Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com Daily comic by Aaron Reynolds that keeps on winning awards despite being nothing more than birds and curse words. Books, calendars and merch at effinbirds.com
callista yee @csybio.bsky.social worm neurobiologist, assistant professor at UBC zoology. loves tater tots, synapses, dpy worms, and transcription factors. she/her. 🏳️🌈🇨🇦
Daniel Castro @flanbrain.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Washington University in St. Louis. We study endogenous opioids in affect, motivation, and metabolism. I love food and puppies.
The Tyee @thetyee.ca Independent BC-based journalism swimming against the current. Paywall-free since 2003. support.thetyee.ca
Rafiq Huda @brainsonmymind.bsky.social Assistant professor @RutgersU studying neuron and astrocyte circuits in health and disease. hudalab.org
Thomas Akam @thomasakam.bsky.social Neuroscientist interested in planning and flexible behaviour | Open-source tool developer
Mark Mac Lean @marktmaclean.bsky.social Mathematician. Full of contradictions. Opinions are entirely my own. Reposts =/= endorsements. Likes are often bookmarks or acknowledgements. He/him/his.
Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy, UBC
Faculty Member, Science and Technology Studies Graduate Program, UBC
Philosophy of Science
History of Philosophy of Science
Melanie A. Butt @melaniebutt.com PhD student at the University of British Columbia, studying intraindividual variability in daily cognition
Simon Lolliot (he/him) @simonlolliot.bsky.social Associate Professor of Teaching in Psychology at UBC. Interested in embedding best practices for memory and learning into OERs. Also, classroom diversity, intergroup contact, creating classroom community and how to foster social and academic belonging.
Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social Politics, author of Dangerous Memory: Coming of Age in the Decade of Greed. Meidas Canada/ The Resistance Lead singer with Grievous Angels. Just a boy from Cobalt.
Not a space for the cynical and snide.
Asher Leeks @asherleeks.bsky.social We study social evolution in viruses.
Assistant Professor @zoology.ubc.ca & @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social
asherleeks.com
@zfreyberg.bsky.social @zfreyberg.bsky.social
Michelle Jung @minseonjung.bsky.social PhD candidate in the Soma Lab @UBC studying the effects of maternal diet on hormone, brain, and behaviour of the offspring 🧠🧁
Andrew (Andy) Dykstra @adykstra.bsky.social 🔊 〰️ 👂🧠 @ University of Central Florida | opinions mine
Science in Vancouver @scienceinvancouver.com Your complete source for all the life science news, events, and jobs in the Lower Mainland! Brought to you by @stemcell.com.
Troy McDiarmid @troymcdiarmid.bsky.social Assistant Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering & Centre for Brain Health
University of British Columbia
@sbmeubc.bsky.social @dmcbrainhealth.bsky.social
https://mcdiarmid-lab.sbme.ubc.ca/
Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com Professor of political science. Author. Dad.
Constitutional law, rights, governing institutions, and Canadian politics.
Books: Legislating under the Charter; Constitutional Pariah; Governing from the Bench
Mariko Bennett @nachoriko.bsky.social MLBlab.org
brittanyjjensen.bsky.social @brittanyjjensen.bsky.social Neuroscience PhD candidate in the Soma Lab @ UBC studying the effects of estrogen in the brain on motivation and memory
Research Society on Alcohol @rsaofficial.bsky.social The Research Society on Alcohol connects scientists, clinicians & advocates to advance evidence-based knowledge, prevention, treatment & recovery. Join our community. #RSA
CANGlia @canglia.bsky.social Canadian Association for Neuroscientists who study Glia || CANGlia 2026 Meeting in Montreal, Canada May 15-16th, 2026!
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Nathan Marchant @njmarchant.bsky.social
Maithe Arruda Carvalho @arrudacarvalho.bsky.social Neuroscientist. Associate Professor @ University of Toronto Scarborough.
Patrick Mulholland (He/Him) @mulhollandlab.bsky.social Alcohol Addiction Neuroscientist at a Medical University in Charleston SC; part time taxi driver for three active kids- D @dammer.bsky.social @dammer.bsky.social
Paul Masset @paulmasset.bsky.social Assistant Professor, McGill University | Associate Academic Member, Mila - Quebec AI Institute | Neuroscience and AI, learning and inference, dopamine and cognition
https://massetlab.org/
amar ojha @amarojha.bsky.social neuroscientist interested in brain development, affective + cognitive control, and precision psychiatry | amarojha.github.io
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Esther Verheyen 🇨🇦 @estherverheyen.bsky.social Drosophila development and models of human disease focussed on kinases, metabolism and cell signaling. Prof at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Grew up in Baltimore, MD. Lab website: verheyenlab.weebly.com
Carolina Tropini (TropiniLab@UBC) @ctropini.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia studying the gut microbiota and abiotic environment in health and disease.
http://tropini.microbiology.ubc.ca
Haley Vecchiarelli @haleyv.bsky.social Postdoc | (micro)glia, cannabinoids and stress | BiInSci, ADHD/cPTSD and First-Gen Doc
Skincare/eyeshadow enthusiast | Year round iced coffee drinker | Tired
André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social André Picard is the health columnist at The Globe and Mail and the author of six bestselling books. I share stories and opinion pieces from a broad range of publications. Shares are not endorsements.
Jeff Weiner @jlweiner.bsky.social Father, husband, neuroscientist, proud Democrat, Canadian ex-pat living in the US ... and, once again, deeply questioning my choice of residency. The views expressed here are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of Advocate Health.
Dani Palombo @danipalombo.bsky.social Views are my own
The Ubyssey @ubyssey.ca UBC's student newspaper — established in 1918, independent since 1995.
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Jehannine (J9) Austin @j9austin.bsky.social Genetic Counselor, Professor/Dept. Head (Medical Genetics) at the University of British Columbia. Editor in Chief: Journal of Genetic Counseling. Prez of International Society of Psychiatric Genetics. Unceded Coast Salish Territories.
They/them
@triciajanak.bsky.social @triciajanak.bsky.social
Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social physician-scientist, author, editor
https://www.scripps.edu/faculty/topol/
Ground Truths https://erictopol.substack.com
SUPER AGERS https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Super-Agers/Eric-Topol/9781668067666
Rose Bagot @rcbagot.bsky.social Neuroscientist in Montréal
T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social Back off man, I'm a scientist. Professor. Evolutionary biologist. Genome size, junk DNA, applied evolution, sci comm, philosophy of science. Also political stuff. Plus jokes. Onions have 5x more DNA than you do (not a joke). He/him.
Matt Hill @cannabrain.bsky.social Canadian 🇨🇦 Neuroscientist all things Stress, Endocannabinoids and Cannabis
Horror Movies / Weightlifting / Food and Travel / Dogs
BCCHR ResDev (DM) @resdevbcch.bsky.social Research development at a large children’s hospital research institute (UBC/PHSA)
(dm is she/her/dr)
Christine C. @limbic.bsky.social B.C. Career in mental health work. Deeply sensitive, huge interest in BPD/trauma and many diverse interests. Volunteering to help with homelessness is a heartfelt passion. 25+yrs. I genuinely believe in dropping judgement and in offering kindness.
Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social Neurology and brain imaging.
ORCID: 0000-0002-0945-5779
Massi(e)h Moayedi — مسیح مویدی @massih.bsky.social ⚜️-🇨🇦-🇮🇷
Assoc Prof, UToronto Pain Scientist
Co-Director, Centre for Multimodal Sensorimotor and Pain Research;
Canada Research Chair in Pain NeuroImaging;
Councillor, IASP; Secretary, CanPainSoc
fMRI, EEG, Psychophysics.
He/Him/His | 🏳️🌈 |✊🏾| 🇵🇸&🇱🇧& 🇸🇾|✌️
David Moorman @davidmoorman.bsky.social Neuroscientist; Associate Professor at UMass Amherst
moormanlab.org
Amelia Eisch 🧪🧠👩🔬 🐁 @eisch.bsky.social Philadelphia Neuroscience Professor obsessed w/dentate gyrus, mentoring, unsweet soymilk. Opinions & bad jokes are mine not my employer’s. She/her/cat.
https://sites.google.com/view/eischlab
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Stephen Glasgow @sdglasgow.bsky.social Neuroscience of learning & memory, viennoiserie & wine enthusiast. www.glasgowlab.ca
Naomi Mittet @naolimit.bsky.social Circadian sleep disorders advocate. Raising awareness for Non-24 in sighted people. #DSPD mom of a #Non24 young adult. Former board member at https://csd-n.org. Full time caregiver. She/Her.
Cover photo by Daniel Kordan.
Andrew Boyce @andrewboyce.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Assistant Professor @UNMHSC Neurosciences
Exploring spreading depolarization during seizure & stroke using optogenetics, ephys, photometry, & microscopy.
Enthusiastic but mediocre runner & climber.
Thompson, Nägerl & Swayne lab alumnus. (he/him)
Eric (“VJ”) Rubenstein @vjrubenstein.bsky.social Lucky me, lucky mud.
Cell biology. Protein quality control. Yeast. PUI in Muncie, Indiana.
Survivor and Traitors superfan
He/him
Views my own, not my employer's
DLRamamurthy @dlramamurthy.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of California, Riverside
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=rx0-fg8AAAAJ&hl=en
Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky @sejordt.bsky.social he/him Prof @dukemedschool.bsky.social Anesthesiology. Immigrant. Fights against chemicals that hurt you. Research on chemosensation, pain, TRP channels, toxicology & tobacco control. #teargas. Views my own. #TobRegSky feed. 🇺🇸🇩🇪🇺🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱🟧ACADEMIA AETERNA!
Wei-Hsiang Huang @weihsiah.bsky.social Taiwanese-Canadian Neuroscientist
Associate Professor @ McGill University
Study neurodevelopmental disorders using mouse and human organoid models
https://www.huanglabmcgill.org/
Nathanael Caveney @caveneylab.ca Assistant Professor, PharmTox, University of Toronto. Signalling, structural biology, protein engineering. 🇨🇦
https://caveneylab.ca
Nicole Krentz 🇨🇦 @nkrentz.bsky.social Diabetes researcher at the University of British Columbia
Davide Cortinovis @davidecortinovis.bsky.social PhD student in the Object Vision Group at CIMeC, University of Trento. Interested in neuroimaging and object perception. He/him 🏳️🌈
https://davidecortinovis-droid.github.io/
Jibran Khokhar @drjkhokhar.bsky.social Associate Professor, CRC in Translational Neuropsychopharmacology Western University Open-Source Behavioural Tools
Committed to knowing better and doing better!
Harrison Ritz @hritz.bsky.social cybernetic cognitive control
computational cognitive neuroscience
Connected Minds Fellow @ Queens + RRI
he/him 🇨🇦 harrisonritz.github.io
Randy McIntosh @ar0mcintosh.bsky.social Scientist
https://www.armcintosh.com/
https://www.sfu.ca/neuro-institute.html
Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social Prime Minister of Canada and Leader of the Liberal Party | Premier ministre du Canada et chef du Parti libéral
markcarney.ca
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Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social @Penn Prof, deep learning, brains, #causality, rigor, http://neuromatch.io, Transdisciplinary optimist, Dad, Loves outdoors, 🦖 , c4r.io
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U15 Canada @u15ca.bsky.social Canada’s leading research universities // Les grandes universités de recherche du Canada
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social "Above all, we loved this country and loved exploring and painting it." ~ Lawren Harris
@janaklab.bsky.social @janaklab.bsky.social We are a behavioral and systems neuroscience lab interested in reward processes at Johns Hopkins University
DMartin @drddom.bsky.social Associate Prof at UWaterloo in Biology. Study autophagy & protein lipidation (S-acylation & N-myristoylation) in Huntington disease, ALS, & VCP Disease. Expect science, food, & dog pics (opinions my own) https://neurdyphagylab.squarespace.com/
Bandcamp @bandcamp.com Bandcamp is an online record store and music community where passionate fans connect with and directly support the artists they love.
Michelle Wu 吳弭 @wutrain.bsky.social Mayor of Boston • Mom to Blaise, Cass & Mira • Personal account
michelleforboston.com
Zach Pennington @zachtpennington.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia
Neural circuits supporting emotion, motivation, and learning.
PenningtonLab.com
Dr. Rosie Shrout @rosieshrout.bsky.social Assistant Professor at The University of British Columbia studying how stress affects couples' relationships and health. Retired swimmer. Proud cat mom to Peach & Mango. She/her
mshrout.wixsite.com/research
Canadian Association for Neuroscience @canacn.bsky.social https://can-acn.org
UBC Psychology @psych.ubc.ca UBC's Department of Psychology is a leader in research and scholarship— with diverse rankings placing us among the strongest departments in the world. psych.ubc.ca
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Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health (DMCBH) @dmcbrainhealth.bsky.social Advancing brain health through research, education and treatment.
Partners: Vancouver Coastal Health & UBC Faculty of Medicine
Jason Snyder @jsnsndr.bsky.social Neuroscientist at UBC. I friggin love peppers. Early 90s hip hop. Saugeen yogurt and homemade granola. Former competitive swimmer.
SalmasoLab @salmasolab.bsky.social Canada Research Chair, Neuroscientist, Clinician, Astrocyte enthusiast, Molecular psychiatry, sex differences & hormones and behaviour. 👭👬👫🏳️🌈 EDINeuro@CU
WinstanleyLab @unidentifieditem.bsky.social Neuroscience lab in Canada 🇨🇦 🐀🧪 PI Catharine Winstanley. Views expressed are her own. She is not a robot. She also apparently likes talking about herself in the third person, dear god (who doesn't exist- sorry) this is how it ends.
mark cembrowski @markcembrowski.bsky.social prof @ university of british columbia. cembrowskilab.com: memory, hippocampus, cell types. also handstands+circus+yoga
Ileana Morales @reallyile.bsky.social PhD from Berridge Lab at University of Michigan| Current postdoc in Alhadeff Lab at Monell| DSPAN F99/K00
Kiran Soma @kiransoma.bsky.social Professor and Distinguished University Scholar, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver 🇨🇦
Naoshige Uchida @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social Neuroscientist. Professor at Harvard University.
Studies the neural mechanisms underlying decision-making and learning. Dopamine.
Gabriel Bossé @gabrielbosse.bsky.social Neurobiology of drug abuse using Zebrafish! @CERVO_ULaval @universitelaval in Quebec City
Shelley Warlow @accumbenshelley.bsky.social Assistant Professor studying neural circuits of motivation. PI of Warlowlab.com
Tara Delorme @taracdelorme.bsky.social Postdoc @UMassChan. Sleep, circadian rhythms, psychiatry. Swimming and soap making!
The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social Dedicated to helping neuroscientists stay current and build connections. Subscribe to receive the latest news and perspectives on neuroscience: www.thetransmitter.org/newsletters/
Dr. Natasha Rajah, Ph.D. @mnrajah.bsky.social I am a 🇨🇦 neuroscientist who studies memory, aging & Alzheimer’s w interests in sex differences, midlife & menopause, & health equity | Full Prof| CRC T1 |Views are my own |
https://bheamlab.ca
#neuroskyence
bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social
Czarina Evangelista, PhD @czarevangelista.bsky.social 🇵🇭🇺🇸🇨🇦
I'm a research project manager interested in improving translation of preclinical neuroscience research!
📍BrainsCAN @ Western, Initiative for Translational Neuroscience, Touchscreen Cognition
🧠👩🏻🔬 CSBN @ Concordia University
🎓 Colby College
WilluhnLab @willuhnlab.bsky.social A bunch of passionate neuronerds studying the brain origins of reinforcement learning and compulsive behavior at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience. Dopamine, serotonin, basal ganglia, PFC, DBS. https://nin.nl/research/researchgroups/willuhn-group/
@ebbsociety.bsky.social @ebbsociety.bsky.social
Psychopharmacology @psychopharmacology.bsky.social Official Journal of the European Behavioural Pharmacology Society
#Psychopharm
The Neurophotonics Centre @neurophotonics.bsky.social The Neurophotonics Centre - Harnessing the power of photonics and related technologies to better understand the mysteries of the brain
https://neurophotonics.ca/
Angela @angelaozburn.bsky.social Scientist, mom to lulu (dog) and pookie (cat), love living in the PNW
Stan Floresco @dr-stan.bsky.social Professor, Neuroscientist, Journal Editor (x4), fan of the dopamine, people, Marvel/Star Wars/Trek, and having a good time. @ubcpsych.bsky.social
Aaron Derfel @aaronderfel.bsky.social I'm an investigative journalist at the Montreal Gazette. You can also find me on Mastodon at mas.to/@aderfel and Telegram at t.me/AaronDerfel.
My bio: https://www.concordia.ca/faculty/aaron-derfel.html
Raaj Gowrishankar @outraajeous.bsky.social Neurobiology of motivated behavior. Assistant Professor, MUSC | Postdoc, UW | Ph.D., Vanderbilt. he/him 🌈
http://www.raajgowrishankarlab.org/
Kauê Machado Costa @kmcostalab.com Neuroscientist 🧠
Brazilian
Assistant Professor at UAB Dept. of Psychology
Allen Institute Next Generation Leader
Interested in dopamine, cortex, learning, cognition, and more
kmcostalab.com