Join panelists Linda Richards, Paul Kenny, and Dan Cox as they discuss key issues around Hiring Practices for Faculty positions at different types of universities.

"Pathways to Enhance Rigor: A Collection of Conversations” is a limited-series podcast featuring neuroscientists discussing ways to better embed rigor into every part of the scientific process, from experimental design to sharing with the public.

Learn about India Pursell, a 2024 Early Career Policy Ambassador and graduate student, as she details her advocacy journey and her passion for promoting early involved in STEM for young girls.

India Pursell (she/her) is a first-generation, Creole-Caucasian neuroscientist completing her doctoral training at Tulane University Brain Institute in New Orleans, Louisiana.

With the use of emergent state-of-the-art technologies and the ever-increasing complexity of our understanding of molecular pathways and neural networks, it is becoming more challenging to present the latest discoveries in clear and impactful ways. The lead illustrator for Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Jennie Vallis, will describe strategies to cut through the complexity and jargon to reveal our discoveries in elegant and understandable ways.

Karen Malacon (she/her) is pursuing an MD/PhD in neuroscience at Stanford, studying early life influenza’s impact on brain function, and graduated summa cum laude from Harvard in neurobiology with a minor in global health.

Krystal M. Santiago Colon (she/her) is a third-year PhD candidate in pharmacology at the University of Michigan, studying epilepsy mechanisms, with a biology bachelor’s from the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey.

Andoni I. Asencor (he/him) received his BA in neuroscience from Boston University in 2020, worked as a researcher at the University of Miami, and is now pursuing a neuroscience PhD at UCSF.

Noële Certain is a postdoctoral scholar at Yale University, with a PhD in molecular and cellular pharmacology and an MS in biochemistry and cell biology from Stony Brook University, and a BS in biology from St. Joseph’s College.

SfN, in partnership with the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) and Midnight Snacks animation studio, developed a series of introductory videos for neuroscientists to enhance the rigor and reproducibility of their research.