Matt Hill
Canadian 🇨🇦 Neuroscientist all things Stress, Endocannabinoids and Cannabis
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- Reposted by Matt Hill13% success rates at #CIHR, is a really 87% fail rate for>4000 scientists. At a time when 🇨🇦 is investing millions to recruit more scientist into a broken funding environment. 🇨🇦, U need a strong science foundation 2 attract success. #CIHR, fix your science foundation, it is eroding in real time
- Reposted by Matt HillSave the date for the annual "Neural Circuits and Behaviour" satellite conference at the Canadian Association for Neuroscience annual meeting, cohosted by @franklandlab.bsky.social and myself on May 18, 2026. We have a great speaker lineup and will be selecting 4 trainees talks from our registrants!
- Reposted by Matt Hill🙏 for contributing to the amazing #ACNP2026! What'd you love? how was the Program? what'd you love for next @acnporg.bsky.social? @sbilbo.bsky.social @thebalelab.bsky.social @ahmarilab.bsky.social @madrelabutd.bsky.social @mayoonthebrain.bsky.social @cannabrain.bsky.social @jaredwyoung.bsky.social
- Circle of life with @acnporg.bsky.social mentorship. My first mentee from way back in 2016 @caromenard666.bsky.social now with her mentee (my grand-mentee lol) @zachtpennington.bsky.social who just moved to UBC and is now a fellow 🇨🇦 #ACNP2026
- I am questioning this new admin assistant I hired. She has no eyes, a poor grasp of the English language and thinks it’s appropriate to just spend her day napping or eating. If she wasn’t so adorable I would have to let her go.
- Celebrating New Year’s Eve with our annual open house where we serve food every hour on the hour from 4pm until midnight and friends drop by throughout the night. Late start here, but started off at 4pm with: Carrot Muhamara Warm ricotta dip with herbs Parmesan poppyseed biscuits
- 5pm: Roasted Kabocha Squash on broiled sourdough with ricotta and fresh mint
- 6pm: Roasted cremini mushroom caps and dried figs with chèvre and pistachios
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View full threadMidnight: Fluffernutter tart (Peanut butter ganache on a biscoff pretzel crust with a marshmallow crème topping)
- Tis the season to indulge 🍗🥧🍷 So what better time to have our new lab paper on cannabis-induced munchies published in PNAS but on Christmas Eve! A 'joint' effort with @ryanmcpickle.bsky.social, showing that cannabis enhances the rewarding value of food. Dig in! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Reposted by Matt HillWith only a few days to Christmas, some people (especially @nicoleacrowley.bsky.social) may want to watch some holiday friendly horror movies, so this is my first run at a horror movie countdown list in this space. Here are top 10 Christmas horror movies

- Hill lab Xmas party with the whole lab in it’s entirety: 6 post docs 5 grad students 2 staff scientists And 1 PI (in a pear tree lol) 🎄
- New lab paper drop, this one has been a long time coming! Driven by Rob Aukema (now a postdoc with Kerry Ressler) this paper in Science Advances answered the lingering question of what role the amygdala plays in stress-induced neuroendocrine responses. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Matt HillHad a lot of fun writing this review on prenatal cannabis exposure and the immune system with some of my fave 🇨🇦 cannabinoid colleagues @mallarchak.bsky.social @cannabrain.bsky.social @johnhowland.bsky.social @drjkhokhar.bsky.social LaboTremblay @uvic.ca www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Sleepy pup dreaming about playing in the snow ❄️
- Reposted by Matt Hill🚨 Save the Date 🚨 The GSRNet Conference on Stress & Resilience 2027 will take place Feb 3–5, 2027 in Lausanne, Switzerland. This 3-day hybrid event will gather the global #stress and #resilience community, and the program promises to be exciting! More information coming soon! #GSRNet2027