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PeteyMcP
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A scientist who uses reason and logic
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The Neuro (aka MNI) is looking for a new director

Key priorities for this exciting/challenging position are to sustain & enhance excellence in:
🧠 neurosciences research & teaching;
🧠 clinical care;
🧠 & to boost provincial, national, and international profile

More info & apply here:
bit.ly/3SZvnvx
June 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Hello from Canada to all our American friends. Please find a way to stop this madness. Strike, protest, demonstrate.
Breaking News, Latest News and Videos | CNN
View the latest news and breaking news today for U.S., world, weather, entertainment, politics and health at CNN.com.
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March 4, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Unfortunately you and your new orange hairdo are just too much. We really did love you but you have been seeing that guy who likes to take his shirt off and go fishing. He's not nice and I am afraid he has been mean to my friends. So I am going to block your number. And I think it's not just me. Bye
February 28, 2025 at 11:49 PM
By America. You have a good run. From your friends in Canada, we will miss you
February 28, 2025 at 11:43 PM
A beast seen in the woods. Caprera, Sardinia, IT.
December 31, 2024 at 9:40 AM
Sunrise over the Mediterranean, Sardinia, Italy
December 28, 2024 at 8:25 AM
Canadian scientists make breakthrough in Parkinson’s disease research globalnews.ca/video/109321...
December 28, 2024 at 8:23 AM
www.fu-berlin.de/presse/infor...

Congratulations to my friend and colleague Volker Haucke Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Price. Richly deserved!!
Professor Volker Haucke erhält Leibniz-Preis 2025 der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft
Auszeichnung für bahnbrechende Forschung zum Lipidsignaling und zur synaptischen Signalübertragung. Der Wissenschaftler und Direktor am Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP) is...
www.fu-berlin.de
December 22, 2024 at 5:05 PM
Thank you for highlighting our work
December 20, 2024 at 7:26 PM
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Researchers at @thesgc.bsky.social and The Neuro, along with scientists from 11 major antibody manufacturers, have developed and standardized an #OpenScience platform to characterize research antibodies.
@ycharos.bsky.social aims to tackle a critical challenge in biomedical research reproducibility.
An open solution to improving research reproducibility
Academic and industry scientists collaborate on a new method to characterize research antibodies Structural Genomics Consortium researchers at The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) of M...
buff.ly
December 20, 2024 at 2:54 PM
winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/video/c30401...

@peter-mcpherson was interviewed on CTV news in Canada discussing Lewy Body formation in human iPSC-derived dopaminergic neurons!
The link between the immune system and Parkinson’s
Maralee Caruso learns about new research that suggests anyone can develop Parkinson’s disease if exposed to the right environment.
winnipeg.ctvnews.ca
December 4, 2024 at 6:11 PM
globalnews.ca/news/1089404...

Some press on our discovery of a link between Parkinson's disease and immune system activation

#@newsglobal
#@mcgill.ca
Stress and inflammation may help trigger Parkinson’s disease: study | Globalnews.ca
Environmental factors like prolonged stress, chronic inflammation and toxic exposure could play a key role in triggering Parkinson's disease, even in people without genetic risk.
globalnews.ca
December 1, 2024 at 5:47 PM
www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/cha....

Delighted that our study on Lewy Body formation in human dopaminergic neurons has been highlight by #mcgill-university. The connection between neuro degenerative disease and immune system activation continues to grow!
Lab-grown brain cells help uncover new targets for Parkinson’s treatments
Scientists have uncovered a new link between the immune system and the development of Parkinson’s disease. Researchers at The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) at McGill University have...
www.mcgill.ca
November 29, 2024 at 4:49 PM
Hard to understand what this will mean but given the science background (lack therefore of) of the proposed Director of Human snd Health Services it seems that some clenching is in order.
November 27, 2024 at 8:36 PM
Gulp!!
November 27, 2024 at 5:31 AM
Sorry, typo, Anita Bandrowski #rrids
November 27, 2024 at 4:02 AM
Follow Andria Bandrowski at #rrids if you have concerns about the problems with research antibodies
November 27, 2024 at 3:56 AM
I hope you are right, but what does he want? The threat at the Canadian border is guns flowing north. Less immigrants crossing into the USA in one year than a weekend at the southern border. What can Canada offer? How can Canada appease a problem that does not exist. $600 billion in trade at risk
I think the wrong questions r being asked about the proposed tariffs. The real question Is how little will he accept from Mexico , Canada and China in order to be able to say the threat of tariffs worked ?
November 27, 2024 at 3:49 AM
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I think the wrong questions r being asked about the proposed tariffs. The real question Is how little will he accept from Mexico , Canada and China in order to be able to say the threat of tariffs worked ?
November 27, 2024 at 3:41 AM
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Published in #nature. An editorial describing the problems with research antibodies and initiatives to fix the problem through #openscience. #oga #rrid
The antibodies don’t work! The race to rid labs of molecules that ruin experiments
Poorly performing antibodies have plagued biomedical sciences for decades. Several fresh initiatives hope to change this.
www.nature.com
November 26, 2024 at 3:26 AM
I encourage everyone to check out our #openscience project #ycharos. Validation of commercial antibodies. All data open without restriction #zenodo.
Nice to see so many of you here these days!

We'd love to know: who should we be following? Who are your favourite #OpenScience accounts? Who's doing good work in different parts of the world?
November 26, 2024 at 3:15 AM
Beautiful image. A blue protein butterfly for #bluesky
Hi Bluesky 👋

I thought, I'd say hello with a protein butterfly 🦋 (pdb 6of3)
I'm a scientist, graphic designer, blender enthusiast, science communicator, media relations specialist ... a bit of everything. Looking forward to the journey here! 🎶 "blue skies, smiling at me, nothing but blue skies ..."
November 25, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Lights and a green tree!
November 24, 2024 at 11:25 PM
However you celebrate. Please enjoy and love.
November 24, 2024 at 4:13 PM