Interesting Features for PWN 10/25/2017

Hi Everyone,

Here Are Some Interesting Articles: 

1. Career Empowerment For Women in Science:
http://smartypantscience.blogspot.com/2017/09/career-empowerment-for-women-in-science.html?m=1

2. What Are The Aims Of The Female Scientist:
https://thefemalescientist.com/about-us/

3. When Scientists Say "Me Too:"
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/when-scientists-say-me-too/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sa-editorial-social&utm_content&utm_term=policy_blog_text_free

And Some Professional Opportunities:

1. The Department of Neuroscience at Yale is Hiring:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0By-j8KYRbwGFcTRMZHdUUEhGN28/view?usp=sharing

2. The Polter Lab at GWU is Looking for a Postdoc:  
https://www.polterlab.org/join-us/

Best wishes,
Ghazaleh, Courtney, Yas, and Yangmiao

Interesting Features for PWN 10/17/2017

Hi Everyone,

Here Are Some Interesting Articles: 

1. Successful Career Women Finish The Phrase 'If Only...'

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/business/successful-career-women-comments.html

2. How the Founder of GoldieBlox (a female-geared toy company) Is Creating the Next Generation Of Women In Stem

https://www.forbes.com/sites/elanagross/2017/10/11/how-the-founder-of-goldieblox-is-creating-the-next-generation-of-women-in-stem/#34daab334e13

3. The One Thing You Need to Do To Overcome Imposter Syndrome

https://www.forbes.com/sites/moiraforbes/2017/09/13/the-one-thing-you-need-to-do-to-shut-down-impostor-syndrome/#6326202c2fe7

And Several Professional Opportunities:

1. The Yassa Lab at UC Irvine, CA is looking for a postdoc in advanced fMRI methods, particularly classification/multivariate analyses:

http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/myassa/get-involved/join-the-lab/

2. The University of Utah has a tenure-track Assistant Professor position opening in neuroscience:

https://utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/67828

3. The Department of Psychological & Brain Science at BU has a tenure-track Assistant Professor position opening in systems neuroscience:https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/9634

4. The Department of Biomedical Sciences at Marquette University has a tenure-track Assistant Professor position opening in neuroscience:https://employment.marquette.edu/postings/8662

Cheers,Ghazaleh, Courtney, Yas, and Yangmiao

Interesting Features for PWN 10/03/2017

Hi Everyone,

Here Are Some Interesting Articles: 

1. This article was sent to us by Nicte Mejia: Strength in Numbers: 9 Ways Women in Medicine Can Build Community, Grow Influence

https://news.aamc.org/diversity/article/9-ways-women-medicine-community-influence/?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=AAMCSocial

2. Booke Baldwin: Speaking Like This To Women in 2017? No Way

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/15/opinions/espn-and-women-in-2017-brooke-baldwin-opinion/index.html

3. The Week My Husband Left And My House Was Burgled I Secured A Grant To Begin The Project That Became BRCA1

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/dr-maryclaire-king/brca-marriage-testing_b_17908074.html

And Several Professional Opportunities:

1. The Li lab is recruiting a graduate student:

https://www.aradlab.com/

2. A postdoc position opening in the Calu Lab to study brain mechanisms driving natural and drug reward learning:

https://www.calulab.com/join

3. NIH Blueprint Diversity Specialized Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Advancement in Neuroscience (D-SPAN) Award (F99/K00) has been reissued! Applications due December 13, 2017:

https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-NS-18-007.html

4. New Postdoc trainee positions available to study Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders at UNC:

https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/128740

5. The DPM Lab at Columbia is looking for PhDs, postdocs and RAs for Fall '18 to work on naturalistic perception and memory:

http://www.dpmlab.org/

Cheers!

~PWN