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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 1h

Any suggestions for middle grade books with arab protagonists? My kid just said they dont like being arab because "we're always the bad guys."

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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Anyway, tldr, I don’t think CIHR should adopt changes that hide the state of the health research ecosystem from policymakers by manipulating programs to make success rates or other metrics look better.

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Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Some good points by Michael but I think the "success rate" issue is a critical driver simply because when it's as low as it is (13.1%), there are automatically (100-13.1) x n grant applications keyed up for the next submission, driving up applications which drives down success rates. Ad nauseum.

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Matt Hill @cannabrain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

**Recruitment** We are looking to hire a psychiatrist/scientist (MD or MD/PhD) who focuses on neuromodulation, particularly rTMS in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Calgary. Come join myself, @mayoonthebrain.bsky.social and more. Details 👇 careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1829278...

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Academic Position in Neuromodulation Research, Department of Psychiatry, Cumming School of Medicine in Calgary, ...

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026

Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.

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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by ,Margot J. Taylor and Natalie Rhodes: Expanding the toolkit: OPMs for studying the developing brain doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

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SFU Trottier Observatory @sfutrottobs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The sky is clearing and that means Starry Nights is ON tonight! Join us in person at Burnaby campus 8-11pm for views of Saturn, the Dumbbell Nebula and the M13 globular cluster. Thanks to @rascvancouver.bsky.social for helping us make these events happen! ow.ly/Lobw50ZstFF

The SFU Trottier Observatory and Science Courtyard at night. The courtyard is lit up with the spectra of the elements that make up the sun.

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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy to announce that I am searching for for a graduate student, starting Fall 2027. If you want to study the neural mechanisms of reaching and grasping, come join us in the rich environment of the Sensorimotor Superlab. For details: www.pruszynskilab.com/positions.html

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Why are you spreading misinformation? Two of my co-authors are theoretical computer scientists and computational complexity theorists, and my own PhD thesis was on computational complexity theory (see here: mu.social/profile/iris...). No idea what you are on about 🤔

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Angelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the daily contrast of life in Kyiv, Ukraine💔 One moment, your home is warm, quiet, familiar. The next morning, you look outside and see what russia has done again. This is what people in Kyiv are forced to wake up to. Home should never look like a battlefield…

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Ben Fulcher @bendfulcher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today I'm releasing the "1000×1000 collection": a unified place to learn about dynamical structure. 1000 simulated time series (1000 samples each) spanning 133 dynamical processes. Have a play? 🐛 #timeseries #dynamicalsystems #complexity #opendata dynamicsandneuralsystems.github.io/1000x1000/

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Roxana Zeraati @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We are thrilled 🥳 to share that we’re joining forces with @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social to establish a joint research unit, @cmc-unit.bsky.social integrating natural and embodied decision making across species! We also have open PhD and postdoc positions (check below for more info) 🎉

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Friends at a time when @unrwa.org is under attack this fundraiser is more meaningful than ever. But also, you get to watch me struggle bus like this …. So love me or hate me now is your chance.

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

New use case: I have been using /informed-patient + our more advanced source-verifying harness (stay tuned!!) to research a complex treatment/risk/protocol question for yet another loved one navigating cancer care. Truly amazing how swiftly it was able to set me up with good directions

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UkeeTube @ukeetube.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've been asked by a small group of local volunteers if UkeeTube host live-streams of the municipal election events and function as moderator for these events. You'll be able to watch the event live, or after the fact on the UkeeTube channel on YouTube #Ucluelet #Ukee #BCMunicipalElection

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Randy McIntosh @ar0mcintosh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Pretty high activity on the cute meter this morning ☺️ #Ucluelet

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Bratislav Misic @misicbata.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Spatial 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? ⤵️

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Spatial organization of AQP4 water channel expression in the human brain

Aquaporin-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...

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Ole Jensen @olejensen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I would like to highlight two postdoctoral positions in the project Neuronal Mechanisms of Reading in Children Using OPM-MEG at the University of Oxford: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit… my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit�� Deadline 30 Sep.

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Sylvain Baillet @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

👉 Tenure-track opening in neuroscience @crchum.bsky.social @umontreal.ca crchum.carrieresante.gouv.qc.ca/poste/profes...

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Brain Canada @braincanada.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Brain Canada is thrilled to announce the new cohort of Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research. This year, 26 researchers join this growing community, and each receive $100,000. 🎉 Congratulations to the recipients! Find out more about this year’s Future Leaders ➡️ braincanada.ca/about/news-u...

Collage of all 26 Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research from the 2025 cohort.

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Natalie Brito @nataliebrito.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My department is looking to hire 3 new faculty members! Please share widely. Assistant Professor - Cognitive: apply.interfolio.com/193975 Assistant Professor - Social Psychology: apply.interfolio.com/193979 Associate/Full Professor - Mental Health: apply.interfolio.com/193984

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Jeni Kubota @jenikubota.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

📣 Please submit to this year's conference in Montréal!🧠 We would love to include all kinds of measures that can inform our understanding of the social brain, including physiological and neuro measures, computational models, theory pieces, and behavioral data!

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UkeeTube @ukeetube.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sunday's sunset as seen from the north end of the Wild Pacific Trail in Ucluelet. The moon, suns and clouds got a hand from the Canadian Coastguard to make it even more interesting #Ucluelet #Tofino #VancouverIsland

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John Timmer @jtimmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ok, this "there are two separate brains" thing appears to be making the rounds, and I want to be absolutely clear: this is a press office overhyping some perfectly reasonable science that won't come as a surprise to most developmental biologists.

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

In the oral histories of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and Seneca, there was a race of serpent-dragons that lived within Lake Ontario. The Seneca described the creatures like Gaasyendietha as a giant snake that could breathe fire and fly like a bird. 🎨 Ayia Napa 🧵 2/6

A giant sea serpent with a coiled body and toothy mouth rises from turbulent waves beside a wrecked sailing ship while terrified sailors flounder in the surf, one reaching toward a rocky shore.

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻’𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴-𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘀 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀? We find evidence of both smooth and sharp transitions; latter sharply altered brain dynamics in as few as 1 time step. Link below -->

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I had never heard of her. Such talent and such a tragically short life. The works we have lost! More here:

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Amrita Sher-Gil - Wikipedia

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Angelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If you enjoy my content about Ukraine Its beauty, truth, and resilience - I’d be incredibly grateful if you support me with a cup of coffee ☕️ Your support helps me keep creating posts, videos, and podcasts that tell Ukraine’s real story. Thank you so much🤗 buymeacoffee.com/angelica.sha...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 11/09/2026

I'm excited to share this preprint by my wonderful MSc student Yihsin who's thought deeply about how psychological & neurocognitive theories relate to different types of evidence. Beyond Empirical Success: Evaluating Theoretical Virtue Across the Computational Modeling Chain doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Beyond Empirical Success: Evaluating Theoretical Virtue Across the Computational Modeling Chain
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Computational models in psychology are typically judged by a single standard: empirical fit. Unfortunately, fit is insufficient, even misleading as a sole criterion, as the same result can arise from fundamentally different situations: theoretically faithful models, mathematically flexible ones, miscalibrated operationalizations, or implementations that compute something other than intended. Distinguishing between these is vital. Our evaluative metatheoretical account recognises that models stand in three distinct relations: a) toward the theory whose causal commitments it purports to capture, b) toward the specification and implementation it purports to compute, and c) toward the phenomenon it purports to explain. Each relation can succeed or fail independently, governed by criteria local to that stage. Importantly, relations are ordered such that theoretical content is transmitted or lost, and losses at earlier transitions are irrecoverable downstream. What a model's empirical success implicates about its theoretical commitments, therefore, depends on whether transitions are secured. Some success or failure profiles support explanatory claims; others only prediction; others establish theoretical coherence without empirical contact. Our account diagnoses what a given model shows, replacing the implicit assumption that empirical success transfers automatically to theoretical understanding with an explicit conditional rendition of what models can and cannot establish.

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 19/09/2026

Original watercolor. One of each.

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Melike Eren @neurowithmelike.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I see "The Madonna in a Fur Coat" everywhere; I keep coming across it in bookstores in different countries.Yeap, I visit bookstores in every country and city I go to. After the world's discovery of Sabattin Ali (the author of "The Madonna in a Fur Coat")

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SFU Faculty of Science @sfuscience.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Tonight's Starry Nights features an active supernova. Get it while it's hot!

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The Organization for Human Brain Mapping @ohbmofficial.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Save the dates! The OHBM 2027 Call for Content & Reviewers timeline is now available. Help shape the scientific program of OHBM 2027 by submitting content, serving as a reviewer, or both. View important deadlines and learn more: 🔗 www.humanbrainmapping.org/2027CallforC...

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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Open access version of our commentary - Consciousness needs a subject: philpapers.org/rec/MITCNA-2

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Dr. Natasha Rajah, Ph.D. @mnrajah.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🇨🇦❤️🇪🇺 “In an unprecedented offer, von der Leyen said on Wednesday that the EU and Canada “see the world with the same eyes” through shared democratic values and common approaches to many big issues, from AI to climate breakdown, the Ukraine war and geopolitics.“ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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European Union invites Canada to become first ever ‘associate member’

Commission president says EU must ‘urgently reimagine our partnerships’ as she makes unprecedented offer

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Christopher Honey @chrishoney.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

1/ How do we sustain mental continuity in the face of interruption? @xianl-explorer.bsky.social found that, while people listen to a story, posterior medial cortex expresses a slowly evolving "background" representation of the story's context, which survived through silence and interfering tasks.

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Randy McIntosh @ar0mcintosh.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A sobering assessment of the status of Canadian research 👇 ouch!

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COSYNE @cosynemeeting.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

📢Have work to share with the computational and systems neuroscience community? Abstract submissions for #COSYNE2027 are now open. Deadline: 18 October 2026, 11:59 p.m. AoE Submit your abstract: www.cosyne.org/abstracts-su... #Neuroscience

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

People are freaking out about generative artificial intelligence. I’m not. Why? Anthropic’s latest frontier models run on terabytes of VRAM. In neuroscience work, representing 0.25mm of neuronal tissue at the resolution required to resolve synapses and gap junctions is around 80-90 terabytes.

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Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠 @nataliepeluso.com · 12/09/2026

25 years ago, I was in a Starbucks in Cardiff, Wales. My brother was the one who rang. "A plane has flown into the World Trade Centre". I imagined, like so many, a small plane. But it was still crazy to hear and of course, no-one had smart phones to watch it unfold live. I grabbed the bus home

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

George Chuvalo has died. Born on this day in 1937, he was a five-time Canadian heavyweight champion and twice fought Muhammad Ali. In 93 fights, he was never knocked down. Ali called him the toughest man he ever fought. He had 73 wins, 64 by knockout. RIP Champ. 📸 Toronto Sun

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Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It's Peer Review Week, and I have pledged to review at least one article per year for a diamond open access journal; one that charges nothing to publish and nothing to read, and is run by and for the scholarly community, using the new Diamond Reviewer Pledge (forrt.org/diamond-revi...).

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Diamond Reviewer Pledge

Signatories of the Diamond Reviewer Pledge commit to reviewing at least one article in the next 12 months for a diamond open access journal.

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