Ravi Menon

And then Canada was going to attack the USA……

Got a 7T human system? Sell a 7T human system? Want a 7T human system? Then you should attend our 4th Annual meeting at UNC to see how 7T fits in the translational spectrum from research to clinic.

YouTube video by TRIDENT Preclinical Trials TRIDENT: Strengthening Canada's Path to Brain Health Innovation

#TRIDENT is a $24M federal investment in research innovation. It’s about building a smarter, more efficient path from drug discovery to delivery, so Canadians benefit from safer and better treatments for brain disease, faster. 🧠 #Alzheimers #Parkinsons #NFRF Learn more here:
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At current production rates, the US will exhaust its 46.4 billion barrels in known crude oil reserves in 9 years (excl. shale oil).

Guess who has the largest reserves?
Venezuela (303.2 billion)
Saudi Arabia (267.2 billion)
Iran (208.6 billion)
Canada (171 billion)

Any questions?

Nice to see @roadandtrack.bsky.social posting consistently here on Bsky.

This map shows widely dispersed dots representing the guesses of US survey respondents about the location of Iran on a world map. 23% placed a dot in the correct area.

Where is Iran?
Each dot represents an American's guess.
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Functional imaging. Metabolic mapping. Competitive seasoning. The @cfmm.bsky.social Chili Cook Off proved our research isn’t the only thing bringing the heat this winter! 🌶️Explore Canada's national ultra-high field MRI platform via cfmm.uwo.ca/index.html. @westernu.ca @schulichmeddent.bsky.social

Thanks everyone for making this such a fun and successful event.

The winners are:
Spiciest - Sarah
Classic Recipe - Joe
Most original - Mayuri

And thanks to Miranda and Julie for decorating and organizing!

Nothing like Chili to spice up a 🇨🇦 winter.

More Teslas and tamales than you will find anywhere else in 🇨🇦.

This competition has the highest spicy-to-noise ratio ever measured.

It’s the Annual CFMM Chili challenge. Winners to be announced after lunch @cfmm.bsky.social

We love it when innovative collaborators challenge @cfmm.bsky.social staff with cool projects. At our imaging centre, we now have open source solutions for MRI in awake mice, rats and marmosets…and humans!

Don't tell my dog that. He has a nose for the stuff!!

C'mon. You know you want to be an Assistant Dean in charge of something, yet in charge of nothing. Admit it!

We have Canada geese nesting now. Goose poop to follow...

When my organoids start talking back to me I know it’s time to retire!

If you put those people into a permissive environment instead of something bent on grinding them down with senseless bureaucracy, you could have something that rivalled the great universities of the world.

We have multiple facilities here too. Because leadership allows people to have their own boutique programs instead of having a unifying vision for core facilities. Everyone suffers as a consequence.

I too started at 30. It's really only the rich ecosystem of wonderful academic colleagues that have kept me here.

I think that is true in most places. It is bottom up. The key is when a bottom up initiative becomes super successful the institution should make it a priority for sustainability.

I have hobbies I have ignored for the most part for the past 40 years. They say “every time you say no to something, you say yes to yourself”. Time to say yes to myself!

I am so done with directing unless the institution has a grand vision and a means to achieve it (maybe Berkeley does?). I would love to keep doing science and let someone else worry about the bills and administration.

That and the fiendishly clever seatbelts with no buckles used to freak my passengers out.

Had more room in the hatch than my Macan GTS. And looked like a
Space ship with its forward folding clamshell hood and driver focus cockpit. I will never forgive GM for destroying the company.

It was. I settled for a 1980 Saab 900 Turbo. It was the Audi that made Saab retire from rallying. Quattro>>FWD.

I wanted mine in red. But it was my dream car in the late ‘80’s.

Yup. I figure that would do it for me too.

I was eligible to retire and received a package in 2019. Age +years of service exceeded 75 by some margin at the time. The package wasn’t worth the paper it was printed in. The university is not the place I came to 32 years ago. And its rankings prove it.

An Alzheimer’s drug that clears plaques but doesn’t help cognition isn’t a useful drug. We use the wrong biomarkers to assess efficacy of neurotherapeutics in preclinical research. @tridentpct.bsky.social is a $24M federal initiative to change that. Let’s chat André.