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Don’t walk on by: how to confront bias and bigotry aimed at others

Bystander-intervention programmes use humour and other tools to call out bullying and harassment in science.
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When Sunita Nandihalli was a psychology graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, they and an undergraduate intern found themselves in an lift with a man who seemed fascinated with the intern. She was multiracial, and he repeatedly quizzed her about her hair.

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Nature 608, 633-635 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-02190-0

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  • Correction 30 September 2022: An earlier version of this feature gave inaccurate details for the workshops run by ADVANCEGeo. The workshops are not four hours long and do not use actors to improvise scenarios. The story also underestimated the number of workshops and participants.

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