S5E8: Establishing Your Professional Identity

NINDS's Building Up the Nerve

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 eighth episode of the season, we talk about Establishing Your Professional Identity, focusing on tips for defining who you are in your career, and developing skills and strategies to create and communicate who you are, or what your “brand” is, in your field and in the public.

Featuring Thiago Arzua, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University’s Zuckerman Institute; Carmen Maldonado-Vlaar, PhD, Professor at University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras Campus; and Erich Jarvis, PhD, Professor at Rockefeller University and Investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Resources

• Picture a Scientist: https://www.pictureascientist.com/
• Black in Neuro: https://blackinneuro.com/
• Ciencia Puerto Rico: https://www.cienciapr.org/
• NIH Blueprint and BRAIN Initiative® ENDURE R25 Program: https://neuroscienceblueprint.nih.gov/training/endure-undergraduate-education
  • NEURO-ID Program: https://neuroid.uprrp.edu/
• NeuroBoricuas at UPR Cayey: https://neuroboricuasuprcayey.wordpress.com/

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

Chapters

1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. Introductions (00:00:55)

3. Q&A (00:05:03)

4. Advice (00:38:05)

5. Outro (00:44:03)