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Book Club
Join us for a three-part virtual book club series during April and May! We will be reading Incognito by Dr. David Eagleman 📚
NeuroCareers
Catch up with the latest news in our social media NeuroCareers series (available on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook)!
Latest Podcast Episodes and Humans of Neuroscience Spotlights
🎤 Interview with Dr. Shoba S. Meera
Meet Dr. Shoba S. Meera, a dedicated speech-language pathologist, clinician-researcher and Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS) in Bengaluru, India.
🏋️♀️ How to Fuel Your Motivation ft. Dr. Brett Jones
All you need to do is compare a gym in January versus February to see how quickly motivation drops off for the average person. We often think of motivation as an elusive, uncatchable force that comes and goes as it pleases, leaving us whenever it wants to in unpredictable patterns. In this episode with Virginia Tech educational psychology professor Dr. Jones, we reveal that motivation is something you can deliberately increase in yourself, and we discuss his MUSIC model of motivation and how we can leverage it to push ourselves to our goals.
🧘♂️ Mindfulness Meditation ft. Dr. Fadel Zeidan
Dr. Fadel Zeidan is an associate professor in the UC San Diego Department of Anesthesiology. His current research is focused on determining the psychological, physiological and neural mechanisms that mediate the relationship between self-regulatory practices and health. Specifically, his work examines the mechanisms of action supporting mindfulness meditation on pain.
🔗 Exercise, Consciousness, and Reconnecting with our Roots ft. Dr. John Ratey
Dr. Ratey is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, an internationally recognized authority on exercise and neuropsychiatry, and the author of Go Wild and Spark. He's been a longtime advocate of exercise and reconnecting with our ancestors' ways of life — ideas that today echo across many corners of the internet. We spoke about topics ranging from the essentials that we aren't getting from the modern world, how reconnecting with our origins betters our lives, neuroscience's failure to find an explanation for consciousness, and the importance of exercise for health and performance.
💭 Parenthood, Purpose, and the Meaninglessness of “Optimizing” Everything ft. Dr. Sarah McKay
Dr. McKay is an Oxford educated neuroscientist, as well as the author of The Women's Brain Book and Baby Brain. She is an influential neuroscience commentator who has been featured on ABC, quoted on the Wall Street Journal, and appeared as a TEDx speaker. We spoke about her career transition transition out of the lab and into science communication and learned her views on finding purpose in your work, the futility of the modern biohacker movement, and taking on the challenge of parenthood.
Broader Community Events and Opportunities
🗣️ Rolling Basis: Neuroscience of Speech Internship at the University of Melbourne
💼 Rolling Basis: MBA Internship at NeuroBionics
💻 Rolling Basis: Computational Neuroscience Internship at Sonera
👩💻 Rolling Basis: NeuroTechX Student Clubs Manager Role
🤖 Rolling Basis: AI, Computer Science, and Neuroscience Internship at Zander Labs
🖥️ Rolling Basis: Computational Neuroscience Internship at Boston Children’s Hospital
📣 Rolling Basis: Public survey for Neuroethics magazine
🏥 April 1st Deadline: Stanford Neurosurgery Harris Neuroscience Internship
🧬 April 15th Deadline: Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University Research Internship Program
📝 April 20th: Future Leaders in Brain Injury Conference
🧠 April 24th: 6th Annual NCAA-DoD Grand Alliance Concussion Conference
🤝 April 28th: California Neurotech Conference
Simply Neuroscience team members will be attending the conference as well! Come say hello 😃
🩺 April 30th Deadline: Brainy Academic Summer Internship
🧬 May 1st Deadline: Ashoka International Summer Research Program (AISRP)
📝 May 1st Deadline: HFC Humans of Dementia Scholarship
👨🔬 May 1st Deadline: Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience (SURFiN)
🏅 July 5th Deadline: Neuroethics Essay Contest Submissions
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