This episode aims to encourage transparency around mistakes, offer a variety of perspectives on expert collaboration, and highlight how pursuits in the arts (like ballet or rock music!) have supported some of our top scientists.

🧩 In this episode: 1:09: How have you handled mistakes? 8:50: Non-traditional experiences and hobbies 12:03: Advice for trainees & ECRs 22:29: Reflections on collaborating 30:20: What is the future of stress science? Season 2 coming tomorrow! #scicomm #academicsky #psychscisky #healthpsych

We desperately need policies that support care work and reduce the "cost of caring" borne by women in our society. In this clip, Dr. Tené Lewis highlights implications from her research on the physiological cost of caring in over-stressed communities.

How does a wild baboon's early life stress affect the lifespan of future generations? In this clip, Dr. Jenny Tung highlights her research as co-director of the Amboseli Baboon Research Project, a longitudinal-observational study following generations of baboons in Kenya since 1971.

Attention PNIRS Members: Announcing three new Special Issues now open in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity Integrative that focus on Asian health practices. The Article Processing Charge of $1,350 for all accepted papers will be waived until the end of 2025.

My dept (HDFS) at Texas Tech is hiring an Assistant Professor who studies family science and health, broadly defined to include physical health, mental health, community health, and relational health, including romantic and intergenerational relationships. Plz share widely! #healthpsych

Join @ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social, David Creswell, and A. Janet Tomiyama on July 23 for a new webinar! Learn more about what distinguishes toxic stress from manageable challenges, how #stress manifests differently across cultures & life stages, and which interventions are backed by evidence.

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

Highly recommend working with Julie!!! An incredible researcher and, more importantly, a fantastic human being!!

‼️🚨 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

Call for papers for a Brain, Behavior, and Immunity special issue on precision immunopsychiatry of depression! If you have a project in the pipeline that fits the bill, we encourage you to submit. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... @pnirs.bsky.social

Enjoyed presenting our research at #PNIRS2025. Such a wonderful week in Bordeaux, full of science and friendship.

Amazing time at #PNIRS2025 in Bordeaux! Great science, great people, and a stunning setting. Thrilled to present our work on exercise & hippocampal volume in depression. Plus, our new paper just dropped! 🧠💪 shorturl.at/lDXvP #BBIH

As we’re savoring the great memories of #PNIRS2025, let’s take a moment to thank our PNIRS 2024–2025 President, Dr. Lucile Capuron, for all the hard work she has put into the PNIRS, leading to another successful year of programming and initiatives! Thank you very much, Prez! 🙏🏼♥️ #PNIRS #Merci 🇫🇷

#PNIRS2025 #Recap✨: The annual meeting finished strong with the George Solomon Award Lecture by Dr. Robert Dantzer, aka the Father of #Psychoneuroimmunology. He shared insights on the current state of the field and offered wisdom on key future directions for the next generation of PNI scientists 🧠🔍

What an awesome #GutBrainAxis symposium at #PNIRS2025 in Bordeaux! Huge honor to co-chair with @elimelb.bsky.social and share the stage with Frank Duca and Allen Lab’s own Elisa Caetano-Silva. Incredible science and even better people. Thanks to everyone who joined us!

#PNIRS2025 #Recap: Member-Sponsored Symposium 4 examined the heterogeneity of depression along immuno-metabolic pathways, presented by Drs. Yuri Milaneschi, Éimear Foley, and Naoise Mac Giollabhui💡

Thank you Dr. Christine Heim for the Frontier Lecture on the neurobiology of early life stress!💡#PNIRS2025

We loved seeing trainees from around the world connect at the Trainee Mixer! Hope everyone had the best time! 🤩 #PNIRS2025 #TraineeMixer #ScienceCommunity 🌎🌍🌏

Symposium 5: Neuroimmune Signaling at the Borders of the Nervous System: Implications for Physiology and Pathology By Peter Grace, PhD; Antoine Louveau, PhD; Aleksandra Deczkowska, PhD 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 #PNIRS2025 #Bordeaux #France

The one in the photo presenting is actually Giulia Lombardo 😉 @carminepariante.bsky.social does not have such long hair 😆😂 #PNIRS2025 @pnirs.bsky.social @pixielabkcl.bsky.social

Fantastic to reconnect with the original “SPIes” from the SPI-Lab of @carminepariante.bsky.social Livia Carvalho and Kuan-Pin Su at #PNIRS2025 We all used to work together at the @kingsioppn.bsky.social 20 years ago!💪🏻🤩 @pnirs.bsky.social @pixielabkcl.bsky.social

Lovely last night of #PNIRS2025 in #Bordeaux after few days full of science, networking and ideas! Now planning future projects with old and new friends! @pnirs.bsky.social @pixielabkcl.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social

Really proud of the pixies Giulia Lombardo and Luca Sforzini giving their oral presentations at #PNIRS2025 @pnirs.bsky.social @pixielabkcl.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social

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

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

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

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

There’s a consistent molecular immune signature activated in patients w/ depression (vs controls) but only translates to CRP in a subset of pts. @carminepariante.bsky.social discussed why some folks have this molecular signature that translates to high CRP while others stay under control. #PNIRS2025

It was exciting to take part in this meaningful annual PNIRS conference in Bordeaux, France, and to present my research. @pnirs.bsky.social

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

It’s been a great week full of science and community at #PNIRS2025 in Bordeaux!

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

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

Join us in congratulating the winners of the 2025 Michael Irwin Travel Award! 👏🏼🥳

Congratulations to the winners of the winners of the 2025 Trainee Scholar Travel Award! 👏🏼🥳

Hot @pnirs.bsky.social tip: members receive a 25% discount on open access fees for publishing! These are more than the cost of membership!! #PNIRS2025

Wonderful final poster session of #PNIRS2025

Dr. Sara Vasiljevic's study suggest that genetic factors influnce the association between infections and tic disorder. #PNIRS2025

Zoe Tapp just gave an excellent presentation on how chemotherapy can disrupt the circadian rhythm and inflammatory response of microglia 🙌 #PNIRS2025

Grateful for the opportunity to present my research at #PNIRS2025 this week! A big thank you to the organizers and everyone who made the event such a meaningful experience @pnirs.bsky.social

🚀 Precision Psychiatry in Action! 🧠✨ Join Livia De Picker as she shares powerful insights from 150+ depression immunotherapy trials in ASPIRE. #PNIRS2025

Fascinating talk by Madeline Kirkpatrick on the cell line-specific (and potentially sex-specific) modulation of inflammation by estradiol in human cell lines 👏 #PNIRS2025

🧬 How does our immune system shape the teenage brain? 🧠✨ Join Mai-Lan Tran as she presents: "Immune-Related Gene Expression Moderates the Association Between Fronto-Striatal Connectivity and Reward Processing in Adolescents with and without Depression" #PNIRS2025

wonderful talk on 'Exhausted Cells, Exhausted Minds: Reversible T Cell Exhaustion in Major Depressive Episode' by Dr. Federico Daray! #PNIRS2025

Dr. Ariel Binns presented her data on inmune health in minority populations! #PNIRS2025

Great talk by Sara Rezaei on the selective vulnerability of GABAergic interneurons to inflammation! 👏

🎉 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

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