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Ravi Menon

@northernthrux.bsky.social
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Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. All comments are my own. Scientific Director of the Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping, 🇨🇦's national ultra high field MRI platform. cfmm.uwo.ca orcid.org/0000-0002-7916-0263

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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Recommended prescription for head clearing and thinking.
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Marco A. Maximo Prado @maximoprado.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#fluorescencefriday another test for the @mind-western.bsky.social and @shahrzadbahrampour.bsky.social labelling for MOG (Myelin Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein) in a young 🐁 🧠 cleared and imaged By lightsheet 🔬
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If only we had Canadian steel. LNG Canada to use Chinese steel on $33B expansion project in Kitimat, B.C. - CBC News
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TRIDENT Preclinical Trials @tridentpct.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Check out this new paper by TRIDENT PI @jackiesullivan.bsky.social exploring team science in translational neuroscience, including the benefits and challenges of interdisciplinary collaboration. 🧠 #TeamScience #Neuroscience #NFRF link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The pursuitworthiness of team science collaborations in translational neuroscience - European Journal for Philosophy of Science
Neuroscientists investigating the neural bases of cognition in health and disease increasingly face choices about how to structure their programs of research. On the one hand, they can pursue independ...
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Waiting for the day hyperpolarized Bacon becomes a thing in MRI.
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W. Brent Derry @wbderry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Faculty position at the University of Toronto 👇 jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
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Assistant Professor - Systems Neurophysiology
Assistant Professor - Systems Neurophysiology
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It’s harvest time and Hilde lives touring the countryside where our food comes from.
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Jörn Diedrichsen @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New preprint from the lab. A long-overdue fMRI study on bimanual movement direction encoding: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @alighavampour.bsky.social, @andpru.bsky.social, @jjodx.eurosky.social
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Happy 20th birthday ABA. We’ve watch you grow from infant to young adult.🎂
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TRIDENT Preclinical Trials @tridentpct.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy Fluorescence Friday! NF-H staining highlights axons imaged with light-sheet microscopy in a cleared mouse brain. 🧠🐁 Great work by @mind-western.bsky.social ! 🔬 #FluorescenceFriday #LightSheetMicroscopy #Neuroscience
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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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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Phosphorylated α-synuclein pS129 is found in aggregates that are pathological hallmarks of PD and DLB. The toxicity of pS129 has been up for debate for years. Combining LSM, MRI, rsfMRI and task fMRI, we demonstrate a toxic role for pS129 in synucleinopathies. 1/2 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Phosphorylated ⍺-Synuclein shapes changes in brain structure, task-related activity and functional connectivity in M83 mice
Phosphorylated α-synuclein at S129 (pS129) is the predominant form of α-synuclein in the aggregates known as Lewy bodies (LB) and Lewy neurites (LN), the pathological hallmarks of Parkinson's disease ...
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Same is true if you want to be a scientist.
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Back in 1992 I made this clock for our post-doc office when I was at CMRR in Minnesota, an office I shared with my good friend Seong-Gi Kim. He became the founding director of the Center for Neuroscience Imaging Research in Korea and it now hangs in his office. And it's still true!
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Truer words were never written. apple.news/AolEDEYAYQnS...
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Opinion | Donald Trump's new tariffs expose one of Canada's weakness. This is how to fix it — Toronto Star
Paying careful attention to what is tariffed reveals something important.
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
63 years ago this weekend an icon was launched. And I get to be the caretaker of the last of the original long hood cars.
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Always fun to have the oldest car at a Porsche event. In support of the Make-a-Wish Foundation.
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This could work at the world’s best universities, which are characterized in ranking methodologies by having very low student-teacher ratios. It’s not going to be possible when you have 50-800 students in a class without a substantial investment in teaching faculty and TA’s.
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Come see my new Broadway production of “Scum from Away”.
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Come join us and support the Make-a-wish Foundation. Porsches from Ontario, NY, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Ohio will be there. www.londontourism.ca/events/runwa...
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Runway Experience - YXU
Runway Experience - YXU at FlightExec on Sunday September 13, 2026 in London Ontario.
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Today is a somber day, but guess who turns 10 today? Xander, the @cfmm.bsky.social mascot!
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Canadian Association for Neuroscience @canacn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Building Canada’s Future Through Research Investment - Read our latest opinion piece can-acn.org/building-can... Lisez: Bâtir l’avenir du Canada par l’investissement en recherche can-acn.org/fr/batir-lav...
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Bâtir l’avenir du Canada par l’investissement en recherche – Association canadienne des neurosciences
Association canadienne des neurosciences
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Fabulous story on @sjo09.bsky.social on turning science fiction into science fact. braincanada.ca/about/news-u...
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Are Lost Memories Really Gone?
Neuroscientist Sheena Josselyn's research suggests some memories lost to Alzheimer's aren't gone — just hard to access. Learn what her work means for patients and families.
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
First drive in over two years. Hildegarde is back in action.
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TRIDENT Preclinical Trials @tridentpct.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Happy #FluorescenceFriday! 🔬 Great to see TRIDENT collaborations in action! #TRIDENT #ParkinsonsResearch #Neurotherapeutics #Organoids
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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
@utoronto.ca Lewis Kay awarded 2026 Royal Medal by U.K.'s Royal Society www.utoronto.ca/celebrates/l... #NMRchat #NMR 🧲
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Lewis Kay awarded 2026 Royal Medal by U.K.'s Royal Society
Lewis Kay, a senior scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and University Professor in the University of Toronto's Temerty Faculty of Medicine, has been honoured with a Royal Medal by ...
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
While singled out here, the long history of this work was made possible through amazing staff and students at Western's Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping, past and present clinicians and students at the London Health Science Centre, Hotchkiss Brain Institute and The Neuro. 1/2
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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
photo of a phrenology caliper measuring a skull with the text "h-index" overlayed on top.
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The true cost of gasoline and diesel in the US has always been what you pay at the pump plus the price of supporting a military to ensure oil flows from where the US needs it. Since at least the 1960’s. At least half the US’s 40 trillion $ deficit can be ascribed to this by some estimates.
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Assuming they think the US might invade Canada?
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Message from our bargaining unit. “The next week matters. When you return to campus, connect with your Stewards and get answers to your questions about bargaining and the strike vote.” WTF? I was supposed to leave campus for the summer? I thought we were paid to work all year?
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
What kind of moronic funding agency doesn't allow you too list more than 10 M.Sc./Ph.D/PDFs on a CV?
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Our little world of University of Alberta nmr folks is getting smaller. Just a year after the passing of our mentor Peter S. Allen, our kind and gentle soul Chris is off to hike the mountains in the sky. www.arbormemorial.ca/en/southside...
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Remembering Chris...
View Christopher Charles "Chris" Hanstock’s obituary and additional information. Share your memories and condolences.
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Don’t buy 🇺🇸 beef. Reason 23,637.
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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Have you ever felt like something was missing from your #fmri results? Have you been worried about potential reproducibility issues? Well, this new @natmethods.nature.com article with 40+ coauthors shows how the simple change to transparent thresholding helps both. Go Figure! rdcu.be/B4tikBETdQZa
A comparison of old and new thresholding approaches for fMRI data. The newer, transparent thresholding allows for interpreting context, more complete modeling, a reduction of biases and an increase in meaningful content. This all leads to more accurate interpretations and improved reproducibility evaluations.
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This is the average number of citations for all current or former CERCs. In absolute numbers, clearly outstanding scientists. But look what happens in 2021-2022 when the first round of CERCs went into the regular Canadian funding ecosystem. Keep reading to see the unsustainability angle. 1/2
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The belief that a few dozen smart academics can change the fate of a nation that relies on resource extraction and a weak dollar for sales may be the most uninformed economic policy since the Avro Arrow was cancelled and we decided to buy everything high tech from the US.
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Wrong Ad Air Canada. Tagline should be “5x more cancellations to Toronto”
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TRIDENT Preclinical Trials @tridentpct.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
🎉 Congratulations to our TRIDENT Co-Principal Investigators @tedfon.bsky.social , @richardgold.bsky.social & @jonathankimmelman.bsky.social on being elected Fellows of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS) for 2026! A well-deserved recognition! 👏 #TRIDENT #CAHS #Neuroscience
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Fifty-Nine New Fellows Elected to the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences | Cinquante-neuf nouveaux membres élus à l’Académie canadienne des sciences de la santé – Canadian Academy of Health Sciences ...
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Just finished 13 CBC afternoon show interviews on this story from Halifax to Yellowknife to Whitehorse to Victoria and every city in between. Love that we have a national network interested in science🇨🇦. And the real number is 215 of 235 brains studied had CTE!!!
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Study estimates at least 1 in 4 former NFL players had brain disease linked to repeated head impacts | CBC News
At least one in four National Football League (NFL) players had evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, at the time of their death, finds a new study from one of the American research te...
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Good on CNN for calling out the Liar-in-Chief. And I would add, Doug Ford is not a flunkie. He dropped out of college. There’s a difference. Trump’s dad had to buy his son’s way into Penn. that’s a flunkie.
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Fact check: Trump keeps making stuff up about Canada | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump’s criticism of the US neighbor has been filled with lies – a remarkable variety of assertions that either wildly distort a kernel of truth or are just made up.
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Countries with lower US tariffs on goods and services than the US applies to Canada. North Korea, Russia, Cuba, and Belarus Tells you all you need to know about the US administration. It’s now part of the axis of evil.
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Stop. Blaming.Universities. The fundamental problem is there is no venture capital in Canada. It’s why Canadian tech leaders all move south.
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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
2025-26: the first year Canadian universities employed more tenured/TT professors over the age of 70 than under the age of 35.
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Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Small suggestion: If you're organising a conference, or academic meeting, or well, anything really in the US in the next couple of years, why not consider doing it in Canada instead? 🇨🇦🍁
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Ontarians (including corporations) paid $151.5 billion in taxes in 2024-2025. Ontarians personally spent $103 billion in online betting in the same period. Don't tell me there is a tax burden problem in Ontario.
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I know the lead MRI scientist here and she’s a great boss. And she like to drive fast cars on race tracks!
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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
We looking for a postdoc with NHP electrophysiology experience to do simultaneous Neuropixel recordings across the corticothalamic motor circuit to better understand the neural control of reaching and grasping. We start looking at applications on August 31st. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Pruszynski Postdoc 2026
Postdoctoral Researcher, Control Policies in the Primate Motor Circuit Pruszynski Lab @ Sensorimotor Superlab​ The Pruszynski Laboratory at Western University is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to j...
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Our latest preprint from the just-defended @esminunaran.bsky.social . We use triple immunofluorescence and rs-fMRI & link to previous touchscreen cognition in these mice to show a critical role for myelin and OPCs in AD. Huge implications for therapies that preserve cognition, not just clear abeta.
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Carney’s old company owns 51% of Westinghouse. They buy from the cheapest sources to make the most money. So much for “Canada has what the world wants”,”reliable trading partner” or “ethically sourced energy”.
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Russian enriched uranium shipped to Canadian-owned Westinghouse in U.S. | CBC News
While the Russian military attacks Ukraine's power infrastructure, Europe and the U.S. still depend on Russian nuclear fuel to power their electricity grids. Canadian-owned Westinghouse Electric is am...
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