{"652725":{"#nid":"652725","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Racial Equity and Inclusion Still Lacking in Neuroscience Meetings","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;We can all play a role in moving forward.\u0026quot; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/Lewis-Wheaton\u0022\u003ELewis Wheaton\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, considers the field\u0026rsquo;s immediate actions with regard to Black representation at neuroscience conferences, whether science and academia are \u0026quot;rising to the occasion in an area under our control,\u0026quot; and ideas for how scientific conference and symposium organizers \u0026mdash; and fellow faculty, graduate students, post-docs, and collaborators \u0026mdash; can foster racial equity and inclusion in and beyond science meetings. (This also appeared\u0026nbsp;in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/many-neuroscience-conferences-still-have-no-black-speakers\/\u0022\u003EScientific American\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34528","created_gmt":"2021-11-11 19:35:08","changed_gmt":"2021-11-12 17:01:25","author":"jhunt7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41593-021-00964-9.epdf","dateline":{"date":"2021-11-11T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2021-11-11T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}