📣EVENT ALERT! Join us next Monday, July 7th at 6:30pm PT at Burke-Gilman Brewing Co. in Seattle, WA for a conversation on how science works with @carlbergstrom.com (UW Biology) and Kevin Gross (NCSU Statistics) - and you! Find the event here & register➡️ zurl.co/nEQAN @burkebrewing.bsky.social

Viewpoint in JAMA details the consequences of the proposed cuts to NIH: ❌15% reduction in new therapies ❌reduction in life expectancy by 83M life years in the US = $8.2T ❌loss of $51B in economic output annually All to save $20B annually. The math ain't mathin.' jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Grateful for the opportunities I’ve had with my mentor in my postdoc! We are thinking about pain and function differently and hoping this work can inform future clinical practice. Thank you @seanrundell.bsky.social 🤓

Relationships beteen fear of movement and physical activity across conditions is the subject of this new meta-analysis: academic.oup.com/ptj/advance-... #PhysioSky #PTSky

Register for tomorrow’s 14 May webinar: “Bridging Gaps in Endometriosis Pain Management.” Engage with leading scientists, clinicians, physiotherapists, psychologists, and pain specialists from around the world on this complex chronic pain condition. bit.ly/3ELaK2A

I was excited to hear about a new behavioral treatment for chronic pain developed by researchers in Australia -- dialectical behavior therapy adapted to chronic pain. Thanks to @sutherlandphd.bsky.social for covering this development.

What's happening with these grants is much more complicated and mostly unknown. None of the NIH have been officially cancelled. The NIH was just ordered to stop paying. They got the Unis to enforce silence on their own campuses because they thought they were "negotiating" and cld get the funds back.

On Friday, my son stayed home from school because he had a sore throat and wasn’t feeling well. He went with my husband to his office for the morning while I handled our daughter. When he came back at lunch, he was not interested in eating, saying his throat hurt too much. 1/n

Here’s just the most recent of the many NCCIH studies of #pain (from colleague @alexchesler.bsky.social published last week in Nature). Nearly 50% of NCCIH funding goes to studying pain, with a focus on nonpharmacological treatments and mechanisms. The proposed budget eliminates NCCIH.

While I know next to nothing about the DRG, it was fun to listen to the work done by @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social and collaborators. Super important work! Also appreciated his hopeful messages for the future, as I and others have been short on hope recently. #usasp2025

Don’t miss our symposium today 5/1 11:45 Caribbean Room at #usasp2025 - Pain Research Enters the Age of Big Data - we want to share our data with you!

Awesome plenary!

Really interesting talks regarding sleep and pain at #usasp2025. Shout out to Dr. Tham from Seattle Children’s Hospital. @usasp.bsky.social

How will you use A2CPS data to answer questions about pain, health and disease? Baseline data available now. More at a2cps.org/researchers/

New research links fibromyalgia pain to the gut microbiome. Transplanting healthy gut bacteria reduced pain in mice—and in a small clinical trial, improved symptoms in women. @karapedsgastrodoc.bsky.social @nyupainresearch.bsky.social www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Eugenics is fake science. But it’s creeping back into public discourse—through political rhetoric, bad policy, & scientific silence. We’re seeing this pseudoscience rebrand itself once again as legitimate. We must call it what it is—& stop it before it spreads further. We’ve seen where this leads.

DOGE appears to have ordered a 50% cut in the budget of the National Science Foundation, leading its director, appointed by Trump in his first term, to resign. www.science.org/content/arti...

An example of what we in the NIH Intramural program can accomplish. Excited to share our latest paper in close collaboration with Nick Ryba's group. We examined how inflammation transforms representation in somatosensory neurons to cause pain. Lots of surprises here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📣 We’d love to hear from anyone who has used or considered using the Equity Check feature on our website to develop their #impsci research questions! 📣 ➡️ What was most helpful? ➡️ What could we do better? ➡️ What did we miss?

🚨URGENT RESPONSE CALL🚨 You’ve seen the bad news. Now it’s time for us to flood the zone. Over 400 NSF grants — gone. Trump’s cronies are cutting science funding and betting we won’t notice. But we’re not powerless. We’ve got 24 hours to make noise. Here’s how 🧵(1/3) ➡️

Federal funding for the Women’s Health Initiative, which as one of the largest research projects in women’s health has shaped treatment of menopause, osteoporosis, and nutrition, will stop in September.

My story about @kevinh-phd.bsky.social, nutrition and metabolism scientist at N.I.H., who felt compelled to take early retirement after experiencing censorship of his work under the new administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/w...

#PTJournal editorial board members will help host a @health.nationalacademies.org workshop on #ChronicPain April 17-18: Topics include: - Pain identification strategies - Treatment & Management - Outcomes - Disability Determinations www.nationalacademies.org/event/43975_...

US students. Looking to apply to graduate school? Had an offer rescinded recently? The University of British Columbia in Canada will re-open the application portal in some departments for US students from April 14-18. Details: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant... #ubc #AcademicSky #PhDSky #ScienceSky

Bravo to colleagues at @uwsph.bsky.social for sharing their stories in @newyorker.com to highlight the negative human and economic impacts of the reckless, indiscriminate, wasteful, and partisan cancellation of important funding for science: www.newyorker.com/news/deep-st...

Amid the Trump admin's dismantling of the US scientific ecosystem, Nobel Prize-winner @ardemp.bskyverified.social writes on @cnn.com: "I’ve already been approached with an offer to relocate my lab to China, complete with a promise of 20 years of stable research funding." www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...

During COVID, we learned the hard way that nearly all our hospital PPE i.e. masks, gowns, gloves comes from China. A 104% tariff could send us straight back to pandemic-level shortages or drive healthcare costs even higher.🫠

More, or should I say, less pain at NIH... Dismemberment of the Office of Pain Policy and Planning office www.statnews.com/2025/04/08/n...

Thank you, Sean! So fortunate to have you as a mentor and colleague.

#handsoff Topeka KS

#HandsOff in a small town in ruby red Alabama

Can’t leave the country but at least I can return to patient care. Still feeling super bummed. I really enjoyed my research training and was hoping to write a grant for a career development award in the next year

Economists point out that cuts to federally-funded scientific research will leave Americans poorer, less healthy, and less productive, while threatening U.S. competitiveness in fields like AI. Read more in this article from the NYTimes. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/b...

The only relevant political point is that Republican members of Congress are all supporting these tariffs 100%. They could stop them at any moment. Each day is on them. Everyone with a messaging bullhorn needs to make that clear. They can pull the plug now or pay the price at the polls next year.

Listen: I went on KUOW to defend WA bike shops from the proposed e-bike tax #SEAbikes #WA

Linda Porter has been an absolute hero to the pain research community for decades. She worked tirelessly and selflessly to promote a better future for people with chronic pain. Absolutely crazy to cut off her and her office’s important leadership.

Other RIFs The Pain Policy and Planning office at NINDS www.ninds.nih.gov/about-ninds/...

My heart breaks for people with chronic pain and the people who care for them.

I wrote an op-ed about my experience as an early career researcher right now… TLDR, it’s pretty rough out there guys Thank you to @sufsnewmexico.bsky.social for inspiring the piece and to ABQ Journal for publishing

And this was easily the most important session I attended. Thank you for offering it #sbm2025

So much great stuff at #sbm2025 but real talk—this was my favorite session!

🚨 Over 70 graduate programs in the biological and biomedical sciences have frozen or slashed admissions. The consequences are profound—how many brilliant minds are being shut out of research entirely? How much future discovery is being lost before it even begins? docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

This hurts to see but it’s important to see to. What can early career scientists do if they love research and want to stay in it?

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What a wonderful presentation! Very thought-provoking. Thank you!

Talking about Whole Health at the keynote this morning at #sbm2025. Music to my physio ears!