My X feed. "Autism is genetic" says the human geneticist. "Depression is an energetic state" says the mitochondrial physiologist. Can we please stop with this simplification of complex disorders? It's epistemic arrogance, and simply advocating for one's own field of work. And language matters.

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The first full day of the Global Indigenous Languages Summit in Ottawa wrapped up Tuesday afternoon. The theme was land and language, which featured a social media and youth component, as well as breakout sessions on Indigenous language revitalization.

Archaeologists: "We're amazed!" Indigenous people: "Well, yeah." www.npr.org/2025/06/06/n...

Agreed. And... 1) it's always the same people leading and getting loads of money 2) we need to stop assuming only senior people can lead big teams.

Why are animal models useful for CNS drug discovery? zendudest.substack.com/p/why-animal...

New commentary! Indigenous representation in neuroscience scholarship, teaching and care. Such a wonderful collab with @TRyanGregory and other amazing researchers from around the world! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I know you all know this, but apparently it needs to be said that basic science is a NECESSARY PRECURSOR to translational science

A lot of folks are going to express strong support for Indigenous leaders in Alberta who are pushing back hard on talk of separation. This can't just be because it's politically useful. Let's also address the issues with treaties and talk seriously about #LandBack.

Obviously I support calls to "Stand With Science", but I can't help noting that scientists as a group almost never stand with anyone else. It's always "science can't be political" or "we must remain neutral". It's deafening silence from academics except when funding is at risk.

Very happy to team up with Dr. Lawrence Goodridge on this Perspective piece advocating for Indigenous privacy rights and genomic data governance in wastewater-based surveillance. Absolute pleasure to work with Dr. Julio Licinio, EIC of Genome Psychiatry.

Men’s monopoly on global health leadership is at odds with the scientific evidence, writes @jocalynclark.bsky.social. And with the current backlash against rights and equity, diversity, and inclusion efforts, it’s even more important to advocate for gender equality www.bmj.com/content/388/...

I am so privileged to have been able to lead this with the amazing Judy Illes and work with the most remarkable people from around the world including @tryangregory and many others not on Bluesky. "Two-Eyed Seeing and Other Indigenous Perspectives for Neuroscience". www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Re-upping this: Deadline is Feb 15th. PI position at our Research Institute at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. Successful candidate will be cross-appointed at U of T. Great research community, great city! Early- and mid-career applications welcome. can-acn.org/scientist-se...

Just a reminder

My adult son just told me to turn my computer off. I said why? Do you need me? He said "no it's just bad for you to be on there so much!" It is true. It's why for the first time in my life I bought a gym membership today.

Surprise nomination from my students for the departmental Faculty Mentor Award and I won 🥹. Never saw that coming.

Excellent and engaging way to distract from work for 5 minutes. For what it's worth, I wholeheartedly agree with the conclusion.

A PI called my grad student a bitch at the ACNP reception. Because a couple years ago she challenged him about his data at his poster. He is very lucky I missed the reception. She did not want to report him, or me to say anything, for fear of reprisal so early in her career. But I will remember.

Will arrive early for #ACNP2024 tomorrow as I have @acnporg.bsky.social commitments Saturday. Who is all going this year?

Why, as soon as I have the tiniest of breathers, a request to review comes in?

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Excited to get this review out- a jaredwyoung.com team effort led by Dr Tyler Dexter + Ben Roberts Drs Sam Ayoub Michael Nobback Sam Barnes & me Cross-species translational paradigms for assessing +ve Valence System as defined by the RDoC matrix onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Developing a Starter Pack of #UofGuelph folks, departments, schools, colleges, etc. Will grow the list as I find folks :) go.bsky.app/JuZidb9

How funding in academia works

Wondering how long my feed will remain about science before it morphs into cat and baby animal posts.

Holistic approaches to research are needed. Whole organism research needs to be supported. I will die on this hill. Study followed almost $10 million people. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Well, this is supposed to be the happy place where we avoid the hellfire that X/Twitter has become so I guess my first post should be something positive so here’s my blind French bulldog Magnolia in a ridiculous mini cowboy hat to make you smile.

If they're old and that's FB?

Binghamton Univ Psychology announces a search to recruit three established faculty whose research examines typical or atypical social, cognitive, & emotional development in the etiology and persistence of mental health problems across the lifespan. binghamton.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

Council of Elrond is like a departmental meeting. They all know the only difficult solution but it's not possible to get there right away so they while away hours and hours of discussing non-starter solutions until there's finally some junior faculty who volunteers "I will take ring to Mordor"

NeuroFreq: a MATLAB Toolbox for Time-Frequency Analysis of M/EEG Data https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.01.565154v1

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Desk rejections are literally just the opinion of one (maybe 2-3 at most) editor who probably knows little about your work or even your research domain. At fancy journals they are basically pattern-matching for whatever seems hype at the moment plus prestige signals. Don't take it personally.

I am not making fun, but admittedly.... TWAS was not the word I immediately saw.

I definitely would agree

Cool new evidence for the role of oscillations in cognition Transient Oscillations of Neural Firing Rate Associated With Routing of Evidence in a Perceptual Decision www.jneurosci.org/content/43/3... #neuroscience

My two work modes: 1) This is amazing 2) I'm quitting everything

New paper identifies the jobs that a sample of 53 psychology PhD students got after completing their PhDs. osf.io/preprints/ps... #Psychology #PhDSky #AcademicSky #PsychJobs

Good because I only post about 20% of mine.

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being on bluesky feels like sitting on my porch and waving to the neighbors as they go past. being on twitter feels like being at a white pride march held inside a foreclosed-on k-mart

There’s this unfortunate myth in science that the head of the lab alone controls its culture. In reality, all the members do and so each person should realize that they bring their own values, attitudes, and spirit for how things should be and that this does matter quite a bit.

This 👇

Someone told me that this app may seem very empty because of this default setting that requires replies to have 2 likes or more before they show up. Indeed! I changed it so that all replies show up, and suddenly the place seems much more lively. I highly recommend changing it in your settings.