- 🚀 #ALBADiversityWeek 2025 starts today! We celebrate diversity & intersectionality by highlighting key activities and sharing valuable resources. 👀 Stay tuned all week as we revisit achievements and launch new initiatives. Share our posts to join the #GlobalDiversityAwarenessMonth celebration. 🧵Oct 27, 2025 11:33
- 📆 Today, we kick off with the ALBA-IBRO Diversity Podcast: From Postdoc to PI. Listen to early-career scientists share their journeys and strategies to make it to the PI level, and build inclusive lab cultures. 🎧 loom.ly/N1a1jSg Supported by IBRO & produced by @lonelypipette.bsky.social 🧵
- 💡 DAY 1 related read: Equitable research funding: Strategies, challenges and the role of funding agencies 🔗 loom.ly/J-WkHmw Learn how funding agencies are promoting equity in grant allocation and why resource management is a key challenge for early-career PIs, connecting to Ep 2 of our podcast. 🧵
- #ALBADiversityWeek DAY 2 Want to make your research environment more inclusive? We launched the From Declaration to Action workshop series, helping scientists and institutions turn the ALBA Declaration into concrete actions. We learnt how to recognise bias & foster belonging 📺 Watch loom.ly/CoVaJwE
- 📅 Save the date for Workshop 3! On 1 Dec, ALBA & @ausneurosoc.bsky.social join forces for the final session — a hybrid workshop and live EDI panel from Hobart, Tasmania, exploring how to build sustainable and impactful EDI programmes that embed equity into the very fabric of institutions. 🧵
- 📖 DAY 2 related read: Working together to build strong scientific communities by @megancarey.bsky.social - Discover how ALBA’s Declaration and initiatives help create equitable, collaborative, and inclusive scientific communities. 🔗 Read here: loom.ly/RtQITXA
- #ALBADiversityWeek DAY 3 🌈 Inclusive research starts with inclusive data. Check out ALBA’s guidelines for sex and gender reporting. These recommendations improve how we analyse & present the influence of sex and gender in neuroscience, going beyond male/female distinction 👉 loom.ly/VqIa8zw @fens.org
- 📖 DAY 3 related read: Ten simple rules for queer data collection and analysis by STEM researchers – The guidelines in an editorial featuring tips to make sex and gender data collection & reporting more inclusive. 🔗 loom.ly/N0DiSgI @dgrijseels.bsky.social @eitans.bsky.social @dpagliaccio.bsky.social