Casey Schneider-Mizell

@csdashm.com

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Assistant Investigator at Allen Institute for Brain Science. Formerly Janelia, Universität Zürich, and U Mich Physics. Building bottom-up insight into the brain from synaptic resolution connectomics and making computational tools to help you do that too.

Mesh analysis pipeline showing feature extraction and spine classification.

The aim of asking authors to consider citation diversity is not to require a specific level of representation for different groups in the reference list. Rather, we hope that our request serves as a nudge for authors to slow down and take the time to survey the field prior to writing, rather than relying on the same articles (and by extension, authors) that they have historically cited and therefore ‘come to mind’ first. Of course, some forms of diversity are more easily assessed than others — identifying an author’s institution and country of employment (markers of geographical representation) are more straightforward than identifying an author’s gender or ethnic identity. However, we hope that encouraging authors to think about citation diversity will prompt them to engage in concerted and sustained efforts to educate themselves about the relevant work of underrepresented scholars.

A neuroglancer screenshot showing neuronal meshes and electron microscopy imagery.