The PLACE Lab is inspired by the fields of translational ecology, STEAM, Indigenous studies, and anti-racism and Black liberation/futurism studies. We invite you to use the library below to learn more about how the field of plant sciences – and STEM fields, generally – contain vast systemic issues and inequalities due to a history of exclusionary practices and systems, including colonialism, sexism, ableism, and white supremacy, and how we can move forward to a reimagined future in STEM.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice in STEM
Art and Science
- Ecology and evolutionary biology must elevate BIPOC scholars
- Quantifying hierarchy and dynamics in US faculty hiring and retention
- We need to address ableism in science
- Gender and retention patterns among US faculty
- Perceptions of Male and Female STEM Aptitude: The Moderating Effect of Benevolent and Hostile Sexism
- Systemic Inequalities for LGBTQ professionals in STEM
- Access Needs: Centering Students and Disrupting Ableist Norms in STEM
- Acknowledging and Supplanting White Supremacy Culture in Science Communication and STEM: The Role of Science Communication Trainers
- An actionable anti-racism plan for geoscience organizations
- Recreating Wakanda by promoting Black excellence in ecology and evolution
- Anti-racist interventions to transform ecology, evolution and conservation biology departments
- Decoloniality and anti-oppressive practices for a more ethical ecology
- Dismantling white supremacy in environmental studies and sciences: an argument for anti-racist and decolonizing pedagogies
- Foundations of translational ecology
- Interdisciplinary approaches to advancing anti-racist pedagogies in ecology, evolution, and conservation biology
- Ten simple rules for building an antiracist lab
Art and Science
- Dual thinking for scientists
- Learning about climate change in, with and through art
- Integrated science and art education for creative climate change communication
- Integrating Culture, Art, Geometry, and Coding to Enhance Computer Science Motivation Among Underrepresented Minoritized High School Students
- Culturally relevant pedagogies in science education as a response to global migration