Question#

Please let us know if your group has any good practice examples related to DE&I? We would like to introduce good initiatives to other groups, too.

Responses#

import pandas as pd
import hvplot.pandas
import titanite as ti

print(f"Pandas: {pd.__version__}")
print(f"Titanite: {ti.__version__}")

%opts magic unavailable (pyparsing cannot be imported)
%compositor magic unavailable (pyparsing cannot be imported)

Pandas: 2.2.2
Titanite: 0.5.0

f_cfg = "../../../sandbox/config.toml"
f_csv = "../../../data/test_data/prepared_data.csv"
d = ti.Data(read_from=f_csv, load_from=f_cfg)
config = d.config()
data = d.read()

2024-08-25 07:40:55.747 | INFO     | titanite.preprocess:categorical_data:125 - Categorize

Remove ‘NaN’

data0 = data["q15"].dropna()
print(len(data0))
len(data0) / len(data)

57

0.19322033898305085

(WIP)

• None inside the group of university/institute

• I am not aware of any active measures.

DE&I initiatives in a group#

• DEI subgroup in a group.

• Several initiatives inside the collaboration.

• Our group consists of very international team, including also LGBTQ+ members.

• Multiple foreigners in our group and actively recruit foreign students and postdocs.

• There are people from different cast, religion from all over India, which makes it very diverse.

• Started an initiative in our collaboration, which is also widely discussed in my group and awareness for topics is raised.

• Group meetings of female members that can be attended by males.

• Discussions.

• Sharing the experience.

• Actively engage in hosting Women in Physics discussions and events.

• Participation in Diversity Workshops in Collaborations our Group.

Statistics#

• Workshops and surveys done every year.

• Kept track of the numbers of female/male, and of early career/senior colleagues that were assigned talks in conferences, and showing those numbers to the collaboration in periodic report in order to sensibilize colleagues.

• Creating posters and presentations highlighting physicists of diverse backgrounds to showcase around the department. We are also in the process of creating a webpage with special diversity stories of physicists at the university.

Environmental Support#

• Supporting several parent grad students.

• Personal mentoring.

• Free classes to learn local language, which makes us easier to live in another country.

• Sponsoring software to be able to back up my work.

• Provide everyone with the same laptops that are able to run the software we need for work.

• Discussions on mental health to make sure no one is overworking their mental loads, and everyone is capable of completely the tasks in front of them.

• Gender neutral bathroom.

Recruiting#

• Hiring PhD students from outside the institute.

• Set up rules on the faculty level of how to recruit in a fair way.

• Gender and equality educations for recruitment boards.

Others#

• Everybody is treated the same.

• Every person are being themselves and it is seen as the natural thing to do.

• We do not implement specific practice, we just care about the quality of the researcher.

• Helmholtz grands for female group leaders, balanced PhD selection processes.

• Our collaboration is very open to people from many different fields, not only astrophysics. It also encourages very young people who has not gained scientific experience yet to engage in research in any possible way.

• We treat people well, respond to issues immediately, and enable / maintain open communication;

• We have clear, documented policies.

• There is no tolerance for poor behavior.

WIP

• They appear to be very aware of vast backgrounds and rather change their approaches to suit the backgrounds so that everyone is able to be brought to the same speeds.

• Nice gender balance throughout the years.

• DE&I is a Marxist tool, it is designed to damage society and social cohesion. It is anti-white racism, toxic feminism/misandry, heterophobic and anti-merit. In our workplace it stands for Division, Exclusion and Indoctrination.

• Ice breaker, public statistics, Title IX

• Want to see other groups activities.