Ravi Menon, Ph.D.

Small WWII-era bomblet found on Ontario walking path | Globalnews.ca Durham regional police say a Second World War-era explosive device found on a footpath in Oshawa, Ont., earlier this week has been rendered safe.

In the UK and Europe they still occasionally find bombs. In Canada we find bomblets.

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It’s a tried and tested formula.
(1) Hire the people with innovative ideas.
(2) Resource them properly.
(3) Get the hell out of their way.

This is groovy!

McGill tops Maclean’s rankings — again - McGill Reporter McGill University has once again secured the top spot in Maclean’s annual ranking of Canadian medical doctoral universities

Congratulations to one of my alma maters (and my other two, UBC and UofA in the top 4). Total research funding and faculty awards drive the rankings and reputations, once again proving that research intensively is what brings great students and leads to great outcomes.

One can only wish that Senator Robert Kennedy had never had children…

Vivek Ramaswamy, Kash Patel and Jay Bhattacharya. The list goes on….

It’s not just big business. Universities have the same problem.

Which is ironic given how many lunatic brown people are leading the purge from the top. And how many GOP supporting brown tech bros there are.

We see a #TRIDENT spotight in the CIHR Faces of Health Research storybook, among other stories about the life-changing research happening right here in Canada! #NFRF #impact #neuroscience. Check it out, below! 🇨🇦🔬🌍🤩👀👇 cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/54163.html

@tridentpct.bsky.social is thrilled to be here in NYC as a sponsor at the Michael J. Fox Parkinson’s Disease Therapeutics Conference.

I asked my previous department chair how much I could reduce my grant funding and grant writing activities and still get a 4.0. He looked at my file and said with a straight face…90%. 2/2

Ditto! I don’t even track this stuff on my CV. I did a calculation last year The difference in my monthly take home pay between a 4 and a 2 is $117. Because merit according to UWOFA counts for less than the COLA entitlement. The structure reinforces mediocrity. 1/2

B.C. premier demands federal support for forestry workers amid new U.S. tariffs on lumber | CBC News On Tuesday, the U.S. slapped a 10 per cent tariff on Canadian lumber — on top of a 35 per cent duty already in place.

Somebody help me with this. The loonie is worth 40% less than its US counterpart. So a 40% tariff just equalizes our prices with the US producers. And somehow our industries collapse when equalized? Are we lazily relying on a low $ instead of increasing productivity?

I heard ICE was in Chicago. Didn’t realize they were climbing into magnet dewars🙄

Been there, done that. Which is particularly tragic as I wear jeans, sandals and a t-shirt to work everyday.

All very reasonable. They relied on hype with their title and media coverage.

So structure doesn’t explain everything, eh?

Also the opposite of🇨🇦 sadly.

And the importance of competition for innovation. Which we also don’t have. Heaps of irony indeed.

We can celebrate a 🇨🇦 winning the prize while acknowledging that 🇨🇦 could not provide the environment for them to do their prize winning research, so they left. Maybe it’s time to fix that Mr. Carney.

On “X” @mark-carney.bsky.social remarked on 🇨🇦 Nobel laureate for Economics Peter Howitt, “Canada is home to many of the world’s brightest minds". Mr. Carney seems to have missed the fact that Howitt got his Ph.D. at Northwestern after graduating @westernu.ca and did his winning research at Brown.

Technically it’s been a couple of years….

It’s how I will finance my retirement!

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If you open it up to all Prizes, we have @westernu.ca's own Alice Munro.

The graphic excludes people born in the country who get awarded in the country. But in science, I can't think of a Canadian born researcher who won for work done in Canada in the past 25 years. Strickland did her work in the US. Hinton was British born. Peebles worked in the US. Anyone else?

Personally, I prefer a sofa....

Graphic from Nature tells an interesting story for 🇨🇦. Since 2000, 3 🇨🇦 born scientists have won prizes in physics, chemistry or medicine after leaving the country for the US. 2 UK born scientists won those prizes after moving to Canada. In that time, no 🇨🇦 born scientist has won for work done in 🇨🇦.

My department, the very first Department of Medical Biophysics in Canada, with a long a storied history is looking for a new Chair. The Department is particularly strong in neuroimaging and MSK imaging. @schulichmeddent.bsky.social @westernu.ca