I live in Saskatoon and tweet about some of the things that I find interesting.
Joined October 2013
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John Howland retweeted
30 Apr 2025
🚨New paper from the Epp and Sargin Labs!🚨
We identified early sex- and region-specific impairments to parvalbumin interneurons (PV-INs) during Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) pathogenesis
science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
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1 May 2025
I will be at the CAN meeting in Toronto if you are interested in discussing this Assistant Professor opportunity @USaskMed. Please apply!
1 May 2025
Neuroscience job alert! The Department of Anatomy, Physiology, and Pharmacology at @usask (University of Saskatchewan) is hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist!! Please reach out if you are interested or have any questions! See link for details!
universityaffairs.ca/search-…
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John Howland retweeted
10 Oct 2024
🧠 What does fetal exposure to cannabis change in brain wiring? #USaskMed's @JohnGHowland brings us inside his lab in Ep. 84 of Researchers Under the Scope, to study #BuddingBrains on high-test THC and CBD.🔬🐭
Listen now: ow.ly/8rEg50TIXcb
#USaskResearch @usask_OVDR
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John Howland retweeted
27 Sep 2024
Continuing our celebration of #PeerReivewWeek, we want to highlight the top reviewers of 2023. Want to know more about some of them? Stay tuned!
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John Howland retweeted
27 Sep 2024
Dr. Howland (@JohnGHowland) & his team recently received a CIHR grant to continue work on the effects of gestational cannabis exposure. If you're interested in joining his team - reach out!
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John Howland retweeted
27 Sep 2024
Why does Dr. Howland review for NPP? "I enjoy reviewing for NPP given the consistently high quality of the submissions, and I learn a lot by reading the other reviewers' comments"
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John Howland retweeted
27 Sep 2024
@JohnGHowland reviewed 7 papers in '23. He is a Professor in the Department of Anatomy, Physiology, and Pharmacology and the University of Saskatchewan.
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John Howland retweeted
30 Aug 2024
✨Congratulations to @JohnGHowland on receiving a 2024 @CIHR_IRSC Spring Project Grant! He is studying the effects of cannabis smoke during pregnancy, aiming to understand the impact of long-term exposure on child development, and to inform public health policy and education.
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John Howland retweeted
23 Jul 2024
We're hiring two tenure-track assistant professors in behavioural neuroscience to begin on July 1, 2025. Please share with your networks!
Apply by Oct 1, 2024 here: bit.ly/PsychBNSPositions
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John Howland retweeted
4 Jun 2024
Just published in @Nature: "Underfunding cannabis research hampers sensible policymaking and boosts the black market." Highlighting the lack of funding using Quebec as an example. Read more: nature.com/articles/d41586-0… #CannabisResearch #Policy #Science
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John Howland retweeted
25 May 2024
#OnTheBeamlines: Researchers from @usask used the Mid-IR beamline as part of a study looking at how exposure to high-#THC cannabis smoke while in utero impacts the developing brain @JohnGHowland @talpaca13 @DiamondLightSou
🔎 bit.ly/44iMPjr
ALT Photo: From left to right, John Howland, Amanda Quirk, Rhiannon Boseley (on laptop), and Tallan Black.
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2 May 2024
I recognize this paper! Thanks for the tweet @PsychopharmEBPS!
2 May 2024
New in #Psychopharm! The odor span task has been proposed as a measure of non-spatial working memory capacity, and it depends upon nucleus accumbens neurons, and D2 (not D1) neurotransmission there!
link.springer.com/article/10…
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John Howland retweeted
2 May 2024
Congratulations to the Best Paper winners who were just announced at #USask’s Life & Health Sciences Research Expo award ceremony!
The Best Supervisor Award is coming up next!
#USaskHealth #USaskResearch
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2 May 2024
Congratulations @talpaca13 !!!
2 May 2024
So grateful for this award and to everyone who was part of the process!!! Cheers to the squad showing up and cheering me on 😇🥳
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20 Apr 2024
Amazing to see @talpaca13 develop this project as an idea for her comprehensive exam and then refine and polish it into this full length review with @BryanJenkinsPhD! Congratulations!!! 🍾💥👏
19 Apr 2024
Novel non-pharmacological interventions like Gamma Entrainment Using Sensory should be considered for cognitive symptoms in neuropsychiatric disorders like schizophrenia. From a simple brain child with @BryanJenkinsPhD to publication, I am ECSTATIC! sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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28 Feb 2024
Congratulations @DanLMcElbot for pushing your love of the RSC on me and now the world!
27 Feb 2024
We are officially part of the Retrosplenial Cortex (RSC) literature!
@EJNeuroscience: doi.org/10.1111/ejn.16284
Our findings highlight a crucial role for glutamate signalling in the RSC when recalling previously explored objects and locations.
@FENSorg @wileyneuro @JohnGHowland
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John Howland retweeted
19 Feb 2024
I am delighted to share that I'll be joining @usask as an Assistant Professor this fall. I am excited to join the vibrant research community @Dept of Vet Biomed Sci.
I am #grateful to my scores of mentors, funders, friends & family who have supported me thus far. #faithfulGod
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John Howland retweeted
📢 NEWS RELEASE: Today, teachers are giving 48 hours’ notice of locations for the next round of rotating strikes on Wednesday, February 7.
Read more: stf.sk.ca/about-stf/news/sec…
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John Howland retweeted
17 Jan 2024
1. Happy to share that our paper on the dorsal peduncular cortex and its role in affective behaviours and fear is finally out at @npp_journal with co-authors @abde13015 @ryan_appings and many others from @ArruCarval_lab lab: nature.com/articles/s41386-0…
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