Among the many reasons why this person should not be president

Pain is complex! What a pleasure to co-host the first transdisciplinary ‘Collaboratory’ in models and methods in pain science yesterday at St Hilda's College, supported by Mayday Fund. Forging a common language for pain across arts, philosophy, & science. Christopher Eccleston Ben Seymour

Survey by Bath biochemists of 600 vapes from children in schools in England. 1 in 6 contained synthetic cannabinoids known as 'spice'. Lots of common AE + addiction, withdrawal symptoms, persistent cravings, and cardiac arrest. Is this OK? theguardian.com/society/articl…

Loved this story of mathematicians getting a cat to an H-index of 11 with sham papers from paper mills and playing the academic systems. Purrrrfect. thetimes.com/uk/science/art…

I found this short piece featuring Kirsty Young speaking about her fibromyalgia quite moving. Perhaps because her experience seems to be an everyman experience and we have so few effective therapies for so much chronic pain. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Just stopping by your timeline in case you didn’t know that the Chief Science Advisors for Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States - are all women 🔥

Looking forward to seeing results of a 510 person RCT of new drug for OA. Only announcement to go on, but all 3 doses of LEVI-04 had AVERAGE pain reductions of >50% over 3 months. Hope Simon Westbrook also reports number of PATIENTS with ≥50% pain reduction pharmafile.com/news/positive-…

Clinical effects of cannabis and synthetic cannabinoid receptor agonists: presentations with acute toxicity to European hospitals 2013-2020 (Clin Toxicol (Phila) 2024 62:378-384. 54,000 admissions, 3,000+ cannabinoids. Good look at admission symptoms.

When did I eat corn? (doi.org/10.1152/advan.…). Love the data from this little experiment in 197 health science students in Windhoek from 2021. So what's the normal range? Just about any time. Quite a lot of data have distributions like this, so using averages may not be helpful.

Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub (c. 1137 – 4 March 1193), commonly known as Saladin, was a great leader and a Kurd. It is difficult to understand how Kurds are under such constant attack from co-religionists. This Reuters report will be news to many. reuters.com/investigates/s…

Very important detective work from department of anesthesiology, pain and palliative medicine in Netherlands. It shows considerable research misconduct in a large tranche of papers from at least one centre. And central to pain (again). I'm not happy. retractionwatch.com/2024/08/28/fir…

1. Our paper on lithium in drinking water and suicides in Switzerland was just accepted for publication. It is to our knowledge the first pre-registered study on this topic. We found a near perfect null-result.

A JPSM SR concluded that ketamine was effective for cancer pain. We point out in a letter that most (32/35) RCTs were at high risk of bias (often more than one), were small (<50), and only 5 of 18 trials in efficacy analysis showed any benefit. Most SR of pain are misleading.

New statement from former Vice President Cheney: “In our nation’s 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump. He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters

Warning: Miss one month’s council tax payment & it could ask you to pay the whole year bill within weeks. Council tax debt collection is far worse than finance firms. It’s destructive especially for those with mental health issues. My speech at @MMHPI campaign launch

The Journal of Pain and Symptom Management published a systematic review that made a bold claim, that was totally incorrect. This letter showed the all too common egregious mistakes (doi.org/10.1016/j.jpai…). What about it Retraction Watch?

A simply lovely sky tonight in south Devon

Remember that awful moment when you can't remember where you parked your boat?

Me too, now.