CEDAR email: Equitable Letters for Space Physics

[Burrell, Angeline]

Dear CEDAR community,
 
I am pleased to announce the launch of a new effort, Equitable Letters for Space Physics (ELSP), to encourage merit-based recommendations and nominations in the space physics community by providing resources for letter writing and reviews of recommendation and nomination letters.  ELSP seeks to achieve this goal by:
 
1) Providing resources for people writing letters of recommendation and award nomination at the undergraduate level and above,
2) Provide resources for people wishing to learn about different implicit biases and lessen their manifestation, and
3) Provide reviews of recommendation and nomination letters, with the goal of lessening implicit bias in these letters.
 
At the moment, we are seeking volunteers to participate as reviewers in the letter submission system.  This system will function similarly to double-blind journal article reviews, with the ELSP executive director acting as editor.  If you have more questions or would like to participate, please contact us at: equitable.space.letters at gmail.com.
 
You can also learn more about our mission and find both letter writing and implicit bias resources at the ELSP website: https://equitableletterssp.github.io/ELSP/.
 
Happy International Women's Day,
Angeline G. Burrell
John Coxon,
Alexa Halford,
McArthur Jones Jr.,
Kate Zawdie