Thread: I wrote about the unjust gatekeeping of neuroscience from Black and Indigenous academics to compile and introduce you to some of the voices I have been lucky to be listening to in neuroscience & academia. Follow everyone below! /1 https://twitter.com/DalOpenThink/status/1296127217307721728

Thank you to Dr. Shardé Davis @DrShardeDavis and Joy Melody Woods, MA @smileitsjoy for starting the #BlackInTheIvory conversation. #ShutDownAcademia wouldn't have been the same without it. /2

Thank you to @BlackInNeuro AKA @getneuro @ANeurogirl @pentopaige_ @idoneuroscience @ClionaKelly01 @RackebT @NeuroCurls @denns_neurons @dangela_pr @OsmosisReads @BrielleRyan @shaineNeuro @FutureDrDukes @Ti_Enjoli @DanielleSipsTea @motherofneurons /3

I will cry if I think about it too much but not only have the #BlackInNeuroWeek organizers blessed our timelines & taught us about #NeuroRacism and helped people #HireBlackInNeuro but I am lucky enough to continue to talk with a number of them for #scicomm, EDI and plain fun! /4

I want to say thank you to The Society for Neuroscience @SfNtweets for conducing the 2017-2018 diversity assessment which highlighted the gaps we must work hard to mend (white faculty members = 76%, Black and Indigenous faculty = 1% and 0% of US neuroscience departments) /5

And I want to thank people like Dr. Marguerite Matthews @PhDeez for not only championing #BlackInNeuro scientists (both in real life and on twitter) but doing it with glamour and pizzaz. Your love is bright! /6

Finally, a huge thank you to Angeline Dukes @FutureDrDukes (again AKA superstar), Elena N. Dominguez @NeuroCurls (again AKA superstar), and Dr. Autumn Ivy MD PhD @AutumnSkyeIvy for their incredible "Becoming Anti-Racist" resource: https://twitter.com/futuredrdukes/status/1270777681294929920?s=21 /7

I have read this 84 times now so I apologize for typos.