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We’re expanding our social media team! If you’re a neuroscience trainee with a creative flair and are interested in learning about growing a social media presence, get in touch! Please RT!

Snow day running be like

My students once gave me a book in which they'd written down all the unhinged things I said in class. It's 152 pages long.

Appreciate the early bday gift for me 🙌🏽

Excited to announce that Iva Brunec and I are re-activating the Toronto chapter of R-Ladies Global! We’re currently planning our first in-person event & would love to hear from you! Please click on this survey if you’re interested in joining! forms.gle/AJViuic39Ufn1Z…

Let's hang out and talk all things R! Shireen Parimoo, PhD and I would love to know what you'd like to see as we reactivate the Toronto R-Ladies chapter. If you're interested, fill out the survey and sign up for the mailing list! 👇 forms.gle/yqsiFFv3vrmBQe…

This summer, I will be teaching an NSF-funded virtual workshop on "R Programming for Cognitive Neuroscience." This free workshop will teach beginning students the basic skills needed to analyze data from cognitive tasks in R. More info can be found here: sites.google.com/view/r-program…

What drives fMRI signals to go up or down? Beyond conventional “neurovascular coupling”, our latest work Nature Communications reveals critical factors in the striatum by controlling and measuring key cell types and circuits across scales, modalities, and species: nature.com/articles/s4146…

Three years from idea to preprint but here it is: a macro-scale model combining functional and structural connectivity matrices. This is a technical report so not applied to any clinical data yet. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Thanks to Instrufoundation & @OrionCorpIR for the support

And at work!

Tarek Amer and I are recruiting a fully funded postdoc to work on studies of memory, visual attention, and aging UniversityOfVictoria. Please share and get in touch!

Free bikes! Bike Share Toronto is celebrating the start of summer by offering free unlimited 90-minute rides this Friday. Follow Tangerine to find out more. See you on the cycle tracks 🚲

📢I will be hiring a part-time Behavioral Science intern for this summer @ Healogix (healogix.com)! 🧠We're interested in researchers w/ mouse/eye tracking, process tracing, text analytics, NLP, web scraping experience JD/instructions here: drive.google.com/file/d/1Ac5KbL…

158 participant fMRI lifespan dataset from Cheryl Grady laboratory at OpenNeuro: openneuro.org/datasets/ds005…

We are hiring an MEG system manager at Rotman Research tinyurl.com/yzykt368 Please retweet or forward to people who may be interested. We work on topics in the cognition and aging space, and you would help us do cool MEG research.

It took me SEVEN years to figure out that you can save a ggplot as a vectorized .svg file ggsave("file.svg"). The svg file can be opened on powerpoint and it will be completely vectorized, even text are still recognized as text boxes! No more recreating plots on illustrator!!!!!

Applying to graduate school? Join U-M's STAR Scholars 9/25 @ 4pm ET to learn about - finding your area of interest - finding programs/mentors - writing a statement of purpose - acquiring rec letters - GRE info - and more All are invited! Register at sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/se…

1/ I've long wondered why executive function in childhood predicts life outcomes. Why does juggling information in mind, shifting between tasks, and controlling our impulses matter so much? I'm increasingly convinced that our early answers missed something fundamental.

I’ve seen a lot of the Toronto running community, but this guy wins.