SIPS (as an organization) will need to think about how to support dissemination of things we produce at the conference
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Anyone got tips to push back against attitude “CoC’s are good, but we don’t need a formal one”, “we don’t need to discuss it with all” etc?
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I think a good one might be "it encourages consistency with respect to enforcement" and "we cannot have a discussion without certain
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ground rules on behaviour and attitude".
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@alexwlchan is a great person to ask on this as IIRC he set up@PyConUK with theirs.
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No, not me at all! I think Daniele Procida drove a lot of the PyCon UK inclusivity work several years ago, but before my time.
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Oh, sorry! Thanks for the info! I don't know why but I was convinced you at least thought of the quiet room?
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Nope! I evangelised it pretty hard both during and after the conference, but I didn’t do any logistics last year.
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Well, all in all it was a super great atmosphere.

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do in future. My lab has been working on one too to address the specifics as well as the general.
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Yes - conference code of conducts are awesome. My current favourite is from
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The idea is not just to stop sexism etc but to stop what we call in my lab "labs within a lab" so mutatis mutandis "conferences within a
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COC is here: https://www.improvingpsych.org/SIPS2017/code-of-conduct/ … We also put it in printed materials and email comms.
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I think how this discussion began was with some satire and later some memes. Future cases will be similarly challenging to handle, but >
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we'll do our best to respond appropriately. one thing we *don't* want to do is quell appropriate scientific discussion and critique. >
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Given previous tone debates, I suspect this will be challenging as not all parties agree where the line is between harassment and debate.
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I also worry that pretty small slights in person are now magnified x1000 on social media. So that's another needle to thread next time.
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Satire and memes are great of course, but there are subsets of these which are sexist and otherwise exclusionary. Good luck policing this.
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That's the thing...and this is my personal opinion, not the opinion of the org or even the other organizers. I think we can't police it. >
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What we can do is (1) Model strong norms for inclusion, (2) Try to put structures in place that create an inclusive culture, (3) bake >
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