Intellifluence's video: Dr Ben Rein Influencer Spotlight 156

Dr. Ben Rein is a neuroscientist at Stanford who began sharing educational science videos on social media in 2020. Dr. Rein’s videos summarize recent research papers, debunk viral videos containing misinformation, teach fundamental neuroscience lessons and inform about the importance of scientific research. Additionally, Dr. Rein offers guidance to students in science through a video series called "Scientips" and leads the Aspiring Scientists Coalition, a global community organization that hosts free events for students in the sciences. Dr. Rein also runs a Snapchat show called "Make it Brain" and has partnered with one of China's largest video-sharing sites to enhance science popularization. You can follow Dr. Rein on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube or visit benrein.com for more details. It’s not every day I get to speak to a neuroscientist, so I’m really interested in your background. Can you tell us a little bit about it? Of course. Yeah, so like you said, I’m a neuroscientist. I’m currently doing my research at Stanford University. Previously I did my PhD at University of Buffalo, where I’m from, and I’ve always been interested in social interaction and the brain systems that control those things. And so that’s what I’m studying, but I didn’t expect that I would end up on social media and that happened just sort of naturally and it was truly happenstance, but I’m glad it did. What inspired you to branch out and bring your message to social media? It actually happened on accident, believe it or not. I guess some people probably have this story, but long story short, I posted a video on TikTok and it went viral. That’s pretty much what happened, and I wasn’t intending on doing it. I genuinely, I know it probably sounds made up, but I wasn’t trying to go viral. I was just using TikTok to record myself for a video that I was posting on my personal Facebook, and it did go viral and people started asking me questions about science, and I was like, I guess this is a good niche to be in. Read the full interview transcript: https://intellifluence.com/blog/dr-ben-rein-influencer-spotlight