Excited to share our new paper:
We uncover a locus coeruleus→amygdala circuit linking β-adrenergic signaling to transcription regulation in defined amygdala cells during memory reconsolidation—+ stress or elevated noradrenergic signaling at recall can strengthen memory.
www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
Ah, no wonder I've felt drawn to associative learning for years now. This explains a lot!
We are excited to share our keynote speakers for the 35th Annual IBNS Meeting in Cape Town, South Africa! Join us June 23-27th!
Thread of French and Dutch research institutes slowly unsubscribing from web of science (and thence impact factors).
My article on how current and former incels negotiate what 'incel' means to them is out. Spoiler: it's complicated.
'Incel' meant very different things to different individuals, but spending time on forums negatively affected all participants' mental well-being.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Two posts from Bluesky. The first one shows a figure from a paper published in Nature Scientific Reports full of totally incoherent AI fabricated gibberish words. The other a comment on a recently published paper by eLife discussing the paper and its peer reviews which were published along with the paper.
Nature Sci Rep publishes incoherent AI slop. eLife publishes a paper which the reviewers didn't agree with, making all the comments and responses public with thoughtful commentary. One of these journals got delisted by Web of Science for quality concerns from not doing peer review. Guess which one?
Congrats!
Trainees we want to hear your insights! Have your travel award proposal reviewed and receive feedback to strengthen your application. Submit by 11/7. #IBNSSouthAfrica www.ibnsconnect.org/travel-awards
The autumnal oak-in-a-pot certainly looks charming!
Psychedelics disrupt the link between vascular and neuronal activity, which complicates interpretations of fMRI data. Adopting a more holistic view of what constitutes brain activity may help.
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/psychedelics...
Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity
We are looking for excellent MD Psychiatrist applicants to work & train at the CPCR at Johns Hopkins
@jhpsychedelics.bsky.social, the largest and most comprehensive psychedelic research program in the world.
Email Dr. Sandeep Nayak smn@jhmi.edu
Submit your symposia for the IBNS 35th Annual Meeting in Cape Town, South Africa today! #IBNSSouthAfrica www.ibnsconnect.org/ibns-annual-...
Monty Python understood p-hacking
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Meet the team of EU-SABV!
This is a group of researchers with a special interest of including sex as a biological variable into their work.
For the next 4 years, this team will work to enhance current SABV policy in preclinical research!
#SABV
@costprogramme.bsky.social
@jaricivana.bsky.social
New 6-month depression RCT in n=65, serial Ketamine infusions as adjunctive care vs active placebo midazolam.
Ketamine did not outperform primary nor any of the secondary efficacy, cognitive, economic, or quality-of-life outcomes.
🧪 #psychiary #PsychSciSky
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
View of Cape Town from Table Mountain
Do you have a behavioral neuroscience topic that you want to bring everyone to the table to discuss? Come to #IBNSSouthAfrica submit your symposia by Oct 28th www.ibnsconnect.org/ibns-annual-...
Two drawn mice, one focusing on a slot machine and the other staring to the opposite direction with psilocybe mushrooms and Claciceps purpura infected cereal attached to its head, with a wine glass and two bubble-like decorative elements in the background.
I am (finally!) defending my doctoral thesis in late September with a title 'Addiction-related behavioural effects of lysergic acid diethylamide in mice – Exploring the intersection of #psychedelic drugs, #addiction, and #therapeutics'.
Two drawn mice, one focusing on a slot machine and the other staring to the opposite direction with psilocybe mushrooms and Claciceps purpura infected cereal attached to its head, with a wine glass and two bubble-like decorative elements in the background.
I am (finally!) defending my doctoral thesis in late September with a title 'Addiction-related behavioural effects of lysergic acid diethylamide in mice – Exploring the intersection of #psychedelic drugs, #addiction, and #therapeutics'.
Several glass bottles, both clear and dark brown, on a kitchen counter filled with mead.
A #mead update no 3 - bottling
Didn't end up cold crashing the cyser as it cleared out nicely on its own. I've been lazy, so I got to bottling only now. The taste has a very nice apple flavour to it, no sharpness of alcohol. Added honey at the end, aiming mid-sweet.
Waiting to start a next one!
A lovely graphic from The Allied Genetics Conference 2020 depicting the many model organisms that contribute to our understanding of science. https://genetics-gsa.org/drosophila-2025/professional-development/careers-at-tagc/
CONCLUSIONS:
To promote the best science being done, we need to look at the incentives of science publishing and funding. Long-term funding produces better science. Short-term and topical agendas encourages irreproducibility.
Funding model organisms generates science we can build on! 🪰🪱🦠🐠🐁🐸
6/6 🧵
Lauri smiling, standing on a hill top overseeing the town of Tromsø in late evening sun.
Lauri presenting his scientific poster for two poster visitors in the venue hallway.
A summery scenery of a fjord between two mountains basking in the midnight sun.
Had a blast in #ibns2025 @ibnsconnect.bsky.social in Tromsø last week.
Nice people, interesting behavioural science, beautiful scenery, and the northernmost place I've ever visited (and thus experienced the most intense midnight sun, too).
Thanks @cost-teatime.bsky.social for the travel support!
It was a very nice meeting. Thanks for the great work!
The IBNS meeting in Tromsø has come to an end. Thank you all for making it a memorable gathering, both scientifically and socially! Hopefully I see you all in Cape Town next year! @ibnsconnect.bsky.social #IBNS2025 #Tromsø #neuroskyence
I'm wondering whether the effects really even are that high.
Writing this was like any other act of love - awkward at the start, frustrating at times, but something to be proud of. Very grateful to Dr Kristi Griffiths for agreeing to take on this challenge with me for @natrevneuro.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Sometimes, even quite often, people encounter ‘entities’ on psychedelics, which may give them messages, heal them or sometimes seem to threaten them or cause them harm.
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Looking forward to this!
Printing my poster ready for @ibnsconnect.bsky.social meeting in Tromsø.
I'll present some preliminary data exploring automated homecages as a method to study voluntary ethanol intake-caused circadian disruptions in mice (and thus travelling with generous support from @cost-teatime.bsky.social!)
At the Bratislava Training School, @nunohfranco.bsky.social will teach key principles of #experimentaldesign—such as randomization, blinding, sample size, and bias control—to help ensure that #animalresearch is reliable, #reproducible, and aligned with the #3Rs.
@costprogramme.bsky.social #training
