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Women and Wikipedia
Perhaps you have seen that Nobel Laureate in chemistry, Donna Strickland did not have a Wikipedia page until just now. She was deemed by the moderator not to be worthy back in March 2018. See the discussion on the Wikipedia … Continue reading
Posted in Awards and prizes, Gender bias, Wikipedia
Tagged bias, Nobel Prize, notabilitiy, Wikipedia, women in science
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You have ten minutes to win a great score on your grant proposal
Have you seen the studies that indicate a high correspondence between what students say about your class when queried after 10 minutes and after an entire semester? What if a similar effect influences whether or not your grant proposal is … Continue reading
Why those recommendation form checkboxes are meaningless
Choosing the next graduate class is one of the most important things we do besides choosing new faculty. We have a fairly typical application form with two essays by the student, three recommendations by faculty that know them, standardized test … Continue reading
Posted in Graduate school, Recommendations
Tagged bias, inability to judge, intellectual merit, recommendations, Social science
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How scientific and fair can faculty hiring be?
If you have a committee of 6 choosing the 4 or so biologists to interview for a single position, what would a really accurate way to do it be? I think you would look hard at the error factor. If … Continue reading
Posted in Jobs
Tagged bias, faculty hiring, fit in department, randomness, scientific excellence
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How to stop grading unfairly: 9 ways
It may be only the second week of class, but I have a stack of 45 tests to grade. The students had to answer 10 of 20 questions that generally could be answered in 3 to 5 sentences. Now I … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching, Undergraduates
Tagged bias, exams, fairness, quizzes, student ID, testing
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Do women ever get the faculty achievement awards at your university?
We just got the invitation to the Faculty Achievement and Awards Ceremony from our Chancellor and Mrs. Chancellor (that’s right, her name is not on there except as Mrs. So and So), and from the Faculty Senate Council and its … Continue reading
Posted in Gender bias, White male bias
Tagged achievement, bias, recognition, sexism, women
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Women, did you hear biology professor is the most glorious career I can imagine?
I just want to cry when I hear how discouraged women are from pursuing science careers. I want to do more than cry when I hear about how little encouragement professors give even their most promising women. Why do we … Continue reading
Keep your research honest, unbiased, comprehensive, and blind
Science cannot advance on fraudulent publications, whether the problems are big or small. We all know the basics of honest research, but there are also things we need to be taught. These are based on understanding our inadvertent tendencies to … Continue reading
What you do not know about ethical science practice
Why should you have anything to learn about ethics in research if you are a good person who learned early about proper behavior? You know not to take things that belong to other people. You know not to cheat. You … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics
Tagged bias, blind studies, data, data fabrication, ethics, Experiment, plagiarism, Research, Tests and Testing
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Are female professors invisible to undergrads?
One hundred percent of the last eight undergraduates to contact us about doing research in our laboratory have contacted my male partner and not me. Only one of these students was female. She too contacted only Dave. What is going … Continue reading
Posted in Genber bias, Undergraduates
Tagged bias, female scientists, Research, REU, sexism, summer programs, undergraduates
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