The August Congressional recess offers a valuable window for constituents to connect with federal policymakers in their home districts and states. This webinar will equip SfN members with practical strategies to effectively engage with elected officials and their staff during this period, such as hosting in-district meetings, lab tours, and more.

In this new Careers in Neuroscience profile, meet Maya Sapiurka, PhD, a scientific and technical writer at the United States Pharmacopeia (USP). Learn about her curious nature that eventually launched her into studying neuroscience, how she discovered a career outside of academia and passion for writing, and what past experiences and skills she utilizes most in her day-to-day as a scientific writer.

Join this interactive session as Ulrike Basten discusses her paper, “Positive Bias in Value-Based Decision Making: Neurocognitive Associations with Resilience”, withJNeurosciReviewingEditorMonicaRosenberg.Attendeescan submitquestions at registration and live during the webinar.

In this episode, PhD candidate Blakely Lockhart and mentor Michael Nestor, PhD, discuss how mentorship can help early-career scientists navigate the evolving intersection of research, policy, industry, and public engagement.

Publishing research remains one of the most important ways to share work and should be a strategic decision that can shape visibility, credibility, and career growth. With so many options that increase every year, what aspects matter most when choosing where to publish?

Mentorship can make a big difference at any point in your career. Join this live, ask-me-anything-style webinar with neuroscientists from Season 3 of Neuronline’s mentoring podcast, “Think Alike?”.

For many years, vision and memory have dominated neuroscience research and public attention. In comparison, the olfactory system is often viewed as secondary, despite its strong connections to emotion, memory, behavior, and neurodegenerative diseases.

Katherine Nautiyal discusses her paper, “The Serotonin 1B Receptor Modulates Striatal Activity Differentially Based on Behavioral Context,” published in Vol. 13, Issue 2 of eNeuro, with Reviewing Editor Jibran Khokhar. Find our upcoming webinar schedule here.

Behzad Iravani and Josef Parvizi discuss their paper, “Intracranial Recordings of the Human Orbitofrontal Cortical Activity during Self-Referential Episodic and Valenced Self-Judgments,” published in Vol. 44, Issue 11 of JNeurosci, with Reviewing Editor Erin Rich. Find our upcoming webinar schedule here.

A collection of articles published in JNeurosci highlights some of the debates in the field about the details of the computational properties of the prefrontal cortex.