Kiran Soma
@kiransoma.bsky.social
Professor at The University of British Columbia, Vancouver 🇨🇦
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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
If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.
#sciencematters
November 25, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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
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... 🎁
Opinion | I Went to an Anti-Vaccine Conference. Medicine Is in Trouble.
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I Went to an Anti-Vaccine Conference. Medicine Is in Trouble. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o... 🎁
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Great 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...
Gift article link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/s...
November 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Great 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...
Gift article link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/s...
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🧪 ✏️ 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/...
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/...
recruiting.ultipro.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
🧪 ✏️ 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/...
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/...
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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
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
EastBio: Too sweet: how early life sugar consumption shapes brain and behaviour at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - EastBio: Too sweet: how early life sugar consumption shapes brain and behaviour at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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
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
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#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
📅 Submit by 1 Feb 2026
🔗 https://ibro.org/call-for-papers-infection-immunity-inflammation/
#IBROjournals International Brain Research Organization
November 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
#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
📅 Submit by 1 Feb 2026
🔗 https://ibro.org/call-for-papers-infection-immunity-inflammation/
#IBROjournals International Brain Research Organization
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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...
The health risks
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
November 18, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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...
The health risks
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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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
Apply by 10 Jan 2026:
https://ibro.org/grant/fund-for-undergraduate-research-internship-programs/
#IBROinUSCanada
November 18, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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
Apply by 10 Jan 2026:
https://ibro.org/grant/fund-for-undergraduate-research-internship-programs/
#IBROinUSCanada
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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
Learn more by following our #rscBRAVOsrc campaign on YouTube: bit.ly/4mwoFtG #COEE2025
November 14, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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
Learn more by following our #rscBRAVOsrc campaign on YouTube: bit.ly/4mwoFtG #COEE2025
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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...
"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...
Perimenopause: An understudied transition for the brain
We know little about the mechanisms underlying well-known perimenopause symptoms in the brain. More research—in animals and humans—is essential.
www.thetransmitter.org
November 12, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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...
"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...
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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.
🧪🧬🧫
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.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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.
🧪🧬🧫
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.
🧪🧬🧫
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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
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
November 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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
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
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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...
November 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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...
The Tragedy of Dick Cheney www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o... Free gift link 🎁 Suskind’s book The Price of Loyalty is fantastic.
Opinion | The Tragedy of Dick Cheney
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The Tragedy of Dick Cheney www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o... Free gift link 🎁 Suskind’s book The Price of Loyalty is fantastic.
Not good. Not good at all. So disheartening.
The problems were so pervasive they abandoned their review and instead began investigating how widespread image duplication was in their field.
Widespread image reuse, manipulation uncovered in animal studies of brain injury
Widespread image reuse, manipulation uncovered in animal studies of brain injury
Widespread image reuse, manipulation uncovered in animal studies of brain injury
One of the papers in the analysis contained a figure (bottom) found to have overlap with other work by the same author (top). Both papers have been retracted. Annotated images: PubPeer More than 20…
retractionwatch.com
October 31, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Not good. Not good at all. So disheartening.
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📢 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
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
October 30, 2025 at 7:27 PM
📢 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
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
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Funders must recognise that great discoveries often come from studies that seeks to advance knowledge for its own sake
go.nature.com/47zrzYZ
go.nature.com/47zrzYZ
From MRI to Ozempic: breakthroughs that show why fundamental research must be protected
In these financially straitened times, funders must recognize that great discoveries often arise from work that was looking for something completely different.
go.nature.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Funders must recognise that great discoveries often come from studies that seeks to advance knowledge for its own sake
go.nature.com/47zrzYZ
go.nature.com/47zrzYZ
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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!
Stay tuned for more videos about her research and the behind-the-scenes of what it’s like to work in a #neuroscience lab!
A day in the lab at the MacVicar lab #neuroscience
YouTube video by Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health
www.youtube.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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!
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 🇨🇦
Trump raises tariffs on Canada by 10% in retaliation for anti-tariff TV ad
Move is response to ad sponsored by Ontario that referenced Ronald Reagan’s support for free trade
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 11:14 PM
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... One more reason to not travel to the US 🇨🇦
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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
Discover their impact: https://ibro.org/seed2stem-2025-empowering-young-scientists/
Applications for this #grant open again on 1 Nov 2025! #IBROinUSCanada
October 24, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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
Discover their impact: https://ibro.org/seed2stem-2025-empowering-young-scientists/
Applications for this #grant open again on 1 Nov 2025! #IBROinUSCanada
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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/
Hear from the students: psych.ubc.ca/news/2025-seed2stem/
October 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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/
Hear from the students: psych.ubc.ca/news/2025-seed2stem/
psych.cms.arts.ubc.ca/news/2025-se... Such a wonderful program! 🎉
UBC
psych.cms.arts.ubc.ca
October 23, 2025 at 1:36 AM
psych.cms.arts.ubc.ca/news/2025-se... Such a wonderful program! 🎉
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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
@endosocjournals.bsky.social #EndoSky
Alcohol, nicotine and more — could drugs like Ozempic curb the desire for vices? | CBC News
Studies combing through past patient data have made a similar link between drugs like Ozempic and a loss of appetite for more than just food.
bit.ly
October 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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
@endosocjournals.bsky.social #EndoSky
Protesters Denouncing Trump Unite Across the Country www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u... Free gift link 🎁
Protesters Denouncing Trump Unite Across the Country
www.nytimes.com
October 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Protesters Denouncing Trump Unite Across the Country www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u... Free gift link 🎁