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Randy McIntosh

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 23h
In this month’s “Liftoff,” @ajboender.bsky.social talks about how enthusiasm is contagious and helps facilitate everything in a new lab. @zoechristensonwick.bsky.social reflects on the importance of staying true to yourself as a new PI. #neuroskyence By @franciscorr25.bsky.social bit.ly/4iob3RW
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Liftoff: New lab alerts
Learn about early-career scientists starting their own labs.
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Damian Cruse @damiancruse.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
📣 Inclusive electroencephalography – a tutorial and media resource 📣 We're proud to announce publication of a tutorial to help make EEG research more inclusive, co-produced with Black and Hijabi students. doi.org/10.3758/s134... @thechbh.bsky.social @uob-sop.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social
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Inclusive electroencephalography practices for Black and Muslim participation in a White non-Muslim-majority country: A co-produced tutorial - Behavior Research Methods
Most electroencephalography (EEG) research is conducted in White-majority Western countries by White researchers. EEG practices therefore often explicitly and implicitly exclude minoritised groups, le...
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Andrew Quinn @ajquinn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Now in eLife: The effect of age on the neuronal power spectrum, with rigorous checks for reliability and robustness. We run control analyses and establish a framework for future study planning with effect sizes. Not all effects are well powered in the same sample... doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
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Randy McIntosh @ar0mcintosh.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I think I was craving ice cream so may have a had a perceptual prime on the Mooney version 😁
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Randy McIntosh @ar0mcintosh.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
goodclimatenews.substack.com/p/edition-55...
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Edition 55: October 13, 2026
There’s still plenty of progress on climate happening in the United States despite the Trump administration’s best efforts!
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I cancelled a 30 year old subscription to National Geographic back when they were sold to Fox/Disney is 2015. The writing was on the wall when they fired their writers, reduced field reporting and focused on “entertainment”. Every issue I’ve looked at since has continued the slide into advertising.
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Neuroskeptic @neuroskeptic.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This is an astonishing @pubpeer.com post: pubpeer.com/publications... The author compares data points from a figure against random numbers produced with a certain seed, finding r > 0.999999996! 🫠 Could there be any possible innocent explanation? The paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Towards a general-purpose foundation model for functional MRI analysis - Nature Biomedical Engineering
The Neuroimaging Foundation Model with Spatial–Temporal Optimized and Representation Modelling (NeuroSTORM) learns generalizable representations from 4D functional MRI volumes, enabling accurate perfo...
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Randy McIntosh @ar0mcintosh.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is in the manual 👍😊
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UkeeTube @ukeetube.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The Amphitrite Lighthouse in Ucluelet was built in 1915 to prevent shipwrecks in The Graveyard of The Pacific, including the area along the west coast of Vancouver Island. Since then she has stood for more than 110 years. Working hard and looking good doing it! #Ucluelet #Tofino #VancouverIsland
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Cyr died on Nov. 10, 1912 in Montreal. A statue of Cyr was erected in Place des Hommes-Forts in Montreal. In 2013, the acclaimed biopic Louis Cyr was released. Learn more in my Deep Dive 👇 buff.ly/qvOwtwp 🧵9/11
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Library and Archives Canada The audience was in awe. On the stage in front of them was a man of average height with flowing hair like the Biblical Samson. They were there to see him showcase his su…
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Mjkwho @mjkwho.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
for those in Beijing, i will talk about Conscious Perception & the Prefrontal Cortex there next Sunday (Oct 18) hub.baai.ac.cn/view/58276
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从婴儿心智到AI意识,北大认知推理日带你追问认知起源 - 智源社区
北京大学第三届认知推理大会将于2026年10月17–18日在北京大学中关新园举行,主题为“认知的起源:从核心知识到机器心智”。会议聚焦婴儿对物体、数量、几何及社会主体的早期理解,动物交流机制,大脑支持社会互动的神经基础,以及AI意识可能性与机器心智的发展前景,旨在融合发展心理学、神经科学、动物行为学与人工智能等多学科视角,探索人类与机器认知的共性与边界。
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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
1/2 🎇 Good news! 🎇 The kind people at Behavioral and Brain Science have made the new collection on "Conscious AI and biological naturalism" #OpenAccess for a limited time: target article, all 50 commentaries, & my response. Go to the link and click 'save pdf': doi.org/10.1017/S014.... Do share!
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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Excellent! It's wonderful to have this full collection of commentaries openly accessible! 👏
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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Thank you so much to @newscientist.com Live for the opportunty to talk about AI consciousness (& how we really, really don't have a good way of testing for it)! Headlines & scientists saying "OMG it might be conscious, 5% chance" are sensationalism BS. Based on what? Vibes? Not good enough for me.
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If your AI were conscious, how would you know?
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Megan Behringer @megbehri.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Come be my colleague at Vanderbilt ⚓️! We have an Open-Rank Tenure Track search for a Theoretical Biologist in the Dept. Of Biological Sciences! Vandy BioSci is an awesome group of researchers with diverse interests. See Application Information Below ⬇️
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
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Marius A. K. Ring
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ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Not only is that extremely wasteful, it is going to create a hypercompetition incentive structure that is going to be terrible for Canadian science in all kinds of predictable ways. No program change at CIHR is going to change that.
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Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
CIHR has said the doubling increase is from 2022/3. This doesn’t really jive with the release of publically available AI tools (ChatGPT was released in late 2022 but was not exactly RFPT)
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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026
Sunday Picnic Lynchings in the park were once a thing just in case ya didnt know. This ain’t any different. To call this barbaric and ghoulish is the grossest understatement of all time. Unlearned History is a circle
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
21st century clinical science position in Calgary!
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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
So: 1. CIHR needs to better understand (and explain to us) where this increase in application pressure is coming from. 2. The Project Grant program is underfunded, and our unused health research capacity is a really stupid own-goal.
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Roxana Zeraati @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Link to ads: Postdoc position: nextcloud.tuebingen.mpg.de/index.php/s/... PhD position: nextcloud.tuebingen.mpg.de/index.php/s/... We’re also both at @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social and happy to chat!
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Shervin Safavi @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Re-post 🔁 is appreciated! #neurojobs: we’re looking for new team members to join us @cmc-unit.bsky.social!
If you’d like to study decision-making in naturalistic & embodied contexts (integrating RL, RNNs & cross-species data analysis) in a cool & collaborative research environment 😎, check 👇
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Randy McIntosh @ar0mcintosh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Thanks for this. I had the same experience going thru undergrad. I had some very supportive supervisors in grad school that allowed me freedom for self-directed study, but it's still a gap that can't really be filled.
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Physghoul 👻 🎃 @physgal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My department is searching for two full-time continuing physics teaching faculty. Come work in beautiful BC. 🧪👩🏻‍🔬⚛️🎢🍎 @sfuscience.bsky.social
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The Viking (Gunnar Blohm) @gunnarblohm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
📣 New preprint from the lab! 🎉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Asymmetric Adaptation of Catch-up Saccades with Artificial Central Scotomas
In fully-sighted individuals, pursuit and saccadic eye movements work together to foveate moving targets; pursuit attempts to match target velocity, while catch-up saccades re-align the fovea to the t...
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arXiv @arxiv.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
arXiv has updated our policy on rate limiting for all submitters. This update was made to fairly distribute moderator time & support the arXiv community of staff, volunteers, readers & authors. Please read our announcement to learn more: blog.arxiv.org/2026/10/01/updated-r…
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sir Ian McKellen orates 'The Stranger's Case' from 'Sir Thomas More' by Shakespeare about the Evil May Day xenophobic riot of 1517 in London. This passage was written 400 years ago, but times never change. Humanity refuses to change its unwarranted bias against 'others'.
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Randy McIntosh @ar0mcintosh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Fetching on her own terms 😸
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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, ...
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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Randy McIntosh @ar0mcintosh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is going to occupy way too much of my time today. Thanks, Ben 🙏🤓
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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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Melike Eren @neurowithmelike.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Exercise plasma boosts memory and dampens brain inflammation via clusterin - Nature
Plasma from voluntarily running mice reduces baseline expression of neuroinflammatory genes and experimentally induced brain inflammation when infused into sedentary mice.
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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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