Happy #FluorescenceFriday! 🔬 Great to see TRIDENT collaborations in action! #TRIDENT #ParkinsonsResearch #Neurotherapeutics #Organoids

Marco A. Maximo Prado@maximoprado.bsky.social · 2d ago

one of the advantages of working on @tridentpct.bsky.social is to interact with great collaborators like Tom Durcan at @theneuro.bsky.social to help stain and image with light sheet 🔬 their organoids (TH red and GFAP blue) used to test new drugs for Parkinson’s Disease

@utoronto.ca Lewis Kay awarded 2026 Royal Medal by U.K.'s Royal Society www.utoronto.ca/celebrates/l... #NMRchat #NMR 🧲

Lewis Kay awarded 2026 Royal Medal by U.K.'s Royal Society

Lewis Kay, a senior scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and University Professor in the University of Toronto's Temerty Faculty of Medicine, has been honoured with a Royal Medal by ...

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While singled out here, the long history of this work was made possible through amazing staff and students at Western's Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping, past and present clinicians and students at the London Health Science Centre, Hotchkiss Brain Institute and The Neuro. 1/2

Western University@westernu.ca · 3d ago

Ravi Menon uses ultra-high field MRI technology and a team-based approach to advance MS diagnosis. His work lets doctors see the brain in more detail than ever before, enabling earlier, more accurate diagnosis. Read more: www.theimpactproject.ca/stories/ravi... #TheImpactProject #WesternU

The true cost of gasoline and diesel in the US has always been what you pay at the pump plus the price of supporting a military to ensure oil flows from where the US needs it. Since at least the 1960’s. At least half the US’s 40 trillion $ deficit can be ascribed to this by some estimates.

PBS News@pbsnews.org · 4d ago

Oil giant Chevron confirmed that it will expand operations in Venezuela after President Donald Trump announced an ambitious deal to develop the nation's oil reserves and give the Pentagon a stake in the profits. https://to.pbs.org/4i9n6Dd

Assuming they think the US might invade Canada?

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4d ago

Dutch central bank moves 86 tonnes of gold to UK from US and Canada, citing ‘geopolitical unrest’

Message from our bargaining unit. “The next week matters. When you return to campus, connect with your Stewards and get answers to your questions about bargaining and the strike vote.” WTF? I was supposed to leave campus for the summer? I thought we were paid to work all year?

What kind of moronic funding agency doesn't allow you too list more than 10 M.Sc./Ph.D/PDFs on a CV?

Our little world of University of Alberta nmr folks is getting smaller. Just a year after the passing of our mentor Peter S. Allen, our kind and gentle soul Chris is off to hike the mountains in the sky. www.arbormemorial.ca/en/southside...

Remembering Chris...

View Christopher Charles "Chris" Hanstock’s obituary and additional information. Share your memories and condolences.

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Don’t buy 🇺🇸 beef. Reason 23,637.

Marco A. Maximo Prado@maximoprado.bsky.social · last wk.

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy or mad cow disease for the win.

Have you ever felt like something was missing from your #fmri results? Have you been worried about potential reproducibility issues? Well, this new @natmethods.nature.com article with 40+ coauthors shows how the simple change to transparent thresholding helps both. Go Figure! rdcu.be/B4tikBETdQZa

This is the average number of citations for all current or former CERCs. In absolute numbers, clearly outstanding scientists. But look what happens in 2021-2022 when the first round of CERCs went into the regular Canadian funding ecosystem. Keep reading to see the unsustainability angle. 1/2

Alex Usher@alexusherhesa.bsky.social · last wk.

Thread. +100 to all this

The belief that a few dozen smart academics can change the fate of a nation that relies on resource extraction and a weak dollar for sales may be the most uninformed economic policy since the Avro Arrow was cancelled and we decided to buy everything high tech from the US.

Zen Faulkes@doctorzen.net · last wk.

Past American dominance in science is not due to a few dozen “top scholars.” It’s due to America 🇺🇸 spending ENORMOUSLY more on science than other countries and distributing it widely. Canada 🇨🇦 boasting about attracting “top talent” of a few dozen people is not serious. And not US “brain drain.”

Wrong Ad Air Canada. Tagline should be “5x more cancellations to Toronto”

🎉 Congratulations to our TRIDENT Co-Principal Investigators @tedfon.bsky.social , @richardgold.bsky.social & @jonathankimmelman.bsky.social on being elected Fellows of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS) for 2026! A well-deserved recognition! 👏 #TRIDENT #CAHS #Neuroscience

Just finished 13 CBC afternoon show interviews on this story from Halifax to Yellowknife to Whitehorse to Victoria and every city in between. Love that we have a national network interested in science🇨🇦. And the real number is 215 of 235 brains studied had CTE!!!

Study estimates at least 1 in 4 former NFL players had brain disease linked to repeated head impacts | CBC News

At least one in four National Football League (NFL) players had evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, at the time of their death, finds a new study from one of the American research te...

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Good on CNN for calling out the Liar-in-Chief. And I would add, Doug Ford is not a flunkie. He dropped out of college. There’s a difference. Trump’s dad had to buy his son’s way into Penn. that’s a flunkie.

Fact check: Trump keeps making stuff up about Canada | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump’s criticism of the US neighbor has been filled with lies – a remarkable variety of assertions that either wildly distort a kernel of truth or are just made up.

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Countries with lower US tariffs on goods and services than the US applies to Canada. North Korea, Russia, Cuba, and Belarus Tells you all you need to know about the US administration. It’s now part of the axis of evil.

Stop. Blaming.Universities. The fundamental problem is there is no venture capital in Canada. It’s why Canadian tech leaders all move south.

Council of Canadian Academies/Conseil des académies canadiennes@cca-reports.ca · 2w ago

Canadian universities and research institutions generated less money from their discoveries in 2025, even as research spending and patent filings increase, new data shows.

2025-26: the first year Canadian universities employed more tenured/TT professors over the age of 70 than under the age of 35.

Small suggestion: If you're organising a conference, or academic meeting, or well, anything really in the US in the next couple of years, why not consider doing it in Canada instead? 🇨🇦🍁

Ontarians (including corporations) paid $151.5 billion in taxes in 2024-2025. Ontarians personally spent $103 billion in online betting in the same period. Don't tell me there is a tax burden problem in Ontario.

I know the lead MRI scientist here and she’s a great boss. And she like to drive fast cars on race tracks!

Magnetic Resonance News@nmr900.bsky.social · 3w ago

Senior Scientist - In Vivo MRI Imaging @ 7T, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Tarrytown, Westchester County, New York regeneron.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/Careers/job/... #NMRjobs #NMRchat #MRI 🧲

We looking for a postdoc with NHP electrophysiology experience to do simultaneous Neuropixel recordings across the corticothalamic motor circuit to better understand the neural control of reaching and grasping. We start looking at applications on August 31st. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Pruszynski Postdoc 2026

Postdoctoral Researcher, Control Policies in the Primate Motor Circuit Pruszynski Lab @ Sensorimotor Superlab​ The Pruszynski Laboratory at Western University is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to j...

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Our latest preprint from the just-defended @esminunaran.bsky.social . We use triple immunofluorescence and rs-fMRI & link to previous touchscreen cognition in these mice to show a critical role for myelin and OPCs in AD. Huge implications for therapies that preserve cognition, not just clear abeta.

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 3w ago

Myelin maturation failure and oligodendrocyte precursor loss underlie default mode network disruption in a humanized APP knock-in model of Alzheimer's disease https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.12.744193v1

Carney’s old company owns 51% of Westinghouse. They buy from the cheapest sources to make the most money. So much for “Canada has what the world wants”,”reliable trading partner” or “ethically sourced energy”.

Russian enriched uranium shipped to Canadian-owned Westinghouse in U.S. | CBC News

While the Russian military attacks Ukraine's power infrastructure, Europe and the U.S. still depend on Russian nuclear fuel to power their electricity grids. Canadian-owned Westinghouse Electric is am...

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Sunday morning thesis reading. All is well with the world. At least this little corner of it.

Risk-aversion. Why Canadian industry continues to give up leads in sectors it established. It’s a cultural issue no government of any stripe has solved.

Canada built an iconic wildfire-fighting plane. Can it keep up with demand? | CBC News

The hand-built planes are unmatched in the firefighting aircraft market and are built to last for decades. Europe wants more of them than ever.

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Similarly, reporting on the curiosity driven discovery of NMR, the Boston Herald reported that the discovery "wouldn't revolutionize industry or help the housewife". No NMR->No MRI. In addition to a Nobel prize to Purcell and Bloch, it revolutionized industry and saved millions of housewives lives.

Bryan Roth@zenbrainest.bsky.social · 3w ago

Opto- and chemogenetics both from model organisms: one prokaryotic the other yeast (a simple eukaryotic organism). The initial studies were entirely curiosity driven.

Yet all universities are using AI to catch AI cheats. That’s going to go well.