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Towards diversity and equity in brain sciences | Become a member: http://alba.network | a division of FENS | Founding Partners @fens.org @ibroorg.bsky.social @sfn.org
🎪 ALBA is also exhibiting at the @fens.org Booth (3819). Exciting news: we have new badges! Stop by to check them out, discover our current projects, and learn about open calls.
#Neuroscience2025
November 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
November 13, 2025 at 9:57 AM
In “A Journey of Self-Awareness towards Understanding Disability,” Dionna shares their experience navigating academia while living with multiple #disabilities — and how self-awareness became a path toward #advocacy, #inclusion, and accessible neuroscience.
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Breaking down the ivory tower - Episode 7
With this webinar series, the ALBA Disability & Accessibility Working Group wants to bring down the ivory tower of ableism among the population of brain researchers, one extraordinary neuroscientist a...
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November 10, 2025 at 12:05 PM
🗣️ Speakers & facilitators: Michelle Rank, Elizabeth Coulson, Saraid Billiards, Nathalie Dehorter, James Vickers, Ethan Scott, & Adele Woodhouse.
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From Declaration to action Workshop #3 - Hybrid
ALBA &ANS 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 ver...
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November 7, 2025 at 6:11 PM
💡 Learn how to embed equity, diversity, inclusion, and wellbeing into the DNA of your institution — from leadership practices to sustainable structures. 🧵
In collaboration with #ANS2025 & with the support of
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#EquityInAcademia #FromDeclarationToAction #InclusiveScience
November 7, 2025 at 6:11 PM
🗣️ Speakers & facilitators: Michelle Rank, Elizabeth Coulson, Saraid Billiards, Nathalie Dehorter, James Vickers, Ethan Scott, & Adele Woodhouse.
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From Declaration to action Workshop #2
Fostering inclusion: strategies to transform academic work cultures. This ALBA-IBRO workshop will spotlight real-world initiatives that have successfully improved workplace climate across organisation...
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November 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
💡 Learn how to embed equity, diversity, inclusion, and wellbeing into the DNA of your institution — from leadership practices to sustainable structures. 🧵
In collaboration with #ANS2025 & with the support of @ibroorg.bsky.social
#EquityInAcademia #FromDeclarationToAction #InclusiveScience
November 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
📖 DAY 5 related read: "How Neuroscience Has Changed—or Not?" by Dr Marian Joels – Despite advances, gender inequities persist. Learn about ongoing challenges and how global EDI efforts are making a difference.🧵
🔗 Read here: doi.org/10.1111/ejn....
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How Neuroscience Has Changed—or Not?
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October 31, 2025 at 1:10 AM
We start with "Unfinished business: Persistent global gender disparities in neuroscience". This webinar brought together neuroscientists from around the world to examine the multifaceted barriers behind the gender disparities in scientific research.🧵
👉🏼 Explore the digest: loom.ly/c0l_Ztw
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ALBA-IBRO webinar: Unfinished business: Persistent global gender disparities in neuroscience
Despite decades of awareness and initiatives promoting equity in neuroscience, the global gender gap remains a persistent reality. Women and gender identities beyond cisgender men continue to be under...
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October 31, 2025 at 1:10 AM
📖 DAY 4 related read: Making space for people with disabilities – By our Disability & Accessibility Group. This editorial highlights ways to support the contributions of disabled scientists, & to address structural barriers to create an inclusive neuroscience community.
🔗 Read here: loom.ly/wInL1mU
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October 30, 2025 at 9:53 AM
📖 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.
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Ten simple rules for queer data collection and analysis by STEM researchers
Queer people are still underrepresented both as STEM researchers and participants, partially due to a dearth of accurate data on this demographic. The lack of consideration for queer identities in dat...
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October 29, 2025 at 4:42 PM
#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
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ALBA guidelines for reporting on sex and gender in neuroscience research
New ALBA guidelines encourage neuroscientists to move beyond the binary categorisation of sex in research, in studies both involving humans and animals. Recognising the complexity of sex and gender, t...
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October 29, 2025 at 4:42 PM