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Ted Price @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social · 17m

The vicious disassembly of American health and science leadership continues with no real resistance from congress

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 8h

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 21h

Four cheers for MIT.

orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

orgchart.mit.edu

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SPARC @sparc.science · 21h

Check it out:
🔗 Paper: doi.org/10.1093/brai...
🔗 UTD Pain Center: paincenter.utdallas.edu
🔗 UTD Pain Center on SPARC: sparc.science/about/projec...

#Neuroscience #PainResearch #HEAL @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social

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Ted Price @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social · 1d

The graph and the short quote say it all!

Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 1d

"Immigrants, we get the job done"

www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

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Tibor Rohacs @rohacstibor.bsky.social · 2d

The Rutgers Brain Health Institute @rutgersbhi.bsky.social is looking for an accomplished scientist to serve as the Director of the new Rutgers Center on Research in Pain and Pain Therapeutics. Feel free re-post and/or reach out to me if you have any questions
jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/225...

Director of Center on Research in Pain and Pain Therapeutics at Rutgers Brain Health Institute

We seek an accomplished scientist, at the Professor or Associate Professor level, to join the Rutgers Brain Health Institute (BHI) and The Rutgers School of Dental Medicine (RSDM) as Director of the n...

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Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky @sejordt.bsky.social · 2d

Omar Yaghi (Chemistry) is Palestinian, from a refugee family in Jordan

Michel Devoret (Physics) is French

John M. Martinis (Physics) is the son of Yugoslav immigrants

John Clarke (Physics) is British

@washingtonpost.com , this should be the message.

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Ted Price @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social · 2d

Also this one is now officially available thanks to Asta Arendt-Tranholm and @ish1789.bsky.social sparc.science/datasets/475

SPARC Portal

The open community platform for bridging the body and the brain through neuroscience and systems physiology data, computational and spatial modeling, and device design.

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Ted Price @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social · 2d

Coming soon thanks to @ish1789.bsky.social sparc.science/datasets/480. Lots and lots of data!

SPARC Portal

The open community platform for bridging the body and the brain through neuroscience and systems physiology data, computational and spatial modeling, and device design.

sparc.science

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Ted Price @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social · 2d

Same thing happened in Texas and has now spread across many, if not all, UT System universities. UT Dallas no longer has a functioning faculty senate. Maybe we will have a path to reconstitute sometime soon but for now there is no senate.

BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 2d

The Utah legislature gutted the power of university faculty senates in the state. I was told by someone on Utah Capitol Hill that the president of the University of Utah worked with the legislature on that legislation.

I'm surprised that Arizona's faculty senate has not had the same happen to them.

Tim Steller @timsteller.bsky.social · 3d

The University of Arizona's faculty senate has voted to ask the UA president to reject the Trump administration's proposed compact. It's among an accumulation of voices who say not to be tempted by the good things in the compact due to its more fundamental threats.
tucson.com/news/local/e...

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Science Magazine @science.org · 2d

This week's new issue of #ScienceTranslationalMedicine is out now!

An experimental trial could reshape patient monitoring and therapy research in glioblastoma, RNA vaccines can protect large animals from new strains of H5N1, and more. https://scim.ag/3KYkXvi

The cover shows a three-dimensional rendering of a brain MRI from a patient with glioblastoma who participated in a clinical trial evaluating an oncolytic virotherapy and testing feasibility of serial biopsy acquisition.

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Ted Price @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social · 3d

Huge congrats to Sylvanus Toikumo for this outstanding work just published online preview in JCI: www.jci.org/articles/vie... We were happy to be able to play a small role in this paper, and I have been happy to be an informal co-mentor to Sylvanus... he is on the job market!

JCI - The cell-type-specific genetic architecture of chronic pain in brain and dorsal root ganglia

www.jci.org

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Ted Price @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social · 4d

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.

Varicella-zoster virus reactivation and the risk of dementia - Nature Medicine

Large-scale longitudinal health records reveal consistent association of varicella-zoster virus reactivation with dementia.

www.nature.com

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Ted Price @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social · 6d

Very convincing findings from the Gamper lab: www.jneurosci.org/content/45/3... somebody needs to figure out the source of this GABAergic tone within the DRG! As far as I can tell the origin of this remains speculative and needs molecular identification.

Peripheral Gating of Nociception Investigated with a Decerebrate, Arterially Perfused Preparation of the Rat

There is growing evidence that sensory neurons within the dorsal root ganglia (DRGs) are equipped with mechanisms for “gating” nociceptive information before it enters the central nervous system. Howe...

www.jneurosci.org

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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 7d

by predominance, take away the care of knowing causes; which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure."

Written by a man not encumbered by an editor's word limit.

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Ted Price @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social · 7d

Some of the best reasons there could ever be to support science.

Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 7d

I think for me the most compelling answer for "why fund basic research?" (and the one most relevant to the people doing the work) is that humans are curious and finding stuff out makes us happy and fulfilled. Science is a thing humans like. Life would be more dull and sad if we didn't do it.

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 7d

Speaking for all physicians and healthcare providers here. When we see patients in need of care especially in an emergency room we do not leave them for dead. We do not care about their immigration status, we treat them because that is what we took an oath to do and is also basic human decency.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Leavitt: "When an illegal alien goes to the emergency room, who's paying for it? The American taxpayer."

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Ted Price @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social · 8d

and spatial: discover.pennsieve.io/datasets/476

Spatial transcriptomics of human C2 dorsal root ganglia tissue from fusion surgeries - Pennsieve Discover

Visium spatial RNA sequencing was performed on 16 dorsal root ganglia from 8 patients (left and right of same level) undergoing C1-C2 fusion surgery.

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Ted Price @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social · 8d

Check out the datasets which are available for all - single cell: discover.pennsieve.io/datasets/475

Single nucleus sequencing of human C2 dorsal root ganglia tissue from fusion surgeries - Pennsieve Discover

Single nucleus RNA sequencing (10x) was performed on 12 dorsal root ganglia from 12 patients undergoing C1-C2 fusion surgery

discover.pennsieve.io

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Ted Price @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social · 8d

@asta-at.bsky.social did an amazing job leading this study, a first of its kind for neck pain!

Michele Curatolo, MD, PhD @michelecuratolo.bsky.social · 8d

The first publication of our project, which identifies altered gene expressions in the human DRG associated with neck pain. Fantastic collaboration with @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social lab, Christoph Hofstetter from Neurosurgery, and a stellar team.
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Transcriptome of the human C2 dorsal root ganglia in C1-2 arthrodesis surgery: insight for neck pain

Arendt-Tranholm et al. use surgically resected sensory ganglia to investigate the mechanisms underlying chronic neck pain. They produce a molecular map of

urldefense.com

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AKA NickleDave @nicholdav.bsky.social · 10d

Biased because I spent almost a decade of my life here, but Emory Bio is a pretty dang good place to do neuro.

If you're looking for a TT position right now (Godspeed) you should apply

#neuroskyence

Anita Devineni @anitadevineni.bsky.social · 10d

My department at Emory is a hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist!

Anyone who's talked to me in the last 4 years knows I cannot say enough good things about my dept and the neuroscience community here. My colleagues are so wonderfully supportive. Postdocs, please apply!

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 10d

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 11d

⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.

The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.

interestingengineering.com/science/chin...

China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes

A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.

interestingengineering.com

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Ted Price @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social · 11d

I think you are exactly right. I’m also convinced defunding research has the same aim, make it available for cheap investment by the rich to consolidate IP amongst the elites and lock inventors out of their own ability to commercialize according to their vision.

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Ted Price @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social · 14d

Check out @jaydenobrien.bsky.social's great work on neuro-immune interactions in Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) and how these might be involved in neuropathy that often occurs in individuals with the disease. Great collaboration with Erobo Ubogu at UAB
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Peripheral nerve-targeting and pain-promoting transcriptomic signatures in early Guillain-Barr&eacute syndrome

Guillain-Barr&eacute syndrome (GBS) is an autoimmune disorder that causes weakness, sensory loss, autonomic dysfunction, and chronic neuropathic pain. The mediators responsible for driving early autoi...

www.biorxiv.org

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Ted Price @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social · 15d

It’s a good point. In theory lost investment in biomedical research anywhere should have similar consequences on innovation in therapeutic development.

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Ted Price @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social · 15d

Up until 2007

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