Promoting Equity in Science

We offer free mentorship, feedback, and outreach to create a science culture that reflects all of us.

​The Life Science Editors Foundation (LSEF) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) in the life sciences. By providing free editorial feedback, mentorship, and outreach, LSEF supports researchers from diverse backgrounds, helping them overcome systemic barriers and succeed in their scientific careers. Through initiatives like the JEDI Awards, Preprint Praise, and the Scientist Spotlight, LSEF amplifies underrepresented voices, fosters a more inclusive scientific community, and accelerates equity in science.

In science, breakthroughs often happen when different fields are combined… The same thing happens culturally. You have people from different backgrounds coming together, and they bring their thinking in ways that haven’t been combined before.

Dr. Erich Jarvis, professor and head of the Laboratory of Neurogenetics of Language at the Rockefeller University. “Portrait of a Scientific Artist, Champion of Diversity and Facilitative Leader”, Interaction Institute for Social Change, August 19, 2010. 

We believe that unequal treatment of women … makes it more difficult for them to succeed, causes them to be accorded less recognition when they do, and contributes so substantially to a poor quality of life that these women can actually become negative role models for younger women.

Dr. Nancy Hopkins, molecular biologist, Amgen, Inc. Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Experience of Women at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in the book Women in the Chemical Workforce: A Workshop Report to the Chemical Sciences Roundtable. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2000.

I want to make sure that that future that we’re creating is one that is the best it can be for people around the world, and also one that includes the full range of our talent and our skills – and, you know, gender and ethnicity, geography – to solving the world’s problems.

Dr. Mae Jemison, astronaut, physician, engineer, NPR 2017

By far, the main difference that I have noticed is that people who don’t know I am transgendered treat me with much more respect: I can even complete a whole sentence without being interrupted by a man.

Dr. Ben Barres, neuroscientist, trans scientist, advocate for gender equity in STEM, Nature 2006 

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