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Safe fieldwork strategies for at-risk individuals, their supervisors and institutions - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Systemic biases rarely act alone, they intersect in complex ways. Addressing them requires sustained allyship: identifying and advocating for our colleagues, and building more equitable workplaces. Few more links: www.nature.com/articles/s41..., www.citeblackwomencollective.org , biaswatchneuro.com

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As a result of identity prejudice, certain individuals are more vulnerable to conflict and violence when they are in the field. It is paramount that all fieldworkers be informed of the risks some coll...

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A couple of other cool studies quantifying gender imbalance in academia: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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In some professions, women have become well represented, yet gender bias persists—Perpetuated by those who think it is not happening

Surprisingly, believing in gender biases in evaluating CVs is enough to counteract implicit biases in evaluators. Workshops for raising awareness about gender biases for evaluators should be made mandatory if not strongly recommended. www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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If you think gender discrimination is no longer an issue in your profession, you may be perpetuating it.

Gendered and intersectional barriers are not always easily quantifiable and cannot be addressed on a case-by-case basis via institutional policy and support. Support has to be provided by colleagues and peers. Mentorship makes a big difference! doi.org/10.1108/IJMC...

Citation inequity and gendered citation practices in contemporary physics - Nature Physics

Sugar on top, Citation imbalance is real: Men are often unfamiliar with work by female peers: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Gender Balance Assessment is a tool that automates the process of parsing your bibliography and gives an estimate of female authors. educate.apsanet.org/resource/08-...

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The under-citation of woman authors in physics is quantified and measures that could overcome this inequity are presented.

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Whether to Apply | Management Science

Applying for jobs is one of the earliest leaks: Research through experiments, saw qualified women applying significantly less in male-associated domains, than similarly qualified men. Reducing ambiguity and superlatives in job requirements helped! pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/...

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Research shows, The sum impact on women as well as other minority groups is a lack of belonging: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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The UNESCO 2024 Report connects how young girls internalise stereotypes with their experiences in STEM, a field touted as meritocratic, yet shaped by beliefs and experiences, with minority groups bearing the brunt of self-doubt and exclusion. unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/p...

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We learned, acknowledging bias is enough to counter it. In this article is a list of actionable steps with relevant studies and a call for allies, especially from non-minority backgrounds, to actively recognise barriers, advocate and practice behaviors that make the workplace equitable for everyone.

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Takuji Usui | 薄井拓路 @usuitakuji.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

As I & @satavisha-de.bsky.social , move up the career ladder, the tampons in the bathroom may increase, but the women around us do not. Despite policies meant to patch its cracks, academia continued to sieve out women. We saw it, we heard it from our peers. So we looked for the literature.

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Reposted by Saismit Naik

Excited to share our new paper in which we test how competition alters adaptation at a warming range edge @science.org We find that competition can increase adaptation to warming when there is a shared evolutionary response to both biotic and abiotic drivers of selection: tinyurl.com/3j8s9t8b

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Competition enables rapid adaptation to a warming range edge in a model plant community

Most predictions of whether populations will adapt to warming range edges ignore species interactions. We experimentally tested whether range-edge populations can adapt to warming within a competitive...

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We further show in our Supplementary how mutation effects in considered traits and temperature interact in simple thermodynamic models and can have a diversity of outcomes. Questions? Contact us.

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Empirical support is mixed: microbes can show large high-temperature mutation benefits but also cold trade-offs with phylogeny playing an important role. Our work underscores the need to bridge details of biophysical adaptations → population growth → range expansion dynamics.

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Faster warm-edge expansion arises from larger mutation effects at higher temperatures. But that same property reduces predictability, as increased front variability counteracts selection's variance-reducing effect.

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Thermodynamic models show a hotter-is-better trend reaching higher maximum growth rates at hotter temperatures, whereas the rate-depressing effects of cold keep expansion constrained along a decreasing thermal gradient. The Gaussian curve, on the other hand, expands easily along the colder gradient.

Enzyme Catalysis (the Macromolecular Rate Theory) + Protein Denaturation Model (Chen et al. 2010) + a Gaussian thermal performance curve are compared. Populations are initialised with near-identical thermal niches and expand along a decreasing and increasing temperature gradient.

We developed a mechanistic modeling framework to investigate how microscopic protein-level processes propagate across organizational levels to define macroecological patterns, specifically species range expansions.