Aliza Brzezinski-Rittner
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Aliza Brzezinski-Rittner
@albrzez.bsky.social
Neuroscience PhD Candidate at McGill U 🧠🍁. Datera. Full of typos. Cuenta en Espanglish. 🔯🏳️‍🌈🇲🇽
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We are excited to launch The Data Quartet Challenge, recognizing student contributions to projects that integrate data from at least 2 of 4 FRQ supported Quebec Alzheimer’s and Aging cohorts (PREVENT-AD, CIMA-Q, NuAge, TRIAD), with 3 prizes of 5000$ tinyurl.com/3dy899xn
The Data Quartet Challenge.pdf
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September 2, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Hey #AAIC25 !
Today I'll be sharing our research on the mediating effect of WMH on spontaneous brain activity during aging! 🧠
Join me on poster 430!
@ameliemetz.bsky.social @dadarmahsa.bsky.social @yasharneuro.bsky.social @roqamoqa.bsky.social
July 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Congrats to HBHL-funded researcher & 2022 HBHL New Faculty Recruit @dadarmahsa.bsky.social on being awarded the President’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers at the 2025 @mcgill.ca @healthsciences.mcgill.ca Convocation Ceremony! Well deserved. 👏

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May 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Sneak peek from first poster session at #HBHLSymposium2025 📸

With over 100 trainees presenting their innovative research on brain health, it's a great opportunity to explore new perspectives and pioneering work from the next generation of researchers! 🖼️🎓 @healthsciences.mcgill.ca
May 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
www.science.org
April 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Great write up at @thetransmitter.bsky.social on the seeming erasure of SABV in the new era of NIH. Gotta say The Transmitter is killing it the last few weeks, first to report on the Federal Register block and now this. Leading the charge! 💪 www.thetransmitter.org/policy/exclu...
Exclusive: NIH appears to archive policy requiring female animals in studies
Such a shift would “put us back in the dark ages in terms of our science,” says neuroscientist Anne Murphy, who helped to formulate the original policy.
www.thetransmitter.org
February 25, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Excited to share that the first project of my PhD was published in 🧠 @braincomms.bsky.social 🧠 !!
We showed that machine learning can effectively differentiate frontotemporal dementia subtypes combining brain atrophy and cognition 🎉
doi.org/10.1093/brai... (1/10)
February 24, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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We are organizing a Neuroimaging Summer School with the @cervo-ulaval.bsky.social in Quebec and @ibroorg.bsky.social. LATAM graduate students will have all expenses paid. More info at the site and here [email protected]
Calls will close April 20.

q2summerschool.com
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Q2 SUMMER SCHOOL – Microscopy TopicsAdvanced Topics
q2summerschool.com
February 3, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Hello, world. We’ve made our way to the bright side. 🦋 Let’s be friends?
February 6, 2025 at 10:55 PM
It’s out! 🎉 Check our paper “Disentangling the effect of sex from brain size on brain organization and cognitive functioning” 🧠, where we explored sex differences in the brain while removing the effect of brain size differences. 1/10

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Disentangling the effect of sex from brain size on brain organization and cognitive functioning - GeroScience
Neuroanatomical sex differences estimated in neuroimaging studies are confounded by total intracranial volume (TIV) as a major biological factor. Employing a matching approach widely used for causal m...
link.springer.com
January 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM