🌟 This paper was led by Brooke Magel alongside all-star co-authors Iris Coates McCall, Kayle Donner, Rachael Bosma, Emeralda Burke MHE, BSc., CHIM, Jennifer Chandler, Chris Lo, Dwayne Patmore, @javeedsukhera.bsky.social , & @karenddavis.bsky.social 7/9

🗣️ New paper from the CAMH Everyday Ethics Lab! 🧠 Do disease-based explanations of chronic pain reduce stigma? This is the question we set out to answer in our new paper in the @thejournalofpain.bsky.social #bioethics #neuroethics #stigma 1/9

🔗 www.jpain.org/article/S152... 9/9

The study that I won a poster award for in the “Pain and sensory disorders” category at last year’s UofT CPIN research day was published this month in EJP!! If you have not read it yet here is the link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

latest from the Davis Lab: journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....

It's the best feeling seeing your work presented to others in the field and was a privilege to get to collect neuroimaging and behavioral data from people with chronic pain receiving SCS treatment @karenddavis.bsky.social. Images from Dr. Anuj Bhatia's presentation and my final PhD paper publication

Latest from the Davis lab led by @rimaelsayed.bsky.social Alpha Oscillations and Conditioned Pain Modulation Is Associated With Treatment Resistance to Spinal Cord Stimulation for Neuropathic Pain - El‐Sayed 2026 European Journal of Pain - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Alpha power distinguishes conditioned pain modulation subgroups. @karenddavis.bsky.social et al. find that associations between peak alpha frequency and inhibitory conditioned pain modulation strengths are sex- and paradigm-dependent in the sgACC #PAIN bit.ly/3Zk0F3q

Recommendations for the inclusion and study of sex and gender in research | Nature Neuroscience share.google/3nC26u8WJvpQ...

now out from the Davis lab: journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...

💙⚾ Expert tips for Jays fans from Canada’s Hospital! From calm minds to strong hearts, TeamUHN experts share their best advice to help fans stay playoff-ready. Canada’s Hospital is cheering on Canada’s Team. Go Jays Go! 🏥🍁 #WANTITALL

Canada’s Hospital is ready to cheer on Canada’s Team! 🏥🍁 The Toronto Blue Jays are in the World Series, and TeamUHN is all in! This is a great moment and point of pride for our city, our province, and our country. Go Jays Go!💙⚾ #WANTITALL

Huge congrats to @jenstinson.bsky.social from @sickkidsto.bsky.social for receiving the Order of Merit from the Canadian Nurses Association. Very well deserved! www.utoronto.ca/celebrates/j...

🎙️✨ Congratulations to Dr. @karenddavis.bsky.social, Senior Scientist at UHN’s Krembil Brain Institute, on her recent interview on Pain Exchange, a podcast by the International Association for the Study of Pain! ▶️ Click the link below to listen to the episode! ⬇️ 🔗: linktr.ee/krembil

The cover art, painted by the brilliant Kathleen Sluka, shows a stairway symbolizing the many steps toward truly individualized pain research built on understanding the biological processes and factors that shape patient-reported outcomes. #sciart #neuroart bit.ly/4opxhDw

We're extremely proud to announce #PAIN's 2025 supplemental issue: Advancing Pain Research and Management for the Next 50 Years. The entire issue is free to read on our website! bit.ly/3IQ6hOq

A special thanks to all the authors who contributed to this special issue, the leadership and vision of our Editor-in-Chief @karenddavis.bsky.social and all the scientists and clinicians who are paving the way to a brighter future for pain relief and management! bit.ly/3IQ6hOq

October’s #PAIN cover art is from Isler et al.’s new study. They find that spinal microglia become reactive and trigger hypersensitivity in response to combined optogenetic activation of nociceptive and nonnociceptive fibers. Learn more in #PAIN bit.ly/4nssUHO

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 and be sure to submit your topical workshop proposals by Wednesday to be considered! bit.ly/3K7OuT6

🤕 Did you know that September is #PainAwarenessMonth? Dr. Karen Davis (@karenddavis.bsky.social), Senior Scientist at UHN’s Krembil Brain Institute, was recently featured in a @washingtonpost.com article looking at “who’s more sensitive to pain, men or women? 🔗: linktr.ee/krembil

This #PainAwarenessMonth, we’re celebrating 50 years of #PAIN. Here's a rare glimpse of some recent print issues in EiC @karenddavis.bsky.social's office. Can any of our subscribers beat this collection?

This #PainAwanressMonth, celebrate PAIN’s 50th anniversary with us in recognition of its impact on pain research and management around the world. bit.ly/466vb3W

The 50th anniversary of PAIN essay series highlights the life and work of past Editors-in-Chief—the first three are available for free right now for #PainAwarnessMonth! bit.ly/46mpCiT

Our latest linking CPM with PAF journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...

Dr. Sanjay Gupta on the mysteries of chronic pain - CBS News share.google/NLejLiBtZt96...

Dear Smithsonian.......send your historical records to Canada before they're destroyed.

It would add to a string of recent efforts by U.S. health agencies to change and undermine immunization policy since Secretary Kennedy, a prominent vaccine skeptic, took the helm. www.cnbc.com/2025/08/12/f...

A federal judge has ordered the NSF to restore about 300 grants to UCLA that it suspended on 30 July, saying the agency violated a preliminary injunction she issued in June after NSF terminated a different set of grants to researchers across the UC system. https://scim.ag/4oz2FAh

Delighted that the editors of 15 Pain and Anaesthesiology have chosen to endorse and amplify the ENTRUST-PE framework. More info here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/entrus... @iasp.bsky.social @efic.bsky.social @britishpainsoc.bsky.social @ukrio.bsky.social @coarassessment.bsky.social

Editorial commitment to trust and integrity in science: implications for pain and anesthesiology research journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...

Thank you to everyone who joined TeamUHN at the 2025 Toronto Pride Parade! 🌈 Progress in 2SLGBTQIA+ rights, including in health care, has resulted from decades of work by those who refused to be invisible. We are proud and grateful to walk alongside our staff and patients!

Proud to work @uhn.ca

📰✨Congratulations to Dr. Karen Davis (@karenddavis.bsky.social), Senior Scientist at UHN’s Krembil Brain Institute, for her recent feature in The Pain Issue, a magazine by the University of Toronto’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine! 🔗: linktr.ee/krembil

The conflict that began last week when Israeli drone and missile attacks destroyed nuclear facilities and killed top officials and weapons scientists in Iran has also devastated a top Israeli science institution, the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot. scim.ag/44lkDhq

CNN reporter visits hospital struck in Israel www.cnn.com/2025/06/19/w...

Breaking news: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the drug lenacapavir as an HIV preventive. The approval comes at a time when global health cuts could stall its rollout. scim.ag/4e9FVSp

Nobel Laureate (and friend of Stand Up for Science!) Dr. Ardem Patapoutian is taking to the streets! We are in this together ✊ #StandUpforScience #NoKings

Today, I learned that my history of pain theories paper has hit 1000 citations. This was a genuine labour of love - and I'm so delighted (and grateful) to see that so many people read it, and then cited it! I know 1000 isn't a lot for many on here, but I am very proud of this achievement.

Carney’s ‘Canada Strong Pass’ to come into effect on June 20

What does 18,000+ brave signatories look like standing together in massive solidarity with the #NIH heroes of the historic Bethesda Declaration??... Find out by adding YOUR NAME to our #NIHLove letter here! - actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na... #StandUpForScience #BethesdaDeclaration #StopTrump

Jayanta Bhattacharya says the NIH can’t continue ‘business as usual’ if it wants to restore its reputation. https://go.nature.com/4l2Kgt3

🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives. This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle. 🧵(1/5)

Breaking news: Staff at the National Institutes of Health have issued a declaration calling on their director to depoliticize the agency and reverse spending cuts.