Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social continues to think through problems she raised in her RGCS Lecture: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ81...
May 30, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social continues to think through problems she raised in her RGCS Lecture: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ81...
"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated.
“I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
“I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Gutting of America’s Medical Research: Here Is Every Canceled or Delayed N.I.H. Grant
Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.
www.nytimes.com
June 9, 2025 at 12:17 AM
The host got a lovely birthday message and photo that included this week's RGCs
December 17, 2025 at 7:41 AM
The host got a lovely birthday message and photo that included this week's RGCs
Huge congratulations to former RGCS postdoc @brianamcginnis.bsky.social ! #polisky
As of 8 minutes ago, I have been promoted and tenured. I’m now an Associate Professor of political science.
Thanks to everyone (known and unknown to me) who put in time & effort to make this possible, and especially to my department!
Thanks to everyone (known and unknown to me) who put in time & effort to make this possible, and especially to my department!
March 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Huge congratulations to former RGCS postdoc @brianamcginnis.bsky.social ! #polisky
Happy to share our new paper published in @currentbiology.bsky.social! Using in vivo imaging of genetically defined zebrafish retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), we show that while some Satb2+ RGCs maintain stable functional identities during development, others undergo functional changes.
July 1, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Happy to share our new paper published in @currentbiology.bsky.social! Using in vivo imaging of genetically defined zebrafish retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), we show that while some Satb2+ RGCs maintain stable functional identities during development, others undergo functional changes.
Some of today's #APSA2025 panels with RGCS students or alums presenting papers. See the whole schedule at
www.mcgill.ca/rgcs/files/r...
www.mcgill.ca/rgcs/files/r...
September 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Some of today's #APSA2025 panels with RGCS students or alums presenting papers. See the whole schedule at
www.mcgill.ca/rgcs/files/r...
www.mcgill.ca/rgcs/files/r...
Excited to share my new pub in @ Frontiers "In Vitro Retinal Ganglion Cell Differentiation & Enrichment: Do Subtypes Matter?" We review human RGC subtypes, markers, #glaucoma vulnerabilities & the need for subtype-specific #stemcell protocols for better therapies
Link ⬇️
#science #organoids
Link ⬇️
#science #organoids
Frontiers | In Vitro retinal ganglion cell differentiation and enrichment under the scope: do subtypes matter?
Retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) play a pivotal part transmitting visual data to the brain. Yet, damaged RGCs are unable to maintain and regrow axons and connec...
www.frontiersin.org
February 19, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Excited to share my new pub in @ Frontiers "In Vitro Retinal Ganglion Cell Differentiation & Enrichment: Do Subtypes Matter?" We review human RGC subtypes, markers, #glaucoma vulnerabilities & the need for subtype-specific #stemcell protocols for better therapies
Link ⬇️
#science #organoids
Link ⬇️
#science #organoids
38 lectures over the last dozen years about the values, institutions, and principles of a free society, at @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social .
February 8, 2025 at 1:35 AM
38 lectures over the last dozen years about the values, institutions, and principles of a free society, at @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social .
Call for papers: political theory in/ and/ as political science junior scholars' workshop. Please circulate. #polisky @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social
www.mcgill.ca/rgcs/ptps/20...
www.mcgill.ca/rgcs/ptps/20...
2025 PTPS Junior Scholars Workshop
We seek paper proposals for the sixth Political Theory In/And/As Political Science (PTPS) Junior Scholars Workshop, which will take place at McGill April 25-26, 2025. An ongoing collaboration among fa...
www.mcgill.ca
January 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Call for papers: political theory in/ and/ as political science junior scholars' workshop. Please circulate. #polisky @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social
www.mcgill.ca/rgcs/ptps/20...
www.mcgill.ca/rgcs/ptps/20...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Now available electronically: this book coedited by three RGCS faculty members, with essays about the work of RGCS Emeritus Member Charles Taylor.
Now available electronically: this book coedited by three RGCS faculty members, with essays about the work of RGCS Emeritus Member Charles Taylor.
April 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Now available electronically: this book coedited by three RGCS faculty members, with essays about the work of RGCS Emeritus Member Charles Taylor.
Now available electronically: this book coedited by three RGCS faculty members, with essays about the work of RGCS Emeritus Member Charles Taylor.
Today RGCS faculty member Daniel Weinstock was formally inducted into the Order of Canada!
Story from when the selection was first announced: www.mcgill.ca/law/channels...
Story from when the selection was first announced: www.mcgill.ca/law/channels...
December 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Today RGCS faculty member Daniel Weinstock was formally inducted into the Order of Canada!
Story from when the selection was first announced: www.mcgill.ca/law/channels...
Story from when the selection was first announced: www.mcgill.ca/law/channels...
The good news from Brazil provides a good excuse to repost @asharangappa.bsky.social 's comparative examination of whether and how countries hold their chief executives accountable, and why it's hard to do so.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ81...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ81...
RGCS Lecture: Asha Rangappa (Yale), "Presidential Paradox," January 26 2023
YouTube video by Yan P. Lin Centre, McGill University
www.youtube.com
September 12, 2025 at 5:48 AM
The good news from Brazil provides a good excuse to repost @asharangappa.bsky.social 's comparative examination of whether and how countries hold their chief executives accountable, and why it's hard to do so.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ81...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ81...
April 25, 2025 at 11:29 AM
New book coedited by former RGCS postdoc Rob Goodman @robgoodman.bsky.social
Populism, Demagoguery, and Rhetoric in Historical Perspective
Oxford University Press
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Populism, Demagoguery, and Rhetoric in Historical Perspective
Oxford University Press
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
November 13, 2024 at 9:38 PM
New book coedited by former RGCS postdoc Rob Goodman @robgoodman.bsky.social
Populism, Demagoguery, and Rhetoric in Historical Perspective
Oxford University Press
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Populism, Demagoguery, and Rhetoric in Historical Perspective
Oxford University Press
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Political theory in/ and/ as political science junior scholars panels, CFP
www.mcgill.ca/rgcs/ptps/20...
www.mcgill.ca/rgcs/ptps/20...
March 12, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Political theory in/ and/ as political science junior scholars panels, CFP
www.mcgill.ca/rgcs/ptps/20...
www.mcgill.ca/rgcs/ptps/20...
RGCS Charles Taylor Student Fellow alum Julia Morelli, MA2 Political Science, and RGCS coordinator @jacobtlevy.bsky.social Jacob Levy, Political Science, were both honored for their teaching by McGill's Faculty of Arts-wide Undergraduate Society.
March 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
RGCS Charles Taylor Student Fellow alum Julia Morelli, MA2 Political Science, and RGCS coordinator @jacobtlevy.bsky.social Jacob Levy, Political Science, were both honored for their teaching by McGill's Faculty of Arts-wide Undergraduate Society.
The video of Avigail Eisenberg's fantastic RGCS Lecture is now available: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6U7...
RGCS Lecture: Avigail Eisenberg, “Misunderstanding Self-Government,” February 6 2025
YouTube video by Yan P. Lin Centre, McGill University
www.youtube.com
February 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The video of Avigail Eisenberg's fantastic RGCS Lecture is now available: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6U7...
Benjamin Constant devoted much of his political career to engaging in a public "course on constitutional politics" to help educate the French citizenry— not just lawyers and judges— about the principles and demands of constitutional government.
Anyway:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Anyway:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
RGCS Lectures - YouTube
www.youtube.com
February 8, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Benjamin Constant devoted much of his political career to engaging in a public "course on constitutional politics" to help educate the French citizenry— not just lawyers and judges— about the principles and demands of constitutional government.
Anyway:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Anyway:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Seems like a good day to repost @kclausing.bsky.social Kimberly Clausing's 2019 RGCS Lecture, "The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2TC...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2TC...
RGCS Lecture: Kimberly Clausing
YouTube video by Yan P. Lin Centre, McGill University
www.youtube.com
February 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Seems like a good day to repost @kclausing.bsky.social Kimberly Clausing's 2019 RGCS Lecture, "The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2TC...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2TC...
New preprint! A wonderful collaboration of our @FellerMarla lab with Matthew Po, and @shekharlab. Here, we dive into the impact of spontaneous activity on the transcriptome of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), the sole output neurons of the retina. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Transcriptomic changes in retinal ganglion cell types associated with the disruption of cholinergic retinal waves
In the early stages of retinal development, a form of correlated activity known as retinal waves causes periodic depolarizations of immature retinal ganglion cells (RGCs). Retinal waves are crucial fo...
www.biorxiv.org
December 10, 2024 at 11:00 AM
New preprint! A wonderful collaboration of our @FellerMarla lab with Matthew Po, and @shekharlab. Here, we dive into the impact of spontaneous activity on the transcriptome of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), the sole output neurons of the retina. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
RGCS Lectures by PPE speakers
S Ingham, The Democrat’s Dilemma
K Elliott, Democracy for Busy People
K Vallier, From Counter-Reformation to Counter-Revolution
R Muldoon, Harnessing Diversity, Dynamism, & Discovery
M Schwartzberg, Constitutionalism & Local Knowledge
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
S Ingham, The Democrat’s Dilemma
K Elliott, Democracy for Busy People
K Vallier, From Counter-Reformation to Counter-Revolution
R Muldoon, Harnessing Diversity, Dynamism, & Discovery
M Schwartzberg, Constitutionalism & Local Knowledge
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
RGCS Lectures - YouTube
www.youtube.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
RGCS Lectures by PPE speakers
S Ingham, The Democrat’s Dilemma
K Elliott, Democracy for Busy People
K Vallier, From Counter-Reformation to Counter-Revolution
R Muldoon, Harnessing Diversity, Dynamism, & Discovery
M Schwartzberg, Constitutionalism & Local Knowledge
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
S Ingham, The Democrat’s Dilemma
K Elliott, Democracy for Busy People
K Vallier, From Counter-Reformation to Counter-Revolution
R Muldoon, Harnessing Diversity, Dynamism, & Discovery
M Schwartzberg, Constitutionalism & Local Knowledge
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Not feeling much urge to look back at 2024, but I'll make an exception for our research group at McGill.
www.mcgill.ca/rgcs/files/r...
www.mcgill.ca/rgcs/files/r...
December 31, 2024 at 4:14 PM
Not feeling much urge to look back at 2024, but I'll make an exception for our research group at McGill.
www.mcgill.ca/rgcs/files/r...
www.mcgill.ca/rgcs/files/r...
After injury some RGCs survive but do they thrive? In this collaboration with Jonathan Demb's lab (Yale), we looked into the physiology of resilient RGCs after axon injury. Their visual responses largely remain intact but they exhibit reduced intrinsic excitability, coincident with AIS disassembly.
February 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
After injury some RGCs survive but do they thrive? In this collaboration with Jonathan Demb's lab (Yale), we looked into the physiology of resilient RGCs after axon injury. Their visual responses largely remain intact but they exhibit reduced intrinsic excitability, coincident with AIS disassembly.