Assistant Professor in Biology and Applied Neuroscience at Morgan State University.https://bsky.app/profile/neurotim.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/neurotim.bsky.social/post/3mk4jqb3n622jHappy to share the first publication from my lab: https://journals.lww.com/pain/fulltext/9900/neural_correlates_of_mechanical_allodynia_and.1166.aspx22 Apr 2026 22:19 +0000at://did:plc:ezyvxfavtmpytukbeousefgp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk4jqb3n622jhttps://bsky.app/profile/neurotim.bsky.social/post/3mjme5bdo7k2qI present a basic tutorial about using linear mixed models in R. Hope this helps you get started! https://youtu.be/dlEMzRNWfS0?si=O7RitIUmLBaOaei216 Apr 2026 11:56 +0000at://did:plc:ezyvxfavtmpytukbeousefgp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjme5bdo7k2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/neurotim.bsky.social/post/3mgdrxvierk2bI discuss cortical columns and human neuroimaging (circa 2021) https://youtu.be/SdzMNQ0u2wg?si=mNcV8sqZG2xh21tB05 Mar 2026 21:54 +0000at://did:plc:ezyvxfavtmpytukbeousefgp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgdrxvierk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/neurotim.bsky.social/post/3mfsenqne4k2eInquiring minds: does anyone know any foundations that support Master's level graduate students from outside the US for training inside the US?26 Feb 2026 23:41 +0000at://did:plc:ezyvxfavtmpytukbeousefgp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfsenqne4k2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/neurotim.bsky.social/post/3mfkcs36kys25Sixteen months ago I discussed my lab's work on health disparities in medical device technology. Not much has changed except federal funding for this work is more difficult to obtain than ever before. https://youtu.be/cUTwDswwECg?si=Fm9aV7CTiaDhp91_23 Feb 2026 18:46 +0000at://did:plc:ezyvxfavtmpytukbeousefgp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfkcs36kys25https://bsky.app/profile/neurotim.bsky.social/post/3mfapxbjd3s2cWatch my graduate student Maya Lewis present her master's thesis work comparing LASSO regression to machine learning models in a dataset of PTSD-like symptoms and related psychological variables collected during the COVID-19 pandemic https://youtu.be/UgS3go9q4wA?si=CAat5wQJC2W1Rsq019 Feb 2026 23:15 +0000at://did:plc:ezyvxfavtmpytukbeousefgp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfapxbjd3s2chttps://bsky.app/profile/neurotim.bsky.social/post/3mevustaqfs25I'm confident that the last 75 years is the first time in history that physical pain wasn't a normal part of people's lives, and it shows in the loss of empathy and rise of self-centeredness...15 Feb 2026 15:43 +0000at://did:plc:ezyvxfavtmpytukbeousefgp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mevustaqfs25https://bsky.app/profile/neurotim.bsky.social/post/3meqyfeww6c25A brief but funny personal childhood introduction on my new YouTube channel, Professor Meeker's Science Ruins Everything https://youtu.be/F8-rfXsOT5k?si=Onrat5ybSijgplk413 Feb 2026 17:03 +0000at://did:plc:ezyvxfavtmpytukbeousefgp/app.bsky.feed.post/3meqyfeww6c25https://bsky.app/profile/neurotim.bsky.social/post/3meoym2hx5c2oSo I started a YouTube channel titled Professor Meeker's Science Ruins Everything: https://youtu.be/nxTMRGaOmMQ?si=-baBQ4lOBc3Ww84h12 Feb 2026 22:02 +0000at://did:plc:ezyvxfavtmpytukbeousefgp/app.bsky.feed.post/3meoym2hx5c2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/neurotim.bsky.social/post/3lgz4t2rj3c22Well, Harvard is definitely not going to be leading the way on any pushes for academic freedom. How spineless... https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/1/30/shaw-research-funding-guidance/31 Jan 2025 04:08 +0000at://did:plc:ezyvxfavtmpytukbeousefgp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgz4t2rj3c22https://bsky.app/profile/neurotim.bsky.social/post/3lgml6wqagc2lWhenever you see the word 'meritocracy', just realize it is code for elitism, classism, and exclusion.26 Jan 2025 04:21 +0000at://did:plc:ezyvxfavtmpytukbeousefgp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgml6wqagc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/neurotim.bsky.social/post/3lf55op7rz22uThis is why I chose to do medical research into neuropathic pain. The red line in the picture on the left is the approximate height my mother was in her prime. The picture on the right is an MRI of her spine. The vertebrae in the lower circle is L1; the radiologist note was 'dislocated spine.'07 Jan 2025 07:44 +0000at://did:plc:ezyvxfavtmpytukbeousefgp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lf55op7rz22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/neurotim.bsky.social/post/3ldlsnupqfs2o18 Dec 2024 16:46 +0000at://did:plc:ezyvxfavtmpytukbeousefgp/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldlsnupqfs2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/neurotim.bsky.social/post/3ldkpfsmhes2uThe holidays are always a bit hard for me. On Dec 27, six years ago, my mother died at 62 after 24 years of chronic pain. A chronic pain patient of the 1990s, she was on opioids most of the time. She died in the nursing home after being given her normal dose of morphine after 109 days in hospital.18 Dec 2024 06:15 +0000at://did:plc:ezyvxfavtmpytukbeousefgp/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldkpfsmhes2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/neurotim.bsky.social/post/3ld5b3bsn2s2hHosted my first official lab meeting today. PAINlab (Perception and Attention Intergrative Neuroscience Lab) is officially open. Thank you to everyone who got me here. I'm just the idea man.12 Dec 2024 21:54 +0000at://did:plc:ezyvxfavtmpytukbeousefgp/app.bsky.feed.post/3ld5b3bsn2s2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/neurotim.bsky.social/post/3lbojreat7k2yFinally started the process to order the last pieces of equipment for the lab. It's been a bureaucratic struggle, but most IRBs are approved, and funding is lined up. Writing discussion section for my first senior author paper tomorrow. It's all happening, and I'm a bit scared it's all an illusion.24 Nov 2024 07:54 +0000at://did:plc:ezyvxfavtmpytukbeousefgp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbojreat7k2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/neurotim.bsky.social/post/3lb7bafmoy424Former postdoc mentor, Fred Lenz and I published a review of the human thalamus involvement in pain from the perspective of his 35+ year research career. https://journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/jn.00065.2024?rfr_dat=cr_pub++0pubmed&url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org18 Nov 2024 06:12 +0000at://did:plc:ezyvxfavtmpytukbeousefgp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lb7bafmoy424https://bsky.app/profile/neurotim.bsky.social/post/3lb7at4s4me24Earlier this year some inimitable colleagues and I started an international Neuroimaging of Pain working group with ENIGMA: https://journals.lww.com/pain/fulltext/9900/enigma_chronic_pain__a_worldwide_initiative_to.664.aspx18 Nov 2024 06:04 +0000at://did:plc:ezyvxfavtmpytukbeousefgp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lb7at4s4me24https://bsky.app/profile/neurotim.bsky.social/post/3lb7acoimuu24Turns out long bouts of acute, experimental pain increases tension and anxiety. Now, we have an experimental model of the phenomenon. https://www.dovepress.com/vigilance-to-painful-laser-stimuli-is-associated-with-increased-state--peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-JPR18 Nov 2024 05:55 +0000at://did:plc:ezyvxfavtmpytukbeousefgp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lb7acoimuu24https://bsky.app/profile/neurotim.bsky.social/post/3lb7a6u7dc424Posting our last 2 years of publications since that's how long ago I quit Twitter and they stole my username: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1063164/full18 Nov 2024 05:53 +0000at://did:plc:ezyvxfavtmpytukbeousefgp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lb7a6u7dc424