How can neuroscientists improve the reproducibility of statistical plans and scientific discoveries? In this webinar — the sixth in SfN’s Promoting Awareness and Knowledge to Enhance Scientific Rigor in Neuroscience series — presenters will discuss common applications of statistics in neuroscience, including what types of research questions statistics are best positioned to address, modeling paradigms, and exploratory data analysis. Presenters will provide real world examples of these issues from their own research backgrounds.

Common sources of bias in animal behavior and electrophysiology experiments can be minimized or outright avoided by following best practices of unbiased experimental design and data. In this webinar — the fifth in SfN’s Promoting Awareness and Knowledge to Enhance Scientific Rigor in Neuroscience series — presenters will discuss experimental design and hypothesis testing for mouse behavioral assays, as well as sampling, interpretational bias, and referencing in in vitro and in vivo electrophysiology recording studies.

Our lab focuses on the development and function of a relatively obscure brain region called the habenula.

Whether it’s improving quality of life or embracing the latest technology, the promise of an advancing field is motivation for many neuroscientists to pursue and support meaningful research.

As I outlined in a previous article, the first step in applying to graduate school is finding programs that match your research interests is. The next step is weighing other important factors that could impact your experience.

Developing and assessing programs used to be a linear process because the training process was linear: graduate school, postdoctoral training, and academia.

An elevator speech is one of your most important networking tools.

As an assistant professor at Columbia University, founder of the Greater New York City Chapter of SfN (braiNY), and active advocate for science funding, Haung (Ho) Yu’s perspectives on the benefits of outreach are far reaching.

Get an inside look at how unconscious bias during the recruitment process can negatively impact female applicants and how to proactively change the approach in this Institució CERCA video.

At the University of New England (UNE), we have invested in our community through both local outreach efforts in Maine and also through advancing the impact of global scientific and cultural exchange.