Math and Computing Science Joint Major Khiem Dinh Can (3rd from left) started his USRA term with an enthusiasm for AI and machine learning, and a desire to develop skills for grad school. He worked with math prof Ben Adcock, on a project titled "Active Learning for Scientific Machine Learning.”

Excited to share our new publication on fMRI-derived anatomical and functional patterns linked to attentional control deficits in individuals with schizophrenia: doi.org/10.1016/j.ps... Huge thanks Todd Woodward @twoodward.bsky.social, Paul Metzak, Madeleine Evora, Aida Momeni, and Helen Hsiao!

As this ramps up and we are asked to cheerlead for it, I remain genuinely shocked that Canada, once again, under the banner of a **nation-building**, has created a funding program that excludes Canadian students and researchers based on presence in Canada. /1 universityaffairs.ca/news/feds-la...

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Good reasons to go to a museum, or see some art, or play music, or dance like no one is watching 🕺 www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Reminder that this job is open! If you have any questions, feel free to get in touch. Deadline is February 20th.

NPR investigation shows how the government tried to erase information about January 6

NPR recorded myself and Mike Fanone narrating our body-worn camera recordings from January 6th. Ah, memories. www.npr.org/sections/the...

We are starting to plan a February road trip from Ucluelet on Vancouver Island to Blue River BC interior for some gigs and can take our time on the drive. Where should we stop? What should we do on the way? #Ucluelet #VancouverIsland #BritishColumbia #RoadTrip

If you're attending the Cogn Neuroscience meeting in Vancouver (March 7-10), we're offering a pre-meeting workshop on March 6, featuring TheVirtualBrain. We'll cover everything from theory to the guts of the code with worked examples to apply to your own data. www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-virtua...

If you are planning to go to OHBM 2026 this year, consider attending the pre-conf Brain Connectivity Workshop, celebrating our 25th year! @ohbmofficial.bsky.social www.bcw2026.org

A lot of good ideas here - time relativity on treadmills and anger management in geese. 😁 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New preprint from the lab: The fact that human brain activity can be measured at high res is *thrilling*. But often it's not spikes; it's "LFP". Sometimes LFP is 3x better for decoding (wow!). Sometimes it's a lot worse (sigh). Why? A mystery! In this thread, Catrina explains. Read her 🧵.

This widely shared post, which claims to show Venezuelans celebrating the fall of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela, is false. The video was actually filmed in Miami, Florida, and not in Venezuela.

This video, viewed millions of times, falsely claims to show the US military operation in Venezuela this morning. In fact, the video is old, and was posted to TikTok back in November 2025.

I'd like to call a false start to 2026. Can we back up and try again?

I don't think you non-science people realize what it takes to get a grant funded by NIH. Started experiments in Sept 2021 to generate 3 new mouse mutants to model human disease. Prelim dara shows they have relevant disease phenotypes worthy of study. Need a small grant first to characterize /1

When I explain to people what is involved with writing a successful grant, they simply don’t believe me. I explained it once to a famous person from Pixar, and he looked me square in the eye and said: You mean all the cancer and Alzheimer’s grants work that way? You’ve gotta be &$%#ing kidding me!

The ADAM lab is hiring a Research Specialist to join us! This role involves conducting human subjects research (EEG experiments on attention + working memory) and assisting with the execution and administration of ongoing projects. Job posting: emdz.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

At the Bernstein Conference 2024, Jeremie Lefebvre and I organized a workshop on the computational consequences of neural heterogeneity. Now, slightly more than a year later, we funneled the emerging discussions into a perspective piece: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Terry Fox Research Institute Year in Review: October 2025 TFRI announced $14.5M in funding four four research teams through its 2025 Terry Fox New Frontiers grants to advance personalized care research on immunotherapies, sarcomas, bladder cancers and brain cancers. tinyurl.com/47zwsdkd

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Really beautiful + elegant study: theory, psychophysics, and careful behavioral modeling lead to super clean dissection of #EEG topographies during perceptual decision making. Crazy variance makes sense when you have the framework and predictors to explain it! elifesciences.org/articles/108...

As of today, I am a FULL professor. I do not care much for occupational status markers. Still, it is not lost on me that only 2% of full professors are Black women. This goes beyond personal accomplishment. It is a responsibility to do as much as I can for others. That is exactly what I aim to do.

A New Year’s resolution might not change the world, but what if it could change how you see things? Consider doing one thing differently, for a whole year. (from 2017) https://to.pbs.org/3V0qK34

I've updated my personal website: www.kjmitchell.com. You can find info and links to my Books, Publications, Wiring the Brain blogposts, Talks, and Interviews/Podcasts 😊

On Dec. 31, 1966, the community of Bowsman, Manitoba decided to finish the year in style. With every house now connected to a sewer system, resident's outhouses were paraded through the community and then burned in a massive bonfire. This is the story of The Biffy Burn. 🧵 1/6

As 2025 winds down, I'd like to reflect on the good things that happened this year. We've been flooded with bad vibes, so it helps to remember the shining moments. I'll share two. First, it was a great year for our lab, where we christened 3 new PhDs: Phil Johnston, Leanne Rokos, & Alex Samson. 1/2

Interested in the latest advances in neuroscience (neural dynamics and internal models) and how they can be leveraged to build smarter, adaptive AI? ➡️ My first real solo piece 🖤🫶 @natneuro.nature.com rdcu.be/eWVmA

And actually--Comet Pizza was a page out of a playbook that started with daycare decades before. In 1983, a California mom accused her son's childcare provider of subjecting children to Satanic rituals--like flushing them down toilets into secret basements where they were then filmed for porn. 1/🧵

Just published my review of neuroscience in 2025, on The Spike. The 10th of these, would you believe? This year we have foundation models, breakthroughs in using light to understand the brain, a gene therapy, and more Enjoy! medium.com/the-spike/20...

As Premier of Alberta, William "Bible Bill" Aberhart attempted to limit press freedoms, jailed a reporter and cut off the heat and power to the Lt. Governor's home. When his constituents tried to recall him, he repealed the recall legislation. This is his story. 🧵 1/12

A lot of people expect more from Chappell Roan than they do from their own elected officials

@sfu.ca is hiring Canada Impact+ Research Chairs. Research areas include health, including biotechnology; clean technology and resource value chains; environment, climate resilience and the Arctic; democratic and community resilience. Candidates must full Profs or Associate 2 years from promotion.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 Annual reminder that the book is open access. How do we think of the brain as a deeply interconnected system with highly distributed, non hierarchical processing. Want to learn about the brain from a fresh perspective? #neuroskyence mitpress.mit.edu/978026254460...

"protests rarely incite policy or cultural changes overnight. Often, their rates of impact are much more gradual. For that reason, looking at them through a historical lens (...) is a helpful way to appreciate the tangible effect of taking to the streets." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Income inequality and the erosion of democracy in the twenty-first century www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....

📚 Now reading: Elgin, Catherine Z. (2017) True enough. Will be compiling some quotes and thoughts over time. Pin📍or bookmark this thread if you want to follow along. 1/🧵

I’m reading @francesegan.bsky.social at the moment 😊 philpapers.org/archive/EGAA...

Causation, correlation, and attempts to explain ALS (aka Lou Gehrig’s disease). Great article on a devastating disease. #philsci #philsky

Christmas Eve, 2025 Sitting in front of the fireplace with Alice the cat, reflecting upon a very bad, no good year. So many people have suffered and are suffering this year. Let’s work to use whatever privilege and advantages we have to better life for everyone who has it harder than we do.

#CIHR story about the exceptional Dr Wendy Norman @wvnorman.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉 @bcchresearch.bsky.social cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/54468.html

Hey friends🫂🫂 Today is Svyatii Vechir – Holy Evening in Ukraine. Even with blackouts, attacks, and fear, We celebrate and hold on.✨ I share what this night really feels like, Our traditions, and the news you don’t see. Watch for free: buymeacoffee.com/angelica.sha...

Here is the latest update from WPC on the California atmospheric river event where a moderate to high risk of flash flooding is anticipated for southern California on Wednesday Christmas Eve. Please stay safe through the upcoming Christmas holiday. www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/key_messages...

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

and the winner of the "2025 best thing on Internet" has just arrived neal.fun/size-of-life/ @carlbergstrom.com

I received the end of the year message from The Guggenheim Foundation. “There is no question that creative and intellectual life is now under sustained attack. That’s why we need to stand fast, to continue to do our work, to contribute to society one person, one Guggenheim Fellow, at a time.”