Dr. Samantha Yammine, PhD is a Neuroscientist, Science Communicator, and Producer.

Samantha Yammine is a Neuroscientist and popular Science Communicator better known as Science Sam. She earned her PhD from the University of Toronto studying how stem cells build and maintain the brain, then went on to found Science Sam Media, a production and consulting agency specializing in science communication and new media.

Sam is the host of Curiosity Weekly, the flagship science podcast for Discovery, and a regular science expert on CTV’s The Good Stuff with Mary Berg. She is passionate about empowering people to explore science by making it more familiar, accessible, and inclusive. With formal academic training and extensive media expertise, she believes there’s always a science story to tell, and is uniquely poised to make it make sense for any audience. An innovative leader in sharing science across platforms — from podcasts to social media, keynotes and TV — she has also published in Nature and Science on communicating science.

In 2021, Samantha was named one of Toronto Life's Top 50 most influential people, and made the front page of the Toronto Star for her efforts helping people get informed about vaccination. She has been a guest science correspondent for a variety of shows on Netflix, TVO Kids, CBC GEM, Discovery UK, CBC Radio, and AsapSCIENCE. Samantha is the Chair and a Co-Founder of the award-winning non-profit Science is a Drag, and sits on the Advisory Board for the anti-misinformation organization ScienceUpFirst. When she’s not talking science, she is often training muay Thai.

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A strong value of Science Sam Media is that science should be accessible to everyone, and as such that educational content should not be behind a paywall. Partnerships with the organizations above help support the effort put into creating freely accessible daily content on social media. If you’d like to support this work directly, you can do so via ko-fi, or by booking Sam as a speaker for your next corporate or campus event.