It should be mentioned that, while such inequalities have been known for a long time, they have been worsening in the past few years. Incidently, changes in the French school system have also been made in the past few years, are thought to directly dig this gender gap in (scientific) education.
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This is the type of important research that will hopefully guide policy-makers to go beyond the "we just need role models"-excuse
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A map of USA states plotting the percent of funding lost that came from STEM and SBE directorates. Most states are coloured orange and red, indicating that more than 70% of funding lost was related to STEM and SBE.
Rage coding this morning using #TidyTuesday NSF grant terminations data.
Research in STEM Education and Social, Behavioral, & Economic Science is clearly being targeted by the current administration.
I made a lot of depressing #rstats plots, check them out
jenrichmond.github.io/posts/2025-0...
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Epistemic biases in human reinforcement learning: behavioral evidence, computational characterization, normative status and possible applications.
A quite self-centered review, but with a broad introduction and conclusions and very cool figures.
Few main takes will follow
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty
Women faculty are more likely to leave their jobs than men, most often due to workplace climate, rather than work-life balance.
Women leave academia at higher rates than men at every career stage, and attrition is especially high among three groups: tenured faculty, women in non-STEM fields, and women employed at less prestigious institutions, a #ScienceAdvances analysis finds.
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