Resources
I have gathered some resources I found as I looked for learning opportunities, please feel free to look at them or message me if you find another one I should add.
Organizations and memberships
- International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF): Link
- Cognitive Science Organization (CSS): Link
- Organization for Computational Neuroscience (OCNS): Link
- Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS): Link
- Society for Neuroscience (SfN): Link
- Federation of European Neuroscience Societies: Link
Some of these organizations have special membership prizes for individuals from developing countries and lower incomes. The INCF, CSS and OCNS can request membership fee waivers given that paying the fee would signify an uncoverable financial burden.
Learning and training
- At the INCF training space you can find several resources for open science, computational neuroscience and neuroinformatics, coding, neuroethics, and many others, for free!
- At Neuromatch, you can take their yearly courses in computational methods for different disciplines: climate science, machine learning, computational neuroscience, and neuroAI. Additionally, their resources are open-access and completely free for you to use or teach in your classes.
- At Humai, you can find Spanish resources and courses in data analysis, ML and applications to Neuroscience and Psychology. They can work with you to weigh both your current knowledge and goals, and have different courses and career tracks that you can enrol in according to your needs. Plus, they are very active, give away scholarships and offer reduced prices if you show financial needs.
Graduate School applications
- Go to Lucy Lai, PhD website for an easy-going introduction and guide for PhD applications in the US.
Science communicators and academic influencers (mainly in Neuro)
I believe following people inside academia can help you get an idea of what it is about. Both the excitement of their research and their posts discussing some of its downsides, I suggest you have a look at them.
- Ieva Andrulytė, MSc, andrulyte at IG.
- Daniel Toker, PhD, @the_brain_scientist at IG and his personal website.
- Lindsay Ejoh, BSc, @neuro_melody at IG.
- Lucy Lai, PhD, @drlucylai at IG and her personal website.
- Ludmila Kucikova, MScR @computational_neuroscientist at IG.