It is no secret that academic science is a highly competitive environment in which sometimes perverse incentives to publish research don’t always encourage collaboration and support. Such a setting ...

Claims of widespread gender bias in tenure-track hiring, grant funding and journal acceptances in the academic sciences are not supported by the data, a new study finds. The paper published in ...

In recent years, there has been substantial discussion of bias in science, and the conflicts that it can elicit. Bias can include the biases to which we are susceptible as individuals and the systemic ...

Mayor Michael A. Nutter came on campus on Thursday to the Locust Walk to declare youth voter registration day Credit: Boyang Tang From the sexing of fossils to horses' harems, Stanford history of ...

Haewon Jeong, an assistant professor in UC Santa Barbara’s Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department, experienced a pivotal moment in her academic career when she was a postdoctoral fellow ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Understanding implicit bias and the science and psychology behind it. That is the goal of a Minnesota-born exhibit. "We all live with bias. We all have bias," said Laura Zelle, ...

Anthony Greenwald and Mahzarin Banaji, creators of the Implicit Association Test (IAT), held a press conference along with Brian Nosek in 1998 to publicize the IAT and announce the launching of the ...

P ositionality statements, in which scholars declare identity categories to which they belong and indicate how such categories might bias their research, have become commonplace in the social sciences ...