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Simon Beggs

@simonbeggslab.bsky.social
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UCL Neuroscientist. Otherwise dowsed in cocktails and slathered in fetid whimsy. Views unreliable.

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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I read somewhere a comment from a Japanese business person asking why the UK insists on running its universities like corporations when its universities are great and its corporations are terrible. But I guess Thames Water is the model for everything in post-Thatcher Britain.
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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Elbows up!
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Ted Price @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
"Pain may be what the brain makes of a signal, but somewhere, Basbaum insists, there is a signal" a fantastic article by Stephani Southerland about the remarkable career of Allan Basbaum aeon.co/essays/a-res...
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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Maniac!
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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
This is the best thing I've seen since Alan went missing... www.youtube.com/shorts/hZlds...
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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Great news indeed - congratulations to all!
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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I have so many questions, apparently none of which can be answered using rodent models!
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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Amazing!
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Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky @sejordt.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
#PedSky #MedSky#EpiSky #addictionsci #neuroskyence #neurosci #PainResearch🛟💊🧪 🌍⚖️ Howard Fields was a giant in pain research and treatment at a time the field was literally in the dark ages. By @iasp.bsky.social In Memory of Howard L. Fields
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In Memory of Howard L. Fields - International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP)
IASP is deeply saddened to hear of the recent death of Honorary IASP Member, Prof Howard Fields, and we offer our condolences to his family, friends and colleagues. We are […]
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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
A little mound of salon or trout roofer a final splash of colour; perfection!
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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Agreed. A great proponent for public discourse in science. Would have likely been politically ostracised in Britain and denied entry to the US if alive today!
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Stéphanie C Koch @skochlab.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Our paper is out! Work by Christopher Black in collaboration with Liam Browne, Rob Brownstone, and Marco Beato. Here, we describe the unique kinematic signatures of multi-limb coordination in freely climbing mice and show how these flexibly adapt to changing environments. tinyurl.com/4bnw88wk
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Naturalistic climbing reveals adaptive strategies for interlimb coordination in freely moving mice
Multi-limb coordination is vital for mammalian locomotion. While coordination requires reliable organization of limb movements, it also requires flexibility to adapt to environmental demands. In natur...
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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Can you do the same with crisps?
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Noah 🎃 @nojath.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
do y'all remember when using Wikipedia (an incredibly accurate and well-sourced database of information) was the scholastic equivalent of a war crime? now we've got education officials encouraging the plagiarism machine with no regard to how its impacting learning
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Massi(e)h Moayedi — مسیح مویدی @massih.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Want to learn about what some of are thinking about chronic #pain? Gillian Best interviewed pain researchers, including Melanie Noel, @richellemychasiuk.bsky.social, @simonbeggslab.bsky.social, @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social, @jeffreymogil.bsky.social, @daspainbrain.bsky.social, me, & many more.
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Sarah Ross @sarahross1.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
We’re hiring! The University of Pittsburgh is recruiting a tenure-track faculty member in pain research to join the Department of Neurobiology and the Pittsburgh Center for Pain Research—an outstanding and highly collaborative community. Please share. More here: cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
That sucks, to borrow your US vernacular. Onwards and upwards, Greg, onwards and upwards!
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Stéphanie C Koch @skochlab.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
We have FIVE GTA PhD Studentships available at UCL Life Sciences. See here for a chance to work in the Medawar Pain and Somatosensory Labs on the influence of early life experience on lifelong pain vulnerability: bit.ly/4bDLg4Z Deadline 23rd April- repost widely! @ucllifesciences.bsky.social
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FindAPhD : Biosciences Graduate Training Assistant PhD Studentships at University College London
Apply for a PhD: Biosciences Graduate Training Assistant PhD Studentships at University College London
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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Is there really anywhere else you’d rather be?
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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I'll drink to that!
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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Whenever anyone raises the idea that AI can take the place of translators, point them in this direction.
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Nivedita Sarveswaran @neuroniv.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Holy moly this is cool! Ex vivo prep of a human sensory neuron and spinal cord circuit, used for studying Nav1.8 and CGRP activity.
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Sarah Lempriere @sarahlempriere.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I'm always amazed by the complexity and nuance of the neuroscience of pain. In this Perspective, @simonbeggslab.bsky.social and @franklandlab.bsky.social do a great job of explaining some important new findings on the role of time in the mechanisms of chronic pain www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Pain across time
Two brain circuits facilitate the interaction between chronic pain and time
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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The first discarded draft of Christina Perri’s 2011 hit song.
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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I once worked in Kuopio in Finland, a lakeside city and in winter the training camp for the Dutch speedskating team. Returning on the mercifully short flight from Helsinki I found myself squeezed into a middle seat between two Dutch giants with seemingly one mega thigh extending from seat to aisle
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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Ha! Thanks! One to sleep on, that’s for sure. Onwards and upwards, as always.
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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
And just now the inevitable email that my application won’t progress further, but always good to be given the right to reply: “We would appreciate your feedback on your experience so we can improve the Funding Service.” Hmmm.
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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I was obviously delighted by spending last summer for the september deadline that now looks like being retrospectively canned effectively. Fun times!
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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Yes, so that is what is available until the summer (or whenever) when bucket one "curiosity-driven, foundational research" is fundable again?
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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Time for a martini and follow Keith's updates
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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Its February!!
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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
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Matthew Freeman @mjafreeman.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I watched much of Ian Chapman's (Head of @ukri.org) appearance this morning at @ukparliament.parliament.uk Science, Innovation and Technology Committee.. A few points and new information that bioscientists may find interesting... A 🧵
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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Both MRC and BBSRC responsive modes now withdrawn until further notice. Existing applications unlikely to succeed (late 2025 round expecting 1-5% success rate). Listen, I get that UKRI wants to pivot. But killing both at once is devastating. Let's hope at least one opens by summer... #AcademicSky
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MRC instructs grant review boards to slash funding rates - Research Professional News
Boards asked to recommend just three applications for funding, as BBSRC also suspends calls
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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Startling that this is being broadcast in the absence of any public communications by @ukri.org The academic community has a right to expect to be told first hand what is happening with response mode funding and what the immediate future looks like www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
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MRC instructs grant review boards to slash funding rates - Research Professional News
Boards asked to recommend just three applications for funding, as BBSRC also suspends calls
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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
About bloody time! Thoroughly well deserved, congratulations!
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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
COVID saw a shift in the status quo of publishing – it’s time to embrace it. In our piece in @timeshighered.bsky.social, Damian Pattinson explores the barriers and new approaches, like the eLife Model, that can help move science in the right direction. buff.ly/9PmrV9O
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Covid prompted new ways to publish research – it’s time to embrace them
The pandemic showed the benefits of a system based around reviewing preprints. Why was eLife the only journal to respond, asks Damian Pattinson
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Lynn Miclea @lynnmiclea.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
She was absolutely right. And she would have been an amazing President.
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Anne Sophie Meincke @asmeincke.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Why should we read Henri Bergson's "Creative Evolution" today? There is more than just one reason, see my extended book review, just published in Mind: academic.oup.com/mind/advance... #Bergson #philosophy #philbio #ProcessPhilosophy #biology #science #HenriBergson
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Creative Evolution, by Henri Bergson
A search for the term ‘Bergson’ in the search box provided on the website of this journal reveals a lively debate among eminent anglophone philosophers on
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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
And the Oscar goes to…
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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Good to see Wensleydale in action here, the best cheese for Branston. Renounce the cheddar hegemony!
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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Leslieville? That's dangerously east. There be dragons!
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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
In the strain on scientific publishing, we showed that total publications have grown out of control. A huge part of that was guest edited special issues by groups like #MDPI and #Frontiers. This ongoing practice is the largest delegation of editorial power academia has ever seen. 2/n
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The strain on scientific publishing
Abstract. Scientists are increasingly overwhelmed by the volume of articles being published. The total number of articles indexed in Scopus and Web of Science has grown exponentially in recent years; ...
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⚡️GREG_CORDER⚡️ @flybottleescape.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
🧠⚡️💊New @nature.com publication ! Mimicking opioid analgesia in cortical pain circuits We built a brain-behavior framework to decode spontaneous chronic pain in mice—and to biologically mimic morphine with a synthetic opioid gene therapy nature.com/articles/s41... @pennmedicine.bsky.social
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Dr. Or M. Bialik |📚|🔬|🌊|⚒️ @obialik.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Not being in a cage makes mice less stressed, feels like one of those things that shouldn't take a massive experiment to verify, but here we are. I suspect this may lead, down the line, to requiring new lab standards to certin experiment with these animal models. 🧪 Link: www.cell.com/current-biol...
Mice (presumably from the experiment) in a field-like setting.
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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Have gone home for Christmas and picked up these. Intriguing…
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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Kent
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Maia Szalavitz @maiasz.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
.... when injected at large doses in pregnant mice.
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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Everytime I fly to Canada half my check-in is bags of crisps for the desperate and deprived denizens of Toronto.
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