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Tibor Rohacs @rohacstibor.bsky.social · 18h

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
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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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Pain Research Forum @painresforum.bsky.social · 18h

Hey pain scientist, if you are looking for a condensed list of the top pain literature released each week, come check out #PRF's new #PapersoftheWeek selections from Greg Scherrer and
@drjerinmathew.bsky.social,
who also commented on the latest Editor's Picks painresearchforum.org/paper/preval...

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Annette Dolphin @annieneuro.bsky.social · 19h

2026 SIBPA|IVSLA Intl School of biophysics, Venice 2-6 February 2026. venice.ibf.cnr.it

This should be an interesting school for students to attend.

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Pain Research Forum @painresforum.bsky.social · 1d

Are you a #trainee looking for experience in scientific news reporting? Apply to this internship on @nature.com’s news team now! bit.ly/4pQaFgT #PRF

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Ted Price @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social · 2d

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.

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Cordero-Vásquez Lab @cvlab.bsky.social · 5d

Our new PNAS paper "Enhanced PIEZO1 function contributes to the pathogenesis of sickle cell disease" is out: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 1/3

Enhanced PIEZO1 function contributes to the pathogenesis of sickle cell disease | PNAS

Sickle cell disease (SCD), an inherited blood disorder caused by a mutation in the β-globin gene, is characterized by sickle erythrocytes that are ...

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Dr. Rajesh Khanna of the KhannaLabUF @khannalabuf.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations Joyce - amazing!!

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Michele Curatolo, MD, PhD @michelecuratolo.bsky.social · 6d

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

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Elizabeth Sypek @elizabethis.bsky.social · 7d

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NOT-OD-26-004: Information for the NIH Extramural Community During the Lapse of Federal Government Funding

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Information for the NIH Extramural Community During the Lapse of Federal Government Funding NOT-OD-26-004. NIH

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Dr. Rajesh Khanna of the KhannaLabUF @khannalabuf.bsky.social · 7d

Is Nav1.8-specific inhibition the only path? Preferential Nav blockers offer a compelling alternative | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

"Preferential Nav channel inhibitors targeting multiple pain-related Navs (Nav1.7, Nav1.8, Nav1.9) may offer a more effective analgesic approach" -- AGREED!

Is Nav1.8-specific inhibition the only path? Preferential Nav blockers offer a compelling alternative | PNAS

Is Nav1.8-specific inhibition the only path? Preferential Nav blockers offer a compelling alternative

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Dr. Rajesh Khanna of the KhannaLabUF @khannalabuf.bsky.social · 7d

Congrats Sampurna!!🎉

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 8d

Compelling and quite disturbing...

LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 9d

Land of the free. Home of the brave.

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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 9d

Now in #Science #Immunology: Deshpande, Klose, & al at Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin report that #ILC2 resident in #PNS communicate with neurons via #IL13 to maintain #nerve structure & pain thresholds. Mice lacking ILC2 or whose neurons are Il4ra-KO exhibit #hypersensitivity & #gait defects!

Group 2 innate lymphoid cells regulate nociceptive and gait functions of the peripheral nervous system

ILC2-neuron cross-talk contributes to the maintenance of nerve structure and function of the peripheral nervous system.

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

It's such a good week for preprints! Looking forward to reading this one www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #PainResearch

A multi-omic atlas of human autonomic and sensory ganglia implicates cell types in peripheral neuropathies

The human peripheral nervous system (PNS) consists of many ganglia, including sympathetic ganglia (SG) and dorsal root ganglia (DRG), that house the cell bodies of many constituent neuron types and no...

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Dr. Rajesh Khanna of the KhannaLabUF @khannalabuf.bsky.social · 16d

Excellent. Congrats Sam and colleagues! Look forward to reading this.

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Sampurna Chakrabarti @amapruns.bsky.social · 16d

We present the first subset-specific proteomic signature of electrophysiologically-defined, pain-sensing neurons. One step closer to uniting function with molecules- one neuron at a time. Thanks to all who have contributed, especially @coscialab.bsky.social @garyrlewin.bsky.social #neuroscience

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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Tracy Bale @thebalelab.bsky.social · 20d

Fantastic piece in Nature Reviews Neuro by @nicolecrust.bsky.social on the importance of science communication. My take? Everything matters - just do something. It will make a difference for how science is valued and trusted, how community understands. Let's get out there and communicate! 👏

The unexpected value of communicating science to the public

Nature Reviews Neuroscience - As a group, our scientific community has a responsibility to unpack the ‘what’ and ‘why’ behind our work for the public, not least because much...

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 19d

Any academic folks on H1B visas (even with stamps in passports) please get legal advice from your University attorneys before leaving the US.

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PAIN @painthejournal.bsky.social · 19d

This week’s #PAIN Featured Image comes from Suñol et al.’s study of resilience in juvenile fibromyalgia. Clusters represent global connectivity increases in the JFM subgroup; psych term associations visualized via wordcloud. Learn more in #PAIN bit.ly/46FWeF4

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PlessLab @plesslab.bsky.social · 21d

After years in making, I am glad to be able to share our attempt on establishing a framework for combined functional and computational assessment of variant pathogenicity in the sodium leak channel NALCN:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Kevin Bender @neurobender.bsky.social · 21d

SCN2A loss is strongly linked to neurodevelopmental delays and, at times, seizure. In an amazing collaboration with @nadavahituv.bsky.social, led by Serena Tamura, Andrew Nelson, and Perry Spratt, we leveraged CRISPR activator approaches to rescue this loss.

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CRISPR activation for SCN2A-related neurodevelopmental disorders

Nature - Using SCN2A haploinsufficiency as a proof-of-concept, upregulation of the existing functional gene copy through CRISPR activation was able to rescue neurological-associated phenotypes in...

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PAIN @painthejournal.bsky.social · 22d

This #PainAwarenessMonth, we’d like to highlight an excellent resource for early career researchers: How to Peer Review Pain Research webinar by #PAIN EiC @karenddavis.bsky.social and #PAINReports EiC David Yarnitsky bit.ly/4nl5pzK

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Dr. Rajesh Khanna of the KhannaLabUF @khannalabuf.bsky.social · 22d

Congrats Kate and team!!!🎉

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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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Barbara Marte @barbmarte.bsky.social · 28d

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

Neuronal activity-dependent mechanisms of small cell lung cancer pathogenesis - Nature

Glutamatergic and GABAergic (γ-aminobutyric acid-producing) cortical neuronal activity drives proliferation of small lung cell cancer via paracrine interactions and through synapses formed with tumour...

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