I was asked to give a guest lecture this morning for the Health Sciences Department on brain aging @carleton.ca. Sometimes it's really neat to speak to people outside your usual bubble (in my case, Psychology/Cognitive Science). Students across many fields are doing such cool and interesting work!

I've changed my approach to reading & reviewing papers. Rather than reading on my computer, I read on my e-ink device (supernote) & mark them up there, then they're synchronized back to my computer, where I summarize the notes in a document. This has been much better for close reading! #academia

Reading applications for NSERC/OGS, I think there should be a course on how to write excellent letters of recommendation. Some things shouldn't be brought up in LORs (they are actively detrimental or irrelevant). Positive points should be concrete. LORs that are too short aren't helpful. #academia

Very cool - and useful for generating predictions/simulations based on pilot data (if you think the pilot data is representative)

Hi #canadian researchers - please sign this petition to help ensure funding isn’t cut to tri council agencies (NSERC, SSHRC, and CIHR). We’re looking at potential 15% cuts to ALL federal spending including grants win.newmode.net/canadianasso...

Teaching graduate statistics is such a wonderful experience - I love being in the position where I can say here are all these cool resources, here's what you can do, here's how to do good science #academicsky #R

Fantastic #AAIC session on Language as a Lens chaired by Dr. Marco Calabria and Dr. Boon Lead Tee. This was such an exciting session & I love the integration of new technology and tools for assessing language and its relation to dementia and cognition.

I wonder if #AI will close academic discourse even further as people mistrust people they don’t already know. We were already being flooded with papers pre-A.I., now we need a way to verify quality in an era when the internet is being hit with a tsunami of content. #academia

Would it be possible to have ONE sign on for all journals? It would be absolutely glorious to have a single place to submit, track your review assignments etc. Going through the dance of what's your password for Elsevier/Cambridge/Sage etc journal X, reset, login every time is getting old. #academia

The Royal Society is offering £4 million per researcher for scientists in the USA who want to move to the UK. The money offered is £30 million in all for all the Fellowships. These Faraday Fellowships are for 5 to 10 years.

To any international #U.S. bound students who may have had their lives upturned by recent events, please consider #Carleton, consider #Canada. I am open to applications from graduate students #academia.

My mac has started making an ominous clicking noise - time to make sure the Time Machine backup is current…

Looks very cool, would also be useful for studying older adults

Great to see some of the lab’s first #fNIRS data come through (this is HbO2 for a 2-Back -1-Back contrast)

Saw this quotation the other day & it resonates “You need to be brave enough to be bad at something new.” I may pin this one to my office door

Every year I get to write an annual report. Inevitably I start tackling this only grudgingly, but then, as I start to fill this out, I see the incredible work the team has accomplished over the past year which is humbling and inspiring. This year was great, I can’t wait for next year! #academia

grades submitted 🙂 and once again, this Excel/Google Spreadsheets formula saves me so much time: =IFS(AA2>=90, "A+", AA2>=85, "A", AA2>=80, "A-", AA2>=77, "B+", AA2>=73, "B", AA2>=70, "B-", AA2>=67, "C+", ...)

This is unbelievable…

Well done to members of the CANAL lab! Fantastic representation at Carleton’s Cognitive Science Student Conference @carleton-cogsci.bsky.social , @carletonfass.bsky.social

What a fantastic Cognitive Science Conference! I’m so inspired by the dedication and incredible productivity and passion our students have! @carleton-cogsci.bsky.social

Now this is exciting!

🧠 New preprint alert! @carleton-cogsci.bsky.social PhD student Salah Aziz and our fantastic team tracked hippocampal changes over time in >1,300 individuals using surface-based morphometry (SBM). Here's what we found—and why it matters for Alzheimer’s research 🧵 [1/]

🚨New Preprint Alert!🚨 We just dropped a new paper on medRxiv that uses machine learning to rethink how we diagnose cognitive decline — and the results are 🔥. Let’s talk about brain data, hidden clusters, and how we might catch dementia before it’s diagnosed. 🧵👇 📄 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

I have an opening for a graduate student at @carleton.ca (Carleton University) in the Department of Cognitive Science for fall 2025. Project is a multimodal MRI study examining how Hearing Loss affects cognition in older adults - contact me with a CV if you’re interested & have relevant expertise!

Want to model smarter, not harder? In this thread, I'll share practical tips and tricks for applied #statistics and modeling with #RStats for less confusion & more clarity. #RLadies #DataScience 🧵 (1/n)

As Director of the Pickering Centre for Research in Human Development, I’m sharing our statement and letter to scientific societies in developmental psychology about the recent ICE abduction and detention of Rumeysa Ozturk, a developmental Ph.D. Student at Tufts. (link in the Alt text)

📢 Join us this Wednesday, April 2, 15:00-16:00EST to learn about "Multilingualism at the intersection of psychology, neuroscience, & education" with Dr. Gigi Luk Everyone is welcome! Join on campus (DT2203) and via Zoom carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/94196446262

We’re not quite that good in Canada, but when I hear the “beloved 51st State” language, it makes me think - why on earth would I want to give up what we have in Canada?

Going forward, and until the situation with #America changes, the CANAL lab will not be sending anyone to conferences in the U.S.. It’s not worth the risk

Just in case any of my #American colleagues were wondering, here in #Canada we would really appreciate our continued independence

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." - J.R.R. Tolkien

Very cool paper @garrettneuro.bsky.social have you seen this?

To people who are #republicans or #conservatives I’m interested, what would you like to see scientists researching?

Saving this for when I have to teach this

for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care! EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession

📣 Brock #PsychSciSky are hiring a Tenure-Track Teaching-Intensive Asst Prof to teach our 2nd year stats course and a few other stats/methods courses. Pluses: beautiful Niagara, CANADA, strong faculty union, ample TA support, collaborative colleagues. brocku.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/brocku_caree...

I'm currently interested in recruiting a master's student for this Fall 2025 to the CANAL lab. We're about to launch an MRI project focused on the intersection of #aging, #hearing, and #cognitivereserve Please get in touch! www.canallab.ca/contact #neuroscience @carleton-cogsci.bsky.social

Good blog post on describing why the NIH drop in IDC would have such negative effects. It is clear, non-technical and has things that can be done by everyone www.kateringland.com/the-hidden-b...

I know a lot of Ontarians haven't needed to go to a hospital in the last few years, but it's bad, and this should have electoral consequences.

@yaniners.bsky.social have you seen this neurofind.ai? It gives regional breakdowns

#AAIC abstracts submitted! So looking forward to this conference in Toronto this July!

As a Canadian, I *really* appreciate China’s timing with dropping DeepSeek.

Pleased to announce another Special Issue Call in the @cjep.bsky.social… “Taking possession of the mind: Retrospectives on the wide-ranging study of attention” Details: www.apa.org/pubs/journal... #cognition #attention #neuroscience #development #psychology

Looking forward to discussing the ins and outs of the postdoc experience this Wednesday

Welcome to my department @carleton-cogsci.bsky.social making it's Bluesky debut! I couldn't ask for a nicer academic home

Very grateful to have received funding from the Canadian Hearing Society for our research on how hearing interacts with cognitive reserve. I would like to recognize my grad Student Imola MacPhee who is crucial to this grant, and my collaborators Melanie Sekeres and Shanna Kousaie

Absolutely outstanding multi-modal work on uncertainty in the aging brain by @juliankosciessa.bsky.social et al., many years in the making. EEG, fMRI, comp modelling, sub vs. cortical, this one has it all! Now live in Nature Communications: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This looks incredibly helpful! Can’t wait to try out some of these tools!

Is ResearchGate still useful? Having removed the ability to respond to other people who aren’t mutuals it’s a bit hamstrung as a social media site - and of course we have BlueSky for that (and paper discovery). WoS fills the metrics side pretty nicely. We can email authors for papers. #academicsky