It was an honor to give a talk before such an incredible crowd of researchers at the NIH Pain in Animals workshop! #PainResearch

Check it out! An interview on pain mechanisms and therapeutics with Dr. Clifford Woolf, PhD, MB, Bch of Harvard Medical School by Julia Nickols at the North American Pain School is now posted on PRF! painresearchforum.org. @utdpaincenter.bsky.social @iasp.bsky.social @usasp.bsky.social

Another week, another ARM device installed. This time in the lab of HHMI Investigator Richard Palmiter. They are doing cool long-term pain studies and this device is perfect for their needs.

Excited to see Jeff Mogil getting an ARM device in his lab for automated and remote mechanical stimulation for use in pre-clinical pain & somatosensation studies.

Nothing makes you hungrier than a time zone change and a missed lunch. Looking forward to these tacos, Seattle let’s see what you’ve got!

Enjoyed my first times in Chicago and @usasp.bsky.social this past week! So much exciting work happening in the pain field, I have a feeling that the groundwork for some fantastic collaborations was laid this week!

My first time at #usasp2025. Great science, new and old friends. First talk in a symposium at an international conference. Thank you to my co-speakers @stefpuig.bsky.social and Ream Al-Asani

Cool new study from @vabraira.bsky.social lab on tactile hypersensitivity associated with chronic pain. Glad we could collaborate. One cool thing Abraira lab did was use high-speed videography plus the PAWS pain detection system for uncovering pain behaviors. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy to see this device in the lab of a happy customer. There is much to do to improve pre-clinical pain/touch research, and we strongly believe this automated robot ARM can become a gold standard in the field. Exciting to see so many orders coming in!

Thanks to @justinburdge.bsky.social and @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social for delivering the ARM device to our lab, which includes Drs Kevin Tracey, Sangeeta Chavan, and Huan Yang. We'll use the ARM for high-resolution automated assessments of pain sensitivity in the context of neurogenic inflammation!

So excited to announce the first of TACTORUM’s ARM devices for automating pain/touch assays in mice has been delivered to @changsbrain.bsky.social ‘s lab at @northwellhealth.bsky.social. Looking forward to all the exciting questions they will explore with it!

I’ve always thought experimental schematics should include time of even, if just a range. Instead I can’t remember the last methods section that included it.

I started 2025 with so much enthusiasm for the science I would do… that’s pretty much evaporated

WTF! So starting Monday NIH indirects to all universities moved to 15%. This would cripple schools. This is madness. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

So I come up for air from coding all day, and apparently my NSF grant will probably be rejected because I referred to female mice and barriers to entry for a scientific technique. I got nothing.

Monumental day for pain management and the study of pain.

Gotta say conductors trying out their standup via the subway intercom is in objective improvement.

If I decided to study instead of going to @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social talk to an undergrad neuro club freshman year, pain research would have never even crossed my mind.

BOOM! Identification of a PIEZO2+, KIT+, and TRPM8+ A fiber nociceptor subtype that is responsible for human hair pull pain: www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5... @saadnagi.bsky.social and colleagues, well done!

Rats driving little rat cars 🥹 shows that complex environments enhance neuroplasticity but we’ve also learned from them that skill acquisition & delayed gratification improves cognitive function & produces bolder problem-solving strategies via dopaminergic reward systems www.bbc.com/future/artic...

BOOM! Re-upping our Pain Research Starter Pack since so many people have joined this glorious place in the past week. If you are not on the list and want to be added, let me know and I will add you... I have been doing my best to keep this updated. #painresearch go.bsky.app/KboKNhg

My lab studies both lab mice and naked mole rats. There is a belief amongst some that what we discover in mice will be universally true, and what we discover in naked mole rats will be a weird mole rat quirk. I believe this mouse-centric view of biological systems is very limiting.

Oh to be a dog sleeping in an armchair instead of a scientist working on a grant… #Science #Neuroskyence

🎉Ach, calretinin+, and more (-) expression in Rh🐒means we can start to connect functional cell groups like here doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... to “omics” cell types, and selectively manipulate circuits! It’s a big deal for understanding population dynamics. Thanks to authors and funders: Brain Initiative!

Pain = main driver of clinical decision making in osteoarthritis (OA). Our lab studies OA pain mechanisms. During OA, multiple cell-cell interactions occur, many mediators being released that alter the contents of the synovial fluid. #PainResearch #Neuroskyence journals.lww.com/pain/Fulltex...

Cool new paper from Camilla Svensson’s team and a reminder to not give up understanding NGF signsling for pain treatment! journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...

Happy to announce that our paper is now published in Science Advances! science.org/doi/10.1126/...

My first Bluesky post. Such a thrilling night as special guests of @ardemp.bsky.social for the Harvey lecture and dinner. Fun to celebrate Ardem and piezos, while spending time with friends with a shared passion for science.

New app and so many new followers, so I’ll do a quick skydive on my work over the years using automation and high speed imaging to improve the techniques we use to measure pain in rodents! #PainResearch #Neuroscience

Had a great time today presenting our preclinical pain assay automation tech at Columbia & SUNY pitch day! Excited to bring this tech to more labs with my co-founders Ishmail Abdus-Saboor and Agnes Gjekmarkaj. #Pain #PreclinicalPain #PainResearch

I started (at @katesadlerphd.bsky.social's suggestion, thanks Kate for pushing me) a pain neuroscience and pain research starter pack. I am sure I have missed many people so if I missed you, I am sorry, but please just ask me to add you in the thread below and I will do that. go.bsky.app/KboKNhg

Excited to start a Bluesky account and a new position as a post doctoral fellow at the Abraira Lab at Rutgers continuing my work in #PainResearch. Follow to learn more about my work building robot ARM’s to poke mice, and exploring new ways to analyze their responses! t.co/rf2gytNTc6