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submitted 50 days ago • 534 comments

Clear and to the point. @ahalladay.bsky.social only needs a mere 5 minutes to address some of the main points of RFKs April 16th conference on #Autism. Worth the listen and please share. www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/a...

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

What scientists do. ‘Dr. Le Pichon initially defended the notions of a static Earth, but he came to realize that they were incorrect. He returned from the laboratory one day and told his wife, “The conclusions of my thesis are false.”’

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

Xavier Le Pichon, a pioneer in early plate tectonics research died on 22 March. Pichon developed the first global reconstruction of Earth's tectonic plates. eos.org/articles/pod...

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

Not only an iconic scientist, but also an impressively humane person. This interview reveals some of his thinking about what it is to be human: onbeing.org/programs/xav...

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Dr Peter Marks, "Vaccines have been studied very extensively for being potentially associated with autism" "That theory has been debunked" "One study in Denmark, over 600,000 children. It shows that if anything, children had a lower rate of autism than unvaccinated children"

submitted 73 days ago • 476 comments

@nytimes.com published a moving obituary of my father in law, who passed away recently. I am forever grateful for his lasting positive impact on my life, and proud of his impressive scientific legacy to the world. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/s...

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

My dearest father-in-law and precious bon-pappa to our children. He taught me how to be a rigorous scientist to examine life, without reducing life to that what we can examine with science.

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

🟣 L’Administrateur, l’Assemblée des professeurs et toute la communauté du Collège de France apprennent avec une profonde tristesse le décès de Xavier Le Pichon, professeur émérite du Collège de France, titulaire de la chaire de #Géodynamique (1986-2008).

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Half of business owners on this Toronto street estimated that more than 25% of their customers arrived by car. In fact, it was 4%. And the % of customers who who walked or cycled? 72%. Retailers routinely overestimate the # of “car customers.” Via @carltonreid.com www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

submitted 91 days ago • 39 comments

Begum-Ali et al. show that in #neurofibromatosis, changes in visual attention can already be measured during infancy; reporting slower development of endogenous visual foraging and in exogenously-driven saccadic reaction times. Check it out: jneurodevdisorders.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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Pretty accurate youtube.com/shorts/N4JwL...

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Connecting the Toronto-Quebec City corridor with high speed rail could shave 39 million tonnes of carbon pollution in the coming decades, the equivalent of taking nine million gas powered cars off the road for a year, according to project documents. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/02/20/n...

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Reading a classic, I came across this description of our online experience in 2025, which struck me as pretty accurate... (Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, 1953) What's lost in the process? Time-wasting thought

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www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/w...

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Correct. If the birthdate field contains corrupt or mismatched data, it defaults to 1875-05-20, which serves as a flag. May 20, 1875, is the day the international standards and metrics treaty was signed. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.

submitted 129 days ago • 259 comments

“No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?" bbc.com/news/article...

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Applications until Feb 15th

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In 1922, a group of scientists went to the Toronto General Hospital where diabetic children were kept in wards. Most of them were dying from diabetic ketoacidosis. The scientists went from bed to bed and injected the children with a new purified extract: it was called insulin.

submitted 151 days ago • 1 comment

This is an important shift - the long awaited new Ensembl web site is ready for beta testing - is smooth, scrollable genome loveliness +clean views of the complex information - but @ensembl.bsky.social needs your help to get all the use cases out. Come to the webinar, and check out beta.ensembl.org

submitted 160 days ago • 1 comment

The world has passed “peak child”

submitted 161 days ago • 10 comments

Very thoughtful commentary! The idea of polygenic genome editing of human embryos reveals the vast distance between apparently rational and actually unwise.

submitted 161 days ago • 0 comments

Open access, timely, and packed with useful information and insight! From Ian Kelleher, child psychiatry innovator and (apparently) collector of hospital affiliations 😂

submitted 166 days ago • 2 comments

Just bumping this up for those who may have missed earlier announcements-- we have a new PI position in the Neuroscience & Mental Health program here at SickKids. Neural and glial mechanisms in cognition.

submitted 178 days ago • 0 comments

My new year's resolution for 2025 is to persevere with my humble contribution to the daily #Toronto downtown gridlock in hopes that this will be the year that our local policy makers will have their eureka moment; bikelanes don't block traffic, they improve it. @bike.community

submitted 173 days ago • 3 comments

I suggest we encourage the anti-vaxx crowd at this point

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I like this…..

submitted 184 days ago • 209 comments

Fadeev et al. report magnetoencephalography (MEG) findings indicating differences in processing vowel sounds in children with #autism, which may contribute to challenges in understanding speech in background noise. Check it out 👇 jneurodevdisorders.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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@bike.community @thestar.com

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Yup

submitted 192 days ago • 25 comments

Bookmark for all future grants: Use of Promotional Language in Grant Applications and Grant Success: "the percentage of promotional words was positively associated with the probability of receiving funding (NIH grants: odds ratio, 1.51 [95% CI, 1.10-2.11])." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

submitted 194 days ago • 0 comments

Manuscript submission systems are getting out of control

submitted 197 days ago • 2 comments

Studying sex differences in the human brain is challenging, but important. Many thanks to @emilysingerneuro.bsky.social & the fab folks @thetransmitter.bsky.social for inviting me to contribute to the evolving conversation on this timely topic ⬇️ 1/n

submitted 196 days ago • 4 comments

@abesterman.bsky.social, @shafalijeste.bsky.social et al. describe the Research in Neurogenetics (CARING) Clinic Paper in GiM (tinyurl.com/5byecm8e) & coverage in Neurology Today (tinyurl.com/ycyw7m87) Another step towards precision health care for children with genetic vulnerability for NDDs

submitted 199 days ago • 0 comments

note to self: checking the weather forecast may occasionally have its use

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Pathogenic variants in CDKL5 cause an X-linked variable neurodevelopmental disorder with seizures, autism and cognitive impairment. Mottolese et al. report in vitro&vivo effects of a ciliary neurotrophic factor-like peptide on neuronal growth. jneurodevdisorders.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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If only there was some way to remove viruses from milk www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

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