tl;dr: Check out new QSIDE-affiliated work on criminal justice: J. Crodelle, C. Vallejo, M. Schmidtchen, C.M. Topaz, M.R. D’Orsogna. Impacts of California Proposition 47 on Crime in Santa Monica, CA, submitted (2020). [Credit: substantial parts of the blog post below are excerpted from this work and were written by Maria D’Orsogna.] The Eighth Amendment to…

The COVID-19 pandemic has magnified many of the injustices in American society. From differential health outcomes to economic disparities, minoritized populations are deeply affected. With these challenges in mind, QSIDE is excited to announce a new initiative at intersection of COVID, social justice, and higher education, led by Prof. Courtney Gibbons of Hamilton College. The…

Our recent work, “Comparing demographics of signatories to public letters on diversity in the mathematical sciences,” has now been submitted for publication. You can find the the preprint here and you can download the data set here. Also, check out this great visualization of some results, created by Arjun Kakkar.

A few days ago, QSIDE released a preliminary analysis of selected data from Berkshire Country CourtWatch, for whom we serve as the data analysis partner. Check out some great coverage of this project on WAMC, Northeast Public Radio.

Are you a graduate student or postdoctoral fellow who is currently or will soon be on the academic job market in any field? Do you want assistance translating your ideas about equity/diversity/inclusion into a job application diversity statement? Or do you want feedback on a diversity statement that you have already written? Or are you…

[Addendum: If any readers do in fact know of statistics on faculty of color in the mathematical sciences, please contact us at qside@qsideinstitute.org to let us know. Thus far, no one has been able to provide this information to us.] The past two weeks have seen yet another – brouhaha? kerfuffle? debacle? – over issues…

QUICK RECAP See Updates I and the original post for the story thus far. QSIDE’s previous posts have sparked public attention, receiving thousands of reads. Of the responses to us that were negative, most were with reference to Thompson herself. We note that in our original post, we suggest six actions. Two of them relate…

Earlier this week The most widely-read mathematics publication in the world is Notices of the American Mathematical Society. The most recent issue of the Notices contains an essay by Prof. Abigail Thompson, who is both a Vice President of the American Mathematical Society and Chair of the Department of Mathematics at UC Davis. The essay…

tl;dr: Donate to QSIDE by 11:59 Pacific time on Sunday, Dec. 1 to support pro bono consulting services for graduate students and postdocs who are applying for tenure stream positions and would like feedback/advice on equity/diversity/inclusion plans. Donate here. Yesterday, I posted at length about an episode involving a UC Davis math professor who thinks…

QSIDE brings quantitative expertise together with expertise from the social sciences, humanities, and arts to discover the impact and scope of injustices and to build solutions to remedy them. When those injustices are themselves within the world of quantitative expertise, it hits painfully close to home. What happened The most widely-read mathematics publication in the…