Ruby Lam

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Turns out, two of pain’s most famous messengers — Substance P and CGRPα — might not be so essential after all. Mice missing both still felt pain just fine, challenging decades of assumptions about how pain signals travel.
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A distributed coding logic for thermosensation and inflammatory pain - Nature Functional imaging and multiplexed in situ hybridization were combined to investigate how trigeminal neurons encode heat and mechanical stimuli, revealing distinct cellular mechanisms for continuing p...

co-author @dimacd.bsky.social pointed out that the link was truncated in my post. Hope this works: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The NIH’s Grant Terminations Are ‘Utter and Complete Chaos’ The Trump administration is rapidly canceling hundreds of grants, in the most aggressive attack yet on American science.

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NIH "has become suffocatingly toxic. 'People are being screamed at, bullied, harassed,' one official told me. Some that once protested have since relented—perhaps because they now know that the immediate future will bring only more of the same."

www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

philososcienceing - Twitch Join us for philosophizing about science (philososciencing) for a bit!

We are back! STANDING UP FOR SCIENCE! Thursday at 9:30pm Eastern on www.twitch.tv/philososcien...

Ok Boston area peeps! Lab coats off Friday afternoon. Bring your stick-free posters, some warm clothes, snacks and water. See you there! standupforscience2025.org/boston-ma/

Robyn St. Laurent: Why science funding matters more than you think Cutting funding to NIH and and NSF does more than take away career paths for our upcoming generations; it threatens the well-being of people.

I wrote an opinion column for the local newspaper in southern NH where I am from. Thanks to @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social for the inspiration! Please consider doing this in your hometown! #SciAdvocate 🧪👩‍🔬

www.seacoastonline.com/story/opinio...