科学研究旨在提出创新思想,并不断挑战现有的知识结构和陈规定型观念。然而,女人,少数民族文化,以及残疾人,被系统地歧视甚至被排除在晋升之外,出版物,和一般的能见度。更多样化的劳动力更有效率,因此,歧视对科学和更广泛的社会产生了负面影响,以及在教育上,职业,以及受到歧视的个人的福祉。此外,科学聚会缺乏多样性会导致微攻击或骚扰,让这样的会议不愉快,甚至对早期职业和代表性不足的科学家来说是不安全的环境。在人脑制图组织(OHBM),我们认识到有必要促进代表性不足的科学家,并在神经影像学领域创造不同的榜样。为了促进这一点,OHBM成立了多元化和包容性委员会(DIC)。在这篇文章中,我们回顾了促进OHBM内部多样性的DIC的组成和活动,以激励其他组织实施类似的举措。该委员会过去四年的活动包括(a)制定行为守则,(b)为OHBM成员提供多样性和包容性教育,(c)组织关于多样性问题的访谈和专题讨论会,(d)在OHBM年度会议期间组织关爱家庭的活动并提供儿童保育补助金。我们坚信,这些活动在更广泛的OHBM社区中带来了积极的变化,提高包容性,促进多样性,同时促进严谨,开创性的科学。这些积极的变革,如果没有领导层的热情支持,不可能如此迅速地实施,包括OHBM理事会和项目委员会,和OHBM特殊利益集团(SIG),即开放科学,学生和博士后,和大脑艺术SIGs。然而,还有很大的改进空间,在所有领域,在有针对性地尝试增加妇女的包容性方面更是如此,残疾人,LGBTQ+社区的成员,种族/族裔少数,社会经济地位较低或来自中低收入国家的个人。这里,我们概述了DIC的组成,其活动,未来的方向和挑战。我们的目标是与更广泛的受众分享我们的经验,向希望实施类似全面多样性举措的其他组织和机构提供信息。我们建议,科学组织只有超越现有的权力结构,并将公平和包容性原则纳入其核心价值观,才能突破科学进步的界限。
Scientific research aims to bring forward innovative ideas and constantly challenges existing knowledge structures and stereotypes. However, women, ethnic and cultural minorities, as well as individuals with disabilities, are systematically discriminated against or even excluded from promotions, publications, and general visibility. A more diverse workforce is more productive, and thus discrimination has a negative impact on science and the wider society, as well as on the education, careers, and well-being of individuals who are discriminated against. Moreover, the lack of diversity at scientific gatherings can lead to micro-aggressions or harassment, making such meetings unpleasant, or even unsafe environments for early career and underrepresented scientists. At the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), we recognized the need for promoting underrepresented scientists and creating diverse role models in the field of neuroimaging. To foster this, the OHBM has created a Diversity and Inclusivity Committee (DIC). In this article, we review the composition and activities of the DIC that have promoted diversity within OHBM, in order to inspire other organizations to implement similar initiatives. Activities of the committee over the past four years have included (a) creating a code of conduct, (b) providing diversity and inclusivity education for OHBM members, (c) organizing interviews and symposia on diversity issues, and (d) organizing family-friendly activities and providing childcare grants during the OHBM annual meetings. We strongly believe that these activities have brought positive change within the wider OHBM community, improving inclusivity and fostering diversity while promoting rigorous, ground-breaking science. These positive changes could not have been so rapidly implemented without the enthusiastic support from the leadership, including OHBM Council and Program Committee, and the OHBM Special Interest Groups (SIGs), namely the Open Science, Student and Postdoc, and Brain-Art SIGs. Nevertheless, there remains ample room for improvement, in all areas, and even more so in the area of targeted attempts to increase inclusivity for women, individuals with disabilities, members of the LGBTQ+ community, racial/ethnic minorities, and individuals of lower socioeconomic status or from low and middle-income countries. Here, we present an overview of the DIC\'s composition, its activities, future directions and challenges. Our goal is to share our experiences with a wider audience to provide information to other organizations and institutions wishing to implement similar comprehensive diversity initiatives. We propose that scientific organizations can push the boundaries of scientific progress only by moving beyond existing power structures and by integrating principles of equity and inclusivity in their core values.