Thrilled to share that I’ll be starting my lab at the SickKids Research Institute and University of Toronto in August! williamsonlab.ca Recruiting at all levels. Get in touch if you’re interested in astrocyte biology of cognition and disease!

Really enjoyed a whole afternoon of myelin research today at the @sickkidsto.bsky.social white matter plasticity symposia! Thanks @franklandlab.bsky.social & @awheel-lab.bsky.social for organising!

New preprint 📣 Do you use the @alleninstitute.org mouse brain connectome? In work led by Vikram Nathan we found issues with existing connectome representations, fixed them, showed the impact on connectome measures. Do you wonder what they are? Do you wonder what they do? tinyurl.com/5y9mft4e

Happy to share the latest from our lab published @cp-cellreports.bsky.social, where we delineated the synaptic maturation trajectory for vCA1 and iCA1 projections to mPFC, and pathway-specific effects of vCA1- and iCA1-mPFC juvenile inhibition on cognitive flexibility www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Join us Jan 23 to learn more about the Canadian Concussion Network-Réseau Canadien des Commotions Visiting Trainee Program, which provides support for trainees in Canada to engage in research training at a host institution. RSVP: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

New Year, new paper from our lab. Emily Kramer used 3D light-sheet imaging and tissue clearing to examine the spatial architecture of mouse amygdala engram ensembles. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Save the date! The Canadian Concussion Network-Réseau Canadien des Commotions 6th Annual Meeting will take place April 27-28, 2026 in Calgary, AB! Stay tuned for more information later this year.

If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind. Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!

If you are in Toronto on Tuesday next week, please consider coming to see a FREE public lecture on memory, delivered by the amazing @sjo09.bsky.social and @barense.bsky.social . Tix at this link can-acn.org/meeting-2025... Please repost and hope to see you there!

The future of pediatric brain research is here thanks in part to Brain Canada's critical platform support grant program!! C-PIP is uniting hospitals, researchers, and technology to transform child neuroimaging in Canada. Read More: shorturl.at/KVwQi

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.

Branch lab holiday bowling! So lucky to work with such a fun crew.

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!

The best science images of 2024 — Nature’s picks https://buff.ly/41tAcCV

OK If we are moving to Bluesky I am rescuing my favourite ever twitter thread (Jan 2019). The renamed: Bluesky-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests)