Thread by @ScienceMagazine

In preparation for #ShutDownSTEM tomorrow, 10 June, Science has made the following articles available without subscription or registration to help facilitate discussion.

"As more organizations and industries adopt digital tools to identify risk and allocate resources, the automation of racial discrimination is a growing concern."

How a health care algorithm reflects underlying bias in society in this #SciMagPerspective: fcld.ly/38q1tpf

In New York City, Latino and black people have been twice as likely to die from #COVID19 as white people. Research shows that this current pandemic is not atypical in hitting poor and marginalized communities harder. @NewsfromScience fcld.ly/2ubp78q

@NewsfromScience “Embracing the expanding definition of diversity is easy, but using the word with focus so as not to weaken the paths for achieving diversity will take great attention.”

Read this #SciMagEditorial by Dr. Cato T. Laurencin of @UConn Health: fcld.ly/w800j45

“These stories are not going to be lost. They’re going to be remembered.” Excavations on a Caribbean island are revealing the lives of enslaved Africans—and how their labor built today's world. @NewsfromScience fcld.ly/bt44jnb

In this #SciMagPolicyForum, the Meyerhoff Scholars Program at @UMBC provides a promising model for increasing retention and #academic performance of underrepresented minority undergraduates in #STEM. fcld.ly/lrfg0r6

"Katherine Johnson earned her place in the pantheon of America's space heroes; she and the other women who contributed to the country's path to the heavens are hidden no more." A look back at the life of Katherine Johnson in this #SciMagRetrospective: fcld.ly/0ixt3y9

Corina Newsome—one of the #BlackBirdersWeek organizers—is a graduate student who studies seaside sparrows in coastal marshes. @ScienceCareers spoke with her to find out about challenges she’s experienced as a black scientist. fcld.ly/3xvmxhr

In order to sustain diversity in academic and professional #STEM institutions, initiatives need to move beyond a “diversity quota” to meaningful inclusion of underrepresented minority scientists, argues this #SciMagPolicyForum: fcld.ly/3g77l53

Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt studies implicit bias and how it affects police (and all of us). Her experiments show how social conditions can interact with the workings of our brain to determine our responses to other people, especially in the context of race. fcld.ly/fcxza6w

“Senior faculty have to recognize that one of the ways to change the culture ... is to open up and share personal stories and experiences. In the end, for the mentees it doesn’t matter if their mentor looks like them. What matters is: Do they care?” fcld.ly/bi3zxuh

Three decades after it began, the most successful program in the United States for preparing minority students for careers in academic research, the Meyerhoff Scholars Program, is beginning to be replicated on a large scale. @NewsfromScience fcld.ly/dowhmoa

This @ScienceCareers article looked at a 2019 study that unearthed evidence of racial bias in biology and a combination of gender and racial bias in physics, highlighting the pervasive nature of various biases in science. fcld.ly/d6gu1l3

Diversity advocates have long believed that mentoring holds the key to increasing minority participation in U.S. science. A @NewsfromScience story looks at the National Research Mentoring Network, part of a 10-year, initiative launched in 2014 by @NIH. fcld.ly/mal7yet

A Working Life author shares her challenges with fieldwork: “I hadn’t called the police, and I could not fathom who would have. Then it hit me: I was an African-American woman in one of the city’s most affluent, predominantly white neighborhoods.” fcld.ly/s90fxvb

This @ScienceCareers column talks about the challenges of being the only black person—or the only woman, LGBTQ scientist, or member of another underrepresented group—in a department. fcld.ly/ktzytnf