Moving Forward on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in STEM
In her new post in our 'Honest conversations' series, Aflah Hanafiah addresses the systemic hurdles faced by marginalized students in STEM:
https://thenode.biologists.com/moving-forward-on-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-in-stem/education/
#CitationEquity is an important issue that i talk about a lot with colleagues- but who am i actually citing? i evaluated whether i was living up to my own values by taking a deep dive into my dissertation, and learned some uncomfortable truths about my shortcomings in this area:
In recent years, there’s been more and more discussion on how there are large disparities in who gets cited and who doesn’t in large swathes of scientific literature. While some of the existing studies trying to quantify the exact scope of the problem have some serious methodological issues (which
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Interesting project:
https://www.inclusivestem.org/
It looks pretty small-scale at this point, but they have some videos that get into sort-of the nuts and bolts of how, for instance, you can correctly input mathematical formulas (e.g., for homework or research papers) more efficiently without vision to help you. It's slow work, but it's the kind of thing that genuinely enables education and growth.
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