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Universities scrub names of racist leaders — students say it’s a first step

Activists praise the actions, but now seek deeper cultural change.

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  Triggering swarming behaviour in locusts, and new insights into how humans synchronize.
  
  nature podcast | 12 Aug 2020
- 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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  This coronavirus is here for the long haul — here’s what scientists predict for the next months and years.
  
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  A focus on the coronavirus has disrupted detection and treatment of other infectious diseases. Governments and funders can do four things to avert a catastrophe.
  
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