Ravi Menon

In partnership with UBC's Department of Psychiatry, we are excited to be recruiting for a CIHR Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Cognitive Resilience for Dementia Prevention and Mental Wellness in Aging.

Learn more: med-fom-psychiatry-sandbox2019.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2025/1...

How distributed is the brain-wide network that is recruited for cognition? - Nature Reviews Neuroscience Both localized and distributed views on the functional organization of the brain have been put forward. In this Perspective, Rosen and Freedman examine the degree to which these two views account for ...

As we chase whole-brain signatures of cognition with fMRI, this fascinating perspective argues that cognitive signals are broadly distributed...but far from everywhere! For those of us using whole-brain neuroimaging lots to think about..
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Texas Voters Secure a History-making $3 Billion for Brain Disease Research On November 4, 2025, Texas voters approved Proposition 14, a ballot measure that enables a historic $3 billion state investment in brain disease research over the next decade.

Yes things are crazy in the US, and no more so than places like Texas. And yet they manage to find more than 4x the entire CIHR budget to devote to Brain Research. THAT's nation building. www.michaeljfox.org/news/texas-v...

Just pointing out modern heat pumps work just fine in the frozen North.

Congratulations to my student @renilmathew.bsky.social (Renil Mathew) on receiving the Dr. Tutis Vilis Graduate Award in Neuroscience. As a long time friend and colleague of Tutis, this award really brings a tear to my eye.

He’s getting there.

Indeed. The students and the patients love having him around. And he spends a lot of time in contemplative thought!

Thinking seems to be something we are supposed to do in our spare time. Or when we wake up at 3 am and stare at the ceiling.

First day in months that I get to sit in my office, read some papers and think. Imagine how scientifically productive we could all be if this was the norm instead of the rare exception.

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Furthermore, citations should only be compared with established norms in the field of the scholar. Not across fields.

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.

👆🏽me too. And sadly, yes.

Imagine trying to bring a speaker or hold a conference in this place. I guess the VW folks will be coming by private jet

The extraordinary frequency of Air Canada’s connections to Canada’s 10th largest city. Enshitification, thy name is Air Canada. @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social your idea of nation building needs some work. Give us fast rail to Toronto.

Did your cerebellum get bigger since you were a grad student? 😂

Yes! Small teams for creativity. Big teams for harnessing that creativity across domains or disciplines (if needed).

Years ago we published this paper on a Varian MRI. The scanner computer played out a Rasta tune
I’m shimming🎶
I’m shimming🎵
Klassen LM, Menon RS. Robust automated shimming technique using arbitrary mapping acquisition parameters (RASTAMAP). Magn Reson Med. 2004 May;51(5):881-7.

Enough to buy five 7T human scanners and run them for a few years. Or feed a couple of million people a decent Thanksgiving meal. Extraordinarily disgusting.

The guy went to Harvard and Oxford and held citizenship in three countries until this year. He’d sooner bail the Ivy League out than give Canadian institutions a leg up.

How much of this is related to the age profile of each institution. Is the Queen's professoriate older than the U of T one?

Oh come on. With the buckets of funds he is throwing at AI, he's also flushing money down the drain for 21st century industries.

Photo of Ausable Channel in PInery Provincial Park, part of the Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority.

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.

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.

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

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!

But woefully inadequate. There aren’t a lot of fields we work in that one can be competitive with just an NSERC DG. But it has funded my RF work in large part for many years. So yes, thank you NSERC!

It has a space where grants should be 🤷🏽?

This hits home. Especially in the 🇨🇦 granting space and universities pressure to be more interdisciplinary.

Cc: @earlkmiller.bsky.social