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🌟 Speaker Spotlight | Wrapping up our series for the ALBA-IBRO Special Session in HK, we are thrilled to feature our final panellist: Dr. Jacque Ip! 🧠🇭🇰 🧵1/4 Event details: www.alba.network/FAONS2026-ev...
🌟 Speaker Spotlight | Next up in our series ahead of APSN-FAONS-HKSN 2026 in Hong Kong—meet Dr. Mohammed Shaker! 🧠🇶🇦👇See below: 🔗 Event details: www.alba.network/FAONS2026-ev... @ibroorg.bsky.social @sfn.org @fens.org 🧵1/4
🌟 Speaker Spotlight | As we prepare for the ALBA-IBRO Special Session at APSN-FAONS-HKSN 2026 in HK, we’re highlighting our panellists! 🧠🇭🇰 First up, we are thrilled to feature Prof. Jee Hyun Kim (Deakin University, Australia)! 🇦🇺 🧵1/4 🔗 Event details: www.alba.network/FAONS2026-ev...
Heading to Santiago for #FALAN2026? 🧠✨ Join the ALBA-IBRO Special Event on equity, resilience & regional growth in Latin American neuroscience! 🎙 Dr. F. Parada, Dr. N. Muraro & Dr. M. Lourenço 🗓 31 Aug 2026 | 16:45 CLT 📍 Centro de Extensión UC 🔗 Details: www.alba.network/FALAN2026-ev...
Heading to Hong Kong for APSN-FAONS-HKSN 2026? 🧠✨ Join the ALBA-IBRO Special Session: Scientific Mobility and Identity in Neuroscience Careers. 🎙 Prof. Jee Hyun Kim, Dr. Mohammed Shaker & Dr. Jacque Ip 🗓 23 Aug 2026 | 14:30 HKT 📍 HKU 🔗 Full info: www.alba.network/FAONS2026-ev...
📡 Calling all neuroscientists with disabilities! Join the ALBA Database of Scientists with Disabilities to boost representation and access new opportunities: 📢 Speak at events 💡 Advise on accessibility 📜 Shape inclusion policies 👉 Sign up: www.alba.network/database-dis...
🌍Congratulations to the ALBA-CHS Travel Awardees for the FENS Forum 2026 🎉 Discover the Awardees: www.alba.network/TravelAwarde...
🎪 Attending #FENS2026? Drop by the FENS Booth for ALBA's informal Meet & Greets! Connect with us, ask questions, and discover how to champion equity in neuroscience. 📌 FENS Booth (Main Exhibition Hall)
🌈 As Pride Month comes to a close, we're proud to introduce Brainbow—a new Slack workspace for LGBTQIA+ people in neuroscience worldwide. Help us reach everyone by sharing with friends & colleagues around the world! loom.ly/2_KfMCU @fens.org @ibroorg.bsky.social @sfn.org @ejneuroscience.bsky.social
✨ End #FENS2026 with inspiring science & remarkable journeys! 🌍 Staying until the final day of the FENS Forum? Make sure to add this your itinerary! 🏆 The ALBA-Elsevier Award recognises outstanding neuroscientists from regions historically underrepresented in major publications and global forums.
🏆 Join us in celebrating outstanding contributions to neuroscience at #FENS2026! Mark your calendars for these upcoming ALBA Award ceremonies and lectures honouring exceptional researchers who are pushing boundaries and championing equity in brain sciences. 🌟
🤩 Will you be in Barcelona for #FENS2026? Don't miss the ALBA-Hertie Career Development Workshop on "Redefining Success in Neuroscience"! 👉 Full programme & registration here: www.alba.network/SiE-FENS2026
⏰ Only 3 weeks left to secure your priority entry for the ALBA-Neuromatch-IBRO Networking Event at #FENS2026 in Barcelona! 👉 Full programme & registration here: www.alba.network/NE-FENS2026
🌐 ALBA-Neuromatch-IBRO Networking Event on ‘‘Driving Equitable Global Participation in Neuroscience Training’’ 7 Jul, 18:45-20:15 | Roundtable Hall | Register for priority entry! @ibroorg.bsky.social @neuromatch.bsky.social @arabsinneuro.bsky.social @openlab.bsky.social @thetransmitter.bsky.social
How do socioeconomic barriers shape who gets to do science?🧠🌍 We’ve distilled a past ALBA-IBRO webinar into an accessible read on unequal access to opportunity in academia and efforts to build more inclusive research systems. 👉🏾 loom.ly/5Oz2teM These digests are supported by @ibroorg.bsky.social
How can #Indigenous perspectives reshape #neuroscience? We’ve distilled a past ALBA-IBRO webinar into an accessible read on systemic barriers in academia, community-led research, and inclusive approaches to studying the brain. 👉🏾 loom.ly/AH6Wtco These digests are supported by @ibroorg.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 Is academia truly inclusive for LGBTQIA+ scientists?Join us 24 April at Goethe University Frankfurt (or online!) for a discussion on intersectionality in psychology & neuroscience. Feat. insights from the ALBA global climate survey, the DFG, and community role models. 👉🏾 Register loom.ly/J6arf2g
🗣️ How do institutional and political environments shape scientific careers? A global survey of >400 LGBTQIA+ neuroscientists by members of the ALBA Gender & Sexual Diversity Working Group shows impacts on career decisions, mobility, wellbeing, job satisfaction, safety & inclusion. 👉🏽 loom.ly/AKU04oc
🌍 Science has no borders — but scientists do. Researchers from mobility-restricted regions face arbitrary visa rejections and delays that derail careers and limit knowledge exchange. Read ALBA's full statement and recommendations. Add your name to strengthen the call for change! 🗣️ loom.ly/y4iYBOE
What does it take to build a #neuroscience career in Africa? 🌍 We’ve distilled a past ALBA–IBRO #GlobalDiversity webinar into a quick, accessible read, sharing real-world skills and mindsets that shape careers on the continent. 👉 loom.ly/8QN1zfc These digests are supported by @ibroorg.bsky.social
💫 Dr Mychael Lourenco, UFRJ, Brazil is the 2026 ALBA-Roche Prize winner for his important contributions to elucidating the mechanistic interplay between metabolism, inflammation, and synaptic dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease. Join us on 8 July at #FENS2026 for the award ceremony! 👉🏾 loom.ly/FtW83mI
💫 Dr Dori Grijseels, postdoc at MPINB Germany, is the 2026 ALBA-FKNE Diversity Awardee, for their outstanding leadership in advancing inclusive research practices and evidence-based advocacy for queer and trans scientists. Join us on 10 July at #FENS2026 for the award ceremony! 👉🏽 loom.ly/mTiT4f8
💫 Dr Éva Mikics, Group Leader at the HUN-REN Institute of Experimental Medicine, Budapest, is the 2026 ALBA-Elsevier Awardee, for her significant work on resilience mechanisms in stress-related psychiatric disorders. Join us on 10 July for her Special Lecture at #FENS2026! 👉🏽 loom.ly/uXBrTIg
🧠 Deadline extended! You now have until 29 Jan to nominate remarkable mid-career researchers (can be yourself) whose neuroscience achievements shine relative to opportunity, especially those uncovering the causal mechanisms of brain diseases. 🏆 €15k prize + #FENS2026 travel support 👉🏾 loom.ly/_EvQvm4
🧠 Start the year by celebrating excellence in #neuroscience with the ALBA-Roche Prize! 10 days left to nominate mid-career researchers whose achievements, relative to #opportunity, advance understanding of causal mechanisms of #braindiseases. 🏆 €15k + #FENS2026 travel support 👉🏾 loom.ly/_EvQvm4
✨ Deadline extended! You now have until 22 January 2026 to nominate inspiring Europe-based students or PIs for the ALBA-FKNE Diversity Prize. Honouring work advancing #diversity #equity & #inclusion in #neuroscience. Self-nominations are welcome. 🏆 €2000 + travel to #FENS2026 👉🏾 loom.ly/elEwkCE
🧠Nominations open for the 2026 ALBA-Roche Prize honouring mid-career #neuroscientists whose research achievements - relative to opportunity - advances understanding of causal mechanisms of #braindiseases. 🏆€15,000 + travel support for #FENS2026 ceremony 🤝Self-nominations welcome 👉🏾 loom.ly/_EvQvm4
⏰ Final From Declaration to Action workshop coming up! A hybrid session with @ausneurosoc.bsky.social: a live EDI panel + an online workshop. 🔵 Sustaining inclusion: practical strategies and leadership for lasting EDI change 📅 1 Dec – 12:40 AEDT 🔗 loom.ly/wLQaW34 Supported by @ibroorg.bsky.social
🎪 ALBA is also exhibiting at the @fens.org Booth (3819). Exciting news: we have new badges! Stop by to check them out, discover our current projects, and learn about open calls. #Neuroscience2025