Supporting Diversity in Science through Social Networking

Guerrero, Giovanna; Feliú-Mójer, Mónica I.; González-Espada, Wilson J.; Díaz-Muñoz, Greetchen; López, Marcos; Díaz‐Muñoz, Samuel L.; Fortis-Santiago, Yaihara; Flores‐Otero, Jacqueline; Craig, David W.; Colón-Ramos, Daniel A.

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001740

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“…There are other ways in which integration of the models described here could be beneficial for a broad range of individuals from graduate students and academics to career professionals. One with great potential is integrated use of the network modeling process described here with other resources, such as an IDP (e.g., myIDP.sciencecareers.org, Clifford, 2002) for mentee self-assessment, mentoring websites (e.g., CienciaPR, www.cienciapr.org, Guerrero-Medina et al, 2013; MentorNet, http://www.mentornet.net/, Muller, Blake-Beard, Barsion, & Wotipka, 2012; MicroMenter, http://www.micromentor.org/; National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity, NCFDD, https://facultydiversity.site-ym.com/; National Research Mentoring Network, https://nrmnet.net/, R. McGee, Lee, et al, 2015), or emerging tools for mentor training (Byars-Winston et al, 2015;Pfund et al, 2014;Pfund, Maidl Pribbenow, Branchaw, Miller Lauffer, & Handelsman, 2006) and mentoring assessment (Tull, 2015). Overall, the model presented here is one integrated approach to assess a personal need for mentoring and to initiate a plan to obtain it in support of comprehensive career planning and strategic development.…”

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confidence: 99%

Mapping a Mentoring Roadmap and Developing a Supportive Network for Strategic Career Advancement

Montgomery

2017

Sage Open

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This article presents a proactive, individual-centered mentoring model which meets a recognized need for defined, practical methods for supporting comprehensive career planning and strategic development grounded in personal career aspirations. The developed model consists of a mentoring roadmap charting process and construction of a developmental mentoring network based on an integrative literature review of successful mentoring practices and adaptation of tested methods for retrospective analyses of effective mentoring. The mentoring roadmap concept encompasses the following steps: (a) selfreflection, (b) establishment of mentor-mentee relationship(s), (c) maintenance of mentoring relationships, and (d) advancing in mentoring relationship(s). To support strategic advancement along a defined mentoring roadmap and toward attainment of individual goals, the identification and cultivation of a broad collection of mentoring resources or mentors (i.e., nodes) and the relationships (i.e., edges) which connect these nodes in an effective mentoring network topology are discussed. The mentoring roadmap and network model is proposed as complementary to top-down or formal organizational mentoring interventions and as effective for short-and long-term career development planning as a self-guided assessment or mentorengaged tool to support individuals seeking mentoring.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mapping a Mentoring Roadmap and Developing a Supportive Network for Strategic Career Advancement

Montgomery

2017

Sage Open

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“…These interests led me to found an organization called Ciencia Puerto Rico (CienciaPR; www.cienciapr.org). It is an online network of more than 7500 scientists, students, and educators who are geographically dispersed across 50 countries, but who are connected in their commitment to promoting scientific research and education in Puerto Rico (Guerrero-Medina et al , 2013). …”

Section: Circuits and Networkmentioning

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The need to connect: on the cell biology of synapses, behaviors, and networks in science

Colón-Ramos

2016

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My laboratory is interested in the cell biology of the synapse. Synapses, which are points of cellular communication between neurons, were first described by Santiago Ramón y Cajal as “protoplasmic kisses that appear to constitute the final ecstasy of an epic love story.” Who would not want to work on that?! My lab examines the biological mechanisms neurons use to find and connect to each other. How are synapses formed during development, maintained during growth, and modified during learning? In this essay, I reflect about my scientific journey to the synapse, the cell biological one, but also a metaphorical synapse—my role as a point of contact between the production of knowledge and its dissemination. In particular, I discuss how the architecture of scientific networks propels knowledge production but can also exclude certain groups in science.

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“…Clickstream analytics software is freely available and easy to use; simple versions are already built into many website hosting services. Clickstream analytics is a ubiquitous tool for businesses tracking engagement with their clients; however, its use in the academic community has primarily focused on resource clearinghouses such as libraries (Fang 2007, Wang et al 2011, with limited application to science education websites (Scotchmoor and Thanukos 2007, Schernewski and Bock 2014, Zhang 2014) and science networking websites (Guerrero-Medina et al 2013).…”

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Improving the efficacy of web‐based educational outreach in ecology

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Fulton

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Ecosphere

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Abstract. Scientists are increasingly engaging the web to provide formal and informal science education opportunities. Despite the prolific growth of web-based resources, systematic evaluation and assessment of their efficacy remains limited. We used clickstream analytics, a widely available method for tracking website visitors and their behavior, to evaluate .60,000 visits over three years to an educational website focused on ecology. Visits originating from search engine queries were a small proportion of the traffic, suggesting the need to actively promote websites to drive visitation. However, the number of visits referred to the website per social media post varied depending on the social media platform and the quality of those visits (e.g., time on site and number of pages viewed) was significantly lower than visits originating from other referring websites. In particular, visitors referred to the website through targeted promotion (e.g., inclusion in a website listing classroom teaching resources) had higher quality visits. Once engaged in the site's core content, visitor retention was high; however, visitors rarely used the tutorial resources that serve to explain the site's use. Our results demonstrate that simple changes in website design, content and promotion are likely to increase the number of visitors and their engagement. While there is a growing emphasis on using the web to broaden the impacts of biological research, time and resources remain limited. Clickstream analytics provides an easily accessible, relatively fast and quantitative means by which those engaging in educational outreach can improve upon their efforts.

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Supporting Diversity in Science through Social Networking

Cited by 18 publications

References 24 publications

Mapping a Mentoring Roadmap and Developing a Supportive Network for Strategic Career Advancement

Mapping a Mentoring Roadmap and Developing a Supportive Network for Strategic Career Advancement

The need to connect: on the cell biology of synapses, behaviors, and networks in science

Improving the efficacy of web‐based educational outreach in ecology

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