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Harris BN, Bauer CM, Carr JA, Gabor CR, Grindstaff JL, Guoynes C, Heppner JJ, Ledon-Rettig CC, Lopes PC, Lynn SE, Madelaire CB, Neuman-Lee LA, Palacios MG, Soto P, Terry J. COVID-19 as a chronic stressor and the importance of individual identity: A data-driven look at academic productivity during the pandemic. Gen Comp Endocrinol 2024; 345:114394. [PMID: 37871848 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2023.114394] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2023] [Revised: 10/04/2023] [Accepted: 10/15/2023] [Indexed: 10/25/2023]
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic impacted personal and professional life. For academics, research, teaching, and service tasks were upended and we all had to navigate the altered landscape. However, some individuals faced a disproportionate burden, particularly academics with minoritized identities or those who were early career, were caregivers, or had intersecting identities. As comparative endocrinologists, we determine how aspects of individual and species-level variation influence response to, recovery from, and resilience in the face of stressors. Here, we flip that framework and apply an integrative biological lens to the impact of the COVID-19 chronic stressor on our endocrine community. We address how the pandemic altered impact factors of academia (e.g., scholarly products) and relatedly, how factors of impact (e.g., sex, gender, race, career stage, caregiver status, etc.) altered the way in which individuals could respond. We predict the pandemic will have long-term impacts on the population dynamics, composition, and landscape of our academic ecosystem. Impact factors of research, namely journal submissions, were altered by COVID-19, and women authors saw a big dip. We discuss this broadly and then report General and Comparative Endocrinology (GCE) manuscript submission and acceptance status by gender and geographic region from 2019 to 2023. We also summarize how the pandemic impacted individuals with different axes of identity, how academic institutions have responded, compile proposed solutions, and conclude with a discussion on what we can all do to (re)build the academy in an equitable way. At GCE, the first author positions had gender parity, but men outnumbered women at the corresponding author position. Region of manuscript origin mattered for submission and acceptance rates, and women authors from Asia and the Middle East were the most heavily impacted by the pandemic. The number of manuscripts submitted dropped after year 1 of the pandemic and has not yet recovered. Thus, COVID-19 was a chronic stressor for the GCE community.
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- Breanna N Harris
- Texas Tech University, Department of Biological Science, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA.
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- Swarthmore College, Department of Biology, Swarthmore, PA 19081 USA
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- Texas Tech University, Department of Biological Science, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA
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- Oklahoma State University, Department of Integrative Biology, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA
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- Indiana University Bloomington, Department of Biology, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
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- Schmid College of Science and Technology, Chapman University, Orange, CA 92866, USA
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- The College of Wooster, Department of Biology, Wooster, OH 44691, USA
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- Beckman Center for Conservation Research, San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, Escondido, CA 92025, USA
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- Centro Para el Estudio de Sistemas Marinos, CCT CONICET-CENPAT, Blvd. Brown 2915, Puerto Madryn, Chubut, Argentina
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- Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
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- Arkansas State University, State University, AR 72467, USA
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Rowland FE, Prats KA, Alshwairikh YA, Burak MK, Fanton AC, Duguid MC. Overemphasis on publications may disadvantage historically excluded groups in STEM before and during COVID-19: A North American survey-based study. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0291124. [PMID: 37756261 PMCID: PMC10529568 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0291124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2022] [Accepted: 08/22/2023] [Indexed: 09/29/2023] Open
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Publishing is a strong determinant of academic success and there is compelling evidence that identity may influence the academic writing experience and writing output. However, studies rarely quantitatively assess the effects of major life upheavals on trainee writing. The COVID-19 pandemic introduced unprecedented life disruptions that may have disproportionately impacted different demographics of trainees. We analyzed anonymous survey responses from 342 North American environmental biology graduate students and postdoctoral scholars (hereafter trainees) about scientific writing experiences to assess: (1) how identity interacts with scholarly publication totals and (2) how the COVID-19 pandemic influenced trainee perceptions of scholarly writing productivity and whether there were differences among identities. Interestingly, identity had a strong influence on publication totals, but it differed by career stage with graduate students and postdoctoral scholars often having opposite results. We found that trainees identifying as female and those with chronic health conditions or disabilities lag in publication output at some point during training. Additionally, although trainees felt they had more time during the pandemic to write, they reported less productivity and motivation. Trainees who identified as female; Black, Indigenous, or as a Person of Color [BIPOC]; and as first-generation college graduates were much more likely to indicate that the pandemic affected their writing. Disparities in the pandemic's impact on writing were most pronounced for BIPOC respondents; a striking 85% of BIPOC trainees reported that the pandemic affected their writing habits, and overwhelmingly felt unproductive and unmotivated to write. Our results suggest that the disproportionate impact of the pandemic on writing output may only heighten the negative effects commonly reported amongst historically excluded trainees. Based on our findings, we encourage the academy to consider how an overemphasis on publication output during hiring may affect historically excluded groups in STEM-especially in a post-COVID-19 era.
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- Freya E. Rowland
- School of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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- School of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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- School of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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- School of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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- School of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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- School of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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Nicholas D, Herman E, Clark D, Boukacem‐Zeghmouri C, Rodríguez‐Bravo B, Abrizah A, Watkinson A, Sims D, ´Świgoń M, Xu J, Serbina G, Jamali HR, Tenopir C, Allard S. The impact of the pandemic on early career researchers' work‐life and scholarly communications: A quantitative aerial analysis. LEARNED PUBLISHING 2023. [DOI: 10.1002/leap.1541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/19/2023]
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- Department of Library & Information Science University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
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- School of Information Sciences University of Tennessee Knoxville Tennessee USA
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- Wydział Humanistyczny Uniwersytet Warminsko‐Mazurski Olsztyn Poland
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- School of Information Management Wuhan University Wuhan China
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- TSU Research Library Tomsk State University Tomsk Russia
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- School of Information and Communication Studies Charles Sturt University Wagga Wagga New South Wales Australia
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- School of Information Sciences University of Tennessee Knoxville Tennessee USA
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- School of Information Sciences University of Tennessee Knoxville Tennessee USA
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Cheng SJ, Gaynor KM, Moore AC, Darragh K, Estien CO, Hammond JW, Lawrence C, Mills KL, Baiz MD, Ignace D, Khadempour L, McCary MA, Rice MM, Tumber-Dávila SJ, Smith JA. Championing inclusive terminology in ecology and evolution. Trends Ecol Evol 2023; 38:381-384. [PMID: 36754709 DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2022.12.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2022] [Revised: 12/14/2022] [Accepted: 12/24/2022] [Indexed: 02/10/2023]
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Amid a growing disciplinary commitment to inclusion in ecology and evolutionary biology (EEB), it is critical to consider how the use of scientific language can harm members of our research community. Here, we outline a path for identifying and revising harmful terminology to foster inclusion in EEB.
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- Susan J Cheng
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
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- Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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- Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Department of Forestry & Conservation Science, University of British Columbia, BC, Canada.
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- Department of Evolution & Ecology, University of California - Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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- Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California - Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Humanities Department, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA
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- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
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- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
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- Department of Forestry & Conservation Science, University of British Columbia, BC, Canada
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, California State University San Marcos, San Marcos, CA, USA
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- Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology, University of California - Davis, Davis, CA, USA.
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Sun Z, Liu S, Li Y, Ma C. Expedited editorial decision in COVID-19 pandemic. J Informetr 2023; 17:101382. [PMID: 36686337 PMCID: PMC9841084 DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2023.101382] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2022] [Revised: 12/08/2022] [Accepted: 01/12/2023] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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The COVID-19 pandemic and its resultant lockdowns have interrupted the way scientists live and work. This nevertheless caused an unforeseen impact of COVID-19: the pandemic substantially increased editorial speed. Here, we causally identify the impact of the pandemic on the editorial decision time, based on a quasi-experimental regression discontinuity (RD) design that compares (N = 339,199) papers submitted in the lead-up to and aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that editors make acceptance decisions significantly quicker after the pandemic, reducing the editorial decision time of revised papers by 8.9 days on average. The pandemic, however, has unequal impacts on editors. The results reveal a larger reduction in editorial decision time for editors of high-tier journals, in the field of social science, or with busy work schedules. Finally, our findings also allude to the potential for the increase of editorial speed, and will stimulate policy changes in scientific enterprises that strive for accelerated publishing.
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- Zhuanlan Sun
- Institute of High-Quality Development Evaluation, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210003, China
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- Department of Marketing and International Business, Lingnan University, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Marketing and International Business, Lingnan University, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong, China
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- School of Economics and Management, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
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Khasanah N, Sriyana J, Prasetyo A, Nurdinawati V, Hartopo A, Wahyudianto H, Gartika D, Fahlevi M. The role of knowledge management and sharing in cooperatives practices toward National Economic Recovery in the COVID-19 pandemic era. Front Public Health 2022; 10:963755. [PMID: 36561868 PMCID: PMC9763282 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.963755] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2022] [Accepted: 11/08/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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The National Economic Recovery (NER) Program is one of the responses initiated by the government in Indonesia's economic recovery due to the impact of COVID-19, the target is to reduce the activities of affected communities, including cooperatives. One of the priority aspects for the program to run well and smoothly is the role of institutions in knowledge management and process sharing. This paper examines the role of knowledge management and sharing in cooperatives with qualitative limitations at the knowledge process level, knowledge design level, strategic interaction level, social participation level, academic and scientific ecosystem level, and network and partnership level. A qualitative description becomes a research method with secondary data in the form of a comparison of cooperatives in 2019-2021 as a representation before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 secondary data for 20 months from April 2020 to September 2022 in Indonesia dynamically also support sharpening the analysis. The source of cooperative data is from the publications of the Ministry of Cooperatives and SMEs, while the source of COVID-19 data comes from the publication of the COVID-19 Task Force. The analysis is carried out by building qualitative aspects into quantitative ones that can be formulated in the form of cooperative applications. The result is that the application of the knowledge process level, knowledge design level, strategic interaction level, social participation level, academic and scientific ecosystem level, and network and partnership level can improve decision-making, capture, share, and measure institutional knowledge for the success of the NER Program.
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- Nur Khasanah
- Doctoral Program in Economics, Universitas Islam Indonesia, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
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- Department of Economics, Universitas Islam Indonesia, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
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- Regional Development Planning Agency, Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia,*Correspondence: Andjar Prasetyo
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- Jurusan Teknik Elektromedik, Poltekkes Kemenkes Jakarta II, Jakarta, Indonesia
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- Regional Development Planning Agency of Papua Province, Jayapura, Indonesia
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- Regional Development Planning Agency of Papua Province, Jayapura, Indonesia
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- Research and Development Agency of West Java Province, Bandung, Indonesia
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- Management Department, BINUS Online Learning, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia
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Alfaidi M, Zhang H, Oliveira SD. Fostering New Scientific Networks in the COVID Era and Beyond. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 2022; 42:1113-1120. [PMID: 35861068 PMCID: PMC9420830 DOI: 10.1161/atvbaha.122.317452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
Over the last 2 years, the COVID-19 pandemic has stimulated the scientific community by starting a race to develop new vaccines and therapeutic approaches to fight this life-threatening illness. At the same time, the pandemic also evoked an urge for innovative communication strategies to maintain scientific networking and data sharing among investigators. Communication through audiovisual platforms has quickly become a unique tool to sustain scientific interaction, whereas social media has turned into an unmistakable pivotal environment for sharing scientific data and combating misinformation around SARS-CoV-2 infection, prevention, and therapy. Amid this challenging scenario, the scientific community organically established new roles, such as a social media ambassador, a conference-associated role to virtually promote breakthrough science while reconnecting investigators and forging new scientific networks via social media. Moreover, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, it also became clear the critical need for the scientific community to support efforts to empower flexibility, creativity, and the inclusion of new forms of communication to advance science. Thus, the goal of this brief article is to provide a structured follow-up on the importance for researchers to occupy the internet to promote scientific findings and events, to combat science mistrust by stimulating communication among nonscientists to scientists, and to provide essential strategies for young and senior investigators on how to virtually expand their professional networks within and across research and clinical areas of the cardiovascular field.
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- Mabruka Alfaidi
- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Center for Cardiovascular Diseases and Sciences, LSU Health - Shreveport, LA (M.A.)
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- Cardiometabolic Genomics Program, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York (H.Z.)
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- College of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Illinois at Chicago (S.D.O.)
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Vila-Concejo A, Splinter KD, Harley MD, Lowe R, Fellowes TE, McCarroll RJ, Coco G. Creating communities and communicating science during COVID-19: From Coast2Coast to Coast2Cast. CONTINENTAL SHELF RESEARCH 2022; 245:104794. [PMID: 35719127 PMCID: PMC9195350 DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2022.104794] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2021] [Revised: 06/09/2022] [Accepted: 06/12/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The global COVID-19 pandemic has seen extended lockdowns, isolation periods and travel restrictions across many countries around the world since early 2020. Some countries, such as Australia and New Zealand, closed their international borders in early 2020 preventing researchers travelling to other parts of the world. To facilitate the exposure of our students' work, and for them to meet international researchers, as well as foster a sense of coastal community, we started a zoominar series (seminars via Zoom) in April 2020. The Coast2Coast zoominar series had therefore humble origins but we soon discovered that there was an appetite for more widely sharing science across the coastal research disciplines. The Coast2Coast zoominar grew rapidly, attracting researchers from many countries around the world who presented and attended fortnightly online seminars. In just one year and a half we had 38 presentations with roughly 1900 attendees, creating a sense of community and belonging for the researchers involved. In early 2021, two of the co-authors, Giovanni (GC) and Ana (AVC) decided to expand and take this sense of community further creating the Coast2Cast podcast series, where researchers are asked research and non-research questions. In only 7 months, the podcasts have attracted more than 3700 listeners. Importantly, while the main prerequisite was high-quality and impactful research, diversity and inclusion were also a priority in selecting and inviting speakers for the zoominars and guests for the podcast. Importantly, our survey results suggest that there is a place for online events similar to Coast2Coast and Coast2Cast in a pandemic-free future, and that the coastal community involved has greatly benefited from such initiatives.
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- Ana Vila-Concejo
- Geocoastal Research Group, Marine Studies Institute, School of Geosciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
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- Water Research Laboratory, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2093, Australia
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- Water Research Laboratory, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2093, Australia
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- UWA Oceans Institute and Oceans Graduate School, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia
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- Geocoastal Research Group, Marine Studies Institute, School of Geosciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
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- Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- School of Environment, Faculty of Science, University of Auckland, New Zealand
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Febria CM, Kashian DR, Bertrand KRT, Dabney B, Day M, Dugdale M, Ekhator KO, Esparra-Escalera HJ, Graham R, Harshaw K, Hunt DS, Knorr S, Lewandowski K, Linn C, Lucas A, Mundle SOC, Raoufi G, Salter C, Siddiqua Z, Tyagi S, Wallen MM. Early career researchers benefit from inclusive, diverse and international collaborations: Changing how academic institutions utilize the seminar series. JOURNAL OF GREAT LAKES RESEARCH 2022; 48:849-855. [PMID: 36591538 PMCID: PMC9789328 DOI: 10.1016/j.jglr.2022.03.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2021] [Accepted: 03/24/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Efforts to make research environments more inclusive and diverse are beneficial for the next generation of Great Lakes researchers. The global COVID-19 pandemic introduced circumstances that forced graduate programs and academic institutions to re-evaluate and promptly pivot research traditions, such as weekly seminar series, which are critical training grounds and networking opportunities for early career researchers (ECRs). While several studies have established that academics with funded grants and robust networks were better able to weather the abrupt changes in research and closures of institutions, ECRs did not. In response, both existing and novel partnerships provided a resilient network to support ECRs at an essential stage of their career development. Considering these challenges, we sought to re-frame the seminar series as a virtual collaboration for ECRs. Two interdisciplinary graduate programs, located in different countries (Windsor, Canada, and Detroit, USA) invested in a year-long partnership to deliver a virtual-only seminar series that intentionally promoted: the co-creation of protocols and co-led roles, the amplification of justice, equity, diversity and inclusion throughout all aspects of organization and representation, engagement and amplification through social media, the integration of social, scientific and cultural research disciplines, all of which collectively showcased the capacity of our ECRs to lead, organize and communicate. This approach has great potential for application across different communities to learn through collaboration and sharing, and to empower the next generation to find new ways of working together.
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- Catherine M Febria
- University of Windsor, 401 Sunset Avenue, Windsor, Ontario, Canada N9B 3P4 ,Traditional Territory of the Three Fires Confederacy of First Nations
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University, 5047 Gullen Mall, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
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- University of Windsor, 401 Sunset Avenue, Windsor, Ontario, Canada N9B 3P4 ,Traditional Territory of the Three Fires Confederacy of First Nations
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University, 5047 Gullen Mall, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
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- University of Windsor, 401 Sunset Avenue, Windsor, Ontario, Canada N9B 3P4 ,Traditional Territory of the Three Fires Confederacy of First Nations
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- University of Windsor, 401 Sunset Avenue, Windsor, Ontario, Canada N9B 3P4 ,Traditional Territory of the Three Fires Confederacy of First Nations
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Wayne State University, 5050 Anthony Wayne Drive, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
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- University of Windsor, 401 Sunset Avenue, Windsor, Ontario, Canada N9B 3P4 ,Traditional Territory of the Three Fires Confederacy of First Nations
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- University of Windsor, 401 Sunset Avenue, Windsor, Ontario, Canada N9B 3P4 ,Traditional Territory of the Three Fires Confederacy of First Nations
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University, 5047 Gullen Mall, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
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- University of Windsor, 401 Sunset Avenue, Windsor, Ontario, Canada N9B 3P4 ,Traditional Territory of the Three Fires Confederacy of First Nations
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University, 5047 Gullen Mall, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, Wayne State University, 656 West Kirby, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
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- Department of Communication, Wayne State University, 585 Manoogian Hall, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
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- University of Windsor, 401 Sunset Avenue, Windsor, Ontario, Canada N9B 3P4 ,Traditional Territory of the Three Fires Confederacy of First Nations
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- Department of Education, Wayne State University, 5425 Gullen Mall, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
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- University of Windsor, 401 Sunset Avenue, Windsor, Ontario, Canada N9B 3P4 ,Traditional Territory of the Three Fires Confederacy of First Nations
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wayne State University, 259 Mack Ave, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
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- School of the Environment, University of Windsor, 401 Sunset Ave., Windsor, ON N9B 3P4, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University, 5047 Gullen Mall, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
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Ward-Paige CA, White ER, Madin E, Osgood GJ, Bailes LK, Bateman RL, Belonje E, Burns KV, Cullain N, Darbyshire-Jenkins P, de Waegh RS, Eger AM, Fola-Matthews L, Ford BM, Gonson C, Honeyman CJ, House JE, Jacobs E, Jordan LK, Levenson JJ, Lucchini K, Martí-Puig MP, McGuire L, Meneses C, Montoya-Maya PH, Noonan RA, Ruiz-Ruiz PA, Ruy PE, Saputra RA, Shedrawi G, Sing B, Tietbohl MD, Twomey A, Florez DV, Yamb L. A framework for mapping and monitoring human-ocean interactions in near real-time during COVID-19 and beyond. MARINE POLICY 2022; 140:105054. [PMID: 35399704 PMCID: PMC8979766 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2022.105054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The human response to the COVID-19 pandemic set in motion an unprecedented shift in human activity with unknown long-term effects. The impacts in marine systems are expected to be highly dynamic at local and global scales. However, in comparison to terrestrial ecosystems, we are not well-prepared to document these changes in marine and coastal environments. The problems are two-fold: 1) manual and siloed data collection and processing, and 2) reliance on marine professionals for observation and analysis. These problems are relevant beyond the pandemic and are a barrier to understanding rapidly evolving blue economies, the impacts of climate change, and the many other changes our modern-day oceans are undergoing. The "Our Ocean in COVID-19″ project, which aims to track human-ocean interactions throughout the pandemic, uses the new eOceans platform (eOceans.app) to overcome these barriers. Working at local scales, a global network of ocean scientists and citizen scientists are collaborating to monitor the ocean in near real-time. The purpose of this paper is to bring this project to the attention of the marine conservation community, researchers, and the public wanting to track changes in their area. As our team continues to grow, this project will provide important baselines and temporal patterns for ocean conservation, policy, and innovation as society transitions towards a new normal. It may also provide a proof-of-concept for real-time, collaborative ocean monitoring that breaks down silos between academia, government, and at-sea stakeholders to create a stronger and more democratic blue economy with communities more resilient to ocean and global change.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA
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- Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Kāne'ohe, HI 96744, USA
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- Biology Department, Miami University of Ohio Global Field Program, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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- Murdoch University, Murdoch WA 6150, Australia
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- Marine Action Research, Zavora Marine Lab, Mozambique
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- Center for Marine Science and Innovation, School of Biological, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Kengsington, NSW, Australia
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- Nigerian Institute for Oceanography and Marine Research, Lagos, Nigeria
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- School of Agriculture and Environment, University of Western Australia, Albany, Western Australia, Australia
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- Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA
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- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia
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- World Below the Waves, Auckland, New Zealand
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- US Department of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Washington, D.C., University of Massachusetts Boston, Oceans Forward, Boston, MA, USA
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- Laboratório de Ecologia, Comportamento e Conservação, Departamento de Zoologia, Centro de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
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- Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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- Ecology Department, Universidad Catolica de la Santisima Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile
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- Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, Galway, Ireland
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- Indonesia Biru, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia
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- Coastal Fisheries Program, Fisheries, Aquaculture and Marine Ecosystems Division, Pacific Community, Noumea, Nouville New Caledonie
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- Shark Guardian, Nottingham, UK
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- Red Sea Research Center, Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Makkah, Saudi Arabia
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4067, Australia
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- Laboratorio de Biología Molecular Marina (BIOMMAR), Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
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- Unité de Formation des Sciences de la Terre et Environnement, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
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Zandonà E. Female ecologists are falling from the academic ladder: A call for action. Perspect Ecol Conserv 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pecon.2022.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Kentner AC, Harden L, de Melo Soares D, Rummel C. Editorial commentary on the special issue emerging psychoneuroimmunology research: Future leaders in focus. Brain Behav Immun Health 2022; 20:100423. [PMID: 35169756 PMCID: PMC8829553 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbih.2022.100423] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2022] [Revised: 01/24/2022] [Accepted: 01/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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The theme of this BBI-Health special issue is to promote the research, creativity and forward-thinking of future key opinion leaders in the field of psychoneuroimmunology (PNI). We asked contributing researchers to identify new ideas and spaces for innovation to map out the future trajectory of our discipline. This special issue provides global and diverse views from early career investigators focused on science, society, and/or policy, with an emphasis on diversity in all its aspects. The common thread weaving through the articles contained in this special issue is that all authors were invited to consider the future of PNI while they were experiencing the global COVID-19 lockdowns that slowed down or even prevented them from access to their “hands-on” research. The contributors vary from Master level to assistant professors, and all have already significantly contributed to the field of PNI. Each contributor has provided a photograph and short biography alongside their written perspectives. We hope that you will enjoy learning about their visions for the future of PNI and will join us with enthusiasm as we watch our field grow through the advancement of their scientific careers.
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Febria C, Donaldson C, Ives J, Keeshig K. Pluralistic approaches in research aim to advance farming and freshwater restoration in the Great Lakes basin. ADV ECOL RES 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/bs.aecr.2022.04.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Maas B, Ocampo-Ariza C, Whelan CJ. Cross-disciplinary approaches for better research: The case of birds and bats. Basic Appl Ecol 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2021.06.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Aquino EML, Diele-Viegas LM, Pilecco FB, Reis AP, Menezes GMDS. Mulheres das ciências médicas e da saúde e publicações brasileiras sobre Covid-19. SAÚDE EM DEBATE 2021. [DOI: 10.1590/0103-11042021e105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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RESUMO Apesar do aumento histórico da participação feminina na produção científica brasileira, reconfigurações domésticas e laborais para o controle da Covid-19 podem estar reduzindo a produtividade das mulheres cientistas. A pesquisa GenCovid-Br objetivou traçar um panorama da participação feminina nos artigos sobre Covid-19 das ciências médicas e da saúde, disponibilizados no PubMed, com ao menos um autor de filiação brasileira. Das 1.013 publicações até 14 de agosto de 2020, 6,1% foram escritas exclusivamente por mulheres; 17,2%, exclusivamente por homens; grupos mistos respondem por 31,1% com liderança feminina, e 45,6% com liderança masculina. As mulheres participam mais de artigos com primeira autoria feminina (50,1% vs 35,6% nos liderados por homens). Nos artigos de áreas da Medicina Clínica, em que as mulheres são maioria, ocorre menos participação de autoras, o que também acontece em publicações resultantes de colaborações internacionais. Os presentes resultados indicam a possibilidade de ampliação de desigualdades de gênero prévias durante a pandemia de Covid-19. Novos estudos devem aprofundar a investigação sobre a magnitude e os determinantes desse fenômeno, incluindo análises temporais. As políticas institucionais devem considerar as iniquidades de gênero nas avaliações acadêmicas, prevenindo impactos futuros nas carreiras das mulheres, em particular, das jovens pesquisadoras envolvidas na reprodução social.
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- Estela M. L Aquino
- Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), Brasil; Rede CoVida - Ciência, Informação e Solidariedade, Brasil
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- Universidade Federal de Alagoas (UFAL), Brasil; Rede CoVida - Ciência, Informação e Solidariedade, Brasil
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- Rede CoVida - Ciência, Informação e Solidariedade, Brasil; Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brasil
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- Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), Brasil; Rede CoVida - Ciência, Informação e Solidariedade, Brasil
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Wagner K, Pennell SM, Eilert M, Lim SR. Academic mothers with disabilities: Navigating academia and parenthood during COVID-19. GENDER WORK AND ORGANIZATION 2021; 29:342-352. [PMID: 34898867 PMCID: PMC8652755 DOI: 10.1111/gwao.12751] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2021] [Accepted: 08/31/2021] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Academic mothers (including nonbinary, trans, and genderqueer parents) have always faced challenges in their profession due to systemic barriers and a “motherhood tax”; however, COVID‐19 has exacerbated already existing inequalities (Oleschuk, 2020). This study examines how the pandemic has affected academic mothers with mental health and physical disabilities, as these voices often remain hidden and unheard in academia despite increased awareness of their presence (Brown & Leigh, 2018; Kelly & Senior, 2020). Here, we share the voices of 23 participants using a qualitative methodology drawing from social justice and feminist theories to highlight the lived experience of academic mothers with mental and/or physical disabilities and their experiences as a scholar and parent during COVID‐19. Understanding the lived experience of this intersectional population can provide invaluable insights into ableist privilege within higher education, especially in the context of COVID‐19 which has substantially disrupted work and homelife routines.
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- Kathryn Wagner
- Department of Psychology Gallaudet University Washington District of Columbia USA
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- College of Educational and Social Services University of Vermont Burlington Vermont USA
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- Department of Marketing and Supply Chain University of Kentucky Lexington Kentucky USA
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- Department of Audiology Central Michigan University Mount Pleasant Michigan USA
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Pasqual E, Avila-Palencia I. Career Transition During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Postdoc Perspective. Am J Public Health 2021; 111:1027-1028. [PMID: 33950716 DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2021.306260] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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- Elisa Pasqual
- Elisa Pasqual is with the Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Barcelona, Spain. Ione Avila-Palencia is with the Urban Health Collaborative, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
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- Elisa Pasqual is with the Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Barcelona, Spain. Ione Avila-Palencia is with the Urban Health Collaborative, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
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Goel R, Sharma R. Studying leaders & their concerns using online social media during the times of crisis - A COVID case study. SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS AND MINING 2021; 11:46. [PMID: 34025817 PMCID: PMC8124097 DOI: 10.1007/s13278-021-00756-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2021] [Revised: 05/04/2021] [Accepted: 05/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Online social media (OSM) has emerged as a prominent platform for debate on a wide range of issues. Even celebrities and public figures often share their opinions on a variety of topics through OSM platforms. One such subject that has gained a lot of coverage on Twitter is the Novel Coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19, which has become a pandemic and has sparked a crisis in human history. In this study, we examine 29 million tweets over three months to study highly influential users, whom we refer to as leaders. We recognize these leaders through social network techniques and analyse their tweets using text analysis. Using a community detection algorithm, we categorize these leaders into four clusters: research, news, health, and politics, with each cluster containing Twitter handles (accounts) of individual users or organizations. e.g., the health cluster includes the World Health Organization (@WHO), the Director-General of WHO (@DrTedros), and so on. The emotion analysis reveals that (i) all clusters show an equal amount of fear in their tweets, (ii) research and news clusters display more sadness than others, and (iii) health and politics clusters are attempting to win public trust. According to the text analysis, the (i) research cluster is more concerned with recognizing symptoms and the development of vaccination; (ii) news and politics clusters are mostly concerned with travel. We then show that we can use our findings to classify tweets into clusters with a score of 96% AUC ROC.
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- Rahul Goel
- Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu,
Tartu, Estonia
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- Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu,
Tartu, Estonia
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Miller-Rushing AJ, Athearn N, Blackford T, Brigham C, Cohen L, Cole-Will R, Edgar T, Ellwood ER, Fisichelli N, Pritz CF, Gallinat AS, Gibson A, Hubbard A, McLane S, Nydick K, Primack RB, Sachs S, Super PE. COVID-19 pandemic impacts on conservation research, management, and public engagement in US national parks. BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION 2021; 257:109038. [PMID: 34580547 PMCID: PMC8459301 DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2020] [Revised: 01/30/2021] [Accepted: 02/16/2021] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the timing and substance of conservation research, management, and public engagement in protected areas around the world. This disruption is evident in US national parks, which play a key role in protecting natural and cultural resources and providing outdoor experiences for the public. Collectively, US national parks protect 34 million ha, host more than 300 million visits annually, and serve as one of the world's largest informal education organizations. The pandemic has altered park conditions and operations in a variety of ways. Shifts in operational conditions related to safety issues, reduced staffing, and decreased park revenues have forced managers to make difficult trade-offs among competing priorities. Long-term research and monitoring of the health of ecosystems and wildlife populations have been interrupted. Time-sensitive management practices, such as control of invasive plants and restoration of degraded habitat, have been delayed. And public engagement has largely shifted from in-person experiences to virtual engagement through social media and other online interactions. These changes pose challenges for accomplishing important science, management, and public engagement goals, but they also create opportunities for developing more flexible monitoring programs and inclusive methods of public engagement. The COVID-19 pandemic reinforces the need for strategic science, management planning, flexible operations, and online public engagement to help managers address rapid and unpredictable challenges.
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- Yosemite National Park, National Park Service, Yosemite, CA, USA
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- Yellowstone National Park, National Park Service, WY, USA
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- Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, National Park Service, Three Rivers, CA, USA
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- Acadia National Park, National Park Service, Bar Harbor, ME, USA
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- National Information Services Center, National Park Service, Bar Harbor, ME, USA
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- iDigBio, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
- La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Air Resources Division, Natural Resource Stewardship and Science, National Park Service, Lakewood, CO, USA
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- Acadia National Park, National Park Service, Bar Harbor, ME, USA
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- Sonoran Desert Inventory and Monitoring Network, National Park Service, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Denali National Park and Preserve, National Park Service, AK, USA
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- Rocky Mountain National Park, Estes Park, CO, USA
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- Great Smoky Mountains National Park, National Park Service, Gatlinburg, TN, USA
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- Great Smoky Mountains National Park, National Park Service, Gatlinburg, TN, USA
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Blount JD, Chynoweth MW, Green AM, Şekercioğlu ÇH. Review: COVID-19 highlights the importance of camera traps for wildlife conservation research and management. BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION 2021; 256:108984. [PMID: 36531528 PMCID: PMC9746925 DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2021.108984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2020] [Revised: 01/11/2021] [Accepted: 01/16/2021] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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COVID-19 has altered many aspects of everyday life. For the scientific community, the pandemic has called upon investigators to continue work in novel ways, curtailing field and lab research. However, this unprecedented situation also offers an opportunity for researchers to optimize and further develop available field methods. Camera traps are one example of a tool used in science to answer questions about wildlife ecology, conservation, and management. Camera traps have long battery lives, lasting more than a year in certain cases, and photo storage capacity, with some models capable of wirelessly transmitting images from the field. This allows researchers to deploy cameras without having to check them for up to a year or more, making them an ideal field research tool during restrictions on in-person research activities such as COVID-19 lockdowns. As technological advances allow cameras to collect increasingly greater numbers of photos and videos, the analysis techniques for large amounts of data are evolving. Here, we describe the most common research questions suitable for camera trap studies and their importance for biodiversity conservation. As COVID-19 continues to affect how people interact with the natural environment, we discuss novel questions for which camera traps can provide insights on. We conclude by summarizing the results of a systematic review of camera trap studies, providing data on target taxa, geographic distribution, publication rate, and publication venues to help researchers planning to use camera traps in response to the current changes in human activity.
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- J David Blount
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Utah, 257 South 1400 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0840, USA
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- Department of Wildland Resources, Utah State University, Uintah Basin, 320 North Aggie Blvd., Vernal, UT 84078, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Utah, 257 South 1400 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0840, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Utah, 257 South 1400 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0840, USA
- College of Sciences, Koç University, Rumelifeneri, İstanbul, Sarıyer, Turkey
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Maas B, Pakeman RJ, Godet L, Smith L, Devictor V, Primack R. Women and Global South strikingly underrepresented among top‐publishing ecologists. Conserv Lett 2021. [DOI: 10.1111/conl.12797] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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- Bea Maas
- Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research Division of Conservation Biology, Vegetation Ecology and Landscape Ecology University of Vienna Rennweg 14 Vienna 1030 Austria
- Institute of Zoology University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Gregor‐Mendel‐Straße 33 Vienna 1180 Austria
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- The James Hutton Institute Craigiebuckler Aberdeen AB15 8QH UK
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- CNRS Université de Nantes Chemin de la Censive du Tertre ‐ BP 81227 Nantes 44312 France
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle‐Jena‐Leipzig Puschstraße 4 Leipzig 04103 Germany
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- ISEM CNRS EPHE IRD University of Montpellier Place Eugene Bataillon CC065 Montpellier 34095 France
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- Biology Department Boston University 5 Cummington Mall Boston Massachusetts MA 02215 USA
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Nocco MA, McGill BM, MacKenzie CM, Tonietto RK, Dudney J, Bletz MC, Young T, Kuebbing SE. Mentorship, equity, and research productivity: lessons from a pandemic. BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION 2021; 255:108966. [PMID: 34565805 PMCID: PMC8455165 DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2021.108966] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2020] [Revised: 12/23/2020] [Accepted: 01/06/2021] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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The coronavirus pandemic is more fully exposing ubiquitous economic and social inequities that pervade conservation science. In this time of prolonged stress on members of the research community, primary investigators or project leaders (PLs) have a unique opportunity to adapt their programs to jointly create more equitable and productive research environments for their teams. Institutional guidance for PLs pursuing field and laboratory work centers on the physical safety of individuals while in the lab or field, but largely ignores the vast differences in how team members may be experiencing the pandemic. Strains on mental, physical, and emotional health; racial trauma; familial responsibilities; and compulsory productivity resources, such as high-speed internet, quiet work spaces, and support are unequally distributed across team members. The goal of this paper is to summarize the shifting dynamics of leadership and mentorship during the coronavirus pandemic and highlight opportunities for increasing equity in conservation research at the scale of the project team. Here, we (1) describe how the pandemic differentially manifests inequity on project teams, particularly for groups that have been structurally excluded from conservation science, (2) consider equitable career advancement during the coronavirus pandemic, and (3) offer suggestions for PLs to provide mentorship that prioritizes equity and wellbeing during and beyond the pandemic. We aim to support PLs who have power and flexibility in how they manage research, teaching, mentoring, consulting, outreach, and extension activities so that individual team members' needs are met with compassion and attention to equity.
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- Mallika A Nocco
- Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, United States of America
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- Anthropocene Science Section, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 4400 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, University of Michigan - Flint, Flint, MI 48502, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis, Davis, CA 95616, United States of America
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- University of Massachusetts Boston, Department of Biology, Boston, MA 02125, United States of America
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- Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, United States of America
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, United States of America
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Aubry LM, Laverty TM, Ma Z. Impacts of COVID-19 on ecology and evolutionary biology faculty in the United States. ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS : A PUBLICATION OF THE ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 2021; 31:e2265. [PMID: 33226725 PMCID: PMC7744888 DOI: 10.1002/eap.2265] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2020] [Revised: 11/11/2020] [Accepted: 11/12/2020] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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We surveyed ecologists and evolutionary biologists in American universities to understand how they are coping with the COVID-19 pandemic. Female respondents, assistant professors, and those who care for at least one child or teenager, were significantly more dissatisfied with their work-life balance during this pandemic than others, and further expected these negative impacts to be long lived. Online teaching support, relaxed expectations on publications, the possibility of pausing the tenure clock, and an acknowledgment of "no business as usual" by administrators were thought to be effective policies in mitigating these negative impacts. This survey serves as a manifesto to what our professional community is currently experiencing, and should be used to inform academic policies directed at improving faculty productivity and welfare.
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- Lise M. Aubry
- Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation BiologyColorado State University1474 Campus DeliveryFort CollinsColorado80523‐1474USA
- Graduate Degree Program in EcologyColorado State University2545 Research BlvdFort CollinsColorado80526USA
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- Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation BiologyColorado State University1474 Campus DeliveryFort CollinsColorado80523‐1474USA
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- Department of Forestry and Natural ResourcesPurdue University195 Marsteller StreetWest LafayetteIndiana47907‐2033USA
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Torres MA, Delva S, Fried EN, Gomez JA, Nguyen N, Przekop KA, Shelton EF, Stolberg KC, Wyszynski SI, Yaffa LS, Broitman S, Traniello JFA. Undergraduate behavioral biologists keep science careers in focus through pandemic challenges-but need support. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 2021; 75:46. [PMID: 33558784 PMCID: PMC7858041 DOI: 10.1007/s00265-021-02988-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Mila A Torres
- Department of Biology, Undergraduate Concentration in Behavioral Biology, Boston University, 5 Cummington Mall, Boston, MA 02215 USA
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- Department of Biology, Undergraduate Concentration in Behavioral Biology, Boston University, 5 Cummington Mall, Boston, MA 02215 USA
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- Department of Biology, Undergraduate Concentration in Behavioral Biology, Boston University, 5 Cummington Mall, Boston, MA 02215 USA
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- Department of Biology, Undergraduate Concentration in Behavioral Biology, Boston University, 5 Cummington Mall, Boston, MA 02215 USA
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- Department of Biology, Undergraduate Concentration in Behavioral Biology, Boston University, 5 Cummington Mall, Boston, MA 02215 USA
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- Department of Biology, Undergraduate Concentration in Behavioral Biology, Boston University, 5 Cummington Mall, Boston, MA 02215 USA
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- Department of Biology, Undergraduate Concentration in Behavioral Biology, Boston University, 5 Cummington Mall, Boston, MA 02215 USA
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- Department of Biology, Undergraduate Concentration in Behavioral Biology, Boston University, 5 Cummington Mall, Boston, MA 02215 USA
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- Department of Biology, Undergraduate Concentration in Behavioral Biology, Boston University, 5 Cummington Mall, Boston, MA 02215 USA
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- Department of Biology, Undergraduate Concentration in Behavioral Biology, Boston University, 5 Cummington Mall, Boston, MA 02215 USA
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- Department of Biology, Undergraduate Concentration in Behavioral Biology, Boston University, 5 Cummington Mall, Boston, MA 02215 USA
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- Department of Biology, Undergraduate Concentration in Behavioral Biology, Boston University, 5 Cummington Mall, Boston, MA 02215 USA
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Pervasive gender bias in editorial boards of biodiversity conservation journals. BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION 2020; 251:108767. [PMCID: PMC7486622 DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108767] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2020] [Revised: 08/07/2020] [Accepted: 08/20/2020] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Women are underrepresented in professional spaces, particularly at leadership positions. In science, the participation in editorial boards of journals is evidence of a high reputation within a specialty or field. Therefore, female presence in editorial boards can be used as a proxy for female presence and leadership in academic spaces. Here, we assessed the gender composition in editorial boards of 31 biodiversity conservation (BC) journals included in the Web of Science and obtained information on current and past editorial boards of these journals. We found pervasive gender bias in the editorial boards of the main scientific BC journals. Current editorial boards were composed of 1251 editors, of which only 28.7% were women. Nevertheless, gender biases are becoming smaller over time. Our projections indicate that BC journals may achieve gender balance in their editorial boards by the year 2038. We argue that a diverse and inclusive editorial board has greater chances to propose innovative solutions to conservation problems. Thus, the academic community, editors and journals must take proactive measures to achieve gender balance. Given that most editors are men, hiring women still depends on them; and these men need urgently to take their share of responsibility and be actors of change. More broadly, journals and science decision-makers must commit to their importance in the movement and start, for example, to hire and support women's work.
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Wenocur K, Page AP, Wampole D, Radis B, Masin-Moyer M, Crocetto J. PLEASE be with me: benefits of a peer-led supervision group for early career social work educators. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/01609513.2020.1836548] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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- Katharine Wenocur
- College of Health Professions, Department of Counseling and Behavioral Health, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- School of Social Work, University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine, USA
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- College of Education and Social Work, Department of Social Work, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, West Chester, PA, USA
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- School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Social Work, Cabrini University, Radnor, PA, USA
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Spagnolo J, Gautier L, Seppey M, D'souza NA. Re-thinking global and public health projects during the COVID-19 pandemic context: Considerations and recommendations for early- and not-so-early-career researchers. SOCIAL SCIENCES & HUMANITIES OPEN 2020; 2:100075. [PMID: 34173503 PMCID: PMC7577678 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssaho.2020.100075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2020] [Revised: 09/25/2020] [Accepted: 10/17/2020] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
Abstract
This commentary aims to provide a glimpse into some of the early and continuing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on our global and public health projects: research in low-resourced settings; research with vulnerable populations, such as asylum seekers, Indigenous communities, children, and mental health service users; and research with healthcare professionals, frontline workers, and health planners. In the early context of restrictions caused by COVID-19, this commentary highlights our research setbacks and challenges, and the ways in which we are adapting research methodologies, while considering ethical implications related to the pandemic and their impacts on conducting global and public health research. As we learn to become increasingly aware of some of our limitations in the face of the pandemic, some positives are also worth highlighting: we are mobilizing our training and research skills to participate in COVID-19 projects and to disseminate knowledge on COVID-19, including through papers such as this one. However, we do acknowledge that these opportunities have not been equitable. Each thematic section of this commentary concludes with key recommendations related to research in the early and continuing context of the COVID-19 pandemic that we believe to be applicable to early- and not-so-early-career researchers working in the global and public health fields.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jessica Spagnolo
- Département des sciences de la santé communautaire, Faculté de médecine et des sciences de la santé, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
- Centre de recherche Charles-Le-Moyne-Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean sur les innovations en santé, Campus de Longueuil, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
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- Département de Gestion, Évaluation et Politique de Santé, École de Santé Publique, Université de Montréal, Canada
- Centre de recherche en santé publique, Université de Montréal et CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l'Île-de-Montréal, Canada
- Department of Sociology McGill University, Canada
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- Centre de recherche en santé publique, Université de Montréal et CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l'Île-de-Montréal, Canada
- Département de Médecine Sociale et Préventive, École de Santé Publique, Université de Montréal, Canada
| | - Nicole Anne D'souza
- Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Canada
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Woolston C. 'It's like we're going back 30 years': how the coronavirus is gutting diversity in science. Nature 2020:10.1038/d41586-020-02288-3. [PMID: 32737458 DOI: 10.1038/d41586-020-02288-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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