How do VTA DA neurons sculpt downstream representations to reinforce actions? VERY excited about our new preprint (by Alex Pan Vazquez & @czimmerman.bsky.social )

👉 We generated a starter pack for #neurogastroenterology and enteric #neuroscience! Let's connect and bring gut-brain research and clinical neurogastroenterology to the next level! 🌐 go.bsky.app/3Z82PbH

The interaction of GLP-1 medicines with the immune system is complex, enabled by direct and indirect actions, including neural inter organ communication. These studies have been led @SinaiHealth by CK Wong. His latest perspective here in the JCI www.jci.org/articles/vie...

I interviewed Prof Anne White for the BSN on her research at our annual meeting in Bradford this year. Something that struck me was her investment in the #Postdoc members of her team, using profits from #commercialisation of her work.

Such a nice collection of brain-body interaction articles in the special issue of @currentbiology.bsky.social. Love the beautiful vagus nerve on the cover by Andreas Vesalius www.cell.com/current-biol...

Out today in Nature: We uncover a neural mechanism for the integration of two internal states - hunger and estrous state - and how this integration shapes pup-directed behaviors in mice. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our Primer on Sickness and the Brain: how are inflammatory signals and the brain coordinate to make us sick? in the new issue of Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol... together with @Zuri A. Sullivan

New essay in @currentbiology.bsky.social special brain-body issue! Fly lab meets psychiatrist: how bodily signals shape cognition and mental health. Great collaboration with Albino Oliveira-Maia showing @champalimaudf.bsky.social discovery ↔️ clinic at its best. www.cell.com/current-biol...

During these uncertain times, I’m very happy to see that my institution, @scripps.edu has an open tenure-track Assistant Professor position. Any field in Chemistry or Biology is welcome. I’d especially love to see fellow neuroscientists apply. Please repost! apply.interfolio.com/174756

A fantastic first day of the 47th conference of the Societe de Neuroendocrinologie in beautiful Lausanne, Switzerland! Great science and wonderful interactions! Thank you @sebastienbouret.bsky.social Sophie Crozier and rest of the organizers, it’s a true pleasure to be here @jne-editor.bsky.social

A reminder that the PhD program for EMBL is open for winter recruitment round. If you want to understand life at a molecular level and have a quantitative science (you don't have to have done biology - we love our mathematicians/physcists/chemists!) apply www.embl.org/about/info/e...

A framework from @easoobesity.bsky.social to guide pharmacological treatment of 'fat mass diseases' versus 'sick fat diseases' 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thread of things I'm learning as I read The Discovery of Insulin by Michael Bliss

We’re hiring! My new Gut–Brain Axis Lab at Northwestern is looking for a Research Technologist 2 to help build the lab and explore how the nervous system shapes gut health and disease. 🔬 Apply here: myhr.northwestern.edu/psp/hrnu/EMP...

In case you missed this article, it will definitely put you off drinking these! And it links to the authors' full paper in Journal of Nutritional Physiology, one of the new journals at @physoc.bsky.social theconversation.com/we-fed-peopl...

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The gut-brain connection Glia cells mediate cytokine signalling between the gut and the brain, linking sleep to inflammation in the gut.

Thanks to @dkthomp.bsky.social for inviting @juliabelluz.bsky.social and I on the Plain English podcast to discuss our food system, nutrition science & our new book FOOD INTELLIGENCE. www.theringer.com/podcasts/pla...

From the lizard venom and John Eng, in licensing to clinical development and approval April 28 2005. The remarkable story of Amylin Pharma and exenatide www.nature.com/articles/s42...

There is no clear evidence that paracetamol has any harmful effects on an unborn baby.

Even after recovery, relapse is heartbreakingly common in anorexia nervosa. Could the answer lie in the gut’s hidden signals? 🧵

Great scheme!

Are you working on an exciting neuroendocrine research project? Get up to £8k support for consumables/other research costs to enable you to carry out the best possible research project. Deadline 1 Oct 2025 (All members eligible to apply!) Apply: www.neuroendo.org.uk...

Fantastic resource!

🚨 New preprint from an ongoing collaboration with the Pang lab. Project led by rising stars @rohansavani.bsky.social and @lewang1.bsky.social showing how individual GLP-1R neurons in the paraventricular hypothalamus track ingestion across energy states. Preprint: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

(1/10) We’re excited to share our new preprint (doi.org/10.1101/2025...), which uncovers the spatiomolecular landscape of the human nucleus accumbens (NAc), by integrating snRNA-seq with Visium spatial transcriptomics across 10 control donors. 🧠 #NAcLIBD #snRNAseq #10xVisium

Oh to be a little Tardigrade scratching its back on a bubble. 🫧🐻🧪

Want to enhance your image analysis skills with napari? We’re running a two-day training event on how to use napari to effectively analyse your bioimaging data. 🕒 Applications close on 15 September. Learn more and apply 👇 www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cbi...

Funded PhD studentship at Exeter University! Unravelling Moral Injury in Eating Disorders in Young Adults. MRC GW4 BioMed DTP PhD studentship for 2026/27 Entry www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Great review of last week's British Society of Neuroendocrinology conference - honoured to be able to make a small contribution to such a vibrant and ECR-focussed society. 🧠📈 @bsneuroendo.bsky.social

ICYMI: Simplifying access to MRC applicant-led funding #MRC #AcademicSky

BIIG seminars are back! 🎉 12-1pm on 12th September: - Kaixiang Shuai (LMCB, UCL): Creating the first Drosophila imaginal wing disc atlas - Aikta Sharma (UCL Mechanical Engineering): Predicting Osteoarthritis in the Tibial Epiphysis with Synchrotron X-ray CT and Digital Volume Correlation

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻-𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗽𝗵𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆: 𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹, 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗹𝗲𝘅, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Excellent review paper about reactive and anticipatory processes. #neuroskyence doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

The first complete activity map of decision-making in the animal brain has been unveiled by a large international collaboration of neuroscientists involving @uclqsion.bsky.social and @ucleye.bsky.social researchers. www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/se... @kenneth-harris.bsky.social @carandinilab.net

We are proud of Omprakash Singh's new study just out in Cell Reports. Supported by Sepideh Sheybani-Deloui et al, Om's work identifies GHSR expressing SCN neurons as regulating food intake + feed efficiency at a single time of day, accounting for at least 7% of a mouse's BW doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

A partial list of papers using the AGR-021 antisera from @Alomone_Labs to detect "the GLP-1 Receptor"; this antibody does not detect the GLP-1R and completely lacks sensitivity and specificity. Free to read @Cell_Metabolism www.cell.com/cell-metabol...

A conference highlight is the Michael Harbuz prize lecture rwxofnising an outstanding member of the emerging generation of neuroendocrinologists. This year won by Dr Jo Lewis Univ. Cambridge. @joedwardlewis.bsky.social @jethwalab.bsky.social #BSNbradford2025

After years of work with @juliabelluz.bsky.social, it's hard to believe that our book FOOD INTELLIGENCE will be published this month! @barnesandnoble.com has 25% off pre-orders placed on Sept 3-5. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/food-intel...

Proud PI moment #2: Superstar postdoc @laurenjonesucl.bsky.social absolutely smashing her first conference presentation of her fascinating data on #semaglutide mechanism of action. #BSNBradford2025

Proud PI moment #1: @phoebeclax.bsky.social doing a stellar job in her first ever conference poster session, presenting data generated during her @bsneuroendo.bsky.social funded undergraduate summer lab experience project. #BSNBradford2025

Excited to share work led by my PhD student Hayley McMorrow now published in @jclinical-invest.bsky.social. Hayley showed that GIP and GLP-1 receptor agonists rapidly inhibit AgRP neurons and that endogenous GIP is important for nutrient-mediated AgRP neuron inhibition. doi.org/10.1172/JCI1...

Great to see so many ECRs turning up to #BSNBradford2025 a day early for our career transitions workshops on academic branding and sci-comms. Looking forward to all the exciting neuroendocrine research from all our amazing @bsneuroendo.bsky.social ECR members, in person and on science bluesky! 🧠📈🧪

Heading up to #BSNBradford2025 and finalising slides for this afternoon's ECR workshop on academic branding and sci-comms. If that's not a great excuse for a bsky post I don't know what is... Looking forward to a great week of talks and catching up with everyone in @bsneuroendo.bsky.social!

Be aware of issues with your genetic tools - An essential experimental control for functional connectivity mapping with optogenetics: academic.oup.com/genetics/art...

If you are preparing your bachelor statistics course and would like to add optional material for students to better understand statistics on a conceptual level (see topics in the screenshot) my free textbook provides a state of the art overview. lakens.github.io/statistical_...

One of the people I'm indebted the most for creating stunningly beautiful #mesoSPIM samples was Martina Schaettin - who tragically passed away in March this year. To honor her memory, Elkhan Yusifov created an award - submit your best #microscopy images & videos! www.linkedin.com/company/mart...

Excited contribute to this year’s lunch hour lecture program! It’s a free event and accessible to a non-specialist audience so please come and join me :)

🤓 Getting ready for #BSNBradford2025? Whether presenting your work comes to you naturally or not, preparation and practice is key to making sure you get the most out of the speaking opportunity. Here are 8 tips from past BSN President Prof Giles Yeo: