International Women's Day!
#IWD2022 #IchbinHanna #WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience

Science made me strongest & weakest, saddest & happiest, healthiest & sickest - depending on the #company

Let's make a #difference and support #DEI in our community!

How?! See this #thread
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2/x: learn! 📚

For me, supporting diversity, equity and inclusion in academia started with getting #information and receiving #trainings

Helpful resources are provided by societies such as:

👉Ecological Society: esa.org/about/diversit… or

👉British Ecological Society: britishecologicalsociety.org/about/diversit…

3/x: get good company 🤝

Also, the British Ecological Society offers a Peer Group Mentoring Scheme that offers #training for mentors and #support for mentees in different groups

From 2019 to 2021, I was a mentor in the #WomenInEcology Scheme - a very enriching and valuable experience!

4/x: address issues! 📌

Own experience and exchange with others inspired collaborations & publications 💪

In response to the pandemic, Anne Toomey and I led an international call NatureEcoEvo to support inclusion through actions at all science levels:
nature.com/articles/s4155…

5/x: get the numbers out! 📊

Last year to #IWD2021 , our global assessment of biases among top publishing authors in ecology (only 18% women!! 🤦‍♀️) was

📰 published Conservation Letters > conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
&
📺 presented SCB > vimeo.com/555283273