Media Club: June topic, DEI aspects of review processes

[NickleDave]

We'd like to discuss DEI aspects of review processes

This is related to the US-RSE 2023 conference; it's too late to change any process there but we want to have this discussion now as we document the process we're using to make sure we're prepared for US-RSE 2024 🙂

A starting point for discussion could be the SciPy conference reviewer guidelines, first written in 2017 that include many references I'm pasting in here:

Sources and citations
Prepared by the SciPy 2017 Diversity Committee and Program Chairs. Thanks to Philip B. Stark for useful links.

This document is a compilation from different sources listed below:

https://doughellmann.com/blog/2011/10/18/how-i-review-a-pycon-talk-proposal/

https://nearsoft.com/blog/europython-2016-a-review/

Everyday Bias: Identifying and Navigating Unconscious Judgments in Our Daily Lives. Howard J. Ross.

https://hbr.org/2015/04/3-ways-to-make-less-biased-decisions

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4238945/#!po=88.4615

[1]http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/9/e008707

[2] http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/176/1/47/full-text.pdf+html

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28580134/

[4] https://www.amazon.com/Everyday-Bias-Identifying-Navigating-Unconscious/dp/1442230835

[5] https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html

[6] https://hbr.org/2015/04/3-ways-to-make-less-biased-decisions

[7] Threats to objectivity in peer review: the case of gender

[NickleDave]

Adding this new study!
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1365-2435.14259?casa_token=01f-L51lpz0AAAAA:jy8nvggVbrqpFsWOWsd9_h6js8C9r60dczY4t8LppUgcl1PrGr337bjAWHQXQmZNDV3LgyBOzsm0IFU