Nikola Stikov
Professor at École Polytechnique / University of Montreal
Co-founder of NeuroLibre.org, qMRLab.org, MRBalkan.net and KANTAROT.MK
- Our foundation KANTAROT / КАНТАРОТ created kits with experiments that illustrate fun science concepts: 1. How to prevent soap bubbles from popping? 2. What is capillary activity? 3. Why do we print using CMYK colors? 4. Who can see the Ames window illusion? Check out our promo video!
- Evidence Day was a huge success! Thank you to @polymtl.bsky.social for believing in us, and to Catherine Florès for the excellent write-up www.polymtl.ca/carrefour-ac...
- Reposted by Nikola StikovReaction Monitoring Symposium 2026, January 29. Organized by the DReaM Facility @uniofbath.bsky.social Free, one-day symposium highlighting real-time reaction monitoring by NMR & complementary techniques, register by January 23 www.rsc.org/events/detai... #NMRchat 🧲
- Evidence Day is about to start
- "If a paper gets submitted, it will be published somewhere" John Ioannidis on AI slop in academic publishing #EvidenceDay
- "You could be sitting on a mountain top in Nepal with a handheld device and run a scientific analysis" Alan Evans' vision for the future of science #EvidenceDay
- Tomorrow (December 4) we will demonstrate what woven literature looks like in the age of AI. We will introduce a new AI-driven article format (wired paper) and present four examples that cover a range of disciplines. Join us! qantarot.substack.com/p/introducin...
- After three sabbaticals in Tokyo, Abu Dhabi and Skopje, I’m excited to finally share what we’ve built. Join us for the unveiling of the Evidence publishing platform! 1/n
- Evidence expands the scope of NeuroLibre to include the full range of natural sciences while incorporating LLM assisted workflows and preserving rigorous reproducibility standards. 2/n
- The launch will happen on December 4 on the beautiful campus of NYU Abu Dhabi. We have a stellar list of speakers including John Ioannidis (Stanford University), Alan Evans (McGill University) and Cesar A. Hidalgo (Toulouse School of Economics) 3/n
- To join us (in-person or virtually) please register at the link below n/n day.evidencepub.io
- NMR as inspiration for quantum computing, pretty cool!
- Google has a useful quantum algorithm that outperforms a supercomputer https://arstechni.ca... #quantumcomputing #quantummechanics #Computerscience #Science #Physics #Google #NMR
- I still dream of changes in the ISMRM and I hope this series of blog posts will contribute to it. I have created a survey (link) asking the community for feedback. Feel free to use it to voice your concerns and to suggest ways in which the ISMRM could improve. qantarot.substack.com/p/ismrm-survey
- I moderated a fun debate at the @esmrmb.bsky.social microstructure workshop today. We asked the panelists to argue for and against the clinical potential of qMRI. Inspired by the Munk debates, we polled the audience before and after the discussion. It appears the pessimists won by a small margin:)
- Another NeuroLibre publication that puts reproducibility at the forefront. Congratulations @evaalonsoortiz.bsky.social for getting it accepted in the Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences! preprint.neurolibre.org/10.55458/neu...
- Reposted by Nikola StikovRT New York Structural Biology Center @NYSBC_Science 3rd NYC Integrative Structural Biology Symposium (NYC-ISB25) October 9-10, 2025, CUNY Advanced Science Research Center, New York, NY nyc-isb25.eventbrite.com free to register #NMRchat 🧲
- Welcoming the new biomedical engineering graduate students to @polymtl.bsky.social
- MAGMA is leading the way in open MRI, as demonstrated by this excellent editorial link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Writing Japanese is a Sisyphean pleasure
- I Used to Know How to Write in Japanese (Somehow, though, I can still read it) aethermug.com/posts/i-use...
- Johnes Obungoloch (PhD) first visited us at @polymtl in 2019 for the first edition of the MRathon. Six years later, he is back in Montreal building a low-field MRI scanner with Udunna Anazodo It was a pleasure welcoming him back to the NeuroPoly lab together with @jcohenadad.bsky.social
- Reposted by Nikola StikovAlan Charles Evans, O.C. Montréal, Quebec, Officer of The Order of Canada Alan Evans has transformed brain imaging research, leading to major breakthroughs in understanding neuronal development, aging and Alzheimer’s disease www.gg.ca/en/order-can...
- Good to be back in Montreal, just in time to celebrate Alan Evans' appointment to the order of Canada.
- Our foundation's Substack newsletter made it to the top 100 "Rising in science" list! Subscribe now to keep us rising, link below
- Reposted by Nikola StikovHBHL, @braincanada.bsky.social & @bhi-icc.bsky.social are looking for researchers to give TED-style talks on brain health for a public audience! Selected PIs will speak at the 2025 Amazing Brain Science Talks, held in November at @banq-officiel.bsky.social. 🧠🧪 📬 Apply by June 2: mcgill.ca/x/ix5
- Reposted by Nikola StikovGreat news for #OpenScience in Montreal! @BrainCanada is investing in six incredible platforms to drive innovation (t.ly/Aqfbz), including the Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform (@conp-pcno.bsky.social)! This funding will accelerate brain research and collaboration. #Neuroscience #BrainResearch
- Thrilled to announce that we received a $2.8M grant from @braincanada.bsky.social to continue our work on NeuroLibre through the Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform (@conp-pcno.bsky.social) 1/2
- Looking forward to working with an all-star team of Canadian neuroscientists 2/2 braincanada.ca/funded_grant...
- My Substack traffic shows that this post hit a nerve Over 1.5K link clicks, most of them from people who are not subscribers nor followers on social media. Subscribe to the KANTAROT newsletter to receive My ISMRM blues vol. 2 straight in your inbox! And thank you to everybody who reached out
- A part of me wishes I was at #ismrm2025 with my friends and colleagues, celebrating their successes and hearing about their research. However, I decided to skip the annual meeting and write this post instead, hoping it will make a difference in the long run. 1/3
- The Highlights magazine marches on Congratulations and thank you to Maria Eugenia Caligiuri, Mathieu Boudreau and the entire @mrmhighlights.bsky.social team for keeping the flame alive for ten whole years!
- Excited to announce the release of the 2025 edition (Volume 10) of the MRM Highlights magazine, with an introduction by Highlights editor Maria Eugenia Caligiuri. Available in print at the ISMRM conference. blog.ismrm.org/2025/05/11/m... @ismrm.bsky.social #ISMRM #ISMRM25
- Reposted by Nikola StikovOne point on the opening lecture was that the number of members hasn't increased since 2017 but costs are rising and something has to change. And at the same time stuff like this doesn't get support? Seems weird.. Highlights was a true highlight. Sad it is gone.
- A part of me wishes I was at #ismrm2025 with my friends and colleagues, celebrating their successes and hearing about their research. However, I decided to skip the annual meeting and write this post instead, hoping it will make a difference in the long run. 1/3
- The Highlights party has been the most inclusive and the most sustainable party at the @ismrm.bsky.social annual meeting. It did not take any money from the membership, it did not use public research funds, and everybody was invited. 2/3 #ismrm25 #ismrm2025
- Despite this (or maybe because of it), it was sidelined by the ISMRM. In future posts I will explain why this is symptomatic of a larger culture shift in the ISMRM, and what we can do about it. 3/3 qantarot.substack.com/p/no-highlig...
- Out now in MAGMA, our contribution to the debate about harmonization vs. standardization of MRI measurements We propose a 4-tier benchmark to assess the transparency of MRI workflows: (i) black box; (ii) gray box; (iii) frosted box; (iv) glass box Which box is your workflow in? 1/3
- The more open-source dependencies we have, the harder it gets to run them across different vendor environments. This leaves us at a fork: should we lower our colors to more modest tiers of transparency, or strive to push our measurements toward true metrology? 2/3 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- This question echoes the dilemma of whether to standardize or harmonize. Though often used loosely to describe "scanner effect removal", the two differ sharply. That’s why we introduced a mini-glossary to clarify the terms about improving the reliability of imaging biomarkers. 3/3
- Reposted by Nikola StikovThe Call for Proposals for #jupytercon is now open! Submit your ideas for talking about interactive computing, data science, AI, and collaboration. This will be the first JupyterCon in a few years, and I'm excited to see everybody there! blog.jupyter.org/jupytercon-2...
- Reposted by Nikola StikovCredit to @stikov.bsky.social and MRathon for inspiration and a great experience last ISMRM. Got some of todays work pushed into github.com/LarsonLab/hy... Hopefully more to come!
- Last week we welcomed Zoltan Nagy at NYU Abu Dhabi. The weekend with him was so much fun that it took me until now to post some pictures:)
- Impressive work by @mathieuboudreau.bsky.social et al.! Here is the related NeuroLibre preprint that makes replication easy preprint.neurolibre.org/10.55458/neu...
- 🧠📊 Just out: a deeply sample structural brain and spine dataset from the cneuromod.ca team, now published in Imaging Neuroscience! led by Mathieu Boudreau and Julien Cohen-Adad. 📰 Paper here: lnkd.in/ewXA3dED 1/🧵
- Ник Кејв доаѓа во Скопје!
- "You have committed to your wife and son to offer them more than just the crumbs of yourself, the dregs of what remains of you after a day with the devil in the shed." Не прашувај зналец, прашај го Ник Кејв www.theredhandfiles.com/balance-crea...
- “…everybody tells you to be yourself, but nobody tells you it’ll make you feel insane.” I wish I pulled a @mastroianni.bsky.social and told my interviewers what I really think about publishing. I waited until tenure, but I am finally comfortable with feeling insane substack.com/home/post/p-...
- Perfect symmetry at Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi
- Reposted by Nikola StikovThank you for posting this! We hope this will be a helpful resource to computational MRI researchers. Scripts to reproduce all the figures available at github.com/MRsources/Ar... We invite you to contribute other reproducibility points under the Github repo's issues section!
- This cookbook is long overdue, and it starts with my favorite Buckheit and Donoho quote! Inspiring work by @jtsense.bsky.social @efratshimron.bsky.social Moritz Zaiss and colleagues link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Yesterday Kyoko Fujimoto from @gehealthcare.bsky.social visited us at NYU Abu Dhabi and gave a fascinating lecture on MRI safety. We were also joined by Pablo Garcia-Polo, the GE representative for the Middle East. Exciting MRI projects in the works!
- This cookbook is long overdue, and it starts with my favorite Buckheit and Donoho quote! Inspiring work by @jtsense.bsky.social @efratshimron.bsky.social Moritz Zaiss and colleagues link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Reposted by Nikola StikovPlease simplify the purchasing system at universities. Here is how that could be doable: medium.com/@kording/aca...
- Reposted by Nikola StikovIn a world in turbulence, it is crucial to engage at every level. Give a little bit of your time and creativity to #OHBM. www.surveymonkey.com/r/2025Counci...
- Our foundation KANTAROT and SCIENCE FOR KIDS won the 2024 best conference award from BEAM - Best Event Awards Macedonia!!!
- НАУКА ЗА ДЕЦА и ФОНДАЦИЈА КАНТАРОТ ја добија наградата за најдобра конференција во Македонија во 2024 година!!! Пресреќни сме што BEAM (Best Event Awards Macedonia) го препозна тоа што го правиме, a оваа награда им ја посветуваме на сите ДЕЦА ЗА НАУКА!
- Welcome @pezlarson.bsky.social
- Hi bluesky, my name is Peder and I am happy to be here. So nice to be somewhere that feels inviting, respectful, insightful and democratic If you want to learn more about me and my teams interests check out larsonlab.github.io
- Reposted by Nikola StikovEarly Bird Registration by 15 March USD $595 inc welcome drinks, 2 day meeting, accommodation + ferry ride between Brisbane & the island BCW have a unique format, featuring short presentations (15 minutes, 3 slides) then 45 minutes of discussion brain-connectivity-workshop.org/bsw/zwei/bcw
- We presented BUKI at the Telekom MK annual kick-off event. Thank you for the invitation and the warm welcome! Го претставивме БУКИ на kick-off настанот на Телеком. Благодариме за поканата и прекрасниот пречек!
