New call for papers for Special Issue on polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), to share emerging ideas on the role of neuroendocrine dysfunction in PCOS.
We invite submissions on melanocortin biology and clinical applications.
Deadline 31.7.26
More: onlinelibrary.wiley....
This International Women's Day we reflect on the research, drive and investment still needed to improve women's health care. With thanks to @liisagalea.bsky.social and Kendra Loedige for their insights. #IWD2026 More: brainscan.uwo.ca/_news/2026/s...
1% grant scores, not getting funded.
My lab always outdoes itself for my bday celebrations. Look at the balloons!! ❤️ they are THE best!
World on fire, but more peeps interested in #neuroscience 🧪🧠 so that’s nice (gift article) share.inquirer.com/3GeHKx @pennmindcore.bsky.social @laurabeen.bsky.social
Fantastic talks at the Serbian Neuroscience Society meeting. @ljiljanamarina.bsky.social we need to recognise that the needs of perimenopause versus post menopause people in different ways … it’s not hard to see why based on her beautiful graph on hormones.
Honoured to be in Belgrade 🇷🇸 to talk about my favourite topic women’s 🧠 health!! Thanks to @kundakoviclab.bsky.social Ana Milosevic! Ljiljana Marina Selma Kanazir Ivana Bjelobaba
Rae Silver: talking about 3 communication systems in the brain the connectomr, angiome, perivascular. Also reminding us that discovery of portal systems were first indication that hormones & brain were linked #SNS2026
Atlantic Puffin at Hornøya, Norway
New opening for a 3-year PhD project in 'Seabird Ecology in a Changing Arctic' at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (Tromsø) and the Arctic University of Norway (UiT). Apply before 25 Mar 2026. #seabirdscience @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social nina.attract.reachmee.com/jobs/84-phd-...
Day 3: #SNS2026. Sarah Winokur - maternal infection in the postpartum. What happens to maternal beh after LPS infection. As you might expect greater time spent away from nest. OXT neurons are activated with LPS with higher peaks after LPS & nursing. With diff with parity
Comasco: (forgot to take a picture). Nicotine blocks estrogen synthesis through reductions in aromatase in human females. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36905856/
Comasco: the interplay between estrogens and nicotine. Women get addicted faster and have more difficulty quitting. They also go through menopause earlier and have more primary disease (lung cancer) #SNS2026
Estradiol may have a protective role on negative affect across EF to ML phases as demonstrated by ERN- de Bruijn. #SNS2026
Up next: Steroid Hormones and Brain/Behaviour. Ellen de Bruijn talking about dense EEG across the menstrual cycle (almost no studies on this but look out for her work coming out soon on error-related negativity.) #SNS2026 ERN is trans diagnostic phenotype -does it show m cycle effects. Yes
#SNS2026 estradiol’s beneficial effects may be altered by cardiometabolic challenges. Ie estradiol is not always neuroprotective. Work out of Tulane!
Lacreuse: differences in primates in terms of menopause. “Longevity uncovers menopause”
Day 2 #SNS2026. Gervais: menopause & sleep is this the reason for memory complaints? older women experience greater adverse effects of disturbed sleep than men. see her review in FIN that outlines the (few) studies showing sleep consequences on cognition in females
First symposium of the meeting was on hormonal transitions in organoids, rodents to humans with large signature in females from chromatin, Xist ( of course), 5-HT transporter to structure. What more can we learn when we study females??!!
The problem posting when my brain is still over the Atlantic. Just left TO last night…& it’s jarring to go from plane to seminars. 😵💫🙃
Tena-Sempere: Metabolic and reproductive interplay occurs bidirectionally #SNS2026
I’m in Torino at Steroids and the Nervous System. One of my fav meetings. Up next is Manuel Tena-Sempere showing that obesity rates have accelerated globally. Obesity and health risks interrupt reproductive factors in males and females.
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have you ever seen 𝘊𝘩𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘺𝘥𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘴 doing a perfect breast stroke? here you go...
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This seems … problematic:
Call for papers - Human × AI Finance
Write a finance paper with AI. Every submission reviewed by AI agents (no humans). Top 4 presented at UCLA.
- papers can be on any finance topic
- AI can be used for coding, writing, lit review, modeling, etc.
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New fully funded PhD at University of Southampton, funded by Alzheimer’s Society DTC, investigating thalamo cortical connectivity and cognitive fluctuations in dementia with Lewy bodies using MRI and sensor technologies. Closing date: 9th April
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/phd-thal...
A blue Tulip (Sustentacular cell) behind some red (OMP) OSN cell bodies, and some green horizontal basal cells in the olfactory epithelium. Stylized for a science art presentation (easier to find than original).
Replacing 60 minutes of TV with something more active cut depression risk by 11% — and nearly 19% in middle-aged adults. And more is even better.
For 90- and 120-minute reallocations, this decreased the risk of depression by 26%.
www.healthday.com/health-news/...
For women, they often, uniquely, experience chest pain that seems like more of a discomfort or a tightness in the chest. They can sometimes experience left arm pain or jaw pain, severe fatigue, pain between the shoulder blades, or nausea and vomiting.
www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
