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This EJN editorial is inspired by the work of the ALBA Disability and Accessibility Working Group, which advocates for greater visibility of scientists with disabilities and promotes best practices to ensure equity and inclusion within scientific institutions. It sheds light on the structural and cultural barriers disabled scientists continue to face, and offers concrete recommendations to create a more accessible and inclusive neuroscience community.

Grassroots organizations, led by graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, are stepping up to provide neuroscience career training and guidance for students from marginalized backgrounds—and they need your support.

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.

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.