We are looking for a research assistant in Calgary to help oversee the @pregnancystudy.bsky.social study! Job will include collecting MRI scans and short behavioural assessments on children, managing data, and working with a great team across Canada.
careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1764177...
Elections are about people choosing their representatives, not politicians choosing their voters. Yet that is what the UCP is planning. It is planning to deliberately disenfranchise urban voters. Red Deer and Lethbridge would not exist as autonomous political entities. Calgary/Edmonton hurt too.
There is a reason that we do not have MLAs decide on electoral boundaries. Tossing out the Electoral Boundaries Commission and replacing it with a UCP-dominated committee is not just a bad idea. It is really bad for democracy. Ask the US, ask Hungary. This is not normal!
They are literally making it up as they go along. When they don't like the outcome, the Smith government rigs the process.
It's a worrisome pattern for those who care about procedural fairness and institutional forebearance.
You know, real conservatives.
“The process would be overseen by a UCP-led committee of MLAs and would see the number of MLAs grow by four, up to 91, with no public hearings.”
Read that again:
UCP-led committee. No public hearings.
Ripping up the map to rig the election.
edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
This descriptive, thoroughly reported and very troubling essay about the separatist movement in Alberta by @marcellodicintio.bsky.social is critical reading for Albertans. Great journalism in the public interest.
Among the Separatists via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
This is shaping up to be a great meeting, and it's been fun to organize! Hope many of you can join us in beautiful Banff in October!
Program highlights:
• Morning scientific sessions
• Afternoon Master Classes
• Hands-on Tractography Help Desk
🔗 event.fourwaves.com/ist2026
#IST2026 #Tractography #DiffusionMRI #Neuroimaging #BanffCanada
📅 October 25–29, 2026
📍 Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (Canada)
📝 Abstract deadline: May 27
🎤 Keynotes include Neda Jahanshad, Luis Concha & Forrest Collman
🏔️ Announcing IST 2026 in the Canadian Rockies!
The 2nd annual meeting of the International Society for Tractography is happening this fall. Following Bordeaux, we’re gathering researchers, clinicians & developers pushing tractography, diffusion MRI & brain connectivity forward.
How are kids born during COVID doing 5 years later? See our article for @boldinsights.bsky.social , using data from @pregnancystudy.bsky.social
boldscience.org/how-are-the-...
Congratulations to Madeson Todd on leading this paper through to the finish line! @catherinealebel.bsky.social @ucalgarymed.bsky.social
www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...
"Although most children have developed normally, there was a small increase of 1-2% in the number of kids screening “at risk” for delay."
Some children born during the pandemic need extra support, say Catherine Lebel, Gerald Giesbrecht, & Lianne Tomfohr-Madsen.
boldscience.org/how-are-the-...
How are kids born during COVID doing 5 years later? See our article for @boldinsights.bsky.social , using data from @pregnancystudy.bsky.social
boldscience.org/how-are-the-...
Happy birthday!
🧠 Next TractAnat Club – March 19
Testing tractography in the living brain: lessons from direct electrical stimulation mapping & clinical outcomes
🎤 Geert-Jan Rutten (ETZ Tilburg / TU Eindhoven), neurosurgeon & professor of Computational Neurosurgery.
🔀 Where do participants, policy, and practice intersect?
@catherinealebel.bsky.social, Associate Professor at @ucalgary.bsky.social, explains how her #LEVANTE project findings are already driving tangible changes beyond the classroom.
Learn more 🔗 levante-network.org/partners/uni...
#Education
If you watch 2 minutes of video today…
Make it this.
A masterclass on oratory and personal responsibility is on full display.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
💰Economic inequality is on the rise, and children will bear its burden. Yet children’s perspectives are rarely considered. We urgently need research to understand economic inequality from children's perspectives. (1/4)
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My book Joy on Joy is officially available through Indigo!
This book is a small celebration of joy in the places we don’t always think to look for it. If you’ve ever needed permission hold onto, or redefine joy in your life, this book is for you.
Link:
www.indigo.ca/en-ca/joy-on...
We are hiring a research assistant in Calgary to help lead our ongoing @pregnancystudy.bsky.social study! Come join a great team studying child brain development, learning, behaviour, and environment. careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1729274...
Excited to share a new preprint that examines how adversity exposure across development is associated with subcortical-cortical structure-function coupling and youth mental health! 🧠
Thread below: 🧵⬇
This posting closes Jan 19th. Please reach out if you have any questions.
We are pleased to announce that the first LEVANTE data release is now publicly available!
To access and download the pilot data, follow instructions on researcher.levante-network.org/data. This data release accompanies the preprint linked in the thread.
We are hiring a research assistant in Edmonton to help with two MRI studies of brain development. It's a fabulous team, and involves lots of work with kids and families. Please spread the word! iaejup.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Have we finally made Danielle Smith happy? With @clareblackwood.bsky.social @mmmegan.bsky.social @ianmmacintyre.bsky.social
📢 Applications are open for the 2026 #JacobsCIFARFellowship!
A new partnership between the Jacobs Foundation and CIFAR supports early- & mid-career researchers advancing how children learn & develop worldwide.
🗓️ Apply by 2 February 2026 → cifarportal.smapply.io/prog/jacobs_...
Smith Bulldozes Canadian Constitution Over Trans Kid Bills
No evidence. None.
@ABDanielleSmith has not produced one shred of evidence to prove that trans children are being harmed.
In fact, the data says the opposite.
Interview with @duanebratt.bsky.social.
#ableg
youtu.be/YLHmb9Ksd5Y
IDEA: A Hallmark Christmas movie about an Alberta premier who refuses to be photographed with Santa unless he's seated, titled 'Notwithstanding Claus'.
