1 Understanding and preventing discrimination https://equity.ucla.edu/education/ucla-edi-education-series/ Please do the “Understanding and Preventing Discrimination: Best Practices for Creating an Inclusive UCLA” 1hr model before lab meeting. Come to lab meeting with your thoughts, questions, real-world examples (you are not obligated to discuss any personal experiences you are uncomfortable with), ideas for implementation in our lab.
2 Implicit Bias https://equity.ucla.edu/know/implicit-bias/ Implicit Bias video series. We will watch these together and discuss in lab meeting.
3: Understanding experiences of others. Before lab meeting, please read at least 4 of the following short articles. Come to lab meeting prepared with thoughts, questions, thoughts about how these experiences are different from your own, other examples (you are not obligated to discuss any personal experiences you are uncomfortable with), ways this can shape our lab.
https://blackinneuro.com/perspectives/my-journey-to-neuro
https://blackinneuro.com/perspectives/bridging-synapses
https://blackinneuro.com/perspectives/hear-me
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01525-9
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04237-8
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-020-00421-9
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/04/why-black-and-latinx-women-struggle-more-with-impostor-syndrome.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01741-7
4: Microaggressions.
Before lab meeting please read the following short pieces on microaggressions
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/what-are-microaggressions-and-examples/
https://hbr.org/2020/07/youve-been-called-out-for-a-microaggression-what-do-you-do You’ve Been Called Out for a Microaggression. What Do You Do?
We will review the below video/workshop on microaggressions together in lab meeting.
chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://sph.umn.edu/site/docs/hewg/microaggressions.pdf
5: Antiracism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCxbl5QgFZw The difference between being “not racist” and antiracist | Ibram X. Kendi We will watch together and discuss in lab.
6: Understanding Gender and Sexual orientation https://equity.ucla.edu/education/ucla-edi-education-series/ Please do the “Understanding Gender and Sexual Orientation: Best Practices for Fostering Inclusion and Preventing Discrimination” 1hr model before lab meeting. Come to lab meeting with your thoughts, questions, real-world examples (you are not obligated to discuss any personal experiences you are uncomfortable with), ideas for implementation in our lab.
7: Choosing and using destigmatizing and inclusion language when discussing our research. Before lab meeting, please read each of the 3 articles below. Come to lab meeting with your thoughts, questions, and ready to discuss implementation in our lab.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-021-01069-4
https://www.cell.com/trends/neurosciences/fulltext/S0166-2236(22)00166-7
8: Issues concerning disability in science and academia.
Before meeting please read both of the following on anti-ableism:
https://www.accessliving.org/newsroom/blog/ableism-101/
https://medium.com/striving-for-disability-equity/confronting-our-ableism-5afbe437040e
and at least 2 of the following blog posts
https://disabledinstem.wordpress.com/blog-2/
Come prepared to discuss what you have read and what it means for how lab. how can we make our lab more accessible and inclusive?
During the meeting we will listen together to the following:
https://www.npr.org/2021/05/27/1000869161/disabled-scientists-are-often-excluded-from-the-lab
and read together following scenarios
https://www.americanbar.org/groups/diversity/disabilityrights/resources/implicit_bias/
9: Anti-Asian Racism in academia. Will add resources
7: The experience of Latinx scientists. Will add resources
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(22)00186-9/fulltext
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.876161/full
Additional resources:
Disability in STEM resources: https://disabledinstem.wordpress.com/
UCLA Center for Accessible Education: https://cae.ucla.edu/resources
Disability etiquette: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.unitedspinal.org/pdf/DisabilityEtiquette.pdf
self-study resources here: https://equity.ucla.edu/education/.
EDI Toolkits: https://equity.ucla.edu/education/toolkits-resources/
Microaggression in academia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-ffdh1FsT4
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01741-7 Black in the Ivory
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/41/42/8669.full Toward an Anti-Racist Approach to Biomedical and Neuroscience Research
https://hbr.org/2020/09/white-coats-black-scientists White Coats, Black Scientists
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009286742031223X Revising the a Priori Hypothesis: Systemic Racism Has Penetrated Scientific Funding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VGbwNI6Ssk Immaculate perception: Jerry Kang at TEDxSanDiego 2013.
https://equity.ucla.edu/know/implicit-bias/ We finish the UC Implicit Bias Modules (for UC employees) in lab meeting