This week’s BWN Friday Post is from Stories of Women in Neuroscience. Dr. Gina Poe shares her research on interplay between memory and sleep, and her experience of mentoring underrepresented trainees in STEM.
BWN Friday Posts
Virtual Conference on Gender Roles and their Impact in Academia
This week’s BWN Friday post is announcing the virtual conference on “Gender Roles and their Impact in Academia”.
The FoVea Speaker List
This week’s BWN Friday post is the FoVea Speaker List. From their website, “The FoVea Speaker List, funded by the NSF, is intended to increase the number of women invited to give talks at conferences and other academic events and more generally increase the visibility of female vision scientists. We especially encourage women of all underrepresented groups to add their names to the list.”
Center for Scientific Review: Race and Peer Review by Dr. Noni Byrnes
This week’s BWN Friday Post is a briefing by Dr. Noni Byrnes, the director of the NIH Center for Scientific Review (CSR). She covers severals efforts happening at CSR to mitigate bias, including the implementation of a partially double-blind review process for the Transformative Research Awards.
Stories of Women in Neuroscience: Dr. Susanne Ahmari
This week’s BWN Friday Post is from Stories of Women in Neuroscience. Dr. Susanne Ahmari shares her story on bridging research with clinical practice and taking “leaps of faith”.