The “Socioeconomic Roots of Academic Faculty,”

We surveyed 7000 U.S. faculty from 8 disciplines to study how socioeconomic status shapes the academic workforce.

A summary: https://t.co/LniF2fILSV

2/ First, we asked faculty about their parents' level of education when they were kids.

Half of faculty reported a parent having a grad degree, and nearly a quarter had a parent with a PhD. That’s 25x the rate of U.S. adults. 😮

3/ In fact, even compared to their PhD graduating classes, people who go on to be professors are nearly 2x as likely to have PhD parents!

➡️ 11.8% of all U.S. PhD recipients have PhD parents.
➡️ 22.2% of surveyed faculty have PhD parents.

4/ But even among faculty, their socioeconomic roots make a difference:

Faculty at more elite institutions are about 2x as likely to have a PhD parent than those at the least prestigious institutions — a pattern that is remarkably stable over 70 years.

5/ Socioeconomic status also impacts how much parental support faculty report receiving in their careers: more highly educated parents = more family support that faculty receive 🤗

6/ Using self-reported childhood ZIP codes, we estimated each faculty’s childhood neighborhood’s average income:

Faculty come from relatively wealthy, sub/urban neighborhoods (24% higher median income than the general public), and most (76%) said their family owned their home.

7/ The intersection of the socioeconomic roots of faculty with race, gender, and geography poses broad challenges for efforts to diversify academia, and our findings highlight their intergenerational nature.

8/ Limitations: we surveyed current faculty, which may select for higher SES individuals; and, our results highlight the advantages of childhood SES, but don’t speak to the intersectional difficulties many face once they become faculty.

9/ To close: Faculty tend to come from highly educated families. But, for murky reasons: how does a parent’s PhD help a child become faculty, at an elite job? Perhaps identifying with academic ideals? Early opportunities academia values? Role models? 🤷🏼 We’d love to know.

10/ This topic is rich with interesting questions — those socioeconomic roots are deep and pervasive — and it draws together many other threads of scholarship. We are excited to see more of these, and feedback is most welcome!

هنر حل مسئله با داده

تصمیم گرفتیم شیوه‌ای که در پارتیکل‌ بی با آن به مسئله نگاه می‌کنیم و مسئله‌ها را حل می‌کنیم به شکل یک دوره آموزشی آنلاین در اختیار همه قرار دهیم. این دوره با همکاری مکتبخونه تهیه شده و از طریق این پلتفرم قابل دسترس است:

https://maktabkhooneh.org/course/%D9%87%D9%86%D8%B1-%D8%AD%D9%84-%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%A6%D9%84%D9%87-%D8%A8%D8%A7-%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%87-mk1097/

#ai #DataScience

💰 RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITION AT MICROSOFT RESEARCH NYC

Ideal for those who wish to go to PhD programs in computational social science

https://t.co/Z2im5YQO1v

Front-end programming skills required

No guarantees but our last 5 RAs *all* got into great grad schools!

💉 “We cannot repeat the painful lessons from the early years of the AIDS response, when people in wealthier countries got back to health, while millions of people in developing countries were left behind.” https://t.co/TSXRImWUgU

The new Master's programme Computational Social Systems is largely influenced by David Garcia's (@dgarcia_eu) work. More about him and further links to the programme: https://t.co/tKXIzD7NZh

#study #master #programme #computational #social #science

🦠 https://t.co/2fD61cM2MH

Applications for ICTP full scholarships for the Master in High Performance Computing @mhpc_sissa_ictp for candidates from Developing Countries are now open!

Deadline: 30 April

MHPC is an innovative specialization program that prepares students for exciting careers in the fast-growing field of #HPC
#computing #highperformancecomputing #AI #MachineLearning #DeepLearning #programming #Algorithms
More info 👉 https://t.co/Jg2esS8hvY

Kathy Brauer's, “I’ll Finish It This Week” And Other Lies

We suck at estimating how long it will take us to do things that don't have deadlines, and we don't improve much over the course of a career.

https://t.co/Juw1Zzj7Vs

⭕️سمینار‌های فیزیک آماری⭕️
💡 موضوع ارائه: ایمنی در برابر بیماری‌های همیار در شبکه‌های پیچیده
🗣 ارائه دهنده: ادیب خزایی
📅 زمان ارائه: یکشنبه ۱۵ فروردیت ۱۴۰۰ ساعت ۱۵:۰۰
🔗 لینک ورود

💢#اطلاع_رسانی_سمینارهای_دانشکده
💢#سمینار_فیزیک_آماری
💢#دکتر_مقیمی #دکتر_قنبرنژاد #دکتر_روحانی

🆔 @anjoman_elmi_phys_sut

⭕️-گپ و گفتگو با حضور دانشجویان تحصیلات تکمیلی حوزه پیچیدگی-⭕️

👤سخنران‌ها:
🔘 نرگس چینی‌چیان (TU Berlin/ BCCN Berlin/ Charité Berlin)
🔘عباس ک. ریزی (Computer Science Department of Aalto University)
🔘سینا سجادی (Complexity Science Hub & Central European University)
📆 پنجشنبه ۱۹ فروردین ۱۴۰۰
🕰 ساعت ۶ بعدازظهر
🚪لینک ورودی:
🔗اتاق مجازی دانشجویان دانشکده فیزیک
‼️در این برنامه سخنران‌ها از مسیرشان به عنوان یک دانشجوی پیچیدگی صحبت می‌کنند و تجربه‌هایشان را با ما درمیان می‌گذارند. همچنین به سوالات دانشجویان جواب داده خواهد شد.
‼️درضمن می‌توانید از طریق این فرم سوالات خود را پیشاپیش مطرح کنید.

🆔 @anjoman_elmi_phys_sut

💰 We are looking for a #PhD student (fully funded position) to apply machine learning methods to study the collective motion of receptors in cells. A cool interdisciplinary project offering unique combination of AI and cellular dynamics, please contact us by email:

http://www.tchumatchenko.de/

💰 Funded positions for #MSc & #PhD students who are interested in investigating computational models and methods to understand the development and diversity of biological forms. Application deadline: May 1, 2021.

https://t.co/djg0JH0jO5

Dear everyone,

The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory search committee is presently seeking multiple NeuroAI Scholar candidates to join an innovative new program at the intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence (AI).
See flyer for details.

For those who’d like to be considered, you can create an account and apply directly to the position found here: NeuroAI Scholar position ID 02703-R.
You can contact Jessica Toner for additional information (toner@cshl.edu)
Founded in 1890, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is a world-renowned research and educational institution with programs in neuroscience, artificial intelligence, quantitative biology, bioinformatics, cancer and plant biology. Located on the North Shore of Long Island 30 miles from New York City, the Laboratory has a rich and successful research environment, as well as an innovative graduate school.

Best regards,

Lisa Velenosi

CALL FOR PAPERS
Conference: ICCCI 2021
Name: 13th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence
Conference web site: http://www.iccci.pwr.edu.pl/
Date: Sep 29-Oct 01, 2021
Venue: Amilia Mare 5*, Rhodes, Greece
Publication: Springer LNCS/LNAI Series (max 13 pages)
Submission via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccci20210

⭕️ گپ و گفتگو با حضور دانشجویان تحصیلات تکمیلی حوزه پیچیدگی

می‌توانید از طریق این فرم سوالات خود را پیشاپیش مطرح کنید.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSefVBd7Q3RM-P_xBDJSyX2dDUda3ejaIrxG9spXEFA9pijzSw/viewform?usp=sf_link

Two open #PhD positions at EPFL:
❗️#PhD student position in computational neuroscience and modelling of salamander locomotor circuits
❗️#PhD student position in biorobotics and fluid dynamics

https://www.epfl.ch/labs/biorob/openings/