https://www.europesays.com/uk/39982/ Lakeland acquires six white mute swans to enhance genetic diversity #ABCActionNews #diversifying #FreshGenetics #GenePool #Genetics #lakeland #MikeAraldi #pilot #PolkCounty #Science #TampaBayLocalNews #UK #UnitedKingdom #WFTS
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I’ve been in #publishing since 1984, as an #employee & a #Self-Employed #editor, & I must say this: "Publishing, you’re killing the industry by not #diversifying. It has always been mostly White. But the *world* isn't all White!" https://tinyurl.com/msxzttxd https://tinyurl.com/37kc7krj https://tinyurl.com/5cpnbtpr
The New York Times · ‘A Lot of Us Are Gone’: How the Push to Diversify Publishing Fell Short
Come for the exciting story of fishes diversifying in fresh vs saltwater (aka the "Freshwater or Na+ Continuum"), stay for the complete blueprint on how to study teleostean fish skulls with 3D geometric morphometrics by Buser et al.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/731784
anyone else notice how we're not talking about #diversifying the #curriculum any more? The legacy of #BlackLivesMattter seems to have waned in a mere four years.
like, four years ago, this tweet here could count on at least someone raising the question why a course on ancient civilisations does not include ancient Eastern, African, and American civilisations.
Why Athens, Rome, Jerusalem, and not Memphis, Babylon, Constantinople? sadly, nobody gives a shit about this issue anymore
#FilipinoAmerican Chelsea Manalo became the 1st #BlackWoman to be crowned #MissUniversePhilippines.
Born to a #Filipino mother & #AfricanAmerican father, her win was celebrated on SM as helping to “shatter” traditional #BeautyIdeals long held in the country.
Manalo’s win is part of a wider conversation about #diversifying notions of beauty in the #Philippines, a country where certain #WesternIdeals have long persisted, shaped in part by the country’s #colonial past.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/05/24/style/chelsea-manalo-miss-universe-philippines-intl-hnk
CNN · First Black Filipino woman crowned as Miss Universe Philippines
Per #VTDigger
Final Reading: #Bill in #VermontSenate proposes removing barriers to professional licensing for new #immigrants.
“As we are #diversifying our population in southern Vermont, we need to apply that same principle to our #serviceproviders as well,” said one advocate.
Ian Hefele wants the services people receive in his Brattleboro-area community to be #culturallyappropriate to the #backgrounds from which they come. Appropriate hairdressers for all cultures, for example.
#huzzah
My conversation with Dr Mark Martin about #education #EdTech and good practices in school teaching, following the release of his book "My Teaching Routine". #UKBlackTech
The most recent podcast from our #Diversifying and #Decolonising the University group.
Spotify for PodcastersDiversifying and Decolonising the University: Episode 12, Mark Martin by Diversifying and Decolonising the University In this episode, Catarina Carvalho talks to Mark Martin about inclusive educational spaces, Ed Tech, students as learners, and more.
FURTHER RESOURCES:
Mark Martin, My Teaching Routine
EPISODE NOTES:
Mark Martin aka @Urban_Teacher is Assistant Professor in Computer Science & Education Practice at Northeastern University, London. Mark is a thought leader in #EdTech and a hugely popular speaker, sharing his expertise and insights to educators around the world. He is a teacher/advisor for the major global tech brands and continues to advocate for home-grown talent, digital skills and education equity. In February 2019, he was awarded the London Business Award for Paying It Forward. A few months later, he was awarded an MBE for services to education, technology and diversity in UK technology.
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#Gay #CountryMusic #singer #AdamMac #exits #festival over ‘#promoting #homosexuality’ #accusations.
LGBTQ+ #country #musicians such as #OrvillePeck and #BrookeEden have previously #spokenup about the #importance of #diversifying the #genre. #Artists including #DollyParton, #MarenMorris, #KelseaBallerini and #MorganWade have all tried to #takeastand in #support of the #LGBTQ+ #community.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #Music #Representation #Culture
PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news · Gay country singer Adam Mac exits festival over ‘promoting homosexuality’ accusations
Challenge for next year, add this to my #InformationTheory course #Intersectionality #Diversifying
MDPIUntangling Synergistic Effects of Intersecting Social Identities with Partial Information DecompositionThe theory of intersectionality proposes that an individual’s experience of society has aspects that are irreducible to the sum of one’s various identities considered individually, but are “greater than the sum of their parts”. In recent years, this framework has become a frequent topic of discussion both in social sciences and among popular movements for social justice. In this work, we show that the effects of intersectional identities can be statistically observed in empirical data using information theory, particularly the partial information decomposition framework. We show that, when considering the predictive relationship between various identity categories such as race and sex, on outcomes such as income, health and wellness, robust statistical synergies appear. These synergies show that there are joint-effects of identities on outcomes that are irreducible to any identity considered individually and only appear when specific categories are considered together (for example, there is a large, synergistic effect of race and sex considered jointly on income irreducible to either race or sex). Furthermore, these synergies are robust over time, remaining largely constant year-to-year. We then show using synthetic data that the most widely used method of assessing intersectionalities in data (linear regression with multiplicative interaction coefficients) fails to disambiguate between truly synergistic, greater-than-the-sum-of-their-parts interactions, and redundant interactions. We explore the significance of these two distinct types of interactions in the context of making inferences about intersectional relationships in data and the importance of being able to reliably differentiate the two. Finally, we conclude that information theory, as a model-free framework sensitive to nonlinearities and synergies in data, is a natural method by which to explore the space of higher-order social dynamics.
Back in February I had a great eye opener conversation with Prof. Aidan McGarry about #Roma communities, contemporary social inequalities, and what we can do to reach out beyond the academy. The most recent podcast from our #Diversifying and #Decolonising the University group 
https://pca.st/jniebtns
#Decolonise #Decolonize #GRT #Romani
Pocket CastsDiversifying and Decolonising the University: Episode 7, Roma and Social Inequalities - Diversifying and Decolonising the UniversityIn this episode Catarina Carvalho talks to political scientist Aidan McGarry about Roma communities, contemporary social inequalities, and what we can do to reach out beyond the academy.
FURTHER RESOURCES:
Aidan McGarry, “Roma as a Political Identity: Exploring Representations of Roma in Europe”
Aidan McGarry and Timofey Agarin, “Unpacking the Roma Participation Puzzle: Presence, Voice and Influence”
Office for Students: Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller Communities
David Matthews, “Roma: The UK’s Forgotten Higher Education Minority”
EPISODE NOTES:
Aidan McGarry is a Professor of International Politics and Associate Dean for Research at Loughborough University, London campus. Aidan’s research interests are protest, minorities and marginalised groups, visual culture, and political voice. He is a recipient of a Fullbright “All Disciplines” Scholar Award (22/23) and has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University, New York, the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, and the European Centre for Minority
First work with the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic advocate student in our school, and he created a great poster for our showcase on Thursday. #Diversifying #Decolonising the Curriculum #BLMatHerts
PSA:
Decolonize ≠ Diversify
#decolonizing isn't #diversifying, it's more about systemic change & structural dismantling of received colonialist-capitalist-Eurocentric knowledge.
A 2015 study by the Institute of Fiscal Studies stated that
"All ethnic minority groups in England are now, on average, more likely to go to university than their white peers."
Sounds good doesn't it? If it wasn't for the fact that the largest ethnic minority group in Europe, Roma, was totally disregarded in the study. #diversifying #HigherEducation #UKAcademia
I WILL be #promoting my own work & that of other cartoonists, writers, artists; zine & comics events, etc. that I love (& as I have the spoons) not as a business (don't start hitting me up) but as a #sharing of what I love and a recognition that for many creatives, this is how people find our work. Not everyone gets to have their work written up by some big-name paper. Most of us are out here #creating, necessarily adding to & #diversifying social dialectics, & trying to get by. Be open. peace
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There’s been some great boosting of this initial post on #decolonising and #diversifying the #ALevel #Philosophy curriculum but I’d love some more responses with suggestions too! Who do our students need to know about? What #EpistemicInjustice are we committing with the current course?
If you are interested in #decolonizing and #diversifying academia, we recently started a podcast on the topic. In this month's episode I had the privilege of speaking with @chadtopaz about #equity on #STEM subjects. Currently on spotify, apple, stitcher, pocketcasts! #maths
Spotify for PodcastersDiversifying and Decolonising the University: Episode 2, Equity in STEM by Diversifying and Decolonising the University In this podcast episode, Catarina Carvalho talks to Chad Topaz about equity in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) subjects.
FURTHER RESOURCES:
- Hatfield, Brown, and Topaz's journal article mentioned in the episode, 'Do introductory courses...'
- Article on diversity and mathematical proofs
- The book, #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice
- Information about UMBC and their work in race equity
- Articles on active learning in STEM: Ballet et al & Prince
- Decolonizing STEM reading list, from Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
EPISODE INFO:
Dr Chad Topaz (he/him) is an applied mathematician and data scientist. His current research applies quantitative tools to expose and remedy social injustice, and is based out of the Institute for the Quantitative Study of Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity (QSIDE), which he co-founded. Chad is also Professor of Complex Systems at Williams College and, previously, Professor of Mathematics at Macalester College. His research on complex and nonlinear systems was supported by the National Science Foundation from 2006 – 2021.
Podcast recorded using Zencastr.
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