Massi(e)h Moayedi — مسیح مویدی

Be sure to cast your vote for the next President-Elect of the @canadianpain.bsky.social!

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Legitimate question for scientists:
What’s a reasonable window for a desk reject?
I’ve had hours to weeks…
I just had one that took 21 days at a journal with a pretty high IF. I think that’s way too long, but wanted to get others’ impression.

Dalhousie University is hiring. We’re recruiting up to 30 tenure and tenure-track faculty supported by Canada Global Impact+ Research Talent Initiative and a $1.7B federal investment. Curious about building your next chapter in Canada? Apply by Jan. 19: www.dal.ca/research-recruitment

Canada-Impact-Plus - Research - Western University

If you're (1) into nhp neurophysiology and/or biological motor control, (2) a foreign big shot and (3) interested in moving here, please reach out -- this new program looks extremely attractive (min. $8M over 8y)! www.uwo.ca/research/can...

Mind blown!

Did you know about EMERGE, this amazing resource on self-report scales? All items listed and psychometric properties assessed, in ONE place & user friendly to boot

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I am so excited to share our newest preprint, inspired by @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social, “A multiverse approach to heat-evoked skin conductance analysis: Evaluating the influence of analytic pipeline on associations between skin conductance and pain osf.io/preprints/ps...

Hierarchical organization of mechano-nociceptive pathways revealed by activity labeling Noxious mechanical stimuli give rise to distinct percepts, from sharp cutaneous pain to diffuse visceral discomfort, yet the nociceptor ensembles that underlie these differences remain poorly defined....

Not all pain is created equal: stepping on a nail feels different from a stomachache. We know there are many nociceptor types, but a key question remains: how is mechanical pain encoded across the body by those sensory neurons? Our new work helps answer this. 1/8
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The hero who disarmed one of the terrorists in Sydney turned out to be 43-year-old Ahmed al-Ahmed — a fruit shop owner and father of two.

He was shot twice and is currently in hospital. He is scheduled to undergo surgery.

He had no experience with weapons of any kind.

Canada is finally getting high speed rail (maybe?)

But the route cuts out Kingston and leaves out London & Windsor. These could easily become engines of industry & exchange. What a missed opportunity!

#Canada #CanPoli #politics #highspeedrail

I was a ‘go, go, go’ academic. A fellowship abroad transformed my approach “I came back with a recalibrated sense of how I want to live and work,” this professor writes

Really great to see more of this culture

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I’m offering the same! Have helped 8 ECRs and multiple CERC candidates (including one that will hopefully be successful) in the past year make the move to Canada! DM me with your questions or we can set up a zoom call!

Dear journals, collaborators, potential trainees, & colleagues: Please be patient with your nih friends. Those of us who are still around are doing everything in our power to focus on science & keep the long view in mind. But life is very much one day at a time, & catch up from shutdown is a beast 🫠

Join us for Fall 2026. In our group, you can run studies from human behavior and neuroimaging, to large-scale NHP ephys, and join them up with a robust computational foundation. Bonus: you can help build the reading list.

There's no reason to let them off the hook. One opinion piece for the sake of 'balance' does not undo the harm caused by the editorial board.

The issue is that academic institutions globally have become investment engines and basically corporations, rather than beacons of education and moral compasses that we pretend they are.

Ultimately, run a university like a company, and it will do what's best for shareholders, not society.

A screenshot of the header of the research paper published in PAIN. The title is: "The contribution of baseline circulating endocannabinoids to individual differences in human pain sensitivity: a quantitative sensory testing study." followed by the list of authors, and publication information.

Our first endeavour in understanding how endogenous cannabinoids (eCBs) contribute to pain sensitivity. in @painthejournal.bsky.social.
We found that baseline, fasted eCB ligands are not associated with point estimates of pain sensitivity, except for pressure pain.
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IASP is now accepting poster abstracts for the 2026 World Congress on Pain.
Share your work with 5,000+ multidisciplinary attendees from 130+ countries and strengthen your CV.
Submission Deadline: 15 February bit.ly/3XHoyB2
#IASP2026 #WorldCongressonPain

Canada ducks a recession, barely, thanks to Keynesianism.
In particular military Keynesianism.

Households spending less
Businesses spending unchanged (overall, big changes under the hood)
Governments spending more, especially on "weapon systems"

Imports down a lot, exports barely up.
Breakdown 🧵

Deliberate de-civilization has forced Gaza back to the Stone Age Before the genocide, Gaza was a vibrant, happening place full of life. Now, we are back to an age without basic modern developments

“We have reached the end of life in Gaza, with nothing but rubble, & Israel refuses to allow in equipment & building materials or even to dig wells for Gaza residents.” Nour Abo Aisha details how Gazans are being punished in the most rudimentary settings despite the war having officially “ended.”

Trump says he wants to 'permanently pause' migration to the US from poorer countries President Donald Trump says he wants to “permanently pause migration” from poorer nations and is promising to seek to expel millions of immigrants from the United States by revoking their legal status...

I was one of those immigrants, and we commit fewer crimes than people born here.

“Trump says he wants to “permanently pause migration” from poorer nations and is promising to seek to expel millions of immigrants from the US by revoking their legal status.”

apnews.com/article/trum...

@massih.bsky.social et al. assert that identifying pain-specific processes requires salience-matching noxious and control stimuli. Salience ratings fully mediate stimulus intensity and physiological arousal relationship, demonstrating adequacy for matching. #PAIN bit.ly/3LuWKgq

Thanksgiving / early Black Friday flash sale on action potentials at www.brainedglass.com! Also last chance to order custom brains in time for holidays. I’m very grateful to all who supported my side gig during the recent govt shutdown: Thx for helping me not lose my mind during a very hard time 💕🧠

Have you heard who the speakers of the distinguished Keynote Prize Lectures will be for #IASP2026? Check out @iasp.bsky.social President Andrew Rice’s announcement on #PRF to find out now bit.ly/47ZGkWt

Painhack

This is the final week to submit your Painhack project for the 2026 World Congress on Pain in Bangkok, Thailand. Submit projects detailing ideas, methods, and partnerships to address key challenges in pain research and management. Submission Deadline: 21 November. bit.ly/4nB9tM7

This is…. Horrific.
I don’t know how this sort of misogyny has been normalized again. I have some ideas, though.

I’m so sorry that this happens, and I will call it out when I hear it.

Canada seeks star academics from abroad, but stable funding for higher education remains a concern | CBC News Proponents believe a current push to recruit star researchers from abroad will mean top-tier learning for Canadian students and a boost to research innovation and excellence. Yet concerns remain about...

"Are we going to support talent here in Canada and the development of our students and our researchers who are here?'" Whitaker asked…simply injecting a wave of high-profile academics at the top without supporting the foundation beneath them is "going to leave us short-changed." @caut.bsky.social

The second study, led by @matthewcormie.bsky.social shows, for the first time, that the thermal grill can drive peripheral and central sensitization, but not tactile allodynia.

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Let us know what you think of this work!!

Our lab has 2 new papers in the current issue of @painthejournal.bsky.social:

The first study, by Georgia Hadjis, shows that motivational conflict, rather than resource competition, determines priority assignment when pain is concurrent to competing demands.

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Rossi Tomin presents his PhD work on placebo analgesia at @rqrd-qprn.bsky.social #PAINtalks