As Catriona MacCullum wrote on the Scholarly Kitchen last week: "biases (in publishing) favor men over women and the old guard over the young or stack the deck in your favor if you are white, or straight, or from the 'right club'… If you're not published in the right journal or trained at the right institute or come from the right region, you have many more hurdles to overcome than those that do fit the 'required' but often unspoken phenotype." And as PLOS CEO Alison Mudditt writes this week, "It's not simply about fully open research, more work from home, less travel, diversifying our editorial boards and reviewers, a commitment to DEI or an embrace of our global communities (although it is also all of these things). For me and now for PLOS, this is a very intentional embrace of a moment of transformation.... For scholarly communication as elsewhere, this has to mean a shift in power, a recognition that communities are the best designers of their own future." I'm hoping for this, I really am. But the powerful don't give up power lightly, not even while they are burning down the world.
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