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Dr. Ana Pocivavsek ~ associate professor @ University of South Carolina School of Medicine ~ interested in 😴sleep + 🧠 mental health + 💭cognition + 👶🤰neurodevelopment & aging + 👩‍🍼maternal health www.pocivavsek-lab.com
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So excited for the INAUGURAL #GRCPsychedelics !! Can't wait to see everyone and hear some great science 🧠🧠

GenAI and the psychology of work Opinion by Erik Hermann, Stefano Puntoni, & Carey Morewedge tinyurl.com/uzj7pnup

📣 #PNIRS2025 Full Program is now available! 🔗 lnkd.in/eXckMeSY 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

Come join us at @westernuresearch.bsky.social as a Canada Excellence Research Chair! DM me with questions/interest about theme 2! Be a part of a strong and well-equipped (e.g., imaging, behaviour) neuroscience community! uwo.ca/research/cer... @westernuwin.bsky.social @westernubrainscan.bsky.social

🌟🧠 University of South Carolina School of Medicine seeks open rank tenure/tenure-track faculty ppn.med.sc.edu 🌟🧠 Are you conducting research in neuroscience across the lifespan using clinical, neuropsychological, genetic, and/or brain imaging approaches? APPLY HERE: uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/178...

Excited to announce an official scientific statement from the @americanheart.bsky.social! "Multidimensional Sleep Health: Definitions and Implications for Cardiometabolic Health" Special thanks to @m-pst-ongephd.bsky.social www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...

If you’re a scientist whose funding has recently been cut or impacted, I would love to interview you and amplify your work! Hoping to release our first two podcast episodes next week. Please share widely!

📣 ✨New Paper Alert✨ 📣 Parental kynurenine 3-monooxygenase genotype in mice directs sex-specific behavioral outcomes in offspring published in @ossdcomm.bsky.social Biology of #SexDifferences 🐀😴 🧠 #sleep #mitochondria #cognition #breastmilk bsd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

ACNP Travel Award Applications open TODAY for the ACNP 64th Annual Meeting: January 12-15, 2026, Nassau, Bahamas. Deadline to Submit is May 8, 2025, at 5:00 pm Central. acnp.org/annual-meet... #ACNP2026 #travelawards

Incredible experience participating in this Resilience workshop @nationalacademies.org. Inspired and committed to this important research

ACNP Travel Award Submissions open on Thursday, March 31, 2025. For more information, visit https://t.co/zSCC9OJZ51 #ACNP2026 #travelawards

The importance of considering time of day for metabolic experiments www.nature.com/articles/s42...

A great podcast accompanying the Tradeoffs story I posted yesterday...Worth the 20ish minutes but be prepared to be enraged... tradeoffs.org/2025/03/13/c...

My lab is hiring 2 postdocs on an NIH-funded grant characterizing molecular & cellular changes in the human brain across menopausal transition. Other neuroepigenomics projects are also available. We plan to hire a wet lab scientist and a bioinformatician. Please RT! kundakoviclab.com More info 👇

Happy International Women’s Day

UNC-CH is searching for a new Chair of Psychiatry. Please share. www.nejmcareercenter.org/job/863298/c...

Well, that was quick! From Charles River: Effective March 4, 2025, the US has imposed a 25% tariff on Canadian products entering the US. This tariff applies to shipments of animals from our colonies in Canada including Hartley Guinea Pigs, NZW Rabbits, and B6ALBINO, C57BL/6-E, and CD1-E mice.

Big thanks to Albert Stumm for digging into @m-pst-ongephd.bsky.social & my new sleep-supporting cookbook. Check out his piece for the AP (and one of our favorite recipes!) here: apnews.com/article/food...

Today, we celebrated the groundbreaking for our new School of Medicine in the historic BullStreet District in downtown Columbia, a vision more than a decade in the making. Learn more about the School of Medicine Columbia and our Health Sciences Campus. 🩺 go.sc.edu/SOMCGroundbreaking

This is what NIH-funded research leads to. Cures for disease.

Diversity is our greatest asset, even if the government disagrees… They not like us! POC in STEM are here to stay. They tried to rig the game but you can’t fake influence! Mustard on the [Be][At] bro. Happy Black History Month!

Must watch speech by neuroscientist Kailyn Price at a HHS rally protesting funding cuts to science. "Cutting indirect costs is like telling a football team to work with only the players. No lights for the field, no physical therapists for the players, no water for the showers."

This excellent Nature paper from 2015 discussed multiple ways that sex is not binary, and why the idea of two sexes is simplistic. Required reading right now - please share! www.nature.com/articles/518... 🧪👨‍🔬🧬🖥️

Graduate student admissions paused and cut back as universities react to Trump orders on research www.statnews.com/2025/02/19/t... via @statnews.com @anguschen.bsky.social @usha.bsky.social @mmolteni.bsky.social

Pretty sad. Just got the email that CZI is canceling the second round of Diversity Leadership Awards. Private industry will definitely not fill the hole that NIH and NSF are leaving. 😢💔

Graduate student admissions paused at Vanderbilt 😟 vanderbilthustler.com/2025/02/15/g...

🚨Amidst all the uncertainty at NIH Welcome Leap just launched an important new $50M program in Women’s Health👩🏻‍🔬🧠 CARE focuses on the link between Alzheimer’s and perimenopausal hormonal changes wellcomeleap.org/care/ Note: full indirects! Please share widely to support women’s health 🙏🏼

My brain, oh my brain, tell me what drugs I'm on! Classification of psychedelics and psychoactive drugs based on brain-wide imaging of cellular c-Fos expression www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“The impact of the collective executive orders and directives appears devastating.” scim.ag/40ureTO

I’m excited to share my latest paper @cp-cellmetabolism.bsky.social. HakanK and I recorded from AgRP neurons continuously for 1 month and found some exciting things during ad lib feeding, fasting and on circadian timescales www.cell.com/cell-metabol....

Parental kynurenine 3-monooxygenase genotype in mice directs sex-specific behavioral outcomes in offspring https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.18.629210v1

Awesome post by @ahmarilab.bsky.social documenting #ACNP2024 #FashionsOfACNP!

Early registration ends soon!guess who’s giving the closing plenary?

Excited to be co-chairing a panel with @melissaherman.bsky.social titled: 1 + 1 = 3: Understanding the Neurobiology of Polysubstance Use featuring Valeria Lallai, Anna Lee, Brandon Henderson, Linda Cottler Tuesday at 9AM in Grand Sonoran F! Polysubstance Use is the rule and not exception! #ACNP2024

Hi #ACNP2024! This is my first (‼️) meeting and I am very excited to share brand new work from our lab by our fabulously talented PhD student, Hunter Franks, who ushered our lab in our ✨️reward seeking✨️ era! Grateful for generous support from a 2024 ACNP Travel Award 🙌

☀️Good morning #ACNP2024! I’m Ana Pocivavsek from University of South Carolina! Presenting on Tues night: #sleep, #orexin, and #tryptophan metabolism in the #aging 🐀 brain 🧠. I’ve been attending for ~10 years! Happy to answer questions about URM Near-Peer Mentorship Program!

🌟Neuroscience Faculty Search 🌟USC-SOM seeks open rank tenure/tenure-track faculty! 🌟Research should align with Carolina Autism and Neurodevelopment Center using clinical, neuropsychological, genetic, and brain imaging approaches or translational preclinical models uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/178...

BLUESKY MEGA-THREAD Altmetric is thrilled and also LITERALLY RELIEVED to officially announce: We are now tracking research attention as it happens on Bluesky! We have been picking up posts on the site since late Oct. Our team is on Bluesky all day answering questions. Let's get into it!

By popular demand, here is your #ACNP2024 Travel Awardee Starter pack! A photo recap is included below - if you see anyone we've missed, please let us know! (we're still getting our bearings over here, so excuse any accidental oversights!) go.bsky.app/N4AcAWv