This week’s BWN Friday Post brings you a paper in Nature Communications documenting an exciting intervention that was found to eliminate racial bias in treatment recommendations among clinicians.
Read the full research paper here.
You can also read Penn Today’s blog post summarising the study here.
We have a few links to share with our BWN community in honour of Native American Heritage Month:
APA’s I am Psyched panel discussion featuring Dr. Marigold Linton – the first American Indian to earn a doctorate in psychology – and other prominent Native American psychologists. Watch the video here.
Women of Silicon Valley celebrates Native American folks in STEM and shares the stories of 18 scientists, technologists, and educators. Read the list here.
University of Arizona offers a 10-week summer internship introducing Native American students to biomedical research. Read about the experiences of the program director and the students here.
A free, online Native American Science Curriculum, funded by the National Science Foundation, that aim to bridge Western science perspectives with Indigenous philosophies and knowledge. View the materials here.
This week’s BWN Friday Post brings you a newly published study by Weigard, Loviska, and Belz that rebukes the claim that women’s hormones causes emotional variance that are difficult to account for in experimental research — which has been a longstanding assumption behind why women are often excluded from research partcipation.
Read the full paper here.
This week’s BWN Friday Post brings you a talk from the Center for Positive Organisations where Dolly Chugh, associate professor at NYU and author of The Person You Mean To Be, discusses how we can stand up for equality, diversity, and inclusion, and fight for what we believe in.
Watch the talk online here.
This week’s BWN Friday Post shines a spotlight BiasWatchIndia. We are happy to see BiasWatchNeuro inspiring similar, but independent, initiatives in other fields and countries.
Led by Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan and Shruti Muralidhar, the team at BiasWatchIndia aims to document gender representation and combat gender-biased panels in Indian conferences, meetings, and talks in the STEM field.
This week’s BWN Friday Post brings you a newly published study by Vásárhelyi, Zakhlebin, Milojević, and Horvát (2021) examining gender imbalances in visibility and dissemination of research:
Our large-scale analyses, encompassing half a million scholars, revealed that female scholars’ work is mentioned less frequently than male scholars’ work in all research areas. (p.1)
Read the full article here.
Reference:
Vásárhelyi, O., Zakhlebin, I., Milojević, S., & Horvát, E. Á. (2021). Gender inequities in the online dissemination of scholars’ work. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(39), e2102945118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2102945118
This week’s BWN Friday Post is in honour of Hispanic Heritage Month and showcases Dr. Debbie Guerrero-Given from the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience.
Read the full story here.
This week’s BWN Friday Post brings you a Nature article by Clare Watson, discussing gender bias in top science awards.
Read the full article here.
BWN also tracks the percentage of women scientists who are awarded neuroscience awards. You can view the visualisation here (2021 release will be posted soon).
This week’s BWN Friday Post highlights 6 short talks from the 2021 APS Virtual Convention on the topic of combating stereotypes and bias, given by students and early-career researchers.
Read (or watch) more here.
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