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- Gift from Ballmer Will Expand Computer Science Faculty at Harvard http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/13/gift-from-ballmer-will-expand-computer-science-faculty-at-harvard/?ref=technology 42 comments
- Stanford faculty condemn Scott Atlas for 'view of COVID-19 that contradicts medical science' https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/526900-stanford-faculty-condemn-scott-atlas-for-view-of-covid-19-that-contradicts 28 comments politics
- Yale Computer Science Students Petition for More Faculty http://alexreinking.com/petition 36 comments compsci
- Science AMA Series: We are a group of Columbia Faculty and we believe that Ebola has become a social disease, AUA. http://theopedproject.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=868&Itemid=154 1776 comments science
- Social sciences and humanities faculties to close in Japan after ministerial decree https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/social-sciences-and-humanities-faculties-close-japan-after-ministerial-decree 21 comments worldnews
- Social sciences and humanities faculties to close in Japan after ministerial decree https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/social-sciences-and-humanities-faculties-close-japan-after-ministerial-decree 21 comments worldnews
- Science faculty’s subtle gender biases favor male students http://www.pnas.org/content/109/41/16474.full.pdf 3 comments science
- government trying to apply title IX to science faculties, could cut science funding at universities http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/15/science/15tier.html?_r=1&oref=slogin 198 comments science
- Scientists, Your Gender Bias Is Showing: Science faculty’s subtle gender biases favor male students http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/09/19/scientists-your-gender-bias-is-showing/ 13 comments science
- [Cross Post] We are a faculty team aiming to bring Applied Data Science with Python skills to everyone through a Coursera specialization this fall doing an AMA in r/IAmA! Ask us anything! https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/4zctue/cross_post_we_are_a_faculty_team_aiming_to_bring/ 8 comments learnprogramming
- [Cross Post] We are a faculty team aiming to bring Applied Data Science with Python skills to everyone through a Coursera specialization this fall! Ask us anything in r/IAmA! https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4zch0a/we_are_a_faculty_team_aiming_to_bring_applied/?amp%3Bsh=259f9116&st=is8xph1r 12 comments datascience
- Science faculty’s subtle gender biases favor male students [PNAS] http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/09/14/1211286109 18 comments science
- Sharply Focused On Neurons, Light Controls A Worm's Behavior | Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences http://www.fas.harvard.edu/home/content/sharply-focused-neurons-light-controls-worms-behavior 3 comments science
- The University of Chile’s faculty of engineering’s FABLAB has a working low-tech EmDrive equivalent engine, this is NOT ALTERNATIVE SCIENCE, the principle is simple, inexpensive to build and test https://reddit.com/r/fablab/ 5 comments space
- What will happen to science, if faculty and research positions are based upon gender rather than ability? http://alfin2100.blogspot.com/2008/07/gender-jihad-title-9-in-science-forced.html 3 comments science
- Science AMA Series: We see an opportunity to achieve a deeper understanding of intelligence. We are MIT faculty members Anantha Chandrakasan, Daniela Rus, and James DiCarlo. AMA! https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/7ur4iz/science_ama_series_we_see_an_opportunity_to/ 36 comments science
- Dr. Kylie Bemis, faculty at Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University, ran into the problem of trying to write a vector or matrix that R could not store. She came up with the matter package for larger-than-memory data for R! Read all about this ISC-funded project ➡️ https://www.r-consortium.org/blog/2023/05/24/matter-helps-solve-larger-than-memory-issues 5 comments rstats
- In a analysis of university faculty and students in science, technology, engineering and math, social psychologists found that professors' beliefs about intelligence play a measurable role in the success of all students, especially underrepresented minorities https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-02/iu-sfb020619.php 4 comments science
- women are more likely than men to be hired for faculty positions in science, mathematics and technology...Women and black and Latino researchers instead have an advantage, the study found. It also found an apparent disadvantage for Asian researchers starting their careers. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/04/20/new-research-which-groups-are-more-likely-be-hired-and-receive-tenure-stem/ 30 comments science
- AskScience AMA Series: We do research on making games more findable (and expressive) using computer science approaches such as natural language processing. We're James Ryan, Eric Kaltman, and Noah Wardrip-Fruin, two PhD students and a faculty member from UC Santa Cruz. AMA https://games.soe.ucsc.edu/sites/default/files/ryanEtAl_BottomUpGamesStudiesUsingNLP.pdf 125 comments askscience
- Science AMA Series: I’m Megan Latshaw, director of environmental health at the Association of Public Health Laboratories and faculty associate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Let’s talk about the environmental health system! AMA! http://aphl.org/ 214 comments science
- Science faculty’s subtle gender biases favor male students: new study indicates that the gatekeepers of science, whether male or female, are less likely to hire female applicants to work in labs http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/are-scientists-sexist-new-study-identifies-a-gender-bias-47610982/?no-ist 8 comments science
- US fiscal deal leaves science vulnerable, with two month sequester of an 8% hit to the National Institutes of Health: "Schools may need to cut back on graduate admissions, freeze salaries and reduce faculty recruitment if the NIH takes a severe hit." http://www.nature.com/news/us-fiscal-deal-leaves-science-vulnerable-1.12137 7 comments politics
- Science professors were shown identical resumes with male or female names. Male and female faculty participants rated the male applicant as significantly more competent and hireable than the female applicant, and offered a higher starting salary and more career mentoring to the male applicant. http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/09/14/1211286109.full.pdf 737 comments science
- Over the 4th of July weekend two tenured faculty of the recently dissolved cognitive science program at the University of Louisiana - Lafayette were told that they would no longer have a job as of May 2013 http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20110701/news01/107010324/ul-terminating-two-professors 4 comments cogsci
- One of America's most prestigious universities pays faculty to genitally mutilate and sexually molest six, seven year old girls in the name of science. WTF, Cornell. http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2010/06/16/female-genital-mutilation-at-cornell-university 8 comments reddit.com