Thanks Lizzie! Forgot to post 🫠 but this work is extra special… the last project led by @kynaconn.bsky.social before she left the lab to follow her new path. Well done mate, and thanks to all the legends who contributed to this work 🙏🏻

1/8 🧵 Breaking: Groundbreaking study drops in Psychedelics! Psilocybin's effects on social behavior & inflammation in female mice modeling anorexia nervosa? TOTALLY context-dependent on metabolism & exercise. Explains why only ~40% respond in human trials. Implications for personalized therapy!

After a busy semester of teaching it is so nice to be at the Biological Psychiatry Australia Conference. First up today is @foldi.bsky.social and team with the development of a 'library of animal models', which sounds like a fantastic resource for researchers studying clinical symptoms/disorders

Hey bsky-ers! New preprint from the lab on #psilocybin & social behaviour in #female mice in contexts relevant to eating disorders (food restriction, exercise & combo of) by PhD student Sheida 💙🦋

Incredibly proud of @kxhuang.bsky.social for persisting with such a challenging dataset from her PhD! We found some intriguing genetic targets in a corticostriatal circuit that may be involved in the development of #anorexia nervosa 🤔 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A starter pack including all attendees (that I can find for now) Please let me know if I missed anyone! #GRCPsychedelics go.bsky.app/2ExXJcr

Today is the day! I can officially share my promotion to Associate Professor at @monashuniversity.bsky.social 🎉🎉 - Thanks to my lab (past and present), colleagues, letter writers and supporters 😊

Examining the biological causes of eating disorders to inform treatment strategies — a Review by Claire J. Foldi & Kristi R. Griffiths @foldi.bsky.social‬ www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience #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...

The 15th Annual BPA Meeting is fast approaching, and we are so pleased to announce this year's excellent symposia line up! Head to our website to confirm your membership for this year + stay tuned for symposium details, general abstract submission & early bird registration🧠 #BPA2025

We created a photometry python package for unbiased standardised post-hoc analysis using bootstrapping confidence intervals No more AUC or time bins analysis! Ever Follow our simple step by step instructions. @foldi.bsky.social @philjrdb.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Check out the latest work from the lab led by @kxhuang.bsky.social

For those hurting after DP EOI outcomes today, courtesy of ChatGPT (I prompted with the first line, it will have to go over 2 posts as it's too long): Oh ARC, why won't you fund me? I’ve written papers, set them free, With research deep and insights bright, Yet still, no grant, no guiding light.

Now that she's finally migrated from the Other Place I can officially congratulate @kynaconn.bsky.social on winning a prestigious Early Career Postdoctoral Fellowship from our Faculty @monashuniversity.bsky.social - Well done Kyna!! 🤩

Our paper is out in DPP! This is the SECOND paper from my lab, but the first headed entirely by summer students: College senior Benjamin Babaev and High school senior Saachi Goyal (!!). They also created an easy to use site so anyone can use the machine learning resource for staging estrous cycle

A perfect score for the R13 proposal for the GRC Psychedelics conference #GRCPsychedelics - what a delight to receive the news before the holidays 💯🎁 The proposal will entirely go towards supporting travel awards and events for trainees. www.grc.org/neurobiology...

“To write well is to think clearly” - which is to say that by delegating more and more of your writing effort to AI, you are inviting the slow erosion of your own ability to think clearly.

We’re launching the Monash Psychedelic Education Program in 2025! Registrations are NOW OPEN for undergraduate and postgraduate education in psychedelic science and therapies! Options for EVERYONE, ANYWHERE. Clinical training coming in 2026! Visit: www.monash.edu/psychedelic-education

All I have seen on here for days is #ACNP2024 posts and the pain of jealousy hurts more than the unquestionable jetlag that would accompany such a trip. How does an extra-US gal like me score an invite for 2025?

The glass paperweight award I have always dreamed of. Couldn’t have done it without my amazing lab - who refuse to join this platform so may not have jobs for long 🩵

Not sure who needs to hear this but the only thing a first draft has to do is exist. Everything else comes later.

A little late for Thanksgiving but if you have friends and family members curious about anti-obesity medications, this is very easy to digest piece (nailed that pun....still got it) authors.elsevier.com/a/1kCED3QW8S...

And again with my model child ☁️🩵 #edie

My lab has been slow on the 🦋uptake, despite my nagging, but please welcome and follow these two brilliant neuroscience students @kxhuang.bsky.social & @kasparmccoy.bsky.social (hopefully more will follow suit)

If your #NHMRC ideas grant was unsuccessful and you have a story to share about the impact of this on your #biomedicalresearch, career, team - get in touch. Federal DOH have asked #NARF to collect stories of impact of low funding. #SaveOzScience #DiscoveriesNeedDollars #EMCRs

Opposite responses to reward with dopamine (up) and serotonin (down) in nucleus accumbens boost reinforcement learning. Impressive work in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Quote posting cat pics for attention #anthony 🧡

If you really want to encounter a lot of views different from your own, go read some books. You don’t need right wing assholes screaming at you on social media for that. This can just be a place where you chill.

I want to start including a history & philosophy of science add-on to lab meetings, with the view to expand trainees’ thinking beyond the practicalities of lab-based experimental work. Any resource recommendations from my new 🦋 crew?

Allow me to introduce Edith 🤍 & Anthony 🧡 to #catsky 🦋

Public repository for code and data - github.com/Kwan-Lab/abo..., for our preprint "Classification of psychedelics and psychoactive drugs based on brain-wide imaging of cellular c-Fos expression" PS: much issues with CodeOcean for peer review.. now it is on @github.com too. 👨‍💻👩‍💻

👋🏼👋🏼 1) I fumble my way through the neuro mechanisms of psilocybin relevant for eating disorders 2) We are working on DOPAMINE & learning + PSI 3) I’m rewatching The Sopranos for the embarrassingly billionth time

Hope I'm the first to post this all time classic on this platform

I made a starter pack for the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior #SSIB for all interested in being a #SSIBling. Please let me know if you would like to join the starter pack! go.bsky.app/8Zvp83e

Excited to share our new publication out today in Nature Communications! Congrats to the team! @craggasap.bsky.social #dopamine #astrocytes #acetylcholine #openscience Supported by @ukri.org and @asapresearch.bsky.social rdcu.be/d0Knj

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