Initiatives – Blogue du RBIQ

Meet the mentors of QBIN’s first cégep student mentorship program!

By Estrid Jakobsen / 2022-10-21 / Initiatives, Research / Bio-Imaging, Cognitive Science, Mentorship

Last summer, QBIN launched the first trial of a new program designed to engage CEGEP students in bio-imaging research and help graduate students and postdocs gain valuable mentorship experience. Three PhD students from the Integrated Program in Neuroscience at McGill University were paired with two CEGEP students from Dawson College to complete a 10-week research internship. The pilot was a great success and we plan to expand the program to include more mentors and interns from across the province in summers to come! Read on to learn more about the program from the perspective of our first three QBIN mentors, Aurelie Bussy, Stephanie Tullo, and Isabelle Arseneau-Bruneau!

Supporting Women in Academia through the Women’s Neuronetwork (WNN)

By Sivaniya Subramaniapillai / 2022-01-17 / Events, Initiatives, Science / Equity Diversity Inclusion, Neuroscience, Women in Science

Most academics have at some point in their lives been asked by a well-meaning friend or relative when they will get a “real job”. While the natural response is to defensively explain that completing a PhD or a postdoc is in fact a real job, the question itself is not completely out of line. While for many career paths, people enter the job market directly after an undergraduate degree or an apprenticeship, research training takes many more years – up to ten years from the start of a PhD program to landing a permanent position (with no guarantees!).

The Open Science Room at OHBM 2021

By RBIQ | QBIN / 2021-08-02 / Events, Initiatives / BrainHack, Open Science, Virtual Conferences

This year, QBIN was proud to sponsor the Open Science Room, which took place from June 16-18 at the virtual annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM). As part of our commitment to help make science more open and accessible to everyone, QBIN has sponsored several activities organized by the OHBM Open Science Special Interest Group (OSSIG) in the past few years, including the Open Science Room and various Brainhack events.

The Art of Imaging: Science meets beauty

By Carlos Gevers-Montoro and Zoha Deldar / 2021-02-18 / Art, Initiatives, Science / Art, Bio-Imaging, History, Image competition, Neuroscience

While art and science are often presented as opposing forces in today’s world, the aim of the two disciplines has always been fundamentally the same: to provide a representation of the real world. This intricate link between art and science becomes more obvious as we look to past discoveries that were made before the invention of modern scientific technologies that help us capture reality, in a time when it was in many ways necessary for scientists to be artists as well.

Fighting loneliness with intergenerational Wisdom Exchange

By Sivaniya Subramaniapillai / 2020-10-29 / Initiatives, Science / Aging, COVID-19

Although physical distancing does not necessarily mean social distancing, as it was first referenced in the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, they are often one and the same. Being social usually means spending time with others in a shared physical space, which is undeniably different than the virtual interactions that have become the accepted norm. Seeing our friends and family from behind a monitor is especially dissatisfying when we are only kilometers apart, and while having hundreds of social media “friends” means that we are in many ways more connected than ever, greater use of social media has actually been linked to increased loneliness.