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Brain Canada is thrilled to announce the new cohort of Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research. This year, 26 researchers join this growing community, and each receive $100,000. 🎉 Congratulations to the recipients! Find out more about this year’s Future Leaders ➡️ braincanada.ca/about/news-u...

So excited for you @scilife360.bsky.social to be launching your lab at @ulethbridge.ca! Looking forward to all the amazing science you'll create with the Anwer Lab!!

We have a new preprint! By studying neuronal heterogeneity in CA3, we found a weird but powerful new feature in the hippocampal circuitry! 🧠 #neuroskyence 🧵.. Morse-Mora et al. | Hippocampal CA3 forms a two-layer network of molecularly distinct cell types in mice and humans doi.org/10.64898/202...

🎉 Congratulations to @zachtpennington.bsky.social on receiving this year's Banting Discovery Award! I worked closely with Zach when he was a postdoc in my lab and I know he is incredibly deserving of this award. Read more about his award here: psych.ubc.ca/news/zachary...

It was an honour for @franklandlab.bsky.social and I to co-host our (sold-out!) 3rd annual Neural Circuits&Behaviour Satellite Meeting at @canacn.bsky.social. Talks were outstanding top-to-bottom, and a huge congratulations to Jennifer Robinson for her top trainee talk award. See you in Calgary!

Exciting Human Neuroscience research being discussed at Krembil Brain Institute today! Keynote by Ed Lein and amazing talks by teams from across the world! Proud partners: @dmcbrainhealth.bsky.social @ubc-gc2.bsky.social

It was a blast to put this review together with @adriennekinman.bsky.social and Larissa! The subiculum is a gem of a brain region. Also - the manuscript process at @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social was a pleasure - thoughtful&involved feedback from reviewers&editor that really elevated our manuscript

Tickets are now available for the CAN 2026 public lectures - Je me souviens: Montréal the memory city - May 17 starting at 5PM. Featuring author Eric Andrew-Gee, and researchers Mihaela Iordanova and Blake Richards - www.eventbrite.ca/e/je-me-souv...

The Canadian Association for Neuroscience is very proud to announce Dr. Maria Ioannou, from the University of Alberta, has been awarded the CAN 2026 New Investigator Award View her profile: can-acn.org/awards/new-i...

Can hardly wait for my first Canadian Association for Neuroscience meeting 🇨🇦🧠!!! Also, check out the insane lineup of speakers I get to present with at the Neural Circuits and Behaviour satellite meeting. I AM STOKED!

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This satellite is a highlight of the @canacn.bsky.social meeting. Looking like another excellent lineup!

New paper alert! 🚨 We found that the brain's compass is remarkably stable at two scales 1️⃣ the system maintains its internal organization for weeks 2️⃣ It "remembers" its orientation for weeks, even after a single visit This may be key to how the brain aligns its other maps. Paper: rdcu.be/e3waP

this is an absolutely fantastic review at the interface of emerging biological principles, neuronal/network computation, and statistical physics (among other disciplines). huge congrats to @rgast.bsky.social and co-authors for this great cross-disciplinary synthesis for the field

Scientific program chairs @rcbagot.bsky.social and @markcembrowski.bsky.social have put together a great program: can-acn.org/meeting-2026... - Now is your chance to contribute also!

Share your research at the next Canadian Neuroscience Meeting May 18-21, 2026 in Montreal! Calls for Parallel Symposia, Satellite Meetings, Poster Abstract and Travel & Professional Awards are now open - Don't miss these opportunities! can-acn.org/meeting-2026/

Excited to share the latest from the lab on the molecular mechanisms of silencing and un-silencing a hippocampal engram ensemble. Was fun using a variant of the EPSILON technique developed by Adam Cohen's lab. (1/2) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

yes!!! so excited to have you join zach - amazing to have you here soon!

🎉 Huge congrats to Nazreen Khan on receiving the President’s Service Award for Excellence! Naz’s dedication, care, and behind-the-scenes brilliance make a lasting impact in the department.🌟 Learn more about Naz: focusonpeople.ubc.ca/awards/2025-...

incredible visit from @cannabrain.bsky.social here at @dmcbrainhealth.bsky.social - super intriguing findings on the BLA and stress. also apparently he has great taste in both shirts and drinks

Join Riya from @markcembrowski.bsky.social's lab for a look at a day in the life of a @sbmeubc.bsky.social Synergy Research Program student! This summer, she studied the hippocampal-amygdaloid transition area (HATA), a brain region that may play a role in major depressive disorder.

Excited to share this huge team effort collaboration supervised by Stephanie Page in Translational Neuroscience @lieberinstitute.bsky.social and @stephaniehicks.bsky.social @jhubiostat.bsky.social to generate a spatio-molecular resource of the hippocampus in human 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Our department at The University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada) is running two faculty searches. One is a joint hire with the Institute for Healthy Aging, one a cohire with the Math Dept cps.med.ubc.ca/careers-2/ Click on “Faculty Positions” on the page. Please help spread the word!

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Happy 107th Birthday, Brenda Milner! Her contributions to neuropsychology shaped the way we understand the human brain. From surviving two world wars and two pandemics, to paving the way for future generations of researchers, Milner’s legacy continues. @mcgill.ca @cusm-muhc.bsky.social

congratulations to all the graduate program in neuroscience awardees, including our lab's own regan campbell and margarita kapustina!!

What’s better than a one-channel #Miniscope? 🥁 A TWO-CHANNEL Miniscope! Our new Miniscope2C is a dual-channel, open-source Miniscope that lets you record 2 fluorescent signals simultaneously in freely moving animals. Read the paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (1/10)

@ubcmedicine.bsky.social PhD student Adrienne Kinman was profiled by the @theglobeandmail.com as one of Canada's next generation of researchers making breakthroughs in health and medicine: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.

huge congratulations to @adriennekinman.bsky.social for being featured by the Globe & Mail as an emerging leader in canadian research!! we have been so fortunate to have her in the lab during her phd - excited to see what she'll do next as a postdoc with @tinakim-neuro.bsky.social at princeton!

We’re thrilled to see #BrainCanada funded researchers Mark Cembrowski & Grant Bruno featured in The Globe and Mail's spotlight on rising science leaders! Nous sommes fiers de soutenir ces brillants chercheurs! www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

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ubc has just opened up a new 4-story ~$60m(!!) gym. floor balanceability scores a perfect four stars imo. big day

Congrats to the 2025 cohort of McKnight Scholars! www.mcknight.org/news-ideas/2...

been an unreal few months of awards for our lab members! congrats to the team (including bsky'ers @briannabristow.bsky.social @neurosully.bsky.social), and a huge thanks to all the funding agencies that have supported them for their great work

Congratulations to UBC’s Dr. Brian Kwon & Dr. Mark Cembrowski, awarded over 6,5 M$ from Brain Canada to advance neuroscience research! Félicitations à Brian Kwon et Mark Cembrowski de l’UBC, qui reçoivent plus de 6,5 M$ pour faire avancer la recherche ! www.newswire.ca/news-release...

New Paper alert 🎉🎉🎉 Mild TBI results in extensive gene dysregulation! #cellreports #neurotrauma #hippocampus #postdoc @markcembrowski.bsky.social @briannabristow.bsky.social

delighted for this support to launch a new multimodal neuroscience platform here at UBC, @ubc-gc2.bsky.social ! huge thanks to @braincanada.bsky.social @dmcbrainhealth.bsky.social @sbmeubc.bsky.social for making this vision possible. exciting times ahead

great evening w @charan-neuro.bsky.social ! thanks @danipalombo.bsky.social for flawlessly organizing the visit, all the way down to the weather itself

congratulations to lab member kate dunne, BSc honours! she has graduated with two major distinctions from her program and is off to NYU for her grad school in neuro. hard to say goodbye after two years in the lab, but kate's a star and NYU is very lucky to have her