Siri Leknes
@sirileknes.bsky.social
Professor, LAB lab, University of Oslo 🇳🇴
Pleasure, pain, stress, reward. Opioids.
Affective Brains.
Currently on sabbatical @anatajadura’s lab in Madrid
Twin mum.
www.affectivebrains.com
Pleasure, pain, stress, reward. Opioids.
Affective Brains.
Currently on sabbatical @anatajadura’s lab in Madrid
Twin mum.
www.affectivebrains.com
Whoa!
What an exciting and unusual choice- excited to hear how it goes
👀 👀 👀
What an exciting and unusual choice- excited to hear how it goes
👀 👀 👀
Happy New Year! It is the Year of the Fire Horse.
I want to use this turn of the year to share that as of today, I have stepped down from my position as Associate Professor at @durhampsych.bsky.social and will now serve full time as director of my non-profit, @thesolitudelab.bsky.social,...
I want to use this turn of the year to share that as of today, I have stepped down from my position as Associate Professor at @durhampsych.bsky.social and will now serve full time as director of my non-profit, @thesolitudelab.bsky.social,...
February 17, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Whoa!
What an exciting and unusual choice- excited to hear how it goes
👀 👀 👀
What an exciting and unusual choice- excited to hear how it goes
👀 👀 👀
I definitely feel this.
Stopped going to SfN due to increased inaccessibility of rodent research (all tech terms now 🙄)
@s4sn.bsky.social on the other hand- still reaches across the divide, insisting on inclusion of different species perspectives in symposia & organisation 👏👌
Stopped going to SfN due to increased inaccessibility of rodent research (all tech terms now 🙄)
@s4sn.bsky.social on the other hand- still reaches across the divide, insisting on inclusion of different species perspectives in symposia & organisation 👏👌
The biggest problem holding neuroscience back right now isn’t data or tools, thanks in large part to the BRAIN Initiative.
It’s fragmentation across species. I wrote this to hopefully spark discussion around an issue that can only be solved as a community👇
www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...
It’s fragmentation across species. I wrote this to hopefully spark discussion around an issue that can only be solved as a community👇
www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...
Neuroscience has a species problem
If neuroscience is serious about building general principles of brain function, cross-species dialogue must become a core organizing principle.
www.thetransmitter.org
February 16, 2026 at 9:26 PM
I definitely feel this.
Stopped going to SfN due to increased inaccessibility of rodent research (all tech terms now 🙄)
@s4sn.bsky.social on the other hand- still reaches across the divide, insisting on inclusion of different species perspectives in symposia & organisation 👏👌
Stopped going to SfN due to increased inaccessibility of rodent research (all tech terms now 🙄)
@s4sn.bsky.social on the other hand- still reaches across the divide, insisting on inclusion of different species perspectives in symposia & organisation 👏👌
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🚨SOLUTIONS🚨
Desk reject more stuff with actionable feedback.
Don’t request second reviews
Build larger editorial boards of volunteers
Wait to submit your work until it’s ready; a.k.a don’t send in your half-baked trash hoping for feedback
6/7
Desk reject more stuff with actionable feedback.
Don’t request second reviews
Build larger editorial boards of volunteers
Wait to submit your work until it’s ready; a.k.a don’t send in your half-baked trash hoping for feedback
6/7
February 6, 2026 at 12:59 PM
🚨SOLUTIONS🚨
Desk reject more stuff with actionable feedback.
Don’t request second reviews
Build larger editorial boards of volunteers
Wait to submit your work until it’s ready; a.k.a don’t send in your half-baked trash hoping for feedback
6/7
Desk reject more stuff with actionable feedback.
Don’t request second reviews
Build larger editorial boards of volunteers
Wait to submit your work until it’s ready; a.k.a don’t send in your half-baked trash hoping for feedback
6/7
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I have way, way more success inviting reviewers when I personalize invites, stick to content-relevant reviewers, give junior or lesser-known scholars a chance to review, and send new invites regularly (weekly).
For well-known journals: usually need to invite 6-10 people. Otherwise, 20.
2/7
For well-known journals: usually need to invite 6-10 people. Otherwise, 20.
2/7
February 6, 2026 at 12:59 PM
I have way, way more success inviting reviewers when I personalize invites, stick to content-relevant reviewers, give junior or lesser-known scholars a chance to review, and send new invites regularly (weekly).
For well-known journals: usually need to invite 6-10 people. Otherwise, 20.
2/7
For well-known journals: usually need to invite 6-10 people. Otherwise, 20.
2/7
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Gave a talk on free will the other day and got what is an increasingly common question: isn't my mind really being controlled by my gut microbiome? 🤪
February 6, 2026 at 10:08 AM
Gave a talk on free will the other day and got what is an increasingly common question: isn't my mind really being controlled by my gut microbiome? 🤪
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Remember friends: Submit 1 paper/grant/abstract means review at least 3; no excuses. Part of the resistance to the tragedies of this era must be focused on keeping things moving, *especially* for the current and future success of our trainees.
After four months, the journal has not found a single reviewer for my PhD student's manuscript. The academic peer review system is broken.
I think we all should:
1. Review three papers for every one that we submit.
2. Promptly declined to review a paper when the request arrives.
#AcademicChatter
I think we all should:
1. Review three papers for every one that we submit.
2. Promptly declined to review a paper when the request arrives.
#AcademicChatter
February 6, 2026 at 11:22 AM
Remember friends: Submit 1 paper/grant/abstract means review at least 3; no excuses. Part of the resistance to the tragedies of this era must be focused on keeping things moving, *especially* for the current and future success of our trainees.
Last day of sabbatical in Madrid at @anatajadura.bsky.social’s lovely group
Feeling grateful & replenished!
Some take homes (literally 😜) 1/
Feeling grateful & replenished!
Some take homes (literally 😜) 1/
January 29, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Last day of sabbatical in Madrid at @anatajadura.bsky.social’s lovely group
Feeling grateful & replenished!
Some take homes (literally 😜) 1/
Feeling grateful & replenished!
Some take homes (literally 😜) 1/
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I have a strong belief that scientific instruments like questionnaires should not be have the same copyright protection as other text. Yes you can assert authorship, no you can't stop people using it.
I hate this: "The Editors have retracted this article... the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) instrument was used without proper permissions" link.springer.com/article/10.1... The MMSE is a series of 11 simple questions. A perfectly good paper is retracted because you can copyright 11 questions
Retraction Note: Cognitive function assessed by Mini-mental state examination and risk of all-cause mortality: a community-based prospective cohort study - BMC Geriatrics
BMC Geriatrics -
link.springer.com
January 28, 2026 at 1:53 PM
I have a strong belief that scientific instruments like questionnaires should not be have the same copyright protection as other text. Yes you can assert authorship, no you can't stop people using it.
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Does anyone have experience with heart rate synchrony analysis of dyads doing something together?
Any practical tips and literature for newbies appreciated!
Any practical tips and literature for newbies appreciated!
a red lightning bolt is shining in the dark
ALT: a red lightning bolt is shining in the dark
media.tenor.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:28 AM
Does anyone have experience with heart rate synchrony analysis of dyads doing something together?
Any practical tips and literature for newbies appreciated!
Any practical tips and literature for newbies appreciated!
As a field, we should be appreciative and open about such ‘shame spirals’ because -despite the unpleasantness- they can trigger important insights & progress
First 🫣😬
Then 💪💪💪
First 🫣😬
Then 💪💪💪
Someone read this + noted a coding error to determine the 3-day mean correlations. Now updated with the new code + submitted a revision to bioRxiv.
On one hand, induced a moderate shame spiral.
On the other, super appreciative to see how I hope these open-science practices will work in action!
On one hand, induced a moderate shame spiral.
On the other, super appreciative to see how I hope these open-science practices will work in action!
January 23, 2026 at 1:27 PM
As a field, we should be appreciative and open about such ‘shame spirals’ because -despite the unpleasantness- they can trigger important insights & progress
First 🫣😬
Then 💪💪💪
First 🫣😬
Then 💪💪💪
Reading up on precision imaging & struck by these findings of greater hormonal variation - & impact on brain networks - in the sampled man vs woman!
Another nail in the coffin of the 'hormonal/hysterical' woman?!
@grotzinger.bsky.social @emilyjacobs.bsky.social
www.jneurosci.org/content/44/2...
Another nail in the coffin of the 'hormonal/hysterical' woman?!
@grotzinger.bsky.social @emilyjacobs.bsky.social
www.jneurosci.org/content/44/2...
January 23, 2026 at 11:59 AM
Reading up on precision imaging & struck by these findings of greater hormonal variation - & impact on brain networks - in the sampled man vs woman!
Another nail in the coffin of the 'hormonal/hysterical' woman?!
@grotzinger.bsky.social @emilyjacobs.bsky.social
www.jneurosci.org/content/44/2...
Another nail in the coffin of the 'hormonal/hysterical' woman?!
@grotzinger.bsky.social @emilyjacobs.bsky.social
www.jneurosci.org/content/44/2...
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Services like RegCheck are extremely promising for moving norms forward from doing open science practices to doing open science practices well.
Comparing registrations to published papers is essential to research integrity - and almost no one does it routinely because it's slow, messy, and time-demanding.
RegCheck was built to help make this process easier.
Today, we launch RegCheck V2.
🧵
regcheck.app
RegCheck was built to help make this process easier.
Today, we launch RegCheck V2.
🧵
regcheck.app
RegCheck
RegCheck is an AI tool to compare preregistrations with papers instantly.
regcheck.app
January 22, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Services like RegCheck are extremely promising for moving norms forward from doing open science practices to doing open science practices well.
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1. If the goal is to stop us from doing science, then doing science is more important than ever now.
2. We have radical uncertainty about the future. There is no sense in giving up in advance.
3. We have agency over the future. If you don't like what's happening, work to change what is happening.
2. We have radical uncertainty about the future. There is no sense in giving up in advance.
3. We have agency over the future. If you don't like what's happening, work to change what is happening.
Getting asked about how academics can continue to do science & inspire trainees even in the midst of a continued (escalated) assault on science, reason, truth, & human rights. I don’t have great answers.
I would love to hear from mentors about advice they’re giving to trainees/ colleagues.
I would love to hear from mentors about advice they’re giving to trainees/ colleagues.
January 18, 2026 at 1:24 AM
1. If the goal is to stop us from doing science, then doing science is more important than ever now.
2. We have radical uncertainty about the future. There is no sense in giving up in advance.
3. We have agency over the future. If you don't like what's happening, work to change what is happening.
2. We have radical uncertainty about the future. There is no sense in giving up in advance.
3. We have agency over the future. If you don't like what's happening, work to change what is happening.
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Nominate someone for the 2026 edition of The Sarah Jones Award for exceptional contribution to fostering collaboration in #OpenScience! #OpenResearch
Open to all, though a demonstration of contribution within the RDA @researchdataall.bsky.social community is of great importance.
Open to all, though a demonstration of contribution within the RDA @researchdataall.bsky.social community is of great importance.
Nominations Open – 2026 Sarah Jones Award | Aleksandra Lazić, PhD
While going through things I might want to save before I delete my X account, I came across a chat from March-May 2023, back when it was still Twitter, with Sarah Jones (@SarahRoams). Her last message...
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January 15, 2026 at 11:13 AM
Nominate someone for the 2026 edition of The Sarah Jones Award for exceptional contribution to fostering collaboration in #OpenScience! #OpenResearch
Open to all, though a demonstration of contribution within the RDA @researchdataall.bsky.social community is of great importance.
Open to all, though a demonstration of contribution within the RDA @researchdataall.bsky.social community is of great importance.
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Academic life is just repeating this to one another until we retire
@jamiecummins.bsky.social
@jamiecummins.bsky.social
January 15, 2026 at 11:40 AM
Academic life is just repeating this to one another until we retire
@jamiecummins.bsky.social
@jamiecummins.bsky.social
Happiness and well-being researchers: do we currently believe in the dip around 47?
Personally I can vouch for it & wanted to post an image of how things are looking up now I’ve turned 48
but the curves I’m finding seem to extend the dip into 52… 😬
Personally I can vouch for it & wanted to post an image of how things are looking up now I’ve turned 48
but the curves I’m finding seem to extend the dip into 52… 😬
January 13, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Happiness and well-being researchers: do we currently believe in the dip around 47?
Personally I can vouch for it & wanted to post an image of how things are looking up now I’ve turned 48
but the curves I’m finding seem to extend the dip into 52… 😬
Personally I can vouch for it & wanted to post an image of how things are looking up now I’ve turned 48
but the curves I’m finding seem to extend the dip into 52… 😬
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It's about time somebody did this ⤵️
We systematically reviewed 50/2060 screened studies that looked at how changing someone's own pain experience also affects how people feel and respond to others’ emotions and pain. ⚡
Read it now in @painthejournal.bsky.social: journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...
We systematically reviewed 50/2060 screened studies that looked at how changing someone's own pain experience also affects how people feel and respond to others’ emotions and pain. ⚡
Read it now in @painthejournal.bsky.social: journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...
journals.lww.com
January 13, 2026 at 9:54 AM
It's about time somebody did this ⤵️
We systematically reviewed 50/2060 screened studies that looked at how changing someone's own pain experience also affects how people feel and respond to others’ emotions and pain. ⚡
Read it now in @painthejournal.bsky.social: journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...
We systematically reviewed 50/2060 screened studies that looked at how changing someone's own pain experience also affects how people feel and respond to others’ emotions and pain. ⚡
Read it now in @painthejournal.bsky.social: journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...
Important new work from Greg Corder and others 👏
Identifying behaviours exhibited in mice with nerve injury >3 weeks
Linking these to acute opioid-mediated relief of persistent pain via ACC
Identifying behaviours exhibited in mice with nerve injury >3 weeks
Linking these to acute opioid-mediated relief of persistent pain via ACC
🧠⚡️💊New @nature.com publication !
Mimicking opioid analgesia in cortical pain circuits
We built a brain-behavior framework to decode spontaneous chronic pain in mice—and to biologically mimic morphine with a synthetic opioid gene therapy
nature.com/articles/s41...
@pennmedicine.bsky.social
Mimicking opioid analgesia in cortical pain circuits
We built a brain-behavior framework to decode spontaneous chronic pain in mice—and to biologically mimic morphine with a synthetic opioid gene therapy
nature.com/articles/s41...
@pennmedicine.bsky.social
Researchers identify the neurons involved in the emotional distress associated with pain
go.nature.com/4qIKkB8
go.nature.com/4qIKkB8
January 12, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Important new work from Greg Corder and others 👏
Identifying behaviours exhibited in mice with nerve injury >3 weeks
Linking these to acute opioid-mediated relief of persistent pain via ACC
Identifying behaviours exhibited in mice with nerve injury >3 weeks
Linking these to acute opioid-mediated relief of persistent pain via ACC
Really excited to attend the next S4SN meeting, the first in 8(!) years in which I will have no responsibility at all - it's going to be super fun
Great science, great location, great crowd - see you there!
Great science, great location, great crowd - see you there!
We look forward to welcoming you to Montreal for an unforgettable week of science, collaboration, and celebration! 🥳
On behalf of the S4SN team:
Jennifer Bartz (Chair of the Local Organizing Committee)
Weizhe Hong (President)
Steve Chang (Past President)
Elizabeth Hammock (Treasurer)
On behalf of the S4SN team:
Jennifer Bartz (Chair of the Local Organizing Committee)
Weizhe Hong (President)
Steve Chang (Past President)
Elizabeth Hammock (Treasurer)
a man wearing glasses and a black hoodie says i 'll see you guys soon
ALT: a man wearing glasses and a black hoodie says i 'll see you guys soon
media.tenor.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Really excited to attend the next S4SN meeting, the first in 8(!) years in which I will have no responsibility at all - it's going to be super fun
Great science, great location, great crowd - see you there!
Great science, great location, great crowd - see you there!
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📣 ESCAN 2026 – Symposium deadline
Good news!
The symposium submission deadline has been extended to January 17.
The poster and single-talk deadline remains February 16.
🔗 escan2026.eu/important-da...
Good news!
The symposium submission deadline has been extended to January 17.
The poster and single-talk deadline remains February 16.
🔗 escan2026.eu/important-da...
Important dates - ESCAN 2026
escan2026.eu
January 9, 2026 at 7:46 AM
📣 ESCAN 2026 – Symposium deadline
Good news!
The symposium submission deadline has been extended to January 17.
The poster and single-talk deadline remains February 16.
🔗 escan2026.eu/important-da...
Good news!
The symposium submission deadline has been extended to January 17.
The poster and single-talk deadline remains February 16.
🔗 escan2026.eu/important-da...
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Seven feel-good science stories to round up 2025. All too often we forget to celebrate the positives
🧪
#AcademicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪
#AcademicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Seven feel-good science stories to restore your faith in 2025
Immense progress in gene-editing, drug discovery and conservation are just some of the reasons to be cheerful about 2025.
www.nature.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Seven feel-good science stories to round up 2025. All too often we forget to celebrate the positives
🧪
#AcademicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪
#AcademicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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So... if the head of a country is acting illegally, other countries can go in and physically remove him and try him for his crimes in their own country? Tell me more...
January 3, 2026 at 3:43 PM
So... if the head of a country is acting illegally, other countries can go in and physically remove him and try him for his crimes in their own country? Tell me more...
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Throwback to this Reddit post I saw in 2024 and that I still think about sometimes
January 2, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Throwback to this Reddit post I saw in 2024 and that I still think about sometimes
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