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 | 🏳️🌈 |✊🏾| 🇵🇸&🇱🇧& 🇸🇾|✌️
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 | 🏳️🌈 |✊🏾| 🇵🇸&🇱🇧& 🇸🇾|✌️
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Our lab is hiring! We're lookgin for an MSc trainee and a PhD trainee to investigate the neural underpinnings of pain. If you are interested in pain and brain imaging, please reach out!
Informal enquiries are encouraged.
Informal enquiries are encouraged.
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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 🧵
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 🧵
November 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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 🧵
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 🧵
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“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.”
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
prismreports.org
November 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
“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.”
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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...
“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...
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...
apnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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...
“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...
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@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
November 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
@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
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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 💕🧠
November 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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 💕🧠
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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
November 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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
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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
November 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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.
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.
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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.
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.
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"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
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...
www.cbc.ca
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"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
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.
journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...
The first study, by Georgia Hadjis, shows that motivational conflict, rather than resource competition, determines priority assignment when pain is concurrent to competing demands.
journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...
journals.lww.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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.
journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...
The first study, by Georgia Hadjis, shows that motivational conflict, rather than resource competition, determines priority assignment when pain is concurrent to competing demands.
journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...
Rossi Tomin presents his PhD work on placebo analgesia at @rqrd-qprn.bsky.social #PAINtalks
November 14, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Rossi Tomin presents his PhD work on placebo analgesia at @rqrd-qprn.bsky.social #PAINtalks
We’re doing a lab watch party!
November 13, 2025 at 11:56 PM
We’re doing a lab watch party!
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14 months after submission, our article “Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS): a flexible paradigm for event-related fMRI" is now out in @natmethods.nature.com . You can read it here rdcu.be/ePJo6
It is the first first author paper from my student @renilmathew.bsky.social 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 …1/N
It is the first first author paper from my student @renilmathew.bsky.social 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 …1/N
Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS): a flexible paradigm for event-related fMRI
Nature Methods - Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS) is an acquisition scheme for event-related fMRI that generates data with high temporal signal-to-noise ratios interspaced with...
rdcu.be
November 13, 2025 at 12:23 PM
14 months after submission, our article “Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS): a flexible paradigm for event-related fMRI" is now out in @natmethods.nature.com . You can read it here rdcu.be/ePJo6
It is the first first author paper from my student @renilmathew.bsky.social 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 …1/N
It is the first first author paper from my student @renilmathew.bsky.social 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 …1/N
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excited to be hosting Marco Loggia today as our @westernknowpain.bsky.social guest
November 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
excited to be hosting Marco Loggia today as our @westernknowpain.bsky.social guest
Our lab is hiring! We're lookgin for an MSc trainee and a PhD trainee to investigate the neural underpinnings of pain. If you are interested in pain and brain imaging, please reach out!
Informal enquiries are encouraged.
Informal enquiries are encouraged.
November 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Our lab is hiring! We're lookgin for an MSc trainee and a PhD trainee to investigate the neural underpinnings of pain. If you are interested in pain and brain imaging, please reach out!
Informal enquiries are encouraged.
Informal enquiries are encouraged.
Great for Canada - except where are the operating funds coming from? Tri-council budgets are not growing…
More US-based academics exit the United States, including world famous astronomer Sara Seager 🔭🧪
www.utoronto.ca/news/new-con...
www.utoronto.ca/news/new-con...
New constellation of academic stars headed to U of T
In a “big win for Canada,” the University of Toronto is further strengthening its academic ranks with three top researchers from U.S. universities whose work ranges from the search for new planets to ...
www.utoronto.ca
November 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Great for Canada - except where are the operating funds coming from? Tri-council budgets are not growing…
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So Canadian researchers are left fighting over the same ol’ 🍯 but we will attract more international talent w big bucks & no sustainability plan 🤔
#budget2025 3/
#budget2025 3/
November 5, 2025 at 3:29 AM
So Canadian researchers are left fighting over the same ol’ 🍯 but we will attract more international talent w big bucks & no sustainability plan 🤔
#budget2025 3/
#budget2025 3/
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1 billion dollars for 1000 researchers means 1 million per researcher! Starting assistant professors in the US get 3x that! Imagine what this could have done tri-council success rates instead!
“Budget 2025 proposes to provide $1 billion over 13 years, starting in 2025-26, to ….(Tricouncil)…to launch an accelerated research Chairs initiative to recruit exceptional international researchers to Canadian universities.” 🙄 1/
November 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM
1 billion dollars for 1000 researchers means 1 million per researcher! Starting assistant professors in the US get 3x that! Imagine what this could have done tri-council success rates instead!
Huge congrats to @jenstinson.bsky.social from @sickkidsto.bsky.social for receiving the Order of Merit from the Canadian Nurses Association. Very well deserved!
www.utoronto.ca/celebrates/j...
www.utoronto.ca/celebrates/j...
Jennifer Stinson receives Order of Merit from Canadian Nurses Association
Jennifer Stinson, a senior scientist in child health evaluative sciences at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and professor in U of T's Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, has been recogniz...
www.utoronto.ca
October 27, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Huge congrats to @jenstinson.bsky.social from @sickkidsto.bsky.social for receiving the Order of Merit from the Canadian Nurses Association. Very well deserved!
www.utoronto.ca/celebrates/j...
www.utoronto.ca/celebrates/j...
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There is a form of mosquito that lives in subways and tube tunnels across the world - did it evolve recently to take advantage of this urban environment or has it been around for much longer? www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Urban pests traveled with ancient humans
Population genomics reveals the pre-urban origins of a common mosquito
www.science.org
October 23, 2025 at 6:37 PM
There is a form of mosquito that lives in subways and tube tunnels across the world - did it evolve recently to take advantage of this urban environment or has it been around for much longer? www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Since I can’t work my day job, I’m back to my side gig. 7 handmade dichroic stained glass brains up for grabs tonight at 7pm EST at www.brainedglass.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Since I can’t work my day job, I’m back to my side gig. 7 handmade dichroic stained glass brains up for grabs tonight at 7pm EST at www.brainedglass.com
So… we should tax the rich to fund public programs? What we’ve been asking for … ever?
WELL HOW ABOUT THAT
"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:29 AM
So… we should tax the rich to fund public programs? What we’ve been asking for … ever?
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my department - medical biophysics - is seeking a new chair
informal inquiries welcome
please share
www.uwo.ca/facultyrelat...
informal inquiries welcome
please share
www.uwo.ca/facultyrelat...
www.uwo.ca
October 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
my department - medical biophysics - is seeking a new chair
informal inquiries welcome
please share
www.uwo.ca/facultyrelat...
informal inquiries welcome
please share
www.uwo.ca/facultyrelat...
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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
October 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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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Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com