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Congratulations to Samina Panjwani on successfully defending her Masters thesis at @westernu.bsky.social today! Amazing work! @timbussey.bsky.social @lisasaksida.bsky.social @maximoprado.bsky.social

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The pro-life folks love to increase suicide rates and anguish on young people.

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Illinois has enshrined protections to meet this very moment. In a time of increasing overreach and hateful rhetoric, it's more important than ever to reaffirm our commitment to the rights and dignity of the LGBTQ+ community. You have a home here always.

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great summary of the bike and its role in the women’s suffrage movement “woman is riding to suffrage on the bicycle” youtu.be/LPLJgkVsXpE?...

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We're excited share our perspective on whether you only use 10 bits/s of your brain.

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The Globe and Mail

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today is local pub day at Black Dog Bayfield Tou around @northernthrux.bsky.social

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“In America, we don’t do kings!” Come out and make your voice heard today: www.nokings.org

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Grad student extraordinaire @kateonuska.bsky.social dropped this preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... using multimodal imaging, behavior, 🐁 and human datasets to show how cholinergic plasticity regulates resilience to Alzheimer’s pathology. Led by Taylor Schmitz 🧪

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MIND is a world-leading collaboration between the Western Advanced Microscopy core using lightsheet microscopy and the Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping @cfmm.bsky.social @neuroak.bsky.social

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Synergism in action: the Mesoscopic Integrated NeuroImaging Data (MIND) platform, also a partnering research group of TRIDENT. 🌎🧠😍 #fluorescencefriday

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Stay tuned! Brain Canada’s Platform Support Grants (PSG) flagship program is launching later this month with registration forms due towards the end of July! This exciting program helps us make meaningful progress in neuroscience and mental health research through improved research platforms.

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Call for an Assistant / Associate Prof. just opened at the @crchum.bsky.social in the Neuroscience Axis ! www.chumontreal.qc.ca/en/emplois/a...

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For #fluorescencefriday the Mesoscopic Integrated NeuroImaging Data (MIND) platform @westernu.bsky.social presents abeta plaques and blood vessels in the 🧠 of our ApoE4 mouse model of AD. 🧪 #clearing #lightsheet 🔬 Courtesy of Arash Salahinejad, Luke Smolders and @shahrzadbahrampour.bsky.social

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come and work with my colleague @neuroak.bsky.social This is a major collaborative initiative that combines our state of the art imaging facilities. Ideal for someone who just finished a PhD. In science 🧪-friendly 🇨🇦. these facilities are well funded for the next 3 years.

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Always amazing to see a former post doc popping up unexpectedly on your social media feed Go Helena (She is also a great scientist working on cholinergic regulation of striatal function ).

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Announcing an official fundraising campaign to support my lab’s research on APOE4 and Alzheimer’s disease: joinus.cuimc.columbia.edu/participant/.... This campaign is itself an experiment of sorts. But mostly, it's an attempt to save my lab during an unprecedented time of turmoil in academia. 1/9

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Here is a link to a good CNN story including an interview with two of the NIH folks who wrote the #BethesdaDeclaration and stood up. More bravery facing the cameras. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD8y...

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Vaccines are rigorously tested, they are effective, and they save lives. More than 150 million lives have been saved in the past 50 years thanks to vaccines! But you may be worried about what's in them? So, let’s break it down ⬇

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It UBER TAKEDOWN time - stop using Uber

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ArsTechica story about #BethesdaDeclaration up now arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

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“In an unusual act of public protest, more than 340 scientists and staff at the National Institutes of Health today released a statement charging NIH officials and their superiors with politicizing science.” www.science.org/content/arti... #StandUpForScience #BethesdaDeclaration

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#elbowsup 👏🏼

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Courageous folks, given all the potential for retaliations. Also note that many signed as anonymous, which highlights the sad state of the USA The declaration lists all the chaos created in biomedical research Bravo www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...

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Excited to share our Science paper on HaloDA1.0-the first genetically encoded far-red dopamine sensor! 🥳It enables powerful multiplex imaging in neurons, brain slices, and live animals.🧠🔬 #GRABsensors #Dopamine www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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#fluorescencefriday Astrocytes double labeled for GFAP and HM3Dq-DREADD. Courtesy of Alycia Crooks PhD students in the lab. 🧪

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Incredible story featuring #WIN Executive Committee member @jclauneuro.bsky.social - A Kitchener man is now seizure free following a rare epilepsy treatment at London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) www.ctvnews.ca/london/artic...

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No evidence of immune exhaustion after repeated SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in vulnerable and healthy populations Does repeated vaccination cause "immune exhaustion"? No, the immune system can handle multiple hits from similar or different stimuli. It evolved to do so! www.nature.com/artic... 1/5

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this shows leadership

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Meanwhile on twitter

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Time to start moving funds invested in the US for economies that will be leading the future

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Happy to announce that my legal theory paper on complexity and legal orders is out in the Review of Constitutional Studies: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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