Completing a grant report today ‘What obstacles did you encounter and how did you overcome them’ - why must we ALWAYS overcome?? Setbacks happen.

Rose Bagot Women PIs likely spend more time & effort thinking about their mentoring. Maybe because of gendered expectations of them, or because they have gotten less adequate mentoring themselves so they know how disabling that is, or because they are made less confident in doing their job.

Our suggestions in a nutshell. This is meant as a non-exhaustive list, and an ongoing conversation. Please add your additions and thoughts!

Let's stop citing variability as a reason for exclusion. But if you really want to study the less variable sex, for preclinical studies on #fear and #anxiety , the females are where it's at (bonus - anxiety conditions are more prevalent in females, so it helps to study them).

We compared variability between male and female rodents in >4900 data points from 263 studies on learned and unlearned fear, with or without a stress manipulation. Males were slightly (yet significantly) MORE variable than females tested without regard for estrous phase.

Come for the Montreal 🥯 stay for the hot 🔥 science

🚨Job Alert🚨

Fantastic opportunity for all postdocs in systems neuroscientists out there.

Great opportunity - terrific department - outstanding 🇨🇦 City for Neuroscience

Come do neuro in Montreal! It's an awesome community in an amazing city.

We're recruiting in Montreal McGill University! T/T behavioural neuroscience position McGill Psychology. Particular interest in candidates using in vivo methods &/or computational approaches to probe neural mechanisms of behaviour. tinyurl.com/32amwenu

Congratulations Dr Muir! Seeing you grow with the lab has been a joy. Can’t wait to see what you achieve with tina kim !

I'm thrilled to share my 1st senior-author pub in Science Advances since starting residency Mount Sinai Psychiatry! I could not have envisioned a more supportive & collaborative environment working w/ Romain Durand-de Cuttoli @ScottRusso_CAN Eric J. Nestler, MD, PhD & others - brief🧵👇science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Congratulations Sheena!!

New from @Science by Penn's Claudia López Lloreda: Women researchers are cited less than men. Here’s why—and what can be done about it science.org/content/articl…

Check out Bagot Lab’s latest pre-print featuring myself, Yiu Chung Tse, @eiyer and Rose Bagot biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… 1/9

So happy to have this out! Here we leveraged the sex-specific effects of adolescent social isolation to uncover basic mechanisms regulating a sex-specific behavioral response to cocaine. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

In Ojibwe our words for stolen children are gimoodinaan binojiinhyan. This week let’s learn to be gentle and patient with our students- their history has been difficult. Painting by Cree artist Kent Monkman.

Just my yearly reminder: there is a standard format behind (probably) most published papers. I highly recommend all students look at that format: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a… makes writing easier for my students (and myself)

🚨JOB ALERT🚨
The Juarez lab at Univ of Maryland School of Medicine Neuroscience is hiring a postdoc!

Consider applying if you are interested in brains🧠, gene-editing 🧬✂️, and behaviors 🐭 (more info here: thejuarezlab.com)!

We can also connect at #IDARS2022 , #GRCAlcohol2022 , #SfN22 , and #ACNP2022 !

I check cellular specificity of my favorite genes in the human brain shinyapp by Tran/Keri Martinowich and the Jeremy Day ratlas all the time! Great resources. (And for the next time you hear claim that a virus w a Camk2a promoter targets excitatory neurons..)

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