If you live in Ontario, particularly in the Lake Simcoe area, send a letter to MPPs telling them that watering down protections for Lake Simcoe is a bad idea! Please please re-post. share.nwmd.social/s/3cxdHHMF

breathtaking tour de force presentation from Guillaume Dumas at the #CIFAR Consciousness Winter School just now! Neuro needs philosophy, explanation, and @neuromatch.bsky.social! Thanks for the plug for our #neuroAI course, Guillaum!

Doug Ford plans to consolidate Ontario’s 36 conservation authorities into 7, overseen by a new provincial agency making it easier for development by streamlining decisions at the expense of environmental protection and local accountability. Public comment: ero.ontario.ca/notice/025-1... PLS repost

Ella Striem-Amit (@striemamit.bsky.social) at Georgetown University is looking for a postdoc interested in brain plasticity and behavior in people born with blindness, deafness, or without hands, using behavioral paradigms, computational methods, and fMRI. Details at: apply.interfolio.com/177838 🧠🧪

wow, massive illusory motion effect here

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue. The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea. From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...

Another lovely effect a bit like the last one (but maybe even more distressing!), for those seeking illusory content. No idea who made this one I'm afraid - if you happen to know, let me know so I can credit them!

For your enjoyment (by @jagarikin)

We hiked to the Meeting Tree, a 670 year-old White Oak, located at Westminster Ponds Conservation Area, London Ontario earlier this week. The tree was a safe meeting place for slaves leaving America and traveling up north to Canada via the Underground Railroad. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Frost on Staghorn Sumac (Rhus typhina). Fall is finally here. It's been exceptionally warm for October. 🌿

This weekend we stayed in a Yurt in Bruce Peninsula National Park parks.canada.ca/pn-np/on/bruce The weather was amazing -- preternaturally warm. The Grotto and Indian Head Cove looked like the Mediterranean.

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-...