Trump Class is an oxymoron.

This is what the good folks in the county where that distillery is voted for. Overwhelmingly.

No. The move underlines the immense challenges of having a dictator as the head of government. One who threatens the biggest purchaser of US alcohol (🇨🇦) with 51st statehood and illogical tariffs.

The latest bloated iOS release which makes changes for the sake of change and adds nothing to user friendliness reminds me that 2K of RAM and 36K of ROM was all that was needed to send astronauts to the moon and back. Modern day coders couldn’t do this even if they used all their LLM assistants.

It was red, white and goo.

Backyard sunrise in London Ontario. You can just feel the days getting longer now😃.

Dear leader not happy. Must please dear leader.

Happy winter solstice to those who celebrate.

Canadian friends: here's a petition to stop AB and SK from Notwithstanding their anti-trans-healthcare legislation (this will make sense to Canadians). Don't let them shield their bigotry from Charter scrutiny! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Apply now before @markgbaxter.bsky.social steals this choice appointment!

Come work with us. Huge strengths in MRI, neuroscience and musculoskeletal health and their intersections such as pain, child development or ageing. Preclinical and clinical research and translation are also big opportunities. Shoot me a note if you have questions.

ICYMI Monday....wondering what we do with Lightsheet over here at Western, and #TRIDENT? Take a peek, below! 👇👀🔬😍

Yup. Some of us want students who can think for themselves and do research for themselves.

Ahh, the joys of living in the snowbelt.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was the movie that turned me on to cars. That and Herbie the Love Bug and the original Batmobile. Happy Birthday!🥳

#fluorescencefriday microglia (yellow) and Abeta plaques (magenta) in our AD mouse model in 3D from a cleared 🧠 using @lifecanvastech.bsky.social SHIELD Courtesy of @shahrzadbahrampour.bsky.social and @nadiahaghbinphd.bsky.social with @mind-western.bsky.social and @neuroak.bsky.social Low-res.

Yes. We are hiring like crazy! Take a look. Lots of fabulous equipment and colleagues to make your mark in like. All ready for you to walk into.

If you are an MRI researcher interested in moving to 🇨🇦 for $500k a year or $1M a year for 8 years with a possibility of renewal at a reduced rate, take a look at our equipment cfmm.uwo.ca and this program www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl... . MSK, neuroscience, cardiac, cancer applications all encouraged!

Today, we remember the fourteen young women whose lives were stolen at Polytechnique Montréal 36 years ago. Their names are a solemn reminder of the devastating toll of gender-based violence — and the responsibility that comes with our remembrance.

18T FTW🙇🏻

In partnership with UBC's Department of Psychiatry, we are excited to be recruiting for a CIHR Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Cognitive Resilience for Dementia Prevention and Mental Wellness in Aging. Learn more: med-fom-psychiatry-sandbox2019.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2025/1...

As we chase whole-brain signatures of cognition with fMRI, this fascinating perspective argues that cognitive signals are broadly distributed...but far from everywhere! For those of us using whole-brain neuroimaging lots to think about.. 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Yes things are crazy in the US, and no more so than places like Texas. And yet they manage to find more than 4x the entire CIHR budget to devote to Brain Research. THAT's nation building. www.michaeljfox.org/news/texas-v...

Just pointing out modern heat pumps work just fine in the frozen North.

Congratulations to my student @renilmathew.bsky.social (Renil Mathew) on receiving the Dr. Tutis Vilis Graduate Award in Neuroscience. As a long time friend and colleague of Tutis, this award really brings a tear to my eye.

First day in months that I get to sit in my office, read some papers and think. Imagine how scientifically productive we could all be if this was the norm instead of the rare exception.

The things you find on Bringatrailer!

Join us for Fall 2026. In our group, you can run studies from human behavior and neuroimaging, to large-scale NHP ephys, and join them up with a robust computational foundation. Bonus: you can help build the reading list.

Imagine trying to bring a speaker or hold a conference in this place. I guess the VW folks will be coming by private jet

The extraordinary frequency of Air Canada’s connections to Canada’s 10th largest city. Enshitification, thy name is Air Canada. @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social your idea of nation building needs some work. Give us fast rail to Toronto.

Yes! Small teams for creativity. Big teams for harnessing that creativity across domains or disciplines (if needed).

Years ago we published this paper on a Varian MRI. The scanner computer played out a Rasta tune I’m shimming🎶 I’m shimming🎵 Klassen LM, Menon RS. Robust automated shimming technique using arbitrary mapping acquisition parameters (RASTAMAP). Magn Reson Med. 2004 May;51(5):881-7.

Enough to buy five 7T human scanners and run them for a few years. Or feed a couple of million people a decent Thanksgiving meal. Extraordinarily disgusting.

Doug Ford plans to consolidate Ontario’s 36 conservation authorities into 7, overseen by a new provincial agency making it easier for development by streamlining decisions at the expense of environmental protection and local accountability. Public comment: ero.ontario.ca/notice/025-1... PLS repost

Not only that, but there is a Nobel prize (or 2 or 3 or 4) behind most of those fundamental discoveries.

For a lecture tomorrow, calculations based on these data from Johns Hopkins on Covid deaths coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality If Canada had the death rate of the US: 82,600 more Canadians would have died If the US had the death rate of Canada: 690,100 more Americans would have lived

The Sensorimotor Superlab with @gribblelab.org and @andpru.bsky.social is a unique place to work and learn. We are now accepting MSc and PhD applications for Fall 2026. Join our awesome team at Western University... For application instructions see diedrichsenlab.org and gribblelab.org/join.html!

This hits home. Especially in the 🇨🇦 granting space and universities pressure to be more interdisciplinary.

Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS): an acquisition scheme for event-related fMRI that generates data interspaced with acquisition-free periods for stimulus presentation or response reporting. @renilmathew.bsky.social @northernthrux.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A fantastic opportunity to join a cohesive and talented team with expertise in neuroimaging fundamentals, analysis, community engagement, and co-creation, all dedicated to supporting brain health and resilience.

RIP Bill Brady. Dedicated Board member of University Hospital and Robarts Research Institute who welcomed me into the London community and taught me everything I know about fundraising. Genuinely funny and oh so kind.

❤️ Bluesky fMRI people! 3-day #fMRI course live online Jan 7-9, 2026. #SPM, #ICA, GLM, connectivity, mediation, MRI physics, #DataScience with @vcalhoun.bsky.social and Kent Kiehl. We love talking methods & connecting with colleagues! Come join us! Register here: sites.google.com/dartmouth.ed...

I think this is OK on one level. It's social Darwinism. It eventually means there will be less of those people around to vote. I think the problem is that (1) it doesn't happen as fast as the rest of us would like, and (2) a lot of innocent people get hurt in the process.

Excited to launch the Brain Star Award competition for best papers published in 2025 - Details here: can-acn.org/awards/brain... Nous sommes heureux de lancer du concours Cerveau en tête récompensant les meilleurs articles publiés en 2025 can-acn.org/fr/prix-cerv...

Not quite ready for routine use, but a big step towards what would be a wonderful scan to include in all fMRI protocols. It gets a variable delay ASL, angio and variable contrast T1 anatomical all from the same set of data! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40955094/

#WesternU researchers have unlocked the hidden potential in discarded MRI data, developing a new technique transforming how scientists study the brain. @schulichmeddent.bsky.social

One of the highlights of my career was working with David and noted architect I.M. Pei of Pei, Cobb and Freed in the design of the Broad Center for the Biological Sciences at Caltech. And yeah, it could have been my new home, but the collaboration environment at @Western was so much better.

If the community wants, we have XA60 and VE12U versions we can make available as a C2P for Siemens scanners. And we have a Paravision 360 v3.6 available for Bruker. The processing code is equally simple and is posted with the paper.

14 months after submission, our article “Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS): a flexible paradigm for event-related fMRI" is now out in @natmethods.nature.com . You can read it here rdcu.be/ePJo6 It is the first first author paper from my student @renilmathew.bsky.social 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 …1/N