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Joyce Besheer

@jbesheer.bsky.social
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Behavioral neuroscientist | Professor @ UNC-CH | Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies | Psychiatry Stress, addiction, treatment targets She/her

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John Mantsch @jmantsch.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
@mcwpharm-tox.bsky.social will be recruiting a mid-career translational neuropharmacologist with a research program focused on SUDs and/or stress-related disorders. Great opportunity in a growing and supportive dept. @davidbaranger.bsky.social and I will be at #ACNP. Reach out if you want to talk!
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Ryan Tyler @ryane-tyler.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Congrats on an amazing thesis defense Dr. Bluitt!! Loved seeing everyone from @jbesheer.bsky.social lab.
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Nixon Lab @nixonlab.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Great explanatory piece on why NIH research is an important investment into the health and lives of Americans. Thanks, Nick! elifesciences.org/articles/106...
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Science Under Threat in the United States: The NIH is a sound investment for the US taxpayer
Research funded by the National Institutes of Health is essential for improving the health of Americans and developing new drugs and treatments for a wide range of diseases.
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Tom Kash @superkash.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
UNC-CH is searching for a new Chair of Psychiatry. Please share. www.nejmcareercenter.org/job/863298/c...
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Chair - Department of Psychiatry - Chapel Hill, North Carolina job with University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 863298
The School of Medicine of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill seeks an accomplished and visionary leader..
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Rick Bevins @rbevins.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Nicotine is experienced with many reward — social interaction, work breaks, alcohol, sweet vape flavors, etc. Do these nicotine-reward pairings make nicotine more likely to be taken? Check out my team’s work addressing this question. Spoiler alert-yes it does! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Pavlovian conditioning with the internal stimulus effects of intravenous nicotine heightens later nicotine taking with variation by dose and sex - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Pavlovian conditioning with the internal stimulus effects of intravenous nicotine heightens later nicotine taking with variation by dose and sex
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Jayme McReynolds @jaymemcreynolds.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
So a former postdoc from our department had just started as a PO at NIH and was terminated in the wave of terminations last week. He is in the research triangle and a phenomenal scientist with expertise in stress and glia. If anyone in the RTI is hiring asap please let me know! #neuroskyence
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Joyce Besheer @jbesheer.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Another week that felt like a year. At this rate I’m going to be 100 by March. 🙄
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Tom Kash @superkash.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Exciting work from our center (Christian Hendershot has since moved to USC)
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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Very cool step towards understanding how xylazine contributes to the experience of fentanyl! We’ve been hearing for years that xylazine changes the feel, so it’s exciting to see this bearing out.
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Joyce Besheer @jbesheer.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Awesome thread about our recent preprint. So happy to be doing this important work with the amazing @nanopharmnc.bsky.social! Congrats to Brooke Bender, Joe Carew and @madiganbedard.bsky.social🎉. This is a huge team effort.
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Joyce Besheer @jbesheer.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
After this week of weeks had to start the weekend with some nature time. ☀️
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Joyce Besheer @jbesheer.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
This week has felt like a year. Goose says happy Friday.
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Toni Devincci (she/her/ella) @neurotonimd.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
My lab is actively recruiting PhD Applicants interested in Behavioral Neuroscience. Applicants will apply to our brand new doctoral program in Applied Psychology at North Carolina A&T State Univeristh. MORE INFO: email me!! APPLY HERE www.ncat.edu/chhs/departm....
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APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY, Ph.D.
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Adam Bryant Miller, PhD @abryantmiller.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I am hiring for a postdoctoral fellow at UNC Chapel Hill in Child and Adolescent Anxiety and Mood Disorders Program (CHAAMP). The successful candidate will work on my NIH funded program of research on suicide risk among preteens. Please share. Deadline 1/31! unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/290...
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Post-Doc Research Associate
The selected candidate will engage in a combination of clinical research activities aligned with a NIMH funded R01 within the Child and Adolescent Anxiety and Mood Disorders Program (CHAAMP). Clinical...
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Tom Kash @superkash.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39779373/ woot @lisataxier.bsky.social first Kash Lab first author paper is out. Congrats to her and the team!
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Retrieval of an ethanol-conditioned taste aversion promotes GABAergic plasticity in the anterior insular cortex - PubMed
Blunted sensitivity to ethanol's aversive effects can increase motivation to consume ethanol; yet, the neurobiological circuits responsible for encoding these aversive properties are not fully underst...
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Joyce Besheer @jbesheer.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Goose is loving the warm weather and the trails (me too)! He’s getting so big. 😍
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Joyce Besheer @jbesheer.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
It’s lab holiday sweater time! Happy holidays from the Besheer Lab!
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Justin Matheson, PhD (he/they) @justinrmatheson.com · 10/12/2024
Sharing this again because I've heard the term "alcoholic" more at #acnp2024 than probably in the totality of all other substance use conferences I've attended throughout my career. Not trying to call anyone out, just need ppl to reflect on language use since this does real harm to people with SUDs
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Joyce Besheer @jbesheer.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Love seeing this!!
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Joyce Besheer @jbesheer.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Someone has already knocked the tree down and shattered lots of ornaments. 🙄
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Patrick Mulholland (He/Him) @mulhollandlab.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Wonderful article written by @skylarhodgins.bsky.social about “STEM-creeks” at MUSC - I’m happy to be part of this team support #STEM outreach efforts @meghanflanigan.bsky.social gradstudies.musc.edu/about/blog/2...
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SYNAPSE: An Emerging “STEM-Creek” at MUSC
Re-envisioning the path to STEM through MUSC neuroscience outreach.
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Joyce Besheer @jbesheer.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Goose had another fun hike today and I wore him out - finally!
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Tom Kash @superkash.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Exciting UNC Job News: We’re seeking up to four researchers for tenure-track assistant professor positions to build a new cross-disciplinary team that will advance substance use disorder (SUD) treatment from the bench to the bedside.
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Joyce Besheer @jbesheer.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Join #UNCResearch as part of our Catalyst Faculty Research Cluster Program. We’re seeking up to four researchers for tenure-track assistant professor positions to build a team that will advance substance use disorder treatment. Apply here by December 15: go.unc.edu/Rt9b7
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Tom Kash @superkash.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
www.nature.com/articles/s41... rest in peace George.
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In memoriam – George R. Breese, Ph.D - Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology - In memoriam – George R. Breese, Ph.D
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Staci Bilbo @sbilbo.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Hi everyone 👋. I am a neuroimmunologist working on microglia, brain-body crosstalk in neurodevelopment, and biological embedding of health disparities. bilbolab.com
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Bilbo Lab
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Shelly Flagel @flagel-lab.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
OPEN RANK #FACULTY #POSITION in #Pharmacology & #Neuroscience with expertise in #behavioral pharmacology/neuroscience of relevance to substance use disorders. Review of applications will start immediately. Target start date is Fall 2025. Come join us! Apply here: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
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Professor / Associate Professor / Assistant Professor | U-M Careers
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Joyce Besheer @jbesheer.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Great day for a hike!
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Joyce Besheer @jbesheer.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I love the part of grant writing when I wake up in the middle of the night thinking about it and then can't go back to sleep. Now I need to work on it and I'm so tired I can't string a thought together. 🙄 Fun times.
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Kelly Hogan @kellyhogan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Please share w folks that want full time teaching career: Teaching Assistant Professor for Biochem at UNC Chapel Innovative teaching spanning the biochemistry curriculum, including capstone biochemistry lab course. Review of applications begins Dec. 10, 2024 unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/290...
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Teaching Assistant Professor-Biological Chemistry
The Department of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites applications for a Teaching Assistant Professor. Primary responsibilities include innovative teaching in courses ...
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Devin Effinger, Ph.D @deffinger.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Introductory post on here sharing my latest paper in Nature Comms where I investigated the effects of the psilocin, the psychoactive metabolite of psilocybin, on behavioral responding and reactivity within the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus. #psychedelic www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Increased reactivity of the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus and decreased threat responding in male rats following psilocin administration - Nature Communications
The neurobiological mechanisms underlying the fast acting and long-lasting effects of these drugs are not fully understood. Here authors show that the psychedelic psilocin increases reactivity in the ...
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Christian Cazares, Ph.D. @fleabrained.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
go.bsky.app/LJj3CUD let's grow this one
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Joyce Besheer @jbesheer.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
My posts may look like this for awhile because I’m obsessed.😍 Meet 6 mo old Goose!
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Stories of WiN @storiesofwin.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Looking for inspirational women in neuroscience to follow? We made a starter pack of Stories of WiN interviewees and our team members! 💜 #WomenInNeuro #StoriesOfWiN go.bsky.app/PCteLM8
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Joyce Besheer @jbesheer.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Amazing postdoc and grad student training opportunities!
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Patrick Mulholland (He/Him) @mulhollandlab.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Our PhD Training Program in Neuroscience is now accepting applications - contact me if you have any questions! Applications are due December 13, 2024. Charleston, SC is a wonderful place to work and live gradstudies.musc.edu/programs/phd...
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Biomedical Sciences, PhD Degree
The College of Graduate Studies is training tomorrow's biomedical research scientists through graduate programs including MS, PhD, and dual degree programs.
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Joyce Besheer @jbesheer.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Been on here a day and already appreciating the vibe. 😊
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Joyce Besheer @jbesheer.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Just moved over! Happy to be out of there.
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