Resources
Things that may be useful
Getting a job in science
See the practical guide to getting an academic job that I wrote back in 2022. It provides a list of the resources that I found helpful while applying, a description of the materials you will need to prepare, and a variety of advice that I received. If you want more information, please get in touch with me directly.
Helpful resources for doing neuroscience
Software
Suite2p - Calcium imaging registration and source extraction
MLspike - Event detection, works well for Purkinje cell dendrites
Kilosort - Spike sorting for Neuropixels and other multichannel extracellular ephys probes
Phy - Ephys data curation
NeuroPyxels - Ephys data analysis (designed for Neuropixels). Written by Maxime Beau
GLMnet - Generalized Linear Model fitting software, See Jonathan Pillow’s lecture at Cosyne 2018 for a primer on how to use this.
Textbooks
Spikes - pretty accessible computational neuro book
Foundations of Cellular Neurophyisiology - best cellular neurophysiology book
Dendrites - ‘The fundamental computational units of the nervous system’
The Cerebellum as a Neuronal Machine - classic
Building a better scientific community (neuro-centric)
Primary literature, essays, and reviews that quantify inequality
Dworkin et., 2020, The extent and drivers of gender imbalance in neuroscience reference lists - it’s even worse than you think!
Ross et al., 2022, Women are Credited Less in Science than are Men - No shit!
Fund Black Scientists - just do it.
Indira Raman: Power analysis - finding the strength to persevere even when things aren’t great.
Organizations and resources
BiasWatchNeuro Specifically, check out their databases of women scientists and speakers from diverse backgrounds
Women in systems neuroscience - Need some speakers? Here’s a list.