Dr. Ali Barry

We have another preprint to share, this time looking at molecular and functional correlates of opioid use disorder (OUD) in the human DRG 📝 #PainResearch www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A 28-year old dude, one who was utterly clueless about global health and development, took evil, callous actions that contributed to the deaths of 500,000 kids within one year of gutting USAID

This man is reprehensible.

Nice one for the #PainResearch reading list

Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

Der langjährige serbische Präsident hat eingeräumt, mit seiner Partei die Parlamentswahl verloren zu haben. Die Wahlbeteiligung erreichte Rekordhöhe.

Bluesky elders know that @lulaoficialbluesky.bsky.social was the first head of state on the platform!

"I think that the European Union, both as it is and into the future, has been severely damaged by the absence of any moral position. "How can these people be aware of all of this and not call it a genocide?" - Michael D. Higgins

Mark Carney on Elon Musk crippling Ukraine’s Starlink: “I search for the right adjective to describe whoever took this decision… against a country that is literally fighting for the lives of its citizens against naked aggression."

Excess heat deaths are growing. Imagine 50,000 deaths across Europe caused by a state's actions, like a war? Well, State-owned and para-statal (government-controlled) oil and gas firms are among the biggest emitters.

At this point colossal is just theranos with animal abuse

If you thought Ben Lamm was a shithead, you underestimated him. He's worse. Genetically engineering any creatures, but dogs especially, to be weapons of war — it's unspeakable. www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

Our newest preprint is out! 🥳 Neuroscientists and rheumatologists - this one is for you! I'm also delighted that we seem to have finally found a single molecule apparently capable of inducing peripheral sensitization in cultured neurons - in the absence of any other supporting cells.

For anyone interested in personal accounts of opioid withdrawal across the centuries, I can also recommend: 📗 In Pain: A Bioethicist’s Personal Struggle with Opioids, by Travis Reider 📙 Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Thomas de Quincy (linked)

Another one for the reading list www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out Ali’s new work on changes in the human DRG associated with opioid use disorder. Some really remarkable findings with important implications for thinking about OUD treatment (if you ask me).

Today is Ada Lovelace Day, a celebration of women in STEM. In our latest blogpost, our librarian Claudia celebrates the history of women dairy scientists and explores their representation in our collections. merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...

Review @natrevrheum.nature.com Trained immunity in chronic, relapsing and low-grade joint inflammation www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Help shape NeuPSIG 2027 in Helsinki. Workshop proposals are open across neuropathic pain and itch. The submitting speaker must be an IASP and NeuPSIG member. Deadline: 16 Nov 2026, 16:59 GMT: bit.ly/3TwqqhQ #NeuPSIG2027

www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PainResearch

There’s also a simple question that I think is a very important one GDP/capita, 2025: Denmark—$76,970 Guinea-Bissau—$1,124 Why are white Danish researchers flying into one of the most resource-poor nations on earth to do a study that withholds a life-saving intervention from half of babies?

I didn't think it would get worse, but it turns out it can. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Nothing to worry about, just the attorney general of Texas and a possible future U.S. senator engaging in a conspiracy-fueled crackdown on pediatricians administering life-saving vaccines to vulnerable children www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/h...

Unclear how I missed this one, but it looks like I've got my weekend read sorted #PainResearch Acute IFN-γ responses drive sensory neuron injury and chronic pain after chikungunya virus infection www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Unless Congress reclaims its power, this will just become the new normal. A good first step would be to impeach Vought. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...

The @mcgillperl.bsky.social @mcgill.ca invites applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher in Pandemic Prevention and Global Health Security to support a CIHR STEPS Team Grant focused on strengthening Canada's public health emergency response systems mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill...

A synaptic wiring diagram underlying modality-specific ascending pathways of the superficial spinal dorsal horn https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.27.754843v1

Cell type-resolved connectomic reconstruction of the spinal dorsal horn reveals sensory neuron synaptic organization and modality-specific inhibition https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.27.754691v1

On a scale of "stock up on food before the storm" to "oooooh, plants", it turns out I have very clear priorities

Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...

Wow. Just wow. Did I say wow?

This is what Trump, Vought and RFK Jr have done. It imperils us all. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...

This is absolutely deranged: Months before murdering 6 people and injuring 27 more, ChatGPT told the teen school shooter in Tumbler Ridge, BC that using a Remington 870 pump-action shotgun is “brutal” in a “hallway, indoors or a crowded classroom” because “close quarters” is that gun’s “playground”

The lab safety video I'm watching has infection data from 1976 as if we're all out here still mouth pipetting in 2026

"I’m saying that I would personally mouth-pipette a solution of pure chloroform right now, today, in front of God and the NIH Director and the entire Office of Research Safety, if it meant a young scientist in my department could get a payline above 20%." substack.com/home/post/p-...

📢 Call for former military members living with migraine You are invited to participate in a study on migraine self-management. To participate 👇 lise.ferland@uqat.ca | (877) 870-8728 ext. 2722 #PainResearch #Migraine