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William Zempsky

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Pediatric pain medicine researcher. Golden retriever lover.

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William Zempsky @kidspainmd.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
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Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
An analysis of footage from three camera angles shows that the motorist was driving away from — not toward — a federal officer when he opened fire.
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William Zempsky @kidspainmd.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Fuck ice
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William Zempsky @kidspainmd.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
We Will Regret Not Standing Up to This Venomous Cruelty www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/o...
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William Zempsky @kidspainmd.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
I’m Not the Person You’d Expect to Oppose a Ban on Transgender Troops www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/o...
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Opinion | I’m Not the Person You’d Expect to Oppose a Ban on Transgender Troops
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 08/06/2025
The federal government is taking over the California National Guard and deploying 2,000 soldiers in Los Angeles — not because there is a shortage of law enforcement, but because they want a spectacle. Don't give them one. Never use violence. Speak out peacefully.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
We need to stand up for @terrymoranabc.bsky.social
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Dr Hannah Durand @durandhannah.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
📢 Day rates for #ISPP2025 are now live! Join us in Glasgow (17–20 June) for just one or two days of cutting-edge sessions on paediatric pain. 🗓 View the programme: inconference.eventsair.com/ispp-2025/ 🎟 Register now: ispp2025.com/registration/ Don’t miss it! #PaediatricPain #PainResearch
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International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) @iasp.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
IASP congratulates Jennifer Stinson, RN-EC, PhD, CPNP, FAAN, on receiving the 2025 Gairdner Momentum Award. Her work in digital health has advanced pain assessment and management for young people worldwide. bit.ly/4ivXJI0
Jen Stinson
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William Zempsky @kidspainmd.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
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As a diversity grant dies, young scientists fear it will haunt their careers
The Trump administration defunded the National Institute of Health's MOSAIC grant program, which launched the careers of scientists from diverse backgrounds.
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William Zempsky @kidspainmd.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
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Trump’s Cuts to Science Funding Could Hurt U.S. Economy, Study Shows
Reducing federal support for research and development could cause long-run economic damage and reduce government revenue.
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Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky @sejordt.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
‪#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky #neuroskyence #neurosci #PainResearch 🧪🛟 🫁 "The NIH has sharply curbed grant funding, disrupting small companies and upending a pillar of biomedical innovation." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Biotech start-ups struggle as Trump throttles NIH funding
Freezes and reductions in National Institutes of Health funding are reverberating beyond universities and research labs to startups in the biotech industry.
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William Zempsky @kidspainmd.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
#handsoff Hartford
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Jenna Saul MD @drjenna.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Thanks to my community for a better day in Wisconsin today.
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Lisa Jarvis @lisamjarvis.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Noticeably silent amid the upheaval at HHS? Big pharma. Every new drug has NIH somewhere in its DNA--and NIH funding supports the training of their workforce. Now they're finding out FDA isn't safe, either. Wrote about how keeping quiet isn't working My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com (gift link):
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Big Pharma Needs to Get Off the Sidelines
The industry can’t continue to sit idly by while Robert F. Kennedy Jr. guts the nation’s public health agencies.
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Ted Price @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
This is a direct attack on the career prospects of the young adults in our country. These grants are only open to citizens/permanent residents.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Just in NIH grants, It looks like beautiful Iowa City, home of the U of Iowa, will lose $71m in funding. That's almost $1k per resident. And that's before all the other cuts to SSA, FDA, etc. Anyone in Iowa City that can offer more insight? scienceimpacts.org H/T to Prathima !
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA
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William Zempsky @kidspainmd.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
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Decades Ago, Columbia Refused to Pay Trump $400 Million. Note That Number.
A quarter century ago, the university was looking to expand. It considered, and rejected, property owned by Donald Trump. He did not forget it.
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Dr. Ali Barry @aliibarry.com · 10/03/2025
Good week for CB1 in #PainResearch Virtual library docking for cannabinoid-1 receptor agonists with reduced side effects www.nature.com/articles/s41... A cryptic pocket in CB1 drives peripheral and functional selectivity www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Virtual library docking for cannabinoid-1 receptor agonists with reduced side effects - Nature Communications
Tummino et al. dock 74 million molecules against the human cannabinoid-1 receptor to find uM ligands. Optimization led to a nM agonist conferring analgesia with reduced side effects in mice, highlight...
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William Zempsky @kidspainmd.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PainResearch
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A cryptic pocket in CB1 drives peripheral and functional selectivity - Nature
A peripherally restricted CB1 agonist (VIP36) targeting a cryptic receptor pocket was developed, showing high efficacy in mouse pain models with minimal side effects and tolerance, potentially revolut...
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Kate Dunn @katemdunn.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Adolescent predictors of young adult pain & health outcomes included the usual culprits: pain intensity, more pain locations, anxiety, poor sleep quality & family dysfunction. Follow-up study of adolescents with chronic pain journals.lww.com/pain/abstrac...
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Adolescent predictors of young adult pain and health... : PAIN
various dimensions of young adult health and functioning, including pain, physical health, depression, anxiety, social isolation, and sleep disturbance. As part of a previous clinical trial, we recrui...
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William Zempsky @kidspainmd.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Ashamed www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...
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Opinion | This Never Happened With an American President Before
Trump’s behavior in the Oval Office with Zelensky was an unparalleled break with American foreign policy.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Looking at some survey data here. Trump/Elon cutting off all cancer cure research is the issue that freaks voters out more than any other, also the one they've heard the least about. Important for voters to hear more about this.
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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
“I’m taking DOGE to the next level with DOUCHE,” Musk said.
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Musk Forms Dept. Of Underaged Clowns Harming Everything (DOUCHE)
He boasted that he was “taking DOGE to the next level.”
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Thomas [DARK MODE], DO @tom.medsky.social · 21/02/2025
This guy is cool. He supports all the right causes (children's health, vaccines, etc.) and he loves Legos.
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William Zempsky @kidspainmd.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
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Nearly One in 10 U.S. Adults Identifies as L.G.B.T.Q., Survey Finds
New data shows a rapid increase in recent years, driven by the young. The Trump administration has recently been rolling back L.G.B.T.Q. initiatives.
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William Zempsky @kidspainmd.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Wonderful editorial regarding diversity equity and inclusion. by Karen Davis. #painresearch journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...
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The value of equity, diversity, and inclusion principles... : PAIN
An abstract is unavailable.
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William Zempsky @kidspainmd.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Tell the truth about pain www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/o...
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Opinion | There’s One Lie I Will Never Tell My Children
It’s “This won’t hurt.”
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children.

Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.

“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her.

“I feel all sleepy,” she said.

In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.

The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her.

On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
“We’re not going anywhere. What’s more: we’re expanding.” Nearly a dozen of Minnesota’s foremost experts on gender-affirming care collaborated on this beautiful op-ed in today’s Strib. No paywall.
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Those of us who work in gender medicine are not going anywhere
What’s more, we’re expanding.
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William Zempsky @kidspainmd.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
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Louisiana Health Department Says It Will Stop Promoting ‘Mass Vaccination’
“Vaccines should be treated with nuance, recognizing differences between seasonal vaccines and childhood immunizations,” Dr. Ralph L. Abraham, the state’s surgeon general, wrote in a memo.
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Pops @pops131.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Great t-shirt 👍
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William Zempsky @kidspainmd.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
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Judge Temporarily Stops Trump’s Plan to End Funds for Trans Youths’ Health Providers
Six transgender individuals, all younger than 19, sued the administration over executive orders targeting hospitals that offer transition treatments to young people.
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William Zempsky @kidspainmd.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Mr Kennedy this is in your hands. Delayed CDC report shows increased evidence of bird flu spread to people - The Washington Post
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William Zempsky @kidspainmd.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
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Measles Outbreak Hits Town in Texas
As of Tuesday, 22 children and two adults had been infected, all of whom were unvaccinated, local officials said.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone Call it a Day Of Transparency
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William Zempsky @kidspainmd.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Indirects explained deliprao.substack.com/p/understand...
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Understanding NIH’s 15% Overhead Cap
How this little publicized news will change science, healthcare, and universities. This is not an AI post, but more important than anything that's going on in AI.
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William Zempsky @kidspainmd.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
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Coalition Statement on Proposed Change to NIH Indirect Cost Rates - Coalition for Pediatric Medical Research
WASHINGTON (February 8, 2025) – The Coalition for Pediatric Medical Research steering committee issued the following statement on yesterday’s National Institute of Health (NIH) announcement regarding ...
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 08/02/2025
This is what amounts to an ILLEGAL & indiscriminate funding cut for research centers everywhere. It will mean shuttering labs across the country, layoffs in red & blue states, and derailing lifesaving research on everything from cancer to opioid addiction. We all need to speak out to save lives.
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Holden Thorp @holdenthorp.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Here's our story from @davidmalakoff.bsky.social on the NIH indirect bombshell. Hang in there, everybody. www.science.org/content/arti...
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NIH slashes overhead payments for research, sparking outrage
Move to cut indirect cost rate to 15% could cost universities billions of dollars
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.
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John Streicher @johnstreicher.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
All IDCs capped at 15% as of today. If this stands we’re done. Every research institute immediately goes out of business and nearly every university will end large scale research. Back to the age of the aristocrat tinkerer. 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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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Further interpretation: the Trump administration wants to cede the world’s scientific future to China and, secondarily, to Europe and the rest of Asia.
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News Breaking LIVE @newsbreakinglive.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
"The NIH announced it will slash billions of dollars of support to universities and research centers. "This is one of the biggest attacks on science we have ever seen. It could dismantle the biomedical research system, shut down clinical trials, and halt development of treatments" - Dr. Lucky Tran
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Tim Clancy @viewfromarchstreet.com · 08/02/2025
On changes to #NIH indirect rates, there is a law in place that prohibits NIH from making such changes without the approval of Congress. See Division D, Title II Section 224 of The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law No: 118-47) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-24-110: Notice of Legislative Mandates in Effect for FY 2024
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of Legislative Mandates in Effect for FY 2024 NOT-OD-24-110. NIH
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Scott Hadland, MD @drscotthadland.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Amid today’s massive NIH cuts to universities, please know that my research colleagues: - Develop new cancer treatments for kids - Are curing sickle cell disease - Build new tech to help premature babies survive - Prevent teens from dying of drug overdose - And more #NIH #MedSky #research #science
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/2025
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. 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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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 30/01/2025
National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t... Story by @ericboodman.bsky.social
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National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills
An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.” University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.
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William Zempsky @kidspainmd.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
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Trump fires heads of TSA, Coast Guard and guts key aviation safety advisory committee
President Donald Trump has moved quickly to remake the Department of Homeland Security by firing the heads of the Transportation Security Administration and Coast Guard before their terms are up while...
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