I am a PhD candidate in Neurobiology currently starting my industry job search while I write my dissertation. I found and have been contacted by the organizers of a CNS Biotech and Pharma partnering summit and am hoping to find out a bit more before potentially committing. It is organized by Hanson Wade and the website can be found here: https://cns-partnering.com/ . I'm trying to find out whether these events are legit and whether the very high price to register will be worth it. Any help would be appreciated.

Hi, new poster here, just wondering with all the new studies coming out using spatial transcriptomics, what are some of the best papers you guys have seen using the technology?

Hello, I am a student living in a foreign country who wants to participate in the regional brain bee competition. Unfortunately, the exam is in the local language, which I can not understand. Is there a way for me to participate in brain bee competition?

Hi everyone!

I’m a Dutch student currently in Barcelona, pursuing a master’s degree in neuroscience. Before this, I completed my bachelor’s in biomedical sciences at Maastricht University. While I’m really enjoying my studies, I find myself feeling a bit lost when it comes to deciding what to do after I finish my master’s.

I have read and hear from the people around me that many take a PhD career path to specialise themselves even further, but I don't know if this is something for me. I prefer to work more in a clinical setting instead of a lab. However, I’m struggling to figure out what options are available that would align with my background and interests (for someone that only has a MSc in Neuroscience).

Currently I really like Spain but I know the salary is not the best here, so I would be open to explore opportunities in Italy, Switzerland, or even the US. Also, thinking of a paid internship in Argentina but don't know if that's the best place to do such a thing.

I'm very curious what you guys think is possible for me, or what you chose during your career paths. Are there specific fields, roles, or companies I should be looking at to find a job.

Any advice or suggestions you could share would be really appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

Hello everyone,

I hope you're doing well! I’m reaching out to ask if anyone here might have an Anymaze account license and would be willing to share it. I’m from a developing country, and my team is conducting behavioral tests on mice. Unfortunately, manual measurements are not very precise, and Anymaze would be incredibly helpful for our work.

However, the license is very expensive for us (around $650, which is close to someone's monthly income here). If anyone could kindly share their account or help us out with a lower fee (we can pay around $10), it would mean a lot to us.

Thank you so much for taking the time to read this. Your kindness and support would truly make a difference.

Best regards!

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Looking back at newly published research in 2024, what discoveries, inventions, or events struck you as significant?

I started an ms in behavioral neuroscience and just finished my first semester. My BA was in psychology and my research interests are more cognitive/perception. At this point I don’t think I’m too interested in academia, so I’m not sure if I should go for a PhD after this, but my problem is that there seems to be no jobs for this major unless I get another certificate/BA or experience in somethin else. I’m thinking of going the machine learning route mostly because I don’t know what other jobs are out there, but I’m not sure what that would entail or how to get started at my current level since I have no experience coding. I’m at a loss for what to do, my biggest concern is making sure I get a job with a decent salary.

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

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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.

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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.

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What’s the best way to capture a rat model of depression’s coat state after sucrose splash test? What are the optimal camera angle, rodent position and ways to handle the rat, to prevent any confounding variables? Have looked into research papers but none of them state the above. TIA!

I wanted to share personal experience that my student had yesterday during a university visit and the impact of one-on-one interactions with future researchers.

Our student is interested in neuroscience, but was not interested in visiting this “small” school.

Until… we met an acting department chair who took the time to introduce our student to their work.

During the “introductory remarks” they spoke briefly about their cv, and mentioned their rat lab grant. It’s a very small program at a very small but they are doing important work with endocannabinoids, ethanol, and the brain. They mentioned their work in support of the ongoing NIH studies.

After a brief conversation, the department chair took my student on a tour of the lab and discussed the end to end process and the work that is being done. We discussed ethics, scientific methods, importance of the work, and respecting boundaries.

Watching our student’s enthusiasm during this personalized “tour” was incredible, and the depth of my appreciation to this chair.

Thanks to all who take the time, to show your passion to the next generation of scientists.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8760843/#:~:text=Endocannabinoids%20acting%20via%20CB1R%20have%20been%20implicated%20in,et%20al.%2C%202013).

https://www.nature.com/articles/npp2017143#:~:text=Introduction,anxiety%20throughout%20the%20life%20span.

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I have a bachelor’s in Neuroscience and am currently pursuing a master’s in Computational Biology. Through this master’s, I’ll be taking several programming and statistics courses, as well as deep learning and data mining. I’m aiming to pursue a PhD in Computational Neuroscience, particularly at UCL in London.

I’d like to know if my background would be sufficient to apply to this program, or to computational neuroscience programs in general. Additionally, I am working on my thesis alongside my supervisor with the goal of publishing it in a journal.

Any guidance on positioning myself as a strong candidate for these programs would be much appreciated.

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.

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 :(