These events are built to be restorative and healing for all participants. DM me if you have any questions, and please share within your circles!
Ready to build community with emerging POC scholars in STEM? Volunteer for VanguardSTEM's upcoming online Guerilla Mentoring event -- led by yours truly!! Sign-ups close TOMORROW (1/19) bit.ly/VSmentors2024#BlackinSTEM#LatinxinSTEM#IndigenousinSTEM#womeninstem
Those who witnessed a solar eclipse during childhood are more likely to become scientists In this paper, they analyze the role of solar eclipses (as inexplicable phenomena in pre-modern times) in human social development. (paper) academic.oup.com/ej/advance-a... 🧪
Pst, the end of the semester is not a bad time to share with students resources they can use to network, find mentors, and find community. Groups like Científico Latino, Latinas in STEM, SACNAS, AISES, Disabled Academic Collective, sisterSTEM, VanguardSTEM, and discipline-specific ones.
Yay, I can share this now!! After seeing my paper doodles, an editor reached out to me about creating something for Physics Today. Presenting: a cartoon summary of one of the most impactful papers in modern cosmology! 🧪 https://shorturl.at/wJPRU
The results from the world’s largest Universal Basic Income study are now in. Findings: “A monthly UBI empowered recipients and did not create idleness. They invested, became more entrepreneurial, and earned more. The common concern of “laziness” never materialized.”
Money always helps, but for the poorest, one large lump sum can last a long time. A long-term universal basic income also looks promising.
I love audiobooks, so this list is generated from a LOT of listening. Also, my current audiobook is Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver: www.audible.com/blog/5-liste...
Guest editor Nnedi Okorafor shares her favorite listens
one of the worst things that the trauma of racism in academia does to you is that you can't sit through a single DEI-related session without your body going into fight or flight for the entire hour as you wait for something harmful to be said by one of your colleagues.
Neuro spicy folks! RE: yesterday’s convo, can we start a thread of your fav tips, tools, coping mechanisms, etc. for anxiety & task paralysis? Anything, ex. a time management strategy, an app you like for organization, a book that helped you, a DBT worksheet you use, a tidbit your therapist told you