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Making conferences in the plant sciences more inclusive through community recommendations.
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SUBMITTER: Puig-Lluch M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC12367295 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Making conferences in the plant sciences more inclusive through community recommendations.
eLife 20250820
An unwelcoming climate and culture at scientific conferences is an obstacle to retaining scientists with marginalized identities. Here we describe how a number of professional societies in the plant sciences, mostly based in the United States, collaborated on a project called ROOT & SHOOT (short for Rooting Out Oppression Together and SHaring Our Outcomes Transparently) to make conferences in the field more inclusive. The guidelines we developed, and our efforts to implement them in 2023 and 202 ...[more]