The German academic system is probably more similar to China than the US in its hierarchical structure, bureaucracy and management style. Here, research is regarded as an outcome of collective effort and central strategic planning of the institute, rather than individual inspiration and hard work.
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Congrats Iain! So well deserved! Also, thank you for the mentorship and help when I was in Konstanz during Covid. Look forward to seeing you again!
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"Gender and racial diversity socialization in science", a new published article by Weihua Li, Hongwei Zheng, Jennie E. Brand, and Aaron Clauset. Abstract: Scientific collaboration networks are a form of unequally distributed social capital that shapes both researcher job placement and long-term research productivity and prominence. However, the role of collaboration networks in shaping the gender and racial diversity of the scientific workforce remains unclear. Here we propose a computational null model to investigate the degree to which early-career scientific collaborators with representationally diverse cohorts of scholars are associated with forming or participating in more diverse research groups as established researchers. When testing this hypothesis using two large-scale, longitudinal datasets on scientific collaborations, we find that the gender and racial diversity in a researcherโs early-career collaboration environment is strongly associated with the diversity of their collaborators in their established period. This diversity-association effect is particularly prominent for men. Coupled with gender and racial homophily between advisors and advisees, collaborator diversity represents a generational effect that partly explains why changes in representation within the scientific workforce tend to happen very slowly.
๐ Our new paper "Gender and racial diversity socialization in science" @natcomputsci.nature.com with @weihuali.bsky.social, H Zheng and @jenniebrand.bsky.social studies how early-career experiences with diversity drive more diverse teams later in a career ๐ /1
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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