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Lizzie Manning @drlizziemanning.bsky.social · 4h

This week is OCD awareness week, and I'm excited that my team is hosting an event at the University to help raise awareness about misconceptions about OCD and help people to better understand what is really like

Lizzie Manning @drlizziemanning.bsky.social · 11d

In just under 2 weeks we're going to be hosting Newcastle's first "million steps for OCD" walk, to raise awareness about OCD and support the great work the IOCDF do
Visit newcastle.edu.au/ocd-walk-2025 for more information, to register, and donate to IOCDF if you can't make it (tax deductible in US)

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Anthony Hannan @anthonyjhannan.bsky.social · 1d

I am delighted to share our new paper! nature.com/articles/s41...
Lizzie Kleeman & our Florey Institute team, with WEHI, UoM & others, found that paternal COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 infection) can alter sperm & offspring phenotypes, including anxiety. This discovery has major (brain) health implications!

Paternal SARS-CoV-2 infection impacts sperm small noncoding RNAs and increases anxiety in offspring in a sex-dependent manner - Nature Communications

Whether paternal pre-conceptual SARS-CoV-2 infection impacts sperm RNA content, or effects offspring phenotypes, has not been previously investigated. Here authors report changes in sperm noncoding RNAs in SARS-CoV-2 infected sires and increased anxiety-like behaviors in offspring.

nature.com

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 18h

This is profoundly sad. We lost a true pioneer in the field of psychiatry

Sincere condolences to his family friends and collaborators

Owen Muir, M.D., DFAACAP (he/him) @owenmuir.bsky.social · 1d

A eulogy for my friend Nolan Williams.

open.substack.com/pub/thefront...

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Stan Floresco @dr-stan.bsky.social · 4d

Outstanding work by my former trainee @ppiantad.bsky.social !

Jonas Wietek @jwietek.bsky.social · 4d

Great body of work led by @ppiantad.bsky.social

First use of PdCO in the wild to perform closed-loop pre-choice modulation 🤩

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Jonas Wietek @jwietek.bsky.social · 4d

Great body of work led by @ppiantad.bsky.social

First use of PdCO in the wild to perform closed-loop pre-choice modulation 🤩

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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International Behavioral Neuroscience Society @ibnsconnect.bsky.social · 7d

Are you and your colleagues interested in creating a symposium for our IBNS conference in South Africa? Submissions are less than a month away and we would love to hear your work! Call for symposia deadline is October 28th and to submit go to www.ibnsconnect.org/meetings #IBNSSouthAfrica

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Tom Kash @superkash.bsky.social · 9d

A couple of new preprints out from Kash Lab!

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Lizzie Manning @drlizziemanning.bsky.social · 11d

In just under 2 weeks we're going to be hosting Newcastle's first "million steps for OCD" walk, to raise awareness about OCD and support the great work the IOCDF do
Visit newcastle.edu.au/ocd-walk-2025 for more information, to register, and donate to IOCDF if you can't make it (tax deductible in US)

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Australasian Neuroscience Society @ausneurosoc.bsky.social · 11d

Introducing the #ANS2025 ANS Plenary Lecturer, Dr Miriam Matamales!
Dr Matamales' research focuses on the neural circuits underlying goal-directed learning and how their dysfunction impairs appropriate behaviour.

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Lizzie Manning @drlizziemanning.bsky.social · 11d

In just under 2 weeks we're going to be hosting Newcastle's first "million steps for OCD" walk, to raise awareness about OCD and support the great work the IOCDF do
Visit newcastle.edu.au/ocd-walk-2025 for more information, to register, and donate to IOCDF if you can't make it (tax deductible in US)

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Sueda Tuncak @suedatuncak.bsky.social · 13d

Me me me! I do want to join a panel.
I work on rat models of ASD with a focus on metabolism and sex differences! 🐀

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Lizzie Manning @drlizziemanning.bsky.social · 13d

Time to get working on your symposium proposals!

📣 Roll call
-Who's coming to Cape town?
-Who needs speaker suggestions for a panel?
-Who'd like to join a panel (especially trainees!)
@mfendt.bsky.social @dr-stan.bsky.social @nicoleferrara.bsky.social @eelkesnoeren.bsky.social

International Behavioral Neuroscience Society @ibnsconnect.bsky.social · Sep 12

We are excited to invite all behavioral neuroscientists to the 35th Annual IBNS Meeting at Cape Town, South Africa June 23-27, 2026!

Call for Symposia / Satellite Proposals Deadline: Tuesday, October 28, 2025

More information can be found at ibnsconnect.org/meetings

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Laura Bradfield (she/her) @bradfield-neuro.bsky.social · 14d

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Now published in Neuropsychopharmacology, here we mimicked the striatal neuroinflammation seen in the brains of individuals with compulsive disorders and found that this facilitated goal-directed action, whereas activating the Gi pathway in astrocytes prevented it

Dorsomedial striatal neuroinflammation causes excessive goal-directed action control by disrupting astrocyte function

Neuropsychopharmacology - Dorsomedial striatal neuroinflammation causes excessive goal-directed action control by disrupting astrocyte function

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Lizzie Manning @drlizziemanning.bsky.social · 15d

I was very happy that our lab was able to play a small part in this fantastic new paper from @bradfield-neuro.bsky.social , showing that neuroflammation in the pDMS promotes goal directed behaviour, whereas activation on hM4Di in astrocytes has the opposite effect

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dorsomedial striatal neuroinflammation causes excessive goal-directed action control by disrupting astrocyte function - Neuropsychopharmacology

Neuropsychopharmacology - Dorsomedial striatal neuroinflammation causes excessive goal-directed action control by disrupting astrocyte function

www.nature.com

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Biological Psychiatry @biologicalpsych.bsky.social · 18d

The Biological Psychiatry family of journals is now officially on Bluesky!

Follow us for the latest research in psychiatric neuroscience, cognitive neuroimaging, and global open science from our three leading journals.

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Professor Clare Collins AO @profccollins.bsky.social · 19d

One more 😴 till I catch up with @abcaustralia.bsky.social
#ScienceHour on #TripleJ with @doctorkarl.bsky.social and Lucy Smith! Get your #Nutrition #Science questions ready!

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ALT: a woman is holding a cell phone in her hands and says `` wait til i tell you this '' .

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Tallie Z Baram @talliezee.bsky.social · 19d

Just dropped! 🧠🧪how to pinpoint brain cells activated by early-life #stress then determine their #epigenomic and #transcriptional changes that govern adult behaviors. Led by @amaliaflorious.bsky.social @svmahler.bsky.social @cate-cholamine.bsky.social @thebalelab.bsky.social doi.org/10.3389/fnin...

schematic of genetic tagging of cells that respond preferentially to early-life stress, and then capturing ribosomally tethered transcripts in these same cells

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 23d

ADD YOUR THOUGHTS ON LIMITING STUDENT VISA TO FOUR YEARS

Comment period ends September 29th

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

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Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information Media

Unlike most nonimmigrant classifications, which are admitted for a fixed time period, aliens in the F (academic student), J (exchange visitor), and most I (representatives of foreign information media...

www.federalregister.gov

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Dan Levenstein @dlevenstein.bsky.social · 23d

From “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” to “Give me 100K”

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Shelly Flagel @flagel-lab.bsky.social · 22d

It's been fun. Thanks for hosting us, beautiful Almería, and thanks to everyone at #EBPS2025 for making it a fantastic meeting. Hoping everyone has safe and easy travels. 🤞 See you at #EBPS2027 in Cork!

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NYU Pain Research Center @nyupainresearch.bsky.social · 23d

Big congratulations to postdoc Sarah Najjar from the Margolis Lab on receiving a NIH K01 award to study serotonergic mechanisms of pain! 🌟 A huge step toward independence and groundbreaking discoveries ahead! 👏

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Zoe McElligott @nanopharmnc.bsky.social · Sep 9

Here ye, here ye!!! #WCBR2026 #WinterConfrenceonBrainResearch will be extending the panel deadline one week for submission (new deadline 9/18/2025)! Official announcement coming soon so check your emails! please reskeet!

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OHBM Australia @ohbm-australia.bsky.social · Sep 8

⏰ Don’t forget – The OHBM Australia Chapter 2025 Annual Meeting is coming up!

📍 Melbourne
📅 Wednesday, Nov 12, 2025

Abstract submissions close soon (September 15th 5pm)!!😮

📢 Register to secure your place today!

ohbm-aus.github.io/posts/2025-a...

OHBM Australia: 2025 Annual Meeting

OHBM Australia: Uniting the Australian human brain mapping community

ohbm-aus.github.io

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ALBA Network @network-alba.bsky.social · Sep 2

🧠 Are you an early-career brain science researcher interested to attend #FENS2026 in Barcelona, Europe’s largest #neuroscience meeting? Apply for the ALBA-CHS Travel Awards!

✈️ Tiered grants for EU & non-EU candidates
✅ Final-year PhD/MD or ≤10 years post-PhD/MD
👉🏽 loom.ly/7FOgCJc
📆 21 Oct 2025

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Dr Tracy Westerman AM @drtracywesterman.bsky.social · Aug 30

🎉 Massive News! 🎉
The inaugural Jilya Indigenous Psychology Conference is happening 5 Dec 2025 in Perth!

✨ Keynote by Dr Tracy Westerman AM
🎟 Only 300 tix + livestream available

events.humanitix.com/the-jilya-in...

#IndigenousPsychology #DrTracyWesterman

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