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PAIN @painthejournal.bsky.social · 1d

The cover art, painted by the brilliant Kathleen Sluka, shows a stairway symbolizing the many steps toward truly individualized pain research built on understanding the biological processes and factors that shape patient-reported outcomes. #sciart #neuroart bit.ly/4opxhDw

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PAIN @painthejournal.bsky.social · 1d

We're extremely proud to announce #PAIN's 2025 supplemental issue: Advancing Pain Research and Management for the Next 50 Years. The entire issue is free to read on our website! bit.ly/3IQ6hOq

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PAIN @painthejournal.bsky.social · 1d

A special thanks to all the authors who contributed to this special issue, the leadership and vision of our Editor-in-Chief @karenddavis.bsky.social and all the scientists and clinicians who are paving the way to a brighter future for pain relief and management! bit.ly/3IQ6hOq

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PAIN @painthejournal.bsky.social · 4d

October’s #PAIN cover art is from Isler et al.’s new study. They find that spinal microglia become reactive and trigger hypersensitivity in response to combined optogenetic activation of nociceptive and nonnociceptive fibers. Learn more in #PAIN bit.ly/4nssUHO

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PAIN @painthejournal.bsky.social · 5d

Counting the days to @IASPpain’s World Congress on Pain 2026 in Bangkok? Make the wait easier by revisiting #PAIN’s collection of articles from the 2024 plenary speakers and be sure to submit your topical workshop proposals by Wednesday to be considered! bit.ly/3K7OuT6

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Karen Davis @karenddavis.bsky.social · Sep 15

see article here: wapo.st/4miPlOb

Who’s more sensitive to pain, men or women? The answer may surprise you.

As we learn more about how pain processing can vary between women and men, it might lead to better treatments.

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Krembil Brain Institute 🧠 @kbi-uhn.bsky.social · Sep 15

🤕 Did you know that September is #PainAwarenessMonth?

Dr. Karen Davis (@karenddavis.bsky.social), Senior Scientist at UHN’s Krembil Brain Institute, was recently featured in a
@washingtonpost.com article looking at “who’s more sensitive to pain, men or women?

🔗: linktr.ee/krembil

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Karen Davis @karenddavis.bsky.social · Sep 12

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Who’s more sensitive to pain, men or women? The answer may surprise you.

As we learn more about how pain processing can vary between women and men, it might lead to better treatments.

www.washingtonpost.com

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PAIN @painthejournal.bsky.social · Sep 11

This #PainAwarenessMonth, we’re celebrating 50 years of #PAIN. Here's a rare glimpse of some recent print issues in EiC
@karenddavis.bsky.social's office. Can any of our subscribers beat this collection?

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International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) @iasp.bsky.social · Sep 8

This #PainAwanressMonth, celebrate PAIN’s 50th anniversary with us in recognition of its impact on pain research and management around the world. bit.ly/466vb3W

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International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) @iasp.bsky.social · Sep 9

The 50th anniversary of PAIN essay series highlights the life and work of past Editors-in-Chief—the first three are available for free right now for #PainAwarnessMonth! bit.ly/46mpCiT

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Karen Davis @karenddavis.bsky.social · Sep 9

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Logo Logic: Neuroscience 2025

YouTube video by Society for Neuroscience

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Karen Davis @karenddavis.bsky.social · Sep 3

Our latest linking CPM with PAF journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...

Individual differences in conditioned pain modulation are... : PAIN

we examined the relationship between CPM and peak alpha frequency (PAF) and power in the dynamic pain connectome (DPC). In 68 healthy individuals who underwent resting-state magnetoencephalography and...

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Karen Davis @karenddavis.bsky.social · Sep 1

Dr. Sanjay Gupta on the mysteries of chronic pain - CBS News share.google/NLejLiBtZt96...

Dr. Sanjay Gupta on the mysteries of chronic pain

Jane Pauley talks with the author of "It Doesn't Have to Hurt" about the body's defenses against pain; and with Ed Mowery, whose decades-long experience with pain led to a revolutionary surgery and tr...

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anita72.bsky.social @anita72.bsky.social · Aug 19

Dear Smithsonian.......send your historical records to Canada before they're destroyed.

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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · Aug 13

It would add to a string of recent efforts by U.S. health agencies to change and undermine immunization policy since Secretary Kennedy, a prominent vaccine skeptic, took the helm.
www.cnbc.com/2025/08/12/f...

FDA may pull authorization of Pfizer's Covid vaccine for children under 5, company says

The potential move to rescind authorization of Pfizer's vaccine could leave some kids in the U.S. with no available shots against Covid.

www.cnbc.com

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Science Magazine @science.org · Aug 13

A federal judge has ordered the NSF to restore about 300 grants to UCLA that it suspended on 30 July, saying the agency violated a preliminary injunction she issued in June after NSF terminated a different set of grants to researchers across the UC system. https://scim.ag/4oz2FAh

Judge tells NSF to reinstate suspended UCLA grants

Ruling comes as government seeks settlement with UCLA on larger set of suspended grants

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Neil O’Connell @neiloconnell.bsky.social · Jul 16

Delighted that the editors of 15 Pain and Anaesthesiology have chosen to endorse and amplify the ENTRUST-PE framework. More info here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/entrus...

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ENTRUST-PE: endorsement by senior editors of 15 Pain and Anaesthesiology Journals

We are beyond delighted that the ENTRUST-PE framework has been endorsed by the Editors in Chief of 15 International Pain and Anaesthesiology journals. Those editors are copublishing, across the journa...

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Karen Davis @karenddavis.bsky.social · Jul 9

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Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust

The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names.

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Karen Davis @karenddavis.bsky.social · Jul 8

Editorial commitment to trust and integrity in science: implications for pain and anesthesiology research journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...

Editorial commitment to trust and integrity in science:... : PAIN

An abstract is unavailable.

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University Health Network @uhn.ca · Jun 30

Thank you to everyone who joined TeamUHN at the 2025 Toronto Pride Parade! 🌈

Progress in 2SLGBTQIA+ rights, including in health care, has resulted from decades of work by those who refused to be invisible. We are proud and grateful to walk alongside our staff and patients!

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Karen Davis @karenddavis.bsky.social · Jun 26

Proud to work @uhn.ca

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Krembil Brain Institute 🧠 @kbi-uhn.bsky.social · Jun 23

📰✨Congratulations to Dr. Karen Davis (@karenddavis.bsky.social), Senior Scientist at UHN’s Krembil Brain Institute, for her recent feature in The Pain Issue, a magazine by the University of Toronto’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine!

🔗: linktr.ee/krembil

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Science Magazine @science.org · Jun 17

The conflict that began last week when Israeli drone and missile attacks destroyed nuclear facilities and killed top officials and weapons scientists in Iran has also devastated a top Israeli science institution, the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot. scim.ag/44lkDhq

Iranian missile strike devastates two buildings at Israel’s Weizmann Institute

Hundreds of scientists have lost labs, equipment, and specimens

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Karen Davis @karenddavis.bsky.social · Jun 19

CNN reporter visits hospital struck in Israel

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CNN reporter visits hospital struck in Israel | CNN

CNN’s International Diplomatic Editor, Nic Robertson, reports from Beer Sheva, Israel, where a hospital was struck during an Iranian attack. Iran said it was targeting an Israeli intelligence and comm...

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