Romance Writers of America files for bankruptcy amid racism claims
The decline began following controversies surrounding the organisation's handling of diversity and #racism issues, which led to a mass resignation of its leadership.
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Study suggests less conformity leads to more innovation by Complexity Science Hub
"..."When different people come together, given they have no bad intentions, new ideas emerge, which can foster innovation and contribute to economic prosperity," explains Dirk Helbing, who is an external faculty member at the Complexity Science Hub and a professor at ETH Zurich. Therefore, maintaining or even promoting socio-diversity plays a significant role. But how can this be achieved?
In a study recently published in the Journal of the Royal Society Open Science, Helbing and his colleague found evidence that socio-diversity is lower in centralized social networks, where a few key figures are connected with a lot of people..."
Nothing is funnier than a company telling a friend of mine that they are launching a diversity guide next week after firing the only black guy there (him).
How you gonna be diverse when you're letting all the diversity go. You can't even make this shit up.
Great fun, #paddling & drumming in our first races! We did pretty good, considering we've had only 7 practices. We beat a more experienced team that has trained twice/week for a few years in our last race with time of 1:08 minutes!
I'm exhausted & bit sore. Putting ice packs on & then having a long hot bath 🛀
Earlier, our boss almost had to carry us out of the museum. We completely forgot about the closing time. Or as one of my colleagues commented: ‘This has simply become our second home!’ 1/2
2/2 Today, our Tower of #Babel was transmitting perfectly again, a colleague guided a Belgian-Dutch-French-German group and everyone understood everything and everyone splendidly.
'The Diverse Investing Collective has launched a data dashboard that measures how much money is in the hands of gender-diverse and racially diverse portfolio management teams.... The initial version of the dashboard focuses on gender and a second version that will provide data on race and ethnicity in addition to gender will be released later in 2024.'
It takes more than simply hiring someone to address issues within an organization. It takes a top-down commitment to be part of that change. –Lecia Michelle
It takes more than simply hiring someone to address issues within an organization. It takes a top-down commitment to be part of that change. –Lecia Michelle
New paper from our group led by @lawojcik! We found that not only trait adaptation among but also within functional groups shape ecosystem functioning in simple food webs. Models may gain to consider multiple diversity facets and their corresponding sources of trait adaptation. Read more at https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.10544.
I just bought a book “Strong Female Character” by Fern Brady & it’s a good preparation for “#Diversity in Tech” session on Thursday at #RIPE88 : it “ is a story of how being female can get in the way of being autistic and how being autistic gets in the way of being the 'right kind' of woman.” #ActuallyAutistic#feminism#books#Krakow#neurodiversity