Me leaving Bordeaux after #OHBM2026 with a wine cellar in my luggage

Why would a sea squirt “eat” its own brain? And what can bonobos, chimpanzees, and macaques teach us about our own? Our new Brain Bites Keynote Series piece explores Prof Rogier Mars’s work and his new book, The Fox, the Shrew, and You. www.ohbm-com.com/brain-bites/...

Our third installment of the OHBM Keynote Speaker Interview Series features Dr Eduardo Garza-Villarreal! Here, he discusses with us his work on neuromodulation, translational research, and his thoughts on the future of open science. ⭐ Watch the interview here 👇 www.ohbm-com.com/blog/a-conve...

The first of our Keynote Speaker Interview Series is now live! We had the pleasure of interviewing Prof Rogier Mars, who discussed his experiences with multi-species research, and his new book of evolutionary neuroscience 🧠 Read the interview here 👇 www.ohbm-com.com/blog/a-conve...

And it’s out! Very happy to see Olivier’s work published in Nature Communications. Great effort and an exciting push to tease apart the pathophysiological signatures of WMH! proud to have been involved in this project!

Had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Elvisha Dhamala about her perspective on EDI efforts in brain mapping, check it out!

Check out this interview with Dr. Niu, winner of the Karl Zilles Award. We discuss her work on multiscale neuroanatomical methods, the research directions she’s most excited about, and her journey in science!

Each year we have the pleasure of interviewing the OHBM Award Winners 🏆 First up is Prof Mac Shine, winner of the 2025 Early Career Investigator Award! 🌟 @macshine.bsky.social Watch the interview here: www.ohbm-com.com/blog/intervi...

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Congratulations to all of this year's OHBM Award Winners! 🏆 We're thrilled to share the full list of award winners, and we’ll also be posting exclusive interviews with each of them in the coming weeks. Stay tuned for more 👀 👉 www.ohbm-com.com/blog/o8brgzb...

We are excited to launch The Data Quartet Challenge, recognizing student contributions to projects that integrate data from at least 2 of 4 FRQ supported Quebec Alzheimer’s and Aging cohorts (PREVENT-AD, CIMA-Q, NuAge, TRIAD), with 3 prizes of 5000$ tinyurl.com/3dy899xn

Honoured to have been awarded the Vanier Scholarship — pretty psyched about it. Big thanks to everyone who’s helped me get here!

Results for the #CIHR Spring 2025: Project Grants are in! 🏃‍♀️‍➡️ Thirteen HBHL-funded PIs will be supported by CIHR for seven projects, totalling an investment of over $6.7M at @mcgill.ca & @douglasresearch.bsky.social. Congratulations! 👏 🔬 Learn more: mcgill.ca/x/ieS @mcgill-research.bsky.social

🧠 Tractography on Ultra-Low Field MRI! Thrilled to share "Diffusion Tensor Imaging & Spherical-Deconvolution-Based Tractography Using an Ultra-Low Field, Portable MRI System", led by James Gholam lnkd.in/emDyp9gT Thanks to the Gates Foundation, Wellcome LEAP & Wellcome who supported this work!

This is incredible www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The May issue of @natgenet.nature.com is live! Featuring: ✅Middle Eastern genomes ✅genetic determinants of infertility ✅multiomics in neuroblastoma ✅desmosome mutations in melanoma ✅peanut pangenome And much more! ⬇️ www.nature.com/ng/volumes/5...

📣 CIHR, NSERC, and SSHRC Scholarships and Fellowships Announced – 2025 Congratulations to our students! *** 📣 Bourses de recherche et d’études des IRSC, du CRSH et du CRSNG – 2025 Félicitations à nos étudiant·e·s! Learn more / En savoir plus : douglas.research.mcgill.ca/news/cihr-ns...

It’s not a campaign visit to Vancouver without a Hip Flip. Thanks for the records and the trip down memory lane, @nardwuarserviette.bsky.social. youtu.be/TZmh_PNMImE?...

Unraveling the mesoscale functional connectivity of the human primary visual cortex using high-resolution functional MRI. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.27.645795v1

📣 TOMORROW! Don't miss the CIC lecture by Anastasia Yendiki @2pm! douglas.research.mcgill.ca/event/anasta... 📣 DEMAIN! Venez participer au séminaire du CIC avec Anastasia Yendiki @14h! douglas.research.mcgill.ca/fr/event/ana...

The range of submissions at @apertureohbm.bsky.social is amazing — everything from original research to notebooks and descriptions of notebooks! Had a fantastic experience with their review process and critical feedback

Metz et al. report that a study combining MRI brain atrophy and clinical data using machine learning achieved 89% accuracy in classifying frontotemporal dementia subtypes. Please read at:https://buff.ly/uGmX2fg @DadarMahsa @YasharZeighami @sylv_villeneuve @sducharme66

Very happy to see this work on sex-specific microstructural and cardio-metabolic patterns in familial AD out now in Neurobiology of Aging!

Fonov and Collins investigate optimal sample sizes for creating representative average anatomical brain templates: doi.org/10.52294/001... @fmri-today.bsky.social @mallarchak.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social

Excited for our next CIC lecture! Not to be missed!

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau chimed in online after Canada beat the United States in the 4 Nations Face-Off final. 🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/liv...

Thrilled to see my undergrad work published in Human Brain Mapping and featured on this week’s Sensorimotor Superlab reading list (hopefully for good reasons! 😄). We explored structural covariation between the cortex and cerebellum, revealing an overarching organizing principle of ...