Ford says no one in Canada is scrutinized like he is after backtracking on $28.9M private jet purchase | CBC News Ontario Premier Doug Ford told reporters Monday that "no one in the country" is more scrutinized than he is, as he explained his government's rationale for buying a $28.9-million private jet before qu...

It's called "A functioning democracy" you sentient hemorrhoid.

Diffusion MRI (dMRI) is a powerful tool to study white matter maturation. In our new preprint, we process and distribute a new resource of >24,000 ABCD dMRI scans using open source tools! We then evaluate how methods shape inferences about development.

🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Make healthier food choices can be confusing and challenging.

A study led by Michael Essman (@duke-university.bsky.social) whilst at @imsepidemiology.bsky.social (@cam.ac.uk) examines how we understand ultra-processed foods and the decisions we make about them.

Read - buff.ly/RSs6wXd

I need you to understand that there’s actually one very big reason making up a huge part of why everything sucks now: monopolies. Or, more accurately, oligopolies.

That’s why so many people are excited about the Ticketmaster decision that just happened.

But it’s the tip of the iceberg:

Are different desires (e.g., food, sleep, alcohol, cannabis) experienced and regulated the same way? We tested this question in a new preprint with Yang Liu, @minzlicht.bsky.social, @wilhelmhofmann.bsky.social, and @kevinmking.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/ps...

In a First for the U.S., Renewables Generate More Power Than Natural Gas In March, for the first time, renewables supplied more power to the U.S. than natural gas, a milestone in the transition to clean power. However, rising power demand is complicating the shift away from fossil fuels by extending the lives of many aging coal power plants.

In a first last month, renewables supplied more power to the U.S. than natural gas, a milestone in the shift to clean energy.

White matter pathways mediating dorsolateral prefrontal TMS therapy for depression

New @natneuro.nature.com paper led by Caio Seguin, Robin Cash, and Andrew Zalesky.

We map (indirect) pathways from DLPFC to SGC and link individual variation with response efficacy.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Britain breaks solar energy record twice as UK’s biggest solar farm gets approval Record high set on Monday and raised on Tuesday, with 14.4GW of electricity generated in sunny spring weather

A single line in this piece just made my day:

“The electricity system operator is understood to be preparing to run the grid without any gas for short periods as soon as this summer, in a first for the UK energy system.”

Renewables *work*. And progress matters🎉
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Let me say this plainly: Iranian children have as much of a right to live and thrive as American children.

Their babies MUST be as precious to me as my 6 niblings and my baby grandnib are IF I want them to have a future.

If I want a future for my kin AND humanity, I MUST act like it.

So must you.

How do we define "good" fMRI data? Especially with resting state, there are circularity risks if we evaluate data quality as showing the networks we expect to see. Javier Gonzalez-Castillo (& me & others) developed pBOLD, a new metric that uses multi-echo info. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/8

Hard agree. I think the other issue is how easy it is to get these meds through online providers where there is minimal screening and accountability to ensure ppl are not lying just to access meds.

Food policing poor families isn't a win for nutrition--it's a loss for dignity and joy.

As Brea Perry and I find in our research (see reply), low-income parents buy food treats for their kids because they want their kids to feel happy and normal--and they can't afford to do so in bigger ways.

I wish my fellow Ontarians would remember this at election time rather than swallowing the long-disproven myth that it's progressives who are bad with money.

Neuroanatomy reflects individual variability in impulsivity in youth - Molecular Psychiatry Molecular Psychiatry - Neuroanatomy reflects individual variability in impulsivity in youth

Our latest work looking at the neuroanatomical basis of impulsivity in youth is out now in Molecular Psychiatry!

The answer: no. Estrous phase had no association with cocaine intake during short access, long access, or progressive ratio sessions. High vs. low estrogen groupings? No difference. This is a null finding and null findings matter. But the story gets far more interesting.

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Nikhil V. Lakhani, Joseph W. Kable, et al:

A meta-analysis of neural systems underlying delay discounting: Implications for transdiagnostic research

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Childhood electroencephalographic signatures predict distinct developmental trajectories to adolescent anxiety and depression Adolescence is a vulnerable period for the onset of anxiety and depression, yet their neurodevelopmental origins remain unclear.

My close friend/colleague (Dr Pengfei Xu) has published an impressive 7-yr prospective study with nearly 400 young people, showing that functional brain dynamics in early childhood relate to adolescent anxiety and depression. www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000... #PsychSciSky

Food is not rubbish: helping schools reduce waste, costs & carbon YouTube video by University of Liverpool

Food is not rubbish: helping schools reduce waste, costs & carbon 🧑‍🍳♻️🌍

@liverpooluni.bsky.social's @charlottehardman.bsky.social explores and understand how schools can tackle the issue of food waste in the school dining room.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUpr...

For anyone skeptical about the effect of repetitive #TMS...

"Effects of 'inhibitory' protocols did not survive sham-normalization" 😐

Reassessing the neurophysiological effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation: A systematic review and comparative meta-analysis
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Our article examining the effects of chronic #GLP-1 receptor agonist (#semaglutide #ozempic) treatment on the incentive motivational value of a small #food reward and the cue that predicts it is now out in Psychopharmacology.

Open access article 👇
link.springer.com/10.1007/s002...

Absolutely. Even things like change over time as a result of food/calorie tracking - which I would assume would impact nutrition/calorie estimates

This is really neat. It would be interesting to look at how health washing impacts these judgements (as in foods marketed as healthier alternatives but in reality are just as calorie dense/lack nutrition)

see?
here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

Ford government expanding BYOB rules to cultural, outdoor events | CBC News The Ford government is expanding its alcohol rules to allow people to bring their own drinks to cultural or community outdoor events.

#priorities

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Absolutely!

New lab preprint!

Human Navigation Behaviour and Brain Dynamics in Real-world Contexts

with co-authors: @pfvelasco.bsky.social and @antoinecoutrot.bsky.social

arxiv.org/pdf/2603.11347

My issue is that this call is specific for professors. Canada is already losing young talent and this will pus them out even more. Investing in the next big names would keep innovation and talent in Canada

Do researchers share their code upon request? Does running their orginal code on the original data produce the original results? We provide evidence in a new Royal Society Open Science publication. Studying more than 1,000 articles which use data from the European Social Survey, we find that... 🧵

Childhood Maltreatment and Deviations from Normative Brain Structure: A Mega-Analysis of 3,711 Individuals from the ENIGMA MDD and ENIGMA PTSD Working Groups Childhood maltreatment (CM), encompassing abuse and neglect, is highly prevalent and associated with elevated risk for Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and other…

Childhood maltreatment has age- and sex-specific effects on brain morphometry.

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Nadine Herzog, Christoph Mulert, et al:

From surface to depth: Using deep learning to predict striatal fMRI reward signaling from EEG

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...