In 1956, Jim Watson told my father, a brown man, that he would never get a job at Harvard and it was a miracle he had been admitted . Harvard's Board of Trustees saw it differently & appointed dad as an Assistant Professor and Director of the Harvard Agassiz Observatory BEFORE he finished his Ph.D!

Check out our newest demonstrating feasabilty of sub-mm whole brain EEG-fMRI at 7T. Happy to have been part of this amazing collaboration and thank you so much to Cristina and João for leading this project 😊👍.

The BIG DRG paper is now up on @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... so many people worked so hard to make this happen. Props to the whole PRECISION Human Pain Network.

Join us on November 13th for a free talk, hosted by the kNOw-PAIN Group, featuring Marco Loggia, Ph.D. titled "Towards a whole-person study of inflammation in human chronic pain." This talk is available in-person with Zoom available on request. Please see below for more details!

Join us for our next #a2cps Journal Club featuring @ghasemloulab.bsky.social to discuss circadian rhythms as a #biomarker of #chronicpain conditions. Thurs Dec 4 noon ET, registration is free through the PURPOSE Network painresearchers.com/topics/22512...

This is 🤯 All publicly available. Looks like an amazing new histology-based human probabilistic atlas and parcellation tool. #neuroskyence #mri #brainmapping A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation | Nature share.google/5AD0iW7pxgb4...

This new prospective study followed 108 individuals with acute low back pain. Their immune profiles predicted transition from acute to chronic low back pain in a sex- and age-specific manner with some pretty impressive AUCs. journals.lww.com/pain/abstrac... #neuroskyence #painresearch #physio

Linking Electrophysiological Metrics to Oxidative Metabolism: Implications for EEG-fMRI Association https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.04.686568v1

Finally out in J Neurophysiology led by @daspainbrain.bsky.social with @andpru.bsky.social: journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...

And that’s a wrap. Our second annual AGM for @tridentpct.bsky.social is over. Thank you to all our trainees, faculty and advisors. And a HUGE ❤️ to my admin core (L-R) Sarah, Sriram and Sherry for pulling this off at the Ivey DKJ Centre in Toronto. Take a few days off !

We wrote a blog post about common misconceptions of basic EPI parameters. Test your knowledge of EPI myths. layerfmri.com/epimyths/ 1/3

Register for our November seminar now! Check out the link in our bio for more information.

PEPR is proud to support the Putting the Pieces Together Conference. Tune in now, and throughout the week. You can find more information here: www.paincanada.ca/events/putti...

🧵The Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Science and Research has put forward a motion to release ALL data in relation to federal research funding applications. This motion was put forward by conservative MPs who are skeptical of funding being allocated "fairly."

From November 2 to 8, it’s National Pain Awareness Week. A week to shed light on the reality of chronic pain and the people dedicated to understanding and addressing it. Follow #NPAW2025 to stay tuned! #PrioritizePain @paincanada.bsky.social @painbc.bsky.social

The latest work from our PRECISION Human Pain Center project is now up on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social led by Katherin Gabriel and @oliviadavis.bsky.social with a huge contribution from @allanhpool.bsky.social's lab and, of course, the Southwest Transplant Alliance: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We are seeking a senior tenured professor in our Department working on affective and/or motivational neuroscience (defined in the ad, but pretty broad). The idea is that this person is going help lead our growth in this area alongside our excellent Centers. jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/30693

Reward-induced endogenous pain inhibition scales with action-outcome certainty in humans https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.31.685818v1

A new season of OHBM Neurosalience has started. Here's our kickoff episode where I talk with Lead Producer, Michelle Li about highlights from the past season, reaching our 100th episode, the controversial DIANA paper from last year, and what to expect. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFcq...

[email protected] CRC in Sensorimotor Neuroscience and @schulichmeddent.bsky.social professor and his collaborators recently published in Nature on how our brains not only plan out our actions, but they actually anticipate unexpected disturbances. Learn more: news.westernu.ca/2025/10/sens...

One in four comatose (behaviourally non-responsive) patients in the ICU following a serious brain injury show us they are aware using fNIRS - published today. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Variability in #NeuralActivity is associated with cognition, but how does it relate to pain? @li-bo-zhang.bsky.social &co show that neural variability correlates with how individuals perceive #pain intensity in different contexts @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/48QPR2S

Stoked to see our study out in final form! Big kudos to @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social for driving this along for the past 5 years.

Check out our latest work led by @joeyzhou.bsky.social on alpha oscillatory networks in PLOS Biology! ➡️ journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... Do ongoing alpha activity fluctuations influence perceptual sensitivity or criterion?

Papadomanolakis-Pakis et al. developed 2 risk tools to preoperatively predict moderate-to-severe and severe acute postsurgical pain in the postanesthesia care unit. Both demonstrated acceptable predictive performance and clinical utility. #PainReports bit.ly/46VQdnw

BOLD signal changes can oppose oxygen metabolism across the human cortex | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

my department - medical biophysics - is seeking a new chair informal inquiries welcome please share www.uwo.ca/facultyrelat...

Excited to share another #opensource tool from the lab! We have been using this set up to do awake head-fixed scans without the need for any anesthesia on the day of the scans! Now working on integrating licking behaviour and linear treadmill operandum!

HUGE opportunity at Rutgers: jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/675694/d.... They already have such a dynamic pain group there, and such a great history... really an amazing opportunity.

Excited to share the final version of our paper, where we invented a robotic device (ARM) for pain and somatosensory testing in rodents. We are excited to see many groups already getting this device in their labs through our startup company Tactorum Inc. elifesciences.org/articles/996...

The webinar that I did for Anabios is now available on youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=llj2...

@schulichmeddent.bsky.social featured Hayley Thorpe’s latest work: www.schulich.uwo.ca/about/news-e... @westernuwin.bsky.social @westernuresearch.bsky.social

Speaking of which - a few brains are left in the shop! More soon, based on however long this shutdown lasts (sigh grumble sigh) www.brainedglass.com

Ever wondered about the variety and depth of neuroscience research at the University of Birmingham (if not, why not?)? Seek no further: www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/pro... @thechbh.bsky.social @uob-sop.bsky.social @imh-uob.bsky.social

A great read featuring kNOw-PAIN co-lead @daspainbrain.bsky.social and collaborator Dr. Eldon Loh! Huge steps for pain research!

rsfMRI of the claustrum in 234 scans in awake marmosets, now in press at @imagingneurosci.bsky.social like we showed in humans, rats, and mice previously, claustrum has widespread connectivity to the cortex, especially prefrontal, cingulate, and posterior parietal direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

A lot of hard work over a year went into this. Details to follow when the embargo lifts! What I can say is that good peer review can make a paper much better, even if it takes a year. And these peer reviewers were very helpful and constructive 🙏. You'll be able to read their comments online.

Biophysical simulations of fMRI responses using realistic microvascular models: insights into distinct hemodynamics in humans and mice https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.08.680976v1

pain research @westernu.ca will continue to grow www.schulich.uwo.ca/rapport/2025... @westernknowpain.bsky.social @westernuwin.bsky.social @westernuresearch.bsky.social

Our next speaker for our Meet the Team Talk is Dr. Tommy Chan, the Director of the John H. Kreeft Headache Clinic and an Assistant Clinical Professor at Western University! We'll be starting at 12 with some announcements and updates! To join, visit: knowpain.ca/meettheteam

Our new paper is out in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences; a perspective paper on the DMN, titled "Embodying the default mode network: self-related processing from an embodied perspective" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Just incredible findings, and a beautifully written paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Get your shingrix vaccine! You do not want peripheral neuropathy, and as a bonus you get substantial protection from later development of dementia.

Counting the days to @IASPpain’s World Congress on Pain 2026 in Bangkok? Make the wait easier by revisiting #PAIN’s collection of articles from the 2024 plenary speakers bit.ly/3K7OuT6

wow - and it it's free! great lineup of speakers and topics

It’s official. 🎉Grateful to receive NIH funding for two R01s: one as Sole PI and another in collaboration with UCSD. Thank you to my career mentors and team for their continued support and guidance. @umsomneurosci.bsky.social

New layer-fMRI preprint using simultaneous layer-fMRI with EEG at 7T. Establishing an acquisition and analysis setup to capture layer-fMRI correlates of spontaneous alpha power variations. By Marsh et al. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

We are proud to launch what we think is going to be fantastic opportunity for pain neuroscientists and clinicians to learn the foundations of pain neuroscience

looks decent also improvements in physical function and sleep

What do you think of this preliminary evidence from Tagne et al. in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social showing evidence of dietary prevention of pain chronification? Check out this Editor’s Pick and Qiufu Ma’s comment on #PRF bit.ly/46UsALK