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Lara Boyd @lboyd47.bsky.social · May 21

Thrilled to celebrate 8 new grads from our graduate program in Rehabilitation Sciences - Congrats! @ubcrhsc.bsky.social @ubcpt.bsky.social @ubcosot.bsky.social

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Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health (DMCBH) @dmcbrainhealth.bsky.social · May 20

DMCBH member Dr. Lara Boyd (@lboyd47.bsky.social) has created a video game to help with stroke recovery.

“Our hope is to gamify rehabilitation, creating an enjoyable experience for patients that will extend the exercises that they perform in structured therapy to regain limb functionality.”

Gamified stroke recovery improves arm function - Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health | DMCBH

New software brings the fun of playing a video game to high-repetition rehabilitative exercises for individuals affected by stroke. For the

www.centreforbrainhealth.ca

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Lara Boyd @lboyd47.bsky.social · Mar 19

Learning a new movement with your arm relies on learning to move your eyes! Check out our new paper www.nature.com/articles/s41... @ubcrhsc.bsky.social @drrubino.bsky.social @jandrushko.bsky.social @ubcosot.bsky.social 🧪

Oculomotor learning is evident during implicit motor sequence learning - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Oculomotor learning is evident during implicit motor sequence learning

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Sherry Pagoto, PhD @drsherrypagoto.bsky.social · Mar 12

New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024.

That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved.

Show me a better investment than that.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report

National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.

www.forbes.com

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · Mar 10

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Allen Institute @alleninstitute.org · Mar 10

Happy #BrainAwarenessWeek! 🧠 🎉

All week long, we'll be sharing all things brain and take you behind the scenes of our work to demystify it.

🎨 Amazing agar art by Research Associate Brooke Wynalda!

#Neuroskyence #BrainWeek @danafoundation.bsky.social

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AndreaDC she/her✊🏼♥️🌿🌎🌍🌏🍉🌻Despair is a luxury we just can’t afford @andreadoremus.bsky.social · Mar 6

Tomorrow:

#MarchForScience
#March7 #March7th

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Dana 🌈🔬🪱 @millerlab.bsky.social · Feb 27

Dear HHMI - this is a much better response - take notes

P. Gabrielle Foreman @profgabrielle.bsky.social · Feb 27

“MacArthur Foundation will increase its giving over the next 2 years in response to what it calls a “crisis" prompted by the Trump administration's freeze on federal foreign aid and the now- suspended freeze on federal grants.” My proudest day yet as a MaArthur Fellow. abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

MacArthur Foundation to increase giving for two years in response to 'crisis'

The John D

abcnews.go.com

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Canadian Psychological Association @canadianpsychology.bsky.social · Feb 25

@liisagalea.bsky.social is a scientific lead for the @camhnews.bsky.social program womenmind™, which tackles gender disparities in science and mental health research.
#PsychologyMonth #WomenInScience

https://buff.ly/3Xl28G3

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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · Feb 21

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Mama Doc @mamadoc.bsky.social · Feb 4

For day 4 of Black History Month, there may be no woman who has made a bigger historical impact than Henrietta Lacks.

Born in 1920, she was found to have cervical cancer at the age of 31. The cells in the biopsy were discovered to double every 20-24 hours. Up until then, it was impossible /1

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · Jan 23

A call to send messages of encouragement to Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, with her address listed:
The Rt Revd Mariann Edgar Budde
Episcopal Church House
Mount St. Alban
Washington, DC, 20016-5094, USA

Her photo shows her standing confidently, wearing a purple bishop's stole and a cross necklace, set against a stone pillar backdrop

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Matthew Boyd @mboydpdx.bsky.social · Nov 22

My dad always took my brother and I fishing. It was awesome. I was so exited I could barely sleep the night before. That's him cleaning a fish behinds us. Me returning the favor 40 years later.

Steelhead fishing in Oregon with my dad and brother 40 years ago. That's him behind us.

Sharing a fly caught coho moment w/ my dad.

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Lara Boyd @lboyd47.bsky.social · Dec 16

Do Amercians realize that this does not happen in the rest of the world? Just wondering from 🇨🇦 ...

Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · Dec 16

This enduring piece from The Onion originated with the Isla Vista massacre in 2014. I recently published a two-year investigation of that case—which dives deep into how we can do a lot more as a nation to prevent school and mass shootings 👉🏻 www.motherjones.com/criminal-jus...

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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · Dec 16

Terry Fox will be the next Canadian featured on the $5 bill.
The athlete and activist will be replacing Sir Wilfrid Laurier who will now appear on the next version of the $50 note, by Clarrie Feinstein www.thestar.com/news/terry-f... via @torontostar.bsky.social

Terry Fox will be the next Canadian featured on the $5 bill

The athlete and activist will be replacing Sir Wilfrid Laurier who will now appear on the next version of the $50 note.

www.thestar.com

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Lara Boyd @lboyd47.bsky.social · Nov 30

My favorite day as a professor! Congrats to the new grads [email protected] and @anjanarajendran.bsky.social

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Jehannine (J9) Austin @j9austin.bsky.social · Nov 29

Fantastic thread … yay science. Saving lives!
Aside: somewhat jarring to immediately note that 13/15 are men authors …

Altmetric @altmetric.com · Nov 29

14) Grace Eldering and Pearl Kendrick developed the whooping cough vaccine and saved 14 million of us in the process.

Their work attracted attention from 2021 onwards despite being published in 1987.

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Report for: Progress Report on Pertussis Immunization.

In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric

www.altmetric.com

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Michelle Ploughman @michploughman.bsky.social · Nov 28

First day of 🇨🇦 Stroke Congress #Calgary and all the superstars are here. @sandyb-reachlab.bsky.social @lboyd47.bsky.social fangirling here! Epic. strokecongress.canadianstroke.ca/wp-content/u...

strokecongress.canadianstroke.ca

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Liisa Galea @liisagalea.bsky.social · Nov 26

Our latest review-with @bonniee-leee.bsky.social where we pour our ❤️🧠 & soul to outline our position on why we are so passionate about harnessing the power of sex differences & within sex diff to propel precision medicine forward let us know if we convince you www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Leveraging research into sex differences and steroid hormones to improve brain health - Nature Reviews Endocrinology

This Review outlines how the effects of steroid hormones on hippocampal neuroplasticity across the adult lifespan differ between the sexes, highlighting the importance of considering sex and steroid h...

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BrainBehaviourLab @brainbehaviourlab.bsky.social · Nov 26

What happens when a field includes mostly men and males in research? We have clinical guidelines that may not apply to females or women. Check it out in our new paper: academic.oup.com/ptj/advance-...

Chronic Underrepresentation of Females and Women in Stroke Research Adversely Impacts Clinical Care

Abstract. Unequal sex and gender sample sizes in rehabilitation studies have implications for the generalizability of the evidence and for the clinicians t

academic.oup.com

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BrainBehaviourLab @brainbehaviourlab.bsky.social · Nov 15

Check out our new paper showing how gamified tasks can be used for stroke rehabilitation! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Gamified Practice Improves Paretic Arm Motor Behavior in Individuals With Stroke - Cristina Rubino, Bimal Lakhani, Beverley C. Larssen, Sarah N. Kraeutner, Justin W. Andrushko, Michael R. Borich, Lara...

Background Stroke is a heterogeneous condition, making choice of treatment, and determination of how to structure rehabilitation outcomes diﬃcult. Individualize...

journals.sagepub.com

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · Nov 14

Democrats have the majority for less than two more months. I'll be using every second to push for passage of my PRESS Act to protect journalists from government spying and surveillance.

WIRED @wired.com · Nov 14

NEW: Legislation that would bar the United States government from spying on journalists—except under rare, specific circumstances—is currently stalled in Congress.

Now, with only weeks left to legislate, press advocates are urging Senate Democrats to pass the bill, known as the PRESS Act.