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In the article, How This Early Career Scientist Hopes to Motivate Diverse Students, Monserrat Orozco shares how she hopes to inspire other early career scientists and pave the way for a more diversity in neuroscience. Orozco shares how being a "first-generation, low-income, bisexual, and Chicana student" inspires her to create a space for diversity to grow within the neuroscience field. Do you feel the neuroscience field is becoming more diverse as more early career scientists enter the sphere?

Hi Julia, Your story highlights an important point that I didn't get into in my first post. Being an academic is like being an athlete in many ways: we both dedicate our lives to pursuing excellence. While that athlete may pursue strength, endurance, techniques, we pursue knowledge with the same vigour. Just like in athletics, academics can also over "train" leading to similar issues: exhaustion, anxiety, and illness. Like the athlete, we, academics, must provide ourselves with time to "heal" by disconnecting.