Thank you for sharing our work. To underline, in joint evaluation Black and Hispanic faculty received 9% fewer negative votes... pretty good for a nudge!

How can we address racial disparities in promotion and tenure? In our NEW PAPER published in Nature Communications (www.nature.com/articles/s41...), we show that evaluating candidates simultaneously (i.e., joint evaluation) shrinks the race gap in departmental negative votes from 10% to 1%.

Underrepresented minority faculty in the USA face a double standard in promotion and tenure decisions - Nature Human Behaviour Masters-Waage et al. report that underrepresented minority (URM) faculty in the USA face barriers in the promotion and tenure process, receiving more negative votes and fewer unanimous positive decisi...

The paper highlights actionable steps to help improve these double standards, including more RESEARCH RELATED LANGUAGE in P &T letters for Black, Hispanic and Indigenous women to improve their outcomes.

Thank you for sharing our research, dissemination really is the key at this point!

We also hope to provide more actionable steps in the future, with a number of relevant papers under peer review.

Six talks in 90 minutes last week at #aom2025 offered lots of valuable + efficient + international exchange on “New Insights into the Science of Science and Scientists”
Big thx to co-organizer @masterswaage.bsky.social (pic) & presenters incl @inaganguli.bsky.social w full roster in pics

Download PDF 止 Underrepresented minority faculty in the USA face a double standard in promotion and tenure decisions Theodore Masters-Waage, Christiane Spitzmueller, ... Juan Madera M + Show authors Nature Human Behaviour (2024) | Cite this article 1979 Accesses 168 Altmetric Metrics Abstract Underrepresented minority (URM) faculty face challenges in many domains of academia, from university admissions to grant applications. We examine whether this

11:19 •! ล 73 Facebook • www.nature.com Download PDF Underrepresented minority (URM) faculty face challenges in many domains of academia, from university admissions to grant applications. We examine whether this translates to promotion and tenure (P&T) decisions. Data from five US universities on 1,571 faculty members' P&T decisions show that URM faculty received 7% more negative votes and were 44% less likely to receive unanimous votes from P&T committees. A double standard in how scholarly productivity is rewarded is also observed, with below-average h-indexes being judged more harshly for URM faculty than for non-URM faculty. This relationship is amplified for faculty with intersectional backgrounds, especially URM women. The differential treatment of URM women was mitigated…

11:23 73 • www.nature.com Download PDF 止 especially URM women. The differential treatment of URM women was mitigated when external reviewers highlighted candidates' scholarship more in their review letters. In sum, the results support the double standard hypothesis and provide evidence that different outcomes in P&T decision-making processes contribute to the sustained underrepresentation of URM faculty in tenured faculty positions.

Important read:

“In sum, the results support the double standard hypothesis and provide evidence that different outcomes in P&T
decision-making processes contribute to the sustained underrepresentation of URM faculty in tenured faculty positions.”

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“the results support the double standard hypothesis and provide evidence that different outcomes in P&T decision-making processes contribute to the sustained underrepresentation of URM faculty in tenured faculty positions”

Thank you for sharing our research on this timely issue!

Underrepresented minority faculty in the USA face a double standard in promotion and tenure decisions - Nature Human Behaviour Masters-Waage et al. report that underrepresented minority (URM) faculty in the USA face barriers in the promotion and tenure process, receiving more negative votes and fewer unanimous positive decisi...

Underrepresented minority faculty in the USA face a double standard in promotion and tenure decisions

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Why can't a man be more like a woman?......."Women advocates and men critics: How referees' gender influences candidates' likelihood of receiving a promotion"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@aafp.bsky.social @adfm.bsky.social @aafp.bsky.social @adfm.bsky.social

Women advocates and men critics: How referees' gender influences candidates' likelihood of receiving a promotion External review letters (ERLs) play a critical role in the promotion and tenure (P&T) process. However, recently, scholars have questioned their valid…

Promotion and tenure (P&T) systems rely on external evaluations by arms-length reviewers.

Here we find that gender influences the content of these letters...

So much so that P&T candidates with more women letter writers were more likely to receive tenure!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Defend the science and scientists that keep the public safe! Please join science supporters, scientists, and experts in signing an open letter asking Congress to stand up against attempts to politicize or eliminate scientific roles, agencies, and federal resear...

Cause we just have to do anything we can...

Please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/de...

Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.

Nature Editorial Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere. US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Sounds a lot like Gerd Gigerenzer...

Decision biases are not flaws, they are adaptations that work well in the environment they were designed for, but not when applied to new domains.

Great to see that people are adjusting their use of these Fast-and-Frugal heuristics to the environment though!

Staffing was ‘not normal’ at airport tower, according to a preliminary F.A.A. report.

“Staffing at the air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan National Airport was “not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic,” according to an internal preliminary Federal Aviation Administration safety report about the collision that was reviewed by The New York Times.”

Hopefully we can find some evidence to convince you otherwise!

Interesting but I wonder how we determine what the morally correct thing to do is though, did we not use data to get there?

Maybe it is innate, but for those people for whom it is not immediately obvious I have to believe as a scientist that gathering evidence to convince them helps...

Completely agree, in times of uncertainty focus on evidence.

Our Center is trying to do this for racial inequities in promotion and tenure.

We have evidence identifying the problem: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We have two papers under review examining solutions:
[Preprints Soon]

This account is for sharing info with US scientists, both extramural and intramural to NIH, about attacks on science in the US.

Education is power, and we can help advocate for science and medicine together. 💪🧪

We are a team of NIH people. Please ask us questions you might have.

One thing critics of diversity initiatives (including DEI) fail to understand is that the goal is NOT to support minorities at the cost of majority group members.

Very often it is about improving a SYSTEM in ways that benefits minorities without influencing outcomes for non-minorities.

Buttigieg’s response to Trump vis Twitter, on multiple levels:

Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.

Message to the NSF principal investigator community Jan. 29, 2025 Our top priority is resuming our funding actions and services to the research community and our stakeholders. We are working expeditiously to conduct a comprehensive review of our projects, programs and activities to be compliant with the existing executive orders. We will continue to try and communicate with you as these changes are happening in real time.

Posting this update since a lot of researchers follow me here. As to what this actually means for NSF grants, I have no clue yet.

Source: new.nsf.gov/executive-or...

Those poor #tenure-track faculty who had #COVID and this... A lot of considerations to take into account in those tenure decisions...

From my research on over 2,000 promotion and tenure decisions my guess is it will only harm their chances.

This is my favorite picture of Stonewall.

They knew they were getting arrested just for being LGBTQ+.

Yet... they're still here, standing outside of the boarded up Stonewall Inn, smiling as the world was at a fever pitch of hatred against them.

I think about it a lot in moments like this.

Just outrageous!

I hope the @bsky.app academic community can be the catalyst for an academic revolt against these journals.

We hold all the power, we just fail to coordinate.

Can't we just create our own public-domain journals called [JournalName]_1 and mentally transfer the prestige??