Fresh from the Castro Lab! We characterize how mu opioid receptors on pancreatic alpha cells regulate ingestive phenotypes. Surprise! Mu can act both inside and outside the brain😱 Congrats to our technician Diego De Gregorio! @ssibsociety.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Pancreatic mu opioid receptors regulate metabolism and ingestive behaviors

The mu opioid receptor system has long been recognized for its role in regulating ingestive behaviors and food palatability. However, beyond their rob…

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New paper out! Spent a few years on this one ☺️

Siri Leknes@sirileknes.bsky.social · last mo.

Major paper out: A heroic* demonstration that even acute stress increases drug intake in healthy people *4-session 2x2 RCT with ~4 oxycodone injections in 66 volunteers - with repeated blinded 2-panel stress/control inductions (ReSST) 1/🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

New release of PowerLMM.js! Browser-based power analysis for longitudinal models with dropout. Now includes: - Power analysis summary report - Reproducible & shareable configs (URL/JSON) - Calculations validated against R - Hypothesis region visualization powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com

Excellent endogenous opioid symposium in Tromsø by @renatamarchette.bsky.social Slide highlights results from recent metaanalysis of pain sensitivity in opioid users by @martintrostheim.bsky.social & @marieeikemo.bsky.social

Almost all Nobel Prizes are awarded for work that is exploratory, or absolutely basic science with no obvious commercial or medical benefit. You cannot predict where advancements come from, so you have to invest in science and scientists. Targeted (corporate) science investment will never do this.

Ted Pavlic (he/him/his)@tedpavlic.bsky.social · last yr.

Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪 www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...

We're recruiting a new therapist(s) for ongoing & upcoming clinical trials with psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy at @ucalgary.bsky.social Come join our diverse, growing @pact-lab.bsky.social team exploring evidence-based psychedelic interventions! Ad here: careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1601602...

There are currently three open faculty positions (all levels) in my department (Psychology) Oslo is a lovely city, modestly sized (600k) but a capital, surrounded by forest and the fjord We're also a stable democracy with high support of and trust in science www.sv.uio.no/english/abou...

Jobs and vacancies - Faculty of Social Sciences

Read this story on the University of Oslo's website.

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Today it’s official: my ERC CoG proposal on the full spectrum of opioid effects was funded 💃🤩💃 (Short description found here: affectivebrains.com/portfolio/spectro/) Thrilled to be celebrating this & other wins of 2024 with this wonderful group of colleagues

Looking forward to delivering a lecture today on effect sizes and power analysis for a second-year research methods course. God bless Kristoffer Magnusson for his web apps rpsychologist.com/cohend/ 🙏

What a great experience to have written our lab handbook - if you're curious what we do and how we (aim to) do things, or consider applying for a position, this is the place to look! 🧠📈 All thanks to @martinasaltafossi.bsky.social and Teresa Berther as well as @elife.bsky.social for the initiative.

'Graduate students need more quantitative methods support', a Comment by Andrea L. Howard (@drandreahoward.bsky.social) Web: go.nature.com/3uAxNZ4 PDF: rdcu.be/dyP0y #academicsky #psychology

I have been a bit bored over Christmas, so I started working on a little blog post about good academic writing for my group. I was wondering, what are key things you have learned about academic writing that you wish you would have known earlier?  🧪 #AcademicSky

New preprint from @loseth.bsky.social, Martin Trøstheim & myself We asked how important endogenous opioids are for feeling connected to others osf.io/preprints/ps... Because opioids are so addictive, their use is restricted to pain relief - but their effects are notoriously variable & numerous