New (Early Career) Investigator Program in Earth Science

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NASA funds postdoctoral and early-career investigators in Earth science through their New Investigator Program. The new investigator must be the PI on the proposal.

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EAR Postdoctoral Fellowships (EAR-PF)

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NSF Division of Earth Sciences offers postdoctoral awards. Award is made to individuals early in their careers, not to the associated institutions.

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OECD Cooperative Research Program Fellowships

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The program is intended to recognize beginning investigators of significant potential and provide them with experience in research that will broaden perspectives, facilitate interdisciplinary interactions and help establish them in leadership positions within the Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences community.

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Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Marine Microbial Ecology

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Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Marine Microbial Ecology, application made by individual (up to 3 years post-PhD), award only to institution.

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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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