Communities

There are lots of awesome communities and campaigns working to provide support and create change in Science, STEMM, and more. Here are a few of them:

  • LGBTQ+ STEM

    Improving LGBTQ+ visibility in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

  • TIGERSTEMM

    TIGERS is a group of UK-based STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths and Medicine) professionals & students who are passionate about improving equality, diversity, inclusion & accessibility.

  • Pride in STEM

  • 500 Queer Scientists

    A visibility campaign for LGBTQ+ people and their allies working in STEM and STEM-supporting jobs

  • The STEM Village

    A platform to improve visibility of the LGBTQ+ STEM community.

  • BBSTEM

    A non-profit organisation campaigning for balance and representation of Black individuals in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM).

  • 500 Women Scientists

  • The Turing Way

    The Turing way is an awesome open source community-driven guide to reproducible, ethical, inclusive, and collaborative data science. They are really friendly and encourage contribution from the community, so if you want to get some practice using Github, this is a great place to start.

  • ReproducibiliTea

    Open Science journal club initiative.

  • Data Ethics Club

    Data Ethics Club is a discussion group/”journal” club about doing data science ethically.

  • NorthernBUG

    Northern Bioinformatics User Group.

  • R-ladies

    A world-wide organisation to promote gender diversity in the R community.

  • BlindRUG

    Blind R Users Group