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Mar 27, 2020

Get the mentorship you deserve

Regardless of your career stage, you need mentorship. Here’s what you can reasonably expect. Every scientist and professional benefits from having someone to show them the ropes — the catch is that some mentors are more skilled at giving thoughtful guidance than others. As an undergraduate, graduate, or postdoctoral trainee…

Mentorship

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Get the mentorship you deserve
Get the mentorship you deserve
Mentorship

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Sep 26, 2019

How to make the most of your PhD when you don’t know what comes next

You’re in the midst (mist?) of your PhD. People tell you that there is life beyond this, but it is hazy at best. You’d like to somehow start preparing for the next stage of your career evolution but how, exactly? There are a few things you can start doing now…

Ph D

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How to make the most of your PhD when you don’t know what comes next
How to make the most of your PhD when you don’t know what comes next
Ph D

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Published in The Spike

·Apr 2, 2019

Choosing a neuroscience graduate program

TL;DR talk to current students & trust your instincts — Recruitment season is finally over, and you have a couple of weeks to decide where you’d like to spend the next chunk of your life. …

Education

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Choosing a neuroscience graduate program
Choosing a neuroscience graduate program
Education

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Feb 11, 2019

My grandfather and the perseverance to live another day

When I was born, my grandfather was 73 years old. Most of my memories about him are from when he was in his 80s, 90s, and even 100s. He lived 103 years — an absolutely unfathomable amount of time to spend inhaling and exhaling air on this planet. …

Family

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My grandfather and the perseverance to live another day
My grandfather and the perseverance to live another day
Family

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Published in The Spike

·Oct 26, 2018

Ben Barres tells his story in his own words

His autobiography will make you laugh, cry, and appreciate the underdogs of the brain — There are very few stories like Ben Barres’. There could be more out there, but as it goes, sometimes you need to hear someone else’s story before you can recognize your own. It wasn’t until Ben Barres read a local news release written by a trans man that he had…

Transgender

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Ben Barres tells his story in his own words
Ben Barres tells his story in his own words
Transgender

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Published in The Spike

·Aug 29, 2018

There is no such thing as a computational person

We need to get past the essentialist mindset about coding — When our summer intern Daniel first joined the lab, he seemed terrified of MATLAB. And I can’t blame him — encountering a programming language in the wild is intimidating, especially when you sign up for a summer research program and they ask you to declare upfront whether you’re “computational” or…

Education

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There is no such thing as a computational person
There is no such thing as a computational person
Education

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Published in The Spike

·Aug 9, 2018

Preparing for a neuroscience PhD

You don’t need a neuroscience background, and it might even help if you don’t. You do, however, need research experience. — You’ve given it some thought, and a neuroscience PhD could be in your future. So, what do you need to get there? Undergraduate degrees before the PhD In theory, you could come from almost any academic background before coming into neuroscience, as long as you also have research experience (see below). According to a recent…

Education

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Preparing for a neuroscience PhD
Preparing for a neuroscience PhD
Education

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Published in The Spike

·Jul 16, 2018

Why you should (or shouldn’t) get a PhD in Neuroscience

What to consider when you’re considering — Perhaps at some point during your childhood your partially-developed (and frankly, self-absorbed) brain thought to itself, “I wonder how brains work.” Or perhaps you’ve been doing neuroscience research and although you’d never admit this — you kinda like poking brains. …

Ph D

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Why you should (or shouldn’t) get a PhD in Neuroscience
Why you should (or shouldn’t) get a PhD in Neuroscience
Ph D

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Jul 9, 2018

No one wants to talk about authorship

Authorship can be a difficult topic for many researchers, especially when it is their first publication in a lab. Fortunately for you, dear friend*, I’ve devised four useful rules when it comes to deciding authorship on a paper: You should talk about authorship before you think you need to talk…

Science

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No one wants to talk about authorship
No one wants to talk about authorship
Science

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Jul 2, 2018

The nitty-gritty about neuroscience PhD programs

In the timescale of humanity learning about how things work, our somewhat organized investigation of the nervous system is relatively new. There was a ragtag group of guys at Walter Reed in the 1950s who did a mix of behavioral and anatomical research, but Harvard takes the prize for the…

Science

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The nitty-gritty about neuroscience PhD programs
The nitty-gritty about neuroscience PhD programs
Science

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Ashley Juavinett

Ashley Juavinett

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Neuroscientist, educator, and author of “So you want to be a neuroscientist?” https://cup.columbia.edu/book/so-you-want-to-be-a-neuroscientist/9780231190893

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