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Unbeknownst to the general public, a generation of scientists is being sheared away as the Trump administration takes a chainsaw to federal science. The United States is losing scientific training programs, research funding, and jobs in federal agencies and sectors that employ scientists.

Share stories of events that actually happened, but that, we think, do not have their place in a professional environment (or in any environment, for that matter). We want to show daily sexist comments and behaviours, not to point fingers at specific people, not to show what is the right way to act, but to encourage discussions between coworkers, and, hopefully, to make people think how, as a group, we can do better.

Authors propose a brief, efficient Diversity Minimal Item Set (DiMIS) for routine data collection in empirical studies to contribute to closing the diversity and gender data gap. The DiMIS is brief, easy to use, and captures 9 diversity domains. Combining data allows intersectional analyses promising more diversified innovations.

Despite the overwhelming scientific evidence, many people still mistakenly believe that sex-related characteristics are ‘determined’ by our genes and ‘immutable.’ Part of our job as educators is to give students a deeper understanding of the true diversity of sex and gender in the natural world.

Resilience is often invoked to address systemic marginalisation (e.g. racism) in academia but inadvertently maintains harmful systems. We argue that the ability to transform systems, as opposed to persevering within them, must be prioritised to make real, lasting change.