We’re hiring! The University of Pittsburgh is recruiting a tenure-track faculty member in pain research to join the Department of Neurobiology and the Pittsburgh Center for Pain Research—an outstanding and highly collaborative community.
Please share. More here: cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...
That sucks, to borrow your US vernacular. Onwards and upwards, Greg, onwards and upwards!
We have FIVE GTA PhD Studentships available at UCL Life Sciences.
See here for a chance to work in the Medawar Pain and Somatosensory Labs on the influence of early life experience on lifelong pain vulnerability: bit.ly/4bDLg4Z
Deadline 23rd April- repost widely!
@ucllifesciences.bsky.social
Is there really anywhere else you’d rather be?
I'll drink to that!
Whenever anyone raises the idea that AI can take the place of translators, point them in this direction.
Holy moly this is cool! Ex vivo prep of a human sensory neuron and spinal cord circuit, used for studying Nav1.8 and CGRP activity.
I'm always amazed by the complexity and nuance of the neuroscience of pain. In this Perspective, @simonbeggslab.bsky.social and @franklandlab.bsky.social do a great job of explaining some important new findings on the role of time in the mechanisms of chronic pain www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The first discarded draft of Christina Perri’s 2011 hit song.
I once worked in Kuopio in Finland, a lakeside city and in winter the training camp for the Dutch speedskating team. Returning on the mercifully short flight from Helsinki I found myself squeezed into a middle seat between two Dutch giants with seemingly one mega thigh extending from seat to aisle
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
Ha! Thanks! One to sleep on, that’s for sure. Onwards and upwards, as always.
And just now the inevitable email that my application won’t progress further, but always good to be given the right to reply: “We would appreciate your feedback on your experience so we can improve the Funding Service.” Hmmm.
I was obviously delighted by spending last summer for the september deadline that now looks like being retrospectively canned effectively. Fun times!
Yes, so that is what is available until the summer (or whenever) when bucket one "curiosity-driven, foundational research" is fundable again?
Time for a martini and follow Keith's updates
Its February!!
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
I watched much of Ian Chapman's (Head of @ukri.org) appearance this morning at @ukparliament.parliament.uk Science, Innovation and Technology Committee..
A few points and new information that bioscientists may find interesting...
A 🧵
Both MRC and BBSRC responsive modes now withdrawn until further notice. Existing applications unlikely to succeed (late 2025 round expecting 1-5% success rate).
Listen, I get that UKRI wants to pivot. But killing both at once is devastating.
Let's hope at least one opens by summer... #AcademicSky
Startling that this is being broadcast in the absence of any public communications by @ukri.org
The academic community has a right to expect to be told first hand what is happening with response mode funding and what the immediate future looks like
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
About bloody time! Thoroughly well deserved, congratulations!
COVID saw a shift in the status quo of publishing – it’s time to embrace it.
In our piece in @timeshighered.bsky.social, Damian Pattinson explores the barriers and new approaches, like the eLife Model, that can help move science in the right direction.
buff.ly/9PmrV9O
She was absolutely right. And she would have been an amazing President.
Why should we read Henri Bergson's "Creative Evolution" today? There is more than just one reason, see my extended book review, just published in Mind: academic.oup.com/mind/advance... #Bergson #philosophy #philbio #ProcessPhilosophy #biology #science #HenriBergson
And the Oscar goes to…
Good to see Wensleydale in action here, the best cheese for Branston. Renounce the cheddar hegemony!
Leslieville? That's dangerously east. There be dragons!
In the strain on scientific publishing, we showed that total publications have grown out of control. A huge part of that was guest edited special issues by groups like #MDPI and #Frontiers.
This ongoing practice is the largest delegation of editorial power academia has ever seen.
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🧠⚡️💊New @nature.com publication !
Mimicking opioid analgesia in cortical pain circuits
We built a brain-behavior framework to decode spontaneous chronic pain in mice—and to biologically mimic morphine with a synthetic opioid gene therapy
nature.com/articles/s41...
@pennmedicine.bsky.social
