Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social · 4h@aircanada.bsky.social once again confirming that once you've purchased the ticket they just do not care about you. 010
Reposted by Alain Dagheralquierthierry.bsky.social @alquierthierry.bsky.social · 29/09/20261-Lipid droplet (LD) lipolysis in neurons exerts cell type-specific effects within the arcuate nucleus. New pre-print: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.org| bioRxivbioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by openRxiv, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing scientific communication 173
Reposted by Alain DagherMassimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If you want to prolong the life of this account, please support it. Consider what it went through, how it is being deboosted, and help it stay alive. Subscribe or, in case you don't want to subscribe, make a donation at the link below and in the profile 🙏 Original post 014
Reposted by Alain DagherLouis-Eric Trudeau @louistrudeau.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Do you have some exciting work on dopamine and related topics ready for submission? Please consider this special issue on dopamine in the European Journal of Neuroscience. This is related to the Dopamine 2026 meeting that was held last May. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...onlinelibrary.wiley.comEuropean Journal of Neuroscience Call for Papers DOPAMINE: From Molecules to Behavior and Therapeutics 023
Reposted by Alain DagherBratislav Misic @misicbata.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Spatial organization of AQP4 water channel expression in the human brain | doi.org/10.1126/scia... Aquaporins are a key component of the glymphatic system. How are they distributed + how do they relate to brain function and dysfunction? ⤵️doi.orgSpatial organization of AQP4 water channel expression in the human brainAquaporin-4 (AQP4) water channels support the glymphatic system, a brain-wide pathway that clears cerebral waste products. Here, we use AQP4 gene expression to reconstruct a whole-brain glymphatic-rel... 12919
Reposted by Alain Dagherderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/09/2026In his book Ametora, David Marx wrote about how Japan saved classic American style in the postwar period. Just as Americans started to abandon Ivy Style tweeds, raw denim jeans, and 1970s hiking jackets, Japanese people started picking them up — and being quite infatuated with the aesthetic. 329010
Reposted by Alain Dagherderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I shared some photos this morning of the new Barbour x Norbit collection. Some people really liked the jackets, but expressed concern over the prices. These jackets are, admittedly, expensive. So here are some tips on how to get something similar for less. 🧵 381359108
Reposted by Alain DagherImaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 15/09/2026New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Denis Le Bihan: 40 Years of diffusion MRI in the brain: From history to emerging frontier doi.org/10.1162/IMAG... 024
Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social · 11/09/2026www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comA preprocessed multimodal neuroimaging dataset from Quebec Parkinson Network for biomarker discovery - Scientific DataScientific Data - A preprocessed multimodal neuroimaging dataset from Quebec Parkinson Network for biomarker discovery 030
Reposted by Alain DagherImaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 08/09/2026New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Grant Hartung, Jonathan R. Polimeni, et al: Biophysical simulations of fMRI responses using realistic microvascular models: Insights into distinct hemodynamics in humans and mice doi.org/10.1162/IMAG... 061
Reposted by Alain DagherSahib Khalsa @skhalsa.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Postdoc job alert! I’m looking for someone with a PhD in neuroscience/psychology, psychiatry, computational modeling or a related field to join my NIH-funded team at UCLA studying the neural & computational mechanisms of #interoception in anorexia nervosa 1/2 34241
Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This is so good. music.apple.com/ca/album/%C3...music.apple.comÉthiopiques, Vol. 21: Piano Solo by Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru on Apple MusicAlbum · 2005 · 16 Songs 000
Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Defector Has A New NFL Podcast, And It Won’t Have Any Gambling Shit In It - defector.com/defector-has...defector.comDefector Has A New NFL Podcast, And It Won’t Have Any Gambling Shit In It | DefectorIf you’re as horny for football as I am, you’ve probably noticed that a vast, vast majority of NFL podcasts have some unwelcome amount of gambling/fantasy chatter in them. Corporate pods are often dir... 000
Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Leaving anglos behind is the whole point. montrealgazette.com/news/provinc...montrealgazette.comThousands of Quebec anglos risk ‘being left behind’ as election mailouts go French-only for first timeVoters will be provided with a QR code to access English translations. 001
Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Two fully funded researchers who want to come and study with me are having all kinds of trouble getting their visas. Problem is Quebec. Wouldn't want foreigners "diluting our culture". Can't wait to leave this place. 021
Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I just discovered this last week. Beautiful, strange, amazing. open.spotify.com/album/7y6gHi...open.spotify.comThe Seduction Of Claude Debussy - Album by The Art Of Noise | SpotifyThe Art Of Noise · album · 1999 · 13 songs 020
Reposted by Alain DagherJoni Coleman @jonicoleman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Super excited to see this out! If you want to savour the full paper for later, the excellent @helenadavies.bsky.social and I wrote an accompanying Briefing to this paper, which you can find here: www.nature.com/articles/s44...nature.comBinge-eating behavior and anorexia nervosa have shared and distinct genetic components - Nature Mental HealthGenome-wide association studies of individuals with binge-eating behavior, anorexia nervosa or neither identify distinct genetic associations with each phenotype. Although both eating disorder phenoty... 075
Reposted by Alain Daghervincentholst.bsky.social @vincentholst.bsky.social · 13/08/2026In 2023, @nature.com published 'Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time', receiving world-wide media attention. Our Matters Arising, published after a 32 month delay (more on that soon), shows that the reported decline can largely be attributed to dataset artefacts. 🧵 9351173
Reposted by Alain Dagherdavidweinshenker.bsky.social @davidweinshenker.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Pleased to share a new Addiction Neuroscience Special Issue "The ventral pallidum as an orchestrator of reward seeking behavior" edited by Meaghan Creed with contributions from her, Anushree Karkhanis, @bensaunders.bsky.social, Asheeta Prasad, and Yvan Vachez www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...sciencedirect.comAddiction Neuroscience | The ventral pallidum as an orchestrator of reward seeking behavior | ScienceDirect.com by ElsevierRead the latest articles of Addiction Neuroscience at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature 0178
Reposted by Alain DagherbioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Cerebral vasculature shapes the spatial patterning of brain metastases www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 022
Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social · 09/07/2026montrealgazette.com/news/quebec-...montrealgazette.comUnited Nations called on to investigate CAQ's Quebec constitution planQuebec's Bill 1 violates the rights of minorities and infringes on the rights of Indigenous peoples, group charges. 000
Reposted by Alain DagherRodrigo Braga @rodbraga.bsky.social · 29/05/2026We are hiring an Associate or Full Professor to lead the neuroimaging research program at Northwestern's Center for Translational Imaging in the Department of Radiology careers.northwestern.edu/psc/hrnu_er/... 077
Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social · 25/06/2026The erasure of anglo culture form Quebec continues. Sadly, it is turning Montreal into a culturally uninteresting village. montrealgazette.com/news/provinc...montrealgazette.comNo English debate during Quebec’s fall election campaignSecond straight campaign where the Coalition Avenir Québec and Parti Québécois have declined to participate in a debate in English. 020
Reposted by Alain DagherImaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Our first Impact Factor is 3.0 — an important milestone for a new journal. As with most new journals, the first IF is affected by the smaller publication volume in the launch year. Latest citation data are encouraging, and the journal’s IF is set to rise in 2027. 15820
Reposted by Alain DagherMoohebat Pourmajidian @moohebatpe.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Last day presenting our work on energy metabolism and cross species lifespan trajectories at #OHBM2026 Come by if you'd like to chat. Poster #1113 Or check out our paper and the recent preprint here: doi.org/10.1371/jour... doi.org/10.64898/202... 0101
Reposted by Alain DagherPLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 16/06/2026#Aging drives changes in the #brain and #metabolism, but how independent are these effects? This study by @asafarahani.bsky.social, @misicbata.bsky.social &co identifies two axes of brain-body associations, each primarily related to age or metabolic health. 🧪#AcademicSky plos.io/4eoIu3L 1189
Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Imagine thinking you're allowed to forbid people from speaking a language. montrealgazette.com/news/oqlf-ta...montrealgazette.comQuebec's language watchdog targets popular brunch spot over Yiddish word 'nosh'Montreal brunch favourite Arthurs Nosh Bar is facing scrutiny from Quebec's language watchdog over the Yiddish word "Nosh" on its signage. 000
Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Quebec nationalists all oppose the proposed high speed rail between Montreal and Toronto. Of course, they hate anything that means openness and connection to the world. They are reactionaries who want us to be a village, physically and culturally. montrealgazette.com/news/provinc...montrealgazette.comPQ would block high-speed rail link from Quebec City to Toronto, wants federal money instead“I have the impression the PQ doesn’t understand how this works,” Premier Christine Fréchette responded. 222
Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social · 09/06/2026So embarassing ... www.lapresse.ca/actualites/p...lapresse.caTGV Québec-Toronto | Le PQ rejette le train du « renforcement de l’unité canadienne »Paul St-Pierre Plamondon est catégorique : si le Parti québécois (PQ) forme le prochain gouvernement, il retirera le Québec du projet de train à grande vitesse (TGV) entre Québec et Toronto, dont « l’... 020
Reposted by Alain DagherMichael Okun @michaelokun.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Parkinson’s disease may not be just one disease protein. New paper in Movement Disorders shows how Parkinson’s disease frequently includes overlapping pathologies such as tau, beta amyloid, TDP-43, vascular disease and inflammation, in addition to alpha-synuclein. 0122
Reposted by Alain DagherMRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge @mrccbu.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Using a stochastic dynamical model, Grodem et al show that, before age 60, inter-individual differences in neuroanatomical volumes almost exclusively reflect stable differences between individuals, rather than systematic differences in rate-of-change: doi.org/10.1162/IMAG.a.1242 075
Reposted by Alain DagherAndrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · 25/05/2026I encourage everyone to show up and make your voice heard at upcoming town halls and via any other channels: cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/45096.html • Bilingual session: Thursday, May 28 at 1:00 p.m. ET • English session: Wednesday, June 24 at 1:30 p.m. ET • French session: Thursday, June 25 at 1:30 p.m. ETcihr-irsc.gc.caWebinars - CIHRCIHR holds several webinars that allow us to share information, exchange ideas and discuss issues of importance with our stakeholders. 21923
Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social · 17/05/2026A wonderful shop - and as a bonus they also have a beautiful cat! montrealgazette.com/business/sma...montrealgazette.comMatriarch of Mile End uproots Dragon Flowers from Bernard St. — but she hasn't gone farTamey Lau, owner of the flower shop with its hallmark bird cages, is "an anchor, a person everyone loves here." 020
Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social · 06/05/2026montrealgazette.com/news/from-do...montrealgazette.comFrom Double's to Dobes’s: Montreal bar renames itself after Canadiens goalie“Vítejte u Dobeše,” the bar wrote in a post on Instagram 020
Reposted by Alain DagherThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 04/05/2026At the MoMA’s Marcel Duchamp exhibit, what all the works on display share “is a disregard for capital and for the way it shapes or encroaches on artistic practice, corrupting the freedom of the mind,” Hilton Als writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/yzOn0tnewyorkermag.visitlink.meThe Many Forms of Marcel DuchampHow the shape-shifting artist radicalized art itself. 02412
Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Is there a more incompetent profession than NHL refs? 111
Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social · 03/05/2026www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comVenice Biennale jury resigns days before start of top art exhibitionIt follows growing tensions over the return of Russia for the first time since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. 000
Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social · 01/05/2026montrealgazette.com/opinion/colu...montrealgazette.comHanes: Quebec has more unfilled medical residencies than ever. That's not a surpriseThere are worrying albeit predictable signs that efforts to attract the next generation of doctors are falling short. 021
Reposted by Alain DagherbioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Opposing BOLD signals and oxygen metabolism largely arise from statistical uncertainty in metabolic estimates www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 13424
Reposted by Alain DagherImaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 22/04/2026New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Casey Paquola, Boris C. Bernhardt, et al: Intracortical microstructure profiling: A cross-modal method for indexing cortical lamination doi.org/10.1162/IMAG... 0112
Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Training at MSKCC I heard from Jerry Posner, Josep Dalmau, Bob Darnell etc... about autoimmune paraneoplastic syndromes. They observed that the cancers tended to be kept in check. This led to the hope that we could treat cancer with immunotherapy. This promise is now starting to be realized. 000
Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social · 20/04/2026After two years I finally got an appointment with a Family Physician. An AI would have done a better job. At the risk of generalizing, Quebec Health care may well be the worst in the developed world. 030
Reposted by Alain DagherPLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 20/04/2026How do #circadian clocks regulate glucose processing? By integrating human metabolite profiling with isotope-tracing in #Drosophila, this study defines daily rhythms in #glucose utilization that are influenced by circadian timing @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3Olm1M1 0133
Reposted by Alain DagherSteven Meisler @stevenmeisler.com · 19/04/2026Diffusion MRI (dMRI) is a powerful tool to study white matter maturation. In our new preprint, we process and distribute a new resource of >24,000 ABCD dMRI scans using open source tools! We then evaluate how methods shape inferences about development. 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 15337
Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Comparative anatomy of brain metabolism in human and macaque (and other species). The dichotomy between glucose as fuel and glucose for tissue building is conserved across species. @moohebatpe.bsky.social and @misicbata.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.org 0127
Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Wow! CIHR expects me to input every publication resulting from my foundation grant... by hand! 140
Reposted by Alain DagherJessica Royer @jroyer.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Correlating brain maps across datasets is everywhere in neuroimaging. Here we ask: when you contextualize a brain map against genes, metabolism, or connectivity... What can you really conclude? How can we do better? We explore these questions here: tinyurl.com/2dudkevctinyurl.comOpportunities and pitfalls of data contextualization in neuroimaging - Nature Reviews NeuroscienceDespite rapid exploitation of the opportunities that contextualization of brain maps affords, potential limitations have received little attention. In this Roadmap, Royer et al. provide practical guid... 04521