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…

Recently, in ArtNews: Museums will soon have a new resource to help them identify—and correct—gender disparity among artists in their collections. In 2020, the Spanish advocacy nonprofit Mujeres en las Artes Visuales (MAV) will release a digital-analysis service providing details on the gender breakdown of a museum’s holdings, and offer tailored recommendations for methods of improvement. The…

One of QSIDE’s focus areas is diversity and inclusion in art. Our work, which was covered extensively in the press, shows that among artists whose works are held in the catalogs of major U.S. museums, 85% are white and 87% men. As an outgrowth of that work, QSIDE affiliates participated in a datathon at the National…