Tasha Parman, PT
@tp-pt.bsky.social
PT, post doc, 🐕 and 👦🏼 mom, basketball fan, pain nerd, 🏳️🌈
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📣EVENT ALERT!
Join us next Monday, July 7th at 6:30pm PT at Burke-Gilman Brewing Co. in Seattle, WA for a conversation on how science works with @carlbergstrom.com (UW Biology) and Kevin Gross (NCSU Statistics) - and you!
Find the event here & register➡️ zurl.co/nEQAN
@burkebrewing.bsky.social
Join us next Monday, July 7th at 6:30pm PT at Burke-Gilman Brewing Co. in Seattle, WA for a conversation on how science works with @carlbergstrom.com (UW Biology) and Kevin Gross (NCSU Statistics) - and you!
Find the event here & register➡️ zurl.co/nEQAN
@burkebrewing.bsky.social
July 1, 2025 at 11:38 AM
📣EVENT ALERT!
Join us next Monday, July 7th at 6:30pm PT at Burke-Gilman Brewing Co. in Seattle, WA for a conversation on how science works with @carlbergstrom.com (UW Biology) and Kevin Gross (NCSU Statistics) - and you!
Find the event here & register➡️ zurl.co/nEQAN
@burkebrewing.bsky.social
Join us next Monday, July 7th at 6:30pm PT at Burke-Gilman Brewing Co. in Seattle, WA for a conversation on how science works with @carlbergstrom.com (UW Biology) and Kevin Gross (NCSU Statistics) - and you!
Find the event here & register➡️ zurl.co/nEQAN
@burkebrewing.bsky.social
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Viewpoint in JAMA details the consequences of the proposed cuts to NIH:
❌15% reduction in new therapies
❌reduction in life expectancy by 83M life years in the US = $8.2T
❌loss of $51B in economic output annually
All to save $20B annually. The math ain't mathin.'
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
❌15% reduction in new therapies
❌reduction in life expectancy by 83M life years in the US = $8.2T
❌loss of $51B in economic output annually
All to save $20B annually. The math ain't mathin.'
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Cutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe
This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...
jamanetwork.com
May 30, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Viewpoint in JAMA details the consequences of the proposed cuts to NIH:
❌15% reduction in new therapies
❌reduction in life expectancy by 83M life years in the US = $8.2T
❌loss of $51B in economic output annually
All to save $20B annually. The math ain't mathin.'
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
❌15% reduction in new therapies
❌reduction in life expectancy by 83M life years in the US = $8.2T
❌loss of $51B in economic output annually
All to save $20B annually. The math ain't mathin.'
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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There are literally no words for how incredibly devastating this is and it’s only been 5 months.
May 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Grateful for the opportunities I’ve had with my mentor in my postdoc! We are thinking about pain and function differently and hoping this work can inform future clinical practice. Thank you @seanrundell.bsky.social 🤓
Excited this is finally published.
#Pain characteristics including bothersome pain, activity-limiting pain, greater number of pain sites, and more frequent pain medication consistently associated with lower & declining physical capacity over 6 years in older adults.
journals.lww.com/clinicalpain...
#Pain characteristics including bothersome pain, activity-limiting pain, greater number of pain sites, and more frequent pain medication consistently associated with lower & declining physical capacity over 6 years in older adults.
journals.lww.com/clinicalpain...
May 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Grateful for the opportunities I’ve had with my mentor in my postdoc! We are thinking about pain and function differently and hoping this work can inform future clinical practice. Thank you @seanrundell.bsky.social 🤓
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Relationships beteen fear of movement and physical activity across conditions is the subject of this new meta-analysis:
academic.oup.com/ptj/advance-...
#PhysioSky #PTSky
academic.oup.com/ptj/advance-...
#PhysioSky #PTSky
Relationship between Fear of Movement and Physical Activity in Patients with Cardiac, Rheumatologic, Neurologic, Pulmonary, or Pain Conditions: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
AbstractObjective. Physical activity contributes to the primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention of multiple diseases. However, in some patients, fear o
academic.oup.com
May 20, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Relationships beteen fear of movement and physical activity across conditions is the subject of this new meta-analysis:
academic.oup.com/ptj/advance-...
#PhysioSky #PTSky
academic.oup.com/ptj/advance-...
#PhysioSky #PTSky
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Register for tomorrow’s 14 May webinar: “Bridging Gaps in Endometriosis Pain Management.” Engage with leading scientists, clinicians, physiotherapists, psychologists, and pain specialists from around the world on this complex chronic pain condition. bit.ly/3ELaK2A
May 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Register for tomorrow’s 14 May webinar: “Bridging Gaps in Endometriosis Pain Management.” Engage with leading scientists, clinicians, physiotherapists, psychologists, and pain specialists from around the world on this complex chronic pain condition. bit.ly/3ELaK2A
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I was excited to hear about a new behavioral treatment for chronic pain developed by researchers in Australia -- dialectical behavior therapy adapted to chronic pain. Thanks to @sutherlandphd.bsky.social for covering this development.
May 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I was excited to hear about a new behavioral treatment for chronic pain developed by researchers in Australia -- dialectical behavior therapy adapted to chronic pain. Thanks to @sutherlandphd.bsky.social for covering this development.
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What's happening with these grants is much more complicated and mostly unknown. None of the NIH have been officially cancelled. The NIH was just ordered to stop paying. They got the Unis to enforce silence on their own campuses because they thought they were "negotiating" and cld get the funds back.
Conspiracy of Silence: How Trump is Covertly Strangling Billions in Disease Cure Research talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/consp...
Conspiracy of Silence: How Trump is Covertly Strangling Billions in Disease Cure Research
The following is very important news about the Trump White House’s unfolding...
talkingpointsmemo.com
May 6, 2025 at 6:24 PM
What's happening with these grants is much more complicated and mostly unknown. None of the NIH have been officially cancelled. The NIH was just ordered to stop paying. They got the Unis to enforce silence on their own campuses because they thought they were "negotiating" and cld get the funds back.
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On Friday, my son stayed home from school because he had a sore throat and wasn’t feeling well. He went with my husband to his office for the morning while I handled our daughter. When he came back at lunch, he was not interested in eating, saying his throat hurt too much. 1/n
May 5, 2025 at 7:11 AM
On Friday, my son stayed home from school because he had a sore throat and wasn’t feeling well. He went with my husband to his office for the morning while I handled our daughter. When he came back at lunch, he was not interested in eating, saying his throat hurt too much. 1/n
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Here’s just the most recent of the many NCCIH studies of #pain (from colleague @alexchesler.bsky.social published last week in Nature). Nearly 50% of NCCIH funding goes to studying pain, with a focus on nonpharmacological treatments and mechanisms. The proposed budget eliminates NCCIH.
co-author @dimacd.bsky.social pointed out that the link was truncated in my post. Hope this works: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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...
www.nature.com
May 3, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Here’s just the most recent of the many NCCIH studies of #pain (from colleague @alexchesler.bsky.social published last week in Nature). Nearly 50% of NCCIH funding goes to studying pain, with a focus on nonpharmacological treatments and mechanisms. The proposed budget eliminates NCCIH.
While I know next to nothing about the DRG, it was fun to listen to the work done by @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social and collaborators. Super important work! Also appreciated his hopeful messages for the future, as I and others have been short on hope recently. #usasp2025
May 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
While I know next to nothing about the DRG, it was fun to listen to the work done by @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social and collaborators. Super important work! Also appreciated his hopeful messages for the future, as I and others have been short on hope recently. #usasp2025
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Don’t miss our symposium today 5/1 11:45 Caribbean Room at #usasp2025 - Pain Research Enters the Age of Big Data - we want to share our data with you!
May 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Don’t miss our symposium today 5/1 11:45 Caribbean Room at #usasp2025 - Pain Research Enters the Age of Big Data - we want to share our data with you!
Awesome plenary!
Beth Darnall delivering a fantastic plenary laying out the overwhelming evidence for how CBT, mindfulness treatments work for #chronicpain and how to best to deliver them, even remotely #usasp2025
April 30, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Awesome plenary!
Really interesting talks regarding sleep and pain at #usasp2025. Shout out to Dr. Tham from Seattle Children’s Hospital. @usasp.bsky.social
April 30, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Really interesting talks regarding sleep and pain at #usasp2025. Shout out to Dr. Tham from Seattle Children’s Hospital. @usasp.bsky.social
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How will you use A2CPS data to answer questions about pain, health and disease? Baseline data available now. More at a2cps.org/researchers/
April 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
How will you use A2CPS data to answer questions about pain, health and disease? Baseline data available now. More at a2cps.org/researchers/
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New research links fibromyalgia pain to the gut microbiome. Transplanting healthy gut bacteria reduced pain in mice—and in a small clinical trial, improved symptoms in women.
@karapedsgastrodoc.bsky.social
@nyupainresearch.bsky.social
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
@karapedsgastrodoc.bsky.social
@nyupainresearch.bsky.social
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
The gut microbiota promotes pain in fibromyalgia
Cai et al. revealed that transplanting gut microbiota from women with fibromyalgia—a
chronic widespread pain condition of unknown etiology—into mice induces pain. It also
induces phenotypes commonly o...
www.cell.com
April 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
New research links fibromyalgia pain to the gut microbiome. Transplanting healthy gut bacteria reduced pain in mice—and in a small clinical trial, improved symptoms in women.
@karapedsgastrodoc.bsky.social
@nyupainresearch.bsky.social
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
@karapedsgastrodoc.bsky.social
@nyupainresearch.bsky.social
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
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Eugenics is fake science.
But it’s creeping back into public discourse—through political rhetoric, bad policy, & scientific silence. We’re seeing this pseudoscience rebrand itself once again as legitimate.
We must call it what it is—& stop it before it spreads further. We’ve seen where this leads.
But it’s creeping back into public discourse—through political rhetoric, bad policy, & scientific silence. We’re seeing this pseudoscience rebrand itself once again as legitimate.
We must call it what it is—& stop it before it spreads further. We’ve seen where this leads.
Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics
https://go.nature.com/4jGqiUc
https://go.nature.com/4jGqiUc
Eugenics is on the rise again: human geneticists must take a stand
Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics.
go.nature.com
April 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Eugenics is fake science.
But it’s creeping back into public discourse—through political rhetoric, bad policy, & scientific silence. We’re seeing this pseudoscience rebrand itself once again as legitimate.
We must call it what it is—& stop it before it spreads further. We’ve seen where this leads.
But it’s creeping back into public discourse—through political rhetoric, bad policy, & scientific silence. We’re seeing this pseudoscience rebrand itself once again as legitimate.
We must call it what it is—& stop it before it spreads further. We’ve seen where this leads.
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DOGE appears to have ordered a 50% cut in the budget of the National Science Foundation, leading its director, appointed by Trump in his first term, to resign. www.science.org/content/arti...
Exclusive: NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy
“I have done all I can,” says Sethuraman Panchanathan, a Trump appointee who has led agency since 2020
www.science.org
April 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
DOGE appears to have ordered a 50% cut in the budget of the National Science Foundation, leading its director, appointed by Trump in his first term, to resign. www.science.org/content/arti...
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An example of what we in the NIH Intramural program can accomplish. Excited to share our latest paper in close collaboration with Nick Ryba's group. We examined how inflammation transforms representation in somatosensory neurons to cause pain. Lots of surprises here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com
April 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
An example of what we in the NIH Intramural program can accomplish. Excited to share our latest paper in close collaboration with Nick Ryba's group. We examined how inflammation transforms representation in somatosensory neurons to cause pain. Lots of surprises here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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📣 We’d love to hear from anyone who has used or considered using the Equity Check feature on our website to develop their #impsci research questions! 📣
➡️ What was most helpful?
➡️ What could we do better?
➡️ What did we miss?
➡️ What was most helpful?
➡️ What could we do better?
➡️ What did we miss?
Hi #impsci friends! Last fall we re-launched our website with a fresh design and new features like the Equity Check for each step on the Research Pathway.
Have you used this feature? Any feedback for us? To explore, begin at Step 1: bit.ly/2VPyJEu. Imgs show Equity Checks for Steps 1 & 2 (of 8):
Have you used this feature? Any feedback for us? To explore, begin at Step 1: bit.ly/2VPyJEu. Imgs show Equity Checks for Steps 1 & 2 (of 8):
April 21, 2025 at 5:24 PM
📣 We’d love to hear from anyone who has used or considered using the Equity Check feature on our website to develop their #impsci research questions! 📣
➡️ What was most helpful?
➡️ What could we do better?
➡️ What did we miss?
➡️ What was most helpful?
➡️ What could we do better?
➡️ What did we miss?
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🚨URGENT RESPONSE CALL🚨
You’ve seen the bad news. Now it’s time for us to flood the zone.
Over 400 NSF grants — gone. Trump’s cronies are cutting science funding and betting we won’t notice. But we’re not powerless. We’ve got 24 hours to make noise.
Here’s how 🧵(1/3) ➡️
You’ve seen the bad news. Now it’s time for us to flood the zone.
Over 400 NSF grants — gone. Trump’s cronies are cutting science funding and betting we won’t notice. But we’re not powerless. We’ve got 24 hours to make noise.
Here’s how 🧵(1/3) ➡️
@katrinamillerphd.bsky.social & I took a look at over 400 active National Science Foundation grants that got killed in the past few days. Here's our story (gift link) nyti.ms/4jp4aOx
National Science Foundation Terminates Hundreds of Active Research Awards (Gift Article)
The agency targeted grants focused on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as research on misinformation.
nyti.ms
April 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
🚨URGENT RESPONSE CALL🚨
You’ve seen the bad news. Now it’s time for us to flood the zone.
Over 400 NSF grants — gone. Trump’s cronies are cutting science funding and betting we won’t notice. But we’re not powerless. We’ve got 24 hours to make noise.
Here’s how 🧵(1/3) ➡️
You’ve seen the bad news. Now it’s time for us to flood the zone.
Over 400 NSF grants — gone. Trump’s cronies are cutting science funding and betting we won’t notice. But we’re not powerless. We’ve got 24 hours to make noise.
Here’s how 🧵(1/3) ➡️
Reposted by Tasha Parman, PT
Federal funding for the Women’s Health Initiative, which as one of the largest research projects in women’s health has shaped treatment of menopause, osteoporosis, and nutrition, will stop in September.
Women’s Health Initiative, known for hormone therapy trials, to lose federal funding
The Women's Health Initiative, the enormous study that shaped treatment of menopause and other conditions, is on the verge of shutting down.
buff.ly
April 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Federal funding for the Women’s Health Initiative, which as one of the largest research projects in women’s health has shaped treatment of menopause, osteoporosis, and nutrition, will stop in September.