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PeteyMcP

@peter-mcpherson.bsky.social
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A scientist who uses reason and logic

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Boris Bernhardt @borismontreal.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
The Neuro (aka MNI) is looking for a new director Key priorities for this exciting/challenging position are to sustain & enhance excellence in: 🧠 neurosciences research & teaching; 🧠 clinical care; 🧠 & to boost provincial, national, and international profile More info & apply here: bit.ly/3SZvnvx
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PeteyMcP @peter-mcpherson.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
www.cnn.com Hello from Canada to all our American friends. Please find a way to stop this madness. Strike, protest, demonstrate.
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PeteyMcP @peter-mcpherson.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Unfortunately you and your new orange hairdo are just too much. We really did love you but you have been seeing that guy who likes to take his shirt off and go fishing. He's not nice and I am afraid he has been mean to my friends. So I am going to block your number. And I think it's not just me. Bye
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PeteyMcP @peter-mcpherson.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
By America. You have a good run. From your friends in Canada, we will miss you
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PeteyMcP @peter-mcpherson.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
A beast seen in the woods. Caprera, Sardinia, IT.
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PeteyMcP @peter-mcpherson.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Sunrise over the Mediterranean, Sardinia, Italy
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PeteyMcP @peter-mcpherson.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Canadian scientists make breakthrough in Parkinson’s disease research globalnews.ca/video/109321...
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PeteyMcP @peter-mcpherson.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
www.fu-berlin.de/presse/infor... Congratulations to my friend and colleague Volker Haucke Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Price. Richly deserved!!
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Professor Volker Haucke erhält Leibniz-Preis 2025 der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft
Auszeichnung für bahnbrechende Forschung zum Lipidsignaling und zur synaptischen Signalübertragung. Der Wissenschaftler und Direktor am Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP) is...
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PeteyMcP @peter-mcpherson.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Thank you for highlighting our work
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Le Neuro (Institut-Hôpital neurologique de Montréal) @theneuro.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Researchers at @thesgc.bsky.social and The Neuro, along with scientists from 11 major antibody manufacturers, have developed and standardized an #OpenScience platform to characterize research antibodies. @ycharos.bsky.social aims to tackle a critical challenge in biomedical research reproducibility.
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An open solution to improving research reproducibility
Academic and industry scientists collaborate on a new method to characterize research antibodies Structural Genomics Consortium researchers at The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) of M...
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PeteyMcP @peter-mcpherson.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
rdcu.be/d3RCV Our paper on a new protocol for antibody validation is out in nature protocols!! @natprot.bsky.social @ycharos.bsky.social @mcgill.ca @theneuro.bsky.social
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A consensus platform for antibody characterization
Nature Protocols - YCharOS is a consensus platform for antibody characterization developed through collaboration between academia and industry, enabling direct comparisons among antibodies that...
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PeteyMcP @peter-mcpherson.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Are you for real? Do you think the republicans will listen to Nobel Laureates? For these people scientists are pariahs. They want the guy whose brain was eaten by a worm.
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PeteyMcP @peter-mcpherson.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
When Garret Price tried to contact Donald Fagen to discuss this "genre", #yachtrock, Fagen told him to go F himself, well done Mr Fagen. To try to pigeon hole Steely Dan is the thinking of a fool. Why is there this incessant need to categorize?? 8 billion genomes, 8 billion individuals
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PeteyMcP @peter-mcpherson.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/video/c30401... @peter-mcpherson was interviewed on CTV news in Canada discussing Lewy Body formation in human iPSC-derived dopaminergic neurons!
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The link between the immune system and Parkinson’s
Maralee Caruso learns about new research that suggests anyone can develop Parkinson’s disease if exposed to the right environment.
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PeteyMcP @peter-mcpherson.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
globalnews.ca/news/1089404... Some press on our discovery of a link between Parkinson's disease and immune system activation #@newsglobal #@mcgill.ca
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Stress and inflammation may help trigger Parkinson’s disease: study | Globalnews.ca
Environmental factors like prolonged stress, chronic inflammation and toxic exposure could play a key role in triggering Parkinson's disease, even in people without genetic risk.
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PeteyMcP @peter-mcpherson.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/cha.... Delighted that our study on Lewy Body formation in human dopaminergic neurons has been highlight by #mcgill-university. The connection between neuro degenerative disease and immune system activation continues to grow!
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Lab-grown brain cells help uncover new targets for Parkinson’s treatments
Scientists have uncovered a new link between the immune system and the development of Parkinson’s disease. Researchers at The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) at McGill University have...
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PeteyMcP @peter-mcpherson.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Hard to understand what this will mean but given the science background (lack therefore of) of the proposed Director of Human snd Health Services it seems that some clenching is in order.
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PeteyMcP @peter-mcpherson.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Gulp!!
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PeteyMcP @peter-mcpherson.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Sorry, typo, Anita Bandrowski #rrids
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PeteyMcP @peter-mcpherson.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Follow Andria Bandrowski at #rrids if you have concerns about the problems with research antibodies
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PeteyMcP @peter-mcpherson.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I hope you are right, but what does he want? The threat at the Canadian border is guns flowing north. Less immigrants crossing into the USA in one year than a weekend at the southern border. What can Canada offer? How can Canada appease a problem that does not exist. $600 billion in trade at risk
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I think the wrong questions r being asked about the proposed tariffs. The real question Is how little will he accept from Mexico , Canada and China in order to be able to say the threat of tariffs worked ?
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PeteyMcP @peter-mcpherson.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
www.nature.com/articles/d41... Published in #nature. An editorial describing the problems with research antibodies and initiatives to fix the problem through #openscience. #oga #rrid
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The antibodies don’t work! The race to rid labs of molecules that ruin experiments
Poorly performing antibodies have plagued biomedical sciences for decades. Several fresh initiatives hope to change this.
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PeteyMcP @peter-mcpherson.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I encourage everyone to check out our #openscience project #ycharos. Validation of commercial antibodies. All data open without restriction #zenodo.
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PeteyMcP @peter-mcpherson.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Beautiful image. A blue protein butterfly for #bluesky
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PeteyMcP @peter-mcpherson.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Lights and a green tree!
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PeteyMcP @peter-mcpherson.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
However you celebrate. Please enjoy and love.
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PeteyMcP @peter-mcpherson.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Came across this beautiful kitty while walking home. She was in distress. I fell in love. Got her to a vet but it was too late. Apparently hit by a car. No chip or collar. Please love your pets.
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Astronomy pictures @astronomers.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The first direct image of another 'solar system' Space
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PeteyMcP @peter-mcpherson.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Just keep doing what you are doing
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PeteyMcP @peter-mcpherson.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
www.mcgill.ca/neuro/articl... My lab at McGill identified a new genetic form of a sever neurodevelopmental disorder called epileptic encephalopathy.
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Discovery gives answers to parents of children with rare disease
Shortly after Kelly Cervantes’ daughter Adelaide was born, she started having terrible seizures. Doctors were unable to give her a solution, or even a cause. “We never had an overarching diagnosis for...
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PeteyMcP @peter-mcpherson.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
www.mcgill.ca/neuro/channe... My laboratory discovered a mechanism to make Lewy Bodies in dopaminergic neurons. Lewy Bodies are a hallmark of Parkinson's disease. The key? Immune challenge, demonstrating a role for the immune system in Parkinson's
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Recreating a hallmark of Parkinson's disease in human neurons
Scientists use stem cells to follow development of protein bodies characteristic of neurological disease Lewy bodies are a hallmark of Parkinson's disease (PD) and other related neurological condition...
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PeteyMcP @peter-mcpherson.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
www.mcgill.ca/neuro/channe... Our new open science project on validation of antibodies, key reagents in biomedical sciencr
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Open Science project funded for $1.5M
YCharOS antibody characterization platform addresses the “reproducibility crisis” in research An innovative research project led by researchers at The Neuro has been awarded $1.5M by the Government of...
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Shining Science @shiningscience.com · 20/11/2024
The skull nebula Image credit:- NASA Hubble
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PeteyMcP @peter-mcpherson.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Looks like a French Bulldog
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