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Miriam Melis

@miriammelis.bsky.social
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Neuropsychopharmacologist @univca🔬📚🔆🏊🇮🇹 Life is in technicolor_ cannabinoid GRC chair2023 _she/her PharmD_ Neuroscience PhD_ alumna @unipa_it and @UCSF

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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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Miriam Melis @miriammelis.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
#happy to participate to this symposium tomorrow afternoon @ibnsconnect.bsky.social in Cape Town
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Miriam Melis @miriammelis.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Excited to announce the seminar of @msolinas.bsky.social on drug addiction and environmental enrichment tomorrow at noon #UniCa as part of our collaboration funded by #UFI_UIF- #campus-monserrato Room 207 building A
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Miriam Melis @miriammelis.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Felice di condividere: anche UniCa partecipa insieme a 75 Atenei e Istituti di Ricerca #pernondimenticare la storia di #GiulioRegeni. Partecipare significa difendere #libertàdiricerca e #dirittiumani. Tutte le volte che ci giriamo dall'altra parte, diventiamo #complici. Vi aspetto
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Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky @sejordt.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #Pulmsky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky #neuroskyence #neurosci 🛟 🫁💊 🌍⚖️
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Miriam Melis @miriammelis.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Excited for this opportunity to gather together our neuroscience community 👇🏻
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Carmelo Ferrai @carmeloferrai.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Tread -1- EpiSci - I am very proud to share with you our new study that you can access on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social (see link below) "The Interaction with Nanotopographical Environment regulates nuclear mechanoresponse in mESCs via Histone Demethylase KDM3A. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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ALBA Network @network-alba.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
🚀 #ALBADiversityWeek 2025 starts today! We celebrate diversity & intersectionality by highlighting key activities and sharing valuable resources. 👀 Stay tuned all week as we revisit achievements and launch new initiatives. Share our posts to join the #GlobalDiversityAwarenessMonth celebration. 🧵
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Miriam Melis @miriammelis.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Nobody knows it all even if he/she is an ERC grantee. Congratulations to Laura and to you Arnau @bgarcialab.bsky.social insightful and tremendous amount of data!! Keep up with the good stuff you both!!!
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Miriam Melis @miriammelis.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Delighted to take part in the #vernissage of #unavitadascienziata exhibition sponsored by @FondazioneBracco. #grateful to @Giuliagiornaliste Sardegna #100esperte www.ansa.it/amp/sardegna...
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A Cagliari la mostra 'Una vita da scienziata' | ANSA.it
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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Open access link to new study in Nature: Polygenic and developmental profiles of autism differ by age at diagnosis. 🧪🧠 #medsky #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Polygenic and developmental profiles of autism differ by age at diagnosis - Nature
A study of several longitudinal birth cohorts and cross-sectional cohorts finds only moderate overlap in genetic variants between autism that is diagnosed earlier and that diagnosed later, so they may represent aetiologically different conditions.
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Miriam Melis @miriammelis.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Thank you @carmensandi10.bsky.social for organising such an exciting session with @bgarcialab.bsky.social Olivier and Sylvie
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Miriam Melis @miriammelis.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Today #womenstandupforscience to defend and support #freedom #science #DEI #democracy I am #grateful to @unica @cnr @FondazionediSardegna @sif @isn and to all the extraordinary and supportive #researchers and #journalists. The event will be in #streaming u.garr.it/uqcJl
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ALBA Network @network-alba.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
ALBA-IBRO talk: Building resilience to sustain EDI efforts in neuroscience 🔗 alba.network/MNS2025 🗣️ @carmensandi10.bsky.social (CH), @francescacirulli.bsky.social (IT), @shubhatole.bsky.social (IN) #StandUpForScience #ScienceForAll @yiotapoirazi.bsky.social @christinadalla.bsky.social @fens.org 🧵
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Miriam Melis @miriammelis.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Excited and honoured to have received yesterday the “Award Francesca Sanna Sulis”, a pioneer Sardinian woman from XVIII century, by @Inner_Wheel_Club_Cagliari_Sud at the City Hall of Cagliari #friendship_service #grateful😍
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Johannes Haushofer @johanneshaushofer.com · 22/05/2025
Is it "good" or "bad" when skilled people leave low-income countries? We summarized the evidence in favor of "brain gain" vs. "brain drain": www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.... Ungated PDF: johanneshaushofer.com/research
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Miriam Melis @miriammelis.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Thank you @msolinas.bsky.social for the amazing hospitality and the enriched environment and for @uif_ufi (Università Italo Francese) for this terrific opportunity @univpoitiers.bsky.social @inserm.fr
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Astrocytes have long been conceived as passive support player cells in the brain. But today @science.org (via 3 reports) they got a big upgrade for their active role in neuromodulation and control of brain function www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Science Magazine @science.org · 13/05/2025
A new #ScienceAdvances study identifies a neuroimmune pathway for treating sepsis, finding that dopamine inhibits expression of a critical regulator of immunometabolism. This suggests that pramipexole, a dopamine agonist, could effectively treat lethal infections. scim.ag/4kfAfrZ
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A neuroimmune pathway drives bacterial infection
Dysregulation of the dopamine-ACOD1 axis correlates with sepsis severity.
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Miriam Melis @miriammelis.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Mentre si parla tanto di #ReBRAIN #Europe, il nostro Paese con la nuova #riforma del #reclutamento facilita il #braindrain negando l'opportunità a migliaia di #giovani #ricercatori di fare ricerca in #italia . Se siete d'accordo, condividete l'articolo di #ElenaCattaneo
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Céline Nicolas @celinenicolas.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I did not think we would have to debate this point in 2025, but yes the study of sex in biological studies matter! bsd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Sex differences research is important! - Biology of Sex Differences
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Miriam Melis @miriammelis.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Excellent and rich environment for both work and life 🤩👇🏻
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Lukas Valihrach @lukasvalihrach.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Chimeric brain models: Unlocking insights into human neural development, aging, diseases, and cell therapies www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
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Chimeric brain models: Unlocking insights into human neural development, aging, diseases, and cell therapies
Papetti et al. discuss recent advances in understanding human neural development, aging, and disease uncovered through human-rodent chimeric brain models and examine their potential to drive progress ...
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Yasmin Hurd, PhD @neurovoice.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Today’s #cannabis has much more potent THC than in the past. How we think about & approach cannabis needs to change with this in mind - from policy & consumer perspectives. 🎧 Listen to my discussion with Julie Rose on Top Of Mind here: open.spotify.com/show/5P43AGN...
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Dopamine Society @dopaminesociety.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Save the date! Join us in Seville, Spain May 17 - 21 2026 for the next Dopamine meeting. More details to come. dopaminesociety.org
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Science Magazine @science.org · 18/04/2025
NSF has spent decades—and billions of dollars—trying to attract more women and members of underrepresented groups into STEM. Not anymore. scim.ag/3RUtgZg
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NSF starts to kill grants that violate Trump’s war on diversity efforts
Attracting women and minorities into science and studying misinformation are no longer priorities, agency says
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Francesco Papaleo Lab @labpapaleo.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Distinct synaptic plasticity rules operate across dendritic compartments in vivo during learning | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Distinct synaptic plasticity rules operate across dendritic compartments in vivo during learning
Synaptic plasticity underlies learning by modifying specific synaptic inputs to reshape neural activity and behavior. However, the rules governing which synapses will undergo different forms of plasti...
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Francesco Papaleo Lab @labpapaleo.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Layer-specific input to medial prefrontal cortex is linked to stress susceptibility - Translational Psychiatry
Translational Psychiatry - Layer-specific input to medial prefrontal cortex is linked to stress susceptibility
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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 19/04/2025
A safer, gut-stable alternative to opioids! Markus Muttenthaler @univie.ac.at and others have developed a new type of oral painkiller designed to relieve chronic abdominal pain, based on a modified form of the hormone oxytocin, best known for its role in childbirth contractions. 👉 buff.ly/vzN0834
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Cristina Rosell Cardona @crosellcardona.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Excited to share a new publication out! “Acute Stress-induced Alterations in Short-Chain Fatty Acids: Implications for the Intestinal and Blood Brain Barriers”. @jfcryan.bsky.social @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social @sarah-janeleigh.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Acute Stress-induced Alterations in Short-Chain Fatty Acids: Implications for the Intestinal and Blood Brain Barriers
Unravelling the features of the whole-body response to acute stress exposures is critical to understand this neglected building block of chronic stres…
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Miriam Melis @miriammelis.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Excited to launch this initiative #womenstandupforscience to support #science #freespeech #DEI #democracy and grateful to all the scientists involved and to #UniCA #savethedate and #staytuned www.rainews.it/tgr/sardegna...
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Donne per la scienza
A giugno l'evento 'Women stand up for science' contro i tagli alla ricerca
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Francesco Papaleo Lab @labpapaleo.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Interesting that aggressive encounter,but not non-social stimuli, increased SERT and serotonin in mPFC www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Dynamic changes of serotonin transporter expression in the prefrontal cortex evoked by aggressive social interactions
Aggression is a complex behavior influenced by developmental experiences, internal state, and social context, yet its neurobiological underpinnings re…
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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 11/04/2025
BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency. Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.
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Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency
White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted
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Science Magazine @science.org · 11/04/2025
In a new #ScienceSignaling Review, scientists examine an emerging body of research implicating #SleepLoss as a metabolic disorder and discuss its impact on the metabolism of neurons and parallels to neurodegenerative disorders. scim.ag/4i8Ok96
Sleep loss–induced metabolic alterations in purinergic signaling (purple), glucose metabolism (green), lipid oxidation (blue), and cell phenotypes (orange) are apparent throughout the central nervous system, peripheral tissues, and blood plasma in humans and other model systems. These changes reduce the amount of energy available to support anabolic processes—an effect that is most pronounced in highly metabolically active cells such as myocytes, hepatocytes, adipocytes, and brain cells.
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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 12/04/2025
with help from @ktmac.bsky.social!
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Kepecs Lab @ WashU @kepecslab.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
1/ Why do patients with late-stage cancer lose motivation & sink into apathy? 🔥 Our new Science paper shows chronic inflammation activates a cytokine-sensing brain circuit that lowers motivation. Huge team effort: Aelita Zhu, Sarah Starosta, Pignatelli & Janowitz labs! 🧵 🔗 doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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A neuroimmune circuit mediates cancer cachexia-associated apathy
Cachexia, a severe wasting syndrome associated with inflammatory conditions, often leads to multiorgan failure and death. Patients with cachexia experience extreme fatigue, apathy, and clinical depres...
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Science Magazine @science.org · 06/04/2025
A previously overlooked dopamine-producing brain circuit drives hedonic eating, or eating for pleasure, according to a new Science study in mice.
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Hedonic eating is controlled by dopamine neurons that oppose GLP-1R satiety
Hedonic eating is defined as food consumption driven by palatability without physiological need. However, neural control of palatable food intake is poorly understood. We discovered that hedonic eating is controlled by a neural pathway from the peri–...
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Francesco Papaleo Lab @labpapaleo.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
JCI - Prefrontal correlates of fear generalization during endocannabinoid depletion www.jci.org/articles/vie...
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JCI - Prefrontal correlates of fear generalization during endocannabinoid depletion
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Carmelo Ferrai @carmeloferrai.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @miriammelis.bsky.social
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Hedonic eating is controlled by dopamine neurons that oppose GLP-1R satiety
Hedonic eating is defined as food consumption driven by palatability without physiological need. However, neural control of palatable food intake is poorly understood. We discovered that hedonic eatin...
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Mary Kay Lobo @marykaylobo.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Check out the amazing line up of speakers for the Catecholamines GRC! Apply for GRC www.grc.org/catecholamin... & GRS www.grc.org/catecholamin.... In these uncertain times we appreciate any donation to support the participants in the GRC my.grc.org/p/contributi... & GRS my.grc.org/p/contributi...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/03/2025
1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world. 
I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.
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Carmelo Ferrai @carmeloferrai.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I am Absolutely delighted to share the preprint of our last collaborative efforts where we investigated the impact of sonostimulation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells. Thread -1- www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Sonoepigenetics: Spatiotemporal Calcium Dynamics and cAMP Signaling Driven by High Frequency Nanomechanostimulation Regulates Transient Epigenetic Modifications and Early Osteogenic Commitment in Mese...
Cells effectively balance and integrate numerous pathways to adapt to external signals in an attempt to regain homeostasis, although the complex nuclear mechanotransduction mechanism through which thi...
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Miriam Melis @miriammelis.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I am happy to announce the seminar of @msolinas.bsky.social "Investigating cue-driven choice in addiction using the probabilistic image choice (PIC) task" this coming friday at #UniCa as part of our collaboration funded by #UFI_UIF- #campus-monserrato Room 111, building A
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Maria Leptin @marialep.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Today all 27 EU countries endorsed the Warsaw Declaration. Thank you for your solid support in calling for the independence of the European Research Council to be preserved and for the role of the ERC to be expanded. polish-presidency.consilium.europa.eu/media/r5fa13... 🇪🇺
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Friends! The science that we love is under threat. World-wide, there're forces seeking to make it corporate-like, focused on deliverables, or even the enemy of society. Take a stand & celebrate science & music! #theconferencetoendallconferences - Registration starts NOW! woodstock.img.cas.cz
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Woodstock.Bio2 + Night Science 2025 | Courses & Meetings
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Mike Schatz @mikeschatz.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
One of the most powerful moments of the day came from Emily Whitehead who told the story of how she was the first pediatric patient to receive CAR T-cell therapy for her leukemia at age 5: “I stand up for science because science saved my life. And that’s a fact.” @standupforscience.bsky.social
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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
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Di Jiang @dijiang319.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
@science.org A subcellular map of translational machinery composition and regulation at the single-molecule level | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A subcellular map of translational machinery composition and regulation at the single-molecule level
Millions of ribosomes are packed within mammalian cells, yet we lack tools to visualize them in toto and characterize their subcellular composition. In this study, we present ribosome expansion micros...
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ALBA Network @network-alba.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Together with @fens.org, ALBA stands in solidarity with all scientific communities facing challenges to research, collaboration, and academic freedom. Let's build a more inclusive and sustainable future for everyone everywhere. #StandUpForScience
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Miriam Melis @miriammelis.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
#privileged and #grateful for having taken part to the #PEER_GROUP led by stellar @martadiforti
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