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13 Jul 2018 | 08:00 BST

University drops test scores from graduate-admissions criteria

Posted by Karen Kaplan | Categories: Academia, Collaboration, Communication, Diversity, Postgraduate, Relationships, Uncategorized, US

University drops test scores from graduate-admissions criteria

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Tags:

  • activism
  • admissions
  • diversity
  • graduate programme
  • GRE
  • minority
  • PhD student
  • recruitment
  • underrepresented minority

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22 Mar 2018 | 08:10 GMT

Fewer women lead top universities

Posted by Karen Kaplan | Categories: Academia, Admin, Career paths, Diversity, People Management, Postdoc, Postgraduate, Relationships, Report, UK, US

Fewer women lead top universities

Just 34 of leading universities named in this year’s annual Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings have female presidents, down 1% from the 36 that were led by women in 2017.  Read more

Tags:

  • administration
  • diversity
  • gender
  • Gender bias
  • gender equity
  • gender parity
  • leadership
  • Mentor
  • role model
  • university
  • university president
  • women in science

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08 Mar 2018 | 11:00 GMT

Celebrating International Women’s Day 2018: A Naturejobs roundup

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Career paths, Careers articles, Diversity, Research

Celebrating International Women's Day 2018: A Naturejobs roundup

Gender pay gap persists  … Read more

Tags:

  • #PhD
  • brain drain
  • diversity
  • international women's day
  • science
  • women
  • women in science
  • young scientists

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06 Mar 2018 | 08:00 GMT

When conferences collide with family needs

Posted by Karen Kaplan | Categories: Academia, Diversity, Events, Faculty, Perspectives, Postdoc, Postgraduate, Relationships, Research, Social media, Tenure, US

When conferences collide with family needs

Calisi, a behavioural neuroscientist at the University of California, Davis, and a group of 45 other scientist-parents, have turned their frustrations into a call for action. In a paper published online Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers detail the shortcomings of past conferences and offer a blueprint for making conferences more welcoming and accessible to parents of young children.  Read more

Tags:

  • breastfeeding
  • child
  • childcare
  • conference
  • discrimination
  • diversity
  • family
  • gender
  • Gender bias
  • mother
  • parent
  • scientific conference
  • scientific society
  • single parent
  • work-life balance

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05 Jan 2018 | 08:00 GMT

US postdocs need more support from their institutions, says advocacy group

Posted by Karen Kaplan | Categories: Academia, Career paths, Postdoc, Uncategorized, US

US postdocs need more support from their institutions, says advocacy group

US academic institutions continue to enhance postdoctoral researcher experiences, but there is room for significant improvement, according to a 3 January report  from the NPA in Rockville, Maryland.  Read more

Tags:

  • career track
  • compensation
  • diversity
  • health care
  • institution
  • National Postdoctoral Association
  • parental leave
  • postdoc
  • stipend
  • university
  • US

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19 Dec 2017 | 08:00 GMT

Tackling the #manel problem

Posted by Karen Kaplan | Categories: Academia, Diversity, Faculty, US

Tackling the #manel problem

The study, the latest in a lengthy string of gender-disparity findings in academia, quantifies a type of discrimination to which female scientists have long objected—the low number of speaker invitations that they receive compared with male scientists. One of the most egregious examples—speaker panels comprised solely of Caucasian males—has spawned the hashtag #manel (for ‘male panel’) on Twitter.  Read more

Tags:

  • academia
  • communication
  • discrimination
  • diversity
  • faculty
  • gender
  • Gender bias
  • presentation
  • speaker
  • talk
  • women in science

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21 Nov 2017 | 08:30 GMT

The struggles of female and underrepresented scientists

Posted by Karen Kaplan | Categories: Academia, Career paths, Diversity, Postgraduate, Research, US

The struggles of female and underrepresented scientists

Female and Hispanic faculty representation in the United States increased significantly between 1992 and 2015, but more slowly for black and indigenous faculty members, according to a review study of personnel records from four large US land-grant institutions published in PLoS One . The small numbers of URM lack the data necessary to draw valid  conclusions about retention. However, the study found, URM hiring is increasing, but not at the rate expected for the number of STEM doctoral degrees earned by the populations.  Read more

Tags:

  • academia
  • diversity
  • Gender bias
  • physics
  • promotion
  • publishing
  • salary
  • STEM
  • tenure
  • underrepresented minorities
  • women in science

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11 Oct 2017 | 13:00 BST

Turning scientific scrutiny on science itself

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Blog, Collaboration, Competition, Featured, People Management, Perspectives, Research

Turning scientific scrutiny on science itself

Naturejobs journalism competition winner Jiska van der Reest  … Read more

Tags:

  • academia
  • competition
  • diversity
  • expo
  • fix
  • issues
  • jiska van der reest
  • journalism competition
  • Mental Health
  • proactive
  • problems with academia
  • publishing
  • reproducibility
  • scientific scrutiny
  • winner
  • writing competition

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29 Sep 2017 | 10:00 BST

Mentoring: A powerful tool

Posted by Karen Kaplan | Categories: Academia, Career paths, Communication, Diversity, Faculty, Relationships, Research

Mentoring: A powerful tool

Rana Dajani, a molecular biologist based at Hashemite University in Zarqa, Jordan, developed the toolkit to inspire female researchers to build the networks they need to support, collaborate and advise one another as they move forward in their careers.  Read more

Tags:

  • communication
  • diversity
  • female scientist
  • gender
  • Mentor
  • mentoring
  • Middle East
  • relationship
  • woman
  • women
  • Women in STEM

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20 Sep 2017 | 13:43 BST

Diversity: Reasons to be cheerful, part 1

Posted by David Payne | Categories: Business, Diversity

Diversity: Reasons to be cheerful, part 1

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Tags:

  • diversity
  • equality
  • Gender bias

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