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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">The Equitable Letters in Space Physics (ELSP) community organization is now accepting recommendation and nomination letters to review. ELSP's mission is 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:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">1) providing resources for people writing letters of recommendation and award nomination at the undergraduate level and above,<br>
2) provide resources for people wishing to learn about different implicit biases and lessen their manifestation, and<br>
3) provide reviews of recommendation and nomination letters, with the goal of lessening implicit bias in these letters.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">This system functions similarly to double-anonymous 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: <a href="mailto:equitable.space.letters@gmail.com"><span style="color:#000066">equitable.space.letters@gmail.com</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"><br>
You can also learn more about our mission and find both letter writing and implicit bias resources at the ELSP website: <a href="https://equitableletterssp.github.io/ELSP/"><span style="color:#000066">https://equitableletterssp.github.io/ELSP/</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">We are now accepting letters for review. Please upload/send your letter review as a text, .docx, or .pdf file to
<a href="mailto:equitable.space.letters@gmail.com"><span style="color:#000066">equitable.space.letters@gmail.com</span></a>. Though we aim for a fast turn-around, nominal review times are 1 month.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">ELSP Board of Directors (Angeline Burrell (Exec. Dir.), John Coxon, Alexa Halford, McArthur Jones Jr., Kate Zawdie)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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