{"id":179,"date":"2018-02-02T12:51:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T11:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.techlib.cz\/?p=179"},"modified":"2018-02-02T12:52:08","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T11:52:08","slug":"in-memorium-ben-barres-1955-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.techlib.cz\/index.php\/2018\/02\/02\/in-memorium-ben-barres-1955-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memorium, Ben Barres (1955-2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/ben-barres-1955-2017\/?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=sa-editorial-social&amp;utm_content&amp;utm_term=mind_\">elegant tribute<\/a> to close mentorship and gender equality advocate Ben Barres, neurobiologist.<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Barres devoted much of his last decade to publicly describing the challenges he had faced as a woman in science, and offering ways to correct a system that he viewed as fundamentally biased against the advancement of women and minorities. He also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/stop-blocking-postdocs-paths-to-success-1.22515\">called for mentors to be held more accountable<\/a>\u00a0for the training and success of their graduate students and postdocs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Additional Reading:<\/p>\n<p>Barres, B.A. (2017). Stop Blocking Postdocs&#8217; Paths to Success. <em>Nature 548<\/em> (7669). 517\u2013519. <abbr title=\"Digital Object Identifier\">doi<\/abbr>:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/stop-blocking-postdocs-paths-to-success-1.22515\">10.1038\/548517a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An elegant tribute to close mentorship and gender equality advocate Ben Barres, neurobiologist. Excerpt: Barres devoted much of his last decade to publicly describing the challenges he had faced as a woman in science, and offering ways to correct a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.techlib.cz\/index.php\/2018\/02\/02\/in-memorium-ben-barres-1955-2017\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,20,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.techlib.cz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.techlib.cz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.techlib.cz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.techlib.cz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.techlib.cz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.techlib.cz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/blog.techlib.cz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.techlib.cz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.techlib.cz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.techlib.cz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}