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Vasco Galhardo. Neuroscientist, Pain Research. Director PhD Program Neuroscience, University Porto. Group Leader i3S. Era-Net NEURON Ambassador.

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Megan Carey @megancarey.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Congratulations to Tatiana Silva @ntatianasilva.bsky.social on winning this award for her 2024 paper, and thank you @spneurociencias.bsky.social for the recognition! 🎉
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
It’s not review unless it comes from the Review region of France, otherwise it’s just sparkling criticism
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GalhardoLab @galhardolab.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
👍. I assumed your prefered UT park was arc(hes)...
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GalhardoLab @galhardolab.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Cool photo. Long exposure on tripod?
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GalhardoLab @galhardolab.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Why apologise? Why even mentioning "apologies"?
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See Through Canoe @seethroughcanoe.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
A sea turtle surfacing by a MASSIVE school of rays near Clearwater, Florida a couple days ago. Another post into the BluSky void. Maybe 2 or 3 people will see this one and my time won't have been wasted. I'll keep trying a little longer. #nature #animals #amazing #wildlife #awesome #ocean
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
The first person to sequence a whale at single cell resolution is guaranteed a CNS paper. Then you'd need to sequence a family of whales.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
That would be awful. Don’t share this.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Read the speech for yourself: commencement.news.wfu.edu/2020s/c2025/... ht: @brianstelter.bsky.social
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2025: Scott Pelley - Commencement News Archive
Good morning, everybody. What a beautiful day. What a beautiful North Carolina day for a graduation. Incredible. Thank you, President Wente, Provost Gillespie, members of the Board of Trustees and Kat...
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GalhardoLab @galhardolab.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
I stand corrected. Poor Pope...
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GalhardoLab @galhardolab.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
As reported, the Pope did not meet with Vance. The meeting was with a second figure in the Vatican.
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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 20/04/2025
In science, we don’t give negative data nearly enough love. Showing with genetic precision that CGRP and Substance P aren’t needed for different kinds of acute and chronic pain? That’s huge.
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GalhardoLab @galhardolab.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Genuine question: how independent are inflation rate reports? Is it possible to manipulate the reports?
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GalhardoLab @galhardolab.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
As T himself said yesterday: "don't start a (trade) war with someone that is 20 times bigger"
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GalhardoLab @galhardolab.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
I was born in 1970. I lived my entire childhood witnessing how fortunate I was to be vaccinated, because my next door neighbors loved and cared their intellectually disabled son, older than me, forever crippled by measles-encephalitis before the vaccine.
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GalhardoLab @galhardolab.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Those were the days... Circling abstracts and making poster itineraries. 1997, New Orleans, was my first SFN... Still have the abstract books in my office.
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Drew Schreiner @schreinerdrew.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Very elegant work, on a theme near and dear to me! Animals are individuals and their unique experiences matter for behavior and circuit recruitment/computation! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... (these two links are old stuff from me, beautiful new work from @marinopagan.bsky.social below!)
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Information normally considered task-irrelevant drives decision-making and affects premotor circuit recruitment - Nature Communications
Prior experience is used by the brain to guide adaptive behaviour during decision making. Here, the authors show that mice also selectively use information learned through recent and longer-term exper...
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Carsten Schulte @carstenschulte4.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The fact that we allow this absurd scientific publishing system to persist for decades, together with the insanely high percentage of precarious jobs in the academic system, proves we are not so smart after all...
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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 19/03/2025
New hope for families battling Dravet Syndrome. Scientists have developed a new gene replacement therapy that could improve treatments for a rare and life-altering form of epilepsy. 🧵 #Neuroskyence #DravetSyndrome
Image of cells impacted by Dravet Syndrome with the words "Breakthrough Dravet Syndrome gene therapy in mice brings new hope to families. Scientists successfully replace defective gene to alleviate symptoms without side effects."
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International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) @iasp.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
In this week’s #PAIN Featured Image, Biggs et al. depict the functional connectivity of amygdala and hippocampus seed regions. Maps show FDR-corrected results. Cluster colors indicate seed region and clusters, and those that survived Bonferroni correction are circled. bit.ly/41eaqSo
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Dr. Ali Barry @aliibarry.com · 18/03/2025
Nice paper acceptance to start the week ⬇️ #PainResearch
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Ted Price @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
and while you are at it, read this nice piece on mRNA vaccines for pancreatic treatment: www.mskcc.org/news/can-mrn... still early days on that, but what I have read about the approach is truly remarkable. Pancreatic cancer is a hellish disease.
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GalhardoLab @galhardolab.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
18 minutes of continuous concentration... No more. After that, you need to start engaging them: ask questions, force them to write something... In my experience, college students are more attentive than PhD students. Go figure!
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Rui Costa @ruimcosta.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
OpenScope has been a game-changer in neuroscience and served as a shining example of #OpenScience. I'm incredibly proud of how this program has allowed important questions about the brain to be pursued and shared with the world.
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Rui Costa @ruimcosta.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The brain shapes our identity, memories, and emotions. Understanding it is key to combating brain diseases affecting over 3 billion people. #BrainAwarenessWeek highlights the @alleninstitute.bsky.social's groundbreaking work. Let's raise awareness & inspire action for brain health. #ScienceMatters
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PAIN @painthejournal.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Jane Yang et al.’s review finds that preclinical testing of NaV1.7-selective inhibitors aligned poorly with clinical testing, highlighting treatment regimen and choice of pain model as areas for improvement. Learn more in #PAIN bit.ly/3X2NO4P
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Drew Schreiner @schreinerdrew.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Proud to have contributed to @jiaxuanqi.bsky.social's masterpiece out @nature.com! She shows that dopamine transients track the learned quality of song during juvenile learning and that dopamine release is driven not just by VTA firing, but by a local cholinergic mechanism! (1/x)
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Dual neuromodulatory dynamics underlie birdsong learning - Nature
Dopamine release in the basal ganglia of the zebra finch is driven by neurons associated with reinforcement learning and by cholinergic signalling, and tracks performance quality during long-term lear...
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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Dendrite specific linking of memories over time - a cool extension of the work from @sjo09.bsky.social, @denisejcai.bsky.social, and others: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience 🧪
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Compartmentalized dendritic plasticity in the mouse retrosplenial cortex links contextual memories formed close in time - Nature Neuroscience
Sehgal et al. show that branch-specific dendritic plasticity mechanisms in the retrosplenial cortex link memories acquired close in time such that, unlike independent memories, linked memories are enc...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I have confirmation from several sources now that all T32s, many F30s and F31s, and most or all Center awards (P30, P50) have been terminated at Columbia. This is quite damaging to research and to individuals. This is pure terrorism and cannot be legal. But litigation will take time...
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Accumulation of virtual tokens towards a jackpot reward enhances performance and value encoding in dorsal anterior cingulate cortex www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Ted Price @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
It is important for people to see this graph/data. #NIH is the irreplaceable leader of USA leadership in biomedical discovery and development of new therapeutics.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a dual-antibody treatment that remains effective against ALL SARS-CoV-2 variants by targeting a less-mutable part of the virus. This breakthrough could lead to longer-lasting therapies that OUTPACE viral evolution. 🧪🧵⬇️
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Who funds biomedical research? @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Carlos Ribeiro @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Wir brauchen einen “dreifachwumms”! Look at where the EU is (at the end of the chart) and tell me we could not do better.. This also shows you what a loss to science it was when the UK left the EU. Let’s work together.
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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 08/03/2025
Finally! www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/s...
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Stand Up for Science Rally Sees Mix of Science, Politics and Anxiety
Thousands of protesters gathered in Washington for Stand Up for Science, a rally in response to President Trump’s federal-funding and job cuts.
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Center for Advanced Pain Studies @utdpaincenter.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
✨ #FluorescenceFriday ✨ Check out this beautiful image of a stained spinal cord! Neurons (magenta) microglia (cyan), and nuclei(blue). 🧠🔬 #Neuroscience #ScienceArt #MicroscopyMagic #CellularBeauty #ResearchLife #painneuroscience
Stained image of a spinal cord, Neurons (magenta) microglia (cyan), and nuclei(blue)
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GalhardoLab @galhardolab.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Very fine paper,congrats. Three decades ago I started my research carreer doing neuroanatomy of superficial dorsal horn neurons. I envy you: there was no calcium imaging back then 😊
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GalhardoLab @galhardolab.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Sure... But everyone that subscribes this "idea" needs to sign a mandatory declaration of never again getting a medicine and never again eat a steak. Deal?
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GalhardoLab @galhardolab.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
What midterms? Kiss elections goodbye...
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GalhardoLab @galhardolab.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Please, no more WaPo links or anything that drives traffic to their website. Even if it is the most interesting story.
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International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) @iasp.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Payne et al. find that menstrual pain severity, interference, and cumulative menstrual pain exposure were associated with functional connectivity of 3 key brain networks in adolescent girls with menstrual pain. Learn more in #PAIN bit.ly/40epspO
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International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) @iasp.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Now in #PainReports: “Dopamine dynamics in chronic pain: music-induced, sex-dependent, behavioral effects in mice” by Flores-García et al. bit.ly/4hiDlus
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International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) @iasp.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Qian Xu et al.’s in vivo calcium imaging study shows that spinal cord stimulation inhibited the activation of superficial neurokinin 1 receptor-positive neurons, unraveling a new mechanism for spinal cord stimulation-induced analgesia. Learn more in #PAIN bit.ly/40n0Viq
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Migraine Science Collaborative (MSC) @migrainecollab.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Did you know that the #pain system works differently in men vs. women, at the cellular and molecular level? This is particularly true of #migraine pain. This new MSC editor's pick is an interesting animal study exploring these sex differences. #painresearch migrainecollaborative.org/papers/chron...
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International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) @iasp.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
In a new editorial from Editor-in-Chief of PAIN @karenddavis.bsky.social reaffirms the journal’s commitment to considering #diversity, #DEI, and #GenderIdentity in pain research and management. bit.ly/3D5WgJO 
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International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) @iasp.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
This week’s #PAIN Featured Image summarizes the promises and challenges of digital therapeutics (DTx) for behavioral chronic pain management. Learn more in Eccleston et al.’s new paper bit.ly/4hVK0uh
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GalhardoLab @galhardolab.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
@mcuban.bsky.social When is the "Billionaires for Democracy Fund" announced? Targeted feds unfairly fired cannot sue on their own, or they will even more bankrupt.
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