Hi all. Frank passed peacefully with the love of his family on July 18, 2025 in London, ON. He was a wonderful human being who shared much of his life with you. We could not have asked for a better father, grandfather, friend, colleague, or mentor. 1/

Very proud of this one. If you want a complete primer on the history of functional neuroimaging in disorders of consciousness, then this is for you. With @karnig-kazazian.bsky.social and Martin Monti. owenlab.org/uploads/pdfF...

✨ The Bernhardt Lab at the University of Guelph is recruiting graduate students for 2026! Join us! We have several fully funded grad positions available ✨ Please spread the word! www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us #CSEE2025

Uppsala University has an open call for a professorship in pharmacology, deadline Sept 15: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Congratulations to PhysPharm department members Lisa and Taylor on these well deserved awards!!!

ICYMI: New content online:

Wow! Amazing images! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... High-speed mapping of whole-mouse peripheral nerves at subcellular resolution: Cell @maximoprado.bsky.social @jointsintheworld.bsky.social

We have an open postdoc position in our lab using #NAMs! We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher to work on an NIH-funded R01 project investigating tendon cell-ECM interactions using advanced microphysiological and engineered approaches (including non-animal models). Apply here! michmed.org/5GV5x

Now that I am shedding most of my committee memberships, it is super tempting to delete the MS Teams app that I greatly dislike from all my devices. Give me one reason to keep it?

Another update although not much has changed. Still expected to have 'a few months'. Oncologist feels like there is nothing he can do any more but we will try to keep me as comfortable & productive as possible with palliative care, oxygen, wheelchair etc.

To attract top global talent, #WesternU is doubling the number of Postdoctoral Fellowship Program awards and launching the new US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Awards. #CdnPSE #HigherEd

Come join us in Vancouver! Exciting opportunity for a more senior investigator researching new regenerative medicine approaches for Type 1 diabetes. $8M in funding for successful candidate research.ubc.ca/media/file/j...

Exciting Research Professorship Position in Stem Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Leuven. Amazing research ecosystem, great colleagues, high quality of life, tenure track. For those interested in joining us, please see below: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

#Sunfest was always one of my favourite things in #Ldnont. This is very likely the last time I can be there. All the more thankful I am to the kids for taking me there in my new fancy wheels! PS5 from Naples playing here

Lots of visitors these days! Former PhD students and postdocs coming by from in and out of town. A sad occasion but great to see them all! Oh those memories.... sorry for the poor selfie skills....

Lots of room for growth at @uwaterloo.ca. 🇨🇦 And were hiring 6 new faculty in #optometry and #visionscience. Spread the news. Contact me if you want to learn more. share.google/8HXvp3LbwLPw...

A clinical trial led by @schulichmeddent.bsky.social prof Dr. Stephen Pasternak at Lawson Research Institute (St. Joseph's Health Care London) shows European cough medicine Ambroxol may offer brain protection and improve symptoms in people with Parkinson’s-related #dementia. #WesternU

By flipping an evolutionarily disabled genetic switch involved in Vitamin A metabolism, researchers in Science have enabled ear tissue regeneration in mice. Learn more: scim.ag/3TzUSnH

Nothing like a CT scan at 2:45 am to confirm you are dying..... to be fair they want to see if there is any chance for radiation to make a difference, but chances are slim. Anyway, thanks for taking me Aaron!

Today is my last day as Chair of Physiology and Pharmacology at @schulichmeddent.bsky.social @westernu.ca, after 7 years (1 yr acting, 5 in term 1, 1 in term 2). I would have loved to complete term 2 but my advancing cancer leaves me no choice. 1/

The Oslo Pride 2025 video shows how quiet visibility -🌈 pins, bracelets, flags- can mean safety, belonging, and respect. Amid rising hate [and lost protections elsewhere] the message is clear: you are seen, you matter, this is a safe place. Civic decency, not just law.

I will be opening my new lab in September at UBC! if you’re coming to #Worm25 and are looking for graduate studies or a postdoc position, let’s meet! Vancouver + worms = perfect vibes. www.zoology.ubc.ca/~yeecs/labsi... Please share! 🙌

The new Department of Functional Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine is looking for scientists at any level. 👉 mpi-muenster.mpg.de/780013/profil

NERVE GROWTH FACTOR IS SUFFICIENT TO CAUSE MULTIPLE OSTEOARTHRITIS-RELEVANT PATHOLOGICAL FEATURES IN NAIVE MURINE KNEE JOINTS https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.20.660696v1

The response to this - on here, by email, in person etc - was overwhelming. Sorry, I don't have the time to respond to everyone, but I read it all. Thank you so much. It feels good to know I made a bit of a difference.

Congrats to all!! What a great list of awardees.

#WesternU professor Adrian Owen is featured in the June issue of @theatlantic.com for his work using fMRI to detect “covert awareness” in patients with severe brain injuries – challenging assumptions about cognition and consciousness. #SchulichMedDent

✨June Issue✨| Targeting osteoarthritis where it hurts: the osteochondral junction This News & Views article discusses targeting neurovascular growth at the osteochondral junction as a therapeutic approach for osteoarthritis. @jointsintheworld.bsky.social bit.ly/4kiDfo3 #Rheumsky #Medsky

Cancer update. A bit darker than usual. Cancer has advanced and it looks like I only have a few months left. Took me a few days to get used to this new timeline. Time to start wrapping things up at home and at the lab. Thankfully there is little pain and I am relatively functional.

And today he convocated. Congrats Aaron!! Combined PT-PhD at @westernu.bsky.social next

So proud of my son Aaron!

Interested in reading scientific papers but not sure where to start or what the parts of a paper are? We've co-created a resource with #PatientPartners for you! See our blog pxphub.org/how-to-read-... and the resource laid out like a scientific paper pxphub.org/wp-content/u... /1 #PatientEngagement

🤔 Interested in examining brain structure and function in unparalleled resolution? 🧠 🔬 The Mesoscopic Integrated Neuroimaging Data (MIND) Platform is searching for a postdoc to assist in the initiative that combines 15.2T MRI and light sheet microscopy. 👇 See the attachment below for details.

So excited to be working with the brilliant @cottonelucia.bsky.social on this project! A fantastic opportunity to tackle osteosarcoma together with cutting-edge science and a stellar team 🧬🧫 Don’t miss the chance to join us! ⬇️

Musculoskeletal diseases have risen sharply with global ageing, affecting over 121 million people in the USA. In ‪The Lancet Healthy Longevity, authors discuss the need for personalised, multidisciplinary approaches to address these diseases: tinyurl.com/4ybej569

It’s my goal to live to 100 – and it’s not just diet and exercise that will help me achieve it. Most of the factors that matter are out of individual control, by @profdevisridhar.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... via @theguardian.com #sdoh

Another position available at McGill in Psychiatry and Single Cell Genomics can-acn.org/assistant-as...

And one more again at McGill in artificial intelligence in Psychiatry can-acn.org/assistant-pr...

Faculty position available in addiction and mental health research in beautiful Montréal 🤓 can-acn.org/assistant-or...

Heading home after 10 days in the hospital. Now let's see how that tube feeding will go :).

XY = male? Not necessarily so if the mother has low iron! Interesting paper on male-to-female sex reversal in mice. 🧪🐭

Beyond the bare bones of the skeletal gene regulatory network Read this Research Highlight showcasing work from Patsy Gómez-Picos, Katie Ovens, Amir M. Ashique, B. Frank Eames and colleagues: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Happy #PrideMonth, #WesternU! 🏳️‍🌈 Join us in celebrating #Pride2025 with events that honour and uplift the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. We see you, we stand with you, and we celebrate your strength and joy. 🌈 Details: www.uwo.ca/faculty_staf...

CIFAR invites applications for senior PhD and postdocs to participate in the Neuroscience of Consciousness Winter School, held in Montebello, Canada Dec 10-12, 2025. The Winter School is hosted by members of CIFAR’s Brain, Mind, and Consciousness program. Please repost. cifar.ca/next-generat... 🧠🧪

We are recruiting a PDF to work on a collaborative basic science/clinical project! Check it out: grad.uwo.ca/doc/postdoc/...

Update: feeding tube installation went well and seems to be working overall. However, the change in diet resulted in changes in my electrolytes, esp sodium. I need to stay in hospital until this normalizes. One week now and counting......

My laboratory at Université Laval in Québec City, Canada, is looking for a postdoc to study how neuromodulatory systems impact cortical processing during foraging behavior. This fully-funded position offers a collaborative environment in a great city. More info👇 can-acn.org/postdoctoral...

Why do nation-building projects always have to be about hewing wood and drawing water? Why can't nation-building plans be about knowledge or science?

Honoured to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Connective Tissue Society! A testament to the great work by our fantastic lab members and collaborators over the last 25 years or so. Thank you all!!