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Conferences failing to protect LGBT+ researchers

Promoting equity, diversity and inclusion at meetings requires more than a code of conduct, analysis finds.
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Ayesha Tulloch was reluctant to go to a conservation-biology conference in Malaysia, where laws discriminate against people of specific sexual orientations. “It came as quite a shock to me that the discipline I felt was the most accepting and tolerant toward the queer community would choose to have a conference in a place that’s really not queer friendly,” says Tulloch, a conservation scientist at the University of Sydney in Australia.

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Nature 584, 335 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02325-1

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