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Justin Burdge, PhD

@justinburdge.bsky.social
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Neuroscience researcher working to improve how we conduct pain and touch research. Co-Founder Tactorum Inc. Post Doctoral Fellow Abraira Lab Rutgers University.

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Justin Burdge, PhD @justinburdge.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Tactorum has had a very busy spring, with installs in three labs in as many weeks! Excited to see the studies the labs of @geoffroylaumey.bsky.social at @michiganstateu.bsky.social, Maral Tajerian at Queens College, and @virusesimmunity.bsky.social at Yale use their ARM systems for! #PainResearch
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Justin Burdge, PhD @justinburdge.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Come check out our booth @usasp.bsky.social 2026 to learn about the ARM system and how to automate your pain and touch assay in rodents! If you’re interested come try a remote demo of the device! #painresearch #USASP #USASP2026
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Luca Posa @dr-lupo.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Such a great day at @nyupainresearch.bsky.social gathering with NYC-area Pain Scientists. Excellent science and people. Thank @karapedsgastrodoc.bsky.social @sdavidson.bsky.social for hosting, my buddie organizer @justinburdge.bsky.social and everyone joined and oresebted! See you next year!
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Justin Burdge, PhD @justinburdge.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
The 1st NYC Area Pain Research Meetup was a roaring success! What started as an idea from @dr-lupo.bsky.social and myself turned into an incredible gathering with the help of @karapedsgastrodoc.bsky.social, and her team at @nyupainresearch.bsky.social. #PainResearch #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
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NYU Pain Research Center @nyupainresearch.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
✨ Sponsor Spotlight! ✨ Huge shoutout to Tactorum — leading the way in improving preclinical pain research and pushing the field forward. We’re grateful for your support! 🔬💡
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Justin Burdge, PhD @justinburdge.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
A gathering that truly exceeded our wildest expectations! Excited to see what comes next!
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Justin Burdge, PhD @justinburdge.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
If you’re at Society for Neuroscience 2025 today, and interested in improving and automating evoked touch and pain assays, come check out my poster at G13! #SFN25 #SFN #PainResearch
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Ewan St. John Smith @psalmotoxin.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Interesting @sfn.org session kicking off: “What’s in a name? Define the boundaries of neuronal cell types”. Introduced by @vabraira.bsky.social who provided a background on her name, engaging way to emphasise the importance of names. Talks from Jeremy Miller & @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social
Slide explaining background go Vic’s nameSlide showing progress in techniques that has enabled new ways of naming neurons Jeremy and Ted listen on as Vic introduces the session
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Justin Burdge, PhD @justinburdge.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Excited to present our latest work improving and validating our ARM system for automating evoked touch and pain assays at @sfn.org this weekend! Come check it out if you’re interested in automating your own work. #PainResearch #SFN #SFN2025
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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Cool paper from Sora Shin’s lab mapping a neural circuit for aggression and self-harm. Awesome to see another group using our pain assessment platform in their studies. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Thalamo-hippocampal pathway determines aggression and self-harm
Thalamo-hippocampal calcium channel hyperactivity drives aggression and self-harm after early adversity.
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Justin Burdge, PhD @justinburdge.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Shoutouts to @nyupainresearch.bsky.social @vabraira.bsky.social @dr-lupo.bsky.social @sdavidson.bsky.social @karapedsgastrodoc.bsky.social for helping organize!
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Justin Burdge, PhD @justinburdge.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Excited to announce the first NYC Area Pain meetup being hosted at NYU. Come connect with other pain researchers and learn about the advances being made by early career researchers. RSVP: luma.com/m5zwchlt?tk=... Still accepting submissions for lightening talks, reach out if interested.
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Justin Burdge, PhD @justinburdge.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Excited to announce my thesis paper with is now in print at ELIfe! Excited to share our updated work on automating evoked touch/pain assays in rodents, and the further advancements we’ve made for #PainResearch! elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Excited to share the final version of our paper, where we invented a robotic device (ARM) for pain and somatosensory testing in rodents. We are excited to see many groups already getting this device in their labs through our startup company Tactorum Inc. elifesciences.org/articles/996...
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US Association for the Study of Pain @usasp.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
🎤 Call for Symposia Proposals topics related to clinical practice, basic science or mechanisms, and translational research related to pain. Ideally, presentations include multiple disciplines. The deadline to submit proposals is October 15, 2025
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Justin Burdge, PhD @justinburdge.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
It was an honor to give a talk before such an incredible crowd of researchers at the NIH Pain in Animals workshop! #PainResearch
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Pain Research Forum @painresforum.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Check it out! An interview on pain mechanisms and therapeutics with Dr. Clifford Woolf, PhD, MB, Bch of Harvard Medical School by Julia Nickols at the North American Pain School is now posted on PRF! painresearchforum.org. @utdpaincenter.bsky.social @iasp.bsky.social @usasp.bsky.social
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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Another week, another ARM device installed. This time in the lab of HHMI Investigator Richard Palmiter. They are doing cool long-term pain studies and this device is perfect for their needs.
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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Excited to see Jeff Mogil getting an ARM device in his lab for automated and remote mechanical stimulation for use in pre-clinical pain & somatosensation studies.
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Justin Burdge, PhD @justinburdge.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Nothing makes you hungrier than a time zone change and a missed lunch. Looking forward to these tacos, Seattle let’s see what you’ve got!
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Justin Burdge, PhD @justinburdge.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Enjoyed my first times in Chicago and @usasp.bsky.social this past week! So much exciting work happening in the pain field, I have a feeling that the groundwork for some fantastic collaborations was laid this week!
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Luca Posa @dr-lupo.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
My first time at #usasp2025. Great science, new and old friends. First talk in a symposium at an international conference. Thank you to my co-speakers @stefpuig.bsky.social and Ream Al-Asani
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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Cool new study from @vabraira.bsky.social lab on tactile hypersensitivity associated with chronic pain. Glad we could collaborate. One cool thing Abraira lab did was use high-speed videography plus the PAWS pain detection system for uncovering pain behaviors. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The dorsal column nuclei scale mechanical sensitivity in naive and neuropathic pain states
During pathological conditions, tactile stimuli can aberrantly engage nociceptive pathways leading to the perception of touch as pain, known as mechan…
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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Happy to see this device in the lab of a happy customer. There is much to do to improve pre-clinical pain/touch research, and we strongly believe this automated robot ARM can become a gold standard in the field. Exciting to see so many orders coming in!
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Eric H Chang @changsbrain.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Thanks to @justinburdge.bsky.social and @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social for delivering the ARM device to our lab, which includes Drs Kevin Tracey, Sangeeta Chavan, and Huan Yang. We'll use the ARM for high-resolution automated assessments of pain sensitivity in the context of neurogenic inflammation!
ARM device for Automated Reproducible Mechano-stimulation of mice.
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Justin Burdge, PhD @justinburdge.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
So excited to announce the first of TACTORUM’s ARM devices for automating pain/touch assays in mice has been delivered to @changsbrain.bsky.social ‘s lab at @northwellhealth.bsky.social. Looking forward to all the exciting questions they will explore with it!
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Justin Burdge, PhD @justinburdge.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I’ve always thought experimental schematics should include time of even, if just a range. Instead I can’t remember the last methods section that included it.
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Raul Arturo Ramos-Garcia @ramosneuro.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
I started 2025 with so much enthusiasm for the science I would do… that’s pretty much evaporated
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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
WTF! So starting Monday NIH indirects to all universities moved to 15%. This would cripple schools. This is madness. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
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Justin Burdge, PhD @justinburdge.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
So I come up for air from coding all day, and apparently my NSF grant will probably be rejected because I referred to female mice and barriers to entry for a scientific technique. I got nothing.
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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Monumental day for pain management and the study of pain.
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Justin Burdge, PhD @justinburdge.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Gotta say conductors trying out their standup via the subway intercom is in objective improvement.
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Justin Burdge, PhD @justinburdge.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
If I decided to study instead of going to @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social talk to an undergrad neuro club freshman year, pain research would have never even crossed my mind.
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Ted Price @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
BOOM! Identification of a PIEZO2+, KIT+, and TRPM8+ A fiber nociceptor subtype that is responsible for human hair pull pain: www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5... @saadnagi.bsky.social and colleagues, well done!
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PIEZO2-dependent rapid pain system in humans.
The diversity of mechanical pain sensations in humans cannot be explained based on our current understanding of pain-sensing neural classes in the skin. To begin to bridge this gap, we dissected the n...
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Janel Le Belle @janellebelle.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Rats driving little rat cars 🥹 shows that complex environments enhance neuroplasticity but we’ve also learned from them that skill acquisition & delayed gratification improves cognitive function & produces bolder problem-solving strategies via dopaminergic reward systems www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Image of rats driving a little experimental rat car in their play area.
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Ted Price @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
BOOM! Re-upping our Pain Research Starter Pack since so many people have joined this glorious place in the past week. If you are not on the list and want to be added, let me know and I will add you... I have been doing my best to keep this updated. #painresearch go.bsky.app/KboKNhg
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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
My lab studies both lab mice and naked mole rats. There is a belief amongst some that what we discover in mice will be universally true, and what we discover in naked mole rats will be a weird mole rat quirk. I believe this mouse-centric view of biological systems is very limiting.
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Justin Burdge, PhD @justinburdge.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Oh to be a dog sleeping in an armchair instead of a scientist working on a grant… #Science #Neuroskyence
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Kari Hoffman @karihoffman.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
🎉Ach, calretinin+, and more (-) expression in Rh🐒means we can start to connect functional cell groups like here doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... to “omics” cell types, and selectively manipulate circuits! It’s a big deal for understanding population dynamics. Thanks to authors and funders: Brain Initiative!
Figure from Abbaspoor and Hoffman 2024 showing different functional cell types from macaque hippocampal CA1
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Ewan St. John Smith @psalmotoxin.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Pain = main driver of clinical decision making in osteoarthritis (OA). Our lab studies OA pain mechanisms. During OA, multiple cell-cell interactions occur, many mediators being released that alter the contents of the synovial fluid. #PainResearch #Neuroskyence journals.lww.com/pain/Fulltex...
Figure from paper linked in post showing wealth of cell-cell interactions in OA
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Ted Price @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Cool new paper from Camilla Svensson’s team and a reminder to not give up understanding NGF signsling for pain treatment! journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...
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Sex-dependent effects of the targeted nerve growth factor... : PAIN
inflammation-induced pain-related behaviors and bone loss. The hNGF-R100E mutation did not alter the nerve fiber density in the sciatic nerve, ankle joint synovium, and skin of naïve mice. Withdrawal ...
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Rodrigo Braga @rodbraga.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Happy to announce that our paper is now published in Science Advances! science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The human social cognitive network contains multiple regions within the amygdala
Social association areas are connected to amygdala nuclei involved in social behavior, including basolateral and medial nuclei.
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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
My first Bluesky post. Such a thrilling night as special guests of @ardemp.bsky.social for the Harvey lecture and dinner. Fun to celebrate Ardem and piezos, while spending time with friends with a shared passion for science.
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Justin Burdge, PhD @justinburdge.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
New app and so many new followers, so I’ll do a quick skydive on my work over the years using automation and high speed imaging to improve the techniques we use to measure pain in rodents! #PainResearch #Neuroscience
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Justin Burdge, PhD @justinburdge.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Had a great time today presenting our preclinical pain assay automation tech at Columbia & SUNY pitch day! Excited to bring this tech to more labs with my co-founders Ishmail Abdus-Saboor and Agnes Gjekmarkaj. #Pain #PreclinicalPain #PainResearch
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Ted Price @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I started (at @katesadlerphd.bsky.social's suggestion, thanks Kate for pushing me) a pain neuroscience and pain research starter pack. I am sure I have missed many people so if I missed you, I am sorry, but please just ask me to add you in the thread below and I will do that. go.bsky.app/KboKNhg
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Justin Burdge, PhD @justinburdge.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Excited to start a Bluesky account and a new position as a post doctoral fellow at the Abraira Lab at Rutgers continuing my work in #PainResearch. Follow to learn more about my work building robot ARM’s to poke mice, and exploring new ways to analyze their responses! t.co/rf2gytNTc6
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