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Justin Burdge, PhD @justinburdge.bsky.social · 15d

And if you’re interested in trying any of our tools in your lab, don’t hesitate to reach out!

Justin Burdge, PhD @justinburdge.bsky.social · 15d

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

Ewan St. John Smith @psalmotoxin.bsky.social · 15d

Next up, it’s @justinburdge.bsky.social talking about tools & analysis for measuring pain behaviours in rodents #PainResearch

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Pain Research Forum @painresforum.bsky.social · Aug 22

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

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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · May 27

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.

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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · May 21

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.

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Justin Burdge, PhD @justinburdge.bsky.social · May 21

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!

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Justin Burdge, PhD @justinburdge.bsky.social · May 3

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!

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Luca Posa @dr-lupo.bsky.social · May 3

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

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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · Apr 23

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...

The dorsal column nuclei scale mechanical sensitivity in naive and neuropathic pain states

During pathological conditions, tactile stimuli can aberrantly engage nociceptive pathways leading to the perception of touch as pain, known as mechan…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · Apr 22

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!

Eric H Chang @changsbrain.bsky.social · Apr 22

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!

ARM device for Automated Reproducible Mechano-stimulation of mice.

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Eric H Chang @changsbrain.bsky.social · Apr 22

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!

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Justin Burdge, PhD @justinburdge.bsky.social · Apr 22

It took so much work to get here, but excited for everything we now have in the pipeline! It’s going to be an exciting month!

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Justin Burdge, PhD @justinburdge.bsky.social · Apr 22

Thanks to @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social for lending his car and so much else to the delivery!

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Justin Burdge, PhD @justinburdge.bsky.social · Apr 22

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!

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Justin Burdge, PhD @justinburdge.bsky.social · Mar 20

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.

Shannon Macauley @macauleylab.bsky.social · Mar 20

The importance of considering time of day for metabolic experiments

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

The time is now: accounting for time-of-day effects to improve reproducibility and translation of metabolism research - Nature Metabolism

This broad group of authors summarizes the impact of circadian factors on metabolic biology and offers recommendations on how to account for and report biological, environmental and experimental facto...

www.nature.com

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Justin Burdge, PhD @justinburdge.bsky.social · Feb 16

Sure 5 seconds is one thing but to do what the article suggests effectively, you need in the order of 10-15 min. A gut check is a good idea, but if we learned one thing from the first go around it should be that we can’t fact check our way out of this.

Justin Burdge, PhD @justinburdge.bsky.social · Feb 16

This feels well intentioned, but it’s also how we lose. The other side is winning by flooding the zone, we can’t win by slowing down further.

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Raul Arturo Ramos-Garcia @ramosneuro.bsky.social · Feb 8

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

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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · Feb 7

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

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD

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Justin Burdge, PhD @justinburdge.bsky.social · Feb 4

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.

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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · Jan 31

Monumental day for pain management and the study of pain.

Science Magazine @science.org · Jan 31

A long-awaited nonopioid pain drug has won approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat moderate to severe short-term pain.

Nonopioid drug for acute pain wins FDA approval

Ongoing trials will reveal whether suzetrigine is also effective against chronic pain

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Justin Burdge, PhD @justinburdge.bsky.social · Jan 22

Read it in grad school, woke me up to so many writing mistakes.

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Justin Burdge, PhD @justinburdge.bsky.social · Jan 20

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

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Justin Burdge, PhD @justinburdge.bsky.social · Dec 28

Oof someone’s had too much eggnog this holiday😂

Justin Burdge, PhD @justinburdge.bsky.social · Dec 9

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.

Ted Price @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social · Dec 9

Totally agree, and also happy to note that luck has played a huge role in my career. I never had any intention of working in the pain field. I don't meet Ken Hargreaves, Chris Flores, and Greg Dussor (PhD student version of Greg), and there is almost zero chance I would be where I am.

Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · Dec 9

💯 - saying luck played a part in your success doesn't mean you didn't work hard or aren't smart (and of course chance favors the prepared mind), but it does mean there are other smart, hard-working people whose lack of similar success is not because of lack of ability/potential

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