I am not for a second suggesting the past awardees are not worthy recipients, they are in fact all incredible! But, through creating a new award, @GeneticsSociety has an opportunity to show future generations that amazing scientists are a diverse set of people 2/3

Obviously, this is not limited to diversity in terms of gender, so let’s together make sure the committee are overwhelmed by an incredible and diverse set of nominees (across all of their awards) this year! 3/3

@nickywhiffin @GeneticsSociety Same story for the Curt Stern award where since its inauguration in 2001 there has been 24 amazing and worthy awardees, but only 2 have been women which surely cannot reflect the field:

@ceclindgren @GeneticsSociety No it really doesn't! 😞

@nickywhiffin @GeneticsSociety It would be really great if we could see all the nominees, and for there to be a diverse spread this year!

@nickywhiffin @GeneticsSociety Agree! It's time to see this early career award go to a female scientist! Let's not perpetuate gender disparities. Lots of early career women scientists doing awesome research!

@nickywhiffin @GeneticsSociety I sit on committee that votes on awards like this. Having noticed that a number of men self-nominated and that there were few female nominees (none were self-nominated) I nominated myself for an award in my field, which I won. Happy to help anyone wanting to give this a go!