Upcoming Symposium at the USASP annual conference called, "Scholars research panel: Rita Allen Foundation Award in Pain and USASP-MAYDAY Fellows"
Tuesday March 24th, 2026
11:45 AM - 1:15 PM EST
He's famous for the detail but it's wild to see in person. Also fell in love with works by Max Ernst, Andé Masson, and Yves Tanguy. Jack and I were blown away. Highly recommend you go.
There's this little section of his painting Soft Construction with Boiled Beans where there's a landscape of a canyon with gorgeous clouds that seem to go back forever. Obviously you can't see from my clip here but it was amazing.
Went to see Dream World at the @philamuseum.bsky.social last night. What an incredible exhibit. We're all familiar with Dalí right, but I had no idea his paintings were so crazy detailed.
Phone is full of lab photos, anywhere from surgery to weird equipment parts, and photos of the cat #GuiltyAsCharged
Did any of y'all ever read the Alvin Schwartz Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark books? I was a mega fan. Wicked drawings.
Meet Jimmy aka JimJam, my best fur friend 🐈⬛ He likes playing fetch with feather toys and climbing as high as he can access including straight up the side of my bookshelf 💪🧗 #Philadelphicats #Philadelphia
Quizzo at #ProhibitionTapRoom #Philadelphia www.instagram.com/h_to_the_qui... We lost hard but had fun anyway
Every time I'm walking toward this monolith I'm like 😲 #Philadelphia, Schuykill & Walnut
I <3 my #Eraserhood down the street from #LoveCityBrewing Philadelphia lovecitybrewing.com
Nothing like a good dive #LorraineBarPhilly instagram.com/lorrainebar1...
The #PhiladelphiaArtMuseum is running their #DreamWorld exhibit until Feb 16th x.com/visitpham www.visitpham.org/exhibitions/...
View from #CherryStreetPier x.com/cherrystpier Philadelphia www.cherrystreetpier.com
USASP is in Philly next year so over the coming weeks I'm going to entice y'all to make the trip. #PainResearch
What's sad and mind-blowing is hearing the local businesses are really suffering this year because the universities and hospitals here in Philly aren't spending because the Trump administration put a squeeze on NIH and NSF funding. No parties that need catering, no flower orders, nothing like that.
Laptops should come with cat mode. Like oh, tons of keys are being pressed at once 😑 I understand what's going on, and preserve your work from being deleted. 🐈⬛😹
Just submitted a poster abstract for #CanadianPain2026 end of April @canadianpain.bsky.social, got some cool data to share. Hope to see @damboorman.bsky.social, Loren, @jeffreymogil.bsky.social and you all in Quebec City!
Some common things that I remember growing up were for sure okra dishes. Fried okra. Stewed okra and tomatoes. UGH the West African influenced food of Texas and Louisiana is SO DANG GOOD. Also, Mexican food. I miss the Santa Fe style you find in the panhandle. Enchiladas in my dreams.
So if your metric of whether someone is *from* Texas is based on whether they can cook CFS and they say they can't, it's not necessarily that they aren't from Texas. Their family simply may not have been of that lineage of German that made that dish. 😉 Weirdest shibboleth I ever heard.
You know what blew my mind the other day? A chicken fried steak is a version of a schnitzel. Jägerschnitzel. And chicken fried chicken is like Rahmschnitzel. 🤯 Makes sense with all the German immigrants that came to Texas. 🤠
Light your candles and cross your fingers
I loved my mole-rat master's project. DRG are soooo gorgeous 😍🤩
Whoa SO COOL to see the Lewin lab @garyrlewin.bsky.social figure out why naked mole-rats *have* TRPM8 but couldn't sense cold after nerve injury. Turns out their TRPM8 is nonfunctional, and they sense cold in a different way. VV cool! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Is it mirror neurons, or is it the perception in Perception Action Model of empathy: recognition of salient information in social partners. To me the cortical neurons in nocebo and are not bound to social interaction. How to handle it: look for the same neural patterns in contextual conditioning.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40247818/ New paper from @damboorman.bsky.social and Loren Martin woo!
OMG did I go on a wild goose chase or what 🇨🇦🇺🇸
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Loren & I spun this reactionary behavior into social nocebo. Now I'm thinking of follow-up experiments 😝.
Check out my biorxiv for more: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Whut, I was working on a similar paradigm when I was at Stanford! Very validating to see another group publish it 😝
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I'll add that females will drag their unconscious casemate toward the cotton nest occasionally.
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Mimicking opioid analgesia in cortical pain circuits
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