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    1. Epidemiology and Global Health

    The importance of patient-partnered research in addressing long COVID: Takeaways for biomedical research study design from the RECOVER Initiative’s Mechanistic Pathways taskforce

    C Kim, Benjamin Chen ... RECOVER Mechanistic Pathways Task Force
    Collaborative and mutually beneficial patient-provider-researcher relationships are crucial in achieving success in understanding and treating long COVID.
  1. Jess Wade smiling and winking at the camera, making the peace sign with her left hand.

    Talking Points: Jess Wade on gender bias in science

    Tackling gender inequalities in science needs to start in school.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology

    Analysis of NIH K99/R00 awards and the career progression of awardees

    Nicole C Woitowich, Sarah R Hengel ... Daniel J Tyrrell
    There is a significant disadvantage to receive a major grant (i.e., R01) for K99/R00 awardees that are women, those at lower funded institutions, and those with lower career mobility.
    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Gendered hiring and attrition on the path to parity for academic faculty

    Nicholas LaBerge, Kenneth Hunter Wapman ... Daniel B Larremore
    Achieving gender parity among U.S. tenured and tenure-track faculty will require changes to hiring, which has substantially greater impacts on faculty gender representation than gendered differences in attrition rates.
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Medicine

    Association between bisphosphonate use and COVID-19 related outcomes

    Jeffrey Thompson, Yidi Wang ... Ulrich H von Andrian
    A claims-based retrospective cohort study shows that patients who used bisphosphonates between 01/01/2019 and 02/29/2020 had dramatically reduced odds of SARS-CoV-2 testing, COVID-19 diagnosis, and COVID-19-related hospitalizations during the initial surge of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US.
  2. Photograph of Catherine Kyobutungi smiling at the camera, wearing a suit.

    Talking Points: Catherine Kyobutungi on global health

    To decolonialise global health, research projects need to involve scientists from the Global South from day one.
  3. eLife Latest: The diversity of our editorial community

    A first-of-its-kind survey of eLife editors helps reveal how much our editorial boards reflect the diverse research communities that we serve.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    The genomic footprint of social stratification in admixing American populations

    Alex Mas-Sandoval, Sara Mathieson, Matteo Fumagalli
    Social hierarchies resulting from the European colonization of the Americas stratified the population structure, leading to ancestry-related assortative mating and sex bias patterns that can be inferred from the genomes of the populations across the continent.
  4. Image of interviewee Marcus Lambert. Image credit: Avelino Amado

    Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: Marcus Lambert

    Marcus Lambert, Assistant Dean of Diversity at Weill Cornell Medicine, describes how improving diversity in the scientific workforce is going to take more than attracting students from underrepresented groups.
  5. A photograph of Rosanna Alegado in her lab. Image credit: Elyse Butler

    Talking Points: Rosanna Alegado on scientists and Indigenous communities

    Developing strong relationships between scientists and Indigenous communities is essential to promoting the rights of Indigenous Peoples and improving science.