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estherina.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher @ MRC-CBU, University of Cambridge. Neuroscience, Social - psychoneuroimmunology Researcher, lecturer, nurse, social activist, nature lover, addicted to music & books. Most importantly proud dog mom 🐕.
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Brain and Neuroscience Advances is going from strength to strength! Editor-in-Chief Dr Kate Baker highlights her top papers from the past year in her Editorial, published today. Submit your article this year and share your research in your society journal journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

SAVE THE DATE: The @mrccbu Science Night event is back! ‘Inside the Mind: Exploring the Human Brain’ on Wednesday 19 March from 6pm. Full schedule to follow. www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/insid... @cambridgefestival.bsky.social

Science in the 'Burgh I am planning to be there and looking forward to seeing you there too (if you are local and available)

Scientific data and independence are at risk: We need to work with community-driven services and university libraries to create new multi-country organizations that are resilient to political interference. By @neuralreckoning.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/policy/scien...

The most important aims of psychotherapy: to love, to work, and to find meaning www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Cambridge University is currently recruiting young people aged 15-18 who are experiencing depression, low mood or anxiety with low mood, and have previously had help but are still struggling, to participate in a new 8-week skills-based mindfulness study. More information below

I'll be there. 🧑‍🔬 Don't miss out! ✨ 🧪🧠

Nice light . A beautiful image from @jeromewildastro for this morning's #FoxOfTheDay

Neuroscientists - your society has a call to action for you and a page for tracking action alerts. It's built to take your location & give you specific support on what to say and who to say it to. www.sfn.org/Advocacy/Adv...

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Well, would you look at that - travelling waves in cortex have the ingredients necessary to do credit assignment via the apical dendrites of L5 neurons! 😎 #neuroscience 🧪

Your last chance to register... and also to help me advertise :) Please repost 🙏

📣 Call for abstracts and registration for #PNIRS2025 meeting are coming *soon*! In the meantime… 💡consider becoming a PNIRS member and check out the benefits of PNIRS membership👇🏼 PNIRS.org/membership 💡keep in mind abstracts will be due April 1, 2025 💡spread the word 🔈🔉🔊

Job Vacancy at the @mrccbu.bsky.social! Postgraduate Coordinator (Fixed Term). Closing date 17 February 2025. See link for full details and how to apply: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50081/

Being less food-motivated #science

I'm so happy to see this focus on understudied social relationships as the next special issue of Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine. Structured abstracts are due April 1!

📢 We are delighted to launch the 8th Cambridge Neuroscience Symposium – Interventions & Recovery - an international meeting, which will take place on September 10-11th 2025 at the West Road Concert Hall at the University of Cambridge. neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/camneuro-eve...

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

One of the many perks of being a researcher: winter conferences where you dive into fascinating studies and hit the slopes during breaks. #EWCBR25 @linashansson.bsky.social #Scienceisfun 🧑‍🔬🧪🧠

An incredible article about #loneliness, #isolation and the value of community! #theatlantic It corroborates my findings, on social isolation and its detrimental impact on #health, and wellbeing. The anti-social century. A must read! www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

It's Day 2 of Fear and Anxiety week! (Day 1, ⤵️) Today we'll here from @samcooper.bsky.social, a clinical psychologist and researcher who specializes in fear and anxiety. Dr. Cooper focuses on one of the crucial questions of our era: How do we conceptualize and diagnose anxiety-related conditions?

Two more days! Don't miss out! I'll be there 😊

Like so many others, I've been deeply reliant on Watch Duty the last few days, a nonprofit fire wildfire tracking service. I made a donation to their work, because I have no doubt that it has literally saved lives this week. app.watchduty.org

We are hiring! We're looking for a great project manager to help with a large-scale Wellcome funded study. If you know of anyone that this might appeal to, please share. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49880/

💥💥I am glad to share with you our new MSc in Psychology and Neuroscience of Mind-Body Interface! Join me and our team to unravel how the #mind and #body interact in powerful ways that affect our health 💥💥 Applications for the 2025-2026 academic year are now OPEN!! www.kcl.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Don't miss out on this amazing opportunity! ✨

The energy savings of fish that swim together. https://elifesciences.org/articles/96129?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic

🫂 While not negating the hope & optimism which are essential, public science is HARD. We must do it together. Protecting the humanity of scientists is key 🫂 I have been a visible scientist leader in tech on highly charged social topics for a while now; thinking deeply about how to continue in 2025

⚠️REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN ⚠️ Interested in the neurobiology of social behaviors? this is your meeting. Join us in the beautiful #Coimbra, next June 9th-12th, 2025. Plenty of very cool science and moments for discussion. Limited spaces, register soon and save your spot! esc-coimbra2025.cnc.uc.pt

We’re recruiting participants for the Em-Body study! Check your eligibility and sign up here: shorturl.at/AEelF

New year, a new chapter 🎇. I am super excited to begin my postdoctoral fellowship at the @mrccbu.bsky.social with @duncanastle.bsky.social 's incredible 4D group, where I'll continue studying aspects of how the social environment affects brain networks and health 🧠 🧑‍🔬🧪 #posdoc #Cambridge_Uni

So many new #BluSci users 💙✨❄️, welcome! For science-minded folks, there are some very cool tricks 🚀… use 🧪 to post on the #Science feed use 🧠 for a #Neuroskyence feed If you use any of these emojis👩‍🔬|👩🏻‍🔬|👩🏼‍🔬|👩🏽‍🔬|👩🏾‍🔬|👩🏿‍🔬 your post will on a #WomenInSTEM feed Bonuses: 🕊️ 🌱 📌 Go get it 🚀🧪🧠👩‍🔬💙

For the #SciAdvent calendar 🧪🎄, I made a long list of the most stunning facts I know about #science, a lot more than 24! I'll group the others in "1-week themed post series" to share during 2025! I hope you'll enjoy! Have a wonderful end of 2024 and a great start of 2025! 🎊🎆

📢 PNI Trainees 👋🏼 — the deadline to apply for the PNIRS spring trainee event is only SEVEN days away. See the reposted info. Sign up today 🙌🏼 Everyone — spread the word 📡 #PsychSciSky #Psychoneuroimmunology #PNI #PNIRS2025

DAY 23: Advent of Comp Neuro 🎄🤖🧠🧪 Connectivity between brain areas depends on distance. Graphs are fascinating! 🕸 “A Predictive Network Model of Cerebral Cortical Connectivity Based on a Distance Rule” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📣 First three years of my PhD have culminated in this work now published at PLoS Computational Biology! 🥳 We take a deep dive into all the many ways we can slice n dice fMRI dynamics to quantify biologically relevant properties 🧠🧮 doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Is it sinking in?

Could two followers please copy and re-post this tweet to show that someone is always there? National Suicide Prevention Hotline Call: 0800 689 5652 (UK) 1-800-273-8255 (USA) 1.833.456.4566 (Canada) 💙🫂

Merry Christmas from your cells and MBRs!

💯 "Yet, as a society we are becoming less tolerant of ambiguity. The shades of grey have all gone, there is only black or white. And a CNS inflammatory disorder is about as far from ambiguous as you can get."