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excellent thread here 👇

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

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New Study from the lab showing the interaction of prenatal cannabis exposure in mice and adolescent stress on adult anxiodepressive-like and risk taking behaviours link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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While we wish it wasn’t necessary, the Canadian Medical Association has joined three Alberta doctors in filing a constitutional challenge to Alberta’s Bill 26, to protect the relationship between patients, their families and doctors when it comes to making treatment decisions.

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Excited to share another piece of the chicken-or-egg puzzle: Investigating the Polygenic Relationship Between Cannabis Use and Schizophrenia in the All of Us Research Program www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Check out our latest! Studies led by the amazing Megan Brickner - she finds really interesting patterns of dopamine signaling in the basolateral amygdala that report the emotional salience of sensory state transitions. These are largely non-associative, value-free signals, in contrast to classic DA.

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Have many Canadian PIs been affected by the NIH funding cut to foreign institutions? If so, how is your institution handling it?

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A research team led by Dr. Jonathan Epp and Dr. Derya Sargin at the University of Calgary, funded by Brain Canada and Women’s Brain Health Initiative (WBHI), has identified a promising target for new Alzheimer’s disease treatments. bit.ly/45atSCf

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Its a long weekend here in Canada, which seems appropriate to mourn our recent @npp-journal.bsky.social paper, in which we find that FAAH inhibition does NOT improve symptoms in PTSD🙁 A heroic effort w/ @cannabrain.bsky.social @connorhaggarty.bsky.social @ryanntansey.bsky.social & many more 🧵⬇️

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PSE spending as a percentage of total provincial spending, 2006-07 to 2025-26, Canada and select provinces. It's down everywhere, but the Alberta slump has been especially pronounced.

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Have many Canadian PIs been affected by the NIH funding cut to foreign institutions? If so, how is your institution handling it?

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🧵5 Top Free Alternatives to BioRender for Scientific Illustrations! These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs. Save and share the post!

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What's next in for-profit care in Alberta? Your local hospital? by Braden Manns, @jmeddings.bsky.social, Paul Parks edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu... via @edmontonjournal.com @jvipondmd.bsky.social

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A great week of science @hotchkissbrain.bsky.social Today @jfcryan.bsky.social is in town for a seminar and next Friday we have our annual @mathisoncentre.bsky.social research day with Nick Gilpin, Rajita Sinha and Markus Heilig focusing on the intersection of stress and addiction

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Our new paper looking at potential arousal signals to the IGL that underlie how nonphotic signals reset our #circadian clock. doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

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www.science.org/content/arti... 😬

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“From April 14-18, select UBC graduate programs at UBC Vancouver will re-open their applications for US citizens to be considered for Sept 2025 or Jan 2026 entry - they are ready to provide quick admissions decisions for these applicants“ #gradstudent #gradschool www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...

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🔊Share widely! Were looking for a Tier 2 CRC in Human Metabolic Disease! Just posted but hurry as app deadline is May 15! Got expertise in #obesity or #diabetes and are an emerging expert in your field? Apply now!!!! carleton.ca/deputyprovos...

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Canada is hiring! 🇨🇦🤩👏🏻 Keep an eye out for these exciting opportunities. @infneuroendo.bsky.social @paneuroendo.bsky.social @bsneuroendo.bsky.social @endocrinesociety.bsky.social

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Check out our recent series of blogs from CUStar on physical activity and mental health! www.chaimcentre.ca/blog/moving-...

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Fantastic opportunity if you are interested in moving your lab to Montreal, Canada! Through this program, Chairholders will be awarded up to $1 million per year for a period of 8 years. Contact me if you are interested. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

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Science Under Threat in the United States The NIH is a sound investment for the US taxpayer By my colleague Nicholas W Gilpin from Louisiana who has written this piece in his personal capacity due to the current institutional situation. elifesciences.org/articles/106...

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13 chair positions open @inserm.fr to lead a junior research group in France covering #neuroscience, #immunology, #bioinformatics, #bioengineering, #biotherapy, #public health pro.inserm.fr/rubriques/co... 🧪🔬

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Bravo, Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology! Thank you to the members who crafted this important statement. @drglitterbear.bsky.social sbn.org/news/news/wh...

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Tenure track position in pharmacology or toxicology at McGill, in Montreal!!! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

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🚨 Excited to share our new study in @natureneuro.bsky.social! We (+ @stephcragg.bsky.social) show that ChIs (via nAChRs) continuously, and dynamically DEPRESS dopamine release! @oxforddpag.bsky.social @hls.exeter.ac.uk www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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International masterclass hosted by UCalgary at the Banff Centre on Optimizing Research and Innovation Impact -find out more here: research.ucalgary.ca/discovery-ex...

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Check out a new lab paper from Mayumi Watanabe's thesis work showing how different subregions of medial prefrontal cortex differentially regulate extinction of aversive memories through projections to the locus-coeruleus-noradrenaline system: doi.org/10.1038/s413...

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Wishing all the power to my American colleagues standing up for science today. 🧪 #standupforscience

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We scientists need to up our game in communicating what we do as it helps to be able to describe your work lucidly to reviewers and the public. But professional science communicators need to come to the forefront too. What is happening in the USA is undermining all the good that you do.

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View from Canada: the IDC rate for research intensive unis is about 20%, and it's killing us. International student fees subsidize research, our deferred maintenance burden is out of control and buildings are substandard (some are dangerous), support for common equipment / cores is pratically nil.

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This seems a lot like Bill 18 in Alberta.

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We are hiring a TT Asst/Assoc Neuro prof! Research focused position with some teaching in Neuroendocrinol/physiol. Translational neuro research in any sub discipline for human disorders/disease would be ideal. Please RT. careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...

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EDIA is a strategy for excellence- this thread helps explain why. This website helps to provide evidence of why this strategy works: www.ucalgary.ca/equity-diver...

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Work from Nada Sallam showing prenatal cannabis exposure influences glycemic control in female mice and their response to high fat diet exposure. doi.org/10.1111/bph....

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The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

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This youth.gov info on teen dating violence got taken down this week. Printed here bc my inability to close tabs came in useful. Maybe the info is valuable to someone out there.

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...and used worldwide as a cornerstone of biomedical research literature!

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We are happy to have contributed to this exciting paper from Yoshi Saito and Masa Murayama on a distributed circuit mechanism for emotional enhancement of perceptual memory www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

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