This session will offer an opportunity for participants to get to know one another and establish the ground rules for inclusive and supportive discussions via Zoom chat and breakout rooms.

This session will feature a panel of speakers discussing programs and initiatives designed to train, support, or promote diverse students, faculty, and/or staff. Speakers: Emma Towlson (University of Calgary), Dani Bassett (Pennsylvania State University).

Scientific talks by people of color, women, LGBTQIA+ people, and other underrepresented minorities in Network Science who are on/near the job market. Proposals to present will be solicited on the satellite website and selected no less than 2 months prior to the conference. This session will be broadly advertised and open to anyone on the job market in the upcoming year (not just satellite participants). We will recruit senior network scientists to be audience members and provide constructive criticism. 

Inspired by Jess Wade’s efforts to increase the representation and recognition of women scientists on online platforms like Wikipedia, we will create, write, and edit new Wikipedia pages for outstanding Network Scientists who are people of color, women, LGBTQIA+ people, or otherwise identify as underrepresented minorities in English and other languages. Participants will break out into Zoom rooms to coordinate writing of new pages. This event will continue overnight with participants forming groups to create and edit pages for Network Scientists and Network Science related topics.

Community time to talk about ideas and recaps of the day with participants. Participants can brainstorm ideas of what their institutions, labs, and universities can do to improve diversity and make science a more welcoming and equitable space. Also a time to decompress from the days topics and events.

Alfredo J. Morales-Guzman and José R. Nicolás-Carlock, organizers of Redes y Sistemas Complejos en Español, will talk about their work to promote Complex Systems and Network Science work from and for the Spanish speaking community.

It has been illegal for decades in the US to advertise different job opportunities to people of different genders or races. However, the growing online advertising business created new avenues for such discrimination to happen. In this talk, Piotr Sapiezynski (Northeastern University) will show how Facebook’s algorithms can contribute to maintaining the status quo of gender imbalances on the job market by showing ads for jobs in certain professions predominantly to one gender - or one race - despite the advertiser’s inclusive targeting.

Participants in Day 1’s Wiki Edit-a-thon can check in and share the pages they created and things they learned from this experience.

Community time to talk about ideas and recaps of the day with participants. Participants can brainstorm ideas of what their institutions, labs, and universities can do to improve diversity and make science a more welcoming and equitable space. Also a time to decompress from the days topics and events.

This session will start with an overview of the outcomes from the first Diversify Netsci satellite from last year and a brief summary of the ideas presented during this year’s satellite and other ongoing initiatives aimed at improving diversity within network science and research.

Community wide panel discussion with Diversify NetSci Organizers and Senior NetSci Leadership, with shared stories and perspectives from the community. This plenary will end with a call to action and a statement of commitment from different senior leaders in Network Science (TBA) on what they and their institutions plan to do to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion in research and academia.