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Rich Harrison

@richharrison.bsky.social
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Pain Researcher and Lecturer at Uni of Reading, within the Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics (CINN). Interested in neuroinflammation within Long Covid and Chronic Pain, presurgical assessment and psychological individual differences

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Carien van Reekum @carien.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Fantastic short talks #ReadEmo26: imagining spinal cord? @liviasimela.bsky.social has it sorted! Lydia Tidmarsh presenting work in progress on long COVID, pain and neuroinflammation, and @eval80.bsky.social highlighting that EEG pain signatures are perhaps not what they may seem to some
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Rich Harrison @richharrison.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Can't think of a better end to #ReadEmo26 than to hear what the best and brightest think about the future of neuroimaging in pain phenotyping and assessment. Hosted by our very own @carien.bsky.social and @wiebkegandhi.bsky.social. An excellent, if not slightly warm, couple of days!
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Carien van Reekum @carien.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Day 1 of #ReadEmo26 is coming to an end with a lively panel discussion led by Fiona Talkington of BBC Radio 3 fame and our own @richharrison.bsky.social . Stay tuned for a brain-heavy Day 2! @unirdg-cinn.bsky.social
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Rich Harrison @richharrison.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Really pleased to have kept the promise I made during our workshop at EFIC (@maitevdm.bsky.social, @head-like-egg.bsky.social), and our work on the stability of pain habituation/sensitisation, and the underlying neural mechanisms. A long way to go, and a deep field of study. #psychology #pain #efic
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Rich Harrison @richharrison.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Have you undergone a gynaecological procedure, or know people who have? @tiger-uk.bsky.social want to hear from the patient voice. Can you complete this brief 5-10min survey, and help circulate in your own channels too? Share far and wide! We need patient voices. Survey: shorturl.at/Gqdo6
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Anastasia Christakou 💙 @christakou.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Thank you to all you participated in this year's edition of Reading Emotions #ReadEmo25. @wiebkegandhi.bsky.social and @richharrison.bsky.social will be chairing #ReadEmo26 on pain! Watch this space, and see you next year! sites.google.com/site/reading...
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Rich Harrison @richharrison.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Am really excited for this event! In fact, going to scout out the beautiful London Road campus this morning in anticipation. @ameliahollywood.bsky.social
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UoR School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences @unirdg-psych.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Pint of Science is coming to Reading! 🧠 Join us on the 19th, 20th, & 21st May at Park House (our local pub!) for an exciting series of science evenings. Featuring cutting-edge research from PhD students & early career scientists, Pint of Science makes science accessible, engaging, and fun.
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Rich Harrison @richharrison.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Welcome to Bluesky SPCLS @unirdg-psych.bsky.social Glad to have you onboard. #psychology
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Rich Harrison @richharrison.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Once again, another lovely bit of news coming out of the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust. I can confirm, they are overall, a generally lovely bunch of highly professional carers. Very pleased to know them #RBFT #NHS www.royalberkshire.nhs.uk/news/royal-b...
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Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust receives top scores in NHS Staff Survey 2024 - Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust has been ranked as the top acute Trust in England across multiple areas of staff experience in this year’s NHS Staff Survey.
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Rich Harrison @richharrison.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Fantastic news, and well-earned acknowledgement of the quality of their clinical research output these days. @ameliahollywood.bsky.social www.royalberkshire.nhs.uk/news/royal-b...
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Royal Berkshire becomes first NHS trust to receive full GCSA certification due to ‘world-class’ research - Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
Research at Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust has been recognised as ‘world-class’ after becoming the first NHS trust to receive full GCSA certification.
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Rich Harrison @richharrison.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Trying to tackle the emergence of long, passive waitlists for pain management. We've been working on some strategies to change this. Open access, please have a read if interested! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39777271/ #painscience #psychology
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Activating waitlists: Identifying barriers and facilitators to pain self-management while waiting - PubMed
This study demonstrates the severe emotional and motivational impact of waiting, increasing treatment disengagement. The waitlist represents a prime opportunity for prehabilitation to protect wellbein...
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Rich Harrison @richharrison.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Well and truly collapsing across the finish line this year. Goodness me that was one hell of a semester. Wishing everyone a restful and regenerative Christmas break and happy new year.
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Rich Harrison @richharrison.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Very interesting work on the power of expectation in pain management: Treating human beings, not isolated mechanisms. #neuroscience #painscience #psychology
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Rich Harrison @richharrison.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Tremendous campaign that I've very happily been a part of in the past. Fully deserving of their nomination and the knowledge that this is simply another big step in a powerful journey.
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Ewan St. John Smith @psalmotoxin.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Some of us in the ADVANTAGE visceral pain consortium (@denklab.bsky.social + others not on 🦋 yet) recently got together to talk about all thinks visceral pain courtesy of @rpseal.bsky.social who runs The Pain Beat podcast 😃 #neuroskyence #PainResearch www.iasp-pain.org/publications...
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The Pain Beat (Episode 17) – Experience, Study, and Treatment of Visceral Pain - International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP)
Manager’s note: Welcome to the 17th episode of The Pain Beat! Launched and supported by a generous grant from the MAYDAY Fund, with additional funding from the Rita Allen Foundation, […]
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Massi(e)h Moayedi — مسیح مویدی @massih.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Our Topical Review in PAIN on body image, sex, gender and pain is now published. Have a read to see how we think these ideas may be linked, and let us know what you think. journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...
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Rich Harrison @richharrison.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Happy to be off Twitter, and hope Bluesky resists the same decline.. Taking the opportunity to share my PhD student, Lydia Tidmarsh's, recent review on the devastating 'iceberg' of childhood trauma in chronic pain. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35756908/
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