Increasing the visibility of LGBTQ+ researchers in STEM

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Ways to increase equity, diversity and inclusion

The eLife Early-Career Advisory Group (ECAG), an international group of early-career researchers committed to improving research culture, calls for radical changes at eLife and other journals to address racism in the scientific community and to make science more diverse and inclusive.Fil: Mehta, Devang. University of Alberta; CanadáFil: Bediako, Yaw. University Of Ghana; GhanaFil: De Winde, Charlotte M.. Colegio Universitario de Londres; Reino UnidoFil: Ebrahimi, Hedyeh. No especifíca;Fil: Fernández, Florencia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Parque Centenario. Instituto de Investigación en Biomedicina de Buenos Aires - Instituto Partner de la Sociedad Max Planck; ArgentinaFil: Ilangovan, Vinodh. University Aarhus; DinamarcaFil: Paz Quezada, Carolina. Universidad Bernardo O'higgins; ChileFil: Riley, Julia L.. Dalhousie University Halifax; CanadáFil: Saladi, Shyam M.. California Institute of Technology; Estados UnidosFil: Tay, Andy. No especifíca;Fil: Weissgerber, Tracey. No especifíca

Mitigating the impact of conference and travel cancellations on researchers’ futures

The need to protect public health during the current COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated conference cancellations on an unprecedented scale. As the scientific community adapts to new working conditions, it is important to recognize that some of our actions may disproportionately affect early-career researchers and scientists from countries with limited research funding. We encourage all conference organizers, funders and institutions who are able to do so to consider how they can mitigate the unintended consequences of conference and travel cancellations and we provide seven recommendations for how this could be achieved. The proposed solutions may also offer long-term benefits for those who normally cannot attend conferences, and thus lead to a more equitable future for generations of researchers

Towards inclusive funding practices for early career researchers

Securing research funding is a challenge faced by most scientists in academic institutions worldwide. Funding success rates for all career stages are low, but the burden falls most heavily on early career researchers (ECRs). These are young investigators in training and new principal investigators who have a shorter track record. ECRs are dependent on funding to establish their academic careers. The low number of career development awards and the lack of sustained research funding result in the loss of ECR talent in academia. Several steps in the current funding process, from grant conditions to review, play significant roles in the distribution of funds. Furthermore, there is an imbalance where certain research disciplines and labs of influential researchers receive more funding. As a group of ECRs with global representation, we examined funding practices, barriers, and facilitators to the current funding systems. We also identified alternatives to the most common funding distribution practices, such as diversifying risk or awarding grants on a partly random basis. Here, we detail recommendations for funding agencies and grant reviewers to improve ECR funding prospects worldwide and promote a fairer and more inclusive funding landscape for ECRs.Instituto de VirologíaFil: de Winde, Charlotte M. University College London. MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology; Reino UnidoFil: de Winde, Charlotte M. Amsterdam University Medical Center. Department of Molecular Cell Biology & Immunology; Países BajosFil: Sarabipour, Sarvenaz. Johns Hopkins University. Department of Biomedical Engineering. Institute for Computational Medicine; Estados UnidosFil: Carignano, Hugo Adrian. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Instituto de Virología e Innovaciones Tecnológicas; ArgentinaFil: Davla, Sejal. City University of New York. Advanced Science Research Center; Estados UnidosFil: Eccles, David. Malaghan Institute of Medical Research; Nueva ZelandaFil: Hainer, Sarah J. University of Pittsburgh. Department of Biological Sciences; Estados UnidosFil: Haidar, Mansour. Hasselt University; BélgicaFil: Ilangovan, Vinodh. Aarhus University; DinamarcaFil: Jadavji, Nafisa M. Midwestern University. Department of Biomedical Sciences; Estados UnidosFil: Jadavji, Nafisa M. Carleton University. Department of Neuroscience; CanadáFil: Kritsiligkou, Paraskevi. German Cancer Research Center; AlemaniaFil: Lee, Tai-Ying. University of Oxford; Reino UnidoFil: Ólafsdóttir, H. Freyja. Radboud University. Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour; Países Bajo

Open Science for Early Career Researchers

This poster was presented at First Open Science Goettingen Meet-up (#OpenScienceGoe) on 06th December 2016 in the poster pitch session. <br>Venue: State and University Library, Platz der Goettinger Sieben 1, 37073 Goettingen, Germany. <br

Vinodh Ilangovan_Webinar OA week 28 Oct 2016_.pdf

Open in Action for Early Career Researchers is a webinar presentation hosted by Open Access India for Open Access Week 2016.  <div>This presentation is adapted and modified from the sources cited in reference. Recorded webinar can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCpkdxEkwMc</div><div>Views expressed throughout this discussion are personal and I stand to be corrected in case of logical flaws.</div

Short- and long-day responses in the pre-adult developmental duration of two species of Camponotus ants

We assessed the effect of different day/night lengths on the pre-adult developmental time of two species of Camponotus ants that normally develop in dark underground nests. We assayed larval (egg-to-pupal formation), pupal (pupal formation-to-adult emergence), and pre-adult (egg-to-adult emergence) durations in these ants under three different light/dark (LD) cycles of 12:12 h, 10:14 h, and 14:10 h. We observed that the pre-adult development time of ants under these day lengths was significantly different. Although both species developed fastest under 12:12 h LD, when asymmetric LD cycles were compared, night-active species (Camponotus compressus) developed faster under short days (10:14 h) and day-active species (C. paria) developed faster under long days (14:10 h). This day/night-length-mediated difference in pre-adult developmental duration was mostly due to modulation of larval duration; however, in day-active species it was also via altered pupal duration. These results thus indicate that the two species of Camponotus ants respond differently to short and long days, suggesting that seasonal timers regulate pre-adult development time in tropical ant species living in dark underground nests