Nikola Stikov
@Stikov
Professor @PolyMTL reinventing MRI and academic publishing. Creator of @qmrlab, @MRM_highlights, foundation @qantarot and @NeuroLibre reproducible preprints
Promoted to full professor @polymtl ! Honored, humbled and happy to continue doing science my way
Promoted to associate professor @polymtl, effective today! Time to do science my way:)
This is the publishing equivalent of "Don't trust, verify!" We still need a way of validating and reproducing research, but journals have a bad track record of doing that.
The journal system isn’t just inefficient — it’s distorting science itself. At Astera, we’ve opted out. No more journals. No shaping work around “publishable units.” Just good science, published faster and more openly. Here’s why we believe publishing needs a complete rethink:…
My Substack traffic shows that this post hit a nerve Over 1.5K link clicks, most of them from people who are not subscribers nor followers on social media. Subscribe to the @qantarot newsletter to receive My ISMRM blues vol. 2 straight in your inbox! And thank you to everybody…
A part of me wishes I was at #ismrm2025 with my friends and colleagues, celebrating their successes and hearing about their research. However, I decided to skip the annual meeting and write this post instead, hoping it will make a difference in the long run. 1/3
While there was no Highlights party to fund this year, we still gave money to the MRS x MRathon hackathon because it continues to embody the grassroots spirit of the MRI community. #MRathon
A part of me wishes I was at #ismrm2025 with my friends and colleagues, celebrating their successes and hearing about their research. However, I decided to skip the annual meeting and write this post instead, hoping it will make a difference in the long run. 1/3
Congratulations Marieh Al-Handawi and @Pance_Naumov
Thrilled to share that our researcher, Marieh Al-Handawi, has been shortlisted for the Times Higher Education Arab World Award 2025 in the category of "Research Project of the Year: STEM". Her project on harvesting water from the air using native UAE flora was shortlisted from…
Beautiful visualizations of the history of tech by @etiennefd
I made a big interactive tech tree of technological history! Here are some screenshots
Johnes Obungoloch first visited us at @polymtl in 2019 for the first edition of the MRathon. Six years later, he is back in Montreal building a low-field MRI scanner with Udunna Anazodo It was a pleasure welcoming him back to the @PolyNeuro lab together with @jcohenadad
Good to be back in Montreal, just in time to celebrate Alan Evans' appointment to the Order of Canada. Congratulations @acehigh1952!
ezyMRI NerdFest (29 April-3 May 2024, Singapore University of Technology and Design) Experience of how to build an MRI machine from scratch sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #NMRchat #NMR #MRI #MRISky 🧲
Not a shock to anyone that being a conformist is the easiest way to succeed in science. And it will always be true for as long as our primary measure of success is accumulation of citations - and not actual scientific progress.
The further a scientist moves away from the topic of their previous work, the fewer citations their new work will receive, according to an analysis of millions of scientific papers and patents published in @Nature. go.nature.com/3HdyflX
🗳️ Election announcement!! 🗳️ Vote for the next ESMRMB President and two new Board Members! Information on the candidates is available here: buff.ly/O6DaHQv The voting will run until June 16th. If you haven't received voting information, contact [email protected].
Great news for #OpenScience in Montreal! @BrainCanada is investing in six scientific platforms to drive innovation (t.ly/Aqfbz), including the Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform! This will accelerate brain research and collaboration. #Neuroscience #BrainResearch
Brain Canada Invests in Six Montreal-Area Platforms to Drive Open Science Innovation. This is just the beginning — stay tuned as we roll out more platform investments across the country! prn.to/4k5D3bI