Tony Pickering
@tony-pickering.bsky.social
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Gas man, Pain Doc, part-time Neuroscientist & Magpie (⚽️ and proclivity)
Congratulations to
@mike-ambler.bsky.social
promoted to a position of responsibility 👏🫡 🫣
5 months ago
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The British Pain Society
6 months ago
🎓 Early Career or Student BPS member? Join us in Wales for
#BPSASM2025
! 👥 Connect with peers 💡 Learn from leaders in pain management 💸 Student & Early Career rates available! Let’s build the future of pain science—together. 🔗 Register here
www.bpsasm.org/registration
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Nicole Rust
6 months ago
THIS IS ONE NEURON! Jaw dropping. It distributes a particular neurotransmitter (norepinephrine) across the mouse brain; it’s a locus coeruleus neuron.
@jeremiahycohen.bsky.social
and colleagues at the
@alleninstitute.bsky.social
are using new biotech to see things never seen before.
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Emma Hart
6 months ago
Are you living with long COVID? We are recruiting for a study which aims to understand the mechanisms underlying breathing difficulties in long COVID. Read about it here:
longcovid.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
Or here:
www.bristolbrc.nihr.ac.uk/research/res...
@bristolbrc.bsky.social
@uobppn.bsky.social
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Long-COVID and the carotid chemoreflex
https://longcovid.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/
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How the brain's little blue dot regulates your sleep
The locus coeruleus is emerging as a major new area of research interest, with many important functions such as regulating our attention and sleep.
https://bbc.com/future/article/20250131-how-the-brains-blue-dot-regulates-your-sleep
7 months ago
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Mary Kay Lobo
7 months ago
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
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MIke Ambler
7 months ago
Very excited to post this preprint... making a species that doesn't hibernate do something a lot like it, AND showing it is cardioprotective.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Synthetic torpor in the rat recapitulates key features of natural torpor and is cardioprotective
During hibernation, animals enter torpor, a reversible physiological state typically characterised by reductions in core temperature, heart rate and oxygen consumption. Species that enter this hypothe...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.12.642790v3
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When is a "pathogenic" variant in a classic pain gene (NaV1.7) not pathogenic? When its carried by many thousands of people and has no evidence of a pain phenotype or analgesic prescriptions... We need to reconsider how we assign pathogenicity to these variants.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Carriers of SCN9A variants linked to inherited and acquired pain syndromes show no alteration in the prevalence of pain or analgesic usage in the UK Biobank cohort
The voltage-gated sodium channel NaV1.7, encoded by the SCN9A gene, is integral to nociceptor excitability and pain sensation. Multiple gain-of-function SCN9A variants have been reported to cause auto...
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.12.25323817v1
7 months ago
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Newcastle United
7 months ago
THE BOY FROM BLYTH!!!! SIMPLY INCREDIBLE!!!! 😍
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Mice manage airways in anaesthetised cage mates... maybe there is a genetic basis for becoming an anaesthetist.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Reviving-like prosocial behavior in response to unconscious or dead conspecifics in rodents
Whereas humans exhibit emergency responses to assist unconscious individuals, how nonhuman animals react to unresponsive conspecifics is less well understood. We report that mice exhibit stereotypic b...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq2677#Fa
7 months ago
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Annina Schmid
8 months ago
Do you have a basic science background and are interested in doing a PhD at Oxford University? Fully funded UK studentship available for 2025 intake to study the role of B-cells in human neuropathic pain To apply please see here:
www.ndcn.ox.ac.uk/study-with-u...
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Markus Ploner
8 months ago
We offer two PhD positions in Pain Neuroscience and Non-invasive neuromodulation. The positions are at the PainLabMunich (
painlabmunich.de
) and will be part of the EU-funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network FRESCO4NoPain. See
www.cnap.hst.aau.dk/fresco4nopai...
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Excited to be part of the FRESCO4NoPain consortium - 17 PhD places available across European centres. Translational Neuromodulation for pain - apply here if this is your bag
www.cnap.hst.aau.dk/fresco4nopai...
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Vertex: New non-opioid painkiller Journavx approved by US FDA - BBC News
New drug suzetrigine, known by its brand name Journavx, has been approved to treat moderate to severe pain.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3vp15wx6rlo.amp
8 months ago
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10 months ago
Happy 84th birthday to Anthony Fauci
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Possibly the best thing about the post office this year… thanks to She Runs Cardiff
10 months ago
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eLife
10 months ago
Our publishing model, launched last year, lets authors revise their papers whenever and however they choose. Here's the first-ever revision to be published on how the locus coeruleus is involved in visuomotor learning processes.
#12DaysOfeLife
https://buff.ly/3ZlX58u
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Happy to be joining the wave of Neuroscience flocking here and bringing some locus coeruleus
#bluespot
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