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Weekly School and Career Megathread (self.neuroscience)
submitted 2m ago by NickHalper
This is our weekly career and school megathread! Some of our typical rules don't apply here.
# School
Looking for advice on whether neuroscience is good major? Trying to understand what it covers? Trying to understand the best schools or the path out of neuroscience into other disciplines? This is the place.
# Career
Are you trying to see what your Neuro PhD, Masters, BS can do in industry? Trying to understand the post doc market? Wondering what careers neuroscience tends to lead to? Welcome to your thread.
# Employers, Institutions, and Influencers
Looking to hire people for your graduate program? Do you want to promote a video about your school, job, or similar? Trying to let people know where to find consolidated career advice? Put it all here.
# School
Looking for advice on whether neuroscience is good major? Trying to understand what it covers? Trying to understand the best schools or the path out of neuroscience into other disciplines? This is the place.
# Career
Are you trying to see what your Neuro PhD, Masters, BS can do in industry? Trying to understand the post doc market? Wondering what careers neuroscience tends to lead to? Welcome to your thread.
# Employers, Institutions, and Influencers
Looking to hire people for your graduate program? Do you want to promote a video about your school, job, or similar? Trying to let people know where to find consolidated career advice? Put it all here.
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Stereoisomer 2 points 1m ago
You don’t need a masters for anything. Just apply for jobs that are entry level. A masters is for people making big switches in field.
Separate_Car_5913 2 points 1m ago
Hi everyone, I'm a high schooler hoping to conduct a research project and would really appreciate some advice.
To preface, I completely understand that expecting to make waves in such a technical field with a high-school level of experience is unreasonable, and I'm asking this question specifically to avoid falling into that trap.
With that being said, I'm a junior in high school who's studied Multivariable Calculus, Differential Equations and Introductory Linear Algebra, as well as \~1 year of experience in Python programming for mathematical modeling. I have experience independently studying subjects but wanted to get the experience of tackling real research problems, so I decided to look for topics in neuroscience as it's been one of my passions in STEM and I believed it would be more accessible in terms of feasible research projects. What are some recommended topics to look into for conducting research (beyond just writing a lit review)?
Right now I'm focusing my search on experimental topics like a comparison of the neural anatomy and stimulus-response patterns of the kinesthetic and visual senses since I think a statistical analysis of raw data or the works would be easier to make meaningful progress with than advancing actual theory, but I'm not sure where to look or if this is even the right approach. Would appreciate any suggestions for project ideas/resources/feedback on overall goals. Thanks!
To preface, I completely understand that expecting to make waves in such a technical field with a high-school level of experience is unreasonable, and I'm asking this question specifically to avoid falling into that trap.
With that being said, I'm a junior in high school who's studied Multivariable Calculus, Differential Equations and Introductory Linear Algebra, as well as \~1 year of experience in Python programming for mathematical modeling. I have experience independently studying subjects but wanted to get the experience of tackling real research problems, so I decided to look for topics in neuroscience as it's been one of my passions in STEM and I believed it would be more accessible in terms of feasible research projects. What are some recommended topics to look into for conducting research (beyond just writing a lit review)?
Right now I'm focusing my search on experimental topics like a comparison of the neural anatomy and stimulus-response patterns of the kinesthetic and visual senses since I think a statistical analysis of raw data or the works would be easier to make meaningful progress with than advancing actual theory, but I'm not sure where to look or if this is even the right approach. Would appreciate any suggestions for project ideas/resources/feedback on overall goals. Thanks!
HeyItsPreston 2 points 1m ago
If you want to do research you should reach out to a professor at a nearby university doing research to see if you can be paired with a graduate student or a post-doc to mentor you for the summer.
zali1821 1 points 1m ago
Hi everyone,
I am soon graduating with a BSc in Neuroscience in the UK. I am planning to continue with a masters (just waiting for some unis to get back to me). I want to pursue cognitive science and have also been applying to a few research assistant jobs, but I noticed that a lot of them required past experience in recruiting/ working with participants.
Does anyone have any advice as to where I could get such experience as a recently graduated BSc student? I have research experience in both wet (researching the BBB) and dry labs and narrative literature research. However, I lack the experience of working with research participants, or cognitive research in general.
Also, if anyone knows of any type of neuro/ psychology experience in general, it would be great to hear about them! I think experience is really valuable and will definitely help me sharpen my skills.
Thankyou in advance!
I am soon graduating with a BSc in Neuroscience in the UK. I am planning to continue with a masters (just waiting for some unis to get back to me). I want to pursue cognitive science and have also been applying to a few research assistant jobs, but I noticed that a lot of them required past experience in recruiting/ working with participants.
Does anyone have any advice as to where I could get such experience as a recently graduated BSc student? I have research experience in both wet (researching the BBB) and dry labs and narrative literature research. However, I lack the experience of working with research participants, or cognitive research in general.
Also, if anyone knows of any type of neuro/ psychology experience in general, it would be great to hear about them! I think experience is really valuable and will definitely help me sharpen my skills.
Thankyou in advance!
uknowitsnotasandwich 2 points 1m ago
Hi! I’m about to graduate from a top school in Econ and Religious Studies. I did Econ because I didn’t know what to study and it seemed applicable to a lot of different fields. I’m majorly regretting it right now because I’m starting to realize that neuroscience is my main interest area. I would love to one day be able to research the science and treatment of epilepsy of unknown origin (i.e. no noticeable structural differences in an MRI or EEG differences). In particular I’m interested in investigating therapeutic options to treat epilepsy that aren’t as tranquilizing as many of the options today.
In order to one day make real research contributions to this area, should I apply to more bachelors programs? Masters? PhD? Reach out to neuroscientists or neuro companies? Is it even possible to work on neuroscience research after undergrad if you haven’t studied it at all in school?
I’ve talked to a lot of different neuroscientists and I do think I have a good personality for the field, I always get asked where I’m doing my residency and know I would have great bedside manner, etc. I’m feeling super regretful of my undergrad course of study and hope that it’s not too late to get into neuroscience. Any advice would be wonderful! ❤️
In order to one day make real research contributions to this area, should I apply to more bachelors programs? Masters? PhD? Reach out to neuroscientists or neuro companies? Is it even possible to work on neuroscience research after undergrad if you haven’t studied it at all in school?
I’ve talked to a lot of different neuroscientists and I do think I have a good personality for the field, I always get asked where I’m doing my residency and know I would have great bedside manner, etc. I’m feeling super regretful of my undergrad course of study and hope that it’s not too late to get into neuroscience. Any advice would be wonderful! ❤️
lambda_mind 1 points 1m ago
I have a bachelors in Econ and a masters in Data science (Mostly econometrics). I'm in the third year of my Ph.D program for Cognitive Neuroscience. Econ is a pretty good in so long as you have either behavioral or neuroecon as a background. But honestly, I apply the principals of Econ all over the place. And if you did the only useful thing Econ has to offer, Econometrics, you're fine. Seriously, a solid background in Econometrics will get you way, way further in lots of research based careers. For whatever reason, statistics that are taught in my program aren't really any harder than what I did for Econometrics in undergrad, and no where near as hard as the phd level stats I did for my masters. I was exempted from stats for my program, and I found that I had a much deeper understanding of statistics than most people in my program.
I learned the neuroscience in my Ph.D program. Granted, I worked in a neuroeconomics lab during my master's degree, but generally I don't think learned much neuroscience until I started my program.
But what you seem to be talking about would be more like working directly with patients, which I do not do. Nor does anyone I work with, or the vast majority of neuroscientists I know. That tends to be a research MD thing. For whatever it is worth, you can go to med school with whatever undergrad degree you want, provided you do well on the MCAT. You can also work with clinical populations, but that seems like it would be much harder to get there from where you are now.
So as a tl;dr: You can defo work in neuroscience, but what you want to do specifically might be hard.
I learned the neuroscience in my Ph.D program. Granted, I worked in a neuroeconomics lab during my master's degree, but generally I don't think learned much neuroscience until I started my program.
But what you seem to be talking about would be more like working directly with patients, which I do not do. Nor does anyone I work with, or the vast majority of neuroscientists I know. That tends to be a research MD thing. For whatever it is worth, you can go to med school with whatever undergrad degree you want, provided you do well on the MCAT. You can also work with clinical populations, but that seems like it would be much harder to get there from where you are now.
So as a tl;dr: You can defo work in neuroscience, but what you want to do specifically might be hard.
shubham294_ 1 points 1m ago
Can i do msc neuroscience after bsc neuroscience technology?
86BillionFireflies 1 points 1m ago
Potentially. Your degree is less important than what skills you have / prior research experience. But why would you want to get a MSc instead of PhD?
GuiltIsLikeSalt 3 points 1m ago
> But why would you want to get a MSc instead of PhD?
This is highly dependent on the country they're from. Outside of the US, a MSc is often a prerequisite for a PhD.
This is highly dependent on the country they're from. Outside of the US, a MSc is often a prerequisite for a PhD.
shubham294_ 1 points 1m ago
Yes. I'm from India. I'm planning to get a masters degree in neuroscience abroad (I'm not good financially) so, can you guys help me with the stuff that i should start doing from now (I'm a 1st year student doing bsc neuroscience technology)
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