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'Tis the season for staring labs! I'm getting many emails from new faculty (congrats!) who are about to start their research groups & are looking for advice on how to be inclusive/anticolonial/equitable in that practice. Here's what I send them:
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We publish our lab book so people can see HOW we do things. The lab book starts with a value statement. We made this by: 1) thinking of something that lab members loved about the lab, made them feel valued, respected, powerful, knowledgable... 2/8 https://civiclaboratory.nl/clear-lab-book/
2) Telling that story and naming the value behind it. Values are not just adjectives (tall is not a value!), so we did some work talking about what values are and how they are different from benefits, desires, nice things, etc. 3/8
3) We put these values on cards on the table, then sorted them into groups that were similar. 4) then we chose which were the most important to us. We used a dotmocracy approach, where you got 3 "votes." and can spread them out or spend all on one thing.
https://dotmocracy.org/what_is/
https://dotmocracy.org/what_is/
5) We chose the top 3 areas & spent the next few meetings researching how others talk about those values and articulating how we understood them. 6) then they went into the lab book. **This is why you should not copy and paste our values.** It happens. A lot. 5/8
There are other resources in the lab book and on our website, including how to run an equitable lab meeting:
https://civiclaboratory.nl/2017/03/31/how-to-run-a-feminist-science-lab-meeting/
Our approach to equity in author order: https://catalystjournal.org/index.php/catalyst/article/view/28850
And community peer review of our research: https://civiclaboratory.nl/methods/community-peer-review/ 6/8
https://civiclaboratory.nl/2017/03/31/how-to-run-a-feminist-science-lab-meeting/
Our approach to equity in author order: https://catalystjournal.org/index.php/catalyst/article/view/28850
And community peer review of our research: https://civiclaboratory.nl/methods/community-peer-review/ 6/8
Please, please if you use these, cite them! They are methods texts! We constantly struggle with users not recognizing/treating this work as expertise, or literally copying and pasting huge portions of our text and saying "thanks CLEAR" instead of citing according to protocol. 7/
I'm working on putting together a resource about anticolonial budgeting, dealing with guests to the lab, and similar documents that are rarely discussed in lab culture. But in the meantime, I hope the sources we have on our site will help! 8/8 https://civiclaboratory.nl/
