Short article from the kick-off of a new IHME journal club, with a focus on diversity and health disparities: [link]
Topics that bubbled up in discussion: composition of search committees, pipeline issues and other barriers to attracting diverse candidates, the scale of the problem with systemic racism.
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Second edition of the Diversity Lunch Discussion journal club, with a focus on the Implicit Association Test. Many participants also *took* an IAT—Rose suggests you try taking the Race IAT before our discussion tomorrow: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html
So much knowledge and expertise in this group.
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Cynthia Lee’s three-page guide “What can I do today to create a more inclusive community in CS?” from:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5UdjOQyUxKreDQxZUlMb0U3SkE/view
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Actually not about games or “serious gaming”: http://www.techbridgegirls.org/index.php?id=277
A nice critique of the “leaky pipeline” metaphor in p. 12: http://online.fliphtml5.com/udnc/tezw/#p=12
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Paid for by Chevron, so I guess they know more than most about pipelines…
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Healthy Algorithms 