William Zempsky
@kidspainmd.bsky.social
Pediatric pain medicine researcher. Golden retriever lover.
We Will Regret Not Standing Up to This Venomous Cruelty www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/o...
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July 14, 2025 at 10:29 PM
We Will Regret Not Standing Up to This Venomous Cruelty www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/o...
I’m Not the Person You’d Expect to Oppose a Ban on Transgender Troops www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/o...
Opinion | I’m Not the Person You’d Expect to Oppose a Ban on Transgender Troops
www.nytimes.com
June 30, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I’m Not the Person You’d Expect to Oppose a Ban on Transgender Troops www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/o...
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The federal government is taking over the California National Guard and deploying 2,000 soldiers in Los Angeles — not because there is a shortage of law enforcement, but because they want a spectacle.
Don't give them one.
Never use violence. Speak out peacefully.
Don't give them one.
Never use violence. Speak out peacefully.
June 8, 2025 at 2:22 AM
The federal government is taking over the California National Guard and deploying 2,000 soldiers in Los Angeles — not because there is a shortage of law enforcement, but because they want a spectacle.
Don't give them one.
Never use violence. Speak out peacefully.
Don't give them one.
Never use violence. Speak out peacefully.
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We need to stand up for @terrymoranabc.bsky.social
June 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
We need to stand up for @terrymoranabc.bsky.social
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📢 Day rates for #ISPP2025 are now live!
Join us in Glasgow (17–20 June) for just one or two days of cutting-edge sessions on paediatric pain.
🗓 View the programme: inconference.eventsair.com/ispp-2025/
🎟 Register now: ispp2025.com/registration/
Don’t miss it! #PaediatricPain #PainResearch
Join us in Glasgow (17–20 June) for just one or two days of cutting-edge sessions on paediatric pain.
🗓 View the programme: inconference.eventsair.com/ispp-2025/
🎟 Register now: ispp2025.com/registration/
Don’t miss it! #PaediatricPain #PainResearch
May 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
📢 Day rates for #ISPP2025 are now live!
Join us in Glasgow (17–20 June) for just one or two days of cutting-edge sessions on paediatric pain.
🗓 View the programme: inconference.eventsair.com/ispp-2025/
🎟 Register now: ispp2025.com/registration/
Don’t miss it! #PaediatricPain #PainResearch
Join us in Glasgow (17–20 June) for just one or two days of cutting-edge sessions on paediatric pain.
🗓 View the programme: inconference.eventsair.com/ispp-2025/
🎟 Register now: ispp2025.com/registration/
Don’t miss it! #PaediatricPain #PainResearch
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IASP congratulates Jennifer Stinson, RN-EC, PhD, CPNP, FAAN, on receiving the 2025 Gairdner Momentum Award. Her work in digital health has advanced pain assessment and management for young people worldwide. bit.ly/4ivXJI0
May 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
IASP congratulates Jennifer Stinson, RN-EC, PhD, CPNP, FAAN, on receiving the 2025 Gairdner Momentum Award. Her work in digital health has advanced pain assessment and management for young people worldwide. bit.ly/4ivXJI0
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#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky #neuroskyence #neurosci #PainResearch 🧪🛟 🫁
"The NIH has sharply curbed grant funding, disrupting small companies and upending a pillar of biomedical innovation."
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
"The NIH has sharply curbed grant funding, disrupting small companies and upending a pillar of biomedical innovation."
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Biotech start-ups struggle as Trump throttles NIH funding
Freezes and reductions in National Institutes of Health funding are reverberating beyond universities and research labs to startups in the biotech industry.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky #neuroskyence #neurosci #PainResearch 🧪🛟 🫁
"The NIH has sharply curbed grant funding, disrupting small companies and upending a pillar of biomedical innovation."
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
"The NIH has sharply curbed grant funding, disrupting small companies and upending a pillar of biomedical innovation."
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Thanks to my community for a better day in Wisconsin today.
April 2, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Thanks to my community for a better day in Wisconsin today.
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Noticeably silent amid the upheaval at HHS? Big pharma. Every new drug has NIH somewhere in its DNA--and NIH funding supports the training of their workforce. Now they're finding out FDA isn't safe, either. Wrote about how keeping quiet isn't working My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com (gift link):
Big Pharma Needs to Get Off the Sidelines
The industry can’t continue to sit idly by while Robert F. Kennedy Jr. guts the nation’s public health agencies.
www.bloomberg.com
April 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Noticeably silent amid the upheaval at HHS? Big pharma. Every new drug has NIH somewhere in its DNA--and NIH funding supports the training of their workforce. Now they're finding out FDA isn't safe, either. Wrote about how keeping quiet isn't working My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com (gift link):
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This is a direct attack on the career prospects of the young adults in our country. These grants are only open to citizens/permanent residents.
March 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This is a direct attack on the career prospects of the young adults in our country. These grants are only open to citizens/permanent residents.
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Just in NIH grants, It looks like beautiful Iowa City, home of the U of Iowa, will lose $71m in funding. That's almost $1k per resident. And that's before all the other cuts to SSA, FDA, etc.
Anyone in Iowa City that can offer more insight?
scienceimpacts.org
H/T to Prathima !
Anyone in Iowa City that can offer more insight?
scienceimpacts.org
H/T to Prathima !
SCiMaP
scienceimpacts.org
March 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Just in NIH grants, It looks like beautiful Iowa City, home of the U of Iowa, will lose $71m in funding. That's almost $1k per resident. And that's before all the other cuts to SSA, FDA, etc.
Anyone in Iowa City that can offer more insight?
scienceimpacts.org
H/T to Prathima !
Anyone in Iowa City that can offer more insight?
scienceimpacts.org
H/T to Prathima !
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From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA
March 22, 2025 at 10:44 AM
From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA
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Good week for CB1 in #PainResearch
Virtual library docking for cannabinoid-1 receptor agonists with reduced side effects www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A cryptic pocket in CB1 drives peripheral and functional selectivity www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Virtual library docking for cannabinoid-1 receptor agonists with reduced side effects www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A cryptic pocket in CB1 drives peripheral and functional selectivity www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Virtual library docking for cannabinoid-1 receptor agonists with reduced side effects - Nature Communications
Tummino et al. dock 74 million molecules against the human cannabinoid-1 receptor to find uM ligands. Optimization led to a nM agonist conferring analgesia with reduced side effects in mice, highlight...
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March 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Good week for CB1 in #PainResearch
Virtual library docking for cannabinoid-1 receptor agonists with reduced side effects www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A cryptic pocket in CB1 drives peripheral and functional selectivity www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Virtual library docking for cannabinoid-1 receptor agonists with reduced side effects www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A cryptic pocket in CB1 drives peripheral and functional selectivity www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Adolescent predictors of young adult pain & health outcomes included the usual culprits: pain intensity, more pain locations, anxiety, poor sleep quality & family dysfunction. Follow-up study of adolescents with chronic pain journals.lww.com/pain/abstrac...
Adolescent predictors of young adult pain and health... : PAIN
various dimensions of young adult health and functioning, including pain, physical health, depression, anxiety, social isolation, and sleep disturbance. As part of a previous clinical trial, we recrui...
journals.lww.com
March 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Adolescent predictors of young adult pain & health outcomes included the usual culprits: pain intensity, more pain locations, anxiety, poor sleep quality & family dysfunction. Follow-up study of adolescents with chronic pain journals.lww.com/pain/abstrac...
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Looking at some survey data here. Trump/Elon cutting off all cancer cure research is the issue that freaks voters out more than any other, also the one they've heard the least about. Important for voters to hear more about this.
February 28, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Looking at some survey data here. Trump/Elon cutting off all cancer cure research is the issue that freaks voters out more than any other, also the one they've heard the least about. Important for voters to hear more about this.
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“I’m taking DOGE to the next level with DOUCHE,” Musk said.
Musk Forms Dept. Of Underaged Clowns Harming Everything (DOUCHE)
He boasted that he was “taking DOGE to the next level.”
www.borowitzreport.com
February 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
“I’m taking DOGE to the next level with DOUCHE,” Musk said.
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This guy is cool. He supports all the right causes (children's health, vaccines, etc.) and he loves Legos.
Pediatrician Here 👋🏻 
Millions of Americans have Long COVID.
Including Dozens of My Patients (children).
Trump ended the service of the Advisory Committee on Long COVID at Health and Human Services.
Infectious disease 🦠 causes chronic disease.
I guess we won’t be studying That chronic disease.
Millions of Americans have Long COVID.
Including Dozens of My Patients (children).
Trump ended the service of the Advisory Committee on Long COVID at Health and Human Services.
Infectious disease 🦠 causes chronic disease.
I guess we won’t be studying That chronic disease.
February 21, 2025 at 1:18 AM
This guy is cool. He supports all the right causes (children's health, vaccines, etc.) and he loves Legos.
Wonderful editorial regarding diversity equity and inclusion. by Karen Davis. #painresearch
journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...
journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...
The value of equity, diversity, and inclusion principles... : PAIN
An abstract is unavailable.
journals.lww.com
February 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Wonderful editorial regarding diversity equity and inclusion. by Karen Davis. #painresearch
journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...
journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...