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Recognize early-career researchers who have made outstanding contributions to the field. Selected nominees will be featured on our website and in our annual book.
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Early-career researcher action potentials

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“How to delight your future boss at a science job interview,” Nature
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Job opportunity
Emilia Favuzzi's lab at Yale University seeks a postdoctoral fellow with an immunology background who is interested in studying how the brain controls immunity.
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COURSE APPLICATION DUE
The EITN EBRAINS Fall School in Computational Neuroscience is a 10-day course in theoretical and computational neuroscience, from the cellular to the whole-brain level. The school is structured in thematic days with lectures, tutorials and project work. Applications close 4 June.
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Upcoming online seminars

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Upcoming Seminar
Jun
02
2025
Luca Mazzucato | University of Oregon, USA
Neural mechanisms of optimal performance
05:00 A.M. EDT
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Upcoming Seminar
Jun
03
2025
Kenneth Hayworth | Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer, Carboncopies
Memory Decoding Journal Club: “Structure and function of the hippocampal CA3 module
06:00 P.M. EDT
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Jun
05
2025
Chris Awai | Lake Lucerne Institute, Switzerland
HealthCore: A modular data collection ecosystem to connect the dots in Neurorehab
10:15 A.M. EDT
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How to teach students about science funding

As researchers reel over the uncertain state of U.S. federal funding, educating students on the business of science is more important than ever.

By Ashley Juavinett
19 February 2025 | 8 min read
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‘A gut punch:’ How U.S. neuroscience trainees are grappling with diversity-based funding flux

Ten trainees spoke with The Transmitter about how the precarious state of U.S. federal funding is affecting their research and career plans.

By Calli McMurray, Angie Voyles Askham, Claudia López Lloreda
14 February 2025 | 2 min read
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About-faces in U.S. federal science funding put neuroscientists on edge

“It’s hard to know what’s real,” says neuroscientist Josh Dubnau after a dizzying week in which diversity-related grant applications were pulled from study sections only to be reinstated five days later, among other reversals.

By Angie Voyles Askham
12 February 2025 | 6 min listen
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How eight initiatives are tackling neuroscience’s gender gap

In honor of today’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science, The Transmitter spoke with some of the women working to bolster their ranks in the field through storytelling podcasts, speaker repositories, social media networks and other community-based advocacy projects.

By Paige Miranda
11 February 2025 | 2 min read
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Static pay, shrinking prospects fuel neuroscience postdoc decline

Postdoctoral researchers sponsored by the National Institutes of Health now toil longer than ever before, for less money. They are responding accordingly.

By Katie Moisse
31 January 2025 | 20 min read

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