Pittsburgh Center for Pain Research @pcpr-pittpain.bsky.social Official account of the Pittsburgh Center for Pain Research (PCPR). Based at the University of Pittsburgh, we are a group of scientists pursuing the common goal of easing the burden of chronic pain.
Pain Research Forum @painresforum.bsky.social
Amy Lock @amy-lock.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher in Denk lab and Shaw lab. Researching aberrant sensations in keloid scars.
stromal cells | single cell sequencing | iPSC sensory neurons | clinical & translational | pain & itch
Scheff Research Lab @schefflab.bsky.social The goal of our research is to investigate whether therapy targeted to peripheral neurons in the cancer microenvironment can alleviate pain and slow tumor progression. https://schefflab.pitt.edu/
#cancerneuroscience #research
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social Recent candidate for New Jersey's 12th Congressional District. SamForNJ.org.
Neurosciencer, democracy reform studier, plotter of data by hand as first step. At Princeton too. Long-form essays at samwang.substack.com.
Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social Facts & strategy, in an authoritarian takeover.
Rightwing billionaires want to privatize NIH and use it to control universities.
We work to cure diseases like cancer.
Pers views. #science #medicine
Aleyah E. Goins @goinsyeah.bsky.social Words are my own 😝
Sensory neuroscientist studying peripheral pain mechanisms.
Neuroimmunology • Electrophysiology • Cancer pain
Dale Bond @dsbond.bsky.social Research scientist | #physicalactivity #weightmanagement #obesity #migraine | Dir. of Res Integration / Co-Dir, Ctr. for Obesity Research, Innovation & Education @ Hartford HealthCare, Hartford, CT | #behavioralmed #transdisciplinaryscience 🇨🇦
Laura Fedele @lau-fed.bsky.social 👩🔬Neuroscientist interested in cellular excitability/in vitro models-often found patching sensory or autonomic neurons. Postdoc at WolfsonSPaRC, King's College London | iPSC-neurons | patch clamp | ion channels| neuro-cardiac interactions
Andreas Strube @astrube.bsky.social Researcher exploring pain, depression, ME/CFS and treatment expectations (@Büchel Lab, @Pizzagalli Lab, @SFB/TRR289). Soon: Einstein Center for Youth Mental Health, Berlin
Hamburg & Boston
DFG Scholar // Aktiv @ Grüne Hamburg
www.kinokulturhamburg.de
NTU Neuro @ntuneuro.bsky.social #Neuroscience Research Theme in the Centre for Systems Health and Integrated Metabolic Health (SHiMR) at Nottingham Trent University, UK
https://www.ntu.ac.uk/research/groups-and-centres/groups/integrative-neurophysiology
Doris Krauter @doriskrauter.bsky.social Postdoc from 🇩🇪 @Karolinska 🇸🇪 | Neuroscience | PNS 💚
European Pain Federation EFIC @efic.bsky.social We are a multidisciplinary professional organisation in the field of pain research/pain management. Organiser of #EFIC2025 and #EFIC2027 https://europeanpainfederation.eu/
Tom Kash @superkash.bsky.social Goats. Great science. Gruyere.
https://www.med.unc.edu/alcohol/faculty-research-2/thomas-kash-ph-d/
Keri Martinowich @martinowk.bsky.social Chief Scientific Officer, Lieber Institute and Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine studying molecular regulation across species in circuits impacted in complex brain disorders. Native plants/flowers/wetland habitats. Own opinions.
Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky @sejordt.bsky.social he/him Prof @dukemedschool.bsky.social Anesthesiology. Immigrant. Fights against chemicals that hurt you. Research on chemosensation, pain, TRP channels, toxicology & tobacco control. #teargas. Views my own. #TobRegSky feed. 🇺🇸🇩🇪🇺🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱🟧ACADEMIA AETERNA!
Christian Büchel @christianbuchel.bsky.social Cognitive neuroscientist
Seungwon (Sebastian) Choi | 최승원 @ssebastianchoi.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ UT Southwestern Medical Center. Neural circuits for touch and pain sensation. www.schoilab.org
Alex Keyes, PhD @neuropharmnerd.bsky.social neuro nerd. aspiring artist. UIowa PhD - Pharmacology. Interested in neuro-immune interactions in the spinal cord. my opinions are my own. they/them
⚡️GREG_CORDER⚡️ @flybottleescape.bsky.social Associate Professor @ Penn | Dept Psychiatry + Dept Neuroscience + Dept Anesthesiology | Pain • Placebo • Poppies • Psychedelics
https://corderlab.com/
Kelsey H. Collins @kelseyhcollins.bsky.social #fatchat and novel therapies for OA/RA structure and pain, musculoskeletal interorgan crosstalk, aging, obesity
Assistant Professor, UCSF
collinslab.ucsf.edu
Massi(e)h Moayedi — مسیح مویدی @massih.bsky.social ⚜️-🇨🇦-🇮🇷
Assoc Prof, UToronto Pain Scientist
Co-Director, Centre for Multimodal Sensorimotor and Pain Research;
Canada Research Chair in Pain NeuroImaging;
Councillor, IASP; Secretary, CanPainSoc
fMRI, EEG, Psychophysics.
He/Him/His | 🏳️🌈 |✊🏾| 🇵🇸&🇱🇧& 🇸🇾|✌️
Olivia Davis @oliviadavis.bsky.social Interested in the neuroanatomy of pain and all things spinal cord.
A2CPS - Acute to Chronic Pain Signatures @a2cps-pain.bsky.social A bold research initiative to find biomarkers and advance pain science. A2CPS is a Consortium-based research project funded by the NIH Common Fund with the aim of finding biosignatures of chronic pain.
Aaron Mickle @aaronmickle.bsky.social Scientist, neuro and urology.
Juliet Mwirigi @julietmwirigi.bsky.social HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow | PostDoc WashU | PhD UT Dallas | Neuroscience | Pain pathways | Single-cell EVERYTHING | Neurons | Cell culturing | Computational work | human dorsal root ganglia
Ann Gregus @agnopainallgain.bsky.social Assistant Professor, chronic pain drug discovery researcher and patient ISO novel non-opioid therapeutics, 2nd gen 🇧🇷🇺🇸, hip hop head, and mother of bunnies
Sara E. Jager @thisissarajager.bsky.social Pain scientist by day, comic-creator by night
Website: www.saraejager.com
Jayden O'Brien @jaydenobrien.bsky.social Research Associate | The University of Texas at Dallas | Researching interactions between the nervous and immune systems in chronic pain.
Saad Yousuf PhD @saadyousuf.bsky.social
Aubin Moutal @aubinmoutal.bsky.social Assistant professor at Saint Louis University. Mechanisms of autoimmunity leading to chronic pain.
Stephanie Gallas Puig 🇫🇷 🇲🇽🇺🇸 @stefpuig.bsky.social Mom. Wife. Neuroscientist. Citizen of the world. Passionate about the beauty and perfection of life.
Asaf (Klaf) Weisman @asafklaf.bsky.social PhD candidate at Tel-Aviv University. I am a researcher of the spine and people experiencing pain. I am also an MSK Physiotherapist. Follow me for the neuroscience of pain, spine, and health issues.
Blog: https://painlosophy.wordpress.com/
Zoha Deldar, PhD @zohadeldar.bsky.social Neuroscientist | Clinical Psychologist | Postdoc Fellow @McGill | Exploring #Pain, #Cognition, #Passion, #Emotion, & #SocialNeuroscience | Advocate for #SciComm & #OpenScience
Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social UCL Neuroscientist. Otherwise dowsed in cocktails and slathered in fetid whimsy. Views unreliable.
Zerina Kurtovic @justzeri.bsky.social ☮️👩🏻🔬🛤👩🏻🌾
Postdoc studying peripheral neuroimmune interactions in arthritis pain at Svensson lab, Karolinska Institutet
Amateur urban gardener & traveler
Kevin A Keay @kevinkeay.bsky.social Kevin Keay and Lab of Neural Structure & Function || Neuroscience of emotional coping in chronic pain || Science and Life || 🧠🌏🏳️🌈
✨Malaika ✨ @maliqa.bsky.social TEDx talk: https://youtu.be/tpAYrz940L0
• studying pain and learning
• @bioZone Narrator
• @PainResearchForum Early Career Contributor
• Rutgers > Penn > Pitt
• A scientist in the making 🧠
• Creator of neurosci themed movie posters🎭🎬
Farin B. Bourojeni @bourojeni.bsky.social Postdoctoral fellow
Interested in everything somatosensory
McGill University, Montreal Canada
Tayler Sheahan @taylersheahan.bsky.social Neuroscientist, runner, mom • Assistant Professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin • pain, itch, and neuropeptides • first gen • she/her • opinions my own • sheahanlab.com • taylersheahan.com
Ariel Levine @ariellevine.bsky.social Spinal cord and motor control scientist
Krembil Brain Institute @ UHN / U of Toronto. www.levine-lab.org
Jordan McCall @jordacular.bsky.social Associate Professor, Anesthesiology, Washington University in St. Louis. Half of a two-body solution with four kids and a dog.
Anna Taylor @annatheneurosci.bsky.social associate professor | pain and opioids
📍University of Alberta 🇨🇦
Chen Ran @chenran.bsky.social Neuroscientist. Assistant Professor at Scripps Research.
https://www.ran-lab.org
Justin Burdge, PhD @justinburdge.bsky.social Neuroscience researcher working to improve how we conduct pain and touch research. Co-Founder Tactorum Inc. Post Doctoral Fellow Abraira Lab Rutgers University.
Francesca Fardo @francescafardo.bsky.social Neuroscientist • brain • spinal cord • pain and temperature perception
Lab website: https://body-pain-perception-lab.github.io/
Lindsay🧠 @neuromelody.bsky.social Neuro PhD | she/her 🇨🇲 | #DSPAN F99/K00 Fellow | #BlackinNeuro #scicomm
📩neuromelody1@gmail.com
Nivedita Sarveswaran @neuroniv.bsky.social Postdoc in pain genetics & nociceptor biology @TheCIMR | via @biokent @UCLQSIoN @YaleMed | 🇦🇺🇬🇧🇱🇰
Evgeny Gutyrchik @evgenygutyrchik.bsky.social PD Dr. | University Lecturer in Medical Psychology, Neuroscientist, and Jungian Analyst | Exploring the dialogue between neuroscience and analytical psychology
Daniel Harper @harperofscience.bsky.social Looking for all of my science connections. I study pain processing using a combination of psychophysics (QST) and brain neuroimaging, mostly.
Matt Sapio @mattsapio.bsky.social Pain neuroscientist. Views are my own.
Bethesda, MD
Harrison Stratton @hstratton.bsky.social Neuroscientist | First Gen | Tech enthusiast. Postdoc at University of Pittsburgh studying mechanisms underlying chronic pain in the periphery and spinal cord.
Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social Neuroscientist fascinated by #ionchannels Studying #pain mechanisms. Fan of world travel, #hiking , the oceans and good books.
I co-direct the Sensory Transduction and Nociception Group at the Institute of #Neurosciences in Alicante (Spain)
Michele Curatolo, MD, PhD @michelecuratolo.bsky.social Physician, scientist, teacher, and leader in pain medicine. Professor at the University of Washington. Italian and Swiss. http://michelecuratolomd.com.
John Streicher @johnstreicher.bsky.social Biomedical scientist at the University of Arizona. Pain, opioids, and cannabinoids. He/him.
Javeria Hashmi @netphys.bsky.social Neuroscientist: pain perception, human neuroimaging, networks and graphs, cautious Neuro AI, clinical translation
Samantha Butler @samanthabutler.bsky.social Developmental neurobiologist: spinal cord, somatosensory circuits, stem cells, cell fate, axon guidance, regeneration
Professor, @UCLA
Lab website: https://butlerlab.neurobio.ucla.edu
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TJ Browne @tjbrowne.bsky.social Postdoc in the spinal cord connections lab (Graham Lab) at Uni Newcastle Upon-thePacific (Aus) studying circuits of the Dorsal horn with a focus on projection neurons. Patching, imaging, love of fluorescent eye candy.
Dad to 2 ratbags and husband to 1.
GutTalkMd @karapedsgastrodoc.bsky.social Pediatric gastroenterologist and physician scientist; Director of the NYU Pain Research Center; gut-brain enthusiast, especially when it comes to mood and neurobehavior.
Dr van Tilburg @drvantilburg.bsky.social Professor UNC, UW, CUSOM
Director of Research at CFVH
Gut Expert | Child health | #Parenting
Nathan T. Fried, Ph.D. @neuronate.com Associate Teaching Professor, Neuroscientist from low SES background, artist of sorts, & breaker of academic hierarchies @Rutgers_Camden researching pain & biology education (he/him).
ORCID: 0000-0002-9322-8340
Rose Z. Hill, Ph.D. @rose-hill.bsky.social Interoception, Organ physiology, and Neuronal mechanisms of homeostasis (ION) Lab | Neuroscientist at OHSU | ionlaboratory.com | proud parent of cats | (she/they) 🏳️🌈🧠🧑🔬 views are my own
Matan Geron @mgeron.bsky.social Postdoc in the Scherrer lab at UNC-Chapel Hill studying pain and opioids
Stéphanie C Koch @skochlab.bsky.social Neuroscientist studying the plasticity of sensorimotor networks. Love of action potentials, somatosensory circuits and all things neural adaptation. PI at UCL. Views are my own.
Shane JF Cronin @shanecronin.bsky.social Neuroscience - immunology - BH4 metabolism
Felicia Cox FRCN @feliciajcox.bsky.social Nurse Consultant Pain Management
Secretary @IASP Acute Pain SIG
Co-Chair @EFIC Nurse Education #NurseSky
Andy Bell @belllab.bsky.social Pain researcher, veterinary anaesthetist. Interested in somatosensation, pain & pain management. Glasgow, Bonnie Scotland.
Nader Ghasemlou @ghasemloulab.bsky.social check us out at www.ghasemloulab.ca, www.circapain.ca, and www.circaMS.ca
Sarah @awesomesawz.bsky.social Personal account, all opinions are my own.
neuroscientist👩🏼🔬 | backpacker 🥾 | crocheter 🧶 | explorer 🗺️
Rich Harrison @richharrison.bsky.social Pain Researcher and Lecturer at Uni of Reading, within the Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics (CINN). Interested in neuroinflammation within Long Covid and Chronic Pain, presurgical assessment and psychological individual differences
Camilla Svensson's research group @molecularpain.bsky.social Our group at the Karolinska Institute is dedicated to investigating the molecular mechanisms underlying chronic pain, a key symptom of rheumatic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and fibromyalgia (FM). Posts here are written by several lab members
Eric Gross MD, PhD @ericgross.bsky.social Associate Professor @Stanford. NIH funded lab studying aldehydes to understand pain, cardiovascular disease, and the health implications of alcohol flushing. Anesthesiologist. Scientist. Father. Husband. Marquette. MCW. ericgrosslab.stanford.edu
Anne-Marie Malfait @jointsintheworld.bsky.social for the Chicago Center on Musculoskeletal Pain (C-COMP)
please see https://mskpain.center
Alex Mitchell @agmitchell.bsky.social Scientist attempting to understand pain 😖 temperature 🔥❄️ & attention 👀 in the human brain 🧠
In my spare time: 🐕🥊🧘🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️ & 👩🏻🎨
Brit in Denmark. She/her
Giannina Descalzi @descalzi.bsky.social Neuroscientist investigating chronic pain.
Flavia Mancini @flaviamancini.bsky.social 🧠 #Neuroscience #neurotechnology #AIsafety #chronicpain | 🎓 MRC Career Development Fellow & Ass Professor at #CambridgeUniversity @eng.cam.ac.uk
https://cbl.eng.cam.ac.uk
Jonas Van lent @jonasvanlent.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at Institute of Oncology Research, Switzerland. Interested in hPSC-derived PNS neuronal models
Pranav Mahajan @pranav-mahajan.bsky.social PhD candidate at University of Oxford. Engineer and a computational neuroscientist thinking about pain and safe AI. (Views are my own; he/his)
https://www.pranavmahajan.info/
Tasha Stanton @tashstanton.bsky.social Associate Professor of Clinical Pain Neuroscience, UniSA & SAHMRI, South Australia.
Avid runner, wine connoisseur, cat mom, and karaoke enthusiast.
Fadel Zeidan @fadelzeidan.bsky.social neuroscientist | pain | mindfulness | psychedelics
www.zeidanlab.com
Markus Ploner @ploner.bsky.social Neurologist, Neuroscientist, Pain Researcher
Oliver O’Sullivan @ollieosul.bsky.social Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham | Rheumatology & Rehabilitation Medicine Doctor, British Army | NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer | A/Editor, BMJ Military Health | Three rugrats | Sports fan | Runner | He/him
François Lallemend @flallemend.bsky.social Professor of neurobiology of sensory systems @karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden • single cell • development • cell state • system homeostasis • aging • auditory • vestibular • somatosensory • translational
Lydia Daboussi @daboussi.bsky.social Assistant Professor @UCLA - Department of Neurobiology.
#newPI
https://daboussilab.healthsciences.ucla.edu
Robert Coghill @robert-coghill.bsky.social Neuroscientist who seeks to better understand pain. Professor, mountain biker, hiker, and into obscure indie music.
Annina Schmid @anninaschmid.bsky.social Professor of Pain Neurosciences at Oxford University and Physio at heart:-)
Adam Dourson @adamdourson.bsky.social WashU Postdoc || Sensory neurons/ Immunology/ Endocrinology || Chronic pain/ Endometriosis || Clinically directed basic research
Elizabeth Sypek @elizabethis.bsky.social Views are my own. Living in a dumpster fire.
Asaf Keller @asafkeller.bsky.social Neuroscientist. Laboratory of Sensory Perception
Professor and Chairman, Dept. Neurobiology,
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Views are my own
Sebastián Jara @jsebajara.bsky.social Neurobiólogo 🇨🇱 | postdoc @scrippsresearch| Sensory neurons-immune interaction | Axon plasticity
Neil @neilscicomm.bsky.social NYC-based science journalist and executive editor of the Migraine Science Collaborative (https://migrainecollaborative.org). Also on a quest to visit every independent coffee shop in the city. (https://www.nyccoffeerankings.com). #LGBTQ ally
Rebecca Seal @rpseal.bsky.social Neurobiologist
Professor
Facilitator
Channelomics @channelomics.bsky.social Our Twitter feed lives on via an IFTTT rule, but this seems a nicer place.
Ion channel stuff, papers, jobs, Studentship and if you are still active at a rig; sympathy! Anyone that’s done electrophysiology knows it is the ”sharp” end of science.
The Voltage-Gated Calcium Channel Collective @thevgccc.bsky.social Raising awareness & promoting collaboration across the #calcium #channelopathies. Composed of caregivers & individuals impacted by the channelopathies, alongside researchers and clinicians focused on the 10 calcium genes. https://www.thevgccc.org
David Seminowicz @daspainbrain.bsky.social Brain imaging pain researcher.
Professor, Medical Biophysics at University of Western Ontario.
https://www.daslab.org/
https://www.knowpain.ca/
Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social Anti-carnage. Overtonologist.
https://drugmonkey.wordpress.com/
Arnold Schwarzenegger @schwarzenegger.bsky.social Bodybuilder. Conan. Terminator. Former Governor. I killed the Predator. I told you I’d be back. Join my positive corner of the internet - Arnold’s Pump Club.