December 8, 2023

The Conversation: Citizen science projects tend to attract white, affluent, well-educated volunteers − here’s how we recruited a more diverse group to identify lead pipes in homes

The Conversation: Citizen science projects tend to attract white, affluent, well-educated volunteers − here’s how we recruited a more diverse group to identify lead pipes in homes. “Recruiting participants for a citizen science project produced a more diverse group when people were signed up through partner organizations, such as schools and faith-based organizations, than when they joined on their own. We used this approach to recruit volunteers for Crowd the Tap, a citizen science initiative that crowdsources the locations of lead plumbing in homes.”

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November 18, 2023

KUTV: Utah Historical Society pushes ‘The Peoples of Utah Revisited’ to celebrate growing diversity

KUTV: Utah Historical Society pushes ‘The Peoples of Utah Revisited’ to celebrate growing diversity . “The book ‘The Peoples of Utah’ was published nearly 50 years ago by the Utah Historical Society. It explores stories of the lives of people from various cultures who came and settled in our state. Now, there’s a new project underway to build on the research conducted back then and inspire the next generation. It’s called ‘The Peoples of Utah Revisited.’ Each of the 14 chapters are devoted to specific ethnic communities that migrated to Utah.”

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November 9, 2023

The Conversation: People dig deeper to fact-check social media posts when paired with someone who doesn’t share their perspective – new research

The Conversation: People dig deeper to fact-check social media posts when paired with someone who doesn’t share their perspective – new research. “People fact-checked social media posts more carefully and were more willing to revise their initial beliefs when they were paired with someone from a different cultural background than their own, according to a study my collaborators Michael Baker and Françoise Détienne and I recently published in Frontiers in Psychology.”

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October 31, 2023

National Library of Wales: The Diversity Project of the Dictionary of Welsh Biography

National Library of Wales: The Diversity Project of the Dictionary of Welsh Biography. “Thanks to new funding through the Anti-Racist Wales Action Plan, the Dictionary of Welsh Biography (DWB) is undertaking a new project to enhance the quality and range of its contents. Over this year and the next, the Diversity Project will particularly focus on ethnicity and gender equality in newly commissioned articles to improve the representation of Wales’s diverse history.”

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October 7, 2023

Harvard University: Undoing Empire, One Plant at a Time

Harvard University: Undoing Empire, One Plant at a Time. “This summer, the Davis Center’s Imperiia team partnered with the Harvard Map Collection on the “Undoing Empire” project. The project was awarded a Harvard Library Advancing Open Knowledge grant to sustain work across a six-month period. It has three goals: 1) create a database of biodiversity in 19th-century Ukraine, 2) create an inclusive strategy for mapping historical places, and 3) develop best practices for producing data that can be preserved via the Harvard Geospatial Library and the Harvard Library (HOLLIS) catalog.”

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October 6, 2023

Government of Canada: Defence Minister Bill Blair announces launch of new online database to make Defence conduct and culture research and policies more open and accessible

Government of Canada: Defence Minister Bill Blair announces launch of new online database to make Defence conduct and culture research and policies more open and accessible. “The Honourable Bill Blair, Minister of National Defence, today announced the launch of an online Conduct and Culture Research and Policy Database. The database makes research and policies related to sexual harassment and misconduct, gender, sexual orientation, race, diversity and inclusion, and culture change more readily accessible to the public, as well as to members of the Department of National Defence (DND) and Canadian Armed Forces (CAF).”

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September 25, 2023

Spotted via Google Alerts: Amplify Colorado

Spotted via Google Alerts: Amplify Colorado. “Amplify Colorado is a publicly accessible directory of experts from communities of color and other diverse communities that newsrooms need to better serve, including, but not limited to, women, youth, elders, LGTBQ+, Coloradans with disabilities, rural residents, veterans, immigrants and refugees. Amplify also includes reporters’ and editors’ contact information so community members can more easily find them.

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September 14, 2023

The Guardian: Charity launches award and database to encourage diversity in children’s books

The Guardian: Charity launches award and database to encourage diversity in children’s books. “Inclusive Books for Children (IBC) [is] a new charity which has launched a website hosting a database of inclusive books. Site visitors can browse through more than 700 book recommendations and search the database to find books featuring protagonists with specific characteristics.”

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September 14, 2023

Washington University in St. Louis: $3M grant funds training to harness power of AI for social, environmental challenges

Washington University in St. Louis: $3M grant funds training to harness power of AI for social, environmental challenges. “The National Science Foundation (NSF) is investing $3 million over the next five years in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Advancements and Convergence in Computational, Environmental and Social Sciences (AI-ACCESS) program at Washington University in St. Louis. The grant is one of 22 new awards totaling nearly $63 million to create a new generation of talent in science, technology, engineering and math fields that reflects the diversity of the nation.”

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September 5, 2023

North Carolina State University: An ‘Introspective’ AI Finds Diversity Improves Performance

North Carolina State University: An ‘Introspective’ AI Finds Diversity Improves Performance. “An artificial intelligence with the ability to look inward and fine tune its own neural network performs better when it chooses diversity over lack of diversity, a new study finds. The resulting diverse neural networks were particularly effective at solving complex tasks.”

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July 22, 2023

EdSurge: We Deleted More Than 5,000 Pages From Our College Website. Here’s Why.

EdSurge: We Deleted More Than 5,000 Pages From Our College Website. Here’s Why.. “As educators, how can we possibly expect to increase our enrollments, promote the mission of our institutions, effectively communicate our academic offerings, and engage prospective (and current) college students inclusively with college websites that function more like online file cabinets? It is time to stop this foolishness.”

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July 16, 2023

Vancouver Sun: Langara’s Studio 58 creates impressive digital theatre database with focus on equity and diversity

Vancouver Sun: Langara’s Studio 58 creates impressive digital theatre database with focus on equity and diversity. “.. a new cross-disciplinary project — involving instructors and students from Studio 58, the web and mobile app design and development, and library and information technology programs — is developing a digital database of stage works that don’t adhere to the standard Western theatre canon.”

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June 22, 2023

WIRED: Stack Overflow Didn’t Ask How Bad Its Gender Problem Is This Year

WIRED: Stack Overflow Didn’t Ask How Bad Its Gender Problem Is This Year . “In the organization’s annual survey of its users conducted in 2022, 92 percent of respondents identified as male, and three-quarters as white or European. The platform acknowledged then that it has ‘considerable work to do.’ But in 2023, Stack Overflow’s survey, published on June 13, stripped out questions about gender and race.”

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