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How to diversify your department’s seminar series

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Seminar series are a key part of academic culture. We present practices that are aimed at increasing the diversity of seminar speakers, and thus broadening associated opportunities to more members of the ecology and evolutionary biology research community.

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We thank B. A. Hà, C. T. Kremer and F. Zapata for useful discussion and feedback on this manuscript, and C. J. Schell for advice on preparation and submission. H.P.S. was supported by NIH Training Grant in Genomic Analysis and Interpretation: T32HG002536.

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    Christina A. Del Carpio, Ashlyn T. Ford, Eva S. Horna Lowell, Marissa E. Ochoa & Hayden P. Speck

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Del Carpio, C.A., Ford, A.T., Lowell, E.S.H. et al. How to diversify your department’s seminar series. Nat Ecol Evol 7, 637–639 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02026-8

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