I know I’ve been posting a lot about this, but it’s telling of how this government looks at society that at the very moment Mark Carney can’t stop talking about nation-building projects, he’s throwing the biggest nationwide service-delivery network on the scrap heap because it doesn’t make money.

I'm excited to share our review "Rationalizing recommendations for influenza and COVID-19 vaccines", which we feel makes a strong case for universal influenza and COVID-19 vaccination policies. With almost 500 references & 8 supplementary tables it's a beast so let me break it down for you....1/n

Today's essential read for all parents "“Immunity debt” doesn’t exist, but immune damage does. Children are sicker now than pre-pandemic – many with disabling chronic illnesses. This cycle of harm can only stop when we accept reality – there’s no off ramp without cleaning classroom air."

The #Ontario #covid19 and #flu vaccine pharmacy locations page has been updated: www.ontario.ca/vaccine-loca... - High-risk groups: COVID-19 vax (starting today) and Sept 29 flu vax - General public: Oct 27 Not much availability yet, I expect Shoppers to be earliest to show appts. #covid19on 1/2

Where are the Covid nasal vaccines for the US to block infections and transmission? Here's yet another with a very good profile in people for mucosal immunity and high neutralizing antibodies in all participants (from China) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Brazilians held protests in all 26 states and the Federal District against a possible pardon for former President Jair Bolsonaro and his allies, who were convicted of attempting a coup.

🎶It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year 🎶 Free Covid, flu and RSV vaccines starting Sept 22 for Ontario. #Onpoli #VaccinesSaveLives www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

As our graduate program deadline approaches, we are recruiting motivated students to join our team. See details below:

Everyone in Canada should sign this.

A new set of #physiology illustrations that are diverse, easy to use, and free are now available thanks to the efforts of a @westernu.ca prof and grad:

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Happy to share our recent work attempting to better understand the impact of early life maternal separation on locus coeruleus function. Super proud of first author (the now Dr.) Chayla Vazquez. She brought this idea when she joined in… March 2020… and she carried it through these rough few years!

Excited to share our latest paper - now out in @science.org - we showed how oxytocin modulates maternally-directed behavior in young mice (P15).

Come join us at University of Toronto. We're hiring a Professor of computational cognitive neuroscience. #neuroAI #compneuro jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Inviting an evil, racist, misogynist to speak to the cabinet is not a good look. I don’t care what playbook he knows. Don’t normalize this. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

This is an important rebuttal of government political pandering for animal research. Would have been great to see such a powerful statement from Ontario or U15 university leaders.

Doug Ford is barking up the wrong tree with a ban on animal research. Nobody likes the idea of cute little puppies being killed. But populist pandering to emotion is anti-science rhetoric that serves no one, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... @theglobeandmail.com

The Dangerous Precedent of Political Interference in Medical Research in Canada  www.eara.eu/post/the-dan... via @eara.eu ‪

If cabinet is hoping the guy who wrote the fascist playbook will give advice on stopping fascism then we are in trouble. Adorno reminds us that clever people were the first to be suckered by the fascist playbook because they thought they could outsmart it. There is nothing hidden in their plan.

A nasal spray reduced the risk of Covid infections in a double blind, placebo controlled randomized trial jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

We did a study on this! thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

Right now, your ability to get access to a COVID vaccine this fall is in jeopardy, whether or not you fit the new, restricted eligiblity criteria. Please send a letter to your member of Congress here. And spread the word. @defendpublichealth.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/letters/writ...

Remember when COVID vaccines were first available? Remember how they saved lives and helped us move toward normalcy? Remember how relieved and grateful we were? Remember how amazing our healthcare workers were? Remember how science rescued us?

Production in Ontario/Quebec #Canada #MadeInCanada #cdnpoli 🍁 Moderna’s latest COVID-19 vaccine is both approved and ‘made in Canada’ globalnews.ca/news/1134908...

Happy to share that my (first) first author paper from the Brenhouse Lab is officially out in Neurobiology of Stress! Here, we investigated the impacts of early life adversity on the adolescent amygdala 🧠 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨Another PI job opening in the Neuroscience dept. at @umontreal.ca ! 🚨 www.nature.com/naturecareer...

For anyone interested in an academic job in 🇨🇦, we will soon be advertising an Assistant Prof position in Systems Neuroscience (rodents and other animal models) at ULethbridge. There are many pros and cons of working here, so feel free to DM me to find out more #neuroskyence #academicsky

We're still seeing great promise of COVID nasal vaccines with various vectors, preventing infection and transmission, but the HHS cancellation of US support will very likely derail the progress that has been made www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

1 To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised! 🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Join our department! We're hiring an Assistant Professor of Teaching (Tenure-track), located at UBC's Vancouver campus, with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2026. Apply by Oct 1, 2025. Learn more & apply: psych.ubc.ca/jobs. Please share!

It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.

Noradrenergic activation of the BLA promotes the formation of discrete memories of similar events that were experienced close in time, via a miR-134-regulated consolidation process within the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus www.nature.com/articles/s41...

There is no gain in defunding early career scientists, making cancer research harder, cancelling vaccine science etc.. We all lose. The dismantling of the American scientific enterprise will go down in history as the most short sighted thing and destructive decision. www.science.org/content/arti...

"pre-existing conditions" is eugenicist logic, BTW

Representations of stimulus features in the ventral hippocampus www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

This headline in my feed caught my eye the other day 1/n

At this point, has Mark Carney made any decisions that Pierre Poilievre wouldn't? So far he's playing nice with Trump, promising massive cuts to federal programs so he can spike military spending, and passing multiple bills of dubious constitutionality. An absolutely deplorable record so far.

Deported under a little-known wartime law, more than 130 Venezuelans were sent from the U.S. to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Now released, several tell NPR they endured beatings, sexual abuse, and near-total isolation.

The BBC News website has pages & pages of coverage related to farmers protesting inheritance tax, including events where only a few hundred turn out. In London yesterday 100,000 people marched for trans rights, and nothing. Imagine if it was 100,000 anti immigrant activists, they'd cover that.

The most important story in the world right now.

Are you an international (outside the US) scientist looking to attend the annual @acnporg.bsky.social meeting in January?🌎 Then see below for an opportunity to join us for #ACNP2026 in the Bahamas 😎🏖️👇

1/ Mapping synaptic connectivity between individual neurons is extremely laborious. We developed BRISC, a new method that makes it possible to map inputs onto 100s of neurons in the same animal in a matter of weeks! Led by Alex Becalick and @antblot.bsky.social. 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K. thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...

do you ever stare at the ceiling and think about how the worldwide scientific establishment did the impossible and created a COVID vaccine in under a year and the response of the general public has been to go on an unstoppable rampage to destroy science and scientists