Recipe for an Inclusion Revolution
Abstract
Culture refers to the customs, institutions, and achievements of a particular group of people. Science has a culture, as does the field of astronomy and astrophysics. In common with other cultures, astronomers have a language (equations and how we describe phenomena), traditions (how and when we do things, like clapping after talks and having 1-3 postdoc positions before a permanent job), and norms (expectations of how we are supposed to act, like asking questions in the middle of a talk). We have values (things we judge as significant to assessing scientific merit and things we deem less so), and we have our own art (how we give talks and take our data). At the virtual AAS meeting in June, my talk entitled "The Inclusion Revolution" was about acknowledging our culture and addressing the changes needed to make the field more diverse and inclusive, that is, how we must evolve the culture to achieve an inclusion revolution.
- Publication:
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The NOIRLab Mirror
- Pub Date:
- January 2021
- Bibcode:
- 2021Mirro...2...21N