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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.

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๐ŸŽค Call for Symposia Proposals topics related to clinical practice, basic science or mechanisms, and translational research related to pain. Ideally, presentations include multiple disciplines.

The deadline to submit proposals is October 15, 2025

15.10.2025 18:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And if youโ€™re interested in trying any of our tools in your lab, donโ€™t hesitate to reach out!

25.09.2025 20:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It was an honor to give a talk before such an incredible crowd of researchers at the NIH Pain in Animals workshop! #PainResearch

25.09.2025 20:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Check it out! An interview on pain mechanisms and therapeutics with Dr. Clifford Woolf, PhD, MB, Bch of Harvard Medical School by Julia Nickols at the North American Pain School is now posted on PRF! painresearchforum.org. @utdpaincenter.bsky.social @iasp.bsky.social @usasp.bsky.social

22.08.2025 18:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Another week, another ARM device installed. This time in the lab of HHMI Investigator Richard Palmiter. They are doing cool long-term pain studies and this device is perfect for their needs.

27.05.2025 13:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Excited to see Jeff Mogil getting an ARM device in his lab for automated and remote mechanical stimulation for use in pre-clinical pain & somatosensation studies.

21.05.2025 17:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Nothing makes you hungrier than a time zone change and a missed lunch. Looking forward to these tacos, Seattle letโ€™s see what youโ€™ve got!

21.05.2025 00:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Enjoyed my first times in Chicago and @usasp.bsky.social this past week! So much exciting work happening in the pain field, I have a feeling that the groundwork for some fantastic collaborations was laid this week!

03.05.2025 18:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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My first time at #usasp2025. Great science, new and old friends. First talk in a symposium at an international conference. Thank you to my co-speakers @stefpuig.bsky.social and Ream Al-Asani

03.05.2025 01:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The dorsal column nuclei scale mechanical sensitivity in naive and neuropathic pain states During pathological conditions, tactile stimuli can aberrantly engage nociceptive pathways leading to the perception of touch as pain, known as mechanโ€ฆ

Cool new study from @vabraira.bsky.social lab on tactile hypersensitivity associated with chronic pain. Glad we could collaborate. One cool thing Abraira lab did was use high-speed videography plus the PAWS pain detection system for uncovering pain behaviors.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

23.04.2025 13:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 33    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Happy to see this device in the lab of a happy customer. There is much to do to improve pre-clinical pain/touch research, and we strongly believe this automated robot ARM can become a gold standard in the field. Exciting to see so many orders coming in!

22.04.2025 18:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks to @justinburdge.bsky.social and @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social for delivering the ARM device to our lab, which includes Drs Kevin Tracey, Sangeeta Chavan, and Huan Yang. We'll use the ARM for high-resolution automated assessments of pain sensitivity in the context of neurogenic inflammation!

22.04.2025 16:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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It took so much work to get here, but excited for everything we now have in the pipeline! Itโ€™s going to be an exciting month!

22.04.2025 15:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks to @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social for lending his car and so much else to the delivery!

22.04.2025 15:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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So excited to announce the first of TACTORUMโ€™s ARM devices for automating pain/touch assays in mice has been delivered to @changsbrain.bsky.social โ€˜s lab at @northwellhealth.bsky.social. Looking forward to all the exciting questions they will explore with it!

22.04.2025 15:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Iโ€™ve always thought experimental schematics should include time of even, if just a range. Instead I canโ€™t remember the last methods section that included it.

20.03.2025 03:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Sure 5 seconds is one thing but to do what the article suggests effectively, you need in the order of 10-15 min. A gut check is a good idea, but if we learned one thing from the first go around it should be that we canโ€™t fact check our way out of this.

16.02.2025 21:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This feels well intentioned, but itโ€™s also how we lose. The other side is winning by flooding the zone, we canโ€™t win by slowing down further.

16.02.2025 20:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I started 2025 with so much enthusiasm for the science I would doโ€ฆ thatโ€™s pretty much evaporated

08.02.2025 22:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD

WTF! So starting Monday NIH indirects to all universities moved to 15%. This would cripple schools. This is madness.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

07.02.2025 23:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 53    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

So I come up for air from coding all day, and apparently my NSF grant will probably be rejected because I referred to female mice and barriers to entry for a scientific technique. I got nothing.

04.02.2025 14:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Monumental day for pain management and the study of pain.

31.01.2025 19:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 42    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Read it in grad school, woke me up to so many writing mistakes.

22.01.2025 04:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Gotta say conductors trying out their standup via the subway intercom is in objective improvement.

20.01.2025 22:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oof someoneโ€™s had too much eggnog this holiday๐Ÿ˜‚

28.12.2024 16:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If I decided to study instead of going to @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social talk to an undergrad neuro club freshman year, pain research would have never even crossed my mind.

09.12.2024 20:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
PIEZO2-dependent rapid pain system in humans. The diversity of mechanical pain sensations in humans cannot be explained based on our current understanding of pain-sensing neural classes in the skin. To begin to bridge this gap, we dissected the n...

BOOM! Identification of a PIEZO2+, KIT+, and TRPM8+ A fiber nociceptor subtype that is responsible for human hair pull pain: www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5... @saadnagi.bsky.social and colleagues, well done!

09.12.2024 00:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Image of rats driving a little experimental rat car in their play area.

Image of rats driving a little experimental rat car in their play area.

Rats driving little rat cars ๐Ÿฅน shows that complex environments enhance neuroplasticity but weโ€™ve also learned from them that skill acquisition & delayed gratification improves cognitive function & produces bolder problem-solving strategies via dopaminergic reward systems
www.bbc.com/future/artic...

30.11.2024 19:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 36    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

Hey Monica, Iโ€™m in neuroscience. OrciD is 0000-0002-0732-5989

28.11.2024 15:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

1 being an outbred line and the other inbred definitely has an effect. The latter C57, being far more commonly used while being less active and smaller than those with a more diverse genetic background is definitely effecting our data. That said CD1 are mean as hell.

26.11.2024 23:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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