Simons Early Career Investigator in Aquatic Microbial Ecology and Evolution Awards

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Simons Foundation Early Career awards in Marine Microbial Ecology, (More than one year and less than 8 years in a tenure track or equivalent position.

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University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

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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 diversity and equal opportunity at UC.

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The Diversity–Innovation Paradox in Science

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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 of academia.

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Gender-Heterogeneous Working Groups Produce Higher Quality Science

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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.

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Groups of diverse problem solvers can outperform groups of high-ability problem solvers

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Introduces a general framework for modeling functionally diverse problem-solving agents.

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Research team performance

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A blog post about how we can improve the creativity and performance of research teams

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Stopping Harassment and Assault

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NSF’s statement on harassment and assault which includes requirements instructions on reporting misconduct.

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Field Inclusive, Inc.

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Learning and being aware of various social field safety issues that could arise for people who professionally work outdoors — but more specifically — for marginalized and historically excluded individuals is our goal. Social Field Safety Workshops cover the history of minorities in the outdoors, group brainstorming activities, and group discussions about solutions to common social field safety scenarios that could impact certain groups of individuals.

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White Academia: Do Better

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The article outlines tangible actions white academics can take to support Black colleagues and students.

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Strengthening Pathways to Faculty Careers in STEM: Recommendations for Systemic Change to Support Underrepresented Groups

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Lessons from the APLU INCLUDES Project. The Association of Public and Land Grant Universities has compiled evidence of promising practices for recruiting and retaining faculty from underrepresented groups.

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