We are excited to share our keynote speakers for the 35th Annual IBNS Meeting in Cape Town, South Africa! Join us June 23-27th!

Thread of French and Dutch research institutes slowly unsubscribing from web of science (and thence impact factors).

My article on how current and former incels negotiate what 'incel' means to them is out. Spoiler: it's complicated. 'Incel' meant very different things to different individuals, but spending time on forums negatively affected all participants' mental well-being. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Nature Sci Rep publishes incoherent AI slop. eLife publishes a paper which the reviewers didn't agree with, making all the comments and responses public with thoughtful commentary. One of these journals got delisted by Web of Science for quality concerns from not doing peer review. Guess which one?

Trainees we want to hear your insights! Have your travel award proposal reviewed and receive feedback to strengthen your application. Submit by 11/7. #IBNSSouthAfrica www.ibnsconnect.org/travel-awards

Psychedelics disrupt the link between vascular and neuronal activity, which complicates interpretations of fMRI data. Adopting a more holistic view of what constitutes brain activity may help. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/psychedelics...

Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity We are looking for excellent MD Psychiatrist applicants to work & train at the CPCR at Johns Hopkins @jhpsychedelics.bsky.social, the largest and most comprehensive psychedelic research program in the world. Email Dr. Sandeep Nayak [email protected]

Submit your symposia for the IBNS 35th Annual Meeting in Cape Town, South Africa today! #IBNSSouthAfrica www.ibnsconnect.org/ibns-annual-...

Monty Python understood p-hacking

Interested in the complexity of the brain and the mind? 🧠 Join the School 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 📌 Erice, Sicily 📅 26 April–1 May 2026 An #interdisciplinary dialogue on how #mental_states emerge from the #dynamics of 𝐧𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 and 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 centromajorana.it/mentalhealth...

Meet the team of EU-SABV! This is a group of researchers with a special interest of including sex as a biological variable into their work. For the next 4 years, this team will work to enhance current SABV policy in preclinical research! #SABV @costprogramme.bsky.social @jaricivana.bsky.social

New 6-month depression RCT in n=65, serial Ketamine infusions as adjunctive care vs active placebo midazolam. Ketamine did not outperform primary nor any of the secondary efficacy, cognitive, economic, or quality-of-life outcomes. 🧪 #psychiary #PsychSciSky jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Do you have a behavioral neuroscience topic that you want to bring everyone to the table to discuss? Come to #IBNSSouthAfrica submit your symposia by Oct 28th www.ibnsconnect.org/ibns-annual-...

I am (finally!) defending my doctoral thesis in late September with a title 'Addiction-related behavioural effects of lysergic acid diethylamide in mice – Exploring the intersection of #psychedelic drugs, #addiction, and #therapeutics'.

I am (finally!) defending my doctoral thesis in late September with a title 'Addiction-related behavioural effects of lysergic acid diethylamide in mice – Exploring the intersection of #psychedelic drugs, #addiction, and #therapeutics'.

CONCLUSIONS: To promote the best science being done, we need to look at the incentives of science publishing and funding. Long-term funding produces better science. Short-term and topical agendas encourages irreproducibility. Funding model organisms generates science we can build on! 🪰🪱🦠🐠🐁🐸 6/6 🧵

Had a blast in #ibns2025 @ibnsconnect.bsky.social in Tromsø last week. Nice people, interesting behavioural science, beautiful scenery, and the northernmost place I've ever visited (and thus experienced the most intense midnight sun, too). Thanks @cost-teatime.bsky.social for the travel support!

The IBNS meeting in Tromsø has come to an end. Thank you all for making it a memorable gathering, both scientifically and socially! Hopefully I see you all in Cape Town next year! @ibnsconnect.bsky.social #IBNS2025 #Tromsø #neuroskyence

Writing this was like any other act of love - awkward at the start, frustrating at times, but something to be proud of. Very grateful to Dr Kristi Griffiths for agreeing to take on this challenge with me for @natrevneuro.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sometimes, even quite often, people encounter ‘entities’ on psychedelics, which may give them messages, heal them or sometimes seem to threaten them or cause them harm. 1/

Printing my poster ready for @ibnsconnect.bsky.social meeting in Tromsø. I'll present some preliminary data exploring automated homecages as a method to study voluntary ethanol intake-caused circadian disruptions in mice (and thus travelling with generous support from @cost-teatime.bsky.social!)

At the Bratislava Training School, @nunohfranco.bsky.social will teach key principles of #experimentaldesign—such as randomization, blinding, sample size, and bias control—to help ensure that #animalresearch is reliable, #reproducible, and aligned with the #3Rs. @costprogramme.bsky.social #training

My lab @kinshiplab.bsky.social is recruiting a postdoc 🚨 with Sept start date Preference for in-vivo ephys / circuits experience / interest in applying quantitative methods to natural social behaviour. Funding & visa fees for 1-yr with possible extension. Send me your CV & visit kinshiplab.org

🌟 EBBS Elections Announcement 🌟 🗳️ The EBBS elections start on March 26th! A great opportunity for members to take part in shaping the society’s future. Don’t miss the chance to cast your vote! 🔗 More details: ebbs-science.org/elections #EBBSElections #ScienceCommunity

Today marks a special day in the annual rhythm of the @corpuscambridge.bsky.social Chronophage Clock, which you can find in the centre of #Cambridge

I got to join my supervisor in writing an editorial to the latest issue of Finnish Medical Journal @laakarilehti.fi addressing the current state of MDMA-assisted therapy. Nothing that hasn't been said before, but certainly an important forum for the topic. Link below, bu in 🇫🇮 and behind 💶🧱

A brain opioid circuit that explains why there is always room for sweets This opioid circuit is particularly active when full and, thus, drives overconsumption It would be interesting to know how this circuit adapts to chronic sugar consumption www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

ONLY 2 days before our first UNDERSTANDING BEHAVIOUR virtual workshop, on Modelling depression-like behaviors in rodents! It's still time to register ! 🧪 #neuroscience #neuroskyence #animalbehavior 🧠📈🐭🐾

I will move my #mead diary from Mastodon here. And today is a day for a new batch! It'll be my first attempt on a cyber, made with fresh-pressed apple juicy from my in-laws, Finnish wildflower honey, demerara sugar, Lalvin 71b yeast, raisins, and dates. Based on Ken Schramm's recipe.

The call for papers is now open for Psykedeelit 2025 – The 3rd Finnish Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelics, held on October 2-4, 2025, in Turku, Finland! Submissions on all aspects of psychedelic research from any field of science are welcome. 1/

The call for applications to participate in our 4th Training School is open! See you in #Bratislava this June. cost-teatime.org/training/sec... #animalresearch #behavior #training @costprogramme.bsky.social

📢Applications are open for the 2nd Beginners Training School on Home-Cage Technologies 💻🐭 @cost-teatime.bsky.social

📣 Open call to neuroscience, ethology & behavioral societies! 📣 Add www.TheBehaviourForum.org to newsletters, PhD schools, and resource lists. Let’s boost collaboration! Share widely with your networks & organizations. 🌐 🧪🧠📈🐭🐾 #Neuroscience #BehavioralScience #OpenScience #AnimalBehaviour #Ethology

🏙️EBBS is calling for host city proposals for the 2027 Meeting! 🗓️Submit your bid by March 31st and shape this key scientific event. 👉Info: lnkd.in/gid5bDQw

Helpful guide to Bksy for newbies, courtesy of @jacoates.bsky.social zenodo.org/records/1449...

New article by myself and Joseph Holcomb Adams on Guruism and Cultic Social Dynamics in Psychedelic Organisatons. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... non-paywalled here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qyi2r...

In addition to being a nice reading tracker, the @thestorygraph.com app covertly tracks my experimental work. Can you guess when I ran the last conditioned place preference experiments?

Happy new year everyone! I started putting together a starter pack with EBBS members @ebbsociety.bsky.social and related people. This is certainly incomplete and a work in progress. Let me know if you want to be added (or removed). go.bsky.app/V2VNvck

Almost as an early Christmas present, the third manuscripts from my doctoral work is publicly available on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social. LSD, 25CN-NBOH, Pavlovian approach (CPP), VTA dopamine neuron AMPA-NMDA ratios - what could be better?

Effects of serotonin agonists LSD and 25CN-NBOH on conditioned place preference and on synaptic plasticity of VTA dopamine neurons in mice https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.12.628157v1

Almost as an early Christmas present, the third manuscripts from my doctoral work is publicly available on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social. LSD, 25CN-NBOH, Pavlovian approach (CPP), VTA dopamine neuron AMPA-NMDA ratios - what could be better?

Women in Neuroscience Now a list! add to feeds/follow/suggest 😄 bsky.app/profile/did:...

Save the date! The Third Finnish Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelics will be held in Turku, Finland on October 2-4 2025, with the special theme "Challenging Psychedelics". First announced key note speakers are Prof. Christine Hauskeller and Michiel van Elk. psyty.fi/psykedeelit2...

The strain on scientific publishing: we set out to characterise the remarkable growth of the scientific literature in the last few years, in spite of declining growth in total scientists. What is going on? direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... A 🧵 1/n #AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Editor: The figure shows a mug not a cup. If that volume were placed on a cup, wouldn’t it occupy more than half the volume?

This is why representation matters. This is why programs that support women in STEM (or any male dominated space) is important. I wish more men had this perspective and respect for their female peers. And yes, it’s a real letter: www.today.com/today/amp/td... #WomenInSTEM #RepresentationMatters

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I don't know who made this #psychedelics paper one but I love it so much I framed a copy for my office

Less characters available than on Mastodon, but I'll make do: 1) Rodent behavioural pharmacologist interested in all things psyche(delic) 2) Writing a doctoral thesis on LSD, mice, and addiction-relevant behaviours 3) Currently 'Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers' anthology makes me happy

I would have gone to #IBNS2025 next summer regardless, but with a symposium programme like this, it is a no-brainer!