En route to ESMRMB in Marseille

UBC

Gros Morne, Newfoundland, August 2023

How one condo complex electrified all of its 143 parking spots… for free?!

Heavy rain at Zion National Park. March 2023.

Numerous regular 110 V outlets would cover most charging needs. Some condo buildings face EV charging growing pains | CBC News share.google/x09vNq1IuZFP...

A method for capturing neuronal activity using fMRI excited the neuroimaging field but couldn’t be replicated. Today, the authors of the original paper retracted their work. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/a...

Stanley Park Seawall

Some small success: Over the past years, I have reviewed for some smaller award. Last year, I suggested that the section on previous awards should be removed from the CVs because they are not merit. Previous awards would increase the chance for more awards, creating a positive feedback loop. They...

Venables street, Vancouver

Unser Nachwuchs besucht seit >5 Jahren öffentliche Schulen. Wir haben dort noch nie ein religiöses Symbol gesehen. Weder an den Wänden noch auf den Köpfen. Es ist im Einwanderungsland Kanada einfach kein Thema und ich bin sehr froh darüber.

Sunrise in Vancouver a few days ago.

A bit smoky on St Marks this morning.

@ismrm.bsky.social: "As we prepare for the ISMRM 2026 Annual Meeting in Cape Town, we understand that not all members will be able to travel internationally. To better serve our community, we are exploring the possibility of hosting a U.S.-based MiniHub during the meeting." My sense of humour!

Denmark eliminates 25% book tax to combat declining reading boingboing.net/2025/08/22/d...

Don't ask. Because I don't have answers.

Qu'Apelle River. Saskatchewan.

Day so far: dog bite, tetanus shot, paper accepted

Saskatchewan

Nice!

This looks like a Kraftwerk song sounds.

You can spend $500 to see an angry Roger Waters play a show that's contaminated with his mediocre solo work. Or you can spend $100 to see an excellent Pink Floyd show performed by Brit Floyd.

WTF

This week another 700 plus babies will be exhumed in Ireland, having been starved to death or worse in a Magdalene laundry DURING THE MID 20TH CENTURY. To date the Catholic church refused to even acknowledge this, let alone apologise. This church is unfit to practise.

Great news: www.canada.ca/en/environme...

Sobering and powerful interview with David Suzuki by @davislegree.bsky.social .

More depressing than the article itself are the idiotic comments below: Western Canadian glaciers melting twice as fast as they did a decade ago, research shows | CBC News share.google/tSFUruEMPwKA...

Let's have another MRI meeting in Honolulu, shall we? @ismrm.bsky.social

Wanderer above the sea of trees

North Vancouver at 9:50 pm

They did get rich by accident. Thousands of entrepreneurs, all equally talented, make hundreds of decisions each that are based on very limited knowledge. Those who were lucky enough to take the right guess most of the time end up getting rich.

Wäre toll, wenn das noch ein paar Leute teilen könnten.

Mt Seymour

From a trip in 2009

Friday manuscript writing music. A masterpiece.

Interesting that Vancouver Island was called Nootka Island. Nowadays, Nootka is a smaller island off the west coast of Vancouver Island.

Ski touring season finale on Mt. Slalok.

If people use an area for recreation and to enjoy its beauty, the region suddenly needs a chance to recover. If a region gets logged, nobody gives a shit about recovery.

These days, so many things come with a trigger warning but last week I received a mass email about someone willing to sacrifice their own child. Without trigger warning.

Für Leute in (speziell auch mit Migrartionshintergrund) und aus Österreich: Eine Studie undersucht die Einstellung von Menschen zum Österreichischen Deutsch. Das Ausfüllen dauert etwa 10 Minuten. Bitte mitmachen! ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Remembering Christopher Hitchens today.

Thought leader (and poet!) Cornel West at Web Summit Vancouver

SPEECHLESS BEFORE / AFTER #BLATTEN The magnitude of destruction after the 3:24 pm collapse of Birch Glacier is immense! 😱 All the forest has been razed and the ice/wood/debris dammed the Lonza river 🌊 Some buildings of Blatten are buried 🏠 📷 Pomona

Excited to share my #biocommentary for @springernature.com in @pediatricresearch.bsky.social 📝✨ From #neuroscience at UofT 🧠 to discovering #MRI 🧲 at McMaster, then moving to BC to work with @rauschermri.bsky.social🏔️ My journey as an #assistantprofessor over the last 5 years! 👩‍🔬📚 rdcu.be/enUNo

Aktuell ist wieder Lanz&Precht-Bashing angesagt. Kaum jemand hat den aktuellen Podcast gehört. Irgendein Satz wird aus dem Kontext gerissen und als Sau durchs Dorf getrieben, für ein bisschen Distinktion in der eigenen Peer-Group. Leider auch von Leuten die ich schätze. So durchschaubar.

A Nature Outlook feature reports on the questions around an established theory for how good sleep reduces a person’s risk of neurodegenerative disease and how the debate could have enormous consequences for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. #medsky #alzsky 🧪

Definitely summer. Also a book recommendation.

🚨NEW PAPER OUT IN #NMRinBiomedicine🚨 We developed a noninvasive MRI method to measure brain oxygen use (CMRO₂) and blood flow (CBF) in preterm infants. This could be key for understanding early brain development! #Neonatology #MRI #BrainHealth #openaccess 👶🧪 doi.org/10.1002/nbm.... 🧵 1/9