Being a scientist is hard. Being a young scientist is harder. Academic institutions squeeze cheap labor out of graduate students and postdocs who are busy competing for publications and increasingly limited faculty jobs, sucking joy from once-enthusiastic trainees.
Only 1 percent of neuroscience faculty is Black. Kaela Singleton hopes to change that.
Whatever you do, don’t call the Black in Neuro founder “resilient.”

While people generally think of scientists as smart and competent, they’re rarely viewed as warm or caring. If you ask kids to tell you what a scientist looks like, many will describe a geeky, emotionally inept white man in a lab coat.