How Journals Can Increase Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Science
eLife Early-Career Advisory Group
Radical changes that journals can adopt to address racism in the scientific community and to make science more diverse and inclusive.
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Why I Wrote "The Power of Saying No"
Antentor Hinton, PhD
Saying no is a healthy practice that can save you from stress, burnout, awfulizing, and ultimately failing to advance your career.
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NSF Just Made It A Lot Harder for Universities to Harbor Harassers
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
NSF has made a major change in how universities must report on Title IX violations. The question is, will NIH follow suit.
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An Unexpected Career in Sex and Gender Biology
Dawn Newcomb, PhD
I transitioned to studying how sex hormones drive inflammation. That’s unusual, but it shouldn’t be.
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Women and URMs, Peer Review Needs You. Here's Why and How to Get On That.
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
UPDATED! Awesome update on our call for URM and women reviewers: After lots of awesome feedback and 63 folks signing up, its clear that trainees and PIs turned out in droves. …
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News: NIH to Balance Sex in Cell and Animal Studies
The Edge for Scholars
In 1993, the NIH Revitalization Act required the inclusion of women in NIH-funded clinical research. Today, just over half of NIH-funded clinical-research participants are women. We know much more about the …
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News: NIH Awards $31 Million to Enhance Diversity in the Biomedical Research Workforce
The Edge for Scholars
The National Institutes of Health announced the award of nearly $31 million in fiscal year 2014 funds to develop new approaches that engage researchers, including those from backgrounds underrepresented in biomedical sciences, …
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The Trouble With Girls in Lab
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
It’s been a tough few weeks for women in science. In a June column of Science entitled “Help! My Advisor Won’t Stop Looking Down My Shirt” contributor Dr …
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The Rube Goldberg Experiment of Hiring Underrepresented Minorities and Harassment of Women in STEM Must End
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
Rube Goldberg was a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist known for introducing the most complex systems of parts to solve simple problems. Like Zacks Red Bull, Easter egg, Connect Four, locomotive fueled …
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If I'm a Minority Recruit, Is It Tacky to Point Out There are No Other Minority Faculty?
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
Around the Twitter world today, a kindly trainee had been offered an awesome job (woot!). BUT, and there’s always a but, there were no other minority hires in their …
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