DEI Statements Are Not About Ideology. They’re About Accountability.
Recommendations on centering accountability in your DEI statements.
Research team performance
A blog post about how we can improve the creativity and performance of research teams
Groups of diverse problem solvers can outperform groups of high-ability problem solvers
Introduces a general framework for modeling functionally diverse problem-solving agents.
Gender-Heterogeneous Working Groups Produce Higher Quality Science
The first empirical evidence to support the hypothesis that a gender-heterogeneous problem-solving team generally produced journal articles perceived to be higher quality by peers than a team comprised of highly-performing individuals of the same gender.
The Diversity–Innovation Paradox in Science
By analyzing data from nearly all US PhD recipients and their dissertations across three decades, this paper finds demographically underrepresented students innovate at higher rates than majority students, but their novel contributions are discounted and less likely to earn them academic positions. The discounting of minorities’ innovations may partly explain their underrepresentation in influential positions… Read more »
University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
The University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program was established in 1984 to encourage outstanding women and minority Ph.D. recipients to pursue academic careers at the University of California. The current program offers postdoctoral research fellowships, professional development and faculty mentoring to outstanding scholars in all fields whose research, teaching, and service will contribute to… Read more »
EAR Postdoctoral Fellowships (EAR-PF)
NSF Division of Earth Sciences offers postdoctoral awards. Award is made to individuals early in their careers, not to the associated institutions.
#GeoGRExit: Why Geosciences Programs Are Dropping the GRE
Geoscience graduate programs are increasingly abandoning the controversial test as an admissions requirement, a welcome development for equity and inclusion in the field. How can your school be next?
Ford Foundation Fellowships
Predoctoral, Dissertation, and Postdoctoral fellowships will be awarded in a national competition administered by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on behalf of the Ford Foundation.
To GRE or not to GRE
A case for abandoning the GRE in the geosciences
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