@kiransoma.bsky.social
Professor at The University of British Columbia, Vancouver 🇨🇦
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30.11.2025 01:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine.
If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.
#sciencematters
I Went to an Anti-Vaccine Conference. Medicine Is in Trouble. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o... 🎁
25.11.2025 23:12 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Great story by @carlzimmer.com in @nytimes.com that nicely conveys the excitement for the emerging field of interoception. @dulaclab.bsky.social and others are featured, including my tattoo 😳!
Gift article link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/s...
🧪 ✏️ Apply for the 2026 Diverse Voices in Science Journalism Internship with @science.org! 🧪 ✏️
This could be for you if you're a student from a community historically underrepresented in #journalism who's interested in in covering science for general audiences: recruiting.ultipro.com/AME1123ASEM/...
Don’t break anything in your lab! 😂
20.11.2025 19:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Possibility for a Eastbio funded PhD in my group at the @rowettinstitute.bsky.social @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social.
This is a highly competitive process: applicants should hold a 1st BSc Honours or 2:1 MSc degree in neuroscience.
A single applicant per project will be interviewed.
shorturl.at/rd669
#CallForPapers: #Neuroscience is inviting submissions on how infections & immune responses influence the brain & nervous system
📅 Submit by 1 Feb 2026
🔗 https://ibro.org/call-for-papers-infection-immunity-inflammation/
#IBROjournals International Brain Research Organization
3 papers @thelancet.com today on the health dangers of ultraprocessed foods and a call for action
The health risks
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Up to $25k in funding is available for established #neuroscience internship programs for underrepresented undergraduates in the US & Canada - covering stipends, supplies & more
Apply by 10 Jan 2026:
https://ibro.org/grant/fund-for-undergraduate-research-internship-programs/
#IBROinUSCanada
Congratulations to the new RSC Fellows who have been inducted into the academy! This is the highest honour in Arts, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Sciences. 🌹
Learn more by following our #rscBRAVOsrc campaign on YouTube: bit.ly/4mwoFtG #COEE2025
Excited to have my piece on perimenopause published @thetransmitter.bsky.social
"Perimenopause: An important—and understudied—transition for the brain"
We need more studies & better education -we need this to be mainstream- knowledge is power! #WomensHealth
www.thetransmitter.org/sex-hormones...
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
How do our brains develop differently depending on sex — and what role do estrogens play? 🧠
Join Dr. Deepak Srivastava (King's College London) Nov 18 for our next Women’s Health Seminar!
7am PDT / 10am EDT
🔗 Register: ow.ly/aXWX50Xl4nO
#womenshealthresearch #neuroscience
The dysregulated immune system in #LongCovid with #MECFS. with sex-specific changes, increased inflammation (as seen by cells, chemokines and cytokines), and disrupted hormone levels www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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The Tragedy of Dick Cheney www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o... Free gift link 🎁 Suskind’s book The Price of Loyalty is fantastic.
05.11.2025 14:31 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Make Atwood Fiction Again.
01.11.2025 21:41 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Not good. Not good at all. So disheartening.
31.10.2025 05:38 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Feature image of the 2026 Research Trainee launch announcement. There are headshots of last year's awardees including Hiten Naik, Kenneth Noguchi, Linda Truong, Danielle Ferrari.
📢 Applications are open for the 2026 Research Trainee competition!
This award supports postdocs and health researchers in training to build their careers and focus on impactful research in BC.
Apply by Nov 27 👉 bit.ly/3L8g6Ij
#healthresearch #researchfunding #bc #phd #grant
Funders must recognise that great discoveries often come from studies that seeks to advance knowledge for its own sake
go.nature.com/47zrzYZ
High speed merry go round 😂
28.10.2025 20:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Join Julia for a day in the life of a research assistant in the MacVicar Lab! She’s now pursuing her MSc in Experimental Medicine in the Cembrowski Lab.
Stay tuned for more videos about her research and the behind-the-scenes of what it’s like to work in a #neuroscience lab!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... One more reason to not travel to the US 🇨🇦
25.10.2025 23:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This summer, IBRO supported ICORD's Seed2STEM, which offered paid research internships to foster early engagement in #neuroscience & STEM
Discover their impact: https://ibro.org/seed2stem-2025-empowering-young-scientists/
Applications for this #grant open again on 1 Nov 2025! #IBROinUSCanada
This past summer, four of our research labs teamed up with ICORD's seed2STEM program to welcome BC Indigenous high school students into our labs for hands-on research experience. 🧠
Hear from the students: psych.ubc.ca/news/2025-seed2stem/
psych.cms.arts.ubc.ca/news/2025-se... Such a wonderful program! 🎉
23.10.2025 01:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Researchers are exploring why anti-obesity medications may lessen cravings for alcohol. CBC News examines a recent review published in the Journal of the Endocrine Society. bit.ly/3L20VQH @endocrinesociety.bsky.social
@endosocjournals.bsky.social #EndoSky
Protesters Denouncing Trump Unite Across the Country www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u... Free gift link 🎁
18.10.2025 17:13 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Great news! 🎉
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