Text & data mining (TDM) is quickly becoming a popular tool in STEM programs, but how do you get started? This blog post will help guide you with a general overview of TDM and provide links to open access data, subscription data resources, tools that will help you to analyze and visualize data and give suggestions to help you get organized. What is Text & … Continue reading Getting Started with Text & Data Mining
Welcome to a somewhat normal start to the academic year! I am thrilled to see the students walking around campus again, but a bit overwhelmed by the mountainous piles of information flooding my inbox. I would imagine that I am not alone in that sentiment, so I promise to only add one rock to that mountain today – this post recommending two “explainer” websites. Shall … Continue reading Explainers
Retraction Watch Revisited The Retraction Watch website was highlighted in a 2020 Inside Science Resources post (Kipnis, 2020). Several features of the website were mentioned including the blog, the Retraction Watch Leaderboard and the Retraction Watch Database. New features of the website include the Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker, a list of retracted papers on COVID-19 as well as the continued growth of the Retraction … Continue reading Retraction Watch Revisited
The COVID-19 pandemic has made health disparities in the United States starkly apparent. Age-adjusted deaths per 100,000 people among Black, Latino, and Pacific Islander populations are more than 1.5 times greater than those of the White population, and among Indigenous populations are more than 2 times greater than those of the White population, according to APM Research Lab’s analysis of CDC data in the Color … Continue reading Resources on Race and Racism in Medicine
Peer reviewed journal articles are typically considered the gold standard in science writing, but students often lack formal training in how to write about their research and get published. Likewise, junior faculty and new scientists may need tips and direction in publishing and/or presenting their work. A good guidebook can help alleviate anxiety of those new to the scholarly communication process and avoid potentially embarrassing, … Continue reading Science Writing and Publishing
Whether you are facilitating subject-specific instruction, or library and information literacy, one of the simple ways that instructors can bring equity into the classroom is through the use of online asynchronous tutorials (Webb & Hoover, 2017). The 2020 COVID pandemic sent the majority of campuses to an online learning format, but many were unprepared for the stress and hardship that caused both instructors and student … Continue reading Creating Equity in the Classroom with Asynchronous Tutorials
Writing and communication have not historically been a focus of STEM programs in higher education. Many students concentrate solely on the technical skills required by their program without developing these “softer” skills. A student’s lack of writing and communication skills can lead to trouble once they graduate and enter into the work environment that requires reports to be written, ideas to be presented to various … Continue reading The Online Technical Communication Center
Note: The post below is a reflection on issues of equity and inclusion within libraries. The thoughts expressed herein are my own. I am a second-career librarian with a background in law and public and academic librarianship. During a recent staff discussion, the topic of systemic bias in our library systems was raised by a colleague of mine. Libraries, he argued, were the manifestation of … Continue reading Thoughts on Libraries and the American Dream
“Built and maintained by a worldwide community of experts, Mindat.org is the world’s largest open database of minerals, rocks, meteorites and the localities they come from.” Motivated by a passion sparked at an early age, Jolyon Ralph started this database from scratch in 1993 (DOS/Windows application; homemade hand-coded system) and shepherded its evolution through the internet stage to finally becoming an outreach program under the … Continue reading mindat.org – A Minerals Database
JabRef is an open-source reference management system that prepares BibTeX files for LaTeX users. The original version of JabRef was released in 2003 (“JabRef,” n.d.). It is available for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms and can be downloaded from JabRef. JabRef offers several features similar to other reference managers like Mendeley or Zotero but it is geared to LaTeX users. Similar features include the ability … Continue reading What is JabRef?
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