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ivanskelin.bsky.social
Neuroscientist; neuron2brain Lab, Krembil Brain Institute - University Health Network, Toronto, Canada. Memory, human & rodent intracranial ephys, deep brain stimulation, eye tracking, hippocampus, cortex, SWRipples. Opinions my own. HR CA ⚽
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And restored NIH/NSF funding.

Message from Ukraine: Thank you, Canada. For being yourselves when so many others are trying to be worse. You reminded us that we are not alone. Because of you, this morning felt a little less like the end of the world. And more like something worth staying alive for. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Fascism lost and Democracy won in Canada tonight. Bye bye Pierre Poilievre. 🇨🇦 #CanadaStrong 🇨🇦

This doctor’s letter to United Heathcare for denying nausea medication to a child on chemotherapy.

The times have changed, but charlatans always find their niche.

When Andrew Tate was charged with rape and human trafficking, Trump intervened to fly him back to the US. When a working-class father of a disabled 5-year-old child was wrongfully deported and charged with NO crime, Trump refuses to lift a finger.

Must be proud of his legacy.

The ultimate karma would be if the Supreme Court allows him to run in 2028, but Pence primaries him.

These motherfuckers are going to kill children. I've been saying it for a year, but RFK Jr might as well be a serial murderer. Watch: they'll start vaccine *bans* within a year. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/h...

For all who voted for Trump because he was the “Peace Candidate” and Kamela was a warmongering “hawk”, hope you enjoyed his first 50 days. Threats to Canada, Greenland, Mexico, Pamama & now, his Yemen attack. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

@diamondn.bsky.social et al. find that sleep enhances memory for the order of events from an art tour, but not the details of the events. The sleep-related advantage for sequences persists for over a year. @brianlevine.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Pierre Poilievre’s campaign manager, Jenni Byrne:

The amount of disrespect that Lex Fridman is showing to himself with this sycophantic self-promotional gibberish is beyond insane. It's so obvious who you are.

The Eiffel Tower in Paris and the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin were lit up in the colors of the Ukrainian flag in a sign of solidarity.

Highly recommended.

The link for this position had gone down for a bit; it's back up, and I am still looking for a postdoc excited to work with human intracranial data. Well-suited for animal electrophysiologists looking to jump to human data; all that's required is coding expertise and signal processing experience!

Reminder of what we may be dealing with Repeated ketamine use does indeed produce dependency and the “come down” symptoms are not trivial and include impaired judgement, disorientation, irritability and restlessness www.wsj.com/business/elo...

Dear Mexico, Canada, Panama, and Europe: 100 percent tariffs on Tesla.

Jan 29 1925: dog teams set out from Nenana, Alaska to bring diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, where the disease was spreading. 20 teams & mushers carried the serum over 674 miles in under 130 hours. Jan 29 2025: calling my senator to vote against a guy, so kids can get the diphtheria vaccine next year

EU medicines agency quits X & moves to Bluesky "EMA will no longer post updates and content on X. We believe the X platform no longer suits our communication needs” the agency said in a statement www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Canadian MP Charlie Angus: If Elon Musk is unwilling to respect Canada’s electoral laws, will Elections Canada have the tools to take him on—or shut him down—if necessary? We cannot allow men like Elon Musk, the broligarchy of the United States, to interfere in our country.

If she only had some more choices...

RFkJr is a threat to human health: when the next pandemic hits we need disease tracking (CDC now silenced) and fast vaccine development (which he opposes). If you live in ME, NC, SD, LA, AK, ID, KY or SD call your senators to oppose his confirmation (hearing this Wed.). (continued, please retweet):

New paper out! Led by @michaelecoulter.bsky.social, we learned that rats can learn to use content-specific neurofeedback to generate specific remote hippocampal representations. surprisingly, this occurs *outside* of SWRs!

Historian of fascism here. It was a Nazi salute and a very belligerent one too.

@jvl.bsky.social with the perfect quote: "That’s the dual hermeneutic the populists use for evaluating the world. If you’re an expert who got one thing wrong, it damns you. If you’re a total lunatic crank who gets one thing right, it makes makes you bulletproof."

Appalled that scientific societies (SfN!) are silent about RFK. Happy to see this kind of organized opposition. Please consider calling your senators to ask them to oppose his appointment - letter below has talking points. United States Capitol switchboard # (202) 224-3121. He will kill people. 🧪

Wow. Just...wow.

SEEING THROUGH YOUR EYES 👁️: Excited to share our new paper (which is out now @nature.com !!) with Wenbo Tang, Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz✉️, and Azahara Oliva✉️: we discovered a novel sleep microstructure that promotes memory replay! #Neuroscience #hippocampus nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵 1/12👇

This is like Jerry Springer Show on ketamine.

Couldn't happen to a nicer person.