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Bianca Jones Marlin, PhD @bjmarlin.bsky.social · Aug 18

In this methods protocol, we report differences in spontaneous, head-fixed behavioral responses to pup calls between mothers and naïve virgins and share a method for extracting meaningful, uninstructed behavioral readouts from constrained video recording environments.

Profiling Maternal Behavior Responses During Whole-Brain Imaging

Recent advancements in whole-brain imaging tools have enabled neuroscientists to investigate how coordinated brain activity processes external cues, ...

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Bianca Jones Marlin, PhD @bjmarlin.bsky.social · Aug 18

🚨New Marlin Lab publication✨ app.jove.com/v/67112/prof...

In this #JoVE, we share a method for extracting meaningful, uninstructed behavioral readouts from constrained video recording environments (🧵1/2)

Led @brimcr.bsky.social & @AmirLawen, a @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social collab w/ @ItamarKahn.

Profiling Maternal Behavior Responses During Whole-Brain Imaging

Recent advancements in whole-brain imaging tools have enabled neuroscientists to investigate how coordinated brain activity processes external cues, ...

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Bianca Jones Marlin, PhD @bjmarlin.bsky.social · Aug 18

Thank you Pew Trust for this honor. Thank you to my amazing communities who have supported me and our “radical and rigorous, ambitious and meticulous,” Marlin Lab Science .✨

Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social · Aug 12

Congratulations to @bjmarlin.bsky.social on being named a 2025 Pew Biomedical Scholar! Her research dives deep into what is innate, what is learned and what is chosen by biology to be passed down from generation to generation. 🧠 🌟
www.pew.org/en/projects/...

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Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social · Aug 12

Congratulations to @bjmarlin.bsky.social on being named a 2025 Pew Biomedical Scholar! Her research dives deep into what is innate, what is learned and what is chosen by biology to be passed down from generation to generation. 🧠 🌟
www.pew.org/en/projects/...

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Bianca Jones Marlin, PhD @bjmarlin.bsky.social · Aug 18

Thanks @hypothesisfund.bsky.social! I’m thankful for you and our beautiful community ✨

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Hypothesis Fund @hypothesisfund.bsky.social · Aug 12

Big congrats to Hypothesis Fund Awardee @bjmarlin.bsky.social! We're proud early supporters of her research on transgenerational epigenetic inheritance, and can't wait to see what she'll discover next! Go Bianca! 🌟

Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social · Aug 12

Congratulations to @bjmarlin.bsky.social on being named a 2025 Pew Biomedical Scholar! Her research dives deep into what is innate, what is learned and what is chosen by biology to be passed down from generation to generation. 🧠 🌟
www.pew.org/en/projects/...

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Bianca Jones Marlin, PhD @bjmarlin.bsky.social · May 31

Come celebrate with me - I’m telling a story at @storycollider.bsky.social 15th anniversary show on June 3! ✨🧪

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The Rockefeller University @rockefeller.edu · May 14

A collaborative study between the labs of @danmucida.bsky.social and @victora.bsky.social earlier this year showed how immune cells in the gut distinguish between food and harmful pathogens, shedding light on the origins of food allergies: bit.ly/4hyS18b

#FoodAllergyAwarenessWeek

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Caroline Jia @carolinejia.bsky.social · May 15

🧵 1\New Preprint! Social pain, the emotional pain caused by aversive experiences with other individuals, is an umbrella term that includes experiences such as social isolation, social exclusion, social rejection, and social loss and can be used as a signal to drive a need state

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Bianca Jones Marlin, PhD @bjmarlin.bsky.social · May 14

✨Valentine’s Defense Day ✨

We invite you to learn from #MarlinLab ‘s Val Andreu learn why “Mother *Nose* Best!”

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Dr. Nour Mimouni 🧠🔬✨ @nourmimouni.bsky.social · Apr 24

Today marks the first World Hormones Day!
🧠🫀 Hormones are the body’s messengers, guiding us through each phase of life with their subtle yet powerful influence 🙌🏼
@socendocrinology.bsky.social @women-in-endo.bsky.social @endocrinesociety.bsky.social
📸: Prof.Catteau Jonard at the ESE annual meeting

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Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @heydrdukes.bsky.social · Feb 2

Dr. Bianca Jones Marlin is an @HHMINEWS Freeman Hrabowski Scholar & Assistant Professor at Columbia University 🧠

The Marlin Lab researches transgenerational epigenetic inheritance (how parents' lived experiences change the brains of future offspring) 🧬🐭

#BlackInNeuro @bjmarlin.bsky.social

Dr. Marlin, a Black woman neuroscientist, is smiling proudly in her lab space. She’s wearing a white shirt, simple necklace, small hoop earrings, dark red lipstick and has a beautifully shaved head.

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Kanaka Rajan @kanakarajanphd.bsky.social · Mar 19

Attended my first @cziscience.bsky.social #Neuroscience 2025 Meeting 🧠

Grateful to speak alongside such amazing theorists, see old & new friends & connect across academia & industry

Shoutout to @bjmarlin.bsky.social, @muraronara.bsky.social , @erinmgibson.bsky.social & all these wonderful folks🌟

Six women stand close together, smiling at the camera in a well-lit indoor space with arched windows at a professional conference. The background features black-framed doors and a glimpse of palm trees outside.

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Matteo Farinella (he/him) @matteofarinella.bsky.social · Mar 14

Today, for #BrainAwarenessWeek I want to share this brainy map commissioned by The Brain Observatory for last Summer's Brain Explorer Camp.

If you pass by San Diego, make sure to check out this little hidden gem of a museum: www.thebrainobservatory.org 🧠

#SciArt #neuroscience

The Brain Observatory's Brain Explorer Camp

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Matteo Farinella (he/him) @matteofarinella.bsky.social · Mar 11

Since it's #brainawareness week, I want to take a break from the ongoing dystopia to celebrate my favorite organ and repost some of my favorite #neuroscience #sciart!

Let's start with this #scifi brain city I just made for an upcoming Italian graphic novel 🧠 🏙

#cervello #comics #graphicmedicine

A giant brain at the center of a futuristic city, radiating a complex network of roads (a metaphor for the peripheral nervous system)

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Jeremy Day @daylab.bsky.social · Mar 11

UAB Neurobiology is hiring up to 4 new tenure-track faculty as part of 3 new open-rank searches. Come join our vibrant, supportive, and growing neuroscience community!
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Academic Joint Departments-Open Rank/Tenure-Neurobiology

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Heersink School of Medicine invites applications for 4 open-rank faculty positions in the Department of Neurobiology. We are seeking candidates who apply ...

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Bianca Jones Marlin, PhD @bjmarlin.bsky.social · Mar 2

Sunday planner time is my golden hour ✨ 📖 ☕️

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Bianca Jones Marlin, PhD @bjmarlin.bsky.social · Mar 1

Marlin Lab’s @nourmimouni.bsky.social ✨

Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social · Feb 11

On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we celebrate the women advancing scientific discovery and working towards a better world. Like postdoc @nourmimouni.bsky.social, a neuroendocrinologist and champion for women’s health. Discover her story: tinyurl.com/53mue4pn
#womeninscience

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Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social · Feb 11

On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we celebrate the women advancing scientific discovery and working towards a better world. Like postdoc @nourmimouni.bsky.social, a neuroendocrinologist and champion for women’s health. Discover her story: tinyurl.com/53mue4pn
#womeninscience

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Bianca Jones Marlin, PhD @bjmarlin.bsky.social · Mar 1

Thank you Alex for sharing this moment ✨

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Alexis Stutzman Lewis, PhD @stutzman-alexis.bsky.social · Feb 28

Today marks the last day of Black History Month and this year was the first in my memory that I haven’t felt like the BHM was embraced by my educational community. Even as a child, February was always a time when we talked about historic figures like Dr. King but this year… 1/5

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Bianca Jones Marlin, PhD @bjmarlin.bsky.social · Feb 19

To Note: I am acutely aware of the state of my industry and my country. I post this as a place of reprieve and respite amidst our never ending struggle to do what we believe is right.

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Bianca Jones Marlin, PhD @bjmarlin.bsky.social · Feb 19

Part of my twitter motivation was to follow reality TV.

Y’all. I’m the biggest fan of love is blind. But…dayum this is painful 😂. I may have to bow out this season…

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Hypothesis Fund @hypothesisfund.bsky.social · Feb 4

🎊Announcing our first awardees of 2025! These talented scientists are generating new knowledge about host immunity, bacterial pathogens, and gene-environment interactions. Read more about them: bit.ly/HFAwardees.

Hear from our #HFScouts below!🧵/1

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Marine Biological Laboratory @mblscience.bsky.social · Feb 5

Exciting news! MBL has received a $2.6M gift from an anonymous donor! This generous support fuels our mission of discovery, education, and innovation. Private philanthropy drives groundbreaking research and shapes the future of science. 🌎🔬 #ScienceStartsHere #Philanthropy

A drone picture of the Lillie Building at the Marine Biological Laboratory

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