21-Sep-21

SEMESTER START

Talk & Discussion  

"Diversity in Science: Challenges and Opportunities"

Background: Monitoring Equal Opportunities Report

Patricia Zweifel

University of Basel

28-Sep-21

Talk & Discussion

"Sustainable Development Goals: Reducing Inequalities"

Background: Sustainable Development Goals

Literature (available on ADAM)

• Hirsu, L., Quezada-Reyes, Z., & Hashemi, L. (2020). Moving SDG5 forward: Women’s public engagement activities in higher education. Higher Education, 81, 51–67. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-020-00597-0

Franziska Kastner

University of Basel

28-Sep-21

Movie Night: Picture a Scientist

Picture a scientist chronicles the groundswell of researchers who are writing a new chapter for women scientists. Biologist Nancy Hopkins, chemist Raychelle Burks, and geologist Jane Willenbring lead viewers on a journey deep into their own experiences in the sciences, ranging from brutal harassment to years of subtle slights. Along the way, from cramped laboratories to spectacular field stations, we encounter scientific luminaries - including social scientists, neuroscientists, and psychologists - who provide new perspectives on how to make science itself more diverse, equitable, and open to all. 

Machine Learning with R

https://therbootcamp.github.io/AML_2021AMLD/

Markus Steiner, FHNW

Dirk Wulff, University of Basel

05-Oct-21

Talk & Discussion

"A tale of gender politics at the SNSF - data analysis for evidence-based research policy-making"

Background: SNSF Data Story 

Rachel Heyard

SNSF

Julius Mattern

SNSF

12-Oct-21

Hackathon "Diversity @ Unibas" - Background and Preparation 

Literature (available on ADAM)

• Odic, D., & Wojcik, E. H. (2020). The publication gender gap in psychology. American Psychologist, 75(1), 92–103. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000480

14-Oct-21

Hackathon "Diversity @ Unibas" - Data Analysis

https://cdsbasel.github.io/Diversity_hackathon/

19-Oct-21

Hackathon "Diversity @ Unibas" - Preparation for Reporting

https://cdsbasel.github.io/Diversity_hackathon/

20-Oct-21

Hackathon "Diversity @ Unibas"- Reporting

https://cdsbasel.github.io/Diversity_hackathon/

26-Oct-21

Hackathon "Diversity @ Unibas" - Presentation and Discussion of Results 

https://cdsbasel.github.io/Diversity_hackathon/

02-Nov-21

Brown Bag - Journal Club

Literature (available on ADAM)

• van Dijk, H., van Engen, M. L., & van Knippenberg, D. (2012). Defying conventional wisdom: A meta-analytical examination of the differences between demographic and job-related diversity relationships with performance. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 119(1), 38–53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2012.06.003

• Eagly, A. H. (2016). When passionate advocates meet research on diversity, does the honest broker stand a chance. Journal of Social Issues, 72(1), 199-222. https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12163

04-Nov-21

CDS visits the Exhibition "Gender and Sex"

https://stapferhaus.ch/geschlecht/ 

05/06-Nov-21

SDG Hackathon "Visualizing Swiss Sustainability Research"

https://www.sdghackathon.io 

09-Nov-21

Brown Bag - Demographically diverse crowds are typically not much wiser than homogeneous crowds

Literature (available on ADAM)

• De Oliveira, S., & Nisbett, R. E. (2018). Demographically diverse crowds are typically not much wiser than homogeneous crowds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(9), 2066-2071. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1717632115

16-Nov-21

Brown Bag - The diversity-innovation paradox in science

Literature (available on ADAM)

• Hofstra, B., Kulkarni, V. V., Galvez, S. M. N., He, B., Jurafsky, D., & McFarland, D. A. (2020). The diversity–innovation paradox in science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(17), 9284-9291. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1915378117

23-Nov-21

Brown Bag - Making gender diversity work for scientific discovery and innovation

Literature (available on ADAM)

• Nielsen, M. W., Bloch, C. W., & Schiebinger, L. (2018). Making gender diversity work for scientific discovery and innovation. Nature Human Behaviour, 2(10), 726-734. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-018-0433-1 

30-Nov-21

Brown Bag - Student Presentations 

Tamara Lotz, Salary or Sustainability? 

Sophia Prix & Nina Frings, Increasing knowledge about carbon numeracy

07-Dec-21

Brown Bag - Student Presentations 

Manuel Aubert, Predicting life outcomes based on risk preference

Fiona Groeflin & Maja Kohler, Science communication

14-Dec-21

Brown Bag - Student Presentations

Svea Maeder, What is a Data Story?

Din Burazorovic, Fact boxes in finance and medicine: How affect influences comprehension of icon arrays and tables

Brown Bag -  Welcome to the Fall 2020 term!

Brown Bag - Algorithmic Jingle Jungle

Literature (available on ADAM)

• Grieder, S., & Steiner, M. D. (2020, September 1). Algorithmic Jingle Jungle: A Comparison of Implementations of Principal Axis Factoring and Promax Rotation in R and SPSS.

Silvia Grieder

Markus Steiner

Brown Bag - Journal Club: Data Visualization

Literature (available on ADAM)

• Fox, P., & Hendler, J. (2011). Changing the equation on scientific data visualization. Science, 331(6018), 705-708.
• Harold, J., Lorenzoni, I., Shipley, T. F., & Coventry, K. R. (2016). Cognitive and psychological science insights to improve climate change data visualization. Nature Climate Change, 6(12), 1080-1089.

Brown Bag - Journal Club: Data Visualization

Literature (available on ADAM)

• Spiegelhalter, D., Pearson, M., & Short, I. (2011). Visualizing uncertainty about the future. science, 333(6048), 1393-1400.

Brown Bag - Journal Club: Data Visualization

Literature (available on ADAM)

• Behrisch, M., Blumenschein, M., Kim, N. W., El-Assady, M., Fuchs, J., Seebacher, D., ... & Keim, D. A. (2018). Quality Metrics for Information Visualization. In Computer Graphics Forum (Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 625-662).

Brown Bag -  An intro to version control with git 

Preparation:

• URL: https://git-scm.com/
• macOS / Linux: git is already pre-installed
• Windows user: Consider downloading and installing it from the URL above

Brown Bag - Pre-registration. Understanding Financial Risk Perception: A Description vs. Experience Comparison

Literature (available on ADAM)

Hackathon - Construct Validity

Brown Bag - "Flying Less" Data Visualization Prep Session  

Ggplot Training

Brown Bag - "Flying Less" Data Visualization Prep Session 

Hackathon - "Flying Less"

Dirk Wulff

Rui Mata

Brown Bag - The Semantic Representation of Risk

Literature (available on ADAM)

• Wulff, D. & Mata, R. (2020). The semantic representation of risk. Basel: University of Basel.

Dirk Wulff

Rui Mata

Brown Bag - Temporal Stability of Risk Preferences: Insights from Longitudinal Panel Data 

Alexandra Bagaïni

Yun Rui Liu

Brown Bag - Student presentations

Data visualisation (Manuel Aubert, Din Burazorovic, Svea Maeder, Reto Ritter)

Brown Bag - Student presentations

Flying less (Nina Frings, Tamara Lotz, Sophia Prix)

Evidence & Risk (Fiona Groeflin, Maja Kohler, Jacqueline Koll)

Brown Bag - Student presentations & Wrap-up

Predictors of intra-individual variability in sports risk-taking (Anna Cajochen)

Wortwoertlich translated, literally. Or the role of abstractness and frequency in word meaning alignment across languages (Nieves Schwab)