It is a testament to our collective hubris that we tend to believe that novel ideas are better than old ideas.

Congratulations are in order - we have 8 Vanier Scholars!! Incredible 😁 CIHR NSERC / CRSNG SSHRC vanier.gc.ca/en/scholar_sea…

Another exciting new direction in the Venton lab is modulating neurotransmission with Focused ultrasound (FUS). Led by Greatness Olaitan, and in collaboration with Wendy Lynch, we can now use noninvasive FUS to modulate a dopaminergic circuit onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Congratulations to the 2025 #VanierCanada Graduate Scholars, Canada’s future research leaders! Meet the awardees: vanier.gc.ca/en/scholar_sea… SSHRC NSERC / CRSNG

Everyone working in a STEM field should read this - ‘writing is thinking’ nature.com/articles/s4422…

My final postdoc paper from the Golshani lab is finally out! How does inhibition regulate memory-encoding pyramidal sequences? We used kHz-rate voltage imaging of mouse CA1 PV & SST cells during a working memory task with odors. nature.com/articles/s4159…

Want to allow the innocent a life.

The latest child to starve to death in Gaza weighed less than when she was born cp24.com/news/world/202…

Dive into the intricate connections in the mouse brain! This video showcases 107 reconstructed neurons, thanks to the combined efforts of our teams at the Allen Institute, global collaborators, and tools from Google. Imaged using our cutting-edge ExA-SPIM microscope. 🧠✨

Calling all undergraduate and graduate students considering a career in medicine and/or research! Please join us for a hybrid (Zoom/in-person) session to learn more if combined MD-PhD training is right for you! Message us here or on Instagram (Students of U of T's MD–PhD Program) to RSVP!

PLEASE REPOST TO SHARE WITH CANADIAN UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDENTS Excited to host an informational session about MD-PhD programs. DM for more info! Zoom and in person on Friday August 8th

#IBB shared some highlights from their visit to Sheena Josselyn lab. It was rewarding to see how much interest was sparked by #engrams as well as #ML and #NeuroAI 🧠✨ Shoutout to Mohammed Sarikahya, PhD., Armaan Fallahi & Xiaoyu Chen

Check out this beautiful video from one of our #OpenScope projects! All panels were recorded simultaneously. The top plane are dendrites in the brain's top layer. The bottom row shows activity in a deeper layer of the brain – layer 5. More on OpenScope: allenneuraldynamics.org/projects/opens…

Great leaders think like farmers.

Jeff Bezos literally dropped the most underrated winning principle