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LGBTQ scientists are still left out

Support from mainstream diversity initiatives would create a virtuous circle of visibility and benefit science for all, urges Jon Freeman.
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    1. Jon Freeman is associate professor of psychology and neural science at New York University in New York City and director of the Social Cognitive & Neural Sciences Lab.

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At university in New York City in the 2000s, a professor warned me that I wouldn’t get into any PhD programmes if I kept “looking” the way I did. During a single tenure-track job interview in 2011, 13 people asked me: “Do you have a wife?” And when I was an assistant professor, a colleague pulled aside a candidate for a postdoctoral position in my lab to let him know that I’m gay, just in case it would be a problem.

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Nature 559, 27-28 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-05587-y

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