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Celebrating Alfred Russel Wallace with … a symposium of only straight white men?
A sample of Alfred Russel Wallace’s butterfly collection, which is a lot more colorful than the panel of speakers UCLA has chosen to celebrate his legacy. (Natural History Museum, London) Update, 31...
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Don’t Buy This
One of the co-founders of the structure of the DNA, James Watson, is selling his Nobel Prize medallion. And since he’s bringing himself back into the media spotlight, an article at slate reminds us all...
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Female Scientists Have Got You Covered
Elly Zupko tweeted this image during #shirtstorm: Long story short, that shirt – celebrating important female scientists – is becoming a reality. Check out the kickstarter campaign for the full story....
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Finding bias in discussions of campus sexual assault data
Flickr: Wolfram Burner When science is used to support proposed changes to public policy, it isn’t uncommon for opponents of the policy changes to question the legitimacy of the studies cited. This...
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Isn’t that just…sexism?
In case you missed it, there was a big-splash paper in PNAS recently entitled “National hiring experiments reveal 2:1 faculty preference for women on STEM tenure-track“. Williams & Ceci found one...
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Cards against humanity, for humanity!
You know that card game that makes you giggle inappropriately? Well, it turns out the company behind them is not as bad as one would think. This year the gaming company announced it would be selling a...
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Having Dinner with Women in Science
Here at the University of Idaho (Go Vandals) we have some awesome resources in the biology department (IBEST, BCB program, BEACON to name a few). But by far the most interesting an influential for me...
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Why Female Professors Get Lower Ratings
A new study finds that student evaluations are systematically biased against female professors. So much so that they are stronger indications of gender bias than what they actually aim to evaluate: the...
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How Male Biology Students See Their Female Peers
We talk a lot about diversity in STEM on this blog. But up to this point the conversation has largely addressed how the pipeline is likely leaking in graduate school of the post graduate career....
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Introducing a new resource for ecology and evolutionary biology
Gina Baucom and Meghan Duffy noted and lamented the lack of female scientist getting the big ecology and evolution awards. And then they decided to do something about it. I give you DiversifyEEB, a...
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The “Relocation” Problem in Academia
Margret Kosmala over at Ecology Bits has written one of the best work-life balance posts I have read in awhile. The post titled “I am unwilling to relocate again (and it will probably cost me my...
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This Thanksgiving, Be Thankful for Science
In a deeply divided country, some people are dreading going home for the holidays. The anticipation of political conversation, about who voted for who, and about the racist, misogynist bigot who is...
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We Are Never Just Scientists
During the Women’s March on Washington, a group formed called 500 women scientists. Their mission statement is to promote minorities and women in science and to make the inequality inherent in this...
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Science for the People
The March for Science has gained scorn, ridicule, and enthusiasm since the inauguration. Confused? Concerned? Want to help anyway? Check out Science for the People, a new organization who’s primary...
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The deficit model of STEM recruitment
Over at Small Pond Science, there is a thought provoking post about how to truly ‘diversify STEM fields. If you want to truly diversify, then we need to stop trying to fill in the holes based on...
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New Science Communication Goal: Become a Comic Book Hero
I don’t need to be Ironman, or the Hulk. Although it would be cool to be Beast, or Professor X, I’d settle for being a scientist comic book hero! Like Dr Sheiner, a research fellow at the Wellcome...
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The Week My Husband Left And My House Was Burgled I Secured A Grant To Begin...
(Like many other young scientists) I often struggle and can’t but help feeling overwhelmed with the tasks stacked against me. Paying bills on time, moving forward in work, keeping my personal life from...
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Recommendations for making science inclusive, and how to talk about it with...
Small Pond Science continues to be awesome. And they highlighted a short peer-reviewed paper that they wrote about how to promote equity and inclusion, which you can find the full text here and the PDF...
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Without inclusion, diversity initiatives may not be enough
Double whammy this week about diversity in science and how to change your lab/department/field. I’m not complaining, bring on the diversity! And in an interesting twist, both of the posts this week...
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Thanks Dynamic Ecology!
Saving me the time of having to write a “how to pick a great postdoc” Dynamic Ecology has already written a great post about how to pick a postdoctoral advisor. I agree with almost everything they...
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