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Pan American Neuroendocrine Society @paneuroendo.bsky.social · 2d

Do you know any trainees who are looking for mentoring opportunities? Share with them the MAPS Program! 🧑‍🔬🎯

Applications are open until October 20th 📆

🔗 Learn more: forms.gle/Aa5dF4Wqswy2...

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 3d

Nobel laureate Shimon Sakaguchi reflects on the role of regulatory T cells in peripheral immune tolerance and how the cells could transform treatment for cancer, autoimmune disease and organ transplant rejection

Shimon Sakaguchi Hunted for an Immune Cell Others Dismissed. It Earned Him a Nobel Prize

Nobel laureate Shimon Sakaguchi reflects on the role of regulatory T cells in peripheral immune tolerance and how the cells could transform treatment for cancer, autoimmune disease and organ transplan...

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Animal Behavior Society @animbehsociety.bsky.social · 7d

Hey grad students studying animal behavior! Need a little extra research $$? (Don't we all?)

Apply for an ABS Student Research Grant! We award grants up to $2,000 to grad students & give feedback on the proposals. Deadline Dec 15.

More info here: www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/web/awards-s...

ABS Student Research and Developing Nations Grants! ABS offers the following grants to support graduate student research: Student Research Grants, ABS Conservation Award and Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Awards. The ABS also offers an Early Career Grant in Conservation Behavior and Developing Nations Grant to support students and other researchers from developing nations.

Applicants for student grants must be enrolled in a graduate program and must be active members of ABS (student membership fees cost $17-$34). Research grants range from $500-$2,000 USD, depending on the category of the grant and evaluations. Individuals may receive only one ABS research grant during their lifetime. More details on how the grants and how to apply in the link in the post.

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 3d

Untitled (Blue Jays)
Emily Kewageshig ~ Anishinaabe
2025

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 6d

The Canadian boycott of travel to the U.S. continued through September—cementing an enormous economic loss for American tourism in 2025 as visitors from around the world choose not to travel to the States amid geopolitical tensions.
www.forbes.com/sites/suzann...

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Women's Health Research Cluster @whrcluster.bsky.social · 6d

Grad students researching women’s health—this is for you!
Apply for the Holly Ewanyshyn Women’s Health Equity Graduate Research Award by Oct 31, 2025.
Funding: $2,000 for research on disease pathogenesis in women or female models of disease. https://ow.ly/S5iZ50X8L6V
#WomensHealth #ResearchFunding

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Kiran Soma @kiransoma.bsky.social · 9d

www.theguardian.com/science/2025... 🤔

Jane Goodall said she would launch Trump and Musk on one-way trip into space

Primatologist said in interview released after her death she would also put Putin, Xi and Netanyahu on that spaceship

www.theguardian.com

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Mathieu Quesnel-Vallières @rna-ken.bsky.social · 13d

Open rank tenure-track position in comp bio at the University of Montreal. Great environment, great position. @futurepislack.bsky.social

medecine.umontreal.ca/wp-content/u...

medecine.umontreal.ca

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Kiran Soma @kiransoma.bsky.social · 14d

Jane Goodall, Who Chronicled the Social Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o... Such a great person and scientist. 🎁 link

Jane Goodall, Who Chronicled the Social Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91

www.nytimes.com

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Kiran Soma @kiransoma.bsky.social · 21d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M-8...

ReconciliACTION: seed2STEM Summer 2025 recap

YouTube video by ICORD Admin

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 16d

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 17d

⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.

The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.

interestingengineering.com/science/chin...

China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes

A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.

interestingengineering.com

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Kiran Soma @kiransoma.bsky.social · 17d

And we landed our dream colleagues! 🤩

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CAUT/ACPPU @caut.bsky.social · 21d

Research is the key to unlocking Canada’s future and it needs proper funding.

The federal government must uphold its Budget 2024 commitment to Canadian researchers.

Read the Coalition for Canadian Research’s open letter: www.caut.ca/news/coaliti...

Coalition for Canadian Research calls on federal government to fulfil the Budget 2024 research commitments

The Right Honourable Mark Carney, P.C., M.P.Prime Minister of CanadaOffice of the Prime Minister80 Wellington StreetOttawa, ON K1A 0A2

www.caut.ca

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Kiran Soma @kiransoma.bsky.social · 21d

icord.org/news/2025/09...

Reconciliation in action: seed2STEM keeps growing

seed2STEM, the summer research program that offers paid research internships to Indigenous high school students, grew again this summer. The program, which started at ICORD with one student in 2018…

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Kiran Soma @kiransoma.bsky.social · 21d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M-8...

ReconciliACTION: seed2STEM Summer 2025 recap

YouTube video by ICORD Admin

www.youtube.com

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Kiran Soma @kiransoma.bsky.social · 23d

A wonderful program!

Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health (DMCBH) @dmcbrainhealth.bsky.social · 23d

This past summer, DMCBH members welcomed a number of Indigenous students into their labs as part of ICORD's seed2STEM program. Participants had the opportunity to explore neuroscience research and gain hands-on experience in lab environments.

DMCBH labs host Indigenous students in 2025 seed2STEM program - Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health | DMCBH

The seed2STEM Summer Research Program for Indigenous Youth seeks to improve representation of Indigenous students in the academic disciplines of science,

www.centreforbrainhealth.ca

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American Chemical Society @acs.org · 24d

One week left to apply! Applications close Oct. 1 at 11:59 PM ET.

The ACS Graduate Student Success Grant offers 100 grants of $25,000 each to support graduate students completing their degrees.

Click the link to apply now: buff.ly/ZJrzSN0

ACS Graduate Student Success Grant. 100 grants of $25,000 per research institution. Four ACS students holding ACS signs

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John Anderson 🇨🇦 @janderz8.bsky.social · 28d

Hi #canadian researchers - please sign this petition to help ensure funding isn’t cut to tri council agencies (NSERC, SSHRC, and CIHR). We’re looking at potential 15% cuts to ALL federal spending including grants win.newmode.net/canadianasso...

New/Mode | Make your voice impossible to ignore

win.newmode.net

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Kiran Soma @kiransoma.bsky.social · 27d

Congrats to all the authors! 🎉🥳

SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · 27d

#eNeuro | Depression Levels Are Associated with Reduced Capacity to Learn to Actively Avoid Aversive Events in Young Adults
https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0034-25.2025

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Kiran Soma @kiransoma.bsky.social · 27d

Wow.

Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 27d

"I'm deeply disappointed that, despite the fact that the United States has generously held off on its repeated threats to annex Canada, there is still widespread anti-American sentiment in Canada"

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

U.S. ambassador 'disappointed' with anti-American sentiment in Canada | CBC News

The U.S. ambassador to Canada is expressing frustration over the anti-American sentiment he sees in this country, including from politicians, after U.S. President Donald Trump hit most of the world wi...

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Endocrine News @endocrinenews.bsky.social · Aug 10

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Oxford Biology @biology.ox.ac.uk · Sep 15

Oxford Biology is growing 📢

We’re appointing 3 Associate Professors in:
🌱 Plant Sciences
🦉 Animal Behaviour
🔬 Molecular Cell Biology

3 fields. 3 opportunities. One new home for Oxford Biology.

Learn more 👉 bit.ly/41S2Tc7
Apply now 👉 bit.ly/488CNW3

Photo showing the inside atrium of the new Life and Mind Building

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Mel Goodale @action-brain.bsky.social · Sep 12

The Department of Neuroscience at the University of Lethbridge has a tenure-track position for a neuroscientist studying brain function across the life span in nonhuman animals. Join a terrific community of researchers in a beautiful part of the country.🧠🧪 Re-post
uleth.peopleadmin.ca/postings/8586

The image depicts the University of Lethbridge, located in Southern Alberta, Canada. The prominent building shown in the image is the Science Commons, which is situated on the university campus within the coulee landscape.

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Kiran Soma @kiransoma.bsky.social · Sep 9

You Might Have Already Fallen for MAHA’s Conspiracy Theories www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/o... Free gift article 🎁

Opinion | You Might Have Already Fallen for MAHA’s Conspiracy Theories

www.nytimes.com

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