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Early-career researcher action potentials

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Sven Bestmann’s lab at University College London has an open research fellow position to study motor cortex and spinal cord electrophysiology.
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JOB OPPORTUNITY

🚨Job alert🚨 We’re recruiting for another PhD position at MaCSBio @macsbio.bsky.social, focused on computational neuroscience. Come work on brain, sound, and computational models, co-supervised by myself and Ryszard Auksztulewicz @auksz.bsky.social 🗓️ Apply by 18 May 🔗 tinyurl.com/bdhtwuzs

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— Michelle Moerel (@mmoerel.bsky.social) April 15, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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The Humphries’ group at the University of Nottingham seeks a research assistant for a project studying the neural computations of foraging.
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Upcoming online seminars

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Upcoming Seminar
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22
2025
Arto Urtti | School of Pharmacy, University of Eastern Finland
Computational modelling of ocular pharmacokinetics
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Apr
22
2025
Paola Binda | University of Pisa
Plasticity of the adult visual system
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Apr
23
2025
Shaul Druckmann | Stanford department of Neurobiology and department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Relating circuit dynamics to computation: robustness and dimension-specific computation in cortical dynamics
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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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Neuroscientists fear Trump’s DEI order may tank diversity-focused grants

Programs that prioritize diversity, equity and inclusion in the field may be at risk, leaving researchers in a “holding pattern,” according to one grant recipient.

By Angie Voyles Askham, Claudia López Lloreda
24 January 2025 | 5 min read
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Neuroscientists need to do better at explaining basic mental health research

The knowledge gap between scientists, health-care professionals, policymakers and people with mental health conditions is growing, slowing the translation of basic science to new treatments. Like lawyers learning to present a case to the court, scientists should learn to educate nonscientists about their findings.

By Omar Abubaker, Karla Kaun, Eric J. Nestler
21 January 2025 | 7 min read

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A leaked draft of a Trump administration proposal includes an approximately 40 percent cut to the National Institutes of Health’s budget and a major reorganization of its 27 institutes and centers.

By Angie Voyles Askham
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