Guro Løseth

Major news!
Exhaustive metaanalysis (N=2706) finding that endogenous opioids play a MINOR role in human pain regulation:
Consistent with 0.3 on 11-point VAS

By @isabellmeier.bsky.social @martintrostheim.bsky.social @marieeikemo.bsky.social @loseth.bsky.social et al

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Brain Surfaces of 70 primate species

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To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised!

🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...

PhD Position: Interdisciplinary Study of Endocannabinoid Stress Buffering in Humans (282518) | University of Oslo Job title: PhD Position: Interdisciplinary Study of Endocannabinoid Stress Buffering in Humans (282518), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, July 9, 2025

My brilliant collaborator @marieeikemo.bsky.social is hiring!

Do your PhD in an excellent interdisciplinary group & be my colleague in lovely Oslo

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Science’s reform movement should have seen Trump’s call for ‘gold standard science’ coming, critics say Efforts to improve the rigor of research may have unwittingly handed the administration a way to attack science

"Bak-Coleman ‬and others say the reformers should have seen that their claims and concerns could be weaponized by antiscience movements, and done more to prevent that." I often write about sci reform & I'm genuinely curious, how do you "prevent that"?
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Knowing the world together is the foundation of science. It's why we celebrate universities as places where diverse perspectives can meet and make new knowledge together. It's what we must fight fiercely to defend now.

"The sleeping giant is one name for the public; when it wakes up, when we wake up, we are no longer only the public: we are civil society, the superpower whose nonviolent means are sometimes, for a shining moment, more powerful than violence, more powerful than regimes and armies."

Yesterday we were having a lab conversation about whether we’ll still be going to meetings in the US. This might just settle it.

Also, I think we should exit the platforms that are obvious monitoring windows, even if they claim end-to-end encryption. Why should we ever trust them?

Join us in Japan for the experience of a lifetime 🤩

NB It’s not even pricey - Tsukuba hotels are very reasonable & the conference fee is a bargain next to all comparable meetings💰💰💰

On Thursday, LABlab will host Johan Vlaeyen to learn about N-of-1 designs
Reply below if you'd like to join via zoom to learn all about applying rigorous, randomized experimental designs to understand INDIVIDUAL responses 🤩

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Immunological correlates of suicidality among adolescents with mood and anxiety disorders: http://osf.io/a68pd/

My first last-author paper was published in Scientific Reports yesterday! 🔥

A study that Magdalena Banwinkler and I developed over the course of her master thesis and then did together with Claus Lamm and Markus Rütgen from the @scanunit.bsky.social 😍

Read/download the PDF here: rdcu.be/dpwCd

I'm pretty convinced that pregnancy/motherhood destroyed my brain. My student Sabine is investigating this, but N=1 no good apparently🤷‍♀️. Looking for 18-45yo women either a) never pregnant b) pregnant now/within past 3 years. info: forms.gle/2Lpgn6upPRxJ...

New preprint from @loseth.bsky.social, Martin Trøstheim & myself

We asked how important endogenous opioids are for feeling connected to others

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Because opioids are so addictive, their use is restricted to pain relief - but their effects are notoriously variable & numerous