This is our weekly career and school megathread! Some of our typical rules don't apply here.

School

Looking for advice on whether neuroscience is good major? Trying to understand what it covers? Trying to understand the best schools or the path out of neuroscience into other disciplines? This is the place.

Career

Are you trying to see what your Neuro PhD, Masters, BS can do in industry? Trying to understand the post doc market? Wondering what careers neuroscience tends to lead to? Welcome to your thread.

Employers, Institutions, and Influencers

Looking to hire people for your graduate program? Do you want to promote a video about your school, job, or similar? Trying to let people know where to find consolidated career advice? Put it all here.

Hi, I will soon be starting a PhD and I need a new laptop. Does anyone have a recommendation on which laptops are best to work with software related to Cognitive Neuroscience (EEG, MEG etc but also neural networks) and genomics (analysis of RNA-seq, transcriptome, single cell etc)?

I am used to Mac but I feel like they're not the best for software :(

Hi everyone,

I’m interested in choosing neuroscience as master specialization but I don’t know much about the future prescriptive and if this is a saturated field already.

I was sure to do immunology as specialization, but I’m currently doing a lab experience in neuroscience and I’m loving it. I’ve never had neuro classes in my bachelor or was interested in it… so be brutally honest and please share what you’re working on and if you suggest this field.

Thank youuuu

This is our weekly career and school megathread! Some of our typical rules don't apply here.

School

Looking for advice on whether neuroscience is good major? Trying to understand what it covers? Trying to understand the best schools or the path out of neuroscience into other disciplines? This is the place.

Career

Are you trying to see what your Neuro PhD, Masters, BS can do in industry? Trying to understand the post doc market? Wondering what careers neuroscience tends to lead to? Welcome to your thread.

Employers, Institutions, and Influencers

Looking to hire people for your graduate program? Do you want to promote a video about your school, job, or similar? Trying to let people know where to find consolidated career advice? Put it all here.

This is our weekly career and school megathread! Some of our typical rules don't apply here.

School

Looking for advice on whether neuroscience is good major? Trying to understand what it covers? Trying to understand the best schools or the path out of neuroscience into other disciplines? This is the place.

Career

Are you trying to see what your Neuro PhD, Masters, BS can do in industry? Trying to understand the post doc market? Wondering what careers neuroscience tends to lead to? Welcome to your thread.

Employers, Institutions, and Influencers

Looking to hire people for your graduate program? Do you want to promote a video about your school, job, or similar? Trying to let people know where to find consolidated career advice? Put it all here.

This is our weekly career and school megathread! Some of our typical rules don't apply here.

School

Looking for advice on whether neuroscience is good major? Trying to understand what it covers? Trying to understand the best schools or the path out of neuroscience into other disciplines? This is the place.

Career

Are you trying to see what your Neuro PhD, Masters, BS can do in industry? Trying to understand the post doc market? Wondering what careers neuroscience tends to lead to? Welcome to your thread.

Employers, Institutions, and Influencers

Looking to hire people for your graduate program? Do you want to promote a video about your school, job, or similar? Trying to let people know where to find consolidated career advice? Put it all here.

Please help I have a lab practicum tomorrow on this 🥺

Does anyone know if SFN nanosymposiums are recorded, and if so where we can access our recordings?

Thank you!

Hiii,

Sorry to bother you guys especially because this is a stupid question but I’m looking to try the INO.

I’m a senior and I’m in high school in Canada BC. I’ll be graduating summer of 2025. So I’ll be 18 in August.

Looking online I’m legit so confused as to the difference between these competitions and the timing and date as well as the books I need to study and the expected study timeframe. Like how long it to past participant and their placements?

Also will I still be able to qualify next year?

Wanting to get back into math because I haven't been doing any since I graduated highschool a year ago, I'm interested in pursuing a career in neuroscience so I figured a good way to keep myself motivated to get back into math is to relate it to something I'm passionate about. This book was written a long time ago and I know breakthroughs in neuroscience happen very frequently so I'm wondering if the information in this book still holds up?

Hello All!

This community here at r/neuroscience represents one of the largest neuroscience communities in the world (larger than member organizations such as SfN, CAN, and FENS combined).

It seems we have a great opportunity to pool our knowledge and resources to make this a great centralized place to find useful tools, information, or collaborations.

I’m very interested in hearing from everybody here on what would make r/neuroscience most useful to you. What are you missing in your work? What would make this community feel engaging, supportive, and helpful to you?

Hi, I've just got my hands on a Tobii 4C and would like to test its capabilities, I know I can download a trial version of the Pro Lab software, but I wonder if there are any good (free) alternatives?

This is our weekly career and school megathread! Some of our typical rules don't apply here.

School

Looking for advice on whether neuroscience is good major? Trying to understand what it covers? Trying to understand the best schools or the path out of neuroscience into other disciplines? This is the place.

Career

Are you trying to see what your Neuro PhD, Masters, BS can do in industry? Trying to understand the post doc market? Wondering what careers neuroscience tends to lead to? Welcome to your thread.

Employers, Institutions, and Influencers

Looking to hire people for your graduate program? Do you want to promote a video about your school, job, or similar? Trying to let people know where to find consolidated career advice? Put it all here.

hi all,

i have a rather unusual request: does anyone know of slide scanners that can fit glass slides/coverslips that are MUCH thicker than the standard? or are there any labs that have created modified slide scanners that can fit thicker slides?

the details/why i'm asking:

i'm a neuro grad student / histo novice that has access to a truly one-of-a-kind archival dataset from the 1980s. the slides contain whole-brain slices from large marine mammals, and the staining (Nissl and myelin mostly) is of *excellent* quality- much better than i can do myself!

i would love to perform some quantitative cytological analyses on these slides but there is one major obstacle: the slices are mounted on literal windowpanes! the glass is simply too thick to fit into a slide scanner, and so there are no good ways to digitize the collection, save for manually photographing each tiny section through the eyepiece of a microscope that the host lab has modified to fit the windowpane slides...then in theory, uploading and sorting and reconstructing each slice like a puzzle... (i.e. it would be a herculean task)

thus i would appreciate any advice y'all could lend on this unusual scenario... what would you do? have you heard of any labs that process older archival slide sets like these, that are mounted on thick glass? is there any equipment that could accommodate this process? am i overlooking some other workaround?

thanks for reading!

Anyone here attending SfN this year? Looking to meet other grad students to make friends with :)

I’m curious to hear from other neuroscientists about the software tools you use daily in your research. What tools do you rely on for data analysis, visualization, or collaboration? What are the pros and cons of these tools? Also, are there any gaps in the tools available right now? If you could have a software tool that doesn’t currently exist, what would it do?

Looking forward to hearing about what’s working (or not!) and where the gaps are in this space.

This is our weekly career and school megathread! Some of our typical rules don't apply here.

School

Looking for advice on whether neuroscience is good major? Trying to understand what it covers? Trying to understand the best schools or the path out of neuroscience into other disciplines? This is the place.

Career

Are you trying to see what your Neuro PhD, Masters, BS can do in industry? Trying to understand the post doc market? Wondering what careers neuroscience tends to lead to? Welcome to your thread.

Employers, Institutions, and Influencers

Looking to hire people for your graduate program? Do you want to promote a video about your school, job, or similar? Trying to let people know where to find consolidated career advice? Put it all here.

Hey everybody! I will be attending SfN this year for the first time. It is my first time going to a conference in general. Do y'all have any insight on how I can prep for it? Specifically, how to beat use the planner, any pointers for social events, any useful tips on what to carry with oneself, exhibits from companies and institutes to check for connection, and so on. Basically anything that you learnt from your experiences that you think might be useful. Thank you!

Hi there,

Does anyone know some suitable protocols for doing a simple silver staining of neurons?

I'm not a neuroscientist—I'm working on a project in developmental biology, where we are trying to visualise the nervous system of a species of soft coral (Xenia sp.), so I haven't worked with neurons much before. I've been trying antibody staining for a few weeks with mixed success, and a friend of mine recommended I try a silver-staining protocol.

Does anyone know some tried-and-tested protocols they have used themselves?

I looked up a couple of things online and found some protocols, but I noticed most of them recommend taking thin sections of the sample. I hope to stain whole coral polyps rather than sections (about 1-5 mm in length and about 1 mm in diameter).

Would this make a difference in which protocol I use if I want to avoid taking sections?

And do I need to find a silver-staining method that is specific to cnidarians (corals and jellyfishes), or are the methods typically applicable to a broad range of species?

Thanks :)