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Felix Viana

@neuroviana.bsky.social
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Neuroscientist fascinated by #ionchannels Studying #pain mechanisms. Fan of world travel, #hiking , the oceans and good books. I co-direct the Sensory Transduction and Nociception Group at the Institute of #Neurosciences in Alicante (Spain)

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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Another relaxing #Caturday
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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A must read for anyone interested in pain mechanisms! Sex-specific mechanisms of chronic pain | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Sex-specific mechanisms of chronic pain
For decades, we have known that women, especially younger women, are disproportionately affected by pain disorders, including irritable bowel syndrome, endometriosis, menstrual migraines, fibromyalgia...
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Ariel Levine @ariellevine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Reminder that the abstract deadline for the Pre-SfN Motor symposium is October 5! Please use this link (forms.gle/Czs4S6NP8vxB...) to register and submit abstracts.
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Motor Symposium 2026 Registration
We’re delighted to invite you to the 19th Annual Pre-SfN Motor Symposium, to be held Friday, November 13 at Georgetown University. Meeting Scope: This meeting has a traditional focus on spinal and b...
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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Relaxing #caturday after a brief period of introspection
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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Relaxing #caturday
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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
#caturday Duna and her pet 🐙
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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
My childhood playground #RiasBaixas #IllasCies #Monteferro #IllasEstelas
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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
To watch the #solareclipse we drove 3 h to Molezuelas de la Carballeda (47 inhabitants according to census) in #Zamora Seeing the progress through a cardboard pinhole telescope was great. The sudden drop in light and #temperature #ThermoTRPs was magical
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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Summertime
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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
We enjoyed a full day of comtemporary art with my dear sister in law, Claudia Costanzo, invited artist for the ART’IN LIMA 2026 exhibition Her installation in the Capela das Pereiras is really magical
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David Díez del Molino 🇪🇸🇸🇪🏳️‍🌈 @indianadiez.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
En la Edad de Hielo, los mamuts lanudos hembra eran el producto más codiciado www.elmundo.es/ciencia/2026...
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En la Edad de Hielo, los mamuts lanudos hembra eran el producto más codiciado
Si la exitosa película de animación Ice Age -La Edad de Hielo- se grabara hoy, es posible que al mamut lanudo, uno de sus protagonistas, ya no le pusiera voz un hombre, sino una...
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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
We are hiring!! Offering a 4-year position to pursue a PhD in Neuroscience 🧠 in @neuroalc.bsky.social Our lab studies cellular and molecular mechanisms of chronic pain: strong focus on ion channels and receptors. Expected starting date is March 2027. #neuroscience #doctorate #pain #ion_channels
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SENC @senc-neurociencia.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
📰Un estudio del @painchannels.bsky.social (@neuroalc.bsky.social) identifica que #Piezo2, una proteína presente en las neuronas sensoriales, desempeña un papel fundamental en la hipersensibilidad mecánica asociada al dolor neuropático. @neuroviana.bsky.social 🔗 in.umh-csic.es/es/articulos...
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Piezo2 mediates mechanical sensitivity and injury-induced hypersensitivity in MrgprD-expressing nociceptors. - Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante
Un estudio del Instituto de Neurociencias CSIC-UMH identifica un mecanismo clave del dolor crónico causado por lesiones nerviosas • El trabajo demuestra que la proteína Piezo2 desempeña un papel esenc...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Facing federal science budget cuts, biologist Daniel Blumstein resorted to uploading marmot videos to OnlyFans to raise funds for his marmot research. However, when he uploaded his driver’s license for verification, OnlyFans informed him that his appearance didn’t match the marmots in the videos.
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‘OnlyMarms’: Marmots Are on OnlyFans to Raise Money for Research (Gift Article)
A team of scientists uploaded videos of the squirrel-like rodents in the wild on the adult-content site OnlyFans to raise money amid government budget cuts.
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Titania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The world needs more bookish gargoyles and grotesques
A collage consisting of six photos of gargoyles and grotesques reading books, including one owl and one frog.
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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Relaxing summer #Caturday grants and manuscripts have been reviewed, experiments went well this week, students are discovering new things, I visited the same 🐙 5 times this week Talking Heads are good
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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
2 very happy cats 😻😻
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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Best wishes and my dearest sentiment to all my Belgian friends Leçon de politesse / Lesson in politeness 1957 (René Magritte)
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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
A warm #caturday
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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The IN Progress Report Workshop is a great opportunity to hear about exciting work by other colleagues and to receive feedback from our own work. Thank you @morantelab.bsky.social for organizing
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
An unapologetically angry post about what’s being done to US science:
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The Current Crisis: What's Happening to Science in America
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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
𝗠𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗵𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 workshop hosted by @neuroalc.bsky.social Great start with the @embo.org 𝗟𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 by Prof. Gary Lewin from the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin. #mechanobiology #mechanotransduction #piezochannels #ELKIN1 #woundhealing #cadherins #MECHANO2026
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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
This Friday we had the privilege of hosting Dr. Wenqin Luo at @neuroalc.bsky.social. It was great to learn about the transcriptional profiling of human DRG & TG neurons 🙏 Dr. Ana Gomis @painchannels.bsky.social for organizing. Very interesting discussions afterwards. #pain #transcriptomics #itch
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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Relaxing rainy #caturday
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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Hike #5 6 km circular route between Benimaurell and Fleix in the beautiful Laguar Valley of #MarinaAlta Alicante. Together with my colleagues of @painchannels.bsky.social and the Neurobiology of Pain and Inflammation Program at @neuroalc.bsky.social
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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Sunny #caturday
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Society for Neuroscience @sfn.org · 20/04/2026
Tomorrow is the day! Get ready for #SfN26 and review all the basics of organizing a “nano” in this free webinar on Neuronline. Reserve your spot now. 🔗 vist.ly/4z4us #neurosky #neuroskyence #academicchatter
Neuroscience 2026. How to Organize a Nanosymposium for Neuroscience 2026. Tuesday, April 21, noon–1 p.m. EDT. Thiago Arzua, PhD, Columbia University (Moderator). Rose Hill, PhD, Scripps Research. Alyssa Huff, PhD, Seattle Children’s Hospital. Yalda Moayedi, PhD, New York University.
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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Hike #4 From Favaritx Lighthouse to Cala Presili and Cala Tortuga (6 km round trip) Part of #CamiDeCavalls tour in #Menorca #hiking
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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Hike #4 From Favaritx Lighthouse to Cala Presili and Cala Tortuga (6 km round trip) Part of #CamiDeCavalls tour in #Menorca #hiking
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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
A room with a constantly changing view. #Menorca #EsCastell
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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Hike #3 From Cala Alcaufar to Punta Prima beach (6 km round trip) Part of #CamiDeCavalls tour in #Menorca
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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
3 full days of #Mechanobiology in 😎 Alicante Only 5 weeks left! @garyrlewin.bsky.social @embo.org Lecture Information and registration: 𝐡𝐭𝐭𝐩://𝐦𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐨𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔.𝐮𝐦𝐡.𝐞𝐬/ mechano2026@manners.es mechano2026@umh.es #Piezochannels #IonChannels #Mechanosensation #Hearing #Integrins #Wound_repair
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Karolin Luger @nucleosomepolice.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
this 👇🧪👇🧪👇🧪👇🧪👇🧪 agree 💯
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 10/04/2026
This is all good and well but does it work on congressmen?
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Female mice grow testes after this single DNA tweak
Small changes in the non-coding part of the genome have a key role in sex determination.
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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Nothing matches being home for the holidays. Rías Baixas, Galicia, Spain
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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Great pics of Kilimanjaro taken by our fantastic guide and driver James Kahore Karibe #Amboseli #Kenya #safari #naturephotography
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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
If you travel to Nairobi, you should not miss the National Museum of Kenya, specially the room with replicas of many famous skulls and skeletons from early hominids, including Lucy and the Turkana boy!
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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Today, in Masai Mara 🇰🇪 we spent quite a bit of time observing several large families of savanah elephants while sleeping, eating, drinking. A fascinating experience #elephants #wildlife #MasaiMara
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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Masai Mara is the largest animal reserve in Kenia. You need weeks to explore it in detail. We had some great sightings on our first day SE of Keekorok #Kenya #wildlife #lions
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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
If you travel to Amboseli NP in 🇰🇪 you hope to come across big herds of elephants and have a good view of Mt. Kilimanjaro. We had plenty of both! #Kenya #safari #elephants
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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Engage with top international Mechanobiology researchers this May in 🌞🌞Alicante Fantastic lineup of speakers covering the brain and CNS, hearing, gut, skin, cardio and reproductive systems. We have room in the program for a few talks to be selected among early registrants! 𝐡𝐭𝐭𝐩://𝐦𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐨𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔.𝐮𝐦𝐡.𝐞𝐬/
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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
À random walk through the MET in #NYC
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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
On a Sunday in March in #NYC
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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Relaxing #caturday in Mallorca
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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 06/02/2026
Excited to co-host this conference with @marissascavuzzo.bsky.social and Steve Liberles focused on the peripheral nervous system -- No Brainer! Check out the amazing list of speakers and apply for one of the spots for this small, interactive meeting on the beautiful Janelia Campus at HHMI.
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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Olympic #caturday
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Instituto de Neurociencias CSIC-UMH @neuroalc.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Today we had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Alwin Köhler from @maxperutzlabs.ac.at at our #SeminarsIN with his talk: “Fat Matters: How Nuclear Envelope Lipids Regulate Cell Function”. A fantastic lecture, thank you! 👏👏 @csic.es @dicv.csic.es @umh.es @morantelab.bsky.social
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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I am used to explain the basics of thermosensation and thermoregulation in English or in Spanish. It was great fun to contribute to an article published in French on this topic. Merci au @cnrs.fr pour l'invitation
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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
One of the most extraordinary documents ever created by humans. The 12 volume manuscript "General History of the Things of New Spain", created in 1577 by the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún and a group of Nahua elders, authors, and artists, it describes the culture of indigenous Mexico.
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Digital Florentine Codex
The Getty Research Institute provides global access to the Florentine Codex, considered the most important manuscript of early colonial Mexico
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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
La lumière, nouvelle méthode antidouleur chez les animaux. It was great to collaborate with Guillaume Sandoz @univcotedazur.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social and other colleagues on this exciting project www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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