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Jacquelyn Gill@jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 20h ago

University professors generally do not make very much relative to our training levels. Most of us, especially in STEM, could make a lot more in industry (and deal with a lot less bureaucracy). Grant money mostly goes to paying students, postdocs, and staff, and is heavily vetted and scrutinized.

NIH RFI on plans to stop using percentiles to select grants for funding drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2026/08/18/n...

NIH RFI on plans to stop using percentiles to select grants for funding

The NIH issued NOT-OD-26-088 Request for Information (RFI) on Proposed Changes to Reporting Outcomes from NIH Peer Review on 8/14/2026. It proposes a radical upheaval of the way that NIH’s Pr…

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Madness! We met a few South Korean military guys in Hawaii on a snorkeling trip off Waikiki Beach. They were in Hawaii for joint drills and seemed quite delighted to be there. They had a day off before starting their work. Everyone on the boat was also delighted to have them join us.

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 4d ago

President Donald Trump said he has directed the Pentagon to “substantially reduce” joint military exercises with South Korea, reducing support for a longtime ally while praising North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

posted this six years ago on twitter and it went viral but here’s daryl dawkins on don nelson in his memoir

RIP Nellie. Loved watching your teams play ball, and thank you for helping to turn a young baller into the man we all just know as Dirk. www.nytimes.com/athletic/750...

Dirk Nowitzki, Stephen Curry, Luka Dončić, NBA world mourn loss of Don Nelson (Gift Article)

The NBA world mourns the loss of one of the winningest coaches in league history and a five-time champion as a player with the Celtics.

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Banger of a funding acknowledgment 😂 academic.oup.com/ajeadvances/...

#PedSky #MedSky #addictionsci #PainResearch #neuroskyence #neurosci 💊 Please join us on Dec 2 here in the Triangle for the Maixner Pain Research Symposium 2026, this time @ncstate.bsky.social in Raleigh, NC !! The call for abstracts is open ! cvm.ncsu.edu/maixner-symp...

Metformin strikes again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Can long COVID be prevented? Two drugs finally show promise

Rigorous trials suggest they reduce the risk of long-term disease after coronavirus infection.

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Hawaii is just spectacular.

"Pain may be what the brain makes of a signal, but somewhere, Basbaum insists, there is a signal" a fantastic article by Stephani Southerland about the remarkable career of Allan Basbaum aeon.co/essays/a-res...

"Something just brushed past my leg!" — Luke Skywalker, #StarWars Image credit: tempestkc on Threads #LincolnMemorialReflectingPool #USA

Interesting: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... do we want an agonists or antagonist of this receptor for pain? My assumption had always been antagonist but maybe that is wrong.

big news for us today: www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social Spatial transcriptomics of compartmentalised inflammation in multiple sclerosis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social

Really great defensive guards totally unconcerned about getting beat off the dribble and focusing on wearing guys down. Pure genius and Wemby can just roam and cause chaos

Dave Levitan@davelevitan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Knicks look like shit but also the Spurs defense is just demonic

A real headline in the United States today

Big progress vs cancer, folks. The kind of event curves from randomized trials that we've not seen before for a couple of the most deadly cancers. Congrats to the oncology research community for getting these trial done.

I miss this guy, even tho I haven't seen much of him since i left UCSF 22 yrs ago. A true original, thinking so outside the box that boxes disappeared, kind and generous, & pioneered much of modern pain and addiction research. www.thetransmitter.org/pain/in-memo...

In memoriam: Howard Fields, pain research pioneer

Over six decades, Fields mapped out the circuits of both pain and addiction.

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The all time greats about to get a run for their money with Wemby and this Spurs team.

Molly Morrison@mollyhannahm.bsky.social · 3mo ago

the series started with wemby watching SGA win the MVP trophy that he openly campaigned for and ended with him stealing game 7 in OKC to go to the Finals….. absolute CINEMA

Go Spurs go!!

Mike Vorkunov@mikevorkunov.bsky.social · 3mo ago

If the Spurs win tonight, Oklahoma City will be a one hit thunder

New preprint alert! Ever wonder if cells can talk to each other? Tunneling nanotubes (TNTs) are tiny bridges between cells used to pass organelles, nucleic acids, proteins & even viruses but we've never seen inside them clearly. Until now! 👇🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.27.728322v1

There is no question this is true.

Mike the Mad Biologist and Trump's Carrier Catapult Advisor@mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I keep saying this but the U.S. has historically been the Indispensable Funder. It can’t be replaced easily.

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

Chris Morran@themorrancave.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A US-born woman born was confronted by sheriff deputies in Louisiana who were convinced her ID and social security card were fakes. They turned her over to ICE, who shackled her & took her an hour away. Even after a lawyer convinced ICE of the woman's citizenship the sheriff says they did no wrong

NEW: Records released tonight show that Reynolds, makers of Vuse vapes, gave $5 Million to MAGA Inc. days before the FDA wrote a policy that could allow them to make millions selling flavored vapes. Via @kenvogel.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/u...

A $5 Million Donation From Big Tobacco Preceded F.D.A. Vape Decision

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We originally preprinted this work late last year, but we have now revised the paper and posted the revised preprint: Detection of probable neuronal gene expression changes in skin biopsies from patients with paclitaxel-induced peripheral neuropathy www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thanks for posting about our work. We agree that this should enable new discoveries on human sensory neurons and expand access to translational pain research to many more labs.

NYU Pain Research Center@nyupainresearch.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New study from the Price Lab shows that Hibernate A media keeps human sensory neurons functional for up to 42h, enabling storage and long-distance shipping. A major win for translational #painresearch! @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social @utdpaincenter.bsky.social buff.ly/zaz7UPl

Unimaginably bad

Drug Monkey@drugmonkey.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Well. This is startling. “At least one of the NIH’s 27 institutes and centres has lost so many GMSs that it has asked early-career researchers, including postdocs and graduate students, who work in the NIH’s own labs to consider working temporarily as a GMS on a volunteer basis”

NaV1.7 mRNA and Protein Expression in Resident Neurons of the Human Spinal Dorsal Horn: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @stephanie-shiers.bsky.social great work on Nav1.7 in human spinal cord is finally published in JCN!

Check out our latest preprint, this one led by PhD student extraordinaire, Khadijah Mazhar: "Satellite microglia-like cells in human dorsal root ganglia and changes with diabetic neuropathy" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Obviously pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Vapor exposure to Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) slows locomotion of the Maine lobster (Homarus americanus)

Despite a long history of use in synaptic physiology, the lobster has been a neglected model for behavioral pharmacology. A restaurateur proposed that exposing lobster to cannabis smoke reduces anxiet...

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boehninglab@boehninglab.com · 3mo ago

What finding have you published where your paper is the definitive citation?