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Ted Price @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social · 7h

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

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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George Goodwin @gg9761.bsky.social · 2d

Stuart Bevan and I are offering an exciting MRC DTP-funded PhD project exploring the mechanisms of pain in Long COVID.

Find out more about the project here:
🔗 tinyurl.com/3caseacv

Application deadline: 28th October

@wolfsonsparc.bsky.social y.social
@kingsioppn.bsky.social sioppn.bsky.social

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Andy Bell @belllab.bsky.social · 4d

New preprint from the spinal cord group at Glasgow. Anatomical and functional characterisation of spinal circuits for cold, from sensory neurons to the brain…..https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.03.680240v1

Labelled axons of calb1+ spinal projection neurons innervate multiple brain targets associated with cold sensation and thermoregulation. Darkfield images of different brain areas including the postal parabrachial and periaqueductal grey are shown with axons of ascending cells in yellow.

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Ewan St. John Smith @psalmotoxin.bsky.social · 6d

Great to have this out: wonderful team effort, & nice to build on work from others that had identified the dysregulated osteoarthritis lipidome 😃 #neuroskyence #PainResearch

Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Journal @oacjournal.bsky.social · 6d

#New in #OAC ! The sphingolipid sphingomyelin 34:1 is upregulated in the synovial fluid of those with OA. Work from @phar.cam.ac.uk shows that SM34:1 causes inflammatory pain in mice, inducing neuronal hyperexcitability.
@psalmotoxin.bsky.social
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UK GIBA Network+ @ukgibanetwork.bsky.social · 7d

📊 Want to boost your research skills?

Join our 3-day training on Experimental Design and Core Statistics in Cambridge (Dec 8–10).

✅ Free to attend
🙋‍♀️ Open to all career stages
🚆 Travel and accommodation costs reimbursed

Apply by October 17th 👉 www.giba-uk.org/training-opp...

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Ben Seymour @benosaka.bsky.social · 8d

We are proud to launch what we think is going to be fantastic opportunity for pain neuroscientists and clinicians to learn the foundations of pain neuroscience

Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences @ndcnoxford.bsky.social · 9d

September is #PainAwarenessMonth, and we are excited to be launching our brand-new MSc in Pain Neurosciences. Could you help shape the future of #pain research? Opening soon for 2026 admissions 👀

Learn more 👇
bit.ly/OxMScPain

New MSc in Pain Neurosciences. Ready to shape the future of pain research? Applications open soon for 2026 admission.

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UK GIBA Network+ @ukgibanetwork.bsky.social · 9d

Our NEW working groups support effective collaborations across the UK.

Could you help answer one of our first 5️⃣ key research questions?

👉 www.giba-uk.org/working-groups

🙋‍♀️ Ambitious ECRs are invited to co-lead each group. Apply before Friday 10th October.

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Dr. Ali Barry @aliibarry.bsky.social · 16d

Congratulations @amapruns.bsky.social and all! Can't wait to dig in to this dataset #PainResearch

bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 17d

Ultrasensitive proteomics uncovers nociceptor diversity and novel pain targets https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.20.677124v1

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@denklab @denklab.bsky.social · 16d

If you are UK-based and interested in Gut-Immune-Brain Axis research, do sign up to our GIBA+ network and its working groups! You will get access to lots of new contacts, publication and funding opportunities 🧪🧠🤑 #PainResearch #PainScience #neuroskyence #ImmunoSky

UK GIBA Network+ @ukgibanetwork.bsky.social · 16d

Our working groups support the development of effective collaborations across the UK to advance research.

Introduced by Franziska Denk (@denklab.bsky.social) at our #GIBANetworklaunch.

Want to know our first 5️⃣ topics? Find out here 👇
www.giba-uk.org/working-groups

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UK GIBA Network+ @ukgibanetwork.bsky.social · 16d

The past two decades have seen a global explosion of research into the gut-immune-brain axis.

There is great energy in #Southampton today for our #GIBANetworklaunch.

Together, we are building a vibrant and diverse research community to fully realise GIBA's potential.

Learn more 👉 www.giba-uk.org

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Ted Price @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social · 25d

New method development work from our lab that I hope will make it easier for labs to work with peripheral nervous system tissues recovered from organ donors, tissue donors, and fast autopsies: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... This work was led by the amazing duo of Joe Lesnak and Mandee Schaub

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Dr. Ali Barry @aliibarry.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thanks to everyone who made #NeuPSIG2025 so great, and to the photographer here who somehow managed to capture everyone (?) at this table

Photo of the Bennett lab and extended folks at a long table out for dinner.

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Ewan St. John Smith @psalmotoxin.bsky.social · Sep 5

Fancy a #neuroskyence trip to Alicante in December?

You can propose yourself to give a talk at the 22nd Christmas Meeting of Alicante's Institute for Neurosciences: in.umh-csic.es/en/communica...

Christmas Meeting - Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante

Este tradicional encuentro, que se realiza en el mes de diciembre de cada año, tiene como finalidad la interacción de investigadores que actualmente trabajan en instituciones de prestigio internaciona...

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Sara E. Jager @thisissarajager.bsky.social · Sep 7

On my way home after an excellent trip. First, I went to Poland to visit @mwklab.bsky.social and give a talk together with @gg9761.bsky.social and Jimena Perez-Sanchez. Next, we all went to Berlin 🚂 to participate in #NeuPSIG where I got to hang out with more of my favorite scientists! #PainResearch

Me, Mat, George and Jimena standing in the auditorium after our session

Me standing in front of my poster looking very happy

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Dr. Ali Barry @aliibarry.bsky.social · Sep 3

Quick reminder as we head into #NeuPSIG that we have a #PainResearch feed and conferences are the best time to force your friends to join bsky

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Dr. Ali Barry @aliibarry.bsky.social · Aug 28

What better way to get excited for #NeuPSIG2025 than a @utdpaincenter.bsky.social test run of our Machine Learning Workshop? #PainResearch

screenshot of a zoom meeting and a Rmd knit for a "Machine Learning in Neuropathic Pain" document

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Ted Price @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social · Aug 24

BOOM! Cool to see the final form of this great work now published. Deep new insight into human peripheral neuropathy. Congrats @mheming.bsky.social and colleagues on a great study.

mheming.bsky.social @mheming.bsky.social · Aug 24

Very proud that our human PNS atlas is finally published in @natcomms.nature.com We found perineurial hyperplasia and lipid-associated nerve macrophages in #polyneuropathies.
Explore: pns-atlas.mzhlab.com
A tweetorial 1/13
doi.org/10.1038/s414...

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · Aug 25

If you are preparing your bachelor statistics course and would like to add optional material for students to better understand statistics on a conceptual level (see topics in the screenshot) my free textbook provides a state of the art overview. lakens.github.io/statistical_...

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@denklab @denklab.bsky.social · Aug 25

Many congratulations again on this fabulous piece of work! 🎉🥳 Required reading for people in #PainResearch #painscience

mheming.bsky.social @mheming.bsky.social · Aug 24

Very proud that our human PNS atlas is finally published in @natcomms.nature.com We found perineurial hyperplasia and lipid-associated nerve macrophages in #polyneuropathies.
Explore: pns-atlas.mzhlab.com
A tweetorial 1/13
doi.org/10.1038/s414...

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Steve Middleton @middletonsj.bsky.social · Aug 21

We've found a new gene linked to chronic pain in humans! The gene SLC45A4 encodes (the long-awaited) neuronal polyamine transporter, which is important for pain signalling in nerves. We hope this discovery might lead to new chronic pain treatments in the future!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

SLC45A4 is a pain gene encoding a neuronal polyamine transporter - Nature

The SLC45A4 gene encodes a neuronal polyamine transporter and is linked to pain response in humans and mice.

www.nature.com

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Alles Lab @alleslab.bsky.social · Aug 21

Transporters in pain! Exciting work from @middletonsj.bsky.social & Bennett lab @ox.ac.uk www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PainResearch

SLC45A4 is a pain gene encoding a neuronal polyamine transporter - Nature

The SLC45A4 gene encodes a neuronal polyamine transporter and is linked to pain response in humans and mice.

www.nature.com

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@denklab @denklab.bsky.social · Aug 21

Congrats @amy-lock.bsky.social on another great paper based on your PhD! #PhDSky this should also be of interest to people on #Immunosky #AcademicSky

Amy Lock @amy-lock.bsky.social · Aug 20

Happy to announce our preprint going live on BioRxiv! Interested in what’s happening to your fibroblasts’ transcriptomic phenotype once it’s in culture? Look no further!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

@denklab.bsky.social
#fibroblast #scRNAseq #culture #invitro #keloid #ECM #matrix #mesenchymal

Single-cell RNA sequencing clarifies dermal fibroblast subset representation in vitro and reveals variable persistence of keloid disease-associated features

In vitro models of scarring and fibrosis are essential to improve our understanding of disease mechanisms and ultimately develop much-needed effective therapeutic strategies. This is particularly true...

www.biorxiv.org

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Amy Lock @amy-lock.bsky.social · Aug 20

Happy to announce our preprint going live on BioRxiv! Interested in what’s happening to your fibroblasts’ transcriptomic phenotype once it’s in culture? Look no further!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

@denklab.bsky.social
#fibroblast #scRNAseq #culture #invitro #keloid #ECM #matrix #mesenchymal

Single-cell RNA sequencing clarifies dermal fibroblast subset representation in vitro and reveals variable persistence of keloid disease-associated features

In vitro models of scarring and fibrosis are essential to improve our understanding of disease mechanisms and ultimately develop much-needed effective therapeutic strategies. This is particularly true...

www.biorxiv.org

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Diana Tavares Ferreira @dianatavf.bsky.social · Aug 19

This work is finally online as in-press preview!

JCI - Cell and molecular profiles in peripheral nerves shift toward inflammatory phenotypes in diabetic peripheral neuropathy www.jci.org/articles/vie...

JCI - Cell and molecular profiles in peripheral nerves shift toward inflammatory phenotypes in diabetic peripheral neuropathy

www.jci.org

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Ewan St. John Smith @psalmotoxin.bsky.social · Aug 16

Happy #Caturday 😺😺😺

Matilda, white cat, standing on a blue table in the garden

Bertie, grey cat, standing on a blue table in the garden

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