Fish feelings and philosophy for Gizmodo --what more could you want. “It kind of raises questions about what it actually means to be human, and what it means to be an animal." gizmodo.com/fish-may-feel-…

News coverage of the recent Science Magazine paper by OliveiraLab

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🚨📽️🚨📽️ Excited to share my new video made for Science Magazine - A study profile feat. Ibukun Akinrinade, a sprinkling of "love hormones", vintage cartoons, mutant Zebrafish, and a huge dose of contagious fear. Special thanks to Kevin McLean and Meagan Cantwell . youtube.com/watch?v=kBBrWB…

I'm excited to share the latest paper out now in Science Magazine on the origin of social contagion! Thanks to Rui Oliveira at @IGCiencia for including me in this collaboration (shout-out to Ibukun Akinrinade, Kyriacos Kareklas) science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Congratulations Rui Oliveira ⁦OliveiraLab⁩ ⁦@IGCiencia⁩ for this study ⁦Science Magazine⁩ on #fear contagion. Special 👏👏 to ⁦Ibukun Akinrinade⁩ IBB PhD student from 🇳🇬⁦TReND in Africa⁩ & ⁦Kyriacos Kareklas⁩ for powering this! youtu.be/kBBrWB_BB-c

If you thought empathy is a mammalian trait, think again.. Zebrafish also demonstrate empathy. A study done by Ibukun Akinrinade et al  have found that zebrafish can sense and share each other's fear. The researchers suggest that empathetic impulses may go as far back as 450

#UCalgary neuroscientist and postdoc Dr. Ibukun Akinrinade, has spent years studying how stress is transmitted and the resulting empathy felt by others ow.ly/ZOSA50P9En7 UCalgaryMedicine

UCalgary postdoc helps discover link between common hormone and empathy ucalgary.ca/news/ucalgary-…

Speaking now: Ibukun Akinrinade. U Toronto Neuropeptide nexus: Decoding oxytocin’s evolutionarily conserved role on social contagion in zebrafish.

Meet the CIHR REDI awardees! Dr. Ibukun Akinrinade U Calgary Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI) Azrieli Foundation focuses on stress and mental health, exploring oxytocin’s role in recalling stressful events within social contexts. cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/53821.html?f…

Big news for applicants and reviewers! CIHR, NSERC / CRSNG, and SSHRC will be transitioning away from the CCV to a new narrative-style CV for funding opportunities. science.gc.ca/site/science/e…

This #BlackHistoryMonth, we recognize the work of Dr. Ibukun Akinrinade, a CIHR-IA REDI Award recipient. Her work explores how stress spreads and is soothed through social connections paving the way for better mental health solutions. Ibukun Akinrinade

1/ 🌍 It’s finally out! Introducing the #AfricaniPSCInitiative, an open-access Somatic & Stem Cell Bank featuring rigorously profiled #iPSC lines from indigenous Africans. Huge thanks to Celeste Karch, who helped make this possible. See: biortc.com/african-ipsc-i…

Last year, Jessica Oparebea was joined students from across the African continent at TReND-CaMinA - a computational neuroscience workshop offered by TReND in Africa. Inspired by her experience, she is hosting her own webinar to help others. 🔗 alleninstitute.org/news/jessica-o…

🚨 Huge news! I am finally able to share that I have been awarded a Wellcome Career Development Award. Over the next 8 years, my team will deepen our understanding of #Alzheimer’s disease by: 🧠 Building a deeply characterised #Alzheimer’s patient cohort in Northern