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⚡️GREG_CORDER⚡️ @flybottleescape.bsky.social · 19h

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⚡️GREG_CORDER⚡️ @flybottleescape.bsky.social · 9d

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Cornelius Gati @gati.bsky.social · 9d

Thrilled to share that I’ll be joining the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania! Our lab will be relocating to the Department of Pharmacology in Jan ’26. We’re hiring at all levels—reach out if you’re interested! @isbupenn.bsky.social @pennmedicine.bsky.social

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⚡️GREG_CORDER⚡️ @flybottleescape.bsky.social · 13d

FAAH inhibitors fail to replicate human KO reports. But check out the many cases of PAIN ASYMBOLIA that also suggest overlap between broad affective-motivational systems and “pain”(READ: unpleasantness) in BLA and posterior insula

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Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · 19d

become my colleague at penn bioengineering: apply.interfolio.com/173716

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⚡️GREG_CORDER⚡️ @flybottleescape.bsky.social · 19d

Say whaaattttttt!!!!??? FAAAHHHHCKKKK

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 20d

We could always get some re-interpretation language from NIH but at present the "council in a calendar year" is pretty dang clear. For 2026 Councils, we can submit six apps between May 2025 and March 2026.

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⚡️GREG_CORDER⚡️ @flybottleescape.bsky.social · 20d

so me being super cautious, we have six R01 subs for Oct 5 '25 and Feb 5 '26? Then another 6 for June 5 '26 / Oct 5 '26 / Feb 5 '27?

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⚡️GREG_CORDER⚡️ @flybottleescape.bsky.social · 20d

a woman sitting in a chair with the words oh my god above her

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⚡️GREG_CORDER⚡️ @flybottleescape.bsky.social · 20d

☝️ do yall know this answer by chance? I am getting so many conflicting interpretations ...
@jasonsynaptic.bsky.social @jeremymberg.bsky.social @drugmonkey.bsky.social

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⚡️GREG_CORDER⚡️ @flybottleescape.bsky.social · 20d

🙏 Please help!

ad nauseam topic but for new NIH n=6 submission policy is it:

a. 6 subs in 2025 calendar year = we can sub 6 R01s for Oct '25 + another 6 for Jan-Dec '26?

b. subs in Oct '25 w/ May '26 Council = we can sub 6 R01s Oct '25 to June '26; count resets Oct '26?

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Prashanthi Ravichandran @prashanthi-ravi.bsky.social · 23d

(1/10) We’re excited to share our new preprint (doi.org/10.1101/2025...), which uncovers the spatiomolecular landscape of the human nucleus accumbens (NAc), by integrating snRNA-seq with Visium spatial transcriptomics across 10 control donors. 🧠 #NAcLIBD #snRNAseq #10xVisium

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Pain Research Forum @painresforum.bsky.social · 29d

Have you ever wondered how some of the leaders in the pain field got their start? Check out this essay from @painthejournal.bsky.social about PRF editorial board member, Allan Basbaum, to learn how he became the journal’s 3rd Editor-in-Chief bit.ly/3JIJTXf #PRF #PainAwarenessMonth

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · Sep 5

My new essay for @thetransmitter.bsky.social. Why is understanding emotion so challenging? The debates around what counts as an "emotion" shed insight.

These disputes are multidimensional, principled and fascinating. Here, I unpack them.

www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...

Emotion research has a communication conundrum

In 2025, the words we use to describe emotions matter, but their definitions are controversial. Here, I unpack the different positions in this space and the rationales behind them—and I invite 13…

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Siri Leknes @sirileknes.bsky.social · Aug 29

What can *genetic insensitivity to opioids* teach us about endogenous opioid function in humans?

Fully funded position in Oslo (PhD student or postdoc)

Interested in pain, mu/kappa opioids, behavioural genetics, RCTs, or related? Apply here:
2411.webcruiter.no/Main2/Recrui...

Please RT for reach

Phd candidate or postdoc– Genetic determinants of opioid responsiveness

The Department of Research and Development at the Division of Emergencies and Critical Care, Oslo University Hospital in collaboration with Leknes Affective Brain lab (www.affectivebrains.com) and the...

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⚡️GREG_CORDER⚡️ @flybottleescape.bsky.social · Aug 16

Just heard the same from NIDA PO:

“Your application will get council clearance on Sept 3, however it's unlikely the funding plan will go through in the fall, most likely funding decisions will get pushed to later in 2026, once NIH has a budget.”

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⚡️GREG_CORDER⚡️ @flybottleescape.bsky.social · Aug 11

I’m going to present on LUPE — our deep-learning system for automated pain behavior analysis — and the Affective-Motivational Pain Scale (AMPS) model for quantifying complex pain states

📄 Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

💻 Analysis package: github.com/justin05423/...

Pain Research Forum @painresforum.bsky.social · Aug 11

Are you curious about headache and migraine pain? Join the Gulf Coast Consortium for a deep dive into the world of headaches and migraines at the #Pain2025 Workshop, featuring talks from @moeneuro.bsky.social, Yarimar Carrasquillo, and Greg Corder bit.ly/3JaeHzL #PRF

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⚡️GREG_CORDER⚡️ @flybottleescape.bsky.social · Aug 8

im losing too much already 🤑😭

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⚡️GREG_CORDER⚡️ @flybottleescape.bsky.social · Aug 8

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Science Magazine @science.org · Jul 25

A new study pinpoints an emotion-to-motivation gateway that converts painful signals into negative feelings, offering a promising target for non-opioid pain relief.

Learn more in this week’s issue of #ScienceAdvances: scim.ag/46jefZE

Mouse brain tissue magnified 20 times under a microscope. Pain-processing neurons (red) cluster in the mouse amygdala—its emotion-processing center—and send axons toward the striatum to shape motivational behavior.

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⚡️GREG_CORDER⚡️ @flybottleescape.bsky.social · Jul 24

Totally get it—here’s the TL;DR 👇

We mapped neurons in the amygdala that makes pain feel unpleasant... Chronic pain rewires it… Quieting those neurons in mice eased that “hurt” …

Pinpointing these neurons and unique genes opens the door to precision, non-opioid painkillers with fewer side effects

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⚡️GREG_CORDER⚡️ @flybottleescape.bsky.social · Jul 24

ehh, lots of bots to wade thru but im still having good science interactions there (but i also use it to keep up with various sports)

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⚡️GREG_CORDER⚡️ @flybottleescape.bsky.social · Jul 24

big thanks to all the authors and my co-Senior Collaborator @korblab.bsky.social !!!

... and huge congrats to Jess Wojick who spent 5+ years developing this story (you can keep following her work over at @superkash.bsky.social Lab at UNC)

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⚡️GREG_CORDER⚡️ @flybottleescape.bsky.social · Jul 24

11. Last, using projection-specific + nociceptive intersectional chemogenetics we linked this BLA-->NAcSh cell-type to acute and chronic pain affective-motivational behaviors

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⚡️GREG_CORDER⚡️ @flybottleescape.bsky.social · Jul 24

10. BLA-noci axon-photometry over the NAcSh-noci ensemble showed nociceptive transmissions.

In fact, light-touch information used this nociceptive amygdala-striatal pathway during chronic pain states, indicating a role in aversion to allodynia

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