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@connectedminds.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 8:33 PM

Dr. Sherbert examines how Western traditions embedded themselves in AI, then proposes something radical: letting Indigenous relational epistemologies reshape the whole conversation. Not inclusion. Transformation. What assumptions about intelligence are we still not questioning? Read more:

@connectedminds.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 8:31 PM

Tech impacts health. CMs researchers Dr. Mngoma and Dr. Puri are examining cryptocurrency fraud’s psychological impact and designing solutions WITH affected communities. From financial harm prevention to inclusive AI design, they prove: people’s lived experiences must lead technological innovation.

@connectedminds.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 8:25 PM

What if mental health support was designed by the people who need it? Dr. Weobong’s CMs work does exactly that. A new mental health companion pairs AI with robotics, co-designed with young adults experiencing real challenges. Care shaped by lived experience is more trusted, more responsive. #Queens

@yorku-cian.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 6:16 PMReposted by @connectedminds.bsky.social

Last Friday, we were pleased to welcome about 80 attendees to Dr. Jesse Gomez's seminar and the CIAN academic year kick-off reception. Thank you to everyone who joined us.
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@jdcrawford.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 2:10 PMReposted by @connectedminds.bsky.social

Applications open for a CANADA RESEARCH CHAIR IN NETWORK SCIENCE with @connectedminds.bsky.social at York University Toronto. See: www.yorku.ca/unit/vpf/wp-...

@quadlab.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 1:50 PMReposted by @connectedminds.bsky.social

We are excited to share that Dr. Allison Drody has won the Queen's Postdoctoral Research Award and will be joining our team at the QuAD lab to share her expertise in media multitasking!🎉 @queensuresearch.bsky.social

@connectedminds.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 3:57 AM

Dr. Zhu's new paper tackles a key LLM bottleneck:verifying reasoning efficiently. HSRM reads a model's internal hidden states to rank candidate solutions, outperforming larger text-based verifiers while using a fraction of the parameters. How far can internal representation making AI more efficient?

@connectedminds.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 3:50 AM

Check out Dr. Matthew Pan's work! His latest paper, published at ICRA 2026, tackles social navigation for mobile robots in human environments blending demonstration-based rewards with rule-based safety rules for adaptive, safe navigation. Connected Minds proud to support this research. Read more:

@connectedminds.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 10:44 PM

Proud of the Dr. Gavin Winston lab! Dr. Amin Jalali and fellow trainees, supported by Connected Minds, presented epilepsy research at #CLAE2026, the CLAE LCCE annual conference, exploring unprovoked first seizure, MRI, and EEG findings. Congrats to the whole team!
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@connectedminds.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 3:06 PM

September 30 is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. We honour the children who never came home, the Survivors, and the families still living with that loss. Connected Minds and our Indigenous Advisory Circle share a joint statement. Read the full statement: www.yorku.ca/research/con...

@connectedminds.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 11:47 PM

Proud of our researchers Drs. Etemad and Greenspan! Their NeurIPS 2026 paper reframes Long-Tailed Recognition as a Continual Learning problem—learning rare "Tail" classes sequentially without forgetting the "Head." Theory-backed and experimentally validated. Read more:

@connectedminds.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 11:44 PM

Congrats to our researchers Drs. Etemad and Dolatabadi! Their new NeurIPS 2026 paper, OpenMedReason, introduces a 450K-instance medical reasoning corpus that trains vision-language models on evidence-grounded clinical reasoning boosting accuracy by 20% and beating base models in 86% of comparisons.

@connectedminds.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 11:35 PM

Two from our Connected Minds community named Brain Canada Future Leaders! Drs. @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social and Fucile each receive $100,000 to advance brain research on predictive motor control and preterm infant brain injury detection, respectively.Among 26 Future Leaders nationwide. Read more:

@connectedminds.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 11:31 PM

Our newest Connected Minds trainees joined us yesterday for orientation—meeting the team, learning about the program, and connecting over lunch. Dr. Leela Viswanathan closed the day with an EDI workshop encouraging trainees to weave these principles into every stage of their research.Welcome aboard!

@connectedminds.bsky.social Sep 17, 2026, 9:26 PM

Dr. Boehnke joined Neuroscience & Society Virtual Career Fair, chatting about grad studies at Queen's Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Connected Minds funding opportunities, and the Neurotech Micro-credentials Program. Proud to see our researchers opening doors for future neuroscientists! #Queens

@connectedminds.bsky.social Sep 17, 2026, 9:21 PM

How do you co-create research across different ways of knowing? Researchers from Connected Minds propose 5 lenses—boundary objects, co-production, situated knowledge, institutional reflexivity, multi-scalar evaluation—for organizing transdisciplinary collaboration. Read more:

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@connectedminds.bsky.social Sep 17, 2026, 9:16 PM

How do neural and muscular systems coordinate a simple movement like standing up?Elham Reyhanian CM's researcher investigates this question in individuals with Cerebral Palsy, comparing their sit-to-stand motor organization to typically developing peers. Findings were presented at #MOBI2026. #Queens

@connectedminds.bsky.social Sep 15, 2026, 8:05 PM

Data sovereignty isn't optional. Dr. Michael G. Sherbert discusses how generative AI can threaten Indigenous languages and cultural knowledge without proper consent and control, featured in Up Here Business' "Safe Mode." The piece also spotlights Indigenous-led approaches to AI done right.Read more:

@connectedminds.bsky.social Sep 15, 2026, 8:02 PM

Mark your calendars. The Robotics and AI Symposium hits Queen's University October 14, bringing academic and industry voices together across robotics, AI, and human-machine interaction. Proud to see the Connected Minds community well represented on stage this year. Details and registration: #Queens

@connectedminds.bsky.social Sep 14, 2026, 11:48 PM

What if your commute came with pollution data? Dr. Grothaus' AirWear device is turning invisible air pollution into something communities can see and act on. Built with Dr. Desai's SaTS Lab and shaped by community input every step of the way. How could this change how cities tackle air quality?

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