Ravi Menon
@northernthrux.bsky.social
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. All comments are my own. Scientific Director of the Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping, 🇨🇦's national ultra high field MRI platform. cfmm.uwo.ca
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7916-0263
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7916-0263
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Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS): a flexible paradigm for event-related fMRI
Nature Methods - Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS) is an acquisition scheme for event-related fMRI that generates data with high temporal signal-to-noise ratios interspaced with...
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14 months after submission, our article “Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS): a flexible paradigm for event-related fMRI" is now out in @natmethods.nature.com . You can read it here rdcu.be/ePJo6
It is the first first author paper from my student @renilmathew.bsky.social 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 …1/N
It is the first first author paper from my student @renilmathew.bsky.social 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 …1/N
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❤️ Bluesky fMRI people! 3-day #fMRI course live online Jan 7-9, 2026.
#SPM, #ICA, GLM, connectivity, mediation, MRI physics, #DataScience with @vcalhoun.bsky.social and Kent Kiehl.
We love talking methods & connecting with colleagues! Come join us!
Register here:
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#SPM, #ICA, GLM, connectivity, mediation, MRI physics, #DataScience with @vcalhoun.bsky.social and Kent Kiehl.
We love talking methods & connecting with colleagues! Come join us!
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November 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
❤️ Bluesky fMRI people! 3-day #fMRI course live online Jan 7-9, 2026.
#SPM, #ICA, GLM, connectivity, mediation, MRI physics, #DataScience with @vcalhoun.bsky.social and Kent Kiehl.
We love talking methods & connecting with colleagues! Come join us!
Register here:
sites.google.com/dartmouth.ed...
#SPM, #ICA, GLM, connectivity, mediation, MRI physics, #DataScience with @vcalhoun.bsky.social and Kent Kiehl.
We love talking methods & connecting with colleagues! Come join us!
Register here:
sites.google.com/dartmouth.ed...
I think this is OK on one level. It's social Darwinism. It eventually means there will be less of those people around to vote. I think the problem is that (1) it doesn't happen as fast as the rest of us would like, and (2) a lot of innocent people get hurt in the process.
Dog owners now worry vaccines will cause "pawtism?"
We need to understand the role of political identity in the spread of vaccine lies (and other health misinformation) and how we can work to counter it.
My new piece...👇
We need to understand the role of political identity in the spread of vaccine lies (and other health misinformation) and how we can work to counter it.
My new piece...👇
🚨 My new piece: increasingly, vaccine hesitancy tied to political identity www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... via @thestar.com
Vaccines are a wedge issue, exploited by politicians to garner votes, by political commentators to build brands and by online influencers to get clicks.
#VaccinesWork
Vaccines are a wedge issue, exploited by politicians to garner votes, by political commentators to build brands and by online influencers to get clicks.
#VaccinesWork
November 15, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I think this is OK on one level. It's social Darwinism. It eventually means there will be less of those people around to vote. I think the problem is that (1) it doesn't happen as fast as the rest of us would like, and (2) a lot of innocent people get hurt in the process.
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Excited to launch the Brain Star Award competition for best papers published in 2025 - Details here: can-acn.org/awards/brain...
Nous sommes heureux de lancer du concours Cerveau en tête récompensant les meilleurs articles publiés en 2025 can-acn.org/fr/prix-cerv...
Nous sommes heureux de lancer du concours Cerveau en tête récompensant les meilleurs articles publiés en 2025 can-acn.org/fr/prix-cerv...
November 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Excited to launch the Brain Star Award competition for best papers published in 2025 - Details here: can-acn.org/awards/brain...
Nous sommes heureux de lancer du concours Cerveau en tête récompensant les meilleurs articles publiés en 2025 can-acn.org/fr/prix-cerv...
Nous sommes heureux de lancer du concours Cerveau en tête récompensant les meilleurs articles publiés en 2025 can-acn.org/fr/prix-cerv...
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Not quite ready for routine use, but a big step towards what would be a wonderful scan to include in all fMRI protocols. It gets a variable delay ASL, angio and variable contrast T1 anatomical all from the same set of data!
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40955094/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40955094/
Combined angiography and perfusion using radial imaging and arterial spin labeling with structural contrast - PubMed
CAPRIA+S is an efficient single acquisition to provide intrinsically co-registered quantitative information about brain blood flow and structure that has considerable advantages over conventional methods.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 15, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Not quite ready for routine use, but a big step towards what would be a wonderful scan to include in all fMRI protocols. It gets a variable delay ASL, angio and variable contrast T1 anatomical all from the same set of data!
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40955094/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40955094/
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#WesternU researchers have unlocked the hidden potential in discarded MRI data, developing a new technique transforming how scientists study the brain. @schulichmeddent.bsky.social
Signal in the silence: Western researchers uncover hidden potential in discarded MRI data - Western News
Western University researchers have uncovered hidden potential in the historically discarded MRI data that is recorded in start-up period of scans.
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November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
#WesternU researchers have unlocked the hidden potential in discarded MRI data, developing a new technique transforming how scientists study the brain. @schulichmeddent.bsky.social
One of the highlights of my career was working with David and noted architect I.M. Pei of Pei, Cobb and Freed in the design of the Broad Center for the Biological Sciences at Caltech. And yeah, it could have been my new home, but the collaboration environment at @Western was so much better.
Remembering David Baltimore (1938–2025): Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Remembering David Baltimore (1938–2025)
David Baltimore, one of modern biology’s most influential scientists, passed away
at his home in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, on September 6, 2025 at the age of 87, leaving
legions of former trainees an...
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November 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
One of the highlights of my career was working with David and noted architect I.M. Pei of Pei, Cobb and Freed in the design of the Broad Center for the Biological Sciences at Caltech. And yeah, it could have been my new home, but the collaboration environment at @Western was so much better.
If the community wants, we have XA60 and VE12U versions we can make available as a C2P for Siemens scanners. And we have a Paravision 360 v3.6 available for Bruker. The processing code is equally simple and is posted with the paper.
14 months after submission, our article “Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS): a flexible paradigm for event-related fMRI" is now out in @natmethods.nature.com . You can read it here rdcu.be/ePJo6
It is the first first author paper from my student @renilmathew.bsky.social 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 …1/N
It is the first first author paper from my student @renilmathew.bsky.social 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 …1/N
Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS): a flexible paradigm for event-related fMRI
Nature Methods - Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS) is an acquisition scheme for event-related fMRI that generates data with high temporal signal-to-noise ratios interspaced with...
rdcu.be
November 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
If the community wants, we have XA60 and VE12U versions we can make available as a C2P for Siemens scanners. And we have a Paravision 360 v3.6 available for Bruker. The processing code is equally simple and is posted with the paper.
14 months after submission, our article “Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS): a flexible paradigm for event-related fMRI" is now out in @natmethods.nature.com . You can read it here rdcu.be/ePJo6
It is the first first author paper from my student @renilmathew.bsky.social 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 …1/N
It is the first first author paper from my student @renilmathew.bsky.social 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 …1/N
Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS): a flexible paradigm for event-related fMRI
Nature Methods - Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS) is an acquisition scheme for event-related fMRI that generates data with high temporal signal-to-noise ratios interspaced with...
rdcu.be
November 13, 2025 at 12:23 PM
14 months after submission, our article “Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS): a flexible paradigm for event-related fMRI" is now out in @natmethods.nature.com . You can read it here rdcu.be/ePJo6
It is the first first author paper from my student @renilmathew.bsky.social 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 …1/N
It is the first first author paper from my student @renilmathew.bsky.social 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 …1/N
Reposted by Ravi Menon
Reposted by Ravi Menon
Research in primate brains has been essential for the development of brain-computer interfaces and artificial neural networks. New funding and policy changes put future such advances at risk, write Cory Miller, @movshon.bsky.social and Doris Tsao.
#neuroskyence
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#neuroskyence
bit.ly/47MXYLH
Without monkeys, neuroscience has no future
Research in primate brains has been essential for the development of BCIs, ANNs. New funding and policy changes put future such advances at risk.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Research in primate brains has been essential for the development of brain-computer interfaces and artificial neural networks. New funding and policy changes put future such advances at risk, write Cory Miller, @movshon.bsky.social and Doris Tsao.
#neuroskyence
bit.ly/47MXYLH
#neuroskyence
bit.ly/47MXYLH
Embargo lifts in 3 days and 14 hours.
a nasa logo can be seen behind a rocket taking off
ALT: a nasa logo can be seen behind a rocket taking off
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November 9, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Embargo lifts in 3 days and 14 hours.
🎶🎵it’s that most wonderful time of the year🎼🎶🎵
November 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM
🎶🎵it’s that most wonderful time of the year🎼🎶🎵
In 1956, Jim Watson told my father, a brown man, that he would never get a job at Harvard and it was a miracle he had been admitted . Harvard's Board of Trustees saw it differently & appointed dad as an Assistant Professor and Director of the Harvard Agassiz Observatory BEFORE he finished his Ph.D!
James Watson, infamous racist and sexist who try to deny Rosalind Franklin credit for her role in discovering the structure of DNA, has died at age 97.
apnews.com/article/jame...
apnews.com/article/jame...
James Watson, co-discoverer of the double-helix shape of DNA, has died at age 97
Scientist James Watson, who shared a Nobel prize for helping discover the double-helix shape of the DNA molecule, has died. He was 97.
apnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
In 1956, Jim Watson told my father, a brown man, that he would never get a job at Harvard and it was a miracle he had been admitted . Harvard's Board of Trustees saw it differently & appointed dad as an Assistant Professor and Director of the Harvard Agassiz Observatory BEFORE he finished his Ph.D!
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Slick-H/M83 mice injected with alpha synuclein preformed fibrils. Magenta pS129 and yellow for eGFP driven by the Thy-1 promoter. blue nuclei #fluorescencefriday courtesy of Vlad Novikov. Shaz and Nadia from the @mind-western.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Slick-H/M83 mice injected with alpha synuclein preformed fibrils. Magenta pS129 and yellow for eGFP driven by the Thy-1 promoter. blue nuclei #fluorescencefriday courtesy of Vlad Novikov. Shaz and Nadia from the @mind-western.bsky.social
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Great to be in Toronto for the Second AG meeting for @tridentpct.bsky.social where our 🐁 molecular and cognition core will show what we are up to in the last 2 years facilitated by @touchscreencog.bsky.social and we will continue to learn about our organoid and marmoset models.
November 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Great to be in Toronto for the Second AG meeting for @tridentpct.bsky.social where our 🐁 molecular and cognition core will show what we are up to in the last 2 years facilitated by @touchscreencog.bsky.social and we will continue to learn about our organoid and marmoset models.
Oh yeah? Big deal. Ontario just raised its electric rates by 20-40% after killing off all its green energy projects a couple of years ago.
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Oh yeah? Big deal. Ontario just raised its electric rates by 20-40% after killing off all its green energy projects a couple of years ago.
I would also say thanks to @picardonhealth.bsky.social who elevated this on a national and public stage. MP’s noticed that. He is a gem!
The 🇨🇦 Standing Committee on Science and Research passed a modified resolution this afternoon that the requested ricouncil applicant and reviewer data can be aggregated and anonymized. Thanks to the many researchers who signed letters pointing out legitimate data privacy concerns. 👏👏
November 6, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I would also say thanks to @picardonhealth.bsky.social who elevated this on a national and public stage. MP’s noticed that. He is a gem!
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The 🇨🇦 Standing Committee on Science and Research passed a modified resolution this afternoon that the requested ricouncil applicant and reviewer data can be aggregated and anonymized. Thanks to the many researchers who signed letters pointing out legitimate data privacy concerns. 👏👏
November 6, 2025 at 12:22 AM
The 🇨🇦 Standing Committee on Science and Research passed a modified resolution this afternoon that the requested ricouncil applicant and reviewer data can be aggregated and anonymized. Thanks to the many researchers who signed letters pointing out legitimate data privacy concerns. 👏👏
I think I found a way to finance my core facility now. I own an extremely valuable original cerebellum painting that hangs in my office and that was painted and gifted by my former student @kathrynmanning.bsky.social, now a PI at @sickkidsto.bsky.social. @raynorproject.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I think I found a way to finance my core facility now. I own an extremely valuable original cerebellum painting that hangs in my office and that was painted and gifted by my former student @kathrynmanning.bsky.social, now a PI at @sickkidsto.bsky.social. @raynorproject.bsky.social
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It’s hard not to feel insulted by the Canadian federal budget’s implication that researchers currently working in Canada aren’t good enough, so they’ll spend a bunch of taxpayer money to bring in “top talent” from elsewhere.
November 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM
It’s hard not to feel insulted by the Canadian federal budget’s implication that researchers currently working in Canada aren’t good enough, so they’ll spend a bunch of taxpayer money to bring in “top talent” from elsewhere.
Come hear what we have been up to in the mouse and marmoset neuroscience world…from the person who actually does that work in my lab.
Meet our second and final speaker 🗣️ Amr will be presenting at TOMORROW’S webinar! You can register here: tinyurl.com/4a45v6mu
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And remember, you can stay up to date on webinars, events, and more by subscribing to our mailing list: t.co/Oa9dLowy1h
@canacn.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Come hear what we have been up to in the mouse and marmoset neuroscience world…from the person who actually does that work in my lab.
As a not terribly motivated grade 10 student in PG County, MD, a work-study term at Goddard Space Flight Centre opened my eyes to amazing technologies, my first exposure to computers and space. This is tragic. How many more kids like me will lose these opportunities?
Buildings at Goddard’s Maryland campus are being emptied and padlocked, sources say. NASA leadership has pushed back against the concerns.
NASA may be quietly gutting an iconic campus with what it calls strategic closures, workers fear | CNN
Buildings at Goddard’s Maryland campus are being emptied and padlocked, sources say. NASA leadership has pushed back against the concerns.
www.cnn.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:53 AM
As a not terribly motivated grade 10 student in PG County, MD, a work-study term at Goddard Space Flight Centre opened my eyes to amazing technologies, my first exposure to computers and space. This is tragic. How many more kids like me will lose these opportunities?
And that’s a wrap. Our second annual AGM for @tridentpct.bsky.social is over. Thank you to all our trainees, faculty and advisors. And a HUGE ❤️ to my admin core (L-R) Sarah, Sriram and Sherry for pulling this off at the Ivey DKJ Centre in Toronto. Take a few days off !
November 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM
And that’s a wrap. Our second annual AGM for @tridentpct.bsky.social is over. Thank you to all our trainees, faculty and advisors. And a HUGE ❤️ to my admin core (L-R) Sarah, Sriram and Sherry for pulling this off at the Ivey DKJ Centre in Toronto. Take a few days off !
This is important. It means the Trudeau era increases to the Tricouncils are preserved, but with a bit of a haircut. Funding will go up, just not by as much. At least till the hordes of researchers from abroad come.
We've been told by Finance that the 2024 budget commitments are intact, minus the $83 million. This is much better than I had been expecting.
2/ This matters enormously for granting councils. is the announced $83M cut from the 2024-25 baseline (which would be a real cut) or from the fiscal framework in which big instance were promised building up out to 2027-28 (which would mean a smaller rate of increase but not a cut)?
November 4, 2025 at 11:53 PM
This is important. It means the Trudeau era increases to the Tricouncils are preserved, but with a bit of a haircut. Funding will go up, just not by as much. At least till the hordes of researchers from abroad come.
Wait till they find out all of their private, personal information in their grants and reviews will be made public.🙄
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November 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Wait till they find out all of their private, personal information in their grants and reviews will be made public.🙄