Daniel Ansari 🇨🇦

Curious about how smartphones shape children’s development?

We’re recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher for 3(+2) years for a cutting-edge randomized controlled trial conducted in collaboration with @orbenamy.bsky.social and her team.

iwm-tuebingen.de/en/career/jo...

Michael Ma - Markham—Unionville

Another floor crosser. Majority very close now for Carney

hear, hear. Grace Lindsay puts it perfectly:
international science, drawing from people around the world, is "the only way to get the best work done".

diversity in background, perspective, culture is not just "nice" -- it's crucial to the breakthroughs that will change our world for the better.

#WesternU welcomes The Canada Impact + Chairs program launched by Minister Joly yesterday.

This program will help attract the best and brightest to support innovation, knowledge translation and new discoveries that drive social and economic growth. www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...

We are hiring a new Ph. D. student on neuroimaging and/or computational modeling on motivation and emotion. Tübingen is a great place to pursue work on these topics!!

uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

These *were* your closest allies.

Search Jobs - University Affairs

Great news! We are looking for an NHP neuroscientist as the assistant professor level. We have no preconceived ideas -- looking for the most exciting research going. If you have any questions, please reach out. universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...

Canadian job 👀 🇨🇦 ‼️ Second search this year! Our Dept of Psychology is hiring again, this time at the assoc/full level, for a prestigious, endowed position. Focus is social/affective neuroscience in any area (clinical, social, cog, or dev). Apply by Jan 30! Reposts, pls www.queensu.ca/psychology/n...

Further stages (not pictured because I got tired) included Gravardlax - cured for 36 hours, holiday stuffing sausage rolls and salad. It all got eaten and now I am dead

Of course nobody saw this coming…

One sure moves a lot when prepping food for a party

Stage 2: Make Quiches

Preparing lab holiday party. Stage 1 : homemade focaccia

Yup and that his official policy now

It's rich to lecture others about 'cultural erasure' when your culture consists of guns, school shootings, fast food, gas guzzling monster cars, poor education and unaffordable health care

Indeed. Hold the line. If you think this will all blow over eventually, read the US National Security Strategy released on Friday. They have turned and turning back won't be anytime soon. Hold the line.

Giving credit where credit is due #FIFA #FIFApeaceprize

Sign reads: Free Nobel Peace prize with an order of shrimp tacos.

#peaceprize
#tacos

From the 2015 US DOJ Prosecution of FIFA officials to the 2025 awarding of a FIFA 'Peace Prize' to a US President.

From enforcing the rule of law & exposing corruption to being partners in international extortion, crime and rulelessness.

The FIFA-US relationship has come a long way in 10 years.

Chappatte

A broken record (vinyl music album)

We know the drivers of research waste in academia are

⚠️Pressure to maximize papers and PhD students
⚠️Endless demands on time due to poor management
⚠️Stakeholders don't insist on robust quality systems to underpin mission critical work

Solutions that don't address these are pointless.

Beautiful concrete Robarts library

Beast of the low winter sun.

It’s impossible to undo all the damage Trump has wrought to Canada-U.S. relations, says ex-UN ambassador Bob Rae Donald Trump "looks at Canada like the Big Bad Wolf looked at Little Red Riding Hood,” Rae said. “It’s dinner. It’s a meal. It’s not a relationship.”

www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Tim Hortons lobbied MPs for more temporary foreign workers over last 18 months | CBC News For more than a year, Canadian coffee giant Tim Hortons has been pushing the federal government to lift the cap on temporary foreign workers some of its franchisees can hire, CBC News has learned.

Tim Hortons "Canada's coffee shop" wants to hire more low paid TFWs instead of Canadians.
If they improved pay and working conditions there would be no shortage of workers.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Nominations for the UKRN Dorothy Bishop Prize 2026 have opened!

Named after @deevybee.bsky.social, the prize, first awarded in 2022, celebrates the contributions of early career researchers to research improvement.

Nominations close 18 January 2026.

#AcademicSky #Research

Congrats, everyone seems to be waking up.

Join us for Fall 2026. In our group, you can run studies from human behavior and neuroimaging, to large-scale NHP ephys, and join them up with a robust computational foundation. Bonus: you can help build the reading list.

Haidt is "stunned" that ChatGPT asked how it would threaten youth reveals that its plan would be what Haidt has argued in his books. The secret plan!

There should be some way to rescind the doctorate of any commentator on digital media who interprets ChatGPT output like this. I am not joking.

A dose of Empathie: Florence Longpré created the most fearlessly original TV show of 2025 The series, which centres on a tragedy-haunted criminologist-turned-psychiatrist, delivers a tearjerking season finale on Crave

Late to the game, but I agree with every word of this review of 'Empathie' - a fantastic bit of television: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/cb0fda6...