Elizabeth Gregory
@lizgregory.bsky.social
🇨🇦 MD/PhD candidate in the NINET lab at UBC | Vanier Scholar | Interested in non-invasive brain stimulation. Big fan of dogs and science. She/hers.
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Worth noting that because Sim brought forward his proposal for a property tax freeze requiring millions in cuts with just weeks left in the budget process, this is not up for public debate and is not outlined in the documents available to councillors when they vote on this
SCOOP: Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is planning to eliminate the city's sustainability and climate department under the guise of a push to prevent increases to property taxes in his proposed 2026 budget.
Great source work by Marc Fawcett-Atkinson to uncover this
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/11/n...
Great source work by Marc Fawcett-Atkinson to uncover this
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/11/n...
Vancouver mayor plans to eliminate city's climate and sustainability department
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is planning to eliminate the city's sustainability and climate department under the guise of a push to prevent increases to property taxes. Canada's National Observer learned a...
www.nationalobserver.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Worth noting that because Sim brought forward his proposal for a property tax freeze requiring millions in cuts with just weeks left in the budget process, this is not up for public debate and is not outlined in the documents available to councillors when they vote on this
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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Over 40% of brain-behavior effects were likely overestimated due to motion. There was no correlation between a trait’s a priori correlation with motion and its motion overestimation score. Calculating the motion impact score was necessary to discover the problematic brain-behavior effects!
September 30, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Over 40% of brain-behavior effects were likely overestimated due to motion. There was no correlation between a trait’s a priori correlation with motion and its motion overestimation score. Calculating the motion impact score was necessary to discover the problematic brain-behavior effects!
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#eNeuro | Depression Levels Are Associated with Reduced Capacity to Learn to Actively Avoid Aversive Events in Young Adults
https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0034-25.2025
https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0034-25.2025
September 19, 2025 at 2:04 AM
#eNeuro | Depression Levels Are Associated with Reduced Capacity to Learn to Actively Avoid Aversive Events in Young Adults
https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0034-25.2025
https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0034-25.2025
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Hi #canadian researchers - please sign this petition to help ensure funding isn’t cut to tri council agencies (NSERC, SSHRC, and CIHR). We’re looking at potential 15% cuts to ALL federal spending including grants win.newmode.net/canadianasso...
New/Mode | Make your voice impossible to ignore
win.newmode.net
September 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Hi #canadian researchers - please sign this petition to help ensure funding isn’t cut to tri council agencies (NSERC, SSHRC, and CIHR). We’re looking at potential 15% cuts to ALL federal spending including grants win.newmode.net/canadianasso...
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A public invite to the Sept 20 Draw the Line actions from 21 movement leaders - representing an amazing cross-section of organizations.
Find the action closest to you.
Draw the Line: Tell the Carney Government to Pick a Side via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
Find the action closest to you.
Draw the Line: Tell the Carney Government to Pick a Side via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
Draw the Line: Tell the Carney Government to Pick a Side | The Tyee
For people, for peace, for the planet. An invitation to join the Sept. 20 mass day of action.
thetyee.ca
September 13, 2025 at 6:28 PM
A public invite to the Sept 20 Draw the Line actions from 21 movement leaders - representing an amazing cross-section of organizations.
Find the action closest to you.
Draw the Line: Tell the Carney Government to Pick a Side via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
Find the action closest to you.
Draw the Line: Tell the Carney Government to Pick a Side via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
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New research published in Nature draws a direct link between high-emitting fossil fuel and cement companies and the frequency and severity of heat waves, including the 2021 heat dome that caused 619 deaths in BC www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/10/n...
Research links Canada’s fossil fuel industry to deadly heat waves
Emissions from fossil fuel and cement companies have contributed significantly to the frequency and severity of devastating heat waves over the last two decades, a new study finds. The paper could hel...
www.nationalobserver.com
September 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
New research published in Nature draws a direct link between high-emitting fossil fuel and cement companies and the frequency and severity of heat waves, including the 2021 heat dome that caused 619 deaths in BC www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/10/n...
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Let’s be clear about the wildfires - endless logging and fossil fuel expansion have made this situation worse.
It's shameful to see politicians pushing for the expansion of logging and fossil fuels as we experience and witness this devastation. #wildfires #cdnpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
It's shameful to see politicians pushing for the expansion of logging and fossil fuels as we experience and witness this devastation. #wildfires #cdnpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
'Massive' wildfire south of Port Alberni, B.C., doubles in size Tuesday | CBC News
The Mount Underwood fire near Port Alberni, B.C., has more than doubled in size in less than a day, growing to almost 1,400 hectares Tuesday, and knocking out power for more than 500 B.C. Hydro customers.
www.cbc.ca
August 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Let’s be clear about the wildfires - endless logging and fossil fuel expansion have made this situation worse.
It's shameful to see politicians pushing for the expansion of logging and fossil fuels as we experience and witness this devastation. #wildfires #cdnpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
It's shameful to see politicians pushing for the expansion of logging and fossil fuels as we experience and witness this devastation. #wildfires #cdnpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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I still get chills
Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts
Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE
see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts
Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE
see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
August 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I still get chills
Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts
Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE
see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts
Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE
see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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“I think the best word is validation”: Residents react to research showing immediate health improvements after the closure of a coal processing plant.
Kids in Pennsylvania Are Breathing (Much) Easier After a Coal Plant Shuttered - Inside Climate News
Pediatric asthma ER visits dropped 40 percent after a coal processing plant near Pittsburgh closed down, researchers found.
insideclimatenews.org
August 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
“I think the best word is validation”: Residents react to research showing immediate health improvements after the closure of a coal processing plant.
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Delighted to share our latest review in Nature Reviews Neuroscience!
We examine the growing evidence that vascular dysfunction plays a key role in cognitive decline in ageing and dementia, and argue that preserving/restoring CBF should be central to future therapies.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We examine the growing evidence that vascular dysfunction plays a key role in cognitive decline in ageing and dementia, and argue that preserving/restoring CBF should be central to future therapies.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The vascular contribution to cognitive decline in ageing and dementia - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Growing evidence suggests that reduced cerebral blood flow contributes to cognitive decline in ageing and dementia. Attwell and colleagues discuss the underlying mechanisms and functional consequences...
www.nature.com
August 5, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Delighted to share our latest review in Nature Reviews Neuroscience!
We examine the growing evidence that vascular dysfunction plays a key role in cognitive decline in ageing and dementia, and argue that preserving/restoring CBF should be central to future therapies.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We examine the growing evidence that vascular dysfunction plays a key role in cognitive decline in ageing and dementia, and argue that preserving/restoring CBF should be central to future therapies.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Palestinian activist Odeh Hadalin (a.k.a. Awdah Hathaleen), who was featured in the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, was shot to death in the West Bank on Monday.
'No Other Land' Contributor Odeh Hadalin Killed in West Bank Settler Attack
Odeh Hadalin, a contributor to the Oscar-winning documentary 'No Other Land,' was reportedly killed in an attack by Israeli settlers in the West Bank.
www.rollingstone.com
July 29, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Palestinian activist Odeh Hadalin (a.k.a. Awdah Hathaleen), who was featured in the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, was shot to death in the West Bank on Monday.
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6/ Indeed, to achieve high prediction performance, 10-min scans are cost inefficient. In most scenarios, the optimal scan time is ≥20 min. On average, 30-min scans are the most cost effective, yielding 22% savings over 10 min scans. Overshooting is cheaper than undershooting ...
July 17, 2025 at 1:36 AM
6/ Indeed, to achieve high prediction performance, 10-min scans are cost inefficient. In most scenarios, the optimal scan time is ≥20 min. On average, 30-min scans are the most cost effective, yielding 22% savings over 10 min scans. Overshooting is cheaper than undershooting ...
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Alligator Alcatraz is the American Dachau. The first concentration camp. The Nazis initially portrayed Dachau as a proper prison with proper treatment.
Trump prefers to promote the cruelty and barbarism.
This is my latest on where this goes next.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/american-d...
Trump prefers to promote the cruelty and barbarism.
This is my latest on where this goes next.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/american-d...
American Dachau: Trump Takes the Next Step
Six months.
charlieangus.substack.com
July 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Alligator Alcatraz is the American Dachau. The first concentration camp. The Nazis initially portrayed Dachau as a proper prison with proper treatment.
Trump prefers to promote the cruelty and barbarism.
This is my latest on where this goes next.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/american-d...
Trump prefers to promote the cruelty and barbarism.
This is my latest on where this goes next.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/american-d...
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"Dr. Kobak and his team calculate that at least 13.5 percent of all biomedical abstracts appeared to have been written with the help of chatbots."
Not so surprising, given tools like Writefull (now integrated into Overleaf) that are explicitly marketed to scientists for this purpose.
Not so surprising, given tools like Writefull (now integrated into Overleaf) that are explicitly marketed to scientists for this purpose.
July 4, 2025 at 3:12 AM
"Dr. Kobak and his team calculate that at least 13.5 percent of all biomedical abstracts appeared to have been written with the help of chatbots."
Not so surprising, given tools like Writefull (now integrated into Overleaf) that are explicitly marketed to scientists for this purpose.
Not so surprising, given tools like Writefull (now integrated into Overleaf) that are explicitly marketed to scientists for this purpose.
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Thrilled to see our TinyRNN paper in @nature! We show how tiny RNNs predict choices of individual subjects accurately while staying fully interpretable. This approach can transform how we model cognitive processes in both healthy and disordered decisions. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Discovering cognitive strategies with tiny recurrent neural networks - Nature
Modelling biological decision-making with tiny recurrent neural networks enables more accurate predictions of animal choices than classical cognitive models and offers insights into the underlying cog...
doi.org
July 2, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Thrilled to see our TinyRNN paper in @nature! We show how tiny RNNs predict choices of individual subjects accurately while staying fully interpretable. This approach can transform how we model cognitive processes in both healthy and disordered decisions. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
May 31, 2025 at 4:43 AM
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
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NEW: Citations in the MAHA Report have telltale signs of AI chatbot use -- we reviewed all 522 of the listed citations, and at least 37 of the footnotes appear multiple times in the citations with another 21 having dead links
w/ @laurenweberhp.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
White House MAHA Report may have garbled science by using AI, experts say
The report, led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was intended to address the reasons for the decline in Americans’ life expectancy.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 30, 2025 at 1:00 AM
NEW: Citations in the MAHA Report have telltale signs of AI chatbot use -- we reviewed all 522 of the listed citations, and at least 37 of the footnotes appear multiple times in the citations with another 21 having dead links
w/ @laurenweberhp.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
w/ @laurenweberhp.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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Imaging a concussion and the ensuing immune response at the blood–brain barrier | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Imaging a concussion and the ensuing immune response at the blood–brain barrier | PNAS
Concussions can cause debilitating symptoms despite no evidence of structural changes
on diagnostic imaging. The cellular events occurring in the b...
www.pnas.org
May 29, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Imaging a concussion and the ensuing immune response at the blood–brain barrier | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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My med school textbook says stimulants like Ritalin treat hyperactivity by “stimulating” the brain’s attention and cognitive control systems. We studied children taking stimulants in the ABCD Study, and the largest differences were actually in arousal and reward networks! Check out our preprint!
May 22, 2025 at 9:33 PM
My med school textbook says stimulants like Ritalin treat hyperactivity by “stimulating” the brain’s attention and cognitive control systems. We studied children taking stimulants in the ABCD Study, and the largest differences were actually in arousal and reward networks! Check out our preprint!
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1. Over the past four months I've talked with many foundation directors about science philanthropy during Trump 2.0.
Two things come to the fore every time.
i) The most important they can do is maintain the pipeline of talent
ii) With the federal govt pulling out, ROI is higher now than ever.
Two things come to the fore every time.
i) The most important they can do is maintain the pipeline of talent
ii) With the federal govt pulling out, ROI is higher now than ever.
May 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
1. Over the past four months I've talked with many foundation directors about science philanthropy during Trump 2.0.
Two things come to the fore every time.
i) The most important they can do is maintain the pipeline of talent
ii) With the federal govt pulling out, ROI is higher now than ever.
Two things come to the fore every time.
i) The most important they can do is maintain the pipeline of talent
ii) With the federal govt pulling out, ROI is higher now than ever.
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Ontario hospitals spent more than $9-billion on nurses and other staff from for-profit agencies in a 10-year period, a new study concludes, by Allison Jones www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com @policyalternatives.ca
Ontario hospitals spent more than $9-billion on agency staff over 10 years, study finds
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives study found that from 2013-14 to 2022-23 public hospital spending on staff increased 6%, but their spending on private agencies increased 98%
www.theglobeandmail.com
May 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Ontario hospitals spent more than $9-billion on nurses and other staff from for-profit agencies in a 10-year period, a new study concludes, by Allison Jones www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com @policyalternatives.ca
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From side hustle to vertically integrated for-profit care, we should all be paying attention to what’s happening at Telus Health…
…and what that means for the future of primary care.
Well reported piece by @hannay.bsky.social.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/eco...
…and what that means for the future of primary care.
Well reported piece by @hannay.bsky.social.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/eco...
Telus Health prepares to stand alone after years of acquisitions
Over nearly two decades, Telus Health has grown into a multiheaded player with an outsized presence in Canada’s health care system
www.theglobeandmail.com
May 8, 2025 at 9:04 PM
From side hustle to vertically integrated for-profit care, we should all be paying attention to what’s happening at Telus Health…
…and what that means for the future of primary care.
Well reported piece by @hannay.bsky.social.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/eco...
…and what that means for the future of primary care.
Well reported piece by @hannay.bsky.social.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/eco...
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One thing about researchers is we will publish our way through the attempts to cancel us. New paper in @jama.com, the authors examine the impact of NIH grant cancellations on the US research enterprise by institute or center and ward type.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Characterization of Research Grant Terminations at the National Institutes of Health
This study examines the impact of National Institutes of Health grant terminations on the US research enterprise by quantifying the number and funding amount of these terminations and characterizing t...
jamanetwork.com
May 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM
One thing about researchers is we will publish our way through the attempts to cancel us. New paper in @jama.com, the authors examine the impact of NIH grant cancellations on the US research enterprise by institute or center and ward type.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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First post on an exciting new manuscript online today @natneuro.nature.com - in collab with @lucinauddin.bsky.social and Catie Chang. We take a fresh look at the physiological dynamics associated with the global signal 🧠 ...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Read here:
rdcu.be/ek01F
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Read here:
rdcu.be/ek01F
Autonomic physiological coupling of the global fMRI signal
Nature Neuroscience - The brain and body are necessarily connected. Here the authors show that brain blood flow and electrical activity are coupled with systemic physiological changes in the body.
rdcu.be
May 7, 2025 at 1:42 PM
First post on an exciting new manuscript online today @natneuro.nature.com - in collab with @lucinauddin.bsky.social and Catie Chang. We take a fresh look at the physiological dynamics associated with the global signal 🧠 ...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Read here:
rdcu.be/ek01F
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Read here:
rdcu.be/ek01F