Posted this morning by my good friend and celebrated writer Allan Stratton.
Dr. Natasha Rajah, Ph.D.
@mnrajah.bsky.social
I am a 🇨🇦 neuroscientist who studies memory, aging & Alzheimer’s w a focus on sex differences, midlife & menopause, & health equity | Prof| CRC T1 | FCAHS|Views are my own | https://bheamlab.ca #neuroskyence
Adults with severe mental illness are nearly five times more likely than their peers to die from serious physical diseases before the age of 75, according to research, by Anna Bawden www.theguardian.com/society/2026... via @theguardian.com
Adults with severe mental illness die 15 to 20 years earlier from diseases such as cancer
Exclusive: Stark health inequalities in terms of deaths before age of 75, NHS data reveals
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Astrocytes are another layer of influence and function. Models based on spiking neurons only are missing a big part of the picture. www.quantamagazine.org/once-thought... #neuroscience
Once Thought To Support Neurons, Astrocytes Turn Out To Be in Charge | Quanta Magazine
New experiments reveal how astrocytes tune neuronal activity to modulate our mental and emotional states. The results suggest that neuron-only brain models, such as connectomes, leave out a crucial la...
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The Hubs just mentioned how much Steven Harper & Mike Johnson look alike & how they both look like Keebler Elves. Now I can’t unsee it 😂 #haha
The right to vote is one of the most fundamental parts of our democracy. Check your voter registration at IWillVote.com and make a plan to vote early or on Election Day on November 3.
#DIBLives One of Ireland’s first female paediatricians, Victoria Coffey's (b. #OTD 1911) research into congenital disorders and sudden infant death helped advance the study of newborn health. She was also the first female president of the Irish Paediatric Association. www.dib.ie/biography/co...
🇨🇦❤️🇪🇺 “In an unprecedented offer, von der Leyen said on Wednesday that the EU and Canada “see the world with the same eyes” through shared democratic values and common approaches to many big issues, from AI to climate breakdown, the Ukraine war and geopolitics.“ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
European Union invites Canada to become first ever ‘associate member’
Commission president says EU must ‘urgently reimagine our partnerships’ as she makes unprecedented offer
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Join us Friday, Sept. 18 for the Child and Youth Health and Wellbeing Symposium. This event will bring together researchers, clinicians and community leaders to examine the health & wellbeing challenges young people face and explore ways to address them. Learn more and register: tinyurl.com/ybb5ky9w
With 50 days until the midterms, I urge you all to: 1) Help get out the vote. 2) Protect our electoral machinery from interference. 3) Not succumb to complacency, defeatism, or cynicism. We are the only ones who can end this nightmare. We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for.
When they eventually make a movie about this time, please don't put the male politicians in good suits. IMO, the ugly, low rent tailoring should be part of the story.
Nothing like feeling pressured to review, to then logon & the portal won’t accept your review hmmm
Seeing a slew of bot followers after posting a news article. I block any account where there is no photo or a generic/AI photo. If you don’t want to show who you are, I assume you’re a bot or not interacting in good faith. #bluesky
Local province wants cake, wants to eat cake, but wants everyone else to pay for cake.
Albertans to vote on opting out of federal programs — while keeping cash | CBC News
When referendum day arrives in Alberta on Oct. 19, the focus won’t just be on separation and immigration. One of four constitutional questions will ask voters if they support a push to amend the Const...
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Biochemist Dr. Ida Stephens Owens mapped how human genes control drug metabolism. The first Black woman to earn a PhD from Duke (1967), she spent ~50 years at NIH. She identified the UGT1A gene complex, decoding how enzymes detoxify drugs & harmful toxins. She was born #OTD in 1939.🧵 #WomenInSTEM
A $50 million gift from MacKenzie Scott will fund Native student scholarships for the next five years and create a permanent endowment to support Indigenous students for generations. 🙌🪶 nativenewsonline.net/education/na...
Native Forward Dedicates Entire $50 Million MacKenzie Scott Gift to Native Students, Future Generations
Overview: Native Forward Scholars Fund announced it will invest the full $50 million unrestricted gift it received from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott into Native higher education, allocating $10 mill...
nativenewsonline.net
“It almost inevitably turns you into a supremacist because humans are creatures of story and you need a story to rationalise, why you? Why do you have so much in a time of so much want and need? And the only possible story that’s available is that there’s something about you that justifies it.”
Naomi Klein@naomiaklein.bsky.social · last wk."People are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
From ‘Ozempic breath’ to hair loss: sorting the science from the hype about weight loss jabs. 13 common beliefs and misconceptions about GLP-1s, by Isabelle Aron www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... via @theguardian.com
From ‘Ozempic breath’ to hair loss: sorting the science from the hype about weight loss jabs
Do you gain weight once you stop using them? Do they make your face saggy? Can they improve your mental health? Experts explain whether 13 common beliefs about GLP-1s are true or false
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@washingtonpost.com story title is very misleading & not 💯 consistent with many reputable studies w/r to Vit D supplements. 1) This article from Neurology using a prospective cohort says the opposite for midlife VitD predicting later AD risk. www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...
Association of Circulating Vitamin D in Midlife With Increased Tau-PET Burden in Dementia-Free Adults | Neurology Open Access
Background and ObjectivesLow circulating vitamin D in later life has been associated with increased risk of cognitive impairment and clinical dementia. However, whether serum vitamin D in early midlif...
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Jonathan Jarry@jonathanjarry.bsky.social · 2w agoBeing a non-scientist who reads headlines to figure out what to do about their health must be hell.
Congratulations Anna!!! This is so well deserved 🎉🎉🎉
Research – Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU)@researchtmu.bsky.social · 2w agoCongratulations to @torontomet.bsky.social professor and CERC Laureate in Migration and Integration Anna Triandafyllidou on being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Learn how her work has helped influence policies that support more inclusive societies in Canada and around the world:
Is $6200 CAD for open access publishing the norm these days? Seems high…
Interesting read “Go figure: transparency in neuroscience images preserves context and clarifies interpretation” By Taylor et al 1/ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Go figure: transparency in neuroscience images preserves context and clarifies interpretation - Nature Methods
This Perspective highlights the need for transparent thresholding rather than only showing results beyond fixed P values, to avoid the loss of valuable information and to improve the reporting of neur...
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