Hello everyone,

I received this email from the organizers of the Canadian National Brain Bee.  As part of their promotional efforts, they are starting an initiative on Instagram to highlight Canadian neuroscience researchers.  If you are interested in participating, the details are provided below.

Best wishes, Sari

Sari S. Hannila, PhD

Director of Outreach, Manitoba Neuroscience Network

From: Alex Xue [mailto:xuea1@mcmaster.ca]
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 5:14 PM
To: everyone@brainbee.ca; edmonton@brainbee.ca
Cc: Piskuric, Nikol
Subject: Brain Bee Instagram Post: Humans of Neuroscience

Dear Neuroscientist,

My name is Alex, and I am a second year student in the Neuroscience Program at McMaster University. I am also involved in planning and promoting the Canadian National Brain Bee, a neuroscience competition for high school students across Canada. As a member of the Social Media Team, I have helped create an Instagram page (Canada Brain Bee) to increase awareness of the National Bee, to create a community among prospective neuroscience students, and to promote interesting and important Canadian neuroscience research. 

I am reaching out to you today to request your participation in our Instagram “Humans of Neuroscience” project, which highlights neuroscience researchers across Canada. Your participation would include briefly answering one or all of the following questions, and providing a picture of yourself (either headshot, or photo of you in your lab). 

1. What got you interested in neuroscience? 

2. In “layman’s terms”, what is the major focus of your research? Do you have a favourite publication that interested followers should read? 

3. Where is the future of neuroscience headed? In your view, what are the remaining “big questions” in neuroscience?

Please forward this email to any Canadian colleagues that may be interested in being featured on our Instagram page.  Moreover, feel free to email me if you have any questions or comments. Thank you for your time, and have a great day!

Sincerely,

Alex Xue, on behalf of the Social Media Team

Brain Bee Organizational Committee