Allison Sekuler 🧠👁️🥁
asek47.bsky.social
Allison Sekuler 🧠👁️🥁
@asek47.bsky.social
SA Rotman Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience; President & Chief Scientist CABHI and Baycrest Academy for Research & Education; Prof U of T; Prof Emeritus McMaster; co-Host Defy Dementia
#visionScience #neuroscience #innovation #tech #aging #drumming #theatre
This is why #RotmanResearchInstitute @baycrest.bsky.social is such a great place to work! Amazing #BARE research day - honouring our late colleague Gordon Winocur, welcoming our new colleague Lei Wang, and hearing about all the great research from scientists, educators, clinicians, and trainees.
September 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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CABHI’s first AgeTech Insights report, “The Canadian 50+ Tech Market: Innovation Trends and Opportunities,” shares insights on:

💻 Tech use in Canadians aged 50+
✅ Enablers + barriers to tech use
💡 Emerging opportunities for those working in this sector

Read the report ➡️ bit.ly/4fvFS45
August 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
August 14, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Congrats Gibbs Jr Olliviere: to our latest @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social lab grad.

He did a great job defending his thesis on the effects mindfulness meditation on depression, loneliness, and stress in older adults. Thanks @eyebraineegenie.bsky.social @pjb1959.bsky.social David Shore for support
June 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Finally back to my Chicago improv roots after all this time: finished Second City Training in Toronto. Celebrated with a great show in the John Candy Theatre. Thanks @phattal.bsky.social Next up: improv + neuroscience…. 🎭 🧠 @johncusack.bsky.social @williamcusack.bsky.social @thomasgreene.bsky.social
June 17, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Happy anniversary @pjb1959.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
June 17, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Very thought provoking perspective!
Psychological richness offers a third path to a good life

Review by Shigehiro Oishi & Erin Westgate
tinyurl.com/2w65k9vd
May 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
AI generated images have come a long way, but not all approaches are equal. Which do you think is better here, ChatGPT or Grok? Same prompt and original photo for both. Very different outcomes 🤣 Happy birthday to my Dad Robert Sekuler - glad he’s looking better at 86 than any AI generated image!
May 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Congratulations to the 2025 FoVea Travel and Networking Awardees.
April 30, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Insights into why my son wouldn’t remember being in the picture I just shared of him from when he was a baby! #Neuroscience
March 21, 2025 at 9:57 AM
27 years ago my mom and dad met their first Canadian grandchild! Hard to believe he was ever that small. Happy birthday Ryan! 🎂❤️🎂❤️🎂❤️
March 21, 2025 at 9:53 AM
So excited for my dear friend Juliet Daniel!!!! Well done and well deserved. She does so much to support others, it’s great to see her recognized here.

Congrats also to the amazing Jeffrey Weitz. Mac’s 2 new Distinguished Uni Profs! #BrighterWorld #McMaster dailynews.mcmaster.ca/articles/jul...
Juliet Daniel and Jeffrey Weitz named Distinguished University Professors
Two exceptional faculty members have been named Distinguished University Professors in recognition of their outstanding scholarship, teaching, and service.
dailynews.mcmaster.ca
March 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Are you a Toronto neuroscience trainee or coming for the @canacn.bsky.social conference? @yorku-cian.bsky.social has space for 10 speakers & 50 posters at our 'New Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience' Satellite, May 21. Registration free, lunch and coffee provided: www.yorku.ca/research/cia...
March 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Changes to MSc, PhD and postdoc funding programs from 🇨🇦 tri councils. Harmonization across councils, more awards, and new eligibility for international PhD and postdoc applicants!
NSERC - Latest News - Launch of the new Harmonized Tri-agency Scholarship and Fellowship programs
As announced in Budget 2024, the scholarship and fellowship programs administered by the three federal research funding agencies – the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) – have been streamlined into a new harmonized talent program called the Canada Research Training Awards Suite (CRTAS) that will open for applications in summer 2025.
www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca
March 14, 2025 at 11:06 PM
New job posting - Please share widely!

@rotmanresearch @Baycrest and @YorkUniversity have a new tenure-track position in Quantitative Modeling (Predictive #Neuroscience) on Brain Health in #Aging.

This is a @ConnectedMinds3 research enhanced role.

mailchi.mp/bc1acf8790c8...
a computer generated image of a person 's brain with a blue light coming out of it
ALT: a computer generated image of a person 's brain with a blue light coming out of it
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March 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Brain conditions affect 1 in 5 Canadians. Next week, we’re launching a new federal campaign to help change that.
Stay tuned… 👀
#cdnpoli #cdnhealth #Vote4BrainHealth
March 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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#TAMeG2025 is coming (our 10th anniversary!) May 27 feat keynote @charan-neuro.bsky.social and panel on SciCom & Disinformation, with Carrie Boyce of RCIScience, @schalllab.bsky.social & @barense.bsky.social (chair)

Call for presentations is open for GTA and southern ON trainees 👉 tameg.ca!
February 28, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Well, the weather outside is frightful. But the volunteers at the voting station were delightful. Get out there and vote Ontario! #Ontario #vote #Ontariovotes
February 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Anyone voting in Westdale bring your voter location card and ID and go up the ramp to the right of the very long line. It was 20 minutes before I found that out, but at least it’s not too cold! And great to see such good turn out. Democracy is alive and well in Canada! #OntarioVotes
February 28, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Was a bad year for several folks in my family healthwise last year, so especially grateful to have been able to celebrate my youngest’s 23rd birthday yesterday. Thank you Chotto Matte for an amazing dinner. Too many pics to share, so here’s just a few. Happy birthday Kiddo! Here’s to many many more!
February 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Can our culture alter how we see the world around us?
In a new paper, @dorsaamir.bsky.social and I dig through >100 years of scholarship on this foundational question in psychology, anthropology, and even philosophy. Take a look here (osf.io/preprints/ps...) and follow the story below 👇
January 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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I heart @mapquest.com — I covered them when they were founded btw.
Because you TOTALLY asked for this… and MapQuest has NOTHING better to do…

We’ve granted you exclusive access to a place very dear to our heart: gulfof.mapquest.com

Think of it as the Upside Down but more... minimalist. Pls share so we can behold your genius (or judge you, lovingly) 😘
Gulf Map Generator - MapQuest
Explore and customize your own Gulf region map with our interactive map tool.
gulfof.mapquest.com
February 19, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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1st not 51st ❤️
THERE IT IS! THE GAME WINNER! THE TOURNAMENT WINNER! 😱😱😱

CONNOR MCDAVID HAS WON IT FOR CANADA!!! #4Nations
February 21, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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February 21, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Terrific kick off to #IDWGS with our @tahsnetwork.bsky.social session featuring Sheena Josselyn as the opening keynote. Endel Tulving and Taylor Swift highlighted in one amazing talk (the Memory Eras Tour). Was a thrill for me to co-moderate the later panel discussion on women in health science
February 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM