Disrupting Racism and Global Exclusion in Academic Publishing: Recommendations and Resources for Authors, Reviewers, and Editors

Scholars have been working through multiple avenues to address longstanding and entrenched patterns of global and racial exclusion in psychology and academia more generally. As part of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s efforts to enhance inclusive excellence in its journals, the Anti Colorism/Eurocentrism in Methods and Practices (ACEMAP) task force worked to develop recommendations and resources to counteract racism and global exclusion in standard publication practices. In this paper, the task force describes a structure and process we developed for conducting committee work that centers marginalized perspectives while mitigating cultural taxation. We then describe our recommendations and openly accessible resources (e.g., resources for inclusive reviewing practices, writing about constraints on generalizability, drafting a globally inclusive demographic information survey, inclusive citation practices, and improving representation among editorial gatekeeping positions; recommendations and resource links are provided in Table 3). These recommendations and resources are both (a) tailored for a particular set of journals at a particular time and (b) useful as a foundation that can be continually adapted and improved for other journals and going forward. This paper provides concrete plans for readers looking to enhance inclusive excellence in their committee work, authorship, reviewing, and/or editing

Postdiagnosis Weight Change and Survival Following a Diagnosis of Early-Stage Breast Cancer

BACKGROUND: Achieving healthy weight is recommended for all breast cancer survivors. Previous research on post-diagnosis weight change and mortality had conflicting results. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We examined whether change in bodyweight in the 18mo following diagnosis is associated with overall and breast cancer-specific mortality in a cohort of n=12,590 stage I-III breast cancer patients at Kaiser Permanente using multivariable-adjusted Cox regression models. Follow-up was from 18mo post-diagnosis weight until death or June, 2015 (median follow-up [range]: 3 [0–9] years). We divided follow-up into earlier (18–54mo) and later (>54mo) post-diagnosis periods. RESULTS: Mean (SD) age-at-diagnosis was 59 (11) yrs. 980 women died, 503 from breast cancer. Most women maintained weight within 5% of diagnosis bodyweight; weight loss and gain were equally common at 19% each. Compared to weight maintenance, large losses (≥10%) were associated with worse survival, with hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for all-cause death of 2.63 (2.12, 3.26) earlier and 1.60 (1.14, 2.25) later in follow-up. Modest losses (>5–<10%) were associated with worse survival earlier (1.39 [1.11, 1.74]), but not later in follow-up (0.77 [0.54, 1.11]). Weight gain was not related to survival. Results were similar for breast cancer-specific death. CONCLUSION: Large post-diagnosis weight loss is associated with worse survival in both earlier and later post-diagnosis periods, independent of treatment and prognostic factors. IMPACT: Weight loss and gain are equally common after breast cancer, and weight loss is a consistent marker of mortality risk