@mcwpharm-tox.bsky.social will be recruiting a mid-career translational neuropharmacologist with a research program focused on SUDs and/or stress-related disorders. Great opportunity in a growing and supportive dept. @davidbaranger.bsky.social and I will be at #ACNP. Reach out if you want to talk!

Congrats on an amazing thesis defense Dr. Bluitt!! Loved seeing everyone from @jbesheer.bsky.social lab.

Great explanatory piece on why NIH research is an important investment into the health and lives of Americans. Thanks, Nick! elifesciences.org/articles/106...

Science Under Threat in the United States: The NIH is a sound investment for the US taxpayer

Research funded by the National Institutes of Health is essential for improving the health of Americans and developing new drugs and treatments for a wide range of diseases.

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UNC-CH is searching for a new Chair of Psychiatry. Please share. www.nejmcareercenter.org/job/863298/c...

Chair - Department of Psychiatry - Chapel Hill, North Carolina job with University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 863298

The School of Medicine of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill seeks an accomplished and visionary leader..

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Nicotine is experienced with many reward — social interaction, work breaks, alcohol, sweet vape flavors, etc. Do these nicotine-reward pairings make nicotine more likely to be taken? Check out my team’s work addressing this question. Spoiler alert-yes it does! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Pavlovian conditioning with the internal stimulus effects of intravenous nicotine heightens later nicotine taking with variation by dose and sex - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Pavlovian conditioning with the internal stimulus effects of intravenous nicotine heightens later nicotine taking with variation by dose and sex

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So a former postdoc from our department had just started as a PO at NIH and was terminated in the wave of terminations last week. He is in the research triangle and a phenomenal scientist with expertise in stress and glia. If anyone in the RTI is hiring asap please let me know! #neuroskyence

Another week that felt like a year. At this rate I’m going to be 100 by March. 🙄

an elderly woman is sitting in a chair holding a cup and saucer

ALT: an elderly woman is sitting in a chair holding a cup and saucer

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Exciting work from our center (Christian Hendershot has since moved to USC)

Daniel Drucker@danieljdrucker.bsky.social · 2y ago

Nine weeks of once weekly semaglutide studied in a RCT reduces alcohol intake in individuals with moderate alcohol use disorder @jama.com jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Very cool step towards understanding how xylazine contributes to the experience of fentanyl! We’ve been hearing for years that xylazine changes the feel, so it’s exciting to see this bearing out.

Zoe McElligott@nanopharmnc.bsky.social · 2y ago

Super happy to share this amazing work spearheaded by @jbesheer.bsky.social and Brooke Bender, AKA some of the best collaborators to have! Here's a brief thread on the findings 1/n

Awesome thread about our recent preprint. So happy to be doing this important work with the amazing @nanopharmnc.bsky.social! Congrats to Brooke Bender, Joe Carew and @madiganbedard.bsky.social🎉. This is a huge team effort.

Zoe McElligott@nanopharmnc.bsky.social · 2y ago

Super happy to share this amazing work spearheaded by @jbesheer.bsky.social and Brooke Bender, AKA some of the best collaborators to have! Here's a brief thread on the findings 1/n

After this week of weeks had to start the weekend with some nature time. ☀️

This week has felt like a year. Goose says happy Friday.

My lab is actively recruiting PhD Applicants interested in Behavioral Neuroscience. Applicants will apply to our brand new doctoral program in Applied Psychology at North Carolina A&T State Univeristh. MORE INFO: email me!! APPLY HERE www.ncat.edu/chhs/departm....

I am hiring for a postdoctoral fellow at UNC Chapel Hill in Child and Adolescent Anxiety and Mood Disorders Program (CHAAMP). The successful candidate will work on my NIH funded program of research on suicide risk among preteens. Please share. Deadline 1/31! unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/290...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39779373/ woot @lisataxier.bsky.social first Kash Lab first author paper is out. Congrats to her and the team!

Retrieval of an ethanol-conditioned taste aversion promotes GABAergic plasticity in the anterior insular cortex - PubMed

Blunted sensitivity to ethanol's aversive effects can increase motivation to consume ethanol; yet, the neurobiological circuits responsible for encoding these aversive properties are not fully underst...

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Goose is loving the warm weather and the trails (me too)! He’s getting so big. 😍

It’s lab holiday sweater time! Happy holidays from the Besheer Lab!

Sharing this again because I've heard the term "alcoholic" more at #acnp2024 than probably in the totality of all other substance use conferences I've attended throughout my career. Not trying to call anyone out, just need ppl to reflect on language use since this does real harm to people with SUDs

Justin Matheson, PhD (he/they)@justinrmatheson.com · 2y ago

Drug use researchers (esp. those in neuro/pharmacology) - please stop using the word "abuse" (e.g., drug abuse) and other stigmatizing terms This isn't an arbitrary suggestion, there's legitimate empirical evidence showing that words like this do harm www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Love seeing this!!

Laura C. Ornelas, PhD@lcornelas.bsky.social · 2y ago

ACNP Besheerio reunion 🤗 @jbesheer.bsky.social @ryane-tyler.bsky.social

Someone has already knocked the tree down and shattered lots of ornaments. 🙄

Wonderful article written by @skylarhodgins.bsky.social about “STEM-creeks” at MUSC - I’m happy to be part of this team support #STEM outreach efforts @meghanflanigan.bsky.social gradstudies.musc.edu/about/blog/2...

SYNAPSE: An Emerging “STEM-Creek” at MUSC

Re-envisioning the path to STEM through MUSC neuroscience outreach.

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Goose had another fun hike today and I wore him out - finally!

Exciting UNC Job News: We’re seeking up to four researchers for tenure-track assistant professor positions to build a new cross-disciplinary team that will advance substance use disorder (SUD) treatment from the bench to the bedside.

Join #UNCResearch as part of our Catalyst Faculty Research Cluster Program. We’re seeking up to four researchers for tenure-track assistant professor positions to build a team that will advance substance use disorder treatment. Apply here by December 15: go.unc.edu/Rt9b7

www.nature.com/articles/s41... rest in peace George.

In memoriam – George R. Breese, Ph.D - Neuropsychopharmacology

Neuropsychopharmacology - In memoriam – George R. Breese, Ph.D

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Hi everyone 👋. I am a neuroimmunologist working on microglia, brain-body crosstalk in neurodevelopment, and biological embedding of health disparities. bilbolab.com

OPEN RANK #FACULTY #POSITION in #Pharmacology & #Neuroscience with expertise in #behavioral pharmacology/neuroscience of relevance to substance use disorders. Review of applications will start immediately. Target start date is Fall 2025. Come join us! Apply here: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Great day for a hike!

I love the part of grant writing when I wake up in the middle of the night thinking about it and then can't go back to sleep. Now I need to work on it and I'm so tired I can't string a thought together. 🙄 Fun times.

Please share w folks that want full time teaching career: Teaching Assistant Professor for Biochem at UNC Chapel Innovative teaching spanning the biochemistry curriculum, including capstone biochemistry lab course. Review of applications begins Dec. 10, 2024 unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/290...