Rejoignez-nous au symposium #SWEEET le 14 mai (13h30 à 17h) à #SCEE2026! Nous aborderons trois obstacles abordés: la parentalité, l’accès au travail de terrain et les défis socio-économiques. Avec des présentations des Dr·e·s C Robichaud, R Giles et D Srivastava. Au plaisir de vous y voir!
Join us at the #SWEEET Symposium on May 14 (1:30-5pm) at #CSEE2026! We're tackling three barriers facing equity-deserving researchers: parenthood, fieldwork access & socioeconomic challenges. Featuring talks by Drs. Courtney Robichaud, Rachel Giles & Diane Srivastava. We hope to see you there!
Thanks to the generosity of everyone who donated, the SWEEET/CSEE Equity Fund supported 7 trainees with conference registration for #CSEE2026 in Toronto 🌱🧬🎓!
We’re incredibly grateful to everyone who donated and shared. Please keep us in mind for future fundraising efforts!
#EcoEvo 🐸🌲🔬
IMPACT OF PARENTHOOD ON UNIVERSITY EMPLOYMENT. Line graph shows how the probability of holding a research position changes from four years before to seven years after having children.
Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s
Read the full story: go.nature.com/4v4rxmQ
We are still short of our fundraising goal for the SWEEET/CSEE Equity Fund 🌱🧬🎓
If you’re able, please share or consider donating to help remove financial barriers for trainees hoping to attend #CSEE2026 in Toronto through the Equity Fund!
@csee-scee.bsky.social
#EcoEvo
gofund.me/cca1d39af
Call for Donations to Support the SWEEET/CSEE Equity Fund 🌱🧬🎓
Help remove financial barriers by supporting grad students & postdocs attending #CSEE2026 in Toronto through donating to the Equity Fund. Support access to science by donating / sharing! @csee-scee.bsky.social #EcoEvo
gofund.me/cca1d39af
🚨Critical BREACH OF PRIVACY🚨 and trust for any 🇨🇦 researcher (trainees to PIs) who have been involved with ANY grant or scholarship submission (or their review!!!) to ANY of the TriCouncils (CIHR NSERC SSHRC) in the last 20 years!
Also see this petition & thread 👇🏻
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Attn: Canadian researchers/ If you are looking for text/arguments to mix-n-match in a letter to your MP, the committee, Ministers, etc.. here is some.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications:
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
In his #ParentCarerScientist case study, Professor Ben Sheldon FRS talks about navigating crises at home and at work, and why it's important for leaders to set an example when it comes to balancing work with caring responsibilities: #CarersWeek #AndAScientist royalsociety.org/about-us/who...
Image of title page for the article "Making aquatic sciences more diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible: Perspectives on how individuals can take action in their professional practice", available from the Journal of Great Lakes Research.
Hot off the press! 🧑🔬🧪
"Making aquatic sciences more diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible: Perspectives on how individuals can take action in their professional practice"
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lnYH1MRgT...
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In this installment of the hashtag #ECRAsks series, @oakleigh-wilson.bsky.social
spoke to @brooke-long-fox.bsky.social about equity, diversity and how scientific research intersects with politics.
Check out their conversation on the SORTEE blog: sortee.org/blog/2025/07...
Today is “drag and tag,” tagging sharks with drag queens while raising money for LGBQT+ youth organizations in Florida!
www.scientificamerican.com/article/drag...
🌟 Something new is coming! 🌟
We’re excited to announce the upcoming BWEEMS Holistic Wellness Program, created in collaboration with Dr. Della V. Mosley. This program is designed for rest, healing, and community care!
Stay tuned for more! 🎆
New article led by Tara McAllister & co-authored by Lelani Walker, @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social, myself, Bradley Moggridge, Serena Naepi, Brittany Kamai and @napaaqtuk.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Our new paper, led by Andrew Burton-Jones, argues English-only science is unfair, costly and may no longer be necessary. With AI translation tools advancing rapidly, we ask what truly multilingual science could look like and how we might get there.
doi.org/10.3127/ajis...
#languagebarriers
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🌿 Are you passionate about equity, ecology, evolution, or just love building community in science?
SWEEET is looking for a few motivated folks to join our organizing committee! 🌎✨
Interested? Send us a note at sweeet.ecoevo@gmail.com 💌
#SWEEET #EcoEvo #SciComm #InclusionInSTEM
Citation: Amano T, Ramírez-Castañeda V, Berdejo-Espinola V, Borokini I, Chowdhury S, Golivets M, et al. (2023) The manifold costs of being a non-native English speaker in science. PLoS Biol 21(7): e3002184. doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Here’s our schedule for the symposium! We have some amazing talks lined up and then we will have lots of time for Q&A wi the our speakers after the coffee break
Unfortunately this is only available to attendees of the CSEE conference, but thank you for your interest!
Remember to come to SWEEET tomorrow at 1pm!
Please join us to learn about these valuable topics that are relevant to everyone at #CSEE2025!
Everyone is welcome! Feel free to join at any point in our symposium
And please join us for SWEEET! We have amazing speakers lined up and this topic is relevant to everyone at #CSEE2025
Aerin has a busy(!!) week and we are so lucky to have her as part of this year’s SWEEET!
& what a great way to wrap up a conference, if we may say so ourselves 👀
Come join us on Wednesday #CSEE2025 ✨
SWEEET Symposium poster for July 9, 2025 in Sherbrooke, QC at CSEE/SCEE 2025. Title: “Breaking Barriers in Science Communication: Advancing Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion Through Language and Visualization.” Headshots and names of speakers Dr. Shelby Bohn, Dr. Rassim Khelifa, and Dr. Aerin Jacob. Logos of CSEE, SWEEET, 14 university sponsors, and a QR code to the SWEEET website.
📢 Don’t miss the SWEEET Symposium at #CSEE2025 on July 9 in Sherbrooke!
This year’s theme: Breaking Barriers in Science Communication — advancing equity, accessibility & inclusion through language and visualization.
#SWEEET #EquityInScience #SciComm
Affiche du symposium SWEEET le 9 juillet 2025 à Sherbrooke (CSEE/SCEE 2025). Titre : « Briser les barrières en communication scientifique : Faire progresser l’équité, l’accessibilité et l’inclusion par le langage et la visualisation. » Photos et noms des conférencier·ères Dre Shelby Bohn, Dr Rassim Khelifa et Dre Aerin Jacob. Logos de la SCEE, de SWEEET, de 14 universités commanditaires et un code QR menant au site Web de SWEEET.
📢 Ne manquez pas le symposium SWEEET au #CSEE2025 le 9 juillet à Sherbrooke !
Le thème de cette année : Briser les barrières en communication scientifique - faire progresser l'équité, l'accessibilité & l'inclusion par le langage et la visualisation.
#SWEEET #EquitéEnScience #SciComm
Birds as pride flags, meticulously researched by my wonderful student Griffin ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
Rainbow flag: Eastern Rosella
📷 David Irving, eBird
A word cloud made from flagged terms in terminated NIH grant proposals. The most prominent words in large font include “trans,” “diverse,” “diversity,” “minority,” “sex,” “expression,” “mental health,” “gender,” and “women.” Other visible terms include “LGBTQ,” “racial,” “underrepresented,” “disability,” “barriers,” “black,” “equity,” “health equity,” “vaccine,” “bias,” and “intersectionality.” The word cloud highlights terms related to identity, inclusion, and marginalized communities.
HAPPY PRIDE 🏳️🌈
Under Trump, research using terms like “Trans,” “LGBTQ,” & “Gender identity” is being defunded. These terms reflect real people who deserve science that includes them.
Stand with us to protect LGBTQ+ science from political erasure.
grant-watch.us/nih-data.html
@rcmedphys.bsky.social
Going to Sherbrooke in July for the CSEE conference? Need a lift from T.O., Montréal, Québec, Ottawa or similar locales? Here is a link for the carpool: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Not registered yet? The program is posted, looks exceptional. Register here: event.fourwaves.com/scee2025/reg...
We can’t wait to dig in to this topic with some amazing speakers! We will explore barriers to effective and inclusive communication in different settings, and identify ways to address them.
Stay tuned for more details!
🌿 #SCEE2025 Symposium à l'honneur 🌿
« SWEEET – Briser les barrières de la communication scientifique »
🌍✨ Cette année, @sweeet-ecoevo.bsky.social explore les obstacles linguistiques et culturels en écologie et évolution, et propose des outils de communication plus inclusive.
