Around 60 Puerto Rican scientists or people with scientific ties with Puerto Rico attended the Puerto Rico social during this year’s Society for Neuroscience meeting (SfN). The social was held in Washington D.C., on Sunday, November 16. During the social, hebbian links were formed and fortified within the neuroscientist community that researches in the Puerto Rican archipelago with other scientists that research in other parts of the world.
Elena found me on Twitter. “I need your help,” she wrote. I gave her my email.
Elena is an 8th grade student in Puerto Rico and her teacher had assigned students to profile a Puerto Rican scientist for a special project. “You,” she wrote, “are my scientist.”