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Dr. Ali Barry

@aliibarry.com
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Bioinformatician • UTDallas, previously UniOxford & UniWien | pain, proteomics, multi-omics & open science | chronic migraines | raised on unceded Algonquin, Anishinabek territory 🍁🌈🍉

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Dr. Ali Barry @aliibarry.com · 1h
On a scale of "stock up on food before the storm" to "oooooh, plants", it turns out I have very clear priorities
Photograph of a hamging succulent being carried home from the shop. There are no bags of food in sight.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 21h
Wow. Just wow. Did I say wow?
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is what Trump, Vought and RFK Jr have done. It imperils us all. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
nytimes.com
‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 24/09/2026
This is absolutely deranged: Months before murdering 6 people and injuring 27 more, ChatGPT told the teen school shooter in Tumbler Ridge, BC that using a Remington 870 pump-action shotgun is “brutal” in a “hallway, indoors or a crowded classroom” because “close quarters” is that gun’s “playground”
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Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If you work with international personnel, you may want to comment on this proposed rule change that would put visa holders out of status immediately (instead of after a 60 day grace period) when their employment ends keepthe60days.com
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Keep the 60 Days: H-1B, E-3, L-1, O-1 & TN grace period
DHS proposes ending the 60-day grace period after a layoff for H-1B, E-3, L-1, O-1 and TN visa holders. Comment on USCIS-2026-0364 before November 10, 2026.
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Dr. Ali Barry @aliibarry.com · 24/09/2026
The lab safety video I'm watching has infection data from 1976 as if we're all out here still mouth pipetting in 2026
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"I’m saying that I would personally mouth-pipette a solution of pure chloroform right now, today, in front of God and the NIH Director and the entire Office of Research Safety, if it meant a young scientist in my department could get a payline above 20%." substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com
Opinion: I Miss When The NIH Payline Was 40% And We All Mouth-Pipetted Phenol
By Dr. Douglas R. Waverly, Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry, Yale University
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Réseau québécois de recherche sur la douleur @rqrd-qprn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
📢 Call for former military members living with migraine You are invited to participate in a study on migraine self-management. To participate 👇 lise.ferland@uqat.ca | (877) 870-8728 ext. 2722 #PainResearch #Migraine
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Olivia Davis @oliviadavis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Our latest preprint continues our investigations into spinal mechanisms of human chronic pain! We find no evidence for a loss of neurons in the dorsal horn of donors with chronic lower limb pain, and the ratio of excitatory to inhibitory interneurons also remains consistent between pain states.
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Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Canadians overwhelmingly support increasing ties to the European Union, with Canadians saying we should make it easier to trade, work, travel, study, and cooperate on security
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Dr. Ali Barry @aliibarry.com · 16/09/2026
Great option for anyone looking to do a PhD in in microneurography #PainResearch
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Funded project GW4 BioMed3 MRC DTP - What drives the pain? Exploring the peripheral component in models of central sensitisation. at University of Bristol on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Funded project GW4 BioMed3 MRC DTP - What drives the pain? Exploring the peripheral component in models of central sensitisation. at University of Bristol, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 16/09/2026
Ursula von der Leyen propose au Canada de devenir le « premier membre associé » de l’Union européenne
lemonde.fr
Ursula von der Leyen propose au Canada de devenir le « premier membre associé » de l’Union européenne
Ce statut n’a aujourd’hui aucune existence juridique et la proposition de la présidente de la Commission soulève nombre d’interrogations, au Canada comme sur le Vieux Continent.
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Dr. Ali Barry @aliibarry.com · 16/09/2026
Sounds like we're at least getting new NATO while we wait to see what an associate EU membership could entail
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DER SPIEGEL @spiegel.de · 16/09/2026
EU-Kommissionschefin Ursula von der Leyen will Kanada an die Europäische Union binden. Europas Sicherheitsstrukturen sollen zudem gestärkt werden.
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Ursula von der Leyen schlägt Kanada als erstes »assoziiertes« EU-Mitglied vor
EU-Kommissionschefin Ursula von der Leyen will Kanada an die Europäische Union binden. Europas Sicherheitsstrukturen sollen zudem gestärkt werden.
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Dr. Ali Barry @aliibarry.com · 13/09/2026
As a Canadian who's spent a decade navigating various EU visas (with a non-EU UK blip...), I am completely on board with an EU associate status (EEA anyone???) 🤞
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
We keep telling Ukraine to bow down to Putin, rewarding Russia for its aggression, but they just won’t, explained corrupt non-govt US representative Jared Kushner. It’s very frustrating, he said, I really expected to get paid by now. Asked what Russia must give up for peace, Kushner had no comment.
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Eurosky Sebastian @sebastian.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026
Bitte RT: Europäische Behörden, Abgeordnete u. Verlage auf Bluesky: Ihr könnt euren Account zu Eurosky nach Europa umziehen. Zehn Minuten, kein Follower verloren, gleicher Handle. move.eurosky.tech
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Reminded of @olivia.science pointing out that we also have, say, tables that can hold things above ground longer than any human, but we do not call that a super-human ability.
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Dr. Ali Barry @aliibarry.com · 12/09/2026
Every day is a good day to delete your fb and insta
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Dr. Ali Barry @aliibarry.com · 12/09/2026
Balancing out the GOP convention by cycling through Dallas to get my covid (and flu) vaccines
Selfie of Ali in a bike helmet and sunglasses, holding a bike in one hand and with 2 bandages on their arm from vaccines. They are wearing a white crop, black tight shorts and white sneakers standing in a forested bike path
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026
OpenAI did not "lose control", the agents did not go "rogue" and there is no "swarm" that "escaped". all control and responsibility remains firmly in the hands of these "frontier" labs. most importantly this "rogue" narrative is an intentional and strategic marketing PR
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A2CPS - Acute to Chronic Pain Signatures @a2cps-pain.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
TUES SEP 29 10 PT/1 ET Join us! Learn to mine the world's largest, most comprehensive dataset on pain in human patients to date. This longitudinal study includes multimodal data (omics, brain imaging, patient reports) that will be available for further analysis. painresearchers.com/networks/eve...
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How to leverage the largest comprehensive dataset on pain to date: Exploring the A2CPS Multimodal Data
The Acute to Chronic Pain Signatures (A2CPS) project is a bold research initiative - the largest and most comprehensive of its kind - being carried out by a nation-wide consortium of researchers. Join...
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Philippe Batut @philippebatut.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🧬🔬 Why are enhancers transcribed and how does that impact gene regulation? I’m really excited to share our new paper in @science.org showing that noncoding RNAs control the timing of gene activation in embryos. With Mike Levine #ScienceResearch @columbiamed.bsky.social A few highlights below... 🧵👇
science.org
Noncoding transcription controls the developmental dynamics of long-range gene regulation
The genomic regions regulating gene expression are often themselves transcribed into a variety of noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs). However, the regulatory roles of this noncoding transcription remain largely ...
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Dr. Ali Barry @aliibarry.com · 11/09/2026
If you give the plagiarism machine access to unpublished work, well
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Moira Rose: I Can't Say I Didn't See This Coming (Powered by KLIPY) Posted from Skywalker @skywalker.thereforeiam.eu
Alt: Moira Rose wearing a wig in a wig, dressed in black with a red lip. Saying "I can't say I didn't see this coming"
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
everyone, meet Hugo www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
World's tallest living horse based in Towcester 'still growing'
Hugo the shire horse enters the record books as the world's tallest living horse.
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Liam Browne @liamebrowne.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
📣 Updated application link for the postdoc in my lab at UCL. A great opportunity to develop neurotechnology for chronic pain using neural implants, in vivo recordings, and adaptive control in mice. Applications are open now - please repost/share widely. #neuroskyence #painresearch #NeuroJobs
ucl.ac.uk
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Dr. Ali Barry @aliibarry.com · 08/09/2026
When I was 15 the store owners brought us into their office one by one and warned that just in case someone approached us, we should know that unions are bad. I've been a fan of unions ever since.
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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
So it turns out that in January, *2003*, I wrote an article for @discovermagazine.bsky.social about melting Himalayan glaciers. Quote: "melting glaciers that they could burst their banks within five to 10 years. Hundreds of thousands of people could drown as roads, bridges [...] wash away."
This is an article in Discover Magazine, January 2003, in which I wrote that "A report issued by the United Nations Environment Program in April [2002] says at least 44 lakes in Nepal and Bhutan are filling so rapidly with icy water from melting glaciers that they could burst their banks within five to 10 years. Hundreds of thousands of people could drown as roads, bridges, and hydroelectric plants wash away."
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Dr. Ali Barry @aliibarry.com · 06/09/2026
It almost rained a few days ago and I'm still thinking about how nice that would have been.
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Dr. Ali Barry @aliibarry.com · 05/09/2026
Unclear how folks don't like running. I pet 3 puppies this morning before 9 am.
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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I want to make sure everyone in the city is aware that SUNY Downstate operates a large and extremely skilled LGBTQ and gender affirming care clinic, and we have repeatedly reiterated our intention to go to jail before we stop.
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Dr. Ali Barry @aliibarry.com · 04/09/2026
Ig Nobels are back (freshly relocated to Switzerland), with one winner finding that rich folks are more likely to cut people off when driving and steal candy from children... shocker.
nature.com
Buried underpants and a new definition of kissing win 2026 Ig Nobel prizes
The awards highlight weird, funny and improbable research that also makes you think.
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Protein-coding chimeric mRNAs formed by regulated transcript fusion events are operative during inflammation and immunity @nature.com @harvardmed.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
theverge.com
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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Dr. Ali Barry @aliibarry.com · 01/09/2026
Can a Canadian University poach me too?
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US Association for the Study of Pain @usasp.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Call for Symposia Proposals for the 2027 USASP Annual Meeting! Showcase an integrative perspective on an important topic by highlighting innovative research, emerging concepts, collaborations, and advances in pain science and care. Deadline: October 12, 2026 (11:59pm EST) buff.ly/QrtHzGi
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 30/08/2026
Le lac Ontario devient lac d’Amérique pour les utilisateurs de Google Maps aux Etats-Unis
lemonde.fr
Le lac Ontario devient lac d’Amérique pour les utilisateurs de Google Maps aux Etats-Unis
Donald Trump a signé jeudi un décret pour changer « immédiatement » le nom du lac situé à la frontière avec le Canada, qu’il accuse de « dépouiller » les Etats-Unis. Les utilisateurs du reste du monde verront les deux dénominations.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 20/08/2026
AI did not discover a cancer vaccine. Scientists discovered it because their research was supported and funded.
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Dr. Ali Barry @aliibarry.com · 29/08/2026
I had a nap before going to the gym today
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A massive update: At least ~15 companies~ are selling scientists antibodies using faked validation data. We've documented 18,000+ manipulated images on 17,000+ products sold by leading laboratory suppliers including Thermo Fisher, Abcam, Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Millipore Sigma and Bio-Techne. 1/🧵
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Dr. Ali Barry @aliibarry.com · 28/08/2026
Today's PSA: You don't need to keep your data in the USA 🇨🇦 Some easy options include: Bluesky -> Eurosky Email/Cal -> Proton Browser -> Vivaldi Music -> Qobuz Ereader -> Kobo (but also, libraries for ever)
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Dr. Ali Barry @aliibarry.com · 27/08/2026
Hydronym is a great word of the day
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Kendra, normal version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people
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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Proposal: if we're expected to just "stay informed" of unending horrors but still make progress on our spreadsheets, we should at least get a discipline-specific office panic room
Quick powerpoint drawing of a distressed stick figure crouched inside a box, with a warm sun-like light source above them, a butterfly near their head and a beetle thing on the ground. Labels around the box include "inside office so you don't have to run outside and scare students," "cozy," "they cannot hear you cry," and "cool bugs"
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 26/08/2026
Dolly Parton is credited in at least 37 research papers on the COVID vaccine, including the first phase I trial results published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2020.
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Dr. Ali Barry @aliibarry.com · 24/08/2026
Adding this to the reading list #PainResearch "An inherited hypomorphic variant in PIEZO2 reveals structural features of mechanotransduction" www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
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Dr. Ali Barry @aliibarry.com · 23/08/2026
"A majority of Canadians view Trump’s America as a more immediate threat to their security than Russia or China. 2/3 favor the government taking a hard line in trade talks; fewer than 1/4 regard the United States as trustworthy."
theatlantic.com
How to Lose a Trade War
Trump’s bullying of Canada is failing.
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