Obesity, low-grade inflammation, and inflammatory response to immune challenge modulate willingness to expend effort for reward: https://osf.io/xtkw7

Think you’ve got a strong stomach? 😏 What about your immune system?

We, researchers @ki.se @cnrs.fr @swanseauni.bsky.social, are running a real experiment at the Disgusting Food Museum in Malmö!

We are studying how your body reacts to “eww” moments — from stinky cheese to crunchy insects 🧀🐛 1/2

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

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 🤩😍🥰

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Here we go #PNIRS2025 !!! So excited !!!

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With @linashansson.bsky.social 🤩🥰🤓

📣 #PNIRS2025 Full Program is now available!

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Tag us or use #PNIRS2025 as you post about the annual meeting — We’d love to connect and repost! 🤩

Find us on Instagram (@PNIResearchSociety) & LinkedIn (@PNIRS) 😉

Please repost 🙏🏼

#PNIRS #Bordeaux #France #Psychoneuroimmunology #PNI

Can't wait for #PNIRS2025!! @pnirs.bsky.social
I hope ('m sure!) our symposium will lead to great discussion 🤓🧠🦠🤒

Huge thank you, @linashansson.bsky.social and @julielasselin.bsky.social, for inviting me to give a talk at the Social and Immune session. Loved your talks!

What a fantastic conference—where you discuss science with your friends, ski, and enjoy the magnificent snowy mountains!
#posdoclife

🚨REMINDER🚨

The deadline for member-sponsored symposium proposals is only 3 weeks away (December 4, 2024)‼️

Spread the words 🙂‍↕️🙏🏼

#PNIRS2025 #PsychSciSky
#Psychoneuroimmunology

Human head with water in the background that indicates a contemplative wave. Inside the head are puzzle pieces that are being put together. Text says "The Stress Puzzle"

We (the NIA/UCSF Stress Measurement Network) started a podcast!

🧩 The Stress Puzzle aims to promote high quality stress research & stress science literacy through nuanced conversations that pass on the current & historical context of stress research (esp to trainees & early-career researchers).

PNIRS has not failed!! As always, didn't stop a minute to learn, network, and HAVE FUN at #PNIRS2024. And the dancing tradition has been respected 😎💃✨🎶

@pnirs.bsky.social @estherina.bsky.social @linashansson.bsky.social

Wonderful talk by @estherina.bsky.social at Oral Session 2, showing that social isolation impacts cancer-related mortality among other adverse health outcomes in socially isolated rats 🔥

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Great talk by @linashansson.bsky.social at Oral Session 2, showing that sick people may be detectable by others based on walking patterns and facial cues.

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Great talk yesterday by Julie Lasselin @julielasselin.bsky.social, about using experimental endotoxemia to test the effect of healthcare provider's behavior on sickness outcomes. Very creative experimental design!

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PNIRS will have the first ever Poster Blitz Session at #PNIRS2024! 🔖 Each of the 12 speakers will present their latest research in just 2 mins 🥵⏱️

📅 Tue, June 25 | 3:30-4:30 PM|
👇🏼See below for talk titles and speakers

Please bookmark, highlight the speakers, repost, & spread the word!

I'm looking forward to hearing your presentation @linashansson.bsky.social and @julielasselin.bsky.social 🤩 and super excited to present mine 🌟☺️#PNIRS2024

Congrats Dr @linashansson.bsky.social !!! And with excellence (which is absolutely deserved)!!

You were amazing from start to finish (not surprised 😉)

Looking forward to seeing what will happen in your bright future in PNI @pnirs.bsky.social

#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #interoception

Also grateful to my amazing co-supervisors, Prof. Mats Lekander, Prof. Mats Olsson, and Dr. Arnaud Tognetti. I could not have wished for a better team ❤️

On Friday, I successfully defended my thesis 🥳 I loved discussing my work with my brilliant opponent, Dr. Keely Muscatell. It was a perfect day.

So grateful to my main supervisor, Dr. Julie Lasselin @julielasselin.bsky.social, for being there for my every single day during these 4 years.

📢 📢📢

Last day to submit an abstract and get the early bird rates!!!!

⏳Don't miss out!

See you in six weeks!
#PNIRS2024 🥂💃

Thanks to my awesome main supervisor @julielasselin.bsky.social for all the support ❤️. I am also grateful to all the other co-authors for their amazing work on this: A Tognetti, P Sigurjónsson, E Brück, K Wåhlén, K Jensen, MJ Olsson, R Toll John, DB Wilhelms, M Lekander.

Very excited to share our new paper on perception of caregivers during experimental endotoxemia.
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Now published in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity:
doi.org/10.1016/j.bb...

Dr. Jennifer Felger’s George Solomon Lecture to be given at the PNIRS 2024 annual meeting.

CONGRATULATIONS to Dr. Jennifer Felger, the winner of this year's George Solomon Award!!! 🎊 🎉

We are looking forward to Dr. Felger's George Solomon Award Lecture at #PNIRS2024! 🧠👏🏻

Just submitted my abstract and registered for the conference!! 🙌🏼

Today - last call!! 👇
We're registered and two abstracts are in (mine and @linashansson.bsky.social's!)

Come discuss with us about how caregiving affects sickness outcomes, and how sickness affects detection of sick others!

@pnirs.bsky.social

Figure 1: schematic showing stimulus design, psychophysics, and assignment of respiratory phase.

figure 2: figure showing overview of heirarchical drift diffusion modelling and key parameter effects.

Research shows breathing can change our exteroceptive & affective perception, but how? Pleased to share our latest study, led by my PhD student Malthe Brændholt w/ Daniel Kluger, where we investigated the cognitive mechanisms using computational modeling! 🧠📈 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📢Our cool COVID-19 study is out!🎉
An app-based longitudinal study on how quality, and not quantity, of social relationships positively affects wellbeing and health!📱
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#OpenAccess

Excited to share a new paper led by the ineffable Dr. Tatum Jolink further illustrating how even acute inflammation serves to organize social cognition and behavior: authors.elsevier.com/a/1ioaq15hUd...

I'm super excited to share my freshly published article in @BBI_Health 🎉, where I elaborate on how important it is to help others, live in a supportive society and how it can improve our health through PNI mechanisms!

#OpenAccess @pnirs.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1016/j.bb...

Schedule of Dr. Sominsky’s Ader Award Lecture at PNIRS 2024 annual meeting (June 25, 4:30-5pm)

🥁 The Robert Ader New Investigator Award #PNIRS2024 goes to… 🥁🥁🥁

Dr. Luba Sominsky 🏆

Congratulations!!! 🌟🎉 Looking forward to your Award Lecture!