📣 Poster for a Stand Up for Science Teach-In on Monday, July 7th at 6:30 PM PT in Seattle, WA. Features bold red text “TEACH-IN” and includes guest speakers Carl Bergstrom (UW Biology) and Kevin Gross (NCSU Statistics). Discusses how science works as a social process shaped by norms and institutions. Statue of Liberty background and humorous image of a bird with caption "HOW science works, damnit!" Event held at Burke-Gilman Brewing Co. QR code and logo for StandUpForScience.net at bottom.

📣EVENT ALERT!

Join us next Monday, July 7th at 6:30pm PT at Burke-Gilman Brewing Co. in Seattle, WA for a conversation on how science works with @carlbergstrom.com (UW Biology) and Kevin Gross (NCSU Statistics) - and you!

Find the event here & register➡️ zurl.co/nEQAN

@burkebrewing.bsky.social

Cutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...

Viewpoint in JAMA details the consequences of the proposed cuts to NIH:

❌15% reduction in new therapies
❌reduction in life expectancy by 83M life years in the US = $8.2T
❌loss of $51B in economic output annually

All to save $20B annually. The math ain't mathin.'
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Grateful for the opportunities I’ve had with my mentor in my postdoc! We are thinking about pain and function differently and hoping this work can inform future clinical practice. Thank you @seanrundell.bsky.social 🤓

Relationship between Fear of Movement and Physical Activity in Patients with Cardiac, Rheumatologic, Neurologic, Pulmonary, or Pain Conditions: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis AbstractObjective. Physical activity contributes to the primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention of multiple diseases. However, in some patients, fear o

Relationships beteen fear of movement and physical activity across conditions is the subject of this new meta-analysis:

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#PhysioSky #PTSky

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Register for tomorrow’s 14 May webinar: “Bridging Gaps in Endometriosis Pain Management.” Engage with leading scientists, clinicians, physiotherapists, psychologists, and pain specialists from around the world on this complex chronic pain condition. bit.ly/3ELaK2A

Is there a recording available for those interested but who were
Unable to attend or watch?

I was excited to hear about a new behavioral treatment for chronic pain developed by researchers in Australia -- dialectical behavior therapy adapted to chronic pain. Thanks to @sutherlandphd.bsky.social for covering this development.

What's happening with these grants is much more complicated and mostly unknown. None of the NIH have been officially cancelled. The NIH was just ordered to stop paying. They got the Unis to enforce silence on their own campuses because they thought they were "negotiating" and cld get the funds back.

On Friday, my son stayed home from school because he had a sore throat and wasn’t feeling well. He went with my husband to his office for the morning while I handled our daughter. When he came back at lunch, he was not interested in eating, saying his throat hurt too much. 1/n

Here’s just the most recent of the many NCCIH studies of #pain (from colleague @alexchesler.bsky.social published last week in Nature). Nearly 50% of NCCIH funding goes to studying pain, with a focus on nonpharmacological treatments and mechanisms. The proposed budget eliminates NCCIH.

While I know next to nothing about the DRG, it was fun to listen to the work done by @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social and collaborators. Super important work! Also appreciated his hopeful messages for the future, as I and others have been short on hope recently. #usasp2025

Don’t miss our symposium today 5/1 11:45 Caribbean Room at #usasp2025 - Pain Research Enters the Age of Big Data - we want to share our data with you!

Awesome plenary!

Really interesting talks regarding sleep and pain at #usasp2025. Shout out to Dr. Tham from Seattle Children’s Hospital. @usasp.bsky.social

How will you use A2CPS data to answer questions about pain, health and disease? Baseline data available now. More at a2cps.org/researchers/

The gut microbiota promotes pain in fibromyalgia Cai et al. revealed that transplanting gut microbiota from women with fibromyalgia—a chronic widespread pain condition of unknown etiology—into mice induces pain. It also induces phenotypes commonly o...

New research links fibromyalgia pain to the gut microbiome. Transplanting healthy gut bacteria reduced pain in mice—and in a small clinical trial, improved symptoms in women.
@karapedsgastrodoc.bsky.social
@nyupainresearch.bsky.social
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Eugenics is fake science.

But it’s creeping back into public discourse—through political rhetoric, bad policy, & scientific silence. We’re seeing this pseudoscience rebrand itself once again as legitimate.

We must call it what it is—& stop it before it spreads further. We’ve seen where this leads.

Exclusive: NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy “I have done all I can,” says Sethuraman Panchanathan, a Trump appointee who has led agency since 2020

DOGE appears to have ordered a 50% cut in the budget of the National Science Foundation, leading its director, appointed by Trump in his first term, to resign. www.science.org/content/arti...

An example of what we in the NIH Intramural program can accomplish. Excited to share our latest paper in close collaboration with Nick Ryba's group. We examined how inflammation transforms representation in somatosensory neurons to cause pain. Lots of surprises here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📣 We’d love to hear from anyone who has used or considered using the Equity Check feature on our website to develop their #impsci research questions! 📣

➡️ What was most helpful?
➡️ What could we do better?
➡️ What did we miss?

🚨URGENT RESPONSE CALL🚨

You’ve seen the bad news. Now it’s time for us to flood the zone.

Over 400 NSF grants — gone. Trump’s cronies are cutting science funding and betting we won’t notice. But we’re not powerless. We’ve got 24 hours to make noise.

Here’s how 🧵(1/3) ➡️

Women’s Health Initiative, known for hormone therapy trials, to lose federal funding The Women's Health Initiative, the enormous study that shaped treatment of menopause and other conditions, is on the verge of shutting down.

Federal funding for the Women’s Health Initiative, which as one of the largest research projects in women’s health has shaped treatment of menopause, osteoporosis, and nutrition, will stop in September.

Leading Nutrition Scientist Departs N.I.H., Citing Censorship (Gift Article) Kevin Hall said his work on ultraprocessed foods has been “hobbled” under the Trump administration. Scientists have been raising such concerns for months.

My story about @kevinh-phd.bsky.social, nutrition and metabolism scientist at N.I.H., who felt compelled to take early retirement after experiencing censorship of his work under the new administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/w...

#PTJournal editorial board members will help host a @health.nationalacademies.org workshop on #ChronicPain April 17-18:

Topics include:
- Pain identification strategies
- Treatment & Management
- Outcomes
- Disability Determinations

www.nationalacademies.org/event/43975_...

US students. Looking to apply to graduate school? Had an offer rescinded recently? The University of British Columbia in Canada will re-open the application portal in some departments for US students from April 14-18.
Details: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...
#ubc #AcademicSky #PhDSky #ScienceSky

“I Am Seeing My Community of Researchers Decimated” Across the country, the Trump Administration’s assault on public institutions and its cuts to government funding are forcing scientists to abandon their work and the patients who benefit from it.

Bravo to colleagues at @uwsph.bsky.social for sharing their stories in @newyorker.com to highlight the negative human and economic impacts of the reckless, indiscriminate, wasteful, and partisan cancellation of important funding for science:

www.newyorker.com/news/deep-st...