neuropportunities

Useful opportunity resources for neuroscientists 🧠 📚

Similar to my neuro_resources list, I found myself consistently saving loads of tabs associated with the various opportunities I came across. This primarily included summer schools, conferences, outreach programs, public events; essentially anything a cognitive neuroscientist PhD student in Birmingham could get involved with.

So, following my neuro_resources list I felt the need to collate together another list, one with opportunities for neuroscientists (mainly within the UK). 😊

I aim to update it frequently, but as with my other list (and lists in general) it is not intended to be comprehensive. Feel free to star/fork this repo or to suggest your own resources for me to add!

You can access this list as a GitHub Page here.

Existing lists of resources

Here are some useful current ‘meta-lists’ which already cover resources in the various sub-domains.

Conferences

• Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Conferences

Summer schools

• various computational neuroscience / MEEG / LFP short courses and summer schools A Google Sheet with a fairly comprehensive list of summer schools in the field of computational neuroscience. Maintained by Natalie Schaworonkow, Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience.

Outreach and Science Communication

• JISCMail ‘A list to provide a forum for discussion of any matter relating to public communication of science and public engagement with science. In addition, details of relevant events, meetings, jobs, conferences and workshops.’

Conferences

I am deciding to focus specifically on those with a major focus on cognitive and computational neuroscience.

Topic-general

Earth 🌎

• The Organisation for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM)
• Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS)
• Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN)
• Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE)
• Cognitive Science Society
• Society for Neuroscience (SfN)
• Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN)
• Gordon Research Conferences (GRC)
• Computational Psychiatry Conference (CPC)

Europe 🇪🇺

• European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN)
• Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) Forum

United Kingdom 🇬🇧

• The British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience (BACN)
• The British Association for Psychopharmacology (BAP)

More specified

• Orbitofrontal Cortex (OFC) Once every four years!

Mentorship

General

• OHBM Online International Mentoring Programme

Writing/editing

• New Mentored Journal Club (JNeurosci
• Nature Co-review Program

Outreach/mentoring

Mentoring school.college students

• STEM Ambassadors A volunteering program where individuals offer to speak at local events including schools, colleges, higher education institutions, and youth group organisations to ‘deliver requests from teachers and youth group leaders who want to link STEM subjects to the real world of work.’
• The Brilliant Club ‘The Brilliant Club works with schools and universities across the UK, mobilising the PhD community to support students who are less advantaged to access the most competitive universities and succeed when they get there.’
• Project Access A world-wide program aiming to ‘help mentor and tutor students from less privileged backgrounds in applying to top universities’. (I think it helps to have attended one of the highlighted universities on their website).
• in2Science A scheme where universities can sign-up to host college students for summer placements.

Public engagement

• Pint of Science
• Brain Awareness Week

Bursaries and Placements

• FENS/IBRO-PERC Exchange Fellowships Programme
• Experimental Psychology Society (EPS)
• British Neuroscience Association (BNA)