This looks like a super useful resource 🤩

psychgrail.bsky.social@psychgrail.bsky.social · last wk.

Have you wanted to make your samples more diverse or your methods more inclusive, but felt unsure how to take steps in that direction? We've built a resource website (psychgrail.com) to help! The site identifies common research barriers and directs users to relevant resources to navigate them.

I’ve read this paper & it’s really thought provoking, I recommend reading it 💡

Liron Rozenkrantz@lironrozenkrantz.bsky.social · 3d ago

🔥🔥New paper alert! Super excited to share our paper, out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com, led by the wonderful Dr. Nofar Mizrachi! nature.com/articles/s41... To me, this finding fundamentally changes how we should think about the relationship between cognition and immune regulation:

The field has been far too restrictive of who we test in experiments for far too long! Generalisability is IMPROVED & signal gained rather than lost when we assess our constructs across ages, handedness, genders, backgrounds, etc So great that people are doing this kind of research!

Brock Kirwan@brockkirwan.com · 7d ago

In honor of International Left-Handers Day, we have an updated preprint on scanning left-handed participants in fMRI studies. Although they're 11% of the population, we routinely screen LH people out of fMRI studies due to concerns about functional lateralization 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This is also a good reminder that scientific infrastructure is not free. Very easy to forget when the service *itself* is free.

Great thread, fun topic, brilliant scientist 👌

Konstantina Kilteni@kkilteni.bsky.social · last wk.

Thrilled to see our paper @nathumbehav.nature.com, led by the brilliant (Bsky-less) PhD student Ziliang Xiong from @erc.europa.eu project #TicklishHuman! We asked: -Is human ticklishness shared across cultures? -Can we explain where on the body we are ticklish? 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Special issue at Psych Science on psychological science in the real world! Send us your best work looking at whether effects from the lab (or from theories) hold up in ecologically valid settings. Submission deadline: 15 January 2027 www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Special Issue Call for Submissions: “From Lab to Life: Psychological Science in the Real World”

Editors: Roni Porat and Vishnu SreekumarPsychological Science invites submissions presenting innovative research that brings psychological science “into the wild,” whether to strengthen its ecological...

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A question to the experimental psychologists out there: Is there a standardised way to measure effort spent on an experiment? As in, asking something like "how effortful was this task?" I'm sure there are a million problems with just asking that I'm not thinking about

Learning to play an instrument is great for the brain, right? I tried to play the mandoline and gained a top-notch reminder of how nociception works 😆

Evie Irie Tastes Something Delicious

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These are 👌

Lisa DeBruine@debruine.bsky.social · 2w ago

🐒 look at it. it's got anxiety 🏆 something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve, 🌪️ At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus 🧮 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

«A powerhouse lab of 14 remarkable women” - you’d definitely gain a PI who knows how to write a great pitch 👌

Maria Jalbrzikowski@mjalbrzikowski.bsky.social · 2w ago

HIRING: Staff Scientist @ NeRD Lab at Boston Children's Hospital. Come join a powerhouse lab of 14 remarkable women. Looking for someone who loves neurodevelopment, sleep, & psychopathology, thrives on collaboration, & is excited to become the scientific backbone of our lab. tinyurl.com/mveskh4p

Some comfort if you feel you're under-achieving?!

A really interesting finding from this study was a dissociation between affect & motivation: Stress induction increased self-administration despite the drug not actually helping people cope with the stress: no improvement in positive or negative affect (vs placebo)

Siri Leknes@sirileknes.bsky.social · 3w ago

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...

What a cool term: the "Social Brain-Heart Axis" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Editorial commentary: Social disconnection and residual cardiovascular risk: From pathophysiology to social prescribing

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Nordic Neuroscience Meeting 2027 in Iceland! June 14-16, 2027 Call for symposia, see details below

To new scientist parents: returning to work can be great. You may find yourself much better at prioritising. Work-life balance: I don’t think I ever put in more than 6 hours a day for the first few years & though I wasn’t fast, I was fine

Tahnée Engelen@tahnee-engelen.bsky.social · 2w ago

First official day back at work in 8 months! Feeling so grateful I got to spend so much time with the little one, while the return to work for now feels equal parts exciting and intimidating 😅

All the details are in the thread, just wanted to say this is really cool work. @sirileknes.bsky.social discussed some her work for a @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social webinar which was fantastic as well ( youtu.be/rRQb2NhDs60?...) bsky.app/profile/siri...

Webinar: Siri Leknes - When and how opioids fail to meet expectations

YouTube video by Die Macht der Erwartungen

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Siri Leknes@sirileknes.bsky.social · 3w ago

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...

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bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 3w ago

A conserved population of genetically defined striatal neurons gates opioid reward https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.28.741269v1

Reminds me of the time my now friend and neighbour, journalist and science writer @barstenvik.eurosky.social got in touch - he was writing a book about dirt (in Norwegian, literally pronounced ‘shit’) & wanted an interview 😆🤯😂 People, it was the start of a beautiful friendship

Nora Bradford@norabradford.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hey neuroscientists, do you have a story about a time when journalism has improved your science? If so, I'd love to include it in my next op-ed. 🧠

Data & materials from this study are shared on OSF: osf.io/3jvw8/overview We @cecivez.bsky.social also wrote a primer on the repeated stress induction setup we designed (inspired by @dsquintana.bsky.social's practice of publishing how-to-guides) Preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Siri Leknes@sirileknes.bsky.social · 3w ago

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...

What is your longest running project/time from idea to output? I feel we should win at least a commendation for this one, if not an actual prize 😁

Siri Leknes@sirileknes.bsky.social · 3w ago

4/ Science take time I first proposed testing acute stress effects on opioids in a 2013 grant(!) We @marieeikemo.bsky.social @loseth.bsky.social designed it properly in a 2017 @erc.europa.eu proposal & ran a thoroughly pilot tested, preregistered data collection with a huge team!

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...

Effects of psychosocial stress on opioid self-administration in healthy participants: a randomized, placebo-controlled crossover trial - Nature Mental Health

In this triple-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled crossover trial, Eikemo et al. tested whether acute psychosocial stress increases opioid self-administration using controlled stress induction, oxy...

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The Cognition Group in the Psychology dept at Exeter are at risk of redundancy because "basic cognitive psychology research does not align with the current priorities of funding bodies" If you think this is overtly wrong and misguided, please sign this open letter docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open Letter in Support of the Cognition Group, University of Exeter

To Executive members of the University of Exeter, including Vice Chancellor Prof. Lisa Roberts, Senior Vice-President and Provost Prof. Dan Charman, Pro Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean Prof. Sallie...

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More than words: Experience shapes #placebo pain relief through additional brain pathways 🧠 We're excited to share our latest publication in @natcomms.nature.com! 🤩 🔗 Read the paper: rdcu.be/fuxmn #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #PainResearch #BrainImaging #TeamScience #Reproducibility

This was a lesson of the pandemic: Science became a chore without the opportunity to debrief or exchange tidbits from everyday science/life over dinner, drinks, or in the queue for coffee and biscuits It’s still very much about learning though!

hakwan lau@hakwan.bsky.social · last mo.

is this controversial? -- people don't go to conferences to learn things. they do but that's not the primary purpose. nor is the primary purpose 'networking'. they go there, for *moral support*. becoz science is not a victory march. to endure it, we need conferences.

Scientific publishing is incredibly slow - except for journal deadlines after acceptance, not to mention the fun 48-hour proofing 🤪 We have three big papers coming out right now, it will be so much fun to have them fully out there 🤩

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It took me a while to realise that this was satire - worth reading to stimulate discussion in the lab!

Matt Wall@mattwall.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Funny, but... also not.

Science improves lives.

David Blanchflower BSc@davidbflower.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Big news! 🚀 The preprint for our #NODES Delphi study is out on PsyArXiv osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/5bt6s_v1 What's this all about? 🧵

Interested in the role of mu-opioid receptors on key mechanisms of pain, stress and reward? Come join our team as a PhD student working on a newly discovered OPRM1 human knockout model! 🧬 Find out more at the link below⬇️

Siri Leknes@sirileknes.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Recruiting for a salaried 4-year PhD project (or two) in Oslo We seek someone dynamic, curious & fun! Work closely w other PhDs in neuroscience/biology & w our three brilliant Knockout project postdocs (psychology/pain/behavioural genetics) Please share widely www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Some highlights #ESCAN2026 👌 Excellent poster discussion by @cecivez.bsky.social on inducing repeated stress in the lab 👏 keynote by Tallon-Baudry on bodily rhythms as coordinators of cognition 💪 cool work by Aleksandra Herman & @tashstanton.bsky.social on effort-reward discounting in fibromyalgia