Hello everyone,
We hope you had an interesting and productive week! Our team read the articles below:
In this piece, Dr. Aarthi Gobinath (neuroscientist studying how stress differently affects male and female brains, @aarthigobinath) discusses the importance of including female subjects in research, and how the lack of consideration of sex differences explains sub par treatment results for women.
A while ego, we highlighted in this blog the initiative "Request a Women Scientist", aiming to decrease the under representation of women in scientific panels, meetings and boards by providing a list of women scientists worldwide in all fields (if you are not on it, go join a pod!!). We were happy to read in this article that 11 months following its creation in January 2018, the database racked up
a list of researchers from 174 different scientific disciplines in 133
countries. The progression of this initiative was recently published in PLoS Biology.
Receiving funding to perform research is one of the pillars of Academia. This article describes how language used in grant proposals is different between men and women applicants, and how that difference causes an imbalance resulting in men receiving more funding even when the review was blinded.
This thought-provoking commentary by Christine Middleton (associate editor at Physics Today) reflects on the Katie Bouman/black hole controversy, and argues that the media focuses too much on looks when describing women scientists.
See you next week!
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