This Wired article on gender imbalance in evaluations https://www.wired.com/story/why-men-dont-believe-the-data-on-gender-bias-in-science/amp … (ht @o_guest) is fascinating - a major takeaway for me...
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...is that if you are interested in doing good science at your uni, you should STRONGLY bias towards hiring women junior faculty because...
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...women junior faculty are both excellent and undervalued - so a kind of arbitrage. Am I missing something here?
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of course a big problem is that if you measure your junior faculty by traditional metrics you'll still undervalue these hires... sigh.
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so it's really a long term investment in true scientific excellence, rather than a short-term investment in shiny-looking faculty.
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So, are we building the half-day or one-day Carpentry-style workshop on all this? [1/2]
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Combine half a day on personal digital security w/ half a day on the evidence for what's broken in science and how to fix it? [2/2]
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sounds like a super depressing workshop but I and others have been floating the idea of a leadership workshop. Fits ~ok.
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Been teaching short course on diversity and inclusion in science...With open minds & emphasis on scientists=people, it is energizing! Talk?
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oooh, and you're even local-ish :). would love to chat! titus@idyll.org do you have syllabus/outline? cc
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Yay! I love this — Twitter sometimes really delivers. 
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