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Association for Gender Equality & Diversity in Academia (AGEDA) at @Unibocconi
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[AGEDA Bocconi @ageda_bocconi]

We are AGEDA - a new @Unibocconi student association for gender equality and diversity in academia! Follow us for updates on events, initiatives, content and more as we build the association. #gender #diversity #AcademicTwitter

[Anna Stansbury @annastansbury]

This paper is about the 1920s.

Shockingly there is still a class-background gap in US academia today.

Rodriguez & I find low-SES academics are less likely to get tenure or to get NSF awards, conditional on v detailed measures of publication & citation record.

[Alessandra Casarico @alecasarico]

📣New wp out! A 🧵

Two questions

1️⃣ Does research similarity between junior and senior researchers influence promotion in academia?

2️⃣ Is there a gender gap in research similarity?

How?

1. Novel measure of research similarity using #NLP on paper abstracts

1/3

[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

The academe has for a long time had a severely neglected social class problem.

"Children from low-SES homes were already severely underrepresented [in the academe]."

"Scientists from high-SES families have 38% higher odds of becoming stars."

https://t.co/mKwo6UKWhf

[chloe gibbs @chloergibbs]

Who remembers this absolute banger?🙋‍♀️

"[W]e show that the adoption of gender-neutral tenure clock stopping policies substantially reduced female tenure rates while substantially increasing male tenure rates."

Antecol, Bedard, and Stearns (AER, 2018)
https://t.co/evqmBmb5ur

[New Scientist @newscientist]

The latest winners of the science Nobel prizes have a few things in common: they undoubtedly have an impressive body of work - and they are all men, they live in high-income countries and none of them is Black. https://t.co/FQoTHEsI1m

[nature @Nature]

A surprising trend: women who applied for assistant professor positions in North America were more likely to get job offers than were men https://t.co/jaXP0pZFIU

[Paul Novosad @paulnovosad]

What kind of childhood makes a top scientist? Is it enough to have all the right traits (brilliance, grit, etc) or do you need the right family too?

And why should we care? A 🧵 on our paper on the Nobel Laureates.

A teaser: the income distribution of the laureates' fathers.1/N

[nature @Nature]

Not for the first time, all Nobel Prizes in scientific disciplines this year have been awarded to men

[Martin Schröder @Martin_Schroe]

Who gets tenured in economics and why?

New article "What leads to a professorship in German economics? A longitudinal analysis of tenure determinants (1984–2021)" shows: mobility and journal articles = most important.
With @IsabelMHabicht @Mark_Lutter

https://t.co/MPDYdRO49a

[Alberto López @bertous]

I wished this was a common policy in ALL journals to counter Western, network, and seniority biases.

[Anna Stansbury @annastansbury]

📢New WP!📢 The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia, w/ Kyra Rodriguez

Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations.

Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵

[Florian Ederer @florianederer]

When scientists are accused of sexual misconduct, their (and their co-authors' and their co-authors' co-authors') citations decline ...

... but not so much in male-dominated fields.

https://t.co/FCVt7m9SlG

Fascinating paper by @Rainer_Widmann1 & co-authors

[Prashant Garg @Prashant_Garg_]

🚨 Exciting News! 🚨
Thrilled to announce our latest working paper with @fetzert:

Political Expression of Academics on Social Media

In this thread, we will highlight our key findings and contributions using a newly built dataset🧵👇

[Anna Stansbury @annastansbury]

Looking forward to presenting at UCL next week!

Talk will be on: “The Class Gap in Career Progression : Evidence from Academia” with Kyra Rodriguez

(Public draft coming v soon)

Zoom signup link below 👇 💻

[Denisa Kostovicova 🦋 @denisakost.bsky.social @DenisaKost]

In a new article with @ellie_knott, we find that women drive research ethics reporting in political science and IR, shape knowledge of research ethics and do so differently than men. For more & for implications check: https://t.co/7oP0czBuPO @apsrjournal @LSEEI @MethodologyLSE

[Ria Ivandić @RiaIvandic]

Our paper is out @AEAjournals P&P! Read the summary of our findings in my co-author @AnSoLassen 's thread 👇. Thanks to @EEANews for granting us the funding.

[Mayank Chugh (he/him) @mayank_mchugh]

📢'The World Is Your Oyster' is for those who are born in global north countries--don't experience visa bureaucracy & emotional burden that non-white global south scholars do. Citizenship is a privilege that we need to recognize in the academe. 1/n

https://t.co/0PyvvH7fGM

[Tyler Kelly @TyLKelly]

The mismatch on number of LGBTQ+ students and faculty is striking (at least at high research intensity universities in the USA).