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In this episode, Kris King, founder and executive director of the Trans+ Community Celebration at Harvard University, discusses the importance of embracing neurodiversity to create a more compassionate and inclusive world. Isabel Castanho of The MIND Project and member of the ALBA Disability & Accessibility woking group serves as guest host.

The Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) is investing $379 million to support 216 emerging and established leaders in health and medical research across Australia to tackle the nation’s greatest health challenges.

A workshop based on collective intelligence lays the foundations of mentor–mentee interactions by providing tools to build a valuable relationship. Conducted by the Center for Integrative Biology PhD program at the University of Toulouse and the Femmes & Sciences mentoring program.

Higher education and research institutions are critical to the well-being and success of societies, meaning their financial support is strongly in the public interest. At the same time, value-for-money principles demand that such investment delivers. Unfortunately, these principles are currently violated by one of the biggest sources of public funding inefficiency: sexism.

The June 2023 decision by SCOTUS restricting the use of race in US undergraduate admissions may feel as though it pushes us to retreat on our diversity goals, but nothing is farther from the truth. Incremental progress is no longer sufficient; bolder, more sweeping actions are necessary to ensure the quality of our scientific inquiry and as a fundamental principle of the country's economic growth.