11/29/2025
Speaker Spotlight 🌟 Ben Rein, PhD
We are excited to introduce .benrein as a speaker on this year’s online event. ‘Social Media and Science: From Connection to Collaboration’. Live on December 9th, 2025.
Dr. Ben Rein is an award-winning neuroscientist, author, and science communicator. He serves as the Chief Science Officer of the Mind Science Foundation, an Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford University, and a Clinical Assistant Professor at SUNY Buffalo. He has published over 20 peer-reviewed papers on the neuroscience of social behavior, and is the author of Why Brains Need Friends. Rein also shares educational neuroscience videos on social media to an audience of more than 1.2 million followers, and has been featured on Entertainment Tonight, Good Morning America and 75+ podcasts including StarTalk with Neil DeGrasse Tyson. His science communication efforts have been recognized with awards from the National Academies of Science, the Society for Neuroscience, and elsewhere.
🔗 Register your free place at ptglab.com