EDI-toolkit is an amazing resource for definitions of EDI, research behind its importance, and various plans for improving EDI in neuroscience. This set of tools was developed alongside and based off of resources from the Human Brain Project, and includes guidelines for EDI in project governance, and in various parts of research development.
This week’s BWN Friday Post brings you the Alba Network, a team and network dedicated to promoting diversity and equity in the brain sciences. They have so many amazing resources and so much information on their website, but we especially wanted to highlight their resources section (particularly their guide for organizing a diverse conference), as well their many working groups! Check out the website, share their resources, and get involved here!
This week’s BWN Friday Post brings you a paper by Perry Zurn, Joseph Stramondo, Joel Reynolds, and Dani Bassett. In it, they discuss the importance of expanding DEI efforts within the field of biological psychiatry to include disability justice, what has been done so far, and concrete recommendations to continue working upon this going forward.
Read the full paper here.
This week’s BWN Friday Post brings you an article by Eva Amsen, titled “Neuroscientists Want To Make Music Science Studies More Diverse.” In it, she highlights the conversation between this paper and this response, in which the authors discuss how many music science studies focus on the way the brain processes Western music–without considering other musical forms–and do not recruit diverse enough participants (with relation to the type of music they listen to). These papers, as well as Amsen’s article, discuss how that can be changed and why it’s important.
Read the article here.
This week’s BWN Friday Post brings you a paper by Eleanor Palser, Maia Lazerwitz, and Aikaterini Fotopoulou titled “Gender and geographical disparity in editorial boards of journals in psychology and neuroscience.” They investigated the makeup of the editorial boards of several journals, and found that there is a disproportionate amount of editors from the US compared to other countries, as well as a disproportionate amount of male editors vs female ones.
Read the article here.
This week’s BWN Friday Post brings you an article by Dr. Pragya Agarwal in Scientific American, titled “What Neuroimaging Can Tell Us about Our Unconscious Biases”
Read the article here.
This week’s BWN Friday Post brings you a new paper from April Bailey and colleagues on the gender bias even when gender-neutral terms are used, titled: “Based on billions of words on the internet, PEOPLE=MEN“.
Read the paper here.
You can also find a Twitter thread by the lead author, April Bailey, discussing the research here.
https://mobile.twitter.com/BiasWatchNeuro/status/1521915805830578176
This week’s BWN Friday Post brings you a new paper from Rasha Kardosh and colleagues on the illusion of diversity, titled: “Minority salience and the overestimation of individuals from minority groups in perception and memory“.
Read the paper here.
You can also find a Twitter thread by one of authors discussing the research here.
This week’s BWN Friday Post brings you a new paper from Katherine Gelber and colleagues from Australia on how student evaluations are biased against women university teachers, titled “Gendered mundanities: gender bias in student evaluations of teaching in political science”.
Read the paper here.
You can also find a Twitter thread by one of authors discussing the research here.
This week’s BWN Friday Post brings you a preprint from Evava Pietri using the “Picture a Scientist” documentary to examine to what extent can films combat sexism in STEM:
“[The research project] is an innovative collaboration with social scientists to explore the impact of PICTURE A SCIENTIST on viewers’ awareness about bias and discrimination in science and their intentions to take action. In a new preprint, social psychologist Eva Pietri describes some key findings, including showing that the more viewers felt engaged in the film — measured through reported feelings such as empathy, perspective-taking, and anger — the more likely they were to seek information about gender bias and discrimination. And the more viewers sought new information, the more likely they were to increase their awareness of gender bias and to work to address unfair treatment and gender disparities. These results suggest that film can play a powerful role in training to reduce discrimination in the sciences.”
— Wonder Collaborative, Science Communication Lab
Read the preprint here.
You can also find out more about the “Picture a Scientist” documentary here.
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