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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion |
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Academia has systematically excluded Black and indigenous people of color. Additionally, the fields of systems and computational neuroscience in particular exclude women. As a lab we are committed to making neuroscience a more open and inclusive field.
All lab members are encouraged to spend a portion of their work hours on mentoring, outreach, and education, including participating in the lab's reading group on these topics. Our lab action plan includes: improving support for junior scientists from under-represented groups; working to improve departmental hiring policies; and improving representation in our journal club, in citations in our papers, and in seminar series we attend.
We recently participated in a faculty search for our department, and a detailed review of the practices that we employed to reduce biases and enhance diversity can be found here.