Step up to leadership for mid-career growth
It’s easy to get stuck in an endless whirl of grants and papers. Jeffrey McDonnell offers tips for becoming a leader in your field to ascend to the next professional level.
Lab heads should learn to talk about racism
Fundamentally, tackling racism and intolerance in science requires an acknowledgement from us all that it exists. This is a call on senior scientists to speak up and to invite others to do so.
What does it take to make an institution more diverse?
As you expand recruiting efforts — whether for students, faculty, staff, or proposals — a strategic recruitment plan can help you decide how to prioritize time and resources. What does it take to make an institution more diverse? (Nature, 6 June 2018) offers some ideas for getting started.
Community College Students in the Field: A review of a Community Conversation on Successful Programs and Strategies
To explore how field experiences can be designed to engage more community college students, the Undergraduate Field Experience Research Network (UFERN) held a “community conversation” (Community Colleges in the Field: Successful Programs and Strategies) on 15 October 2021. This article summarizes and provides synthesis of the discussion.
Typical physics Ph.D. admissions criteria limit access to underrepresented groups but fail to predict doctoral completion
Researchers are urging universities across the United States to find a new way to identify the next generation of scientists. A new study discovered that traditional admissions metrics for physics Ph.D. programs such as the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) do not predict completion and hurt the growth of diversity in physics, which is already the… Read more »
#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?
To GRE or not to GRE
A case for abandoning the GRE in the geosciences
Research team performance
A blog post about how we can improve the creativity and performance of research teams
Field Team Leadership: Strategies for Successful Field Work
A list of what I do as a field team leader to achieve a happy, comfortable, and safe field team, and some tips on how to contribute to a happy, productive and safe field team as a field team participant.
Beyond the numbers: Supporting an increasingly diverse LTER community
LTER Diversity Working Group report from the 2012 All Scientists Meeting.
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