Lab culture 🌈
Principles and values
As a research lab and as a community, we strive to abide by a set of core principles and values:
♦ Our lab will always be a safe, inclusive, & welcoming space for everyone who enters through our doors.
♦ Diversity of backgrounds, identities, & perspectives strengthens our ability to tackle research as a team.
♦ Respect, support, kindness, & work-life balance are prerequisites of a productive lab environment.
♦ We believe in collaboration over competition.
♦ We value individually-tailored mentorship highly.
♦ We always strive to learn from one another, regardless of our seniority in the lab.
♦ Our lab will always be a safe, inclusive, & welcoming space for everyone who enters through our doors.
♦ Diversity of backgrounds, identities, & perspectives strengthens our ability to tackle research as a team.
♦ Respect, support, kindness, & work-life balance are prerequisites of a productive lab environment.
♦ We believe in collaboration over competition.
♦ We value individually-tailored mentorship highly.
♦ We always strive to learn from one another, regardless of our seniority in the lab.
Lab manual
We invite you to learn more about:
♦ our lab's mission
♦ the expectations and responsibilities of each member of the lab
♦ guidelines for conducting reproducible, equitable, and ethical science
♦ resources for improving our interactions with one another
♦ resources for helping to make our environment more equitable and more inclusive
by browsing our Naturalistic Cognition Lab Handbook, Cookbook, and All-Around Good Book, a living document curated by Dr. Iordan, together with all her lab members, past and present.
♦ our lab's mission
♦ the expectations and responsibilities of each member of the lab
♦ guidelines for conducting reproducible, equitable, and ethical science
♦ resources for improving our interactions with one another
♦ resources for helping to make our environment more equitable and more inclusive
by browsing our Naturalistic Cognition Lab Handbook, Cookbook, and All-Around Good Book, a living document curated by Dr. Iordan, together with all her lab members, past and present.
Key resources
Quick access links to several key resources at the University of Rochester and beyond that guide our lab's efforts to increase equity and inclusion:
♦ University of Rochester offices, resources, and policies:
☆ Office of Equity and Inclusion
☆ Code of Values
☆ Policies Regarding Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
☆ New Whistleblower Policy
♦ LGBTQIA2S+ resources and support at the University of Rochester and in the surrounding community:
☆ For Colleagues Who Identify as LGBTQIA2S+
☆ For Allies
♦ Compiled anti-racism resources for academics:
☆ Anti-Racism Working Document for Academics
☆ Recruiting, Supporting, and Advancing Underrepresented Minority Scientists
☆ Ten Simple Rules for Building an Anti-Racist Lab
♦ Combating biases in citation practices:
☆ Ethical Considerations Regarding Gender Bias in Citation Practices
☆ Chrome Extension that Adds Probabilistic Gender Info to Google Scholar and PubMed
☆ Probabilistic Estimator of Gender Bias in Citation List
☆ How to Write a Citation Diversity Statement
Please note that the tools above are limited in their inclusion of non-binary and/or transgender authors.
♦ Organizations devoted to amplifying the voices of underrepresented scientists:
☆ SPARK Society
☆ Black in Neuro
☆ Anne’s List
☆ Women in Neuro
☆ Graduate Women in Science
☆ BiasWatchNeuro
☆ Society for Neuroscience Scholars Program (NSP)
♦ University of Rochester offices, resources, and policies:
☆ Office of Equity and Inclusion
☆ Code of Values
☆ Policies Regarding Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
☆ New Whistleblower Policy
♦ LGBTQIA2S+ resources and support at the University of Rochester and in the surrounding community:
☆ For Colleagues Who Identify as LGBTQIA2S+
☆ For Allies
♦ Compiled anti-racism resources for academics:
☆ Anti-Racism Working Document for Academics
☆ Recruiting, Supporting, and Advancing Underrepresented Minority Scientists
☆ Ten Simple Rules for Building an Anti-Racist Lab
♦ Combating biases in citation practices:
☆ Ethical Considerations Regarding Gender Bias in Citation Practices
☆ Chrome Extension that Adds Probabilistic Gender Info to Google Scholar and PubMed
☆ Probabilistic Estimator of Gender Bias in Citation List
☆ How to Write a Citation Diversity Statement
Please note that the tools above are limited in their inclusion of non-binary and/or transgender authors.
♦ Organizations devoted to amplifying the voices of underrepresented scientists:
☆ SPARK Society
☆ Black in Neuro
☆ Anne’s List
☆ Women in Neuro
☆ Graduate Women in Science
☆ BiasWatchNeuro
☆ Society for Neuroscience Scholars Program (NSP)
Acknowledgements
The template and some of the content of our lab handbook were heavily inspired by the excellent lab manuals of Dr. Elise A. Piazza and Dr. Mariam Aly. We also took additional inspiration from other open source and/or freely available lab manuals and/or handbooks, including those put forward by Dr. Michelle R. Greene and Dr. Wei Ji Ma. Our handbook is licensed under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license, and you are welcome to copy, adapt, and/or remix the material however you’d like, provided you cite us.