The Department of Neuroscience at the University of Lethbridge has a tenure-track position for a neuroscientist studying brain function across the life span in nonhuman animals. Join a terrific community of researchers in a beautiful part of the country.🧠🧪 Re-post uleth.peopleadmin.ca/postings/8586

I spotted these berries on trails near London ON: bright red American Highbush Cranberry (Viburnum trilobum); white baneberry or doll’s eye (Actaea pachypoda); and dark purple American pokeweed (Phytolacca americana). Only the Highbush Cranberry is edible; the other two are poisonous to humans.🌿🌱

How good are we at estimating someone's age from their face and how does that change with the face's chronological age? @tganel.bsky.social et al.'s new framework disentangles bias and error, revealing new insights into how facial age is computed by humans and AIs. 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I think this is a Peck's Skipper (Polites peckius) gracing our front garden. If you look closely, you can see its long proboscis stretching into the Liatris flower. 🌿

OHBM Oz rego + abstracts now open. Get amongst it!

End of August means ECVP! This year, I am here (in beautiful Mainz) with a special mission - to find postdocs who will join us in (equally beautiful) Krakow, PL! Drop me a DM if you are interested! @ecvp.bsky.social

Common Eastern Bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) foraging on new blooms on a Grape-leaf Anemone (Anemone tomentosa) in our front garden on this fine August afternoon. 🌱 🌿

Animal welfare is important when conducting scientific research that benefits human health. A well thought out essay by Dr. Arthur Brown, Chair of the Animal Care Committee at Western University. torontostarreplica.pressreader.com/article/2816...

RARE BOOK COLLECTIONS IN TODAY’S LIFE - Old books carry the voices of our ancestors—the artistry of centuries. Discover the stories behind the pages—and how they shape the present. FREE public workshop and one is online! Register! www.journal.dsartistrylabs.com/home/collect...

Upcoming conference will explore the evolving ethical and societal questions posed by human stem cell-derived neural organoid and assembloid research, discussing strategies for the responsible advancement and communication of these technologies. sto.stanfordtickets.org/ethical-and-... 🧪🧠 re-post

Not one, not two, not three, but four Monarch caterpillars on one Milkweed plant in my daughter's front garden. Usually, Monarchs lay only one egg per plant. Was it a confused mother butterfly, or did different females lay their one egg on the same plant?

Now that’s what I call a special issue

A brain-imaging study of people with amputated arms has upended a long-standing belief go.nature.com/3Jp9NPG

Here's the schedule for the MIT Consciousness Club this year: sites.google.com/view/mit-con.... I'm looking forward to it! (Rooms will be announced soon; and we're currently working on a zoom option for those who would like to join online)

Queen Anne's Lace and friends at Komoka Provincial Park this beautiful afternoon. www.ontarioparks.ca/park/komoka

A Milkweed Tussock Moth (Euchaetes egle) caterpillar chomping its way through a leaf of the Milkweed growing in our back garden. Like the Monarch butterfly, the adult moths become unpalatable to predators from feeding on the Milkweed when they were caterpillars.

Busy Carpenter bee foraging on Blue Vervain (Verbena hastata) in our front garden. This tall perennial is native to southern Ontario. It attracts a lot of pollinators.

Hope! We have Milkweed growing in our yard, which attracts Monarch butterflies. We were pleased to see a Monarch chrysalis hanging from the top of a basement window a few days ago. Today, a beautiful butterfly emerged.

Revitalizing walk in Pinery Provincial Park. We are lucky to have this wonderful resource so close to where we live. pinerypark.on.ca en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinery_...

Some arguments for why we should believe that visual experience is the way it seems to be - in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, from myself and Giulio Tononi: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lMzy4sIRv...

Absolute honor to be awarded the David Marr Medal by the Applied Vision Association @theava-uk.bsky.social Looking forward to my talk “Five Illusions Challenge Our Understanding of Visual Experience” Thanks so much to NOMIS Foundation, @italianacademy.bsky.social , @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social

Our peonies are doing well with all the rain we've had in London ON.

Worth looking again at this refreshing approach to understanding the biological significance of cognition. "The premise of this two-part theme issue is simple: the cognitive sciences should join the rest of the life sciences in how they approach the quarry within their research domain." 🧠 🧪 #consci

What songs get us up on the dance floor? New work by Riya Sidhu from the @neurobeats.bsky.social lab shows that it's the nostalgic throwback songs from our teenage years that are most likely to get us moving. 🧪 🧠

CIFAR invites applications for senior PhD and postdocs to participate in the Neuroscience of Consciousness Winter School, held in Montebello, Canada Dec 10-12, 2025. The Winter School is hosted by members of CIFAR’s Brain, Mind, and Consciousness program. Please repost. cifar.ca/next-generat... 🧠🧪

Congrats, Frank. So well-deserved.

Great walk in Carden Alvar - Couchinging Conservancy today. Lots of native plants thrive in this flat limestone habitat. Indian paintbrush, Prairie Smoke, Columbine, and Chickweed - and many others. couchichingconserv.ca/what-we-do/c...

Come to Coimbra, Portugal, this September for SAW (Seeing and Acting Workshop). A wonderful meeting in a beautiful place. Submit your poster abstracts by July 31. Registration deadline is Aug 31. Check out the great lineup of speakers. Website here: www.uc.pt/cogbooster/s... Please re-post.🧪🧠

Nice work by @barnaveliirina.bsky.social‬ & colleagues showing that hippocampal-entorhinal cognitive maps play a role in action selection. Furthermore, the hippocampus and the supplementary motor area appear to play complementary roles in action evaluation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Signs of spring at Dorchester Mill Pond Eco Trail, a short drive from London Ontario. So good to see after all the snow and ice we had this past winter. Beautiful walk. g.co/kgs/dn34sFF

Three year postdoctoral position available in my lab @psychologyuea.bsky.social to work on neuroimaging and deep learning studies of multimodal material perception! with @timkietzmann.bsky.social @stephanierossit.bsky.social - funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk pls repost #compneurosky #neuroskyence

The #consciousness debates continue! www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧠📈 🧪

Next was an amazing talk by @action-brain.bsky.social on differences in size constancy for perception and action at @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social. Highly recommend www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc5t... (3/8)

#fluorescencefriday brings you a cleared AD mouse 🧠 stained for Abeta (green) and vasculature (magenta). Colocalization is white. #lightsheetmicroscopy 👀 for Abeta in blood vessels to test for CAA or micro bleeding. Courtesy of @shahrzadbahrampour.bsky.social Luke Smolders and Arash Salahinejad

Not science fiction. Wonderful work by Adrian Owen and crew. 🧪 🧠 #neuroskyence

Great commentary on the article by @tristansyates.bsky.social from @franklandlab.bsky.social nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Absolutely delighted to see that one of my favorite researchers, longtime colleague, and friend, Jody Culham, @culhamari-lab.bsky.social is the recipient of the 2025 Davida Teller Award from the Vision Sciences Society @vssmtg.bsky.social. So well-deserved. 🧪🧠 www.visionsciences.org/2025-davida-...

Individual variation in spatial reference memory influences cache site choice in a wild bird #ProcB #OpenAccess royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

If you are beyond a certain age and interested in neuroscience, there is an old story about handedness and the corpus callosum. Here's our new effort to update that story: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

🔗 go.cca-reports.ca/3Y0oHA9

We are extremely excited to announce the 4th edition of the Metacognitive Science Meeting (formerly known as the Perceptual Metacognition Satellite) - to be held on August 11th 2025, right before @cogcompneuro.bsky.social in Amsterdam! For info and how to submit: sites.google.com/view/metacog...

Great opportunity to work with some great researchers in great country. Join us at @westernuwin.bsky.social

Moving tribute to Canada by Tim Thompson. I urge everyone to take a look and listen.

Echolocation: "It’s very learnable" "Neuroscientist Lore Thaler runs workshops to teach people how to echolocate."

Can Blindsight help us understand consciousness? I chat about this here: theconversation.com/blindsight-a... #philosophymatters

Post you from a different era My mother and I in a sailboat near Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, UK on VE Day (Victory in Europe) May 8, 1945. The first time in years we could venture into the English Channel from the Thames Estuary.

An example of how living systems can learn and act, even lacking a clear nervous system asknature.org/strategy/bra... #GeneralSystemsTheory #EnergyNetworkScience

New research suggests that the human preference for faces begins before birth. Using projected light patterns and ultrasound tracking, scientists found that fetuses tend to focus on face-like configurations over other stimuli.