@mcwpharm-tox.bsky.social will be recruiting a mid-career translational neuropharmacologist with a research program focused on SUDs and/or stress-related disorders. Great opportunity in a growing and supportive dept. @davidbaranger.bsky.social and I will be at #ACNP. Reach out if you want to talk!

Congrats Staci!

Congrats on an amazing thesis defense Dr. Bluitt!! Loved seeing everyone from @jbesheer.bsky.social lab.

Congrats Jessica!🎉

Science Under Threat in the United States: The NIH is a sound investment for the US taxpayer Research funded by the National Institutes of Health is essential for improving the health of Americans and developing new drugs and treatments for a wide range of diseases.

Great explanatory piece on why NIH research is an important investment into the health and lives of Americans. Thanks, Nick! elifesciences.org/articles/106...

Chair - Department of Psychiatry - Chapel Hill, North Carolina job with University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 863298 The School of Medicine of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill seeks an accomplished and visionary leader..

UNC-CH is searching for a new Chair of Psychiatry.

Please share.

www.nejmcareercenter.org/job/863298/c...

I was going to say the same thing!

Pavlovian conditioning with the internal stimulus effects of intravenous nicotine heightens later nicotine taking with variation by dose and sex - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Pavlovian conditioning with the internal stimulus effects of intravenous nicotine heightens later nicotine taking with variation by dose and sex

Nicotine is experienced with many reward — social interaction, work breaks, alcohol, sweet vape flavors, etc.

Do these nicotine-reward pairings make nicotine more likely to be taken?

Check out my team’s work addressing this question. Spoiler alert-yes it does!

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

So a former postdoc from our department had just started as a PO at NIH and was terminated in the wave of terminations last week. He is in the research triangle and a phenomenal scientist with expertise in stress and glia. If anyone in the RTI is hiring asap please let me know! #neuroskyence

an elderly woman is sitting in a chair holding a cup and saucer ALT: an elderly woman is sitting in a chair holding a cup and saucer

Another week that felt like a year. At this rate I’m going to be 100 by March. 🙄

Exciting work from our center (Christian Hendershot has since moved to USC)

Very cool step towards understanding how xylazine contributes to the experience of fentanyl!

We’ve been hearing for years that xylazine changes the feel, so it’s exciting to see this bearing out.

Awesome thread about our recent preprint. So happy to be doing this important work with the amazing @nanopharmnc.bsky.social! Congrats to Brooke Bender, Joe Carew and @madiganbedard.bsky.social🎉. This is a huge team effort.

After this week of weeks had to start the weekend with some nature time. ☀️

This week has felt like a year. Goose says happy Friday.

My lab is actively recruiting PhD Applicants interested in Behavioral Neuroscience. Applicants will apply to our brand new doctoral program in Applied Psychology at North Carolina A&T State Univeristh.

MORE INFO: email me!!

APPLY HERE

www.ncat.edu/chhs/departm....

I am hiring for a postdoctoral fellow at UNC Chapel Hill in Child and Adolescent Anxiety and Mood Disorders Program (CHAAMP). The successful candidate will work on my NIH funded program of research on suicide risk among preteens. Please share. Deadline 1/31! unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/290...

😞 so sorry to hear

Amazing!! Congrats!!!🎉

Retrieval of an ethanol-conditioned taste aversion promotes GABAergic plasticity in the anterior insular cortex - PubMed Blunted sensitivity to ethanol's aversive effects can increase motivation to consume ethanol; yet, the neurobiological circuits responsible for encoding these aversive properties are not fully underst...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39779373/

woot @lisataxier.bsky.social first Kash Lab first author paper is out. Congrats to her and the team!

You would love him Laura!

I bet he would have loved hanging out with your Goose!

Goose is loving the warm weather and the trails (me too)! He’s getting so big. 😍

It’s lab holiday sweater time! Happy holidays from the Besheer Lab!

Sharing this again because I've heard the term "alcoholic" more at #acnp2024 than probably in the totality of all other substance use conferences I've attended throughout my career. Not trying to call anyone out, just need ppl to reflect on language use since this does real harm to people with SUDs

Love seeing this!!

Someone has already knocked the tree down and shattered lots of ornaments. 🙄

Love it. Welcome!

SYNAPSE: An Emerging “STEM-Creek” at MUSC Re-envisioning the path to STEM through MUSC neuroscience outreach.

Wonderful article written by @skylarhodgins.bsky.social about “STEM-creeks” at MUSC - I’m happy to be part of this team support #STEM outreach efforts

@meghanflanigan.bsky.social

gradstudies.musc.edu/about/blog/2...

Yikes! Happy he’s back home.