Ravi Menon
@northernthrux.bsky.social
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. All comments are my own. Scientific Director of the Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping, 🇨🇦's national ultra high field MRI platform. cfmm.uwo.ca
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7916-0263
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Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS): a flexible paradigm for event-related fMRI
Nature Methods - Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS) is an acquisition scheme for event-related fMRI that generates data with high temporal signal-to-noise ratios interspaced with...
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14 months after submission, our article “Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS): a flexible paradigm for event-related fMRI" is now out in @natmethods.nature.com . You can read it here rdcu.be/ePJo6
It is the first first author paper from my student @renilmathew.bsky.social 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 …1/N
It is the first first author paper from my student @renilmathew.bsky.social 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 …1/N
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Doug Ford plans to consolidate Ontario’s 36 conservation authorities into 7, overseen by a new provincial agency making it easier for development by streamlining decisions at the expense of environmental protection and local accountability. Public comment: ero.ontario.ca/notice/025-1... PLS repost
November 25, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Doug Ford plans to consolidate Ontario’s 36 conservation authorities into 7, overseen by a new provincial agency making it easier for development by streamlining decisions at the expense of environmental protection and local accountability. Public comment: ero.ontario.ca/notice/025-1... PLS repost
Not only that, but there is a Nobel prize (or 2 or 3 or 4) behind most of those fundamental discoveries.
Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine.
If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.
#sciencematters
If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.
#sciencematters
November 25, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Not only that, but there is a Nobel prize (or 2 or 3 or 4) behind most of those fundamental discoveries.
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For a lecture tomorrow, calculations based on these data from Johns Hopkins on Covid deaths coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
If Canada had the death rate of the US: 82,600 more Canadians would have died
If the US had the death rate of Canada: 690,100 more Americans would have lived
If Canada had the death rate of the US: 82,600 more Canadians would have died
If the US had the death rate of Canada: 690,100 more Americans would have lived
Mortality Analyses - Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center
How does mortality differ across countries? Examining the number of deaths per confirmed case and per 100,000 population. A global comparison.
coronavirus.jhu.edu
January 23, 2025 at 12:05 AM
For a lecture tomorrow, calculations based on these data from Johns Hopkins on Covid deaths coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
If Canada had the death rate of the US: 82,600 more Canadians would have died
If the US had the death rate of Canada: 690,100 more Americans would have lived
If Canada had the death rate of the US: 82,600 more Canadians would have died
If the US had the death rate of Canada: 690,100 more Americans would have lived
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The Sensorimotor Superlab with @gribblelab.org and @andpru.bsky.social is a unique place to work and learn. We are now accepting MSc and PhD applications for Fall 2026. Join our awesome team at Western University... For application instructions see diedrichsenlab.org and gribblelab.org/join.html!
Diedrichsenlab
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November 24, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The Sensorimotor Superlab with @gribblelab.org and @andpru.bsky.social is a unique place to work and learn. We are now accepting MSc and PhD applications for Fall 2026. Join our awesome team at Western University... For application instructions see diedrichsenlab.org and gribblelab.org/join.html!
This hits home. Especially in the 🇨🇦 granting space and universities pressure to be more interdisciplinary.
Being interdisciplinary needs the courage to be misunderstood, to never completely fit in, to not get all inside jokes, trends, or status markers.
It requires us to sit with the discomfort of simultaneously entertaining opposing views, to resist being shamed or guilted into someone else’s truth.
It requires us to sit with the discomfort of simultaneously entertaining opposing views, to resist being shamed or guilted into someone else’s truth.
November 24, 2025 at 12:38 AM
This hits home. Especially in the 🇨🇦 granting space and universities pressure to be more interdisciplinary.
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Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS): an acquisition scheme for event-related fMRI that generates data interspaced with acquisition-free periods for stimulus presentation or response reporting.
@renilmathew.bsky.social @northernthrux.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@renilmathew.bsky.social @northernthrux.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS): a flexible paradigm for event-related fMRI - Nature Methods
Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS) is an acquisition scheme for event-related fMRI that generates data with high temporal signal-to-noise ratios interspaced with acquisition-free perio...
www.nature.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS): an acquisition scheme for event-related fMRI that generates data interspaced with acquisition-free periods for stimulus presentation or response reporting.
@renilmathew.bsky.social @northernthrux.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@renilmathew.bsky.social @northernthrux.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A fantastic opportunity to join a cohesive and talented team with expertise in neuroimaging fundamentals, analysis, community engagement, and co-creation, all dedicated to supporting brain health and resilience.
We’re hiring a Research Assistant!
Join the Brain Resilience Study team and support a major INN project on brain health and aging. If you're passionate about collaborative team science and multimodal data collection, submit your application to [email protected] by Nov 28th. Learn more: shorturl.at/QMFV0
Join the Brain Resilience Study team and support a major INN project on brain health and aging. If you're passionate about collaborative team science and multimodal data collection, submit your application to [email protected] by Nov 28th. Learn more: shorturl.at/QMFV0
November 20, 2025 at 2:15 AM
A fantastic opportunity to join a cohesive and talented team with expertise in neuroimaging fundamentals, analysis, community engagement, and co-creation, all dedicated to supporting brain health and resilience.
RIP Bill Brady. Dedicated Board member of University Hospital and Robarts Research Institute who welcomed me into the London community and taught me everything I know about fundraising. Genuinely funny and oh so kind.
Bill Brady, London radio icon and community leader, dies at 93
Bill Brady, a legendary local radio broadcaster and longtime London Free Press columnist, has died. He was 93.
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November 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
RIP Bill Brady. Dedicated Board member of University Hospital and Robarts Research Institute who welcomed me into the London community and taught me everything I know about fundraising. Genuinely funny and oh so kind.
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❤️ Bluesky fMRI people! 3-day #fMRI course live online Jan 7-9, 2026.
#SPM, #ICA, GLM, connectivity, mediation, MRI physics, #DataScience with @vcalhoun.bsky.social and Kent Kiehl.
We love talking methods & connecting with colleagues! Come join us!
Register here:
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#SPM, #ICA, GLM, connectivity, mediation, MRI physics, #DataScience with @vcalhoun.bsky.social and Kent Kiehl.
We love talking methods & connecting with colleagues! Come join us!
Register here:
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fMRI Course
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November 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
❤️ Bluesky fMRI people! 3-day #fMRI course live online Jan 7-9, 2026.
#SPM, #ICA, GLM, connectivity, mediation, MRI physics, #DataScience with @vcalhoun.bsky.social and Kent Kiehl.
We love talking methods & connecting with colleagues! Come join us!
Register here:
sites.google.com/dartmouth.ed...
#SPM, #ICA, GLM, connectivity, mediation, MRI physics, #DataScience with @vcalhoun.bsky.social and Kent Kiehl.
We love talking methods & connecting with colleagues! Come join us!
Register here:
sites.google.com/dartmouth.ed...
I think this is OK on one level. It's social Darwinism. It eventually means there will be less of those people around to vote. I think the problem is that (1) it doesn't happen as fast as the rest of us would like, and (2) a lot of innocent people get hurt in the process.
Dog owners now worry vaccines will cause "pawtism?"
We need to understand the role of political identity in the spread of vaccine lies (and other health misinformation) and how we can work to counter it.
My new piece...👇
We need to understand the role of political identity in the spread of vaccine lies (and other health misinformation) and how we can work to counter it.
My new piece...👇
🚨 My new piece: increasingly, vaccine hesitancy tied to political identity www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... via @thestar.com
Vaccines are a wedge issue, exploited by politicians to garner votes, by political commentators to build brands and by online influencers to get clicks.
#VaccinesWork
Vaccines are a wedge issue, exploited by politicians to garner votes, by political commentators to build brands and by online influencers to get clicks.
#VaccinesWork
November 15, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I think this is OK on one level. It's social Darwinism. It eventually means there will be less of those people around to vote. I think the problem is that (1) it doesn't happen as fast as the rest of us would like, and (2) a lot of innocent people get hurt in the process.
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Excited to launch the Brain Star Award competition for best papers published in 2025 - Details here: can-acn.org/awards/brain...
Nous sommes heureux de lancer du concours Cerveau en tête récompensant les meilleurs articles publiés en 2025 can-acn.org/fr/prix-cerv...
Nous sommes heureux de lancer du concours Cerveau en tête récompensant les meilleurs articles publiés en 2025 can-acn.org/fr/prix-cerv...
November 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Excited to launch the Brain Star Award competition for best papers published in 2025 - Details here: can-acn.org/awards/brain...
Nous sommes heureux de lancer du concours Cerveau en tête récompensant les meilleurs articles publiés en 2025 can-acn.org/fr/prix-cerv...
Nous sommes heureux de lancer du concours Cerveau en tête récompensant les meilleurs articles publiés en 2025 can-acn.org/fr/prix-cerv...
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Not quite ready for routine use, but a big step towards what would be a wonderful scan to include in all fMRI protocols. It gets a variable delay ASL, angio and variable contrast T1 anatomical all from the same set of data!
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40955094/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40955094/
Combined angiography and perfusion using radial imaging and arterial spin labeling with structural contrast - PubMed
CAPRIA+S is an efficient single acquisition to provide intrinsically co-registered quantitative information about brain blood flow and structure that has considerable advantages over conventional methods.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 15, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Not quite ready for routine use, but a big step towards what would be a wonderful scan to include in all fMRI protocols. It gets a variable delay ASL, angio and variable contrast T1 anatomical all from the same set of data!
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40955094/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40955094/
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#WesternU researchers have unlocked the hidden potential in discarded MRI data, developing a new technique transforming how scientists study the brain. @schulichmeddent.bsky.social
Signal in the silence: Western researchers uncover hidden potential in discarded MRI data - Western News
Western University researchers have uncovered hidden potential in the historically discarded MRI data that is recorded in start-up period of scans.
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November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
#WesternU researchers have unlocked the hidden potential in discarded MRI data, developing a new technique transforming how scientists study the brain. @schulichmeddent.bsky.social
One of the highlights of my career was working with David and noted architect I.M. Pei of Pei, Cobb and Freed in the design of the Broad Center for the Biological Sciences at Caltech. And yeah, it could have been my new home, but the collaboration environment at @Western was so much better.
Remembering David Baltimore (1938–2025): Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Remembering David Baltimore (1938–2025)
David Baltimore, one of modern biology’s most influential scientists, passed away
at his home in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, on September 6, 2025 at the age of 87, leaving
legions of former trainees an...
www.cell.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
One of the highlights of my career was working with David and noted architect I.M. Pei of Pei, Cobb and Freed in the design of the Broad Center for the Biological Sciences at Caltech. And yeah, it could have been my new home, but the collaboration environment at @Western was so much better.
If the community wants, we have XA60 and VE12U versions we can make available as a C2P for Siemens scanners. And we have a Paravision 360 v3.6 available for Bruker. The processing code is equally simple and is posted with the paper.
14 months after submission, our article “Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS): a flexible paradigm for event-related fMRI" is now out in @natmethods.nature.com . You can read it here rdcu.be/ePJo6
It is the first first author paper from my student @renilmathew.bsky.social 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 …1/N
It is the first first author paper from my student @renilmathew.bsky.social 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 …1/N
Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS): a flexible paradigm for event-related fMRI
Nature Methods - Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS) is an acquisition scheme for event-related fMRI that generates data with high temporal signal-to-noise ratios interspaced with...
rdcu.be
November 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
If the community wants, we have XA60 and VE12U versions we can make available as a C2P for Siemens scanners. And we have a Paravision 360 v3.6 available for Bruker. The processing code is equally simple and is posted with the paper.
14 months after submission, our article “Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS): a flexible paradigm for event-related fMRI" is now out in @natmethods.nature.com . You can read it here rdcu.be/ePJo6
It is the first first author paper from my student @renilmathew.bsky.social 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 …1/N
It is the first first author paper from my student @renilmathew.bsky.social 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 …1/N
Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS): a flexible paradigm for event-related fMRI
Nature Methods - Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS) is an acquisition scheme for event-related fMRI that generates data with high temporal signal-to-noise ratios interspaced with...
rdcu.be
November 13, 2025 at 12:23 PM
14 months after submission, our article “Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS): a flexible paradigm for event-related fMRI" is now out in @natmethods.nature.com . You can read it here rdcu.be/ePJo6
It is the first first author paper from my student @renilmathew.bsky.social 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 …1/N
It is the first first author paper from my student @renilmathew.bsky.social 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 …1/N
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Research in primate brains has been essential for the development of brain-computer interfaces and artificial neural networks. New funding and policy changes put future such advances at risk, write Cory Miller, @movshon.bsky.social and Doris Tsao.
#neuroskyence
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#neuroskyence
bit.ly/47MXYLH
Without monkeys, neuroscience has no future
Research in primate brains has been essential for the development of BCIs, ANNs. New funding and policy changes put future such advances at risk.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Research in primate brains has been essential for the development of brain-computer interfaces and artificial neural networks. New funding and policy changes put future such advances at risk, write Cory Miller, @movshon.bsky.social and Doris Tsao.
#neuroskyence
bit.ly/47MXYLH
#neuroskyence
bit.ly/47MXYLH
Embargo lifts in 3 days and 14 hours.
a nasa logo can be seen behind a rocket taking off
ALT: a nasa logo can be seen behind a rocket taking off
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November 9, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Embargo lifts in 3 days and 14 hours.
🎶🎵it’s that most wonderful time of the year🎼🎶🎵
November 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM
🎶🎵it’s that most wonderful time of the year🎼🎶🎵
In 1956, Jim Watson told my father, a brown man, that he would never get a job at Harvard and it was a miracle he had been admitted . Harvard's Board of Trustees saw it differently & appointed dad as an Assistant Professor and Director of the Harvard Agassiz Observatory BEFORE he finished his Ph.D!
James Watson, infamous racist and sexist who try to deny Rosalind Franklin credit for her role in discovering the structure of DNA, has died at age 97.
apnews.com/article/jame...
apnews.com/article/jame...
James Watson, co-discoverer of the double-helix shape of DNA, has died at age 97
Scientist James Watson, who shared a Nobel prize for helping discover the double-helix shape of the DNA molecule, has died. He was 97.
apnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
In 1956, Jim Watson told my father, a brown man, that he would never get a job at Harvard and it was a miracle he had been admitted . Harvard's Board of Trustees saw it differently & appointed dad as an Assistant Professor and Director of the Harvard Agassiz Observatory BEFORE he finished his Ph.D!
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Slick-H/M83 mice injected with alpha synuclein preformed fibrils. Magenta pS129 and yellow for eGFP driven by the Thy-1 promoter. blue nuclei #fluorescencefriday courtesy of Vlad Novikov. Shaz and Nadia from the @mind-western.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Slick-H/M83 mice injected with alpha synuclein preformed fibrils. Magenta pS129 and yellow for eGFP driven by the Thy-1 promoter. blue nuclei #fluorescencefriday courtesy of Vlad Novikov. Shaz and Nadia from the @mind-western.bsky.social
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Great to be in Toronto for the Second AG meeting for @tridentpct.bsky.social where our 🐁 molecular and cognition core will show what we are up to in the last 2 years facilitated by @touchscreencog.bsky.social and we will continue to learn about our organoid and marmoset models.
November 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Great to be in Toronto for the Second AG meeting for @tridentpct.bsky.social where our 🐁 molecular and cognition core will show what we are up to in the last 2 years facilitated by @touchscreencog.bsky.social and we will continue to learn about our organoid and marmoset models.
Oh yeah? Big deal. Ontario just raised its electric rates by 20-40% after killing off all its green energy projects a couple of years ago.
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Oh yeah? Big deal. Ontario just raised its electric rates by 20-40% after killing off all its green energy projects a couple of years ago.
I would also say thanks to @picardonhealth.bsky.social who elevated this on a national and public stage. MP’s noticed that. He is a gem!
The 🇨🇦 Standing Committee on Science and Research passed a modified resolution this afternoon that the requested ricouncil applicant and reviewer data can be aggregated and anonymized. Thanks to the many researchers who signed letters pointing out legitimate data privacy concerns. 👏👏
November 6, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I would also say thanks to @picardonhealth.bsky.social who elevated this on a national and public stage. MP’s noticed that. He is a gem!