Junior scientists spotlight social bonds in seminars for diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM.

Autor: Boyle EA; Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States of America., Goldberg G; Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States of America., Schmok JC; Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States of America., Burgado J; Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, CA, United States of America., Izidro Layng F; Cancer Center, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, San Diego, CA, United States of America., Grunwald HA; Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America., Balotin KM; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States of America., Cuoco MS; Laboratory of Genetics, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, CA, United States of America., Chang KC; Department of Political Science, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States of America., Ecklu-Mensah G; Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States of America., Arakaki AKS; Human Biology Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America., Ahmed N; Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States of America., Garcia Arceo X; Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States of America., Jagannatha P; Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States of America., Pekar J; Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States of America., Iyer M; Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, San Diego, CA, United States of America., Yeo GW; Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States of America.; Stem Cell Program, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States of America.; Institute for Genomic Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States of America.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PloS one [PLoS One] 2023 Nov 02; Vol. 18 (11), pp. e0293322. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Nov 02 (Print Publication: 2023).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0293322
Abstrakt: Disparities for women and minorities in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) careers have continued even amidst mounting evidence for the superior performance of diverse workforces. In response, we launched the Diversity and Science Lecture series, a cross-institutional platform where junior life scientists present their research and comment on diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM. We characterize speaker representation from 79 profiles and investigate topic noteworthiness via quantitative content analysis of talk transcripts. Nearly every speaker discussed interpersonal support, and three-fifths of speakers commented on race or ethnicity. Other topics, such as sexual and gender minority identity, were less frequently addressed but highly salient to the speakers who mentioned them. We found that significantly co-occurring topics reflected not only conceptual similarity, such as terms for racial identities, but also intersectional significance, such as identifying as a Latina/Hispanic woman or Asian immigrant, and interactions between concerns and identities, including the heightened value of friendship to the LGBTQ community, which we reproduce using transcripts from an independent seminar series. Our approach to scholar profiles and talk transcripts serves as an example for transmuting hundreds of hours of scholarly discourse into rich datasets that can power computational audits of speaker diversity and illuminate speakers' personal and professional priorities.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
(Copyright: © 2023 Boyle et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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