📣The 2026 ERC Consolidator Grant competition is now open! 📣 Already preparing your proposal? Info links ⬇️ Info for applicants 👉 buff.ly/PSbeUxX Application portal 👉 buff.ly/mauZoqo Deadline: 13/01/26 General info on #ERCCoG 👉 buff.ly/KCN6GTh

Please read this very courageous piece by our @inspirethemind.bsky.social writer Samrina Sangha

It’s one of the most studied questions in medicine. Decades of research, millions of children, and countless high-quality studies all point to the same conclusion: vaccines do NOT cause autism. Let's sketch it out ✍️

Dear friends and Bluesky 🧠 geeks: it's the weekend, and I want to share that @chantelpratphd.bsky.social and I recorded our second episode of Brains for Dinner. This one is about dance, language, and basal ganglia, and the burning question: why don't ducks dance? open.substack.com/pub/chantelp...

PsyArXiv is seeking new moderators to help combat an increase in AI submissions! If you've ever posted a preprint to PsyArXiv, please consider joining. Minimum commitment 1h/month, there's a training session this Monday @ 1pm ET. More info here: forms.gle/9LB1rEtxHAeZ... #PsychSciSky

Results? 🔥 High-CRP patients had stronger inflammatory responses 😶 More anhedonia after immune stress ❓Surprisingly, a short-term drop in depression scores after LPS 🧬 A step toward personalised treatments for inflammation-linked depression? 👉 Blog by @julielasselin.bsky.social buff.ly/ocb4Kix

Can inflammation shape how depression feels & how we treat it? New RCT used an immune challenge (LPS) to test how ppl w depression & high inflammation responded. The results? Fascinating insights into anhedonia & inflammatory subtypes of depression. #Depression #Inflammation 🧵 THREAD

Is ChatGPT making us stupid? In 2008, we asked the same about Google. Now #AI isn’t just finding info, it’s “thinking” and analyzing for us. “The difference lies in how we use it,” writes professor of information systems Aaron French.

1/2 Press release @unileiden.bsky.social about our upcoming JoPACS paper led by @bsiepe.bsky.social, showing that the overlap of similar constructs assessed via wearable vs EMA data is surprisingly low (n~850, 3 months). www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...

Great explainer for our new @nathumbehav.nature.com paper!

🚨 Neuro postdocs & grad students: Have a story to tell? Want to practice a talk before a conference or interview? Join our new seminar series on the Isthmus! All are welcome (from around the 🌎). Submit by Aug 20. Share your story (and this ad)! (Ping me for Qs) forms.gle/zpSTGWczxjqJ...

My first dissertation paper is out in Nature Mental Health! 🤩 With colleagues from @tudresden.bsky.social and @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social, we conducted a meta-analysis on the link between childhood trauma and interoception — our ability to sense internal bodily signals. rdcu.be/eu8bo 1/🧵

PNI people, please apply! PNIRS @pnirs.bsky.social

In psychotherapy, treatment expectations matter. But even more powerful? ➡️ How they change over time. Our new paper shows that updating expectations during psychotherapy for MDD predicts depression outcomes. 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/WRBWU... #depression #psychotherapy #beliefupdating

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‼️🚨 postdoc position 🚨‼️ I am looking for a postdoc in psychoneuroimmunology - come join our group to work on sickness behavior in humans 🤒🦠 at Karolinska Institutet @ki.se !! ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/... deadline July 31st @pnirs.bsky.social #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #interoception

My brilliant collaborator @marieeikemo.bsky.social is hiring! Do your PhD in an excellent interdisciplinary group & be my colleague in lovely Oslo www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Many highlights at #PNIRS2025 but one of them was definitely dinner (at KBaroque) with the PNIRS RISING STARS (from left to right) @ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social @iriskayichat.bsky.social @estherina.bsky.social Annelise Madison @linashansson.bsky.social 🤩😍🥰 @pnirs.bsky.social

What a week, #PNIRS2025 is definitely a success!! PNIRS meeting is always about excellent science but above all the best place to connect with the PNI community in an inclusive, respectful, enthusiastic and warm environment @pnirs.bsky.social

And now the BEST at all PNIRS conferences!!! PROPER DANCING!! #PNIRS2025 @pnirs.bsky.social

No soft at banquet dinner at #PNIRS2025 so I have water while everyone enjoys nice Bordeaux wine 🤷🫠 @pnirs.bsky.social

Getting ready for the boat ride to the banquet #PNIRS2025 🤩 @pnirs.bsky.social

Amazing final words of #PNIRS2025 from Robert Dantzer, who has shaped the field of PNI and inspired so many of us @pnirs.bsky.social

Brilliant symposium and talks by the amazing, Iris, Julie and Elizabeth 👏👏👏 @julielasselin.bsky.social @iriskayichat.bsky.social #PNIRS2025

I so enjoyed our symposium at #PNIRS2025 this morning! So grateful to @iriskayichat.bsky.social for having pushed this to success!! @pnirs.bsky.social

Wonderful final poster session of #PNIRS2025

Dr. Julie Lasselin guides us through how diverse inflammatory mechanisms shape our emotions, pleasure, and motivation! #PNIRS2025

Dr. Iris Ka-Yi Chat is sharing fascinating insights into how inflammation influences reward systems in adolescents! #PNIRS2025

🐭✨ Dr. Elisabeth Vichaya is diving into how both acute and chronic inflammation shape mood and reward responses through the lens of animal models! #PNIRS2025

🎉 Big congrats to Julie Lasselin, Iris Ka-Yi Chat, and Elisabeth Vichaya on a fantastic Member Symposium 6! 👏 Brilliant insights on how inflammation shapes mood and reward in humans and animals! 🧠🔥#PNIRS2025

Ready for our symposium on the last day of #PNIRS2025!!! @pnirs.bsky.social

Dr. Annelise Madison presented fascinating exploratory findings focused on how omega-3 supplementation may affect social perception in a sex-specific manner #PNIRS2025

It was a packed and stimulating first poster session this afternoon! 👏🏼

Dr. Steptoe also emphasized that this is a critical area where he hopes trainees and early-career investigators will focus their efforts — likely a good translational research fit for many at #PNIRS2025!

Would you like to hear about prosocial behavioral in rats during social isolation and it's on neuroendocrine-immune effects? Come to my poster - Wednesday #57 #PNIRS2024 @pnirs.bsky.social

Incredible talk from @lironrozenkrantz.bsky.social, who shared her fascinating results. I'm looking forward to reading the full publication 🤩 👏 #PNIRS2025 @pnirs.bsky.social

Excellent figure on why we feel sick and behave in a sick way when ill from @julielasselin.bsky.social and colleagues. Link to PDF of paper with figure here: tinyurl.com/lasselinetal...

Great overview of what we’ve learned and what is still missing in the study of sickness behaviors from Dr. Robert Dantzer during the Presidential Symposium at #PNIRS2025

Robert Dantzer 🤩🤩🤩 presenting basically what I plan for my career 😭😅🤓 #PNIRS2025 @pnirs.bsky.social

Super ready and excited for Day 2 #PNIRS2025 !!!! (and already sleep deprived haha!) @pnirs.bsky.social Presidential symposium!

At some point during #PNIRS2025 make sure to check the book store Mollat (tram stop Gambetta) - the largest independent bookstore in Europe 😍📖🤓 @pnirs.bsky.social

Our last speaker of the #PNIRS2025 educational short course, Dr. Laura K.M. Han showed us how to measure brain age and how this tool can predict psychopathology ✨ #Psychoneuroimmunology #PNI #Bordeaux

For the second presentation of the educational short course we had Dr. Steve Cole at UCLA showing us how social determinants get under the skin in social genomics, and its relevance to precision psychiatry! 🤩👏🏼 #PNIRS2025 #Psychoneuroimmunology #Bordeaux

Live: Dr. Marion Leboyer kicking off the #PNIRS2025 educational short course with an incredibly informative lecture on refining precision psychiatry approach through deep-phenotyping! 😎💡 #PNI #Psychoneuroimmunology #Bordeaux #France

Please tag us or use #PNIRS2025 as we’d love to hear all about your fun time at the meeting and in Bordeaux! Wishing everyone safe and smooth travels — we can’t wait to see you there! For Full Program & registration, visit www.PNIRS.org/meetings

Here we go #PNIRS2025 !!! So excited !!! @pnirs.bsky.social With @linashansson.bsky.social 🤩🥰🤓

📣 #PNIRS2025 Full Program is now available! 🔗 lnkd.in/eXckMeSY Tag us or use #PNIRS2025 as you post about the annual meeting — We’d love to connect and repost! 🤩 Find us on Instagram (@PNIResearchSociety) & LinkedIn (@PNIRS) 😉 Please repost 🙏🏼 #PNIRS #Bordeaux #France #Psychoneuroimmunology #PNI

Can't wait for #PNIRS2025!! @pnirs.bsky.social I hope ('m sure!) our symposium will lead to great discussion 🤓🧠🦠🤒

📌 Symposium 6 Not a Monolith: Diverse Inflammatory Pathways and Insights into Nuanced Mood and Reward Dysfunctions 🎙️ Iris Ka-Yi Chat, Julie Lasselin, Elisabeth Vichaya @iriskayichat.bsky.social @julielasselin.bsky.social @egvichaya.bsky.social #PNIRS2025 #PNIRS

4️⃣ Dissecting Depression Heterogeneity along Immuno-Metabolic Pathways: Triangulating Evidence from Hierarchical-Phenotyping, Experimental & Genomic Methods 🎙️ Yuri Milaneschi, Daniel Moriarity, PhD (presentation delivered by Naoise Mac Giollabhui on his behalf), Éimear M. Foley