Publications are essential for a successful academic career, and there is evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic has amplified existing gender disparities in the publishing process. This study demonstrates the importance of reinforcing institutional commitments to diversity through policies that support the inclusion and retention of women in research.

Papers are a key currency for academic careers. LGBQ academic scientists who don’t disclose their sexual orientation in the workplace publish fewer papers than their out or non-LGBQ peers.

Most genetic research is done on people of European descent. That's led to misdiagnoses, inaccurate tests, and missed opportunities for new treatments.

Efforts to chart and reduce bias in scholarly publishing will ask authors, reviewers and editors to disclose their race or ethnicity.

Science is often seen as a meritocracy, where the best work rises to the top along with the researchers who shepherd those advances. A new study tests that premise at the intersection of race and gender and finds cracks in that façade.

The training course adds to ongoing efforts to promote greater diversity in scholarly review.

This post is a conversation between Katy Alexander and Sylvia Hunter about job hunting with a disability in the publishing industry. 

The first female astronaut of color was African-American Mae Jemison - 30 years after the first men and white women flew in space.

Four junior researchers with disabilities describe their career experiences to date, and how colleagues can act as allies.

When two junior researchers  joined a search committee, they came up with a way to put equity and inclusion centre stage.

NASA's next flagship space telescope, scheduled to launch in December after many years of delays, will retain its current name, the James Webb Space Telescope, despite the controversy surrounding its honoree.

Medical research and practice have long assumed a narrow definition of the 'default' human, badly compromising the care of anyone outside that category. How can this be fixed?

Geographical inclusion in scholarly publishing needs to do more than just drawing the Global South closer to the Global North.