Diversity, ctd.
It’s often assumed that a problem must be understood and explained before it can be solved. Let’s call this view the linear model problem solving, a...
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Diversity, cont.
Victor has a fantastic response to my last post that I strongly recommend. I hope to have a more detailed response soon. In the meantime, I’ll highlight t...
The multiple dimensions of diversity
This post is a placeholder for something I want to expand on. Here’s a quote from Shakira Nelson at a post-doc conference in March: Diversity is not just ...
The virtues of diversity
Lani Guinier of Harvard Law School touts the virtues of diversity (emphasis added): Diversity is not simply a matter of having people who look different sitting...
‘Scientific thinking’ as a barrier to diversity in science
A couple months ago my friend Kenny Gibbs wrote a great post about diversity and science for Scientific American. I want to reflect on this sentence (emphasis...
Diversity in science and creationism in schools
I’m busy this week preparing for the AAAS Annual Meeting and specifically this panel. I convened this panel to try spark a debate on how we should think a...
We need more shuffling to vocational schools
I often learn that that ideas I thought were original actually aren’t–someone else got there years or even decades earlier. In 2015 Andy Rotherham c...
Academia was built by and for academics
A genuine commitment to [an] inclusive society requires a willingness to shape institutions to that end, even when doing so is for the benefit of others or when...
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I was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and lived there for the first 12 years of my life. I moved to New York City for the next two years, the suburbs of Philadelphia...
Weekend science, religion, and etc. reading list
Here it is folks! Although I first lived in New York City when I immigrated to the US, I didn’t follow American sports until I moved to to Philadelphia. T...