Naguib Mechawar
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The bookish neuroscientist ™
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/r/Habs
about 13 hours ago
Congrats to the Montreal Victoire on becoming the PWHL Walter Cup champions 🏆 🔥
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Now I wonder if the name Olga Tokarczuk was AI-generated.
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This beautiful study was part of Kelly's PhD thesis, which she brilliantly defended last December. She's now a postdoctoral fellow at Yale. A rapidly rising research star!
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Fun and productive!
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Jay 🦋
13 days ago
when you need books more than you need a view
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CANGlia
13 days ago
Are you interested in learning more about developmental neurological disorders AND glia? Please join us for a free public lecture from a family facing Alexander’s disease with an introduction from top neurologist and scientist Dr. La Piana followed by open discussion!!
#CANGlia26
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www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
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Carol Rumens, poet and the Guardian’s poem of the week columnist, dies aged 81
The British poet, who also wrote plays, fiction and published poetry in translation, analysed almost 1,000 poems for her much-loved series
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/05/carol-rumens-poet-and-the-guardians-poem-of-the-week-columnist-dies-aged-81
14 days ago
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"Cependant la sagesse du jour prend forme d'un bel arbre et l'arbre balancé qui perd une pincée d'oiseaux, aux lagunes du ciel écaille un vert si beau qu'il n'y a de plus vert que la punaise d'eau." - Saint-John Perse (Éloges)
20 days ago
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Elon Musk: "The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy..." You wouldn't believe how weak I am.
about 1 month ago
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It's just a matter of time before the Vatican is accused of enriching uranium.
about 1 month ago
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AI is adding so much mediocrity to the world...
about 1 month ago
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Andrei
about 1 month ago
The new episode of the best Italian literary podcast Not My Cup of Read is dedicated to Antonio Lobo Antunes.
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Ep. 022 - Scoprendo Antonio Lobo Antunes. 5 romanzi per ricordare il maestro portoghese.
YouTube video by Not My Cup Of Read Podcast
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OXwFtN1LyHs&pp=0gcJCdUBo7VqN5tD
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Free will?! In this economy?!
about 1 month ago
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🐰 Myandra punishable by DEATH. 🐰Impeach "IT" NOW! GOP are losers
about 1 month ago
This is tragically beautiful.
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about 1 month ago
Instead of flowers, people bring sticks to this dog’s grave. ❤️
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Julia B. Chan
about 1 month ago
losing contact with the earth for 40 minutes sounds nice
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Apparently, it's healthier to eat until you’re around 80% full. Not sure I could get used to the 30% drop.
about 2 months ago
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Carl Quintanilla
about 2 months ago
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Jibran Khokhar
about 2 months ago
With the rumblings around CIHR wanting to move to one cycle per year not going away, in consultation with a diverse stakeholder group, we have put together a letter for CIHR leadership. Please consider signing this letter and share/RT:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
@cannabrain.bsky.social
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CIHR Project Grant Cycle Restructuring
Dear colleagues, Below you will find a draft letter regarding the proposed transition to a single annual CIHR Project Grant competition, and to invite you to sign on if you are in agreement with its c...
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSenNbYOhPloPqTKvJptHQsmgiIaUvQmXVXeXtXMH_xOXN3lOw/viewform
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Maryanne Chisholm 🌊 💙
about 2 months ago
A view of the night sky from Mars. (Yes, really)
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Rima I Anabtawi
about 2 months ago
It was the biggest massacre for decades - 10,000 Sudanese killed over two days. The international community knew genocide was inevitable. Why and how did it happen?
#KeepEyesOnSudan
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Heroism, horror and the ‘pits of hell’: inside the last days of El Fasher
Over two days in October 2025, up to 10,000 people are believed to have been massacred; a further 40,000 civillians from the Sudanese city are still unaccounted for. This is the story of what happened
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/25/heroism-horror-and-the-pits-of-hell-inside-the-last-days-of-el-fasher
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I feel like rereading Tolstoy’s Excursion and Peace.
about 2 months ago
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John Lukens
2 months ago
Distinct origins and niches determine the cellular responsiveness of CNS macrophages after repopulation
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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PSA: there's no such thing as "enriched iranium".
2 months ago
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Say what you will about twitter, but over there, my posts often went viral, with more than a dozen likes.
2 months ago
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Now we know why St. Augustine never came close to making a billion dollars! So much introspection about the nature of time without ever realizing that time is money... What a loser.
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2 months ago
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Jürgen Habermas, influential German philosopher, dies at 96
German philosopher Jürgen Habermas has died at age 96. Habermas' work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figur...
https://apnews.com/article/juergen-habermas-dead-germany-2b541721af6cb19abfaa923359d091b5
2 months ago
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"We have to defend the straights of Hormouz against the radical leftists who want trans for everyone."
2 months ago
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Baptiste Lacoste
2 months ago
Please consider joining us in May by registering ! Abstract submission deadline extended to March 12th! The last 48hrs to submit your work 😇 Register until April 30th to attend our 3rd CANGlia symposium, with Cagla Eroglu as keynote speaker, and excellent symposia 😎
#Glia
#neuroscience
#conference
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I'm sure he thinks they're "Golf states".
2 months ago
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Preparing for the 2030 Nuclear Winter Olympics.
2 months ago
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Un immense écrivain vient de disparaitre.
www.lemonde.fr/disparitions...
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L’écrivain portugais Antonio Lobo Antunes est mort
Travailleur acharné, auteur prolixe à l’imagination fertile et fervent défenseur de la liberté d’expression, il s’est éteint le 5 mars à Lisbonne, à l’âge de 83 ans.
https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2026/03/05/l-ecrivain-portugais-antonio-lobo-antunes-est-mort_6669627_3382.html
3 months ago
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simpler times
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Un texto, des texti.
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"No more wars (on poverty)"
3 months ago
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"I apologize in advance for this busy slide"
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3 months ago
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Anthony
3 months ago
"Why read? Because you can know, intimately, only a very few people, and perhaps you never know them at all. After reading The Magic Mountain you know Hans Castorp thoroughly, and he is greatly worth knowing." — Harold Bloom
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Yoon Kim
3 months ago
“Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.” (Musil, The Man without Qualities)
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Yoon Kim
3 months ago
“I shall read a passage of Shakspeare every Sunday at ten o Clock—you read one at the same time and we shall be as near each other as blind bodies can be in the same room.” — John Keats in a letter (1818)
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The world is poorer without Michael Silverblatt.
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3 months ago
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Florian Louis
3 months ago
Pierre Rosenberg - Nicolas Poussin Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint Coffret (4 volumes) À paraître en mars chez Flammarion
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Yoon Kim
3 months ago
🖤 arrived yesterday: Bernhard’s early short fiction — first published in English, selected and arranged chronologically by
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One must imagine Sisyphus unhappy with his name.
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Yoon Kim
4 months ago
“It’s fine, I’ll stay here dreaming poems and smiling in italics.” — Álvaro de Campos (Pessoa)
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Le Monde
4 months ago
L’écrivaine Vénus Khoury-Ghata, trait d’union poétique entre le Liban et la France, est morte
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L’écrivaine Vénus Khoury-Ghata, trait d’union poétique entre le Liban et la France, est morte
Très attachée à la langue française, elle avait publié de nombreux recueils de poèmes mais aussi une trentaine de romans. Elle s’est éteinte le 28 janvier à 88 ans.
https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2026/01/30/l-ecrivaine-venus-khoury-ghata-trait-d-union-poetique-entre-le-liban-et-la-france-est-morte_6664777_3382.html
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New acquisition! Inspired by Joseph Brodsky and recent posts from
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4 months ago
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petipaw
4 months ago
It’s live! Presenting the new incarnation of my site,
#ReadingVenice
. Like it says on the tin, it’s about
#Venice
and its
#books
, from classics by Henry James to stories by Daphne du Maurier & the latest non-fiction
www.readingvenice.com
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©terraecelestibusdatae.
4 months ago
“We have to remember that what we see is not nature herself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.” Werner Heisenberg.
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Yoon Kim
4 months ago
Hölderlin: “Don’t you also harbor a secret pain, when the eye of the heavens is taken out of Nature, and the wide earth thus lies there like a riddle whose solution is missing?”
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Yoon Kim
4 months ago
“It’s through a feeling of respect for each human being, in every corner of the Earth…” — Clarice Lispector (trans. Costa and Patterson)
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