Ace Awareness Week
Happy Ace Awareness Week! First-year medical student Bessie Liu shares the basics of asexuality and why we should all learn more about it.
Tip of the Iceberg: Examining Who Gets Credit for Scientific Discoveries
Ph.D. candidate Emma Spikol sheds light on the broken narratives of scientific breakthroughs.
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
Women in STEM are at a disadvantage at every stage of the academic pipeline and in almost every facet of their careers. Graduate student Veronica Busa reflects on how these statistics motivate her to focus her efforts.
Citation Bias? In My Publication? Here’s How to Check
Although the makeup of academia and journal authors is becoming more diverse, the under-citation of women and authors of color is worsening. Here are some tools to check your manuscript.
‘We’ve Always Been Here’: Student Groups Continue to Fight for Equity in Academia
This summer’s reflection on systemic racial injustice needs to be more than just a moment if we’re going to create lasting change in Johns Hopkins institutions. Student groups like the Biomedical Engineering Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee and the Biomedical Scholars Association are committed to seeing that change.
Johns Hopkins Physicians Stand With You
For The Johns Hopkins House Staff Diversity Council united the Hopkins community to stand in solidarity with the Black community against systemic inequity and police brutality. The video features many of our School of Medicine learners. "In light of the recent murder of George Floyd and the countless Black lives before him, compounded by the backdrop of the racial […]
What Can Academia Do to Fight Racism?
Our higher education system must be radically changed at every level to ensure an equitable and safe future for Black scholars.
Queer Visibility in Medical Education
A medical trainee shares their perspective on promoting acceptance and inclusion in the clinical workplace and classroom.
Regulating Genomic Information: How Algorithms Perpetuate Prejudice
Last November, I was able to attend the National Science Policy Network Symposium in Madison, Wisconsin. The goal of this two-day symposium was to understand how many scientific issues (such as climate change and genome-based medicine) disproportionately affect minority and vulnerable populations. One of the workshops I attended discussed how “big genomic data” is handled, […]
7 Pieces of Advice for Promoting Gender Equity at Johns Hopkins
For early career female scientists, the environment is rapidly becoming more inclusive. However, later career female scientists face a harsher reality.
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