Tony Pickering
@tony-pickering.bsky.social
Gas man, Pain Doc, part-time Neuroscientist & Magpie (⚽️ and proclivity)
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Through art, text, and photography, our competition revealed how persistent pain shapes daily life. Congratulations to the winners — and thank you to all who helped turn lived experience into insight. Read more: criisp.uk/2025/10/23/s...
#ChronicPainResearch #PublicInvolvement
#ChronicPainResearch #PublicInvolvement
Sharing Daily Moments of Chronic Pain
Over the summer we ran an activity where we asked those living with chronic or persistent pain to take part in a unique creative opportunity to share a moment from their day. We had a diverse …
criisp.uk
October 23, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Through art, text, and photography, our competition revealed how persistent pain shapes daily life. Congratulations to the winners — and thank you to all who helped turn lived experience into insight. Read more: criisp.uk/2025/10/23/s...
#ChronicPainResearch #PublicInvolvement
#ChronicPainResearch #PublicInvolvement
Congratulations to @mike-ambler.bsky.social promoted to a position of responsibility 👏🫡 🫣
May 15, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Congratulations to @mike-ambler.bsky.social promoted to a position of responsibility 👏🫡 🫣
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🎓 Early Career or Student BPS member?
Join us in Wales for #BPSASM2025!
👥 Connect with peers
💡 Learn from leaders in pain management
💸 Student & Early Career rates available!
Let’s build the future of pain science—together.
🔗 Register here www.bpsasm.org/registration
Join us in Wales for #BPSASM2025!
👥 Connect with peers
💡 Learn from leaders in pain management
💸 Student & Early Career rates available!
Let’s build the future of pain science—together.
🔗 Register here www.bpsasm.org/registration
April 16, 2025 at 8:15 AM
🎓 Early Career or Student BPS member?
Join us in Wales for #BPSASM2025!
👥 Connect with peers
💡 Learn from leaders in pain management
💸 Student & Early Career rates available!
Let’s build the future of pain science—together.
🔗 Register here www.bpsasm.org/registration
Join us in Wales for #BPSASM2025!
👥 Connect with peers
💡 Learn from leaders in pain management
💸 Student & Early Career rates available!
Let’s build the future of pain science—together.
🔗 Register here www.bpsasm.org/registration
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THIS IS ONE NEURON! Jaw dropping.
It distributes a particular neurotransmitter (norepinephrine) across the mouse brain; it’s a locus coeruleus neuron.
@jeremiahycohen.bsky.social and colleagues at the @alleninstitute.bsky.social are using new biotech to see things never seen before.
It distributes a particular neurotransmitter (norepinephrine) across the mouse brain; it’s a locus coeruleus neuron.
@jeremiahycohen.bsky.social and colleagues at the @alleninstitute.bsky.social are using new biotech to see things never seen before.
April 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
THIS IS ONE NEURON! Jaw dropping.
It distributes a particular neurotransmitter (norepinephrine) across the mouse brain; it’s a locus coeruleus neuron.
@jeremiahycohen.bsky.social and colleagues at the @alleninstitute.bsky.social are using new biotech to see things never seen before.
It distributes a particular neurotransmitter (norepinephrine) across the mouse brain; it’s a locus coeruleus neuron.
@jeremiahycohen.bsky.social and colleagues at the @alleninstitute.bsky.social are using new biotech to see things never seen before.
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Are you living with long COVID? We are recruiting for a study which aims to understand the mechanisms underlying breathing difficulties in long COVID. Read about it here: longcovid.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
Or here:
www.bristolbrc.nihr.ac.uk/research/res...
@bristolbrc.bsky.social @uobppn.bsky.social
Or here:
www.bristolbrc.nihr.ac.uk/research/res...
@bristolbrc.bsky.social @uobppn.bsky.social
Long-COVID and the carotid chemoreflex
longcovid.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
April 3, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Are you living with long COVID? We are recruiting for a study which aims to understand the mechanisms underlying breathing difficulties in long COVID. Read about it here: longcovid.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
Or here:
www.bristolbrc.nihr.ac.uk/research/res...
@bristolbrc.bsky.social @uobppn.bsky.social
Or here:
www.bristolbrc.nihr.ac.uk/research/res...
@bristolbrc.bsky.social @uobppn.bsky.social
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Check out the amazing line up of speakers for the Catecholamines GRC! Apply for GRC www.grc.org/catecholamin... & GRS www.grc.org/catecholamin.... In these uncertain times we appreciate any donation to support the participants in the GRC my.grc.org/p/contributi... & GRS my.grc.org/p/contributi...
March 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Check out the amazing line up of speakers for the Catecholamines GRC! Apply for GRC www.grc.org/catecholamin... & GRS www.grc.org/catecholamin.... In these uncertain times we appreciate any donation to support the participants in the GRC my.grc.org/p/contributi... & GRS my.grc.org/p/contributi...
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Very excited to post this preprint... making a species that doesn't hibernate do something a lot like it, AND showing it is cardioprotective.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Synthetic torpor in the rat recapitulates key features of natural torpor and is cardioprotective
During hibernation, animals enter torpor, a reversible physiological state typically characterised by reductions in core temperature, heart rate and oxygen consumption. Species that enter this hypothe...
www.biorxiv.org
March 19, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Very excited to post this preprint... making a species that doesn't hibernate do something a lot like it, AND showing it is cardioprotective.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
When is a "pathogenic" variant in a classic pain gene (NaV1.7) not pathogenic? When its carried by many thousands of people and has no evidence of a pain phenotype or analgesic prescriptions... We need to reconsider how we assign pathogenicity to these variants.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Carriers of SCN9A variants linked to inherited and acquired pain syndromes show no alteration in the prevalence of pain or analgesic usage in the UK Biobank cohort
The voltage-gated sodium channel NaV1.7, encoded by the SCN9A gene, is integral to nociceptor excitability and pain sensation. Multiple gain-of-function SCN9A variants have been reported to cause auto...
www.medrxiv.org
March 19, 2025 at 7:16 AM
When is a "pathogenic" variant in a classic pain gene (NaV1.7) not pathogenic? When its carried by many thousands of people and has no evidence of a pain phenotype or analgesic prescriptions... We need to reconsider how we assign pathogenicity to these variants.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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THE BOY FROM BLYTH!!!!
SIMPLY INCREDIBLE!!!! 😍
SIMPLY INCREDIBLE!!!! 😍
March 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
THE BOY FROM BLYTH!!!!
SIMPLY INCREDIBLE!!!! 😍
SIMPLY INCREDIBLE!!!! 😍
Mice manage airways in anaesthetised cage mates... maybe there is a genetic basis for becoming an anaesthetist. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reviving-like prosocial behavior in response to unconscious or dead conspecifics in rodents
Whereas humans exhibit emergency responses to assist unconscious individuals, how nonhuman animals react to unresponsive conspecifics is less well understood. We report that mice exhibit stereotypic b...
www.science.org
March 9, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Mice manage airways in anaesthetised cage mates... maybe there is a genetic basis for becoming an anaesthetist. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Do you have a basic science background and are interested in doing a PhD at Oxford University? Fully funded UK studentship available for 2025 intake to study the role of B-cells in human neuropathic pain
To apply please see here:
www.ndcn.ox.ac.uk/study-with-u...
To apply please see here:
www.ndcn.ox.ac.uk/study-with-u...
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February 14, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Do you have a basic science background and are interested in doing a PhD at Oxford University? Fully funded UK studentship available for 2025 intake to study the role of B-cells in human neuropathic pain
To apply please see here:
www.ndcn.ox.ac.uk/study-with-u...
To apply please see here:
www.ndcn.ox.ac.uk/study-with-u...
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We offer two PhD positions in Pain Neuroscience and Non-invasive neuromodulation. The positions are at the PainLabMunich (painlabmunich.de) and will be part of the EU-funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network FRESCO4NoPain. See www.cnap.hst.aau.dk/fresco4nopai... for details.
February 20, 2025 at 12:01 PM
We offer two PhD positions in Pain Neuroscience and Non-invasive neuromodulation. The positions are at the PainLabMunich (painlabmunich.de) and will be part of the EU-funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network FRESCO4NoPain. See www.cnap.hst.aau.dk/fresco4nopai... for details.
Excited to be part of the FRESCO4NoPain consortium - 17 PhD places available across European centres. Translational Neuromodulation for pain - apply here if this is your bag www.cnap.hst.aau.dk/fresco4nopai...
March 5, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Excited to be part of the FRESCO4NoPain consortium - 17 PhD places available across European centres. Translational Neuromodulation for pain - apply here if this is your bag www.cnap.hst.aau.dk/fresco4nopai...
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Happy 84th birthday to Anthony Fauci
December 25, 2024 at 3:49 AM
Happy 84th birthday to Anthony Fauci
Possibly the best thing about the post office this year… thanks to She Runs Cardiff
December 22, 2024 at 2:34 PM
Possibly the best thing about the post office this year… thanks to She Runs Cardiff
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Our publishing model, launched last year, lets authors revise their papers whenever and however they choose.
Here's the first-ever revision to be published on how the locus coeruleus is involved in visuomotor learning processes. #12DaysOfeLife
https://buff.ly/3ZlX58u
Here's the first-ever revision to be published on how the locus coeruleus is involved in visuomotor learning processes. #12DaysOfeLife
https://buff.ly/3ZlX58u
December 20, 2024 at 2:59 PM
Our publishing model, launched last year, lets authors revise their papers whenever and however they choose.
Here's the first-ever revision to be published on how the locus coeruleus is involved in visuomotor learning processes. #12DaysOfeLife
https://buff.ly/3ZlX58u
Here's the first-ever revision to be published on how the locus coeruleus is involved in visuomotor learning processes. #12DaysOfeLife
https://buff.ly/3ZlX58u
