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February 2022 Newsletter

March 2, 2022

Unable to display PDF file. Download instead. In this issue, read what the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) initiative has…

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Celebrating a Dissertation Defense

March 1, 2022
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Dear Labby, I am a graduate student and the first in my extended family to complete an undergraduate degree. I…

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Creating Cell Biology Courses That Are Inclusive for People
Who Are Intersex and/or Have Queer Genders

March 1, 2022
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The number of people whose gender does not match the sex they were assigned at birth is growing. Yet this…

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Biden Adminstration Makes Important Changes to Visas

March 1, 2022
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At its December meeting, the ASCB Council met with staff from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy…

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Back to the Moon

March 1, 2022
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In early February President Biden relaunched the Cancer Moonshot program he first launched in 2016 as vice president. The goal…

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Cell Bio Virtual 2021: A Retrospective

March 1, 2022

One of the hardest articles for me to write each year is the review of the ASCB annual meeting. How…

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Cell Forces Play an Important Role

March 1, 2022

“We live in a physical world and every single molecule within your cells and every tissue is subjected to some…

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Council Reflects on Achievements, Setbacks
in 2021

March 1, 2022
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ASCB’s Council met virtually on Sunday, December 5, 2021. ASCB’s President for 2021, Ruth Lehmann, welcomed Martin Chalfie as the…

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DORA and Responsible Research Assessment: Moving from Awareness to Action

March 1, 2022

Evolving DORA By calling on organizations to stop using journal-based metrics for decisions that impact academic careers, the San Francisco…

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Helping Each Other

February 28, 2022
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Although you are reading this essay in February, I am actually writing it in the first weeks of January. We…

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