Maxime Rousseaux

Go get it!

Campus polls open at universities and colleges across Canada Elections Canada spokesperson Serge Fleyfel said the on-campus polling stations are part of the agency’s efforts to make casting a ballot easier for younger voters

Good morning #university students in Canada!

📢 Spread the word; you can #VoteOnCampus April 13-16.

#VoteScience🇨🇦 #VoterRecherche #VotonsRecherche #ResearchersVote

#Elxn45

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Thrilled to see our work published in its final form @Mol. Neurodegeneration. Outstanding work by @terryrsuk.bsky.social and colleagues. Please check-out the "skytorial" below. As always, happy to share reagents (plasmids are being put on @addgene.bsky.social ), mice and other data; just reach out!

Looking for alternative non-US suppliers of lab reagents too. Would be great if someone had a list to share.

To me, the worrying part about the push for more research on vaccines and autism isn’t that it’s a waste of money, it’s that those pushing for more research are also interested in seeing a specific result. And if they start messing w the process of science, that would send us down a really dark path

It’s pretty easy to “apply” for a PhD in Canada, and a little different from most US places, just send a cover letter, CV and undergrad transcript to a PI you’d like to work with. Put some effort into it, make sure you convey what you’re applying for and why.

With the craziness going on in the south, I am opening up a few postdoc positions in my lab. Contact me if interested. Those with experience in ethnic-racial marginalized families, peer relationships, EEG, and ILD are especially welcome! Please circulate, thx!!

A topographical atlas of α-synuclein dosage and cell type-specific expression in adult mouse brain and peripheral organs - npj Parkinson's Disease npj Parkinson's Disease - A topographical atlas of α-synuclein dosage and cell type-specific expression in adult mouse brain and peripheral organs

Ab185966 has worked nicely for us.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Did you ever think about how much time you spend *judging* as a scientist? Judging papers, research proposals, other scientists...
This onslaught of judging duties hit me hard as a new professor & I've written about the need to explicitly decide one's judging criteria here 👇

🎄PinkyCaMP- our christmas gift to you! 🎁: We are excited to present PinkyCaMP, the first mScarlet based calcium sensor with:
✨exceptional, brightness
✨phototability
✨and optogenetic compatability.
Check out our new preprint:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

In case any of my fellow creatives also needed this reminder:

The preprint battle in neuroscience has gradually been won. I think the next step will be more dramatic -- a collapse in peer review resources to service each paper.

Alpha-synuclein knockout impairs melanoma development and alters DNA damage repair in the TG3 mouse model in a sex-dependent manner https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.01.626256v1

I will have space in my lab to supervise a new Ph.D. student and/or a postdoc to work on projects focussing on the role of the immune system in Parkinson's disease. Please share with potentially interested candidates.

👆🏻was really helpful for us! cFos was a great positive control (thanks to @weihsiah.bsky.social’s advice)

The image shows monthly traffic to protocols.io from Twitter since March, 2024. The trend is a rapid decrease (and March 2024 was already just a fraction of the traffic from Twitter years ago).

Twitter used to be the second-highest source of traffic to protocols.io as researchers shared their public methods (highest was Google). Today, 0.1% of our monthly traffic is from Twitter.

I'm hopeful for the growth of the research community on Bluesky & sad about the senseless demise of Twitter.

We are starting a search for senior and mid career researchers candidates for the Canada Excellence Research Chair Program. We have amazing infrastructure for research including state of the art microscopy (STED, lightsheet etc), 🐁 behavior and MRI facilities (new 15.2T for 🐁 ) mouse-trap.org

Download our database of 492 (!) funding opportunities for EARLY-CAREER FACULTY AND RESEARCHERS.

For each entry, we provide link to funder, description, amount, deadline, and eligibility criteria (e.g. citizenship).

Download freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

You look like you are just getting warmed up, Dennis. Keep it up! When in doubt, hookup with a fellow runner and walk them through Colts preseason chit chat, the miles will fly by.

Lookin' strong! Show D Proctor who's boss!

Way to go Eve! My wonderful colleague, friend and mentor Eve Marder just won the National Medal of Science!
www.c-span.org/video/?53134...