Milan Valyear
@milanium.bsky.social
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Troy McDiarmid
9 days ago
Stoked to announce that I’m starting a lab as an Assistant Professor in the School of Biomedical Engineering and Centre for Brain Health at UBC!
mcdiarmid-lab.sbme.ubc.ca
Recruiting at all levels - please share the word! Cheers and happy long weekend all!
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Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health (DMCBH)
18 days ago
Meet
@zachtpennington.bsky.social
, a new researcher at the DMCBH and
@psych.ubc.ca
who is exploring how the brain regulates stress and emotion. He is also an advocate of building open-source tools to make science more accessible for all. Read more:
www.centreforbrainhealth.ca/news/from-sk...
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From skateparks to synapses: Meet Dr. Zach Pennington - Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health | DMCBH
When Dr. Zach Pennington was growing up, he never imagined he would become a scientist. “I wanted to be a professional skateboarder, a guitarist in a punk
https://www.centreforbrainhealth.ca/news/from-skateparks-to-synapses-meet-dr-zach-pennington/
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Mariko Bennett
18 days ago
I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.
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mark cembrowski
26 days ago
Registration for the
@canacn.bsky.social
2026 Neural Circuits and Behaviour satellite meeting is now live! Looking forward to hosting this event with
@franklandlab.bsky.social
again, and we're looking to have 4 trainee talks as part of the satellite. Register at
www.eventbrite.com/e/1984146883...
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Neural Circuits and Behaviour CAN 2026 Satellite Meeting
The third-annual CAN satellite event, bringing together Canadian neuroscientists studying circuits and behaviour.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1984146883741?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Canadian Association for Neuroscience
about 1 month ago
Read CAN President Douglas Zochodne's letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney highlighting the importance of Neuroscience research and the CIHR Project Grant shortfalls.
can-acn.org/read-our-let...
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Read our letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney – Canadian Association for Neuroscience
Canadian Association for Neuroscience
https://can-acn.org/read-our-letter-to-prime-minister-mark-carney/
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Carolina Tropini (TropiniLab@UBC)
about 2 months ago
CIHR funding rate: 13.6%. Early 2000s: 30%+. Canada’s new $1.7B Impact+ program recruits talent — but without increased Tri-Council base funding, we risk further strain on an already stretched system. We’re calling for $1B over 5 years. Support here:
tinyurl.com/33c5av46
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Vijay Mohan K Namboodiri
about 2 months ago
Very excited to post our paper led by
@daburke.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
where we uncover a simple mathematical rule underlying how brains learn that a cue predicts a reward. 1/26
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Duration between rewards controls the rate of behavioral and dopaminergic learning - Nature Neuroscience
Cue–reward learning rate scales proportionally with the time between rewards. Consequently, learning over a fixed duration is independent of the number of trials. This challenges trial-based dopamine ...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-026-02206-2
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Eric Garr
3 months ago
Since the Namboodiri lab isn’t on Bluesky (I think?), I’d like to amplify this cool paper which I and others in the Janak lab made a small contribution to.
add a skeleton here at some point
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Thank you - so happy to join such an exciting and supportive department!
add a skeleton here at some point
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en route to Vancouver. thrilled to start my lab
@psych.ubc.ca
@arts.ubc.ca
and join the
@dmcbrainhealth.bsky.social
- doors open Jan 2026. it's great to be back, 🇨🇦.
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