We’re still doing #BlackNeuroRollCall but we would be remissed to not share the incredible non-Black allies on the organizing committee who have been working so tirelessly to make #BlackInNeuroWeek AMAZING ‼️🙌🏾
Thiago Arzua @thiagoarzua is 4th year neuroscience PhD student studying brain development @mcwgradschool
Originally from Brazil 🇧🇷 he is also a science writer and a neuroscience policy ambassador along with his duties as #BlackInNeuroWeek co-organizer 👏🏾👏🏾
Christine Liu @christineliuart is a PhD candidate @UCBerkeley where she studies the neural circuits involved in nicotine-related behaviors 🚬
She's also an artist and science communicator who believes science should be accessible to all!!! 🧠🌺🖼🎨 (📸 w/ co-organizer @RackebT)
@heysciencesam is a Neuroscientist turned Science Communicator who earned her PhD studying how stem cells help build and maintain the brain! 🧠 She's the Co-Founder of the 1st ever #ScienceIsADrag! 💃🏻
Ubadah Sabbagh @neubadah is a Syrian neuroscientist finishing his PhD at @virginia_tech. He studies how the visual system develops and how the retina wires up with the brain 👁
He’s also passionate about science policy, writing, and advocating for marginalized scholars in STEM!
Dr. Monica Javidnia @NeuroDrugDoc is a faculty member & pharmacologist at the @UofR Department of Neurology 💊
Her work focuses on disease progression, treatment response, and patient-reported outcomes in people with Parkinson's disease and related neurodegenerative disorders.
We'd also like to introduce you to We Rep STEM, whose founder is part of the #BlackInNeuro organizing committee. We Rep STEM was founded in June 2019 to celebrate, amplify, and support underrepresented groups in all STEM fields. 🙌🏾🙌🏾❤️
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2/Our findings suggest that student evaluations of teaching seem to measure *conformity with gendered expectations* rather than teaching quality
A cause for concern given the integration of SET data into performance profiles, and management and organisation of teaching practice
3/Before I go on, in terms of the necessarily binary reporting, it is very important to say here that we recognise the ‘pluralities inherent in gender(s)’ that complicate simple binary approaches to gender (Weerawardhana, 2018, p.189), and we do discuss this in the paper
On important background, in March 2020 the IOC recognised harassment and abuse as a current human rights challenge, and in particular recognised that LGBTQI+ athletes are at “particular risk of harm and structural discrimination”
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The IOC now recognise female eligibility regulation *as an organisational violence issue* and as systemic discrimination
[I'll do another tweet thread on this later, drawing on my own research on this]
I want to address a narrative that we see around women’s sport and inclusion (particularly from those who seek to exclude trans women & women with sex variations from women’s sport), and how this narrative is part of a bigger pattern that functions to keep women small
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I have been hearing more frequently the narrative that women's sport apparently exists as a 'protected category' so that women can win (because, on this account, without it no woman will ever win again)
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This is:
a) *not* the reason why women's sport exists as a category,
and b) it is *not* true that no woman will ever win again.
This narrative is profoundly paternalistic and keeps women small.