Asmeret Asefaw Berhe👩🏽‍🔬🌍
Professor of Soil Biogeochemistry & Falasco Chair in Earth Sciences. I study soil OM, global change, & political ecology. Associate Grad Dean. #TED2019 speaker
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The global movement to restore nature's biodiversity
Ted.com 109d 3 tweets
Biodiversity is the key to life on Earth and reviving our damaged planet, says ecologist Thomas Crowther. Sharing the inside story of his headline-making research on reforestation, which led to the UN's viral Trillion Trees Campaign, Crowther...
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Asmeret Asefaw Berhe👩🏽‍🔬🌍 I was glad to hear 's today that acknowledged the valid criticisms of the trillion trees idea; and now focuses on ecosystem restoration, that comes with co-benefits of improved biodiversity, soil, C sequestration & more #TEDCountdown 109d
The F Word: The Role of Women’s Friendships in Navigating the Gendered Workplace of Academia - Kristi Kaeppel, Robin S. Grenier, Emma Björngard-Basayne, 2020
SAGE Journals 110d 1 tweets
This conceptual paper contributes a new perspective on the role of women academics’ friendships in helping them navigate and counter the masculine culture of ac...
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Asmeret Asefaw Berhe👩🏽‍🔬🌍 Women’s friendships "(help) them navigate & counter the masculine culture of #academia" & "can mitigate the effects of workplace marginalization & enhance well-being that results in career success. " I know I am eternally grateful for my #academic friends! 110d
Ten simple rules for building an antiracist lab
Journals.plos.org 118d 12 tweets
Demographics of the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce and student body in the US and Europe continue to show severe underrepresentation of Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC). Among the documented causes...
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Asmeret Asefaw Berhe👩🏽‍🔬🌍 Our Ten simple rules for building an antiracist lab paper is officially out today #antiracistSTEM #DiversityandInclusion 118d
2020 AGU Section Awardees and Named Lecturers - Eos
Eos 119d 15 tweets
Eighty-five distinguished scientists receive accolades from groups representing their disciplines within AGU, the world’s largest Earth and space science society.
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Asmeret Asefaw Berhe👩🏽‍🔬🌍 Congratulations to and more on the huge and well-deserved awards and honors. Woohoooo!!! 💐🥂🙌🏽 119d
HBCUs experiencing better student compliance with pandemic restrictions than other institutions
Insidehighered.com 125d 2 tweets
HBCUs are getting high student compliance with social distancing and mask wearing and are reporting lower coronavirus infection rates. College leaders partly credit Black college culture -- and student awareness of the toll of the pandemic on Black,...
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Asmeret Asefaw Berhe👩🏽‍🔬🌍 HBCUs are getting high student compliance with social distancing and mask wearing & reporting lower coronavirus infection rates ... largely b/c of black students' awareness of the toll of the pandemic on Black, Latinx and Indigenous communities. 123d
Scientists Statement in Defense of Democracy
EveryAction 128d 3 tweets
In recognition that the science community can not hold itself separate and apart from democratic society, we invite like minded scientists and experts to join us in signing on to the statement in defense of democracy.
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Asmeret Asefaw Berhe👩🏽‍🔬🌍 We are watching current news & events w/ real concern about the state of our constitutional democracy. We believe we must voice our concern & invite like-minded #scientists to join us in signing this statement. #STEM 124d
Home | PPFP
Ppfp.ucop.edu 1239d 7 tweets
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Asmeret Asefaw Berhe👩🏽‍🔬🌍 It's always a pleasure to attend the annual meeting of (even on zoom). I am honored to serve as faculty rep, mentor & former fellow. The UC PPFP is a wonderful demonstration for how one can advance excellence in the academy through diversity. 131d
Systemic racism in higher education
Science 132d 21 tweets
The nexus of Black Lives Matter protests and a pandemic that disproportionately kills Black and Latinx people ([ 1 ][1]) highlights the need to end systemic racism, including in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), where...
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Asmeret Asefaw Berhe👩🏽‍🔬🌍 Paul, Tyrone, + 10,236 scholars tell academia enough already! "Every1 in academia must acknowledge the role that uni.s—faculty, staff, & students—play in perpetuating structural racism by subjecting students of color to unwelcoming academic cultures." 132d
Black at UC Berkeley: Professor Tyrone Hayes on discrimination in academia
The Mercury News 135d 7 tweets
Once a ‘weird kid who raised turtles’ who was born when drinking fountains were segregated, Tyrone Hayes is now a biology professor battling racism.
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Asmeret Asefaw Berhe👩🏽‍🔬🌍 Tyrone Hayes speaks for all of us when he says he would describe his time "at Berkeley as a dream and a nightmare" and "I’ve been successful in spite of, not because of, the University." And the UCB folx are still at it, gaslighting. SMH #BlackintheIvory 135d
President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
Ppfp.ucop.edu 888d 3 tweets
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Asmeret Asefaw Berhe👩🏽‍🔬🌍 Are you or do you know someone interested to work w/me & my awesome colleagues at ? Applications are now open for the University of California President's & Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowships Find more info at: DEADLINE: Nov. 1, 2020 144d
For America’s Black mothers, the fear of loss and trauma is constant
National Geographic Magazine - Magazine 150d 3 tweets
When photographer Jon Henry poses families as if in mourning, he’s calling out police violence that too often kills young Black men and terrifies their mothers.
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Asmeret Asefaw Berhe👩🏽‍🔬🌍 Too many still don't seem to appreciate the level of fear and trauma Black parents, & Black ppl in general, have to go through every single day. This is a sad artistic depiction of what Black parents in the US fear most in current times. 150d
Opinion: Use science to stop sexual harassment in higher education
PNAS 161d 12 tweets
Sexual harassment abounds in academia. We know this from a 2018 report published by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (1). As members of the committee who authored that report,* we have presented its findings to colleges...
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Asmeret Asefaw Berhe👩🏽‍🔬🌍 "Academia ... (has) highest rate of sexual harassment after the military ... (due to) oversexualization the problem, overreliance on fast fixes that fail to grapple with long histories of exclusion in the academy, & overemphasis on formal legal compliance" 160d
ADVANCE: Organizational Change for Gender Equity in STEM Academic Professions | NSF - National Science Foundation
Nsf.gov 161d 1 tweets
NSF's mission is to advance the progress of science, a mission accomplished by funding proposals for research and education made by scientists, engineers, and educators from across the country.
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Asmeret Asefaw Berhe👩🏽‍🔬🌍 special thanks to NSF_HRD, the division that has made our work possible. If you don't know about the ADVANCE program, you totally should change that asap 161d
Division of Human Resource Development (HRD) | NSF - National Science Foundation
Nsf.gov 161d 1 tweets
NSF's mission is to advance the progress of science, a mission accomplished by funding proposals for research and education made by scientists, engineers, and educators from across the country.
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Asmeret Asefaw Berhe👩🏽‍🔬🌍 special thanks to NSF_HRD, the division that has made our work possible. If you don't know about the ADVANCE program, you totally should change that asap 161d
ACS Symposium Series (ACS Publications)
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Asmeret Asefaw Berhe👩🏽‍🔬🌍 Latest pub from our fab team, , on persistence of harassment in academic institutions, along with its impacts & potential solutions based on our work + other must-read chapters ed by Samina Azad 163d
Equity
Asmeret Asefaw Berhe👩🏽‍🔬🌍 - Soil Biogeochemistry Lab ­­@ UC Merced 166d 1 tweets
Diversifying higher education means providing equal opportunities for everyone, including scholars from different races, ethnicities, genders, religions, sexual orientations, gender identities, age…
How to Avoid Racial Bias in Reference Letters for People of Color
The Muse 181d 4 tweets
You may not even realize you’re hurting their chances.
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Asmeret Asefaw Berhe👩🏽‍🔬🌍 An extended write up on our ( and yours truly) guide for "Avoiding racial bias in letter of reference writing" #AntiracistSTEM #DiversityandInclusion #diversity 181d
Recreating Wakanda by promoting Black excellence in ecology and evolution
Nature Ecology & Evolution 187d 10 tweets
Our non-Black colleagues must fight anti-Black racism and white supremacy within the academy to authentically promote Black excellence. Amplifying Black excellence in ecology and evolution is the antidote for white supremacy in the academy.
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Asmeret Asefaw Berhe👩🏽‍🔬🌍 Awesome, detailed, and practical recommendations to "fight anti-Black racism and white supremacy within the academy to authentically promote Black excellence." #WakandaForever #BLACKandSTEM 184d
Hidden figures in ecology and evolution
Nature Ecology & Evolution 184d 6 tweets
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Asmeret Asefaw Berhe👩🏽‍🔬🌍 Black women are the hidden figures in EEB and the academy: "If we are to be successful in decolonizing racial, structural biases in (EEB), we must combat barriers to the success of Black women and be intentional to include and promote their contributions" 184d
Sierra Club calls out the racism of John Muir
Shelby Grad - Los Angeles Times 189d 6 tweets
The Sierra Club acknowledges the racist history of its co-founder, the famed environmentalist John Muir.
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Asmeret Asefaw Berhe👩🏽‍🔬🌍 It shouldn't be v hard to acknowledge that some of our revered scientific figures are flawed humans. Muir (like many ppl we put on pedestals today) "made derogatory comments about Black & Indigenous peoples that drew on deeply harmful racist stereotypes" 189d