ALBA mentoring fireside chats: identifying mentorship needs
This is the first session in a series of three online fireside chats organised by the ALBA Network with the aims of understanding what’s not working in existing mentoring programmes in (neuro)science and identify the challenges and unmet mentorship needs of the next generation of scientists across the globe. The feedback from these sessions will be used to develop a tailored ALBA mentoring programme.
Artificial Intelligence and Racism – What are the implications for scientific research?
As questions of race and justice have risen to the fore across the sciences, the ALBA Network has invited Dr Shakir Mohamed (Senior Research Scientist at DeepMind, UK) to provide a keynote speech on Artificial Intelligence and racism, and the implications for scientific research, that will be followed by a discussion chaired by Dr Konrad Kording (Department of Neuroscience at University of Pennsylvania, US - neuromatch co-founder)
ALBA-WWN Webinar: What it takes to succeed as a neuroscientist in Africa
In this webinar, the ALBA Network & World Women in Neuroscience partner to address equity, inclusion & diversity issues across the Sub-Saharan African neuroscience community. The panel discussion will explore the challenges and biases faced by African neuroscientists while establishing their careers - focusing on a lack of mentoring and networking but also on the difficulties to raise funding - as well as display the strengths present in the region, which can be exploited to find solutions. Registration is free but required: https://www.alba.network/alba-wwn-webinar-africa
ALBA-BIN Networking event: Black in (N)Euro
The ALBA Network and Black in Neuro are partnering to bring the Black neuroscientific community in Europe together. Are you a Black neuroscientist based in Europe? If so, join us for this casual online networking event. We will share our experience, stories and knowledge about what it is to be black in Europe while working in brain research. We will also discuss potential actions ALBA and BiN could take to provide better visibility to the community. This is a time to get to know each other, share, network and relate. Please register to receive the link to the zoom meeting.
ALBA webinar on Diversity in brain research in East & South-East Asia: a gender perspective
As part of its webinar series on region-specific diversity issues, the ALBA Network is holding a panel discussion on gender issues in South-East Asia. This webinar wishes to highlight the various issues linked to gender in brain science in the major countries in the region, but also to discuss possible paths to equity.