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With a group of my colleagues, we are drafting a code of ethics/conduct for a professional society and its conferences. I'd like to kindly ask if you could please share with me good examples you have seen of such documents. Thank you! #CodeOfConduct #ScienceTwitter
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Ah! Gotcha. I have a bit of a strong response to comments about legal systems around codes of conduct because one of the things I say A LOT is that you don’t need one for things that are illegal!! >
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< Sexual harassment and physical abuse are - in many countries (but not all) illegal. Conference organisers don’t need a code of conduct to report people to the police. They DO need a code of conduct to support the most vulnerable people by deplatforming the most toxic people.
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I feel you. I think it's about understanding the audience too. If you already all agree that a CoC is the bare minimum that one needs to do, then you start to realise the hard part is actually enforcing it and communicating it clearly and most importantly:
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no matter what system is used (a CoC plus more) those who are protected ostensibly are protected actually. People who bend the CoC are not inline with the spirit of it even if they are inline with the letter of it (another useful legal concept here!) and should be dealt with.
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Totally agree. The hard work is getting people on board and all agreeing what that means. Not putting some text on a website and getting all proud of yourself



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Realising that nobody coming forward with a violation of the CoC might mean nothing. Because even at one of the conference we are lauding as having an excellent CoC there were violations I discussed with people who were those affected negatively and they didn't go forward.
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Again, it's nobody's fault — most likely — they didn't go forward! Society at large has effects on how people behave at conferences.
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And that is the power of the system, it's not a set of if-then rules. I feel like a lot fo discussion around CoCs is because people think it will be a set of rules without discussion or nuance or chance. But nothing in life is like that not even the actual law itself.
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So I like to bring it up to make it clear that even the "strictest" rules around, laws, are flexible and interpretable and in flux.
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side note to this great thread - I highly recommend
@ottertechllc training by@_sagesharp_. We did this for all#DIBSI2019 hosts, lead instructors, TAs, and assistants this year; +inf.
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