Giannina Descalzi
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Neuroscientist investigating chronic pain.
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Daniel MacPhee 🇨🇦
6 days ago
“Cognitive psychology has shown that students grow intellectually through doing the work of drafting, revising, failing, trying again, grappling with confusion and revising weak arguments. This is the work of learning how to learn.”
#AI
#HigherEd
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The greatest risk of AI in higher education isn’t cheating – it’s the erosion of learning itself
Automating knowledge production and teaching weakens the ecosystem of students and scholars that sustains universities, raising existential questions about their mission.
https://theconversation.com/the-greatest-risk-of-ai-in-higher-education-isnt-cheating-its-the-erosion-of-learning-itself-270243
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So much inappropriate use of AI; it will be the death of novel thought. I feel students using AI to research have somehow been mislead into thinking that summarizing papers is the same as reading and comprehension.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)
9 days ago
solar. birth control. MRI machines. the telephone.
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SfN Journals
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#JNeurosci
: In a rat model of chronic pain, Ball et al. found that activating the CGIC–SI pathway increases touch sensitivity and dorsal horn excitability, whereas inhibiting the pathway reverses neuropathic pain.
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1306-25.2025
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mark cembrowski
about 1 month ago
Save the date for the annual "Neural Circuits and Behaviour" satellite conference at the Canadian Association for Neuroscience annual meeting, cohosted by
@franklandlab.bsky.social
and myself on May 18, 2026. We have a great speaker lineup and will be selecting 4 trainees talks from our registrants!
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Marija Kundakovic
about 2 months ago
Extremely excited & proud to share our new preprint - we provide for the first time a single cell map of the mouse brain across sex, the estrous cycle, and peripartum! Data are 🔥 👇 "Single-cell map of the female brain across reproductive transitions"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Ravi Menon
2 months ago
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.
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Join us at CAN for genomic fun!
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Paul Frankland
12 months ago
GREAT opportunity for Canadian trainees: FOUR talks at the Neural Circuits and Behaviour CAN satellite are reserved for trainees. AND the best trainee talk wins a $500 prize (thanks to the Garry Hurvitz Centre for Brain & Mental Health). REGISTER today and submit your proposed talk title.
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Neural Circuits and Behaviour CAN 2025 Satellite Meeting
Come join us at our second-annual CAN satellite event, bringing together Canadian neuroscientists studying circuits and behaviour.
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/neural-circuits-and-behaviour-can-2025-satellite-meeting-tickets-1210075541519?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Paul Frankland
about 1 year ago
Scientist position at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. We are looking for neuroscientists with interests in the molecular and cellular bases of cognition. The position is open-rank, and the successful candidate will also be appointed at U Toronto. Deadline is Feb 15th. Come join us!
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https://career.sickkids.ca:8001/psc/CRPRD/CAREER/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM_FL.HRS_CG_SEARCH_FL.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_JBPST_FL&Action=U&FOCUS=Applicant&SiteId=1&JobOpeningId=21813&PostingSeq=1&
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