<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Everyone!</div><div><br></div><div><span><span class="gmail-il">Happy post-thankgiving! I hope you're all having a restful few days. </span></span></div><div><span><span class="gmail-il"><br></span></span></div><div><span><span class="gmail-il">I decided to fill the gap we had in the lab meeting schedule next week with a DEI discussion. I like having some kind of DEI topic/activity once or twice per semester and I realized we hadn't had one yet this semester. </span></span></div><div><span><span class="gmail-il"><br></span></span></div><div><span><span class="gmail-il">Please see the two articles attached. The short one is a new perspective article co-authored by a past collaborator of mine, Ezra Kottler. The other (Cech and Widzunas 2021) is a research article that has garnered a lot of citations in the few years since it was published and has a lot of compelling results that quantify LGBTQ inequality in STEM.</span></span></div><div><span><span class="gmail-il"><br></span></span></div><div><span><span class="gmail-il">Please read them both and I'll facilitate a discussion. <b>Please bring at least three questions for the group related to these papers. <br></b></span></span></div><div><span><span class="gmail-il"><br></span></span><div>Join us, and as always, if you need to Zoom in, please let me know and I'll set it up. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Here's the schedule for reference:<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oaE3sjwgokz4vKhHQhYKakTKjyMrg6UZgrAHW1EiyVw/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oaE3sjwgokz4vKhHQhYKakTKjyMrg6UZgrAHW1EiyVw/edit?usp=sharing</a></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Jay<font color="#888888"><font color="#888888"><font color="#888888"><br></font></font></font></div></div><br><br clear="all"><br><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Jason (Jay) Sexton</span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">(he/him/his)<br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Associate Professor</span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span></font></span></font></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Chair, UC Merced Greenhouses Committee<br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Department of Life and Environmental Sciences<br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span></font></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">University of California, Merced<br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">231 Science and Engineering Building 1<br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:jsexton2@ucmerced.edu" target="_blank">jsexton2@ucmerced.edu</a><br><a href="http://sextonlab.ucmerced.edu/" target="_blank">http://sextonlab.ucmerced.edu/</a><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><br><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
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