Sharing science means bringing it closer to everyday life. The QPRN makes pain research accessible to everyone through knowledge mobilization. And you, do you prefer learning about new discoveries through audio, video, or reading? #NPAW2025

From coast to coast, we’re passing the phone. 📱 See how CPS members across Canada are taking part in National Pain Awareness Week. #NPAW2025 #PrioritizePain

🚨 Mark your calendars for #NAPainSchool 🗣️ Please share with anyone that might be interested to join leading experts in the pain research field for an exceptional week of training, networking and more! northamericanpainschool.com/registration/ #Pain #PainResearch #NPAW2025 #PrioritizePain

🟣#PAINtalks ALERT 🟣 Don’t miss our special 10th anniversary edition! 👉 Scan the QR code on the picture or click on the link to register: event.fourwaves.com/paintalks202... @rqrd-qprn.bsky.social @napainschool.bsky.social @canadianpain.bsky.social

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

How does chronic pain impact an artist’s style and craft? Check out this conversation between @napainschool.bsky.social Patient Partner @sandrawoodsmtl.bsky.social and Science Communicator @shirinshs.bsky.social discussing the creation of #ArtDespitePain bit.ly/4onsZMW #P#ArtDespitePain#PRF #NAPS2025

How can you feel “grounded” when your body is in pain? Check out this conversation where @napainschool.bsky.social Patient Partner @quanamadison.bsky.social and Science Communicator @shirinshs.bsky.social discuss how art helped to find power in her own story bit.ly/4navXTQ #P#PRF #NAPS2025

🎤 Call for Symposia Proposals topics related to clinical practice, basic science or mechanisms, and translational research related to pain. Ideally, presentations include multiple disciplines. The deadline to submit proposals is October 15, 2025

Have you ever wondered what it is like to speak with a faculty member at @NAPainSchool.bsky.social? Check out this interview between Daniela Maria Escobar Espinal and Kirsty Bannister today! bit.ly/4gO5TMF #PRF #ScienceCommunicators

#NAPainSchool Interviews📰 Check out our interview with @sandrawoodsmtl.bsky.social, patient partner and artist, courtesy of NAPS Science Communicator @shirinshs.bsky.social from @mcgill.ca 👉 northamericanpainschool.com/journeying-t...

🎉Introducing the SKIP Resource Commons!🎉 Come explore our new and improved one-stop-shop, where you can get SKIP’s evidence-informed resources for children's pain management, all in one place! Start exploring today! 👉 tinyurl.com/58anrzz3 #ItDoesntHaveToHurt

#NAPainSchool Interviews📰 Check out our interview with @quanamadison.bsky.social, patient partner and artist, courtesy of NAPS Science Communicator @shirinshs.bsky.social from @mcgill.ca. 📑 👉 northamericanpainschool.com/finding-powe...

Our new paper is out! @ghasemloulab.bsky.social The cover art was created by @quanamadison.bsky.social inspired by her own experiences with chronic pain. It all started with a chat at the back of a taxi while at @napainschool.bsky.social and ended up with a beautiful piece of art.

🚀 Now Open: CPN Social Media Hack-a-thon 2025/2026 Calling all pain research trainees in Canada! ✨ Why join? • Gain knowledge mobilization and social media skills • Build your CV with a tangible project • Network with peers, mentors & patient partners 🗓️ Oct. 6, 2025 forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Our study investigating a HOME-BASED sensory testing tool-kit in youth undergoing surgery with regional anesthesia is now published in RAPM! See our summary below⬇️ FREE: rapm.bmj.com/content/earl...

📣 NOW OPEN: ICOD 2026 Call for Submissions Want to present your med. appropriateness & deprescribing work to international peers and leaders in the field? Submit your scientific abstracts, workshops, panels, and seminars before Oct 15: www.deprescribingnetwork.ca/icod2026

#NAPainSchool News 📰 Kirsty Bannister @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, discusses her research, her experience as a woman in science, her advice for trainees, and much more with @danielamesc.bsky.social 📑 👉 northamericanpainschool.com/interviews/ #painresearch #painschool #WomeninSTEM

#NAPainSchool News 📰 Check out our interview with Clifford Woolf, courtesy of NAPS Science Communicator Julia Nickols @j-nickols.bsky.social. painresearchforum.org/from-mechani...

📣 Help shape the future of pediatric pain care! SKIP is building a new strategic plan + implementation guide — and we want your input. 💬 Take the survey before Sept 15 + enter to win a prize pack! 🎁 🔗 tinyurl.com/mry746kb #ItDoesntHaveToHurt

🚺 Dr. @jeffreymogil.bsky.social was invited to discuss with and Dr. Gillian Einstein during The Fifth Wave podcast, about gender bias in #MedicalResearch and potential solutions. 🎙️👉 open.spotify.com/episode/4Ycc...

Our paper is now out in @elife.bsky.social: Acute aerobic exercise intensity does not modulate pain potentially due to differences in fitness levels and sex effects: results from a pharmacological fMRI study (with @christianbuchel.bsky.social and Tahmine Fadai). Read it here: doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

WIASC artist @sandrawoods_creative_arts is featured this week in the Montreal Guardian news for her #watercolour painting & her #ArtDespitePain initiative 🗞 📰 You can read the profile at: montrealguardian.com/montreal-art...

🎉 The #PxP25 (For Patients, By Patients) virtual conference is back! A free event on patient engagement in health research, designed to meet patient needs and supported by an international committee of patient partners. 🎟️ pxphub.org/event/free-t... Event supported by CIHR-IMHA

Congratulations to Yenisel Cruz-Almeida @yeniselca.bsky.social, #NAPainSchool Executive Committee member and Jennifer Daly-Cyr @jendalycyr.bsky.social previous patient partner attenting NAPS on being awarded the The Mayday Pain & Society Fellowship: Communicating Science & Improving Care 2025-2026!

🚨 NAPSter Alert! We’re just 6 feedback forms away from preserving our legendary 10-year streak of 100% completion. Don’t be that person in NAPS history. 🫣 Spare us 3 minutes and your thoughts . Your feedback matters to us, especially @jeffreymogil.bsky.social !

Check it out! Dr. Juliet Mwirigi hosts a lively discussion with a panel of leading migraine researchers and clinicians. What successes have we had in understanding and treating it and what challenges do we still face? Produced by Lite Yang and Dr. Adam Dourson. Listen here: tinyurl.com/397vvar5

Don't forget to fill out #NAPainSchool evaluation survey! Your feedback is important not only to improve NAPS, but will also help us produce our sponsor report! 📝 💌Check your emails!

Join our member Prof. @jeffreymogil.bsky.social (@mcgill.ca) for his lecture “Pain, Sex, and Death”: sex and gender differences in relation to various aspects of #pain. 📆 Today, July 14, at 2 p.m., on Zoom 👉 utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @cogsresearch.bsky.social

Any #NAPainSchool grads in the US interested in this? #chronicpain @napainschool.bsky.social

“Patient partnership is fundamentally about the democratization of science.” 📢 Must read @thejournalofpain.bsky.social piece by Katie Birnie & Alexandra Neville shows how patient partnership is essential to advance pain research. 🔗 tinyurl.com/2p6xjtjs #ItDoesntHaveToHurt

Hey #NAPSters and everyone who attended #NAPainSchool this year! Please take a bit of time to fill out our survey! We need your feedbacks to improve NAPS for years to come. Such retroactions are vital since we rely on your opinions & impressions of the event to steer future decisions regarding NAPS.

What an incredible week we had in Montebello! 🍁 Huge thanks to everyone who attended #NAPainSchool, to our sponsors and to Fairmont Le Château Montebello team who made this event once again successful and unforgettable!

🟣 #PAINTalks ALERT 🟣 🚨 Last days to apply! Submit your talk by Thursday, July 3rd 🎥 Check out last year’s @napainschool.bsky.social #BestPresentation winner: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9bf... Maybe you could be the winner this year! ✨ 👉 Apply now: event.fourwaves.com/paintalks202...

🎙️ #LetsTalkAboutPain : Prof. Jeffrey Mogil (@mcgill.ca, #QPRN member) discusses #PainResearch with McGill University PhD candidate Hannah Derue: impacts of studies, challenges to overcome, ideal future for #PainCare. 🔬 Listen here 👉 open.spotify.com/episode/7m9e... #SciComm #Podcast #PainTreatment

My step count from dancing last night, after the @napainschool.bsky.social graduation ceremony... before my watch-tracker reset at midnight, but while we were still dancing the night away (19,158 steps!) 🎶🎵🎶 I'm sure MANY of you had even more steps from "dance therapy"! 😉

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Parting thought for @napainschool.bsky.social ✨️ A French 'poem board' along the trail near the hotel is an excerpt from a letter by Montréal lawyer & politician Louis-Joseph Papineau (1786 - 1871) to his son Amédée on June 30, 1855; almost 170 years ago ✒️ My rough & modern translation...

Need some comfort after the pain-testing workshop at @napainschool.bsky.social ? The adorable hotel dog is ready for some cuddles, near the front door 🐕

Fabulous mock media interviews by 4 of the NAPSters, with science journalist & exec editor Neil Andrews at @napainschool.bsky.social, to help better communicate their pain research to journalists - and people living with #ChronicPain 🎤 . Jonathan Enders . Andrea Thomas . Jeffrey Boon . Nicky Pope

A question came up during a @NAPainSchool presentation tonight 🍁 What are "Birthing peoples"?🧸 "In our paper, we use the terms “birthing people” & “birthing parent” to refer to people who give birth but do not identify as women" bmcpregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #napainschool

Welcome back at #NAPainSchool @neilscicomm.bsky.social with a new workshop looking into what journalists need from scientists and what scientists shouls expect in return. ✍️ 📚 @migrainecollab.bsky.social

A few sips of fruit smoothie to wake up, then Yoga outdoors at 0700 again today overlooking the lake 🏞 With a bonus chipmunk visit! 🐿 Lovely low-impact way to start the day at @napainschool.bsky.social ✨️ #napainschool

🌞 nice day for a workshop at #NAPainSchool with @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social

Our #NAPSter @starzecproserpio.bsky.social is answering a question about #vulvodynia 👇

Another tip for @napainschool.bsky.social ✔️ Ask if your hospital or university has a Patient Partnership Office (PPO or similar) that can help connect you with patients who're interested in being involved in - or just talking about - research 🏥 PS: For anyone at McGill, the MUHC does have a PPO!

Fabulous questions about #chronicpain & #patientengagement from the NAPSters at @napainschool.bsky.social 💥 Feel free TO KEEP asking questions, during coffee breaks & meals - or just in the hallway! #napainschool

Ask-A-Patient session is happening now at #NAPainSchool with @sandrawoodsmtl.bsky.social and @quanamadison.bsky.social Thank you for the opportunity of learning more about your experience with #pain and healthcare services. 🙏

Important takeaway message from a fabulous & honest talk by Kirsty Bannister - a Visiting Faculty member at @napainschool.bsky.social (NAPS 2025): "Basic scientists engaging with patients leads to better fundamental research strategies" for pain & #chronicpain ✔️ #napainschool

This is a unique opportunity for esteemed pain professionals and promising international researchers. Looking forward to following @napainschool.bsky.social post over the next week.