Today, my membership cancellation has been processed by the NSW Branch of the #Labor Party (#NSWLabor). It no longer represents me, nor many thousands of others I’m sure, and has used up all the loyalty and trust I once had invested in it.

From now on my membership fees and any donation I might have made to the Party will be directed elsewhere (not a political party), to where I think will help #Australia get back on track to #SocialDemocracy where the benefits equally flow to all Australians and not just the #ChoosenFew. As for my vote, it will have to earn it back.

#Poverty is a political choice
#HousingAffordability is a political choice
#CivicLiberties are a political choice
#EquityDiversityInclusion are a political choice
#WealthDistribution is a political choice
#CostOfLiving is a political choice

There is no getting away from #politics nor our civic duty to make sound political choices for all of us living, on this stollen land, on the great #SouthernLand.

#Antifa #TaxTheRich #AusPol

Our environment & sustainability committee (https://ease.org.uk/communities/special-interest-committees/environment-and-sustainability-committee/) presents the UN SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) Publishers Compact, the EASE Manifesto, and the EDI Survey, as well as our soon-to-be-launched checklist to implement the SDGs, which can be exported as a PDF and can be organisation-wide or journal-level.

https://ease.org.uk/ease-events/18th-ease-conference/18th-ease-conference-scientific-programme/18th-ease-conference-session-11/

#SDGs #Sustainability #EASEevents #EASEoslo #JournalPublishing #EDI #EquityDiversityInclusion

Our Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Committee webinar will share initiatives from The Lancet journals.

Ana Heredia will chair, with speakers Zoë Mullan & Diana Samuel from The Lancet group talking about the development of policies, the importance of EDI from a scientific & social perspective, & ideas for an effective strategy.

Sept 10, 3-4 pm BST. Registration is free & open to all: https://ease.org.uk/event/equity-diversity-and-inclusion-in-publishing-initiatives-from-the-lancet-group/
#EASEevents #EquityDiversityInclusion #EDI #TheLancet #ScholarlyPublishing #JournalEditing

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Survey results and next steps

Join us for a free, open invitation #webinar with our EDI Committee and #C4DISC, presenting the findings of their recent surveys and looking at next steps to support our community with #EquityDiversityInclusion.

Speakers:
Ana Heredia, Consultant, Brazil
Kate Wilson, Elsevier, UK
Amy Beisel, Beisel Coaching, Germany
Charoula Tzanakou, Senior Lecturer at HRM, Oxford Brookes, UK

Tues 19 Mar 2024, 2pm GMT
https://ease.org.uk/event/ease-webinar-equity-diversity-and-inclusion/

Our community site @the_node has created a new blog series called ‘Honest conversations’. The aim is for people to write about the ups and downs in their academic journey and create frank conversations around less-discussed topics on the Node, such as unconventional career paths, #mentalhealth and #EquityDiversityInclusion in science.

Read the first posts and get in touch if you have any ideas about writing in the series or want to write a response to an existing post.

https://thenode.biologists.com/honest-conversations/

"This morning, UK research faces an unprecedented crisis. The secretary of state for science has given the chief executive of UK Research and Innovation, Ottoline Leyser, until the end of today to disband the newly formed equality, diversity and inclusion panel for the Research Excellence Framework."
https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-he-government-playbook-2023-10-no-good-outcomes/

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[This post does not represent UKRIO, COPE, or EASE]

#AcademicFreedom #FreedomOfSpeech #UKpolitics #UKRI #ResearchPolicy #EDI #DEI #EquityDiversityInclusion