Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Interesting Features for PWN 5/23/2017

Dear PWN Members,

Here are some exciting articles:

1. Happiness Research Shows The Biggest Obstacle To Creativity is Being Too Busy:
https://qz.com/978018/happiness-research-shows-the-biggest-obstacle-to-creativity-is-being-too-busy/

2. Habits That Extremely Confidant People Give Up:
https://www.inc.com/matthew-jones/13-things-you-should-immediately-give-up-if-you-want-astonishing-confidence.html?cid=sf01001&sr_share=twitter

3. Tweets That Will Make Women In STEM Laugh and Cry Simultaneously:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/kellyoakes/women-in-stem-tweets?utm_term=.iuwwn5GE3y#.teE30L1Gwd

4.  Women In STEM Fields Discuss Gender Stereotypes:
http://www.teenvogue.com/story/women-in-stem-loreal-for-women-in-science-award

5. Work-Life Balance: Break or Burn out: 
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v545/n7654/full/nj7654-375a.html?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews&sf79769537=1&sf80094982=1

6. How Women Mentors Make a Difference in Engineering:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/05/women-mentors-engineering/527625/?utm_source=atltw

And here are a couple of professional opportunities:

1. Postdoc opportunity in Dr. Meg Haney's lab at Columbia to study cannabis in humans! One of the few labs that does this work in humans:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0By-j8KYRbwGFUk9ZT09EWlV6OFk/view?usp=sharing

2. Post-Doctoral Positions on an NIH-funded T32 Available at UC Irvine:
Postdoctoral positions are available for individuals studying the neurobiology of brain disorders and especially epilepsy. We conceptualize the advancement of knowledge on the origins of epilepsy to include fundamental information about brain function and dysfunction, gained through the use of diverse methodologies and disciplines.

Candidates must be American citizens, and be early in their Postdoctoral career phase. Laboratories currently involved in the T32 are noted below. We welcome additional mentors engaged in the T32 topics as defined above. Please send inquiries to Dr. Tallie Z. Baram, T32 PI, at baramlab@uci.edu. 
Here is a link for more info:

Sincerely,
PWN