Pathways for Accelerating Change in Social Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in STEM Curricula

Tseng, M., R.W. El-Sabaawi, M.B. Kantar, J.H. Pantel, D.S. Srivastava, and J.L. Ware. 2020. Strategies and support for Black, Indigenous, and people of colour in ecology and evolutionary biology. Nature Ecology & Evolution 4: 1288–1290. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1252-0 

O’Brien, L.T., H.L. Bart, and D.M. Garcia. 2020. Why are there so few ethnic minorities in ecology and evolutionary biology? Challenges to inclusion and the role of sense of belonging. Social Psychology of Education 23: 449–477. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11218-019-09538-x 

McGill, B.M., Foster, M.J., Pruitt, A.N., Thomas, S.G., Arsenault, E.R., Hanschu, J., Wahwahsuck, K., Cortez, E., Zarek, K., Loecke, T.D. and Burgin, A.J., 2020. You are welcome here: considerations of diversity, equity, and inclusion for embracing new ecologists.https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202011.0342/v1 

Lee, D.N. 2020. Diversity and inclusion activisms in animal behaviour and the ABS: a historical view from the U.S.A. Animal Behaviour 164: 273–280. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.03.019 

Jimenez, M.F., T.M. Laverty, S.P. Bombaci, K. Wilkins, D.E. Bennett, and L. Pejchar. 2019. Underrepresented faculty play a disproportionate role in advancing diversity and inclusion. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 1030–1033. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0911-5 

Graves, J.L., Jr. 2019. African Americans in evolutionary science: where we have been, and what’s next. Evolution: Education and Outreach 12: 18. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12052-019-0110-5 

Evangelista, D.A., A. Goodman, M.K. Kohli, S.S.T.B. Maflamills, M. Samuel-Foo, M.S. Herrera, J.L. Ware, and M. Wilson. 2020. Why diversity matters among those who study diversity. American Entomologist 66: 42–49. https://doi.org/10.1093/ae/tmaa037 

Campos-Arceiz, A., R.B. Primack, A.J. Miller-Rushing, and M. Maron. 2018. Striking underrepresentation of biodiversity-rich regions among editors of conservation journals. Biological Conservation 220: 330–333. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2017.07.028

Paper used bibliometric data to show that Black, African, and women researchers are underrepresented among authors of field studies on lions (Panthera leo) in Africa. 

Bauer, H., F. Gebresenbet, M. Kiki, L. Simpson, and C. Sillero-Zubiri. 2019. Race and gender bias in the research community on African lions. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11: 1–4. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2019.00024