Dr. Rebecca Barnes (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈🏞️💦⚛️ Profile picture
#biogeofeminist. water, elements & ecosystems, creating change | 2022-24 @AAAS_STPF | same handle on those other apps (or @beccatbarnes) | opinions my own
Nov 18, 2020 5 tweets 3 min read
Sigh. Where to begin?

In our longitudinal study we showed that w each additional same gender mentor students had 2x greater chance of staying in the geosciences...

But then again we didn't define success as number of papers published... nature.com/articles/s4146… In our 2018 Geosphere paper we illustrated that with each same gender mentor, undergrads who identify as women increased their likelihood of staying in the field (~25% w 0 mentors, ~75% w 3 or more mentors) pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geosphere/…