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*New* Shanahan Foundation Fellowship at the Interface of Data and Neuroscience [due 04-15-2021]

Applications are open for the Shanahan Foundation Fellowship at the Interface of Data and Neuroscience. This is a new, three-year post-doctoral fellowship program that aims to integrate data scientists in neuroscience research, challenge traditional approaches to neuroscience, provide multidisciplinary, multi-organizational co-mentorship, provide a network and community, and support career development in data science. The fellowship will be co-hosted by the Allen Institute and the University of Washington (through its eScience Institute and the Computational Neuroscience Center) and is directed by Dr. Christof Koch at the Allen Institute. Priority will be given to applicants who are not currently postdoctoral fellows or scientists at the University of Washington or the Allen Institute respectively. For full consideration, please submit your application by April 15, 2021. Learn more and apply on the Shanahan Fellowship Website. For questions, email shanahan.fellow@alleninstitute.org. 

During the three-year fellowship, fellows will identify a mentor, based either at the Allen Institute for Brain Science or in the MindScope Program, at the Allen Institute, where the fellows will be based. Fellows will select a co-mentor at the University of Washington who will provide additional guidance on a project designed by the fellow, focused on quantitative analysis of neuroscience data available through the Allen Institute’s vast data banks – ranging from molecular, genomic, transcriptional, physiological, morphological, anatomical and functional whole-brain level in the brains of mice, non-human primates and humans – or through ongoing laboratory work.

Fellows will participate in the postdoctoral career development program at the University’s e-Science Institute and the UW Institute of Neuroengineering (UWIN). The eSciences Institute offers regular workshops on key topics including cloud computing, python and reproducibility. New fellows will attend the annual Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain where they will learn how to apply data science skills to neuroscience data and questions. Throughout the three years, fellows will be supported in developing a network in the neuroscience field and sharing their progress with peers at conferences. Up to three fellows will be selected to begin in Fall 2021.

Join TADA-BSSR Webinar – Computational Analysis of Language and the Assessment of Suicide Risk [03-18-2021]

Join this upcoming webinar on March 18, as part of CSDE’s partnership with the Training in Advanced Data Analysis for Behavioral and Social Sciences (TADA-BSSR) at NIH. Dr. Philip Resnik will discuss computational linguistics research related to the problem of suicide, raising issues connected with computational research on mental health more generally and including not only the technological angle but also questions of data access, ethical considerations, and the role of computational technologies in the mental health ecosystem. This talk, to be given remotely in the middle of a pandemic, will be about a problem that already existed long prior to COVID-19 as a kind of international pandemic in its own right. Suicide has a worldwide death toll approaching 800,000 people per year worldwide, and in the U.S. in 2016 it became the second leading cause of death among those aged 10-34. Now compounding these existing problems is an “echo pandemic” of suicide and mental illness emerging in the wake of COVID-19, as people struggle with isolation, stress, and sustained disruptions of day to day life. To join through Videocast, click here.
 

 *New* The Journal of Population and Sustainability just launched

The CSDE community might be interested in a new journal launched by White Horse Press, which publishes a range of journals in the field of human-environment relations, – The Journal of Population and Sustainability – with editorial board members that include John Cleland and William Rees. read more… The JP&S welcomes submissions for peer review of articles from scholars engaged in research in any field of the population-environment nexus including: climate change and migration, population growth and energy demand, the consumption-population nexus, global food security, population, development and environmental justice, population ethics, population growth and biodiversity, population growth and local environmental change, population projections, sexual health and fertility. The journal also welcomes applications for membership of the editorial board.
The journal will continue to be an editorially independent, fully open access publication with articles published under the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0  licence. Importantly, submissions to the JP&S will continue to be free of article processing charges.  WHP will be assisting in the further development of the JP&S with a focus on greater indexing and wider dissemination.