Advances in innovative, sustainable, and equitable science is rooted in cultivating environments that allow all trainees to thrive. To continue to normalize abusive and exploitative academic practices while dismissing trainees from historically excluded and minoritized backgrounds with the sentiment that “you grow through what you go through” is comparable to attributing a poor harvest to droughts while actively salting the earth.
Continue ReadingBelief in “learning styles” is widespread despite there being no compelling scientific evidence for the theory. Read more on the problems with learning styles, how widespread beliefs in learning styles are, and why these beliefs persists.
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