#OpenScienceWeek: WIN trainees 🎓 Shoutout to our WIN trainees! Our Open Science Award winners have gone above and beyond, advancing transparency, collaboration, and accessibility. Learn more about the awards here: win.uwo.ca/open_science...

🎓 Trainee Spotlight on Sam Mestern, @westernu.ca Ph.D. student: advancing open neuroscience and making single-cell data more accessible with PatchOTDA! #OpenScienceWeek #ScienceForAll #WesternuWIN

Stay curious, stay open! ☕ At WIN, our ReproducibiliTea journal club keeps us up to date on the latest in open science. We meet monthly to discuss open science over tea—join us in person or online! Find updates and info here: osf.io/zk2de/, or join our mailing list at [email protected]

#OpenScienceWeek Day 2: What is Open Science? It makes research transparent and accessible, fostering collaboration and inclusion. From open data and protocols to code and hardware, it removes barriers so science advances faster. Learn more here: win.uwo.ca/open_science... @westernu.ca

Happy 6th Annual Open Science Week! Founded by the Allen Institute, this week celebrates those who openly share tools, data + resources to accelerate discovery. Many of our researchers benefit from these efforts, so stay tuned for their #OpenScience stories + share yours here! @westernu.ca

Congratulations to @westernu.ca. professor Angela Roberts on being recognized as one of the Royal Society of Canada’s newest Members of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists! Learn more about the award here: news.westernu.ca/2025/09/roya...

Welcome back members of the Western Institute for Neuroscience for the 2025-2026 academic year! We are looking forward to another great year of activities, opportunities and more to bring to our members. Follow along on our website at www.win.uwo.ca

📢 #WesternU instructors, Did you know that you can give students free & easy access to your Course Readings? Our service is one way you can help alleviate rising costs & provide more equitable access to higher education. Find out more 👇 lib.uwo.ca/coursereadin...

The world’s biggest #dementia conference returned to Canada after nearly a decade. 🇨🇦 Western’s Jane Rylett, #SchulichMedDent prof and CIHR Institute of Aging scientific director, spoke with The Globe and Mail about the progress and significance of this event.

Fourth-year #neuroscience student Madison Henderson is studying #ChronicPain through an Undergraduate Summer Research Internship, an experiential learning opportunity at #WesternU. "I feel like I’m helping make a difference." news.westernu.ca/2025/08/chro...

Neuroscientist Emma Duerden is helping youth who experience anxiety. Sharing her deep understanding of brain development, she collaborates with educators across disciplines to promote long-term resilience. #TheImpactProject #WesternU buff.ly/xblDusF

Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 WIN Open Science Awards! 🧠 These awards are distributed annually to three WIN trainees that exemplify and engage in Open Science practices. Learn more about each of our winners at the link here: win.uwo.ca/open_science... @westernu.ca

#AAIC25 is almost done, but don't miss the opportunity to see @maximoprado.bsky.social, Vania Prado, and a panel of experts discuss improving preclinical testing to increase successful treatment of neurodegenerative disease! Today at 10am. More: touchscreencognition.org/aaic-2025/

This is happening tomorrow morning 👇👇👇👇

Careful dissection of motor sequence learning by @andpru.bsky.social and @mkashefi.bsky.social. In my humble opinion this should be an instant classic 😏. www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

Recently published in "The Conversation" - Vanishing data in the U.S. undermines good public policy, with global implications - by #WIN member Kristi Thompson and her colleague Dr. Albert Malkin. shorturl.at/Yx97D

Tuesday July 22, Dr. Erik H. Middlebrooks from the @mayoclinic.org will be giving a seminar entitled "Clinical Applications of 7T MRI in Neuroimaging" at University Hospital.

Congratulations to #WIN member Diego Piza on his 2024 Brain Star Award.

Read about the fascinating study by #WIN member Dr. Stephen Pasternak - Study uncovers potential treatment for Parkinson’s-related dementia news.westernu.ca/2025/06/coug... via @westernu.ca

Western professor and #WIN member Dr. Cheryl Forchuk named to Order of Canada news.westernu.ca/2025/06/orde... via @westernu.ca

Congratulations again to #WIN member @carobellum.bsky.social on her Brain Star award. Her winning publication led to the development of a functional atlas of the human cerebellum. Another example of the great neuroscience work happening in the @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social lab here at @westernu.ca

Caroline Nettekoven's Brain Star Award winning publication has led to the development of a functional atlas of the human cerebellum can-acn.org/brain-star-a... @westernu.bsky.social ‪@carobellum.bsky.social‬

Researchers launch brain imaging platform with $2.9M boost from Brain Canada - led by #WIN member @neuroak.bsky.social - @schulichmeddent.bsky.social www.schulich.uwo.ca/about/news-e...

New 📰 by #WIN member Dr. Lindsay Nagamatsu - Creativity in Motion: How a Single Aerobic Exercise Session Affects Divergent Creative Thinking www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New 📃by #WIN members Drs. Dave Walton and Mark Daley (with colleagues) 👇👇 *and it's open access too!! #openscience #OS #WIN #neuroscience dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Read about #WIN member @comadork.bsky.social's fascinating work in the Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

A clinical trial led by LHSCRI and Western University’s @schulichmeddent.bsky.social (and #WIN's very own Dr. Luciano Sposato) has helped improve the detection of hidden blood clots. www.lhscri.ca/news/clinica...

Read more from #WIN members Dr. Jason Gilliland and Dr. Jamie Seabrook - Why more Canadians are landing in emergency departments with cannabis-induced vomiting nationalpost.com/news/canada/... via @nationalpost

Listen to #WIN member Dr. Steven Laviolette on the "Mind Over Matter" Pod - Brain Fat: Dietary PUFAs, Cannabinoids, Fatty Acid Binding Proteins, Anx... youtu.be/Cp2rmjIYaMc?... via @YouTube

Congratulations to Hayley Shanks!! One of the three Brain Star Award winner from @westernu.bsky.social!!!

New 📰 by #WIN member Rob Nicolson and colleagues: Subgrouping autism and ADHD based on structural MRI population modelling centiles. rdcu.be/eqaJA

New paper by #WIN members Ana Suller-Marti, @andreaandrade.bsky.social and @epileptologo.bsky.social: Reduction of generalized tonic-clonic seizures following vagus nerve stimulation therapy. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40167365/

The Impact Project features #WIN Associate Director Dr. Emma Duerden - How to help children with anxiety | The Impact Project: www.theimpactproject.ca/stories/emma...

Incredible story featuring #WIN Executive Committee member @jclauneuro.bsky.social - A Kitchener man is now seizure free following a rare epilepsy treatment at London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) www.ctvnews.ca/london/artic...

"Throwbacks that move us: The dance-inducing power of nostalgic songs" - read more about it in a new paper by #WIN member @neurobeats.bsky.social and colleagues: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

PAT Conference keynote speaker Dr. Susan Scollie from @westernuwin.bsky.social presents a historical review of the major advances in pediatric hearing aid fitting and highlights gaps that need to be addressed for future research.

New 📰 by #WIN member Siobhan Schabrun. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation as an adjunct to quadriceps strengthening exercise in knee osteoarthritis: a pilot randomised controlled trial bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/5...

Check out the work of multiple #WIN members in the most recent issue of @westernu.bsky.social's Alumni magazine. 📷 magazine.westernu.ca/aging-well/

New Paper in Imaging Neuroscience co-authored by #WIN executive committee member @jclauneuro.bsky.social 👇

Coming out June 6th.

Check out the interview with #WIN Associate Director Dr. Emma Duerden on @12newsnow.bsky.social in Phoenix Arizona where she discusses her research around passive scrolling and the links to dementia. shorturl.at/j3VC5

New publication by #WIN member Debra Jared - Statistical learning ability influences adults' reading of complex sentences pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40354266/

New publication by #WIN member Debra Jared - Statistical learning ability influences adults' reading of complex sentences pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40354266/

Air pollution may increase epilepsy risk, new study suggests news.westernu.ca/2025/05/air-... via @westernu.bsky.social

It has been an enormous pleasure to host @yulonglilab.bsky.social at @westernu.bsky.social @westernubrainscan.bsky.social @tridentpct.bsky.social MouseTRAP seminar series presenting on GRAB sensors and neuromodulators

#WIN member Dr. Manuel Montero-Odasso named Researcher of the Year at @schulichmeddent.bsky.social!!

A new study led by #WesternU education professor Emma Duerden analyzed the screen time of more than 500 teens and found passive scrolling had the strongest negative influence. 📱 @westernuwin.bsky.social

WIN has launched the NeuroDevelop Program. This unique program offers in kind support to teams building toward large funding opportunities. Check out win.uwo.ca and click on "Research" to find out more.