In the fifth Season of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke’s Building Up the Nerve podcast, we help you strengthen your science communication skills with tools and advice to use throughout your career. We know that navigating your career can be daunting, but we're here to help—it's our job!

In the fifth episode of the season, we talk about Securing Funding for Research focusing on choosing what funding to apply for, “pitching” your science to different funders, and writing effective grant applications.

Featuring Sonya Dumanis, PhD, Executive Vice President of the Coalition for Aligning Science and Deputy Director for Aligning Science Across Parkinson's; Kat M. Steele, PhD, Associate Director of CREATE and Albert Kobayashi Professor in Mechanical Engineering at University of Washington; and Gene Yeo, PhD, MBA, Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at University of California, San Diego and Chief Scientific Advisor, Sanford Laboratories for Innovative Medicine.

Resources

• NIH Funding Opportunities
  • Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grants: https://seed.nih.gov/small-business-funding/small-business-program-basics/understanding-sbir-sttr 
  • NINDS Funding Opportunities: https://www.ninds.nih.gov/funding/find-funding-opportunities 
  • NINDS Training & Career Development Opportunities: https://www.ninds.nih.gov/funding/training-career-development 
• NIH Resources
  • Early Career Reviewer program: https://public.csr.nih.gov/ForReviewers/BecomeAReviewer/ECR 
  • NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/ 
  • Early Stage Investigator (ESI) Policies: https://grants.nih.gov/policy-and-compliance/policy-topics/early-stage-investigators 
  • NINDS Guidelines for incorporating rigor into grant applications: https://www.ninds.nih.gov/funding/preparing-your-application/preparing-research-plan/rigorous-study-design-and-transparent-reporting 
  • NIH Activity Codes: https://grants.nih.gov/funding/activity-codes 
• Allen Institute’s Allen Distinguished Investigators: https://alleninstitute.org/division/frontiers-group/distinguished-investigators/ 
• Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H): https://arpa-h.gov/ 
• Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) Disease – Collaborative Research Network (CRN): https://parkinsonsroadmap.org/research-network/# 
• California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) grants: https://www.cirm.ca.gov/ 

Transcript available at http://ninds.buzzsprout.com/.

In the fifth Season of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke’s Building Up the Nerve podcast, we help you strengthen your science communication skills with tools and advice to use throughout your career. We know that navigating your career can be daunting, but we're here to help—it's our job!

In the fourth episode of the season, we talk about Crafting Effective Presentations, focusing on how presentations are used in traditional science communication and how to effectively present in different forms and venues, with accessibility built in by design.

Featuring Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, MD, Professor, Endowed Chair, and Dean of Research at Mayo Clinic Florida; Alicia Wooten, PhD, Co-Founder of Atomic Hands, and Associate Professor at Gallaudet University; Huda Zoghbi, MD, Professor at Baylor College of Medicine, Investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Director at Texas Children’s Hospital.

Please note that Dr. Alicia Wooten conducts the interview via ASL with a voice interpreter. To watch this podcast episode with ASL interpretation, please visit: [YOUTUBE LINK].

Resources

• Atomic Hands: https://atomichands.com/

Transcript available at http://ninds.buzzsprout.com/.

In the fifth Season of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke’s Building Up the Nerve podcast, we help you strengthen your science communication skills with tools and advice to use throughout your career. We know that navigating your career can be daunting, but we're here to help—it's our job!

In the third episode of the season, we talk about Collaborating with Partners in Research, focusing on how to best learn from and include the perspectives of non-scientists and persons with lived experience in research and science.

Featuring Alice S. Chen-Plotkin, MD, Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Director of the MIND Initiative, and Neurologist at Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; Sonia Vallabh, PhD, Senior Group Leader at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Assistant Professor of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Olajide Williams, MD, Vice Dean of Community Health & Professor at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons. 

Resources

• Hip Hop Public Health: https://www.hhph.org/ 
• The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell
• International Youth Neuroscience Association: https://www.youthneuro.org/
• Hybrid Workshop: Advances in Therapeutics Development for Parkinson’s Disease co-chaired by Dr. Alice Chen-Plotkin
• CureFFI.org by Dr. Eric Vallabh Minikel
• HDBuzz: Huntington’s disease research news
• ABRCMS: Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists: https://abrcms.org/ 

Transcript available at http://ninds.buzzsprout.com/.

In the fifth Season of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke’s Building Up the Nerve podcast, we help you strengthen your science communication skills with tools and advice to use throughout your career. We know that navigating your career can be daunting, but we're here to help—it's our job!

In the second episode of the season, we talk about Thriving in Team Science, focusing on how to build professional collaborations and guidelines to ensure success for all parties when working in team, especially across disciplines.

Featuring Bosiljka Tasic, PhD, Director, Molecular Genetics, Allen Institute for Brain Science; Heidi Baumgartner, PhD, Research Scholar, Stanford University and Executive Director, ManyBabies; and Lingfei Wu, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh

Resources

• Articles from Dr. Lingfei Wu:
  • “Remote collaboration fuses fewer breakthrough ideas” (2023): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38030778/ 
  • “Large teams develop and small teams disrupt science and technology” (2019): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30760923/ 
• Resources from ManyBabies: https://manybabies.org/resources/ 
  • ManyBabies Collaboration Agreement
• Contributor Role Taxonomy (CRedIT): https://credit.niso.org/ 
  • Tenzing.club 
• Protocols.io

Transcript available at http://ninds.buzzsprout.com/.

Are you attending the Society for Neuroscience's Annual Meeting Neuroscience 2024? If you are, join us for our 2nd annual live episode of Building Up the Nerve in the form of a professional development workshop.

"Building Up the Nerve" to Develop an Effective Career Roadmap will take place Monday, October 7, 2024, from 12:00 to 2:00 PM CT at the McCormick Place Convention Center, room S402. All Neuroscience 2024 attendees are welcome.

This workshop will provide deeper insights into helping graduate students, postdocs, junior faculty, and their mentors prepare strong career development plans. The workshop will feature advice and strategies from successful grantees and peer reviewers, with interactive activities and small group discussions facilitated by NIH staff and funders from foundation organizations. This event is organized by the NINDS Office of Programs to Enhance the Neuroscience Workforce (OPEN).

Add this event to your meeting planner and find resources for the event: https://www.ninds.nih.gov/news-events/events/building-nerve-develop-effective-career-roadmap-professional-development-workshop-sfn-2024

Transcript available at http://ninds.buzzsprout.com/.

In the fifth Season of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke’s Building Up the Nerve podcast, we help you strengthen your science communication skills with tools and advice to use throughout your career. We know that navigating your career can be daunting, but we're here to help—it's our job!

In the first episode of the season, we talk about Composing Scientific Narratives which focused on how to compose scientific narratives to communicate our findings and how to tell a scientific story in a way that is compelling, but also transparent and objective.

Featuring Sean Carroll, PhD, Balo-Simon Endowed Chair of Biology, University of Maryland; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Mónica Feliú Mójer, PhD, Director, Public Engagement with Science, Ciencia Puerto Rico; Director, Inclusive Science Communication & Engagement | Science Communication Lab; and Gina Poe, PhD, Director, UCLA Brain Research Institute; Lorre Scholars Faculty Chair; Professor, University of California, Los Angeles.

Resources

• Science Communication Lab: https://sciencecommunicationlab.org/ 
• Dr. Mónica Feliú Mójer’s documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNdX_C2jaac 

Transcript available at http://ninds.buzzsprout.com/.

Welcome to Season 5 of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke’s Building Up the Nerve podcast, where we help you strengthen your science communication skills with tools and advice to use throughout your career. We know that navigating your career can be daunting, but we're here to help—it's our job!

Transcript available at https://ninds.buzzsprout.com/

Listen in for the second of two special guest episodes of NIH's All About Grants podcast! In this episode, host Dr. David Kosub invites NINDS's Building Up the Nerve co-host,  Dr. Marguerite Matthews, and the Director of the Division of Biomedical Research Workforce at the NIH Office of Extramural Research, Dr. Ericka Boone, continues conversations unveiling the "hidden curriculum" of scientific training. They share experiences and perspectives on how personal growth and professional development intersect, setting a plan to identify your strengths, reiterate the importance of engaging your network, the power of communication, and much more.

The first guest episode featured Building Up the Nerve's other co-host, Dr. Lauren Ullrich: https://www.buzzsprout.com/558574/13505607 

Resources
All About Grants
Inside Cancer Careers

Transcript available at http://ninds.buzzsprout.com/.

Are you attending the Society for Neuroscience's Annual Meeting Neuroscience 2023? If you are, join us for a live episode of Building Up the Nerve in the form of a professional development workshop.

"Building Up the Nerve" to Develop your NIH Training Application will take place Monday, November 13th, 2023, from 9:00 to 11:00 AM ET at the Washington Convention Center, room 207B. All Neuroscience 2023 attendees are welcome.

This interactive workshop will prepare graduate students, postdocs, junior faculty, and their mentors to apply for NIH funding. We will have a panel with advice on strategies from successful awardees and reviewers, then you'll have a chance to ask questions of NIH staff and former podcast guests in small group discussions.

Add this event to your meeting planner: https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/10892/session/401

Transcript available at http://ninds.buzzsprout.com/.

The fourth Season of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke’s Building Up the Nerve podcast, where we discuss the unwritten rules, or “hidden curriculum,” of scientific research at every career stage. We know that navigating your career can be daunting, but we're here to help—it's our job!

In our final episode of the season, we talk about careers outside of academia, with a focus on how to find what jobs exist, how to prepare for these jobs, and what to know when you transition.

Featuring Joanne Kamens, PhD, Senior Consultant, Diversity North Group; Kip Ludwig, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Ekemini A. Udofa Riley, PhD, Founder & President, Coalition for Aligning Science.

Resources

• AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowships (STPF): https://www.aaas.org/programs/science-technology-policy-fellowships 
• Association for Women in Science (AWIS): https://awis.org/ 
• MassBio: https://www.massbio.org/ 
• Introducing the Vitae Researcher Development Framework to employers 2011 
• Blogs written by Dr. Joanne Kamens:
  • Developing Transferable Skills During Science Training
  • 5 Uncommon Ways to Gain Career Skills During an Uncommon Time
• Podcast with Dr. Joanne Kamens:
  • What is a Peer Mentoring Group? Part 1: Joanne Kamens with iBiology
• Webinars with Dr. Joanne Kamens:
  • Top 10 Things Scientists Ask About Transitioning Out of Academia 
  • "Not" Networking 101 - Building Relationships for Success
  • How to Choose the Right Next Lab or Workplace

Transcript available at http://ninds.buzzsprout.com/.

The fourth Season of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke’s Building Up the Nerve podcast, where we discuss the unwritten rules, or “hidden curriculum,” of scientific research at every career stage. We know that navigating your career can be daunting, but we're here to help—it's our job!

In episode 9, we talk about succeeding as mid-career faculty, including challenges mid-career faculty face such as maintaining funding, advancing in your career, and balancing internal service expectations.

Featuring Rebecca Shansky, PhD, Professor, Northeastern University; Kafui Dzirasa, MD, PhD, Professor, Chief Vision and Values Scientist, Duke University; and Francisco Barrera, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Tennessee-Knoxville.

Resources

• BRAIN Initiative® Multi-Council Working Group: https://braininitiative.nih.gov/about/multi-council-working-group 
• “Hidden curriculum for mid-career faculty” by Terry McGlynn: https://smallpondscience.com/2022/07/18/hidden-curriculum-for-mid-career-faculty/ 

Transcript available at http://ninds.buzzsprout.com/.