Controversial? Classic? What if rest is not best? 🤔 Congrats to @halleeshearer.bsky.social for this thoughtful commentary, and thanks to @ninetlab.bsky.social for the 🎬 movie x rTMS 🧲 collaboration. doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Worth noting that because Sim brought forward his proposal for a property tax freeze requiring millions in cuts with just weeks left in the budget process, this is not up for public debate and is not outlined in the documents available to councillors when they vote on this

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Over 40% of brain-behavior effects were likely overestimated due to motion. There was no correlation between a trait’s a priori correlation with motion and its motion overestimation score. Calculating the motion impact score was necessary to discover the problematic brain-behavior effects!

#eNeuro | Depression Levels Are Associated with Reduced Capacity to Learn to Actively Avoid Aversive Events in Young Adults https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0034-25.2025

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...

A public invite to the Sept 20 Draw the Line actions from 21 movement leaders - representing an amazing cross-section of organizations. Find the action closest to you. Draw the Line: Tell the Carney Government to Pick a Side via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

New research published in Nature draws a direct link between high-emitting fossil fuel and cement companies and the frequency and severity of heat waves, including the 2021 heat dome that caused 619 deaths in BC www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/10/n...

Let’s be clear about the wildfires - endless logging and fossil fuel expansion have made this situation worse. It's shameful to see politicians pushing for the expansion of logging and fossil fuels as we experience and witness this devastation. #wildfires #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I still get chills Meet Mike *30+ years severe depression *first hospitalized @ 13y *20 meds *3 rounds of ECT *2 near-fatal suicide attempts Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE see videos, read paper, follow thread doi.org/10.31234/osf...

“I think the best word is validation”: Residents react to research showing immediate health improvements after the closure of a coal processing plant.

Delighted to share our latest review in Nature Reviews Neuroscience! We examine the growing evidence that vascular dysfunction plays a key role in cognitive decline in ageing and dementia, and argue that preserving/restoring CBF should be central to future therapies. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Palestinian activist Odeh Hadalin (a.k.a. Awdah Hathaleen), who was featured in the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, was shot to death in the West Bank on Monday.

6/ Indeed, to achieve high prediction performance, 10-min scans are cost inefficient. In most scenarios, the optimal scan time is ≥20 min. On average, 30-min scans are the most cost effective, yielding 22% savings over 10 min scans. Overshooting is cheaper than undershooting ...

Alligator Alcatraz is the American Dachau. The first concentration camp. The Nazis initially portrayed Dachau as a proper prison with proper treatment. Trump prefers to promote the cruelty and barbarism. This is my latest on where this goes next. charlieangus.substack.com/p/american-d...

"Dr. Kobak and his team calculate that at least 13.5 percent of all biomedical abstracts appeared to have been written with the help of chatbots." Not so surprising, given tools like Writefull (now integrated into Overleaf) that are explicitly marketed to scientists for this purpose.

Thrilled to see our TinyRNN paper in @nature! We show how tiny RNNs predict choices of individual subjects accurately while staying fully interpretable. This approach can transform how we model cognitive processes in both healthy and disordered decisions. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

NEW: Citations in the MAHA Report have telltale signs of AI chatbot use -- we reviewed all 522 of the listed citations, and at least 37 of the footnotes appear multiple times in the citations with another 21 having dead links w/ @laurenweberhp.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Imaging a concussion and the ensuing immune response at the blood–brain barrier | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

My med school textbook says stimulants like Ritalin treat hyperactivity by “stimulating” the brain’s attention and cognitive control systems. We studied children taking stimulants in the ABCD Study, and the largest differences were actually in arousal and reward networks! Check out our preprint!

1. Over the past four months I've talked with many foundation directors about science philanthropy during Trump 2.0. Two things come to the fore every time. i) The most important they can do is maintain the pipeline of talent ii) With the federal govt pulling out, ROI is higher now than ever.

Ontario hospitals spent more than $9-billion on nurses and other staff from for-profit agencies in a 10-year period, a new study concludes, by Allison Jones www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com @policyalternatives.ca

From side hustle to vertically integrated for-profit care, we should all be paying attention to what’s happening at Telus Health… …and what that means for the future of primary care. Well reported piece by @hannay.bsky.social. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/eco...

One thing about researchers is we will publish our way through the attempts to cancel us. New paper in @jama.com, the authors examine the impact of NIH grant cancellations on the US research enterprise by institute or center and ward type. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

First post on an exciting new manuscript online today @natneuro.nature.com - in collab with @lucinauddin.bsky.social and Catie Chang. We take a fresh look at the physiological dynamics associated with the global signal 🧠 ... www.nature.com/articles/s41... Read here: rdcu.be/ek01F

"If you look at a long period of time, a lot of our increase in living standards seems to be coming from public investment in scientific research." The devastating cuts to science funding aren't just academic, they threaten our livelihoods and wellbeing. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...

Vancouver is grieving, the Filipino community is shattered. Here are resources "for the families enduring unimaginable pain, for the survivors healing from visible and invisible wounds, and for a community that now bears an even heavier burden of grief." docs.google.com/document/u/2...

This is a *key* new paper in the world of school mental health interventions A very large trial (N=6388) testing a universal CBT-based app for adolescent depression (13-14y) No effects found (on depression, anxiety, distress or insomnia) (🧵) mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/28/1...

Canada, abortion is the canary in the coal mine. Restricting abortion is a tool of authoritarian regimes. Which party has the forced birth candidates? The conservatives! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

"When a US Attorney wields the power of his office to target medical journals bc of their content & editorial processes, he isn't doing his job. He's abusing his authority to try to chill protected speech." #saveourscience This is such bullshit.

In Canadian election, top Conservative candidate vows to end ‘woke ideology’ in science funding www.science.org/content/arti... @scibri.com 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁

More evidence that private for profit surgeries make things worse “[Private surgical facilities] bled funding and a finite pool of critical staff from the public system, increasing wait times for cancer and other priority surgeries.” @alonghurst.bsky.social @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/04...

UBC is hosting US Applicant Week from April 14-18, which allows US students to apply during an extended application period for graduate studies. Sixty graduate programs will be reopening applications for US applicants for September 2025 and January 2026 start dates - www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...

I've cracked the code of why byelection lineups are so long in Vancouver today. It's not just a turnout question. Compared to the 2017 byelection, the city decreased the number of election workers by EIGHTY PERCENT. From 1,250 in 2017 to 250 this time around. This was a staff recommendation.

University of Victoria student could have been saved before she died of a drug overdose last year, but she didn’t get the #naloxone or respiratory support needed to survive says damning report. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com #ToxicDrugCrisis

A paralysed man can stand on his own after receiving an injection of neural stem cells to treat his spinal cord injury https://go.nature.com/41YLmhC

Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

So, this is a open call to American students who lost a PhD offer into medicinal chemistry/drug design/organic synthesis. Please share broadly. The Trant Team wants you. Apply now. lnkd.in/epi7wrrN

“University is a crucible for new experiences, but young people should still pass through the trial without risking their lives,” write Jadine Ngan and Tahmeed Shafiq. “A death by suicide is a failure of the campus mental health system.” thewalrus.ca/death-on-campus/

the fact that people are being disappeared in the name of ""preventing antisemitism"" by a christian nationalist administration is making me nauseated and horrified in ways i cant even begin to explain

“It’s extremely alarming that grants that have been vetted by the scientific community and deemed important and impactful to understand the world are now being cancelled because of political ideology,” says @lkfazio.bsky.social. “This is direct censorship of scientific research.”

Mexico has issued a warning to its citizens asking them not to travel to Texas & 7 states due to a measles outbreak. Mexico’s Health Secretary describes 106 cases of measles in Alaska, California, Georgia, New Jersey, New York, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Texas. www.borderreport.com/news/health/...

Directed how to vote by backroom political staff and party operatives, ABC-elected are found to be in breach of fundamental legal local government regulations. I will have LOTS to say on this as Integrity Commissioner report is published tomorrow. #VANPOLI vancouversun.com/news/abc-van...

So excited to be sharing my work at @braistimjournal.bsky.social international conference - I will be presenting my on-demand poster for another hour, come say hi! Poster ID ODS1.10

This guy wants the AfD to win in Germany. He wants Pierre Poilievre and the CPC to win in Canada. I don’t know about you, but given the devastation and fascism he’s doing everything he can to create in the United States and beyond, I wouldn’t vote for someone this guy likes in a million years.

These 15 major companies caved to the far right and stopped DEI programs Google, Aldi, Target, Amazon, Meta, McDs, Walmart, Molson Coors, Foord, John Deere, Lowes, Harley Davidson, Brown Forman, Tractor Supply, Toyota www.advocate.com/news/compani...