Guidelines Toward Inclusive Practices in Academics by eLife Community Ambassadors

The academic world has become increasingly diverse over the past few decades. However, many of us have unconscious biases against certain groups of people, and common practices in evaluating merit have flaws that can perpetuate these biases. We, a group of eLife Community Ambassadors within the Intersectionality Initiative of the 2019-2020 program, have identified five current practices that are fundamental to academic science that may be hindering inclusivity in science. These practices include hiring, mentoring, writing reference letters, and reviewing grants and manuscripts. To try and level the playing field and increase inclusivity in science, we have compiled a guideline for each of these practices that are intended to help inform scientists, mentors, funders, and journals on ways to mitigate biases. The overall goal of these guidelines is to make science more inclusive and to limit bias in these core features of academic science.

过去数十年间，学术界日益多元化。然而，许多人对于某些群体持有无意识的偏见，而评估才华的常规做法中存在的缺陷可能会加剧这些偏见。我们是一群来自2019-2020年度交叉性倡议计划的eLife社区大使，我们已识别出五项对学术科学至关重要的现行实践，这些实践可能阻碍了科学的包容性。这些实践包括招聘、指导、撰写推荐信以及评审资助项目和稿件。为了尝试使竞争环境公平并提高科学的包容性，我们已编制了针对这些实践的指南，旨在帮助科学家、导师、资助机构和期刊了解减轻偏见的方法。这些指南的总体目标是使科学更加包容，并限制学术科学核心特征的偏见。