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Here are some excellent articles and resources.

As scientists, we must educate ourselves and understand how to encourage success in STEM. A few articles and resources below:

January 17th, 2025
What ‘unexplored’ means: mapping regions with digitized natural history records to look for ‘biodiversity blindspots’

https://peerj.com/articles/18511/

September 14th, 2023
Ethical considerations for analogue fieldwork in extreme environments

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-02065-y

March 25th, 2022
Community voices: Achieving real diversity in STEM requires the ability to transform institutions

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-27376-4

October 12th, 2021
Advancing Equity and Inclusion in Microbiome Research and Training

Improving inclusion and capacity in microbiome research. Article: https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/eap.2347

July 8th, 2021
Broadening the Ecological Mindset

An argument for expanding the definition of ecology to include data science, software engineering, and promoting a broader understanding of what it means to be an ecologist. Article: https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/eap.2347

Jan 26th, 2021
Fund Black Scientists

Read this important work explaining how racial funding disparities in NIH research create a barrier to success. Article: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(21)00011-8

Dec 21, 2020
Moving the Scientific Publication Process toward Social Justice

“Science is never neutral. It has along history of upholding racism, misogyny, ableism, colonialism, and other harmful systems of power.” A thoughtful piece outlining specific ways in which journals perpetuate bias in who gets published where, and how to combat this. Preprint: https://osf.io/kna3h/

Here’s a (growing) list of other important articles and resources:


2019, Higher Ed Today – Let’s Talk About Race: An Interview With Sylvia Hurtado [LINK]

2018, Nature – What does it take to make an institution more diverse? [LINK]

2018, Mother Jones – They’re Here. They’re Queer. They’re Scientists. [LINK]