Amazing that RGCs can filter out background without losing sensitivity to light. I'm curious if the non-linear model results in delayed signal transduction. Would there be differences in prey species (mice) that need the fastest possible signal propagation to avoid predators?
@yeastychic.bsky.social
@yeastychic.bsky.social
October 30, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Amazing that RGCs can filter out background without losing sensitivity to light. I'm curious if the non-linear model results in delayed signal transduction. Would there be differences in prey species (mice) that need the fastest possible signal propagation to avoid predators?
@yeastychic.bsky.social
@yeastychic.bsky.social
This paper was an interesting read and provides a way to expand research of RGCs into more animal models. It would be neat to apply this to a nob3 model to see the RGC activity across mesopic and scotopic conditions. I'm also interested to see the super-resolution images.
@yeastychic.bsky.social
@yeastychic.bsky.social
October 30, 2026 at 1:12 AM
This paper was an interesting read and provides a way to expand research of RGCs into more animal models. It would be neat to apply this to a nob3 model to see the RGC activity across mesopic and scotopic conditions. I'm also interested to see the super-resolution images.
@yeastychic.bsky.social
@yeastychic.bsky.social
One for me, one for the @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social Shklar Room shelves. @tmbejan.bsky.social
October 23, 2026 at 1:50 PM
One for me, one for the @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social Shklar Room shelves. @tmbejan.bsky.social
New by former RGCS postdoc Didier Zúñiga, now Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta, in Contemporary Political Theory: a review of RGCS faculty member Yann Allard-Tremblay's _Disjunctures: Indigenous Redirections in Political Theory_.
doi.org/10.1057/s412...
doi.org/10.1057/s412...
Disjunctures: Indigenous redirections in political theory - Contemporary Political Theory
Contemporary Political Theory -
doi.org
October 22, 2026 at 12:51 PM
New by former RGCS postdoc Didier Zúñiga, now Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta, in Contemporary Political Theory: a review of RGCS faculty member Yann Allard-Tremblay's _Disjunctures: Indigenous Redirections in Political Theory_.
doi.org/10.1057/s412...
doi.org/10.1057/s412...
Yesterday the book was launched with an Oxford New Book" panel discussion at Oriel, where one of the discussants was Jordan Walters, RGCS Philosophy PhD '25, now a postdoc at Oxford.
Also in attendance: RGCS Taylor Fellow alum Amelia Kemp BA '26, now an MPhil student in political theory at Oxford.
Also in attendance: RGCS Taylor Fellow alum Amelia Kemp BA '26, now an MPhil student in political theory at Oxford.
October 20, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Yesterday the book was launched with an Oxford New Book" panel discussion at Oriel, where one of the discussants was Jordan Walters, RGCS Philosophy PhD '25, now a postdoc at Oxford.
Also in attendance: RGCS Taylor Fellow alum Amelia Kemp BA '26, now an MPhil student in political theory at Oxford.
Also in attendance: RGCS Taylor Fellow alum Amelia Kemp BA '26, now an MPhil student in political theory at Oxford.
Bejan is the only two-time presenter at the RGCS Lecture Series. An earlier draft of the book was workshopped at a full-day GRIPP-RGCS event in 2023.
October 20, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Bejan is the only two-time presenter at the RGCS Lecture Series. An earlier draft of the book was workshopped at a full-day GRIPP-RGCS event in 2023.
See Professor Bejan's RGCS Lectures on the themes of the book:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxXj...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxXj...
RGCS Lecture : Teresa M. Bejan, "Equality before Egalitarianism"
YouTube video by Yan P. Lin Centre, McGill University
www.youtube.com
October 20, 2026 at 1:36 PM
See Professor Bejan's RGCS Lectures on the themes of the book:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxXj...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxXj...
Day 12
One of those songs from my childhood that transports me to another place. Seeing the commercial on TV at my granny's house when I had no idea what Kingdom Hearts was, then later renting it from Movie Gallery on a Friday night when we finally had a PS2. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgCS...
One of those songs from my childhood that transports me to another place. Seeing the commercial on TV at my granny's house when I had no idea what Kingdom Hearts was, then later renting it from Movie Gallery on a Friday night when we finally had a PS2. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgCS...
Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMIX - Final Mix Opening Cinematic @ 1080p HD ✔
YouTube video by RajmanGaming HD
www.youtube.com
October 21, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Day 12
One of those songs from my childhood that transports me to another place. Seeing the commercial on TV at my granny's house when I had no idea what Kingdom Hearts was, then later renting it from Movie Gallery on a Friday night when we finally had a PS2. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgCS...
One of those songs from my childhood that transports me to another place. Seeing the commercial on TV at my granny's house when I had no idea what Kingdom Hearts was, then later renting it from Movie Gallery on a Friday night when we finally had a PS2. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgCS...
Publication day for _First Among Equals: Visions of Equality Before Egalitarianism_ (Harvard UP) by @tmbejan.bsky.social Teresa M. Bejan, Professor of Political Theory at Oxford, RGCS Visiting Fulbright Chair in Political and Constitutional Theory in 2021. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
First Among Equals — Harvard University Press
An incisive account of how equality transformed from an abstract ideal into a concrete social and political vision, thanks to seventeenth-century English dissidents like the Levellers and the politica...
www.hup.harvard.edu
October 20, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Publication day for _First Among Equals: Visions of Equality Before Egalitarianism_ (Harvard UP) by @tmbejan.bsky.social Teresa M. Bejan, Professor of Political Theory at Oxford, RGCS Visiting Fulbright Chair in Political and Constitutional Theory in 2021. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
New from RGCS faculty member Jacob Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social , in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: "Academic Freedom"
plato.stanford.edu/entries/acad...
plato.stanford.edu/entries/acad...
Academic Freedom (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
plato.stanford.edu
October 19, 2026 at 1:55 PM
New from RGCS faculty member Jacob Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social , in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: "Academic Freedom"
plato.stanford.edu/entries/acad...
plato.stanford.edu/entries/acad...
Plot twist: The sticker on today's symposium swag bag is actually my cell culture image!This image shows a mixed culture of immature and mature RGCs isolated from retinal organoids, stained for beta III tubulin (orange) and BRN3B (green)
October 16, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Plot twist: The sticker on today's symposium swag bag is actually my cell culture image!This image shows a mixed culture of immature and mature RGCs isolated from retinal organoids, stained for beta III tubulin (orange) and BRN3B (green)
While some RGCs look fully mature, others are still in development we're currently exploring how adding specific factors to the growth medium can help accelerate this maturation process.
Always exciting to see lab work step out of the incubator and into the real world! 🧬✨
Always exciting to see lab work step out of the incubator and into the real world! 🧬✨
October 16, 2026 at 2:28 PM
While some RGCs look fully mature, others are still in development we're currently exploring how adding specific factors to the growth medium can help accelerate this maturation process.
Always exciting to see lab work step out of the incubator and into the real world! 🧬✨
Always exciting to see lab work step out of the incubator and into the real world! 🧬✨
We re-visited this question using a mouse line in which Isl1 deletion was restricted to amacrine/horizontal cell precursors so we could figure out what Isl1 is doing specifically in SACs without affecting RGCs and BCs
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October 12, 2026 at 3:54 PM
We re-visited this question using a mouse line in which Isl1 deletion was restricted to amacrine/horizontal cell precursors so we could figure out what Isl1 is doing specifically in SACs without affecting RGCs and BCs
4/10
4/10
Previous work from the Gan lab had shown that pan-retinal deletion of Isl1 led to a loss of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), bipolar cells (BCs), and startburst amacrine cells (SACs). Since these cells are all connected in a functional circuit, it is hard to know what Isl1 is doing in each type
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October 12, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Previous work from the Gan lab had shown that pan-retinal deletion of Isl1 led to a loss of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), bipolar cells (BCs), and startburst amacrine cells (SACs). Since these cells are all connected in a functional circuit, it is hard to know what Isl1 is doing in each type
3/10
3/10
New from former RGCS postdoc @samuel-bagg.bsky.social 2017-19, now Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina, in the American Political Science Review, with Udit Bhatia
"When Can Clientelism Serve Democratic Ends? A Democratic Theory of Distributive Politics"
doi.org/10.1017/S000...
"When Can Clientelism Serve Democratic Ends? A Democratic Theory of Distributive Politics"
doi.org/10.1017/S000...
October 8, 2026 at 7:24 PM
New from former RGCS postdoc @samuel-bagg.bsky.social 2017-19, now Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina, in the American Political Science Review, with Udit Bhatia
"When Can Clientelism Serve Democratic Ends? A Democratic Theory of Distributive Politics"
doi.org/10.1017/S000...
"When Can Clientelism Serve Democratic Ends? A Democratic Theory of Distributive Politics"
doi.org/10.1017/S000...
16 years today since the first RGCS Lecture— by Jeremy Waldron, NYU Law, "Constitutionalism: A Skeptical View." Introduced by then-Dean of Arts Christopher Manfredi, followed by dinner at Europea.
There have been 51 lectures and debates in the series total: www.mcgill.ca/rgcs/events/...
There have been 51 lectures and debates in the series total: www.mcgill.ca/rgcs/events/...
October 5, 2026 at 11:05 PM
16 years today since the first RGCS Lecture— by Jeremy Waldron, NYU Law, "Constitutionalism: A Skeptical View." Introduced by then-Dean of Arts Christopher Manfredi, followed by dinner at Europea.
There have been 51 lectures and debates in the series total: www.mcgill.ca/rgcs/events/...
There have been 51 lectures and debates in the series total: www.mcgill.ca/rgcs/events/...
The Shklar Room houses a collection of nearly 1000 volumes in political theory and philosophy, the history of political thought, legal theory, and related fields, including works in those fields by RGCS members and alums and a complete collection of dissertations by RGCS PhD students.
September 29, 2026 at 2:40 PM
The Shklar Room houses a collection of nearly 1000 volumes in political theory and philosophy, the history of political thought, legal theory, and related fields, including works in those fields by RGCS members and alums and a complete collection of dissertations by RGCS PhD students.
On September 24, students, alums, postdocs, and faculty of RGCS came together to celebrate the naming of our central shared intellectual space as the Judith Nisse Shklar (BA '49 MA '50) Reading Room.
September 29, 2026 at 2:40 PM
On September 24, students, alums, postdocs, and faculty of RGCS came together to celebrate the naming of our central shared intellectual space as the Judith Nisse Shklar (BA '49 MA '50) Reading Room.
It serves as the meeting room for the weekly reading group meetings of the RGCS Charles Taylor Student Fellowship (and includes a complete collection of the works the Fellowship has read together since it was established in 2010).
September 29, 2026 at 2:40 PM
It serves as the meeting room for the weekly reading group meetings of the RGCS Charles Taylor Student Fellowship (and includes a complete collection of the works the Fellowship has read together since it was established in 2010).
Two major new articles from RGCS alum Mary Jo MacDonald @maryjomacdonald.bsky.social BA '17, now Assistant Professor of Political Theory at Mount Allison University
“Marriage as Slavery: Oroonoko, the Slave Trade, and the Origins of English Feminism." APSR
doi.org/10.1017/S000...
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“Marriage as Slavery: Oroonoko, the Slave Trade, and the Origins of English Feminism." APSR
doi.org/10.1017/S000...
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September 29, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Two major new articles from RGCS alum Mary Jo MacDonald @maryjomacdonald.bsky.social BA '17, now Assistant Professor of Political Theory at Mount Allison University
“Marriage as Slavery: Oroonoko, the Slave Trade, and the Origins of English Feminism." APSR
doi.org/10.1017/S000...
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“Marriage as Slavery: Oroonoko, the Slave Trade, and the Origins of English Feminism." APSR
doi.org/10.1017/S000...
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Erin Crandall , RGCS PhD alum '13
Professor of Politics, Acadia
Online event from the Centre for Constitutional Studies
Oct 15, 12 pm MST (2 pm EST):
"Referendum Question 6
Judges on the Ballot: Alberta Courts and the Politics of Federalism"
Registration:
ualberta-ca.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Professor of Politics, Acadia
Online event from the Centre for Constitutional Studies
Oct 15, 12 pm MST (2 pm EST):
"Referendum Question 6
Judges on the Ballot: Alberta Courts and the Politics of Federalism"
Registration:
ualberta-ca.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
September 28, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Erin Crandall , RGCS PhD alum '13
Professor of Politics, Acadia
Online event from the Centre for Constitutional Studies
Oct 15, 12 pm MST (2 pm EST):
"Referendum Question 6
Judges on the Ballot: Alberta Courts and the Politics of Federalism"
Registration:
ualberta-ca.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Professor of Politics, Acadia
Online event from the Centre for Constitutional Studies
Oct 15, 12 pm MST (2 pm EST):
"Referendum Question 6
Judges on the Ballot: Alberta Courts and the Politics of Federalism"
Registration:
ualberta-ca.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
RGCS postdoc Alexis Bibeau-Gagnon interviewed on Radio Canada: "Les actions perturbatrices pour le climat arrivent-elles à convaincre?"
ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premie...
ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premie...
Les actions perturbatrices pour le climat arrivent-elles à convaincre? | OHdio | Radio-Canada
Écoutez l’extrait de l’émission La croisée : Les actions perturbatrices pour le climat arrivent-elles à convaincre?
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September 18, 2026 at 7:00 PM
RGCS postdoc Alexis Bibeau-Gagnon interviewed on Radio Canada: "Les actions perturbatrices pour le climat arrivent-elles à convaincre?"
ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premie...
ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premie...
Spatial transcriptomics of the mouse retina! Very cool. Appreciate the thoughtful experimental design and analysis of xenium data www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
A complete spatial map of mouse retinal ganglion cells reveals density and gene expression specializations | PNAS
Retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) transmit visual information from the eye to the brain.
In mice, several RGC types show nonuniform spatial distributio...
www.pnas.org
September 13, 2026 at 1:31 AM
Spatial transcriptomics of the mouse retina! Very cool. Appreciate the thoughtful experimental design and analysis of xenium data www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...