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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Starting Monday, October 19, free to enroll, the Quantitative MRI mini Open Online Course (mOOC), a free 5-week virtual course from NeuroPoly (Polytechnique Montréal) #MRI 🧲 bsky.app/profile/stik...

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Nikola Stikov @stikov.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Announcing the third annual Evidence Day, coming to Macedonia on October 15! Following two successful days in Montreal (2024) and Abu Dhabi (2025), I am very proud that my home city of Skopje will welcome the people revolutionizing academic publishing. day.evidencepub.io

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Nikola Stikov @stikov.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Time for a special announcement I've been hinting at all semester For the past ten years we have been developing an online course on quantitative MRI, and we are ready to share it with the world. To register click the link below or scan the QR code 1/2

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Nikola Stikov @stikov.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Remember the qMRLab umbrellas at the 2023 MRathon Highlights party? We are taking them out of storage for an exciting announcement that will bring qMRI under one umbrella. Stay tuned!

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Nikola Stikov @stikov.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Here is the entire post! qantarot.substack.com/p/about-that... I hope my students will do something equally silly for their assignment. After all, there is no better way to get excited by science than by finding out how badly Hollywood gets it wrong. n/n

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About that MRI scene in Final Destination

What if I could turn pop culture’s fascination with MRI into a teaching moment for my MRI class?

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Nikola Stikov @stikov.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

No MRI scene stretches credulity quite like the one in Final Destination Bloodlines, in which the characters are subjected to an increasingly absurd Rube Goldberg chain of MRI-related mishaps that bear little resemblance to how an MRI scanner actually works. 4/n www.youtube.com/watch?v=mteT...

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Final Destination Bloodlines (2025) 4K - MRI Kill | Movieclips

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Nikola Stikov @stikov.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This week my students’ assignment is to choose a pop culture artifact featuring magnetic resonance imaging and to explain the physics behind it. 3/n

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Nikola Stikov @stikov.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

From CT scans being confused for MRI, to metallic objects flying across hospital hallways, entertainment media routinely override real physics for dramatic effect. So I thought to myself, what if I could turn pop culture’s fascination with MRI into a teaching moment for my MRI class this year? 2/n

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Nikola Stikov @stikov.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

About that MRI scene in Final Destination: Bloodlines For years I have been documenting the depiction of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in pop culture. The technology seems to fascinate the public, but it is often portrayed with errors, particularly when it comes to the underlying physics. 1/n

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Nikola Stikov @stikov.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

With this format reproducibility and data/code reuse are just a click away, and we have five wired papers in the pipeline demonstrating the power of this novel approach. Wired papers, coming soon to an Evidence instance near you!

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Nikola Stikov @stikov.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Wired papers make it possible to freeze the "state" of a dashboard, so that each figure in the paper is a real-time update of the dashboard based on reader/reviewer interaction.

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Nikola Stikov @stikov.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Big congrats to my student Morane Bienvenu, who successfully defended her Master's thesis introducing the concept of "wired papers"

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Nikola Stikov @stikov.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Hello @ohbmofficial.bsky.social , it's good to be back! Really excited to be part of this g-ratio revival led by @jackvanhorn8.bsky.social

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Nikola Stikov @stikov.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Happy to be part of this important collaboration that showcases the promise and pitfalls of AI reviewers for academic papers. Thank you to @seungonekim.bsky.social for the leadership and to Kiril Gashteovski for assembling an all-star team of Macedonian contributors! arxiv.org/abs/2605.20668

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On the limits and opportunities of AI reviewers: Reviewing the reviews of Nature-family papers with 45 expert scientists

With the advancement of AI capabilities, AI reviewers are beginning to be deployed in scientific peer review, yet their capability and credibility remain in question: many scientists simply view them ...

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Nikola Stikov @stikov.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Here it is, my ISMRM blues vol. 3 presented at this morning's Cape Town session on pitfalls and progress in MRI translation qantarot.substack.com/p/mri-outreach

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Nikola Stikov @stikov.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Yesterday Hugo presented our optic nerve T1 mapping collaboration with NYUAD, and today (Tuesday) at 9:15am he will be presenting preliminary g-ratio results in the optic nerve. Come to digital poster 10 (row C) to meet an extraordinary researcher who has a bright future ahead!

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Nikola Stikov @stikov.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Hugo Albert Plante is only a 3rd year undergraduate student at Polytechnique Montréal and he is presenting two abstracts at this year's ISMRM meeting in Cape Town.

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Nikola Stikov @stikov.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I hope my talk will spark a constructive discussion and I encourage you all to contribute to it. Join me on Thursday (May 14) at 9:50am in Hall 1B to hear more about "Translation of New and More Accessible Technologies in Developing and Resource-Limited Countries." n/n

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Nikola Stikov @stikov.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

So here I am at the annual meeting in Cape Town, with the difficult task of being both supportive and critical of existing MRI outreach efforts. In preparation for this task, I spent the past 6 months talking to many community members. and conducting an unofficial survey forms.gle/Q2sUg3LJhwiz...

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Community survey

Unofficial survey regarding the ISMRM. For more context please consult: https://qantarot.substack.com/p/no-highlights-party https://qantarot.substack.com/p/ismrm-survey

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Nikola Stikov @stikov.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Hello Cape Town! After the first two volumes of my ISMRM blues series, which were critical of the society, I expected silence from the ISMRM. Instead, they showed class by inviting me to speak on the very topic that drew the most attention in my critique: bringing MRI to developing countries. 1/n

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Jack Van Horn @jackvanhorn8.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Now is a great time to revitalize thinking on measuring myelin, g-ratio, and bringing conduction velocity into the conversation on brain connectivity! Join us at #OHBM for “THE NEED FOR SPEED: Multimodal Neuroimaging Contributions to Assessment of in vivo Mapping of Neural Signal Conduction”! 🧠🏎️🚔

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Nikola Stikov @stikov.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Proud to be a part of this revival as the guest editor of a special issue at ASN Neuro dedicated to measuring myelin integrity. Join us for g-ratio version 2.0 and submit your work by November 1! 2/2

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Nikola Stikov @stikov.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I took a 10-year break from g-ratio imaging to focus on vendor-neutral MRI. In the meantime, Alexander Gow at the American Society for Neurochemistry (ASN) and @jackvanhorn8.bsky.social at the @ohbmofficial.bsky.social have been leading a g-ratio revival. 1/2

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Nikola Stikov @stikov.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

You should try it out with some g-ratio papers:) Happy to tell you more!

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Nikola Stikov @stikov.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I will be presenting this work at the upcoming National Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine Roundtable Action Collaboratives meeting at @hhmi-science.bsky.social Feedback welcome! n/n

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Nikola Stikov @stikov.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

✅ Reproduce an entire publication workflow in a matter of seconds. A green checkmark appears so reviewers and readers can verify a publication's provenance 4/n

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Nikola Stikov @stikov.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

✅ Apply the methodology of one Evidence paper to the data from another. Citations are no longer just text, they are import statements that help you stand on the shoulders of giants! 3/n

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Nikola Stikov @stikov.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

✅Remix and regenerate figures based on shared code and data. Remove outliers, re-run analysis and test for significance on the fly! 2/n

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Nikola Stikov @stikov.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Announcing Evidentron, coming soon to a scientific publication near you! Agah Karakuzu got academic papers to talk to each other, bringing his vision of woven literature to life via AI-driven @mystmd.org articles With Evidentron you can: 1/n

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Nikola Stikov @stikov.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Our foundation KANTAROT / КАНТАРОТ created kits with experiments that illustrate fun science concepts: 1. How to prevent soap bubbles from popping? 2. What is capillary activity? 3. Why do we print using CMYK colors? 4. Who can see the Ames window illusion? Check out our promo video!

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Nikola Stikov @stikov.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Evidence Day was a huge success! Thank you to @polymtl.bsky.social for believing in us, and to Catherine Florès for the excellent write-up www.polymtl.ca/carrefour-ac...

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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Reaction Monitoring Symposium 2026, January 29. Organized by the DReaM Facility @uniofbath.bsky.social Free, one-day symposium highlighting real-time reaction monitoring by NMR & complementary techniques, register by January 23 www.rsc.org/events/detai... #NMRchat 🧲

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Nikola Stikov @stikov.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

"You could be sitting on a mountain top in Nepal with a handheld device and run a scientific analysis" Alan Evans' vision for the future of science #EvidenceDay

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Nikola Stikov @stikov.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

"If a paper gets submitted, it will be published somewhere" John Ioannidis on AI slop in academic publishing #EvidenceDay

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Nikola Stikov @stikov.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Evidence Day is about to start

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Nikola Stikov @stikov.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Tomorrow (December 4) we will demonstrate what woven literature looks like in the age of AI. We will introduce a new AI-driven article format (wired paper) and present four examples that cover a range of disciplines. Join us! qantarot.substack.com/p/introducin...

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Introducing Evidence: Wired papers, woven literature

On December 4 we are unveiling the Evidence publishing platform. Join us in-person at NYU Abu Dhabi, or virtually via Zoom!

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Nikola Stikov @stikov.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

To join us (in-person or virtually) please register at the link below n/n day.evidencepub.io

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Evidence Day

Going beyond the PDF for real

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Nikola Stikov @stikov.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

The launch will happen on December 4 on the beautiful campus of NYU Abu Dhabi. We have a stellar list of speakers including John Ioannidis (Stanford University), Alan Evans (McGill University) and Cesar A. Hidalgo (Toulouse School of Economics) 3/n

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Nikola Stikov @stikov.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Evidence expands the scope of NeuroLibre to include the full range of natural sciences while incorporating LLM assisted workflows and preserving rigorous reproducibility standards. 2/n

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Nikola Stikov @stikov.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

After three sabbaticals in Tokyo, Abu Dhabi and Skopje, I’m excited to finally share what we’ve built. Join us for the unveiling of the Evidence publishing platform! 1/n

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Nikola Stikov @stikov.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

NMR as inspiration for quantum computing, pretty cool!

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Nikola Stikov @stikov.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

I still dream of changes in the ISMRM and I hope this series of blog posts will contribute to it. I have created a survey (link) asking the community for feedback. Feel free to use it to voice your concerns and to suggest ways in which the ISMRM could improve. qantarot.substack.com/p/ismrm-survey

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My ISMRM blues vol. 2: A survey

What can we do as a community to strengthen the ISMRM?

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Nikola Stikov @stikov.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

I moderated a fun debate at the @esmrmb.bsky.social microstructure workshop today. We asked the panelists to argue for and against the clinical potential of qMRI. Inspired by the Munk debates, we polled the audience before and after the discussion. It appears the pessimists won by a small margin:)

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Nikola Stikov @stikov.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Another NeuroLibre publication that puts reproducibility at the forefront. Congratulations @evaalonsoortiz.bsky.social for getting it accepted in the Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences! preprint.neurolibre.org/10.55458/neu...

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Representation in Brain Imaging Research: A Quebec demographic overview - Representation in Brain Imaging Research

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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

RT New York Structural Biology Center @NYSBC_Science 3rd NYC Integrative Structural Biology Symposium (NYC-ISB25) October 9-10, 2025, CUNY Advanced Science Research Center, New York, NY nyc-isb25.eventbrite.com free to register #NMRchat 🧲

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Nikola Stikov @stikov.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Welcoming the new biomedical engineering graduate students to @polymtl.bsky.social

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Nikola Stikov @stikov.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Writing Japanese is a Sisyphean pleasure

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