Making conferences in the plant sciences more inclusive through community recommendations.
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 40833388.
- Also identified by DOI 10.7554/eLife.106877 and PMC identifier 12367295.
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Abstract
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 2024, are summarized here to assist other conference organizers with creating more inclusive conferences.
Medical subject headings
- Congresses as Topic
- Botany