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Jibran Khokhar
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Associate Professor, CRC in Translational Neuropsychopharmacology Western University Open-Source Behavioural Tools
Committed to knowing better and doing better!
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Happy to share my talk for the @hbhlmcgill.bsky.social Brain Canada The Amazing Brain 2024 event titled: Cannabis and the Developing Brain: Vaping, Edibles and Genetics www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgxb...
Cannabis and the Developing Brain: Vaping, Edibles and Genetics | Jibran Khokhar
YouTube video by Healthy Brains, Healthy Lives
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Come hear from @liisagalea.bsky.social and Kendra Loedige from our lab!
This exciting event has finally been rescheduled! Join us on Feb. 10 at @westernu.ca for an insightful conversation about SGBA+ in brain research with the insightful @liisagalea.bsky.social and Kendra Loedige moderated by @lisasaksida.bsky.social. Register here: brainscan-sgba-seminar.eventbrite.ca
February 10, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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This exciting event has finally been rescheduled! Join us on Feb. 10 at @westernu.ca for an insightful conversation about SGBA+ in brain research with the insightful @liisagalea.bsky.social and Kendra Loedige moderated by @lisasaksida.bsky.social. Register here: brainscan-sgba-seminar.eventbrite.ca
February 2, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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Happening TODAY at Western with @liisagalea.bsky.social, also a #TRIDENT SBA+ top researcher!!! 👇 👇 ♀️ 🧠 🗞️ 🎤 🤩
This exciting event has finally been rescheduled! Join us on Feb. 10 at @westernu.ca for an insightful conversation about SGBA+ in brain research with the insightful @liisagalea.bsky.social and Kendra Loedige moderated by @lisasaksida.bsky.social. Register here: brainscan-sgba-seminar.eventbrite.ca
February 10, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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Giving science a boost. ⚡🔬

We're partnering with @anthropic.com to design and deploy custom AI agents that will help scientists turn big data into scientific discoveries faster.

🔗 https://alleninstitute.org/news/partnering-with-anthropic-to-supercharge-research-to-help-cure-disease/

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Partnering with Anthropic to supercharge research and help cure disease
From months to hours, autonomous AI agents will accelerate research in the quest for cures.
alleninstitute.org
February 10, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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An email to Director Bhattacharya this morning.

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February 10, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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#ThisWeekInNPP

Kallupi et al. use large-scale phenotyping of rats 🐀 to unveil genetic variants underlying susceptibility to opioid use disorder

@kallupi_marsida @SierraSimpson @neuroselo @esneddon21 Abraham Palmer Olivier George
Large-scale behavioral characterization of oxycodone self-administration in heterogeneous stock rats reveals initial analgesic effects are associated with addiction-like behaviors
Neuropsychopharmacology - Large-scale behavioral characterization of oxycodone self-administration in heterogeneous stock rats reveals initial analgesic effects are associated with addiction-like...
www.nature.com
February 10, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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🚨 Canadians recognize that health misinformation does significant harm.

90% (!) believe the government has a responsibility address the issue!

via @cmadocs.bsky.social cc @scienceupfirst.bsky.social
February 10, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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Register for RSA's 49th Annual Scientific Meeting in San Antonio, TX
🔗rsa.societyconference.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes! And yes.

Science Communication Should Be a Core Competency in Medical Training www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco... by @drkatiesuleta.bsky.social @funsizeimmuninja.bsky.social
Opinion | Science Communication Should Be a Core Competency in Medical Training
We've seen how profoundly things unravel when communication breaks down
www.medpagetoday.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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The high proportion of US scientists among those recruited by France shows that “enthusiasm and morale for doing science is low” in the US, says Sharon Milgram, who led early-career researcher programs at NIH for nearly 20 years, until she retired in December.

By @lizziegibney.bsky.social and me
February 10, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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Don’t get me started on the hypocrisy of this organization aligning with the current NIH/HHS “leaders”: kill all the animals you want to eat more and more animal flesh and fat but it is unethical to use animals for life saving medical research
February 10, 2026 at 3:40 AM
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"Recent congressional hearings — in which university presidents delivered lawyered, evasive answers to basic moral questions — demonstrate the cost of substituting legalism for leadership."

wapo.st/4qomlXe
Opinion | Universities are sending Trump a dangerous message
Higher education is under attack. Drop the appeasement.
wapo.st
February 10, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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✨ Exciting News! Join us for the S4SN Annual Meeting in Montreal this August 23-26, 2026! 🇨🇦

🗓️ Registration Deadline: August 21, 2026
🔗 Register here: event.fourwaves.com/s4sn2026/reg...

Don’t miss out on this amazing opportunity! #S4SN2026 #Montreal #Conference
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ALT: a man in a yellow shirt and tie is standing in front of a computer in an office .
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February 10, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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“A sanctuary is not a strategy. It is a capitulation to fear and the political pressure that ignores scientific reality”

Well said @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social
BREAKING: The Oregon Health & Science University board of directors has voted to begin negotiations with the NIH about potentially transitioning the university’s primate research center to a sanctuary for the animals.

By @callimcflurry.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

bit.ly/4a6mycK
Oregon primate center to negotiate transition to sanctuary
The board of directors at Oregon Health & Science University, which runs the primate center, voted unanimously for the move.
bit.ly
February 10, 2026 at 2:55 AM
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The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Wilfrid Laurier University is hiring a Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Biochemistry beginning July 1, 2026. Applications will be accepted until March 9, 2026 | 11:59pm. For more info: careers.wlu.ca/job/Waterloo... @chemjobber.bsky.social
Assistant Professor - Biochemistry
Assistant Professor - Biochemistry
careers.wlu.ca
February 10, 2026 at 12:24 AM
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Disulfiram Protects Against Diet-Induced Obesity by Reprogramming Systemic Lipid Partitioning Independent of GSDMD https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.06.704424v1
February 10, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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A side note in metas court room drama is this little memo from 2018 discussing the goal of converting ten “academic allies” given that researchers were associating harms to their products.
February 9, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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My weekly update.

Some good(ish) news.

The pace of NIH grantmaking appears to be picking up.

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February 9, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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Non-competitive renewal awards

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February 9, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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🧠 New bioRxiv preprint from the Microstructure MRI lab (first author: Francisco J. Fritz): “Longitudinal whole-human-brain quantitative MRI study on autolysis, fixation, rehydration, and shrinkage effects.”
www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...
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www.biorxiv.org
February 9, 2026 at 8:31 PM
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Please join us in congratulating our 2026 APA Division 28 award winners!
February 9, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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I don't know for sure, but AHRQ was decimated by staff cuts and losses.

I am checking on any active litigation.
February 9, 2026 at 7:36 PM
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This is a powerful message from Freeman Hrabowski.

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February 9, 2026 at 1:52 PM
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🎓 Senior Graduate Students & Early Postdocs! Explore #Postdoctoral Training at Rutgers University! Rutgers Health & Rutgers Brain Health Institute invite you to Postdoc Peek, a two-day, all-expenses-paid, on-campus visit on May 19–20! Apply now: brainhealthinstitute.rutgers.edu/2026/01/26/2...
February 9, 2026 at 1:00 PM