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Innovators in Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar Series

Please join us for a talk given by Danielle S. Bassett, University of Pennsylvania, titled "(In)Citing Action to Realize an Equitable Future". Please see the abstract below.

Thursday, September 24, 2020
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Zoom
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Lectures & Seminars

Title: (In)Citing Action to Realize an Equitable Future

Abstract:

In recent years, science has been pushed to grapple with the social and structural systems that produce vast gender and racial imbalances in academic participation. While current discussions largely focus on the role of people in positions of power (e.g., journal editors, grant reviewers and agencies, department chairs, and society presidents), many imbalances are in fact caused and perpetuated by researchers themselves. A key example is imbalance within citation practices, where people from marginalized groups are broadly undercited, precluding an unbiased trajectory in the search for scientific truth. Because of the downstream effects that citations can have on visibility and career advancement, understanding and eliminating bias in citation practices is vital for addressing inequity in our scientific community. Here we uncover evidence of striking (and growing) gender and racial imbalances in neuroscience reference lists, and evaluate several candidate drivers of those imbalances. We also offer practical (and open-access) tools for the mitigation of disparity, thereby placing the power for social justice within the hands of individual researchers.

Please visit our website (https://innovatorsincogneuro.github.io) to sign up for our mailing list and receive the Zoom link for this talk.

For more information, contact:
Courtney Rogers
603-646-0170

Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.