetype=jobOpportunitiesJobs22 Nov 2024 22:59 +0000at://did:plc:4ftdn4wizp5pp4ebg4cjwbc3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbl3f7f2o22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/bdanubius.bsky.social/post/3lba5plwpbs2oEmergence of social phases in human movement by Zhang et al We are nothing but water vapor tumbling around in the universe (at least that's what I learned from this paper) https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.110.04430318 Nov 2024 14:41 +0000at://did:plc:4ftdn4wizp5pp4ebg4cjwbc3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lba5plwpbs2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/bdanubius.bsky.social/post/3lazcsp66xp2sFinishing up your PhD, and looking for a postdoc? Check out my guide on applying for postdoc fellowships: barabasi.me/fellowships/ I also curate a list of fellowships here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Zrc1o9gykf6IMeMTZx_CWKPpICjz3k3akPHzosQcIiY/edit?gid=0#gid=0 DMs are open, please send feedback and questions! https://barabasi.me/fellowships/15 Nov 2024 21:24 +0000at://did:plc:4ftdn4wizp5pp4ebg4cjwbc3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lazcsp66xp2shttps://bsky.app/profile/bdanubius.bsky.social/post/3kd52x2wl542r#221: Scalable genetic screening for regulatory circuits using compressed Perturb-seq by Yao et al Compute twice, measure once? How sparse sensing can get you more insight with fewer scRNA experiments. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-023-01964-901 Nov 2023 14:38 +0000at://did:plc:4ftdn4wizp5pp4ebg4cjwbc3/app.bsky.feed.post/3kd52x2wl542rhttps://bsky.app/profile/bdanubius.bsky.social/post/3kd2opamn2j2b#220: A d factor? Understanding trait distractibility and its relationships with ADHD symptomatology and hyperfocus by Han Zhang et al A link between a general predictor of distractibility and hyperfocus, both on work and distractions. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.029221531 Oct 2023 15:54 +0000at://did:plc:4ftdn4wizp5pp4ebg4cjwbc3/app.bsky.feed.post/3kd2opamn2j2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/bdanubius.bsky.social/post/3kd2og7dhlr2u#219: Multi-donor human cortical Chimeroids reveal individual susceptibility to neurotoxic triggers by Antón Bolaños et al Multiplexing developmental perturbation testing in organoid cultures! https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.05.558331v131 Oct 2023 15:49 +0000at://did:plc:4ftdn4wizp5pp4ebg4cjwbc3/app.bsky.feed.post/3kd2og7dhlr2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/bdanubius.bsky.social/post/3kd2oe7hr2n2t#218: Comprehensive cell atlas of the first-trimester developing human brain by Emelie Braun et al An unbelievable dataset, the BICCN papers provide a massive resource for follow-up explorations. https://science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adf122631 Oct 2023 15:48 +0000at://did:plc:4ftdn4wizp5pp4ebg4cjwbc3/app.bsky.feed.post/3kd2oe7hr2n2thttps://bsky.app/profile/bdanubius.bsky.social/post/3kd2odiduej2e#217: An analog-AI chip for energy-efficient speech recognition and transcription by Ambrogio et al Towards a future where trained AI models can be deposited on energy-efficient analog chips? https://nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06337-531 Oct 2023 15:47 +0000at://did:plc:4ftdn4wizp5pp4ebg4cjwbc3/app.bsky.feed.post/3kd2odiduej2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/bdanubius.bsky.social/post/3kclgfk23na2q#216: Learning spatio-temporal patterns with Neural Cellular Automata by Richardson, Antal, Blythe, Schumacher Intricate training methods allow NCAs to learn custom morphologies and transitions. arxiv.org/abs/2310.1480925 Oct 2023 14:15 +0000at://did:plc:4ftdn4wizp5pp4ebg4cjwbc3/app.bsky.feed.post/3kclgfk23na2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/bdanubius.bsky.social/post/3kcjvviyz7v2h#215: A marmoset brain cell census reveals regional specialization of cellular identities by fenna krienen et al Massive resource on cell type identities and distributions across a nonhuman primate's brain! https://science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk398624 Oct 2023 23:47 +0000at://did:plc:4ftdn4wizp5pp4ebg4cjwbc3/app.bsky.feed.post/3kcjvviyz7v2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/bdanubius.bsky.social/post/3kcjvtucrjl23#214: Spatial enhancer activation determines inhibitory neuron identity by Elena Dvoretskova et al Beautiful study combining diverse omics practices to understand PN vs IN differentiation. https://biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.30.525356v224 Oct 2023 23:46 +0000at://did:plc:4ftdn4wizp5pp4ebg4cjwbc3/app.bsky.feed.post/3kcjvtucrjl23https://bsky.app/profile/bdanubius.bsky.social/post/3kcbdilmkyu2gFive years of work reduced down to one button press. My research wouldn't be possible without modern tech, but moments like these I miss the loss of physicality in administrative processes.21 Oct 2023 13:57 +0000at://did:plc:4ftdn4wizp5pp4ebg4cjwbc3/app.bsky.feed.post/3kcbdilmkyu2g