Gobble gobble. 🦃🍗

Penn Biology Department staff shared a picture of a wild turkey in front of Goddard today.

What do you think her(?) name might be?

West Craft Fest
Saturday, April 25 (rain date Sunday, April 26)
11 AM to 5 PM
The Woodlands (40th & Woodland)

Guests can explore handmade wares from 100+ local artists & makers and enjoy live music, art & craft activities, and a Tiny Circus.

westcraftfest.wixsite.com/home

Help shape the future of Neuromatch courses. We're considering new courses and want to hear directly from our community - your input will guide what we build next!

What should Neuromatch teach next?
🤓 #Connectomics and Neural Dynamics
🤓 #ComputationalBehavioural Analysis & Modelling
🤓 Computational Approaches to #Neurodegeneration
🤓 Or something else?

Take the 2 minute survey here: airtable.com/appgbLQW3nbb...

#NeurmatchAcademy #OpenScience

Hey fellow Penn faculty, there's a great new writing group getting started through @upennclimate.bsky.social !

The next one is tomorrow - come meet other faculty interested in climate work and maybe find a new collaborator 🌳

RSVP: bit.ly/3ORh0ut

Sinclair Lab The Learning & Behavior Change Lab at Rice University, directed by Dr. Sinclair

I'm thrilled to introduce the inaugural cohort of my lab, the Learning & Behavior Change Lab at Rice!! 🤩 I'm so excited to have the opportunity to work with these stellar budding scientists. As a team, we'll bridge basic cognitive neuroscience with real-world applications. 🧵
www.sinclairlab-rice.com

Mathew Madhavacheril Shares New Horizons Breakthrough Prize The Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy is one of six researchers sharing the New Horizons Prize in honor of work around advances in cosmic microwave background and supernovae cosmology.

Congratulations to Mathew Madhavacheril on receiving the New Horizons in Physics Prize funded by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation. The recognition, one of the highest in science, comes in honor of his work around advances in cosmic microwave background (CMB) and supernovae cosmology.

Guide learning, inspire growth. Apply to be a volunteer Professional Development Mentor before 29 May 2026

Share the advice you wish someone had given you. Volunteer as a Professional Development Mentor with Neuromatch this July — just 3 hours online.
Applications close 29 May
👉 neuromatch.io/mentorship/
#Neuromatch #Climatematch

Tomorrow, Tuesday April 21 at Noon!

NSF awards record number of coveted PhD fellowships in surprise move Quantum science and AI research are big winners just a year after the U.S. funding giant slashed its Graduate Research Fellowship Program awards in half

Quantum science and AI research are big winners just a year after the U.S. funding giant slashed its Graduate Research Fellowship Program awards in half

Huzzah for @stevenmeisler.com, whose preprint on our new fully-processed ABCD dMRI data resource is now out. The super-clear results from this monumental effort will undoubtably change the way we approach studies of white matter development going forward.

This is close to @upenn.edu, right next to the VA Hospital and across from the 40th Street Trolley Portal / Renata's.

This is a great space to clear your mind, get a little exercise, and take in nature.

🎉Congratulations Dr. Christine Soh Yue! 🎉

We had a full house for her dissertation defense today.

Early Career Faculty Program | Freeman Hrabowski Scholars | HHMI The Freeman Hrabowski Scholars Program offers comprehensive support to outstanding early career faculty committed to scientific excellence in their own research, and to fostering labs that expand the ...

This program transformed my career! Please apply.

@hhmi-science.bsky.social's #FreemanHrabowski Scholars Program offers early career faculty up to $10M over 10 yrs, plus salary & benefits. Postdoc? This year's competition has a program for you too. Applications open 11/3! bit.ly/4vhC0LA

Among our wide ranging conversation, which also investigates whether squid are aliens or gay–spoiler alert, they are definitely one of them– the first guest on the Streets Dept Podcast, @sarahmackattack.bsky.social offers some practical advice for how you can help increase biodiversity in your city!

The Labor Department wants to teach you to use AI more. Here's what we found The short course provides solid basics for using AI. But it also misidentifies AI products, links out to bad advice and raises ethical concerns about the products it promotes

The short course provides solid basics for using AI. But it also misidentifies AI products, links out to bad advice and raises ethical concerns about the products it promotes n.pr/4cxryHt

Courses Explore upcoming neuroscience courses, filtered by topic.

Visit our courses calendar, where we highlight the top neuroscience courses that should be on your radar. You can filter your search by topic. #neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/courses/?utm...

MindCORE Seminar
Friday, April 17, 2026
111 NBS, 425 S University Ave

Bonobo Vocal Communication and the Evolution of Compositionality

Mélissa Berthet
University of Milan
sites.google.com/view/melissa...

mindcore.sas.upenn.edu/calendar_eve...

@berthetmelissa.bsky.social @sas.upenn.edu @upenn.edu

ELM 4 (Experiments in Linguistic Meaning) @upenn.edu
June 10-12, 2026

Early registration discounts end April 30!

www.elm-conference.net/elm-4-2026/e...

How to Effectively Influence Policy
April 20, 2:30-3:30 PM
Grad Student Center, Rm 304

Join to build skills to engage effectively in the policy-making process. You’ll learn how the policy cycle works, how to find policies connected to your research, who to engage, and how to craft recommendations.

AI + Us featuring Konrad Kording

Come to a brewery to night, have a cold one, and talk ai with Bhuv Jain and yours truly. AI is awesome and it also sucks. Let’s talk about it. ai.upenn.edu/ai-us-featur...

The AI Arts & Sciences Showcase @upenn.edu

Join for fast-paced lightning talks from SAS grad students & postdocs to see how AI is reshaping research across Penn's sciences and humanities. Stay for cross-disciplinary conversation and free cookies!

Weds, April 15, 3:30-5PM
Tedori Aud, NBS Building

CNI Seminar
Tuesday, April 21, 12 PM
200 Goddard Labs, 3710 Hamilton Walk

"Microscale neural dynamics in the primate brain"

Bijan Pesaran
Department of Neurosurgery
@upenn.edu

mindcore.sas.upenn.edu/calendar_eve...

@pennmedicine.bsky.social

Tune it at 1 pm EDT to EARS early career panel! pennmedicine.zoom.us/j/96672201477

Special ILST Seminer this Week: Dissertation Defense
Friday, April 17, 1:30 PM
Goddard 200 (3710 Hamilton Walk)

Christine Soh Yue
Learning Systematicity and Variation in Language

Coffee and cookies will provided & reception to follow! 🎉🥳

@sas.upenn.edu

Introduction to Scientific Illustration Join us for the opportunity to learn and separate the myths from the reality to better understand these fascinating animals.

Do you know a high school student interested in scientific illustration? Shoals Marine Lab is offering 1-week Introduction to Scientific Illustration courses taught by GNSI member Carol Schwartz! College credits are earned through Cornell University.

www.shoalsmarinelaboratory.org/introduction...

How do you align AI in a world of plural, conflicting, and evolving human values?

A starting point is human society itself.

@sydneylevine.bsky.social and I are hiring a postdoc at NYU to combine insights from cultural evolution, computational moral cognition, and AI safety.

Please share widely!1/

This is Rex. He found a missing child in 12 minutes on his first tracking mission. "He’s kind of a triple threat," his handler said. He's trained as a therapy dog, explosive detection canine, and missing person tracker. When the girl was safe, Rex shifted to comfort mode. 14/10 (IG: arapahoeso)

April is #AIMonthAtPenn! On 4/21, Warren Center faculty affiliate Bhuvnesh Jain will speak on a panel on integrating AI into courses and using AI to support student learning through in-class activities or out-of-class assignments.

More information and registration here: ai.upenn.edu/ai-info...

✨Excited to share that our new preprint, "Mapping developmental patterns of intrinsic timescale", is now available on bioRxiv!!
📚 doi.org/10.64898/202...

In the brain, objects seen and imagined follow the same neural path New evidence finds that sight and imagination rely on the same neurons and use the same neural code.

New evidence finds that sight and imagination rely on the same neurons and use the same neural code. n.pr/4mpWUEd