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Jacob Vorstman

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Professor of Psychiatry at The Hospital for Sick Children / University of Toronto. Editor in Chief of the Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders. Neurodevelopment, (Child) Psychiatry, Genetics, The Music of Life,

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Jacob Vorstman @jacobvorstman.bsky.social · Nov 19

I could not find a "schizophrenia research starter pack" so I made one from the researchers in this area I could find.
No need pointing out that it's only a small and incomplete selection, just reach out if you want to be added. 🦋
#schizophrenia
#psychosis

go.bsky.app/T4ZYSD

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Jacob Vorstman @jacobvorstman.bsky.social · Aug 12

Super stoked to share our paper just out in Brain @brain1878.bsky.social
LoF variants in DENND2B give rise to an autosomal dominant neurodevelopmental condition characterized by developmental delay, intellectual disability, and episodes of psychosis and/or catatonia. tinyurl.com/4k8hr3bj

Variants in DENND2B are associated with vulnerability for neurodevelopmental impairment, psychosis and catatonia

Murthy et al. report that monoallelic loss of function variants in the DENND2B gene give rise to an autosomal dominant neurodevelopmental disorder characte

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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · May 4

#MusicSky #MayTheFourth

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Jacob Vorstman @jacobvorstman.bsky.social · Apr 22

Clear and to the point. @ahalladay.bsky.social only needs a mere 5 minutes to address some of the main points of RFKs April 16th conference on #Autism. Worth the listen and please share.

www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/a...

Autism Science Leader Reacts to RFK Jr.'s Misinformation

'Autism is being oversimplified right now,' says Alycia Halladay

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Ricardo J. Salvador @cadwego.bsky.social · Apr 11

What scientists do.

‘Dr. Le Pichon initially defended the notions of a static Earth, but he came to realize that they were incorrect. He returned from the laboratory one day and told his wife, “The conclusions of my thesis are false.”’

Xavier Le Pichon, Who Modeled Movement of Earth’s Crust, Dies at 87

With a computer rendering, he helped scientists understand that the earth, with its shifting tectonic plates, is “an extraordinary living being” that is “continuously changing.”

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Eos @eos.org · Apr 11

Xavier Le Pichon, a pioneer in early plate tectonics research died on 22 March. Pichon developed the first global reconstruction of Earth's tectonic plates.
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Podcast: Plate Tectonics, the Theory That Changed Earth Science - Eos

Third Pod from the Sun talks with pioneering geophysicist Xavier Le Pichon about what it was like to be a young scientist challenging deeply held theories.

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Jacob Vorstman @jacobvorstman.bsky.social · Apr 12

Not only an iconic scientist, but also an impressively humane person. This interview reveals some of his thinking about what it is to be human:

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Hugh Daigle @hdaigle.bsky.social · Apr 12

Reading our paper copy of the NY Times I came across Xavier Le Pichon’s obituary! What a loss. A pioneer of plate tectonics. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/s...

Jacob Vorstman @jacobvorstman.bsky.social · Apr 12

Thank you for sharing

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · Apr 11

Dr Peter Marks, "Vaccines have been studied very extensively for being potentially associated with autism"

"That theory has been debunked"

"One study in Denmark, over 600,000 children. It shows that if anything, children had a lower rate of autism than unvaccinated children"

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Jacob Vorstman @jacobvorstman.bsky.social · Apr 9

PS feel free to send me DM if you are paywalled

Jacob Vorstman @jacobvorstman.bsky.social · Apr 9

@nytimes.com published a moving obituary of my father in law, who passed away recently. I am forever grateful for his lasting positive impact on my life, and proud of his impressive scientific legacy to the world.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/s...

Xavier Le Pichon, Who Modeled Movement of Earth’s Crust, Dies at 87

With a computer rendering, he helped scientists understand that the earth, with its shifting tectonic plates, is “an extraordinary living being” that is “continuously changing.”

www.nytimes.com

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Jacob Vorstman @jacobvorstman.bsky.social · Mar 25

My dearest father-in-law and precious bon-pappa to our children. He taught me how to be a rigorous scientist to examine life, without reducing life to that what we can examine with science.

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Collège de France @college-de-france.fr · Mar 24

🟣 L’Administrateur, l’Assemblée des professeurs et toute la communauté du Collège de France apprennent avec une profonde tristesse le décès de Xavier Le Pichon, professeur émérite du Collège de France, titulaire de la chaire de #Géodynamique (1986-2008).

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Mar 25

Half of business owners on this Toronto street estimated that more than 25% of their customers arrived by car.

In fact, it was 4%.

And the % of customers who who walked or cycled? 72%.

Retailers routinely overestimate the # of “car customers.” Via @carltonreid.com www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

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The Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders @jnd-springernature.bsky.social · Mar 18

Begum-Ali et al. show that in #neurofibromatosis, changes in visual attention can already be measured during infancy; reporting slower development of endogenous visual foraging and in exogenously-driven saccadic reaction times.

Check it out: jneurodevdisorders.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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Jacob Vorstman @jacobvorstman.bsky.social · Mar 14

Pretty accurate
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Jacob Vorstman @jacobvorstman.bsky.social · Mar 6

I think there is a typo in your post?

Jacob Vorstman @jacobvorstman.bsky.social · Feb 21

Connecting the Toronto-Quebec City corridor with high speed rail could shave 39 million tonnes of carbon pollution in the coming decades, the equivalent of taking nine million gas powered cars off the road for a year, according to project documents.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/02/20/n...

Trudeau pitches high-speed rail, putting surprising new decarbonization options on the table

High-speed rail alternatives for travel could open up a suite of decarbonizing options not currently on the table. But politics remains a major obstacle to seeing it built.

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Jacob Vorstman @jacobvorstman.bsky.social · Feb 18

Reading a classic, I came across this description of our online experience in 2025, which struck me as pretty accurate... (Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, 1953)

What's lost in the process? Time-wasting thought

Jacob Vorstman @jacobvorstman.bsky.social · Feb 17

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Russians mourn Navalny, one of Putin’s biggest critics, on anniversary of his death | CNN

Alexei Navalny was a starch opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin, orchestrating some of the biggest anti-Kremlin protests in the country before his death in a Siberian prison at the age of 47,...

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · Feb 15

Correct. If the birthdate field contains corrupt or mismatched data, it defaults to 1875-05-20, which serves as a flag. May 20, 1875, is the day the international standards and metrics treaty was signed. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.

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Jacob Vorstman @jacobvorstman.bsky.social · Feb 6

The data for the slides which need to be uploaded by today is expected tomorrow

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Jacob Vorstman @jacobvorstman.bsky.social · Feb 2

I'm not your lunch, eh. I wouldn't even taste good without the maple syrup you low flying lunatic.

Jacob Vorstman @jacobvorstman.bsky.social · Jan 29

yes. Btw, I also think it should be "foud" rather than "food". Missed opportounity

Jacob Vorstman @jacobvorstman.bsky.social · Jan 26

“No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?"

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China's psychiatric treatment for ‘trouble-makers’

Student among dozens who challenged China’s authorities to have been sent to psychiatric units, BBC finds.

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Jacob Vorstman @jacobvorstman.bsky.social · Jan 24