Timothy Meeker
@neurotim.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Biology and Applied Neuroscience at Morgan State University.
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Timothy Meeker
@neurotim.bsky.social
· Jan 7
This is why I chose to do medical research into neuropathic pain. The red line in the picture on the left is the approximate height my mother was in her prime. The picture on the right is an MRI of her spine. The vertebrae in the lower circle is L1; the radiologist note was 'dislocated spine.'
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February 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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When Americans shoot themselves in the foot, they kill a lot of other people too. And not just in the health sphere. Climate, Education and FOOD.
February 9, 2025 at 11:51 PM
When Americans shoot themselves in the foot, they kill a lot of other people too. And not just in the health sphere. Climate, Education and FOOD.
Well, Harvard is definitely not going to be leading the way on any pushes for academic freedom. How spineless...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Harvard Begins Reviewing National Science Foundation Grants, Expanding Response to Trump’s Orders | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard Vice Provost for Research John H. Shaw sent an email Wednesday afternoon notifying faculty that the University would begin assessing National Science Foundation grants after the NSF instructed...
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January 31, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Well, Harvard is definitely not going to be leading the way on any pushes for academic freedom. How spineless...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Whenever you see the word 'meritocracy', just realize it is code for elitism, classism, and exclusion.
January 26, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Whenever you see the word 'meritocracy', just realize it is code for elitism, classism, and exclusion.
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We failed to stop fascism's rise. Now it's dancing about on the White House lawn. I don't know how to fix all this but I do know that the shit we've been doing won't get us out of this one.
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We failed to stop the rise of fascism. What comes next?
How to navigate the future without a map.
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January 21, 2025 at 4:05 AM
We failed to stop fascism's rise. Now it's dancing about on the White House lawn. I don't know how to fix all this but I do know that the shit we've been doing won't get us out of this one.
shatterzone.substack.com/p/we-failed-...
shatterzone.substack.com/p/we-failed-...
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In case you're curious, this is the internal Meta "fuck DEI" announcement received by Meta employees
January 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM
In case you're curious, this is the internal Meta "fuck DEI" announcement received by Meta employees
This is why I chose to do medical research into neuropathic pain. The red line in the picture on the left is the approximate height my mother was in her prime. The picture on the right is an MRI of her spine. The vertebrae in the lower circle is L1; the radiologist note was 'dislocated spine.'
January 7, 2025 at 7:44 AM
This is why I chose to do medical research into neuropathic pain. The red line in the picture on the left is the approximate height my mother was in her prime. The picture on the right is an MRI of her spine. The vertebrae in the lower circle is L1; the radiologist note was 'dislocated spine.'
The holidays are always a bit hard for me. On Dec 27, six years ago, my mother died at 62 after 24 years of chronic pain. A chronic pain patient of the 1990s, she was on opioids most of the time. She died in the nursing home after being given her normal dose of morphine after 109 days in hospital.
December 18, 2024 at 6:15 AM
The holidays are always a bit hard for me. On Dec 27, six years ago, my mother died at 62 after 24 years of chronic pain. A chronic pain patient of the 1990s, she was on opioids most of the time. She died in the nursing home after being given her normal dose of morphine after 109 days in hospital.
Hosted my first official lab meeting today. PAINlab (Perception and Attention Intergrative Neuroscience Lab) is officially open. Thank you to everyone who got me here. I'm just the idea man.
December 12, 2024 at 9:54 PM
Hosted my first official lab meeting today. PAINlab (Perception and Attention Intergrative Neuroscience Lab) is officially open. Thank you to everyone who got me here. I'm just the idea man.
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76 years ago #OnThisDay men and women from every country and every culture, every religion and worldview, came together to agree that some values were shared and should forever be protected as rights for all.' @andrewcopson.bsky.social #HumanRightsDay2024 andrewcopson.com/2024/12/cele...
Celebrating Human Rights Day
Human Rights Day offers the opportunity to reflect on what an enormous human achievement ‘human rights’ are and on the commitments they entail, from the empathy which underpins them, to the rule of la...
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December 10, 2024 at 11:08 AM
76 years ago #OnThisDay men and women from every country and every culture, every religion and worldview, came together to agree that some values were shared and should forever be protected as rights for all.' @andrewcopson.bsky.social #HumanRightsDay2024 andrewcopson.com/2024/12/cele...
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A deep dive into the digital footprint of Luigi Mangione, a man radicalized by pain.
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Alleged CEO Shooter Luigi Mangione Was Radicalized by Pain
A journey through his online footprint and influences
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December 10, 2024 at 6:54 AM
A deep dive into the digital footprint of Luigi Mangione, a man radicalized by pain.
shatterzone.substack.com/p/alleged-ce...
shatterzone.substack.com/p/alleged-ce...
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“NIH produces an astounding return on investment to the American taxpayer. In Fiscal Year 2022, NIH research funding supported 568,585 jobs and generated $96.84 billion in economic activity — that’s $2.64 of economic activity for every $1 of research funding.”
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Research supported by NIH has led more than 100 Nobel Prizes and has supported more than 99% of drugs approved by federal regulators from 2010 to 2019.
But come January, NIH may face a wrecking ball
nytimes.com/2024/12/01/h...
But come January, NIH may face a wrecking ball
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Long a ‘Crown Jewel’ of Government, N.I.H. Is Now a Target
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December 1, 2024 at 11:58 PM
“NIH produces an astounding return on investment to the American taxpayer. In Fiscal Year 2022, NIH research funding supported 568,585 jobs and generated $96.84 billion in economic activity — that’s $2.64 of economic activity for every $1 of research funding.”
www.researchamerica.org/2023-oped-us...
www.researchamerica.org/2023-oped-us...
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A LITTLE LOUDER FOR THE STUDY SECTIONS IN THE BACK: ". . . classical functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) . . . can be reliable when averaged across tens of people, or even in an individual, given sufficient repetition."
Great conversations with @ndosenbach.bsky.social while preparing this Nature News & Views on the new Kang et al. Ready to have the same with everyone here. Thoughts? What other practice should be investigated to help BWAS reproducibility?
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Design tips for reproducible studies linking the brain to behaviour
Sampling schemes for reproducible brain-wide association studies.
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November 27, 2024 at 7:10 PM
A LITTLE LOUDER FOR THE STUDY SECTIONS IN THE BACK: ". . . classical functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) . . . can be reliable when averaged across tens of people, or even in an individual, given sufficient repetition."
Finally started the process to order the last pieces of equipment for the lab. It's been a bureaucratic struggle, but most IRBs are approved, and funding is lined up. Writing discussion section for my first senior author paper tomorrow. It's all happening, and I'm a bit scared it's all an illusion.
November 24, 2024 at 7:54 AM
Finally started the process to order the last pieces of equipment for the lab. It's been a bureaucratic struggle, but most IRBs are approved, and funding is lined up. Writing discussion section for my first senior author paper tomorrow. It's all happening, and I'm a bit scared it's all an illusion.
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Huge influx of neuroscientists migrates to Bluesky
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#Neuroscience
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‘Huge influx’ of neuroscientists migrates to Bluesky
Daily neuroscience-related posts on the social-media platform this week have increased more than 400 percent, on average, compared with October.
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November 23, 2024 at 8:09 PM
Huge influx of neuroscientists migrates to Bluesky
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#Neuroscience
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#Neuroscience
Former postdoc mentor, Fred Lenz and I published a review of the human thalamus involvement in pain from the perspective of his 35+ year research career.
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Neuroscience of the Human Thalamus Related to Acute Pain and Chronic 'Thalamic' Pain | Journal of Neurophysiology
The association of posterior thalamic strokes with the presence of chronic 'thalamic' pain, was described in the early 1900s and revisited in a recent review of these patients. Acute pain in corporal ...
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November 18, 2024 at 6:12 AM
Former postdoc mentor, Fred Lenz and I published a review of the human thalamus involvement in pain from the perspective of his 35+ year research career.
journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Earlier this year some inimitable colleagues and I started an international Neuroimaging of Pain working group with ENIGMA:
journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...
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ENIGMA-Chronic Pain: a worldwide initiative to identify... : PAIN
An abstract is unavailable.
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November 18, 2024 at 6:05 AM
Earlier this year some inimitable colleagues and I started an international Neuroimaging of Pain working group with ENIGMA:
journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...
journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...
Turns out long bouts of acute, experimental pain increases tension and anxiety. Now, we have an experimental model of the phenomenon.
www.dovepress.com/vigilance-to...
www.dovepress.com/vigilance-to...
Vigilance to painful laser stimuli associated with anxiety | JPR
Describing vigilance decrement for painful laser stimuli, which is associated with increased state anxiety and tense arousal. Read more
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November 18, 2024 at 5:55 AM
Turns out long bouts of acute, experimental pain increases tension and anxiety. Now, we have an experimental model of the phenomenon.
www.dovepress.com/vigilance-to...
www.dovepress.com/vigilance-to...
Posting our last 2 years of publications since that's how long ago I quit Twitter and they stole my username:
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Frontiers | Biological sex influences psychological aspects of the biopsychosocial model related to chronic pain intensity and interference among South Korean patients with chronic secondary musculosk...
IntroductionPain is a prominent contributor to negative personal and social outcomes, including increased disability and mortality, in many rheumatic disease...
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November 18, 2024 at 5:53 AM
Posting our last 2 years of publications since that's how long ago I quit Twitter and they stole my username:
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
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