I discuss cortical columns and human neuroimaging (circa 2021) youtu.be/SdzMNQ0u2wg?...

Inquiring minds: does anyone know any foundations that support Master's level graduate students from outside the US for training inside the US?

Sixteen months ago I discussed my lab's work on health disparities in medical device technology. Not much has changed except federal funding for this work is more difficult to obtain than ever before. youtu.be/cUTwDswwECg?...

Watch my graduate student Maya Lewis present her master's thesis work comparing LASSO regression to machine learning models in a dataset of PTSD-like symptoms and related psychological variables collected during the COVID-19 pandemic youtu.be/UgS3go9q4wA?...

I'm confident that the last 75 years is the first time in history that physical pain wasn't a normal part of people's lives, and it shows in the loss of empathy and rise of self-centeredness...

A brief but funny personal childhood introduction on my new YouTube channel, Professor Meeker's Science Ruins Everything youtu.be/F8-rfXsOT5k?...

So I started a YouTube channel titled Professor Meeker's Science Ruins Everything: youtu.be/nxTMRGaOmMQ?...

When Americans shoot themselves in the foot, they kill a lot of other people too. And not just in the health sphere. Climate, Education and FOOD.

Well, Harvard is definitely not going to be leading the way on any pushes for academic freedom. How spineless... www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Whenever you see the word 'meritocracy', just realize it is code for elitism, classism, and exclusion.

We failed to stop fascism's rise. Now it's dancing about on the White House lawn. I don't know how to fix all this but I do know that the shit we've been doing won't get us out of this one. shatterzone.substack.com/p/we-failed-...

In case you're curious, this is the internal Meta "fuck DEI" announcement received by Meta employees

This is why I chose to do medical research into neuropathic pain. The red line in the picture on the left is the approximate height my mother was in her prime. The picture on the right is an MRI of her spine. The vertebrae in the lower circle is L1; the radiologist note was 'dislocated spine.'

The holidays are always a bit hard for me. On Dec 27, six years ago, my mother died at 62 after 24 years of chronic pain. A chronic pain patient of the 1990s, she was on opioids most of the time. She died in the nursing home after being given her normal dose of morphine after 109 days in hospital.

Hosted my first official lab meeting today. PAINlab (Perception and Attention Intergrative Neuroscience Lab) is officially open. Thank you to everyone who got me here. I'm just the idea man.

76 years ago #OnThisDay men and women from every country and every culture, every religion and worldview, came together to agree that some values were shared and should forever be protected as rights for all.' @andrewcopson.bsky.social #HumanRightsDay2024 andrewcopson.com/2024/12/cele...

A deep dive into the digital footprint of Luigi Mangione, a man radicalized by pain. shatterzone.substack.com/p/alleged-ce...

#BREAKING Syria defence ministry research centre destroyed after strikes: AFP correspondents

“NIH produces an astounding return on investment to the American taxpayer. In Fiscal Year 2022, NIH research funding supported 568,585 jobs and generated $96.84 billion in economic activity — that’s $2.64 of economic activity for every $1 of research funding.” www.researchamerica.org/2023-oped-us...

A LITTLE LOUDER FOR THE STUDY SECTIONS IN THE BACK: ". . . classical functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) . . . can be reliable when averaged across tens of people, or even in an individual, given sufficient repetition."

Finally started the process to order the last pieces of equipment for the lab. It's been a bureaucratic struggle, but most IRBs are approved, and funding is lined up. Writing discussion section for my first senior author paper tomorrow. It's all happening, and I'm a bit scared it's all an illusion.

Huge influx of neuroscientists migrates to Bluesky www.thetransmitter.org/community/hu... #Neuroscience

Former postdoc mentor, Fred Lenz and I published a review of the human thalamus involvement in pain from the perspective of his 35+ year research career. journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Earlier this year some inimitable colleagues and I started an international Neuroimaging of Pain working group with ENIGMA: journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...

Turns out long bouts of acute, experimental pain increases tension and anxiety. Now, we have an experimental model of the phenomenon. www.dovepress.com/vigilance-to...

Posting our last 2 years of publications since that's how long ago I quit Twitter and they stole my username: www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Love Albert