Researchers are expected to manage various responsibilities whilst staying up-to date with developments in their field. This is an arduous and time-consuming task. In Alzheimer's disease research alone, an average of 200 research articles are published every week. Last year we presented our podcast, AMiNDR, as a means of easing the burden on researchers. We offer an accessible audio format channel, sorting research into distinct categories and summarizing its contents. Each episode corresponds to a category or subtheme of research, complete with a bibliography of papers covered. In the year since its launch in June 2020, AMiNDR has published over 160 episodes with accompanying bibliographies. While the podcast has received positive feedback from researchers worldwide, we wonder if it is an effective way of disseminating knowledge and if it is achieving its goal of saving scientists time. To assess the podcast's reach, we tracked followers' growth and engagement across social media platforms and compared AMiNDR's performance with other prominent science communication podcasts with a similar target audience. We also measured the engagement with our podcast and website using Podcast Analytics and Google Analytics. respectively. We supplemented this with a survey to discern listeners' satisfaction with the service, followed-up with optional interviews for feedback. We present the results of this assessment with a list of recommendations for digital knowledge dissemination tools like the AMiNDR podcast. This will help further refine science communication initiatives in Neuroscience.

Are podcasts effective for knowledge dissemination to neuroscientists? Case study: AMiNDR podcast (a month in neurodegenerative disease research)

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Colleagues and Friends:

I am very happy to welcome you to the 14th annual Canadian Neuroscience Meeting, and to the first virtual edition of our meeting. I want to highlight the important work the CAN meeting chair, **Roger Thompson** and co-chair, **Alyson Fournier**, did to put together the great program we are offering this year. Moving to a virtual format required a complete re-design of the program, and both Roger and Alyson did a splendid job in providing us with an appealing and well adapted program for our first virtual event. I wish to thank them for this very important effort.

Highlights of this year’s scientific meeting include invited speakers **Michael Hausser, Franck Polleux, Gwyneth Card, Magdalena Götz**and Brain Prize winner **Huda Zoghbi**. Plenary and parallel symposia, proposed by our members complete our diverse [scientific program.](https://can-acn.org/meeting-2021/program-2021/)

The 2021 Advocacy session, chaired and organized by CAN advocacy committee chair **Karun Singh**, will feature a special lecture and question period with Member of Parliament and past Science Minister **Kirsty Duncan**. This will be followed by a short overview of CAN’s advocacy activities over the last year. We invite you to participate in this session for insight from Dr. Duncan on the workings of Parliament Hill, and to learn more about what CAN has been doing to promote neuroscience research in Canada.

We are also excited to host **Lisa Willis** in the Equity Diversity and Inclusion session, organized by EDI committee chair **Jibran Khokhar**.

A special highlight of our meeting will be the lectures by award-winning young neuroscientists. We are please to host the CAN 2020 Young Investigator Award winner **Mihaela Iordanova**, and CAN 2021 Young Investigator Award winners **Aaron Phillips** and **Tabrez Siddiqui**. Highlights will also include presentation by the top three winners of the CAN-CIHR-INMHA Brain Star Award winners, **Claire Gizowski, Nuria Daviu Abant** and **Lukas Tamayo-Orrego**.

Independently organized satellite symposia complement and complete this exciting program, check them out here: https://can-acn.org/meeting-2021/2021-satellite-symposia/

Some of the most engaging sessions are always the poster sessions featuring the work of our trainees, so make sure to log in to Gather Town during the poster sessions to chat with the presenters.
We hope you enjoy this program, and look forward to welcoming you, virtually.

Shernaz Bamji

President of the Canadian Association for Neuroscience

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Are podcasts effective for knowledge dissemination to neuroscientists? Case study: AMiNDR podcast (a month in neurodegenerative disease research)