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Behavioural pharmacologist Doctoral researcher + University instructor @ University of Helsinki Mice • Psychedelics • Addiction • Behaviour Cats • Kungfu • Cooking • Craft beer • Mead https://www.laurielsila.fi
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A brain opioid circuit that explains why there is always room for sweets This opioid circuit is particularly active when full and, thus, drives overconsumption It would be interesting to know how this circuit adapts to chronic sugar consumption www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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ONLY 2 days before our first UNDERSTANDING BEHAVIOUR virtual workshop, on Modelling depression-like behaviors in rodents! It's still time to register ! 🧪 #neuroscience #neuroskyence #animalbehavior 🧠📈🐭🐾

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

I will move my #mead diary from Mastodon here. And today is a day for a new batch! It'll be my first attempt on a cyber, made with fresh-pressed apple juicy from my in-laws, Finnish wildflower honey, demerara sugar, Lalvin 71b yeast, raisins, and dates. Based on Ken Schramm's recipe.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

The call for papers is now open for Psykedeelit 2025 – The 3rd Finnish Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelics, held on October 2-4, 2025, in Turku, Finland! Submissions on all aspects of psychedelic research from any field of science are welcome. 1/

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

The call for applications to participate in our 4th Training School is open! See you in #Bratislava this June. cost-teatime.org/training/sec... #animalresearch #behavior #training @costprogramme.bsky.social

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

📢Applications are open for the 2nd Beginners Training School on Home-Cage Technologies 💻🐭 @cost-teatime.bsky.social

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📣 Open call to neuroscience, ethology & behavioral societies! 📣 Add www.TheBehaviourForum.org to newsletters, PhD schools, and resource lists. Let’s boost collaboration! Share widely with your networks & organizations. 🌐 🧪🧠📈🐭🐾 #Neuroscience #BehavioralScience #OpenScience #AnimalBehaviour #Ethology

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

🏙️EBBS is calling for host city proposals for the 2027 Meeting! 🗓️Submit your bid by March 31st and shape this key scientific event. 👉Info: lnkd.in/gid5bDQw

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Helpful guide to Bksy for newbies, courtesy of @jacoates.bsky.social zenodo.org/records/1449...

submitted 56 days ago • 5 comments

New article by myself and Joseph Holcomb Adams on Guruism and Cultic Social Dynamics in Psychedelic Organisatons. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... non-paywalled here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qyi2r...

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

In addition to being a nice reading tracker, the @thestorygraph.com app covertly tracks my experimental work. Can you guess when I ran the last conditioned place preference experiments?

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Happy new year everyone! I started putting together a starter pack with EBBS members @ebbsociety.bsky.social and related people. This is certainly incomplete and a work in progress. Let me know if you want to be added (or removed). go.bsky.app/V2VNvck

submitted 60 days ago • 3 comments

Almost as an early Christmas present, the third manuscripts from my doctoral work is publicly available on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social. LSD, 25CN-NBOH, Pavlovian approach (CPP), VTA dopamine neuron AMPA-NMDA ratios - what could be better?

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

Effects of serotonin agonists LSD and 25CN-NBOH on conditioned place preference and on synaptic plasticity of VTA dopamine neurons in mice https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.12.628157v1

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Almost as an early Christmas present, the third manuscripts from my doctoral work is publicly available on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social. LSD, 25CN-NBOH, Pavlovian approach (CPP), VTA dopamine neuron AMPA-NMDA ratios - what could be better?

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

Women in Neuroscience Now a list! add to feeds/follow/suggest 😄 bsky.app/profile/did:...

submitted 98 days ago • 29 comments

Save the date! The Third Finnish Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelics will be held in Turku, Finland on October 2-4 2025, with the special theme "Challenging Psychedelics". First announced key note speakers are Prof. Christine Hauskeller and Michiel van Elk. psyty.fi/psykedeelit2...

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

The strain on scientific publishing: we set out to characterise the remarkable growth of the scientific literature in the last few years, in spite of declining growth in total scientists. What is going on? direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... A 🧵 1/n #AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub

submitted 105 days ago • 48 comments

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Editor: The figure shows a mug not a cup. If that volume were placed on a cup, wouldn’t it occupy more than half the volume?

submitted 99 days ago • 4 comments

This is why representation matters. This is why programs that support women in STEM (or any male dominated space) is important. I wish more men had this perspective and respect for their female peers. And yes, it’s a real letter: www.today.com/today/amp/td... #WomenInSTEM #RepresentationMatters

submitted 101 days ago • 6 comments

🧠🐾 What area of animal behavior are you studying? We're curious to know more about our followers! Pick the category that best describes your field of study: 1️⃣ Ethology 🐾🧬 2️⃣ Behavioral Ecology 🌿🌍 3️⃣ Animal Welfare and Ethics 🩺🐾 4️⃣ Preclinical Behavioral Neuroscience 🧠🐁 📊 Show results

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

I don't know who made this #psychedelics paper one but I love it so much I framed a copy for my office

submitted 105 days ago • 2 comments

Less characters available than on Mastodon, but I'll make do: 1) Rodent behavioural pharmacologist interested in all things psyche(delic) 2) Writing a doctoral thesis on LSD, mice, and addiction-relevant behaviours 3) Currently 'Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers' anthology makes me happy

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

I would have gone to #IBNS2025 next summer regardless, but with a symposium programme like this, it is a no-brainer!

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