Mel Goodale
@action-brain.bsky.social
Cognitive neuroscientist and nature lover. Founding Director of Brain and Mind at Western University. https://www.uwo.ca/bmi/
We hiked to the Meeting Tree, a 670 year-old White Oak, located at Westminster Ponds Conservation Area, London Ontario earlier this week. The tree was a safe meeting place for slaves leaving America and traveling up north to Canada via the Underground Railroad.
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November 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
We hiked to the Meeting Tree, a 670 year-old White Oak, located at Westminster Ponds Conservation Area, London Ontario earlier this week. The tree was a safe meeting place for slaves leaving America and traveling up north to Canada via the Underground Railroad.
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Frost on Staghorn Sumac (Rhus typhina). Fall is finally here. It's been exceptionally warm for October. 🌿
October 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Frost on Staghorn Sumac (Rhus typhina). Fall is finally here. It's been exceptionally warm for October. 🌿
This weekend we stayed in a Yurt in Bruce Peninsula National Park parks.canada.ca/pn-np/on/bruce
The weather was amazing -- preternaturally warm. The Grotto and Indian Head Cove looked like the Mediterranean.
The weather was amazing -- preternaturally warm. The Grotto and Indian Head Cove looked like the Mediterranean.
October 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
This weekend we stayed in a Yurt in Bruce Peninsula National Park parks.canada.ca/pn-np/on/bruce
The weather was amazing -- preternaturally warm. The Grotto and Indian Head Cove looked like the Mediterranean.
The weather was amazing -- preternaturally warm. The Grotto and Indian Head Cove looked like the Mediterranean.
The Department of Neuroscience at the University of Lethbridge has a tenure-track position for a neuroscientist studying brain function across the life span in nonhuman animals. Join a terrific community of researchers in a beautiful part of the country.🧠🧪 Re-post
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September 12, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The Department of Neuroscience at the University of Lethbridge has a tenure-track position for a neuroscientist studying brain function across the life span in nonhuman animals. Join a terrific community of researchers in a beautiful part of the country.🧠🧪 Re-post
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I spotted these berries on trails near London ON: bright red American Highbush Cranberry (Viburnum trilobum); white baneberry or doll’s eye (Actaea pachypoda); and dark purple American pokeweed (Phytolacca americana). Only the Highbush Cranberry is edible; the other two are poisonous to humans.🌿🌱
September 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I spotted these berries on trails near London ON: bright red American Highbush Cranberry (Viburnum trilobum); white baneberry or doll’s eye (Actaea pachypoda); and dark purple American pokeweed (Phytolacca americana). Only the Highbush Cranberry is edible; the other two are poisonous to humans.🌿🌱
How good are we at estimating someone's age from their face and how does that change with the face's chronological age? @tganel.bsky.social et al.'s new framework disentangles bias and error, revealing new insights into how facial age is computed by humans and AIs. 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 3, 2025 at 1:33 PM
How good are we at estimating someone's age from their face and how does that change with the face's chronological age? @tganel.bsky.social et al.'s new framework disentangles bias and error, revealing new insights into how facial age is computed by humans and AIs. 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I think this is a Peck's Skipper (Polites peckius) gracing our front garden. If you look closely, you can see its long proboscis stretching into the Liatris flower. 🌿
September 2, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I think this is a Peck's Skipper (Polites peckius) gracing our front garden. If you look closely, you can see its long proboscis stretching into the Liatris flower. 🌿
Common Eastern Bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) foraging on new blooms on a Grape-leaf Anemone (Anemone tomentosa) in our front garden on this fine August afternoon. 🌱 🌿
August 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Common Eastern Bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) foraging on new blooms on a Grape-leaf Anemone (Anemone tomentosa) in our front garden on this fine August afternoon. 🌱 🌿
Upcoming conference will explore the evolving ethical and societal questions posed by human stem cell-derived neural organoid and assembloid research, discussing strategies for the responsible advancement and communication of these technologies.
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August 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Upcoming conference will explore the evolving ethical and societal questions posed by human stem cell-derived neural organoid and assembloid research, discussing strategies for the responsible advancement and communication of these technologies.
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Not one, not two, not three, but four Monarch caterpillars on one Milkweed plant in my daughter's front garden. Usually, Monarchs lay only one egg per plant. Was it a confused mother butterfly, or did different females lay their one egg on the same plant?
August 23, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Not one, not two, not three, but four Monarch caterpillars on one Milkweed plant in my daughter's front garden. Usually, Monarchs lay only one egg per plant. Was it a confused mother butterfly, or did different females lay their one egg on the same plant?
Queen Anne's Lace and friends at Komoka Provincial Park this beautiful afternoon.
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August 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Queen Anne's Lace and friends at Komoka Provincial Park this beautiful afternoon.
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A Milkweed Tussock Moth (Euchaetes egle) caterpillar chomping its way through a leaf of the Milkweed growing in our back garden. Like the Monarch butterfly, the adult moths become unpalatable to predators from feeding on the Milkweed when they were caterpillars.
August 5, 2025 at 10:27 PM
A Milkweed Tussock Moth (Euchaetes egle) caterpillar chomping its way through a leaf of the Milkweed growing in our back garden. Like the Monarch butterfly, the adult moths become unpalatable to predators from feeding on the Milkweed when they were caterpillars.
Busy Carpenter bee foraging on Blue Vervain (Verbena hastata) in our front garden. This tall perennial is native to southern Ontario. It attracts a lot of pollinators.
August 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Busy Carpenter bee foraging on Blue Vervain (Verbena hastata) in our front garden. This tall perennial is native to southern Ontario. It attracts a lot of pollinators.
Hope! We have Milkweed growing in our yard, which attracts Monarch butterflies. We were pleased to see a Monarch chrysalis hanging from the top of a basement window a few days ago. Today, a beautiful butterfly emerged.
July 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Hope! We have Milkweed growing in our yard, which attracts Monarch butterflies. We were pleased to see a Monarch chrysalis hanging from the top of a basement window a few days ago. Today, a beautiful butterfly emerged.
Revitalizing walk in Pinery Provincial Park. We are lucky to have this wonderful resource so close to where we live.
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July 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Revitalizing walk in Pinery Provincial Park. We are lucky to have this wonderful resource so close to where we live.
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Our peonies are doing well with all the rain we've had in London ON.
June 8, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Our peonies are doing well with all the rain we've had in London ON.
CIFAR invites applications for senior PhD and postdocs to participate in the Neuroscience of Consciousness Winter School, held in Montebello, Canada Dec 10-12, 2025. The Winter School is hosted by members of CIFAR’s Brain, Mind, and Consciousness program. Please repost.
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June 3, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Great walk in Carden Alvar - Couchinging Conservancy today. Lots of native plants thrive in this flat limestone habitat. Indian paintbrush, Prairie Smoke, Columbine, and Chickweed - and many others. couchichingconserv.ca/what-we-do/c...
May 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Great walk in Carden Alvar - Couchinging Conservancy today. Lots of native plants thrive in this flat limestone habitat. Indian paintbrush, Prairie Smoke, Columbine, and Chickweed - and many others. couchichingconserv.ca/what-we-do/c...
Come to Coimbra, Portugal, this September for SAW (Seeing and Acting Workshop). A wonderful meeting in a beautiful place. Submit your poster abstracts by July 31. Registration deadline is Aug 31. Check out the great lineup of speakers. Website here: www.uc.pt/cogbooster/s...
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May 20, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Come to Coimbra, Portugal, this September for SAW (Seeing and Acting Workshop). A wonderful meeting in a beautiful place. Submit your poster abstracts by July 31. Registration deadline is Aug 31. Check out the great lineup of speakers. Website here: www.uc.pt/cogbooster/s...
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Signs of spring at Dorchester Mill Pond Eco Trail, a short drive from London Ontario. So good to see after all the snow and ice we had this past winter. Beautiful walk.
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April 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Signs of spring at Dorchester Mill Pond Eco Trail, a short drive from London Ontario. So good to see after all the snow and ice we had this past winter. Beautiful walk.
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My mother and I in a sailboat near Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, UK on VE Day (Victory in Europe) May 8, 1945. The first time in years we could venture into the English Channel from the Thames Estuary.
My mother and I in a sailboat near Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, UK on VE Day (Victory in Europe) May 8, 1945. The first time in years we could venture into the English Channel from the Thames Estuary.
March 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Post you from a different era
My mother and I in a sailboat near Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, UK on VE Day (Victory in Europe) May 8, 1945. The first time in years we could venture into the English Channel from the Thames Estuary.
My mother and I in a sailboat near Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, UK on VE Day (Victory in Europe) May 8, 1945. The first time in years we could venture into the English Channel from the Thames Estuary.
It's Family Day in Ontario. We're off to visit the grandkids, but step one is to get the snow off the car. You can see how much snow has fallen from the 'snow-meter' (our garden table) in the backyard. And London ON got off lightly. There's way more snow just north of us.
February 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
It's Family Day in Ontario. We're off to visit the grandkids, but step one is to get the snow off the car. You can see how much snow has fallen from the 'snow-meter' (our garden table) in the backyard. And London ON got off lightly. There's way more snow just north of us.
Really looking forward to discussing the operation of size constancy in visual perception and visually guided action as part of the Psychonomic Society's One World Seminar Series on Feb 26 at 11:15am to 1pm Eastern Time. 🧪🧠 Abstract and registration here. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
February 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Really looking forward to discussing the operation of size constancy in visual perception and visually guided action as part of the Psychonomic Society's One World Seminar Series on Feb 26 at 11:15am to 1pm Eastern Time. 🧪🧠 Abstract and registration here. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Alecia Carter & co. carried out the first controlled mark and mirror test for visual self-recognition (VSR) in a wild setting using a laser pointer on a large sample of chacma baboons. Despite showing some mirror understanding, they did not show VSR royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... 🧠🧪🌿
January 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Alecia Carter & co. carried out the first controlled mark and mirror test for visual self-recognition (VSR) in a wild setting using a laser pointer on a large sample of chacma baboons. Despite showing some mirror understanding, they did not show VSR royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... 🧠🧪🌿