Dear Geodynamics community,
This is your trusted former Editor-in-Chief speaking. I have an important announcement!
In very exciting news, the team behind the 101 Geodynamic modelling paper (which I am sure you have read and loved, right? No? Well, what are you waiting for?! Check it out here!) has reunited to write another very relevant paper tailored to the geodynamics community. You’re welcome. We know you’ve been waiting for it.
This time, we thought we’d dive into Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) and map out how the geodynamics community has been doing in terms of diversity.
Taking the participants of the Ada Lovelace workshop as representative of the demographics of the geodynamics community, we want to look at how different diversity aspects within the community have changed from 1987 (when the first Ada Lovelace workshop was held, albeit under a different name) to 2024 (the most recent workshop in Sète, France).
As such, we are collecting publicly-available data on all past participants of the Ada Lovelace workshops over the years. Apart from name (obviously) and affiliation, we also collect (binary) gender and the year someone obtained their PhD (if they currently have a PhD), as well as conference-specific information on the type of contribution (keynote, talk, poster) and involvement in organisation of the conference (LOC, SOC, chair). This allows us to map different diversity aspects over time, including gender balance, the variety in career stages attending the conference, and the countries of affiliation that the conference attracts.
Why are we telling you all this? Well, there is this thing called GDPR: the General Data Protection Regulation, which means we can’t just go about collecting data (even if it is publicly available) without notifying the people it concerns. So. Consider yourself notified. Of course all our results and communications on the gathered data will be anonymous and none of the identifiable data will ever be publicly shared. Look, we actually filled in a lot of forms about this: Participant Information Sheet (University of Edinburgh, UK) and Information Obligation (GFZ, Germany) and there are many, many, many more forms and assessments behind the scenes! Browse them at your leisure to regain a passion for your own research instead.
Important: please make sure to specifically read the Participant Information Sheet, which contains all the official info on this project, hopefully addresses all your potential concerns, and outlines how you can opt out of having your data collected by us.
Stay tuned for the results, hopefully to be published at some point in the next couple of years in the wonderful new journal Geodynamica.
Yes, we still need to launch the journal.
Yes, we still need to write the paper.
No, we haven’t finished anything yet.
But now at least you know that your data is being collected. And we are complying with the law.
Oh, and we’ll have a poster at EGU (X1.178 at 14:00h on Thursday!), so pop by!
Tìoraidh!
Iris
also on behalf of my fabulous co-authors: Anne Glerum, Juliane Dannberg, Adina Pusok, Fabio Crameri, Cedric Thieulot
