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Alex Chesler

@alexchesler.bsky.social
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Touch, pain and coffee

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Datta Lab @dattalab.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
We are looking for a new lab manager to join our team! See jobs.smartrecruiters.com/HarvardUnive... or DM if interested - neuroscience background a big plus but not required
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Research Lab Manager
Company Description: By working at Harvard University, you join a vibrant community that advances Harvard's world-changing mission in meaningful ways, inspires innovation and collaboration, and builds...
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Giordano Lippi @lippilab.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The Lippi lab is hiring a postdoctoral associate! We built new technologies to study post-transcriptional regulation in the healthy and diseased brain. We are recruiting motivated and talented scientists who will use these tools to discover new biology and new therapies.
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Alex Chesler @alexchesler.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Love seeing who my 2025 classmates are and all the amazing science they are doing. Shout to out @juanbonifacino.bsky.social and @dattalab.bsky.social, hope we can share a🍸at the ceremony. Congrats to everyone!
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Alex Chesler @alexchesler.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Really enjoying sunny San Diego so far.
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Alex Chesler @alexchesler.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Some news. Exciting new challenges and opportunities ahead.
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Pain Research Forum @painresforum.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Have you seen the latest result from the Julius lab showing mitochondrial electron transport chains tuning as an intrinsic cellular strategy protecting nociceptors against excitotoxicity? Check out this #EditorsPick from @alexchesler.bsky.social now! bit.ly/46jodto #PRF
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Pain Research Forum @painresforum.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
The latest papers published in pain research are now on PRF! Dr. Alex Chesler provides a curated list for Aug. 22-28, 2025 and a commentary on his pick for Paper of the Week! painresearchforum.org/paper @utdpaincenter.bsky.social @nyupainresearch.bsky.social @iasp.bsky.social @usasp.bsky.social
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Donald Iain MacDonald @dimacd.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Some very nice 50 year old immunostaining that showed for the first time that Substance P was in sensory neurons and their central terminals. Only three pictures, published in Science! www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Alex Chesler @alexchesler.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Sort of last minute but my group is looking to recruit a a recent college grad as postbac to start this summer and work on PIEZO channels. Project involves cell based assays, patch clamp recording, and imaging. Info on the NIH program can be found here: www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...
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Kara Marshall @karalmarshall.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Vote today for SfN leadership! Ellen Lumpkin and Irene Tracey both there! www.directvote.net/SfN/
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DirectVote Election: Login
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Stephani Sutherland @sutherlandphd.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
The last 2 weeks have been a blur, but sadly I'm no longer at the NIH. Working for #painresearch at the NIH was a great honor and the best job of my life. As part of this amazing team, I'm proud to have worked on the HEAL 2025 Annual Report - pls share! heal.nih.gov/about/nih-he...
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The NIH HEAL Initiative 2025 Annual Report: Research in Action | NIH HEAL Initiative
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International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) @iasp.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Read this #PapersoftheWeek #EditorsPick from Ghitani et al. and @Nature.com demonstrating that nociceptor activity is both necessary and sufficient for inflammatory tactile allodynia bit.ly/4mcTuV4 #PRF
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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 07/05/2025
The feeling of a hug comes from the pressure and vibration of millions of nerve endings.
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Touch, Our Most Complex Sense, Is a Landscape of Cellular Sensors | Quanta Magazine
Every soft caress of wind, searing burn and seismic rumble is detected by our skin’s tangle of touch sensors. David Ginty has spent his career cataloging the neurons beneath everyday sensations.
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Alex Chesler @alexchesler.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Happy “May the 4th” or as I like to call it “Piezo Day”.
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Lauren Atlas @laurenatlas.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
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.
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Todd Macfarlan @toddmacfarlan.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I am looking for postdocs to join my group at NIH. Are you interested in Development, Evolution, Genetics, Genomics, and Human health? Please apply! www.training.nih.gov/jobs/pdf-mb-...
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Alex Chesler @alexchesler.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Four old men from NYC. Reunited to see a punk band that I last saw live at CBGBs in high school. Friends for four decades.
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Zachary Knight @zknight.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Nice article in NY Times today about AgRP neurons, GLP1s, and hunger. By Gina Kolata. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/h...
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What Nearly Brainless Rodents Know About Weight Loss and Hunger
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Alex Chesler @alexchesler.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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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Alex Chesler @alexchesler.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Huge congratulations to the always amazing, truly brilliant @clairelepichon.bsky.social who just received TENURE from our NIH intramural program.
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Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
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Alex Chesler @alexchesler.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
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Pain Continues to Be a Pain
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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
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. buff.ly/ypISrtx
different coloured mice on a white background
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Alex Chesler @alexchesler.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Watch out Ozempic, there’s a new kid in town. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/h...
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F.D.A. Approves Drug to Treat Pain Without Opioid Effects
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Alex Chesler @alexchesler.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Finished my holiday project. Gutted a $150 Gaggia Classic I found on Craigslist and turned it into a Gaggiuino (gaggiuino.github.io#/). Stop by my office for coffee sometime.
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Alex Chesler @alexchesler.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Great start to 2025
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Alex Chesler @alexchesler.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Absolute Bagels mysteriously closes??? A staple of my graduate student life at Columbia. Although I live over 200 miles away, I need answers. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/n...
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A Bagel Shop Closes, and the Upper West Side Is Absolutely Losing It
The neighborhood reaction to the sudden, mysterious closure of a Manhattan bagel shop was intense: “No no no no no no no no no no no!!”
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Alex Chesler @alexchesler.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
NIH’s own @mikekrashes.bsky.social telling it like it is.
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Alex Chesler @alexchesler.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
There goes the neighborhood @mikekrashes.bsky.social is here.
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Alex Chesler @alexchesler.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Kate Zernike and Nancy Hopkins taking questions from the crowd at NIH.
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Alex Chesler @alexchesler.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
My latest favorite idea. We are inviting friends over the day after Thanksgiving - everyone brings leftovers
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Alex Chesler @alexchesler.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Super excited to be co-hosting scientist Nancy Hopkins and author Kate Zernike at NIH this Wednesday as part of a event jointly organized by the Porter Book Club, Women Scientists Advisors (WSA) and Women Scientist Fellows (WSF). Details: linktr.ee/wsf.nih?utm_... videocast.nih.gov/watch=55349
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