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    Jun 9
    Heading to Barcelona for #FENS2026? 🧠 Here is your ultimate guide to connecting with the ALBA community and levelling up your #equity & #inclusion advocacy. 📍 All events take place at the Fira Gran Via, Barcelona 🌐 ALBA-Neuromatch-IBRO Networking Event on ‘‘Driving
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    Jul 11, 2022
    #FENS2022: Dr Mahmoud Bukar Maina @mahmoudbukar wins the ALBA-FKNE Diversity Prize 2022 for his constant efforts to expand science capacity in Africa & to promote diversity in basic neuroscience research. What a great role model for our community! 👉loom.ly/fdBBWEU
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    Dec 15, 2023
    🤩Call for the first ALBA-Roche Research Prize for Excellence in Neuroscience is now open! Nominate exceptional mid-career neuroscientists from underrepresented backgrounds, whose work focuses on the nervous system & may improve our understanding of the causal mechanisms of brain
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    Nov 23, 2020
    ALBA sent this letter to @NatureComms on behalf of a collective of researchers last Friday 20 Nov, calling for the paper's retraction in its current form. Thank you all for work and support of this initiative. Learn more and sign the letter: bit.ly/2KtQZjz #WomenInSTEM
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    Feb 11, 2023
    It's International Day of Women & Girls in Science! This year's theme is I.D.E.A.S.: Innovate. Demonstrate. Elevate. Advance. Sustain. Let's defy gender bias & support sustainable representation of women in science💪🏽 @WomenScienceDay @UN_Women @FENSorg @ibroSecretariat @SfNtweets
    Wish from ALBA Network on the occasion of international day of women and girls in science, against the backdrop of an image of Woman-Life-Freedom, a 3-word slogan representing freedom for women from all forms of oppression.
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    Jul 25, 2022
    #BiNW22 is starting today! 🤩 For this 3rd edition of @BlackInNeuro Week #BlackInNeuroRollCall, we will be highlighting Black #neuroscientists who live or work in #Europe & we start with @mahmoudbukar who is the 2022 winner of the ALBA @FensKavliNet Diversity Prize. 1/2
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    Jan 15, 2021
    Do I have to act like a man to succeed in Science? On the occasion of the Gender and Science Meet 2021 ALBA and HD Pain Consortium partnered to organise an online #mentoring workshop for young #WomenInScience Tue. 9th February: 2.30pm CET Free registration-bit.ly/GendSci
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    Jan 12, 2021
    The #ALBADeclaration on #Equity and #Inclusion is now officially launched! Thank you to the 167 organisations that already signed the Declaration. We welcome many more to do the same alba.network/declaration
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    Feb 17, 2021
    📣 Welcome to the new ALBA Network Chair-Elect - Dr Megan Carey (@Neuro_CF, PT) We are grateful for her dedication & her crucial work in the development of the #ALBADeclaration on #Equity and #Inclusion. Dr Carey will become Chair in July. More info at alba.network/about-us
    Meet the CHAIR-elect OF THE ALBA NETWORK Megan’s lab studies the neural control of movement in mice. Their work combines quantitative behavioral analysis, neurophysiology, and genetic tools to elucidate neural circuit mechanisms for motor coordination and learning. ABOUT ALBA "I see ALBA as a fantastic opportunity to join together with others who have thought deeply about equity, inclusion, and diversity, in order to make a difference in neuroscience and beyond"
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    Jul 25, 2022
    #BiNW22 #BlackInNeuroRollCall We continue with @AleenaGarner who finished her postdoc at @FMIscience in Basel, CH & is now an assistant professor of neuroscience at @harvardmed in Boston. 👉🏿 garnerlab.hms.harvard.edu @BlackInNeuro
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    Nov 8, 2023
    🌟ALBA Network partners with @Roche!🌟 Introducing the ALBA-Roche Prize, a €15,000 annual #award to recognise excellence in neuroscience research by an individual from an #underrepresented group in academia. With Roche as a core partner, we're taking a giant step towards a more
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    Jan 5, 2021
    Join us in 1 week for the launch of the #ALBADeclaration on #Equity and #Inclusion at #SfNConnectome21. Learn about a concrete set of actions that individuals & institutions can commit to, to make #BrainResearch more #inclusive. Info & registration: bit.ly/AlbaDec
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    Oct 12, 2023
    📢Embrace #GlobalDiversityAwarenessMonth at the ALBA Week 2023! For the last week of Oct (23-27), we've planned webinars on different dimensions of #diversity, from #LGBTQIA+ advocacy to bridging the #GenderGap & #socioeconomic disparities.🌏 Register now👉🏿loom.ly/yTtAyTI
    On a pink to yellow gradient background, the title "alba diversity week" is written in black on the left. Under the title, the dates "23-27 October 2023" and "#GlobalDiversityAwarenessMonth" are written in black. "Register now" is written in yellow next to a black and white QR code. On the top right the ALBA Network Logo is in purple. on the right, there is a picture of multicoloured twines that are tied in a knot. on the picture a blue to pink gradient box says "learn more at alba.network/week2023" in white.
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    Mar 8, 2024
    International Women's Day 🌟 Ever heard of the #MatildaEffect? 👩‍🔬 This tendency to mis-attribute the contributions of #WomenInScience to their male colleagues. The gender citation gap contributes to the disparities in the advancement of women in academia. #IWD2024 🧵1/4 @FENSorg
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