Dan Brierley

Absolutely!

A fantastic first day of the 47th conference of the Societe de Neuroendocrinologie in beautiful Lausanne, Switzerland! Great science and wonderful interactions! Thank you @sebastienbouret.bsky.social Sophie Crozier and rest of the organizers, it’s a true pleasure to be here @jne-editor.bsky.social

A reminder that the PhD program for EMBL is open for winter recruitment round. If you want to understand life at a molecular level and have a quantitative science (you don't have to have done biology - we love our mathematicians/physcists/chemists!) apply www.embl.org/about/info/e...

Framework for the pharmacological treatment of obesity and its complications from the European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO) - Nature Medicine Obesity and associated complications can be managed by obesity medications, prompting the revision of criteria for the diagnosis and staging of this disease.

A framework from @easoobesity.bsky.social to guide pharmacological treatment of 'fat mass diseases' versus 'sick fat diseases' 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Book cover, in the Special Centenary Edition with a forward by Alison Li.

Thread of things I'm learning as I read The Discovery of Insulin by Michael Bliss

We’re hiring!
My new Gut–Brain Axis Lab at Northwestern is looking for a Research Technologist 2 to help build the lab and explore how the nervous system shapes gut health and disease.
🔬 Apply here: myhr.northwestern.edu/psp/hrnu/EMP...

We fed people a milkshake with 130g of fat to see what it did to their brains – here’s what we learned We fed people milkshakes containing 130g of fat to see what it did to their brains.

In case you missed this article, it will definitely put you off drinking these! And it links to the authors' full paper in Journal of Nutritional Physiology, one of the new journals at @physoc.bsky.social

theconversation.com/we-fed-peopl...

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The gut-brain connection Glia cells mediate cytokine signaling between the gut and the brain, linking sleep to inflammation in the gut.

The gut-brain connection

Glia cells mediate cytokine signalling between the gut and the brain, linking sleep to inflammation in the gut.

What’s the Matter With America’s Food? - The Ringer If you really want to understand why Americans are so unhealthy, you have to see that the problem is not just our willpower, and it’s not just our food itself. It’s our food policies.

Thanks to @dkthomp.bsky.social for inviting @juliabelluz.bsky.social and I on the Plain English podcast to discuss our food system, nutrition science & our new book FOOD INTELLIGENCE.
www.theringer.com/podcasts/pla...

All the best with your next adventure Anna, CCMN won't be the same without you!

A salute to innovation: exenatide in diabetes and obesity drug development at Amylin Pharmaceuticals - Nature Metabolism The glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonist (GLP-1RA) class of medicines has emerged as transformative for the treatment of diabetes, obesity and other diseases. On the twentieth anniversary of the approval of exenatide (Byetta), three former employees of Amylin Pharmaceuticals acknowledge the contributions of some of the individuals and the innovation responsible for delivering the first approved GLP-1RA — the forerunner to the modern blockbuster drugs.

From the lizard venom and John Eng, in licensing to clinical development and approval April 28 2005. The remarkable story of Amylin Pharma and exenatide www.nature.com/articles/s42...

I've been running same marathon supremes for daily commute across London for 5yrs. Pick chunks of glass out weekly, one puncture ever... Faster / more comfort than marathons. If you can still find them def recommend, but now replaced with marathon efficiency - less slick but well rated apparently

#neuroskyence

It’s OK to use paracetamol in pregnancy. Here’s what the science says about the link with autism It’s safe for pregnant women to take paracetamol at any stage of pregnancy. Here’s what the research says about the risk of autism.

There is no clear evidence that paracetamol has any harmful effects on an unborn baby.

Even after recovery, relapse is heartbreakingly common in anorexia nervosa. Could the answer lie in the gut’s hidden signals? 🧵

Great scheme!

Great initiative! Wish I could have made it there today

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Fantastic resource!

🚨 New preprint from an ongoing collaboration with the Pang lab. Project led by rising stars @rohansavani.bsky.social and @lewang1.bsky.social showing how individual GLP-1R neurons in the paraventricular hypothalamus track ingestion across energy states.

Preprint: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

(1/10) We’re excited to share our new preprint (doi.org/10.1101/2025...), which uncovers the spatiomolecular landscape of the human nucleus accumbens (NAc), by integrating snRNA-seq with Visium spatial transcriptomics across 10 control donors. 🧠 #NAcLIBD #snRNAseq #10xVisium

Oh to be a little Tardigrade scratching its back on a bubble. 🫧🐻🧪

CBIAS napari workshop 2025

Want to enhance your image analysis skills with napari?

We’re running a two-day training event on how to use napari to effectively analyse your bioimaging data.

🕒 Applications close on 15 September.

Learn more and apply 👇

www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cbi...

PhD:GW4 BioMed2 MRC DTP Studentship | University of Exeter   The GW4 BioMed2 MRC DTP is offering up to 17 funded studentships across a range of biomedical disciplines, with a start date of October 2026.

Funded PhD studentship at Exeter University!

Unravelling Moral Injury in Eating Disorders in Young Adults.
MRC GW4 BioMed DTP PhD studentship for 2026/27 Entry

www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Great review of last week's British Society of Neuroendocrinology conference - honoured to be able to make a small contribution to such a vibrant and ECR-focussed society.

🧠📈 @bsneuroendo.bsky.social

Simplifying access to MRC applicant-led funding We’re introducing a new flexible research grant and removing closing dates from our board funding opportunities.

ICYMI: Simplifying access to MRC applicant-led funding #MRC #AcademicSky

BIIG seminars are back! 🎉

12-1pm on 12th September:
- Kaixiang Shuai (LMCB, UCL): Creating the first Drosophila imaginal wing disc atlas
- Aikta Sharma (UCL Mechanical Engineering): Predicting Osteoarthritis in the Tibial Epiphysis with Synchrotron X-ray CT and Digital Volume Correlation

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻-𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗽𝗵𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆:
𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹, 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗹𝗲𝘅, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
Excellent review paper about reactive and anticipatory processes.
#neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...