Interesting Features at PWN for 11.25.13

News from the PWN Pipeline

Refine your 60 second elevator pitch

Beginning a pitch or a brief presentation with a few 'Did you know' phrases and encouraging your audience to imagine how innovative features of your study findings or business plan will most effectively answer important questions can make a big impact on impatient listeners. By strengthening strategic communications, your focused message will resonate more memorably with a target audience.

"'Intrasexual competition'... is all that feminists have fought against."

A discussion of the McMaster University study that shone an unflattering light on competitiveness within women, particularly when given an opportunity to deride the clothing choices of a peer. The commentary author suggests, however, that the study may have done little more than cultivate a situation that elicited reactionary responses from women and ultimately produced results reinforcing gender stereotypes.

Advancement Opportunities

Postdoctoral Fellow Position in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at MCV Campus of Virginia Commonwealth University

Fantastic opportunity to study cannabinoid receptor regulation, signaling and transcriptional control in the CNS as well as in vivo models of pharmacological effects of cannabinoids and development of cannabinoid tolerance and dependence.
Details in the link
Inquiries: Dr. Dana E Selley | deselley@vcu.edu

Interesting Features at PWN for 11.4.13

News from the PWN Pipeline

Selectively erasing methamphetamine-associated memories

PWN's co-founder, Dr. Courtney Miller, speaks to Vice Magazine about research from her lab focused on selectively isolating and erasing methamphetamine-associated memories in a preclinical model of meth addiction. This is an innovative new approach for disrupting long-established drug-cue associations that can later trigger or accelerate relapse to drug use.

"Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan."  

As this article suggests, sometimes the price of success is the cost of admitting and 'owning' your failures. As experiences accumulate across the course of a career, evaluating missteps, missed opportunities, and/or failed ventures may provide useful perspectives for building more successful outcomes.

'The environment has been prepared for women to do whatever they want.'

An illuminating look at the growing prominence of women who are outperforming men in STEM-related fields in the Middle East. Governments investing heavily in women's education and STEM fields has launched a new generation of Middle Eastern women students who learn coding in high school, are actively developing apps and new software, and have goals to be technology entrepreneurs.

Advancement opportunities 

Postdoctoral position managing the Behavioral Neuroscience Core Facility at University of Dundee

Great opportunity for behavioral neuroscientist to design and conduct studies utilizing variety of behavioral tasks and phenotyping offered by the BNCF, and to train others to do the same.
Details and application portal in the link
General inquiries: Dr. Stephen Martin | s.martin@dundee.ac.uk
Application due October 30th, 2013