Steven J. Barnes (he/him/his) moved to the BC Lower Mainland in the mid-1990s and is grateful to currently live on the unceded and ancestral lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations (“East Vancouver”). Educated in the visual arts, psychology, and neuroscience, he is a Professor of Teaching in the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia (UBC), where he has the pleasure of teaching hundreds of students each year. Steven is well-known for his work related to online learning technologies (e.g., the Tapestry Project; see tapestryplus.com), neuroscience education, student mental health and wellbeing, and bipolar disorder (BD). Steven is deputy lead of the Collaborative RESearch Team to study psychosocial issues in BD (CREST.BD; see crestbd.ca), a BD research and knowledge exchange network which received the 2018 CIHR Gold Leaf Prize for Patient Engagement, Canada’s most prestigious recognition for patient engagement in research across all health disciplines. Steven is also the current Director of the Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience, and the recipient of multiple awards for his teaching, including the UBC Killam Teaching Prize, and the 3M National Teaching Fellowship (awarded to top teachers in any discipline in any postsecondary institution in Canada). He is also an accomplished author, having published in the fields of epileptology, neurophysiology, student mental health, digital mental health, bipolar disorder, and behavioural neuroscience. He recently published a major revision of his textbook, Biopsychology 12th Edition. Steven is also an accomplished artist. He has produced myriad stop-motion animations, interactive and electronic artworks, drawings, oil paintings, and acrylic paintings.