EDUCATIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS
- Advocacy: Power Mapping (as part of InterSECT job simulations) with Thi Nguyen & Madison Jablonski-Sheffield (2021)
- Science Policy: Develop a Course (as part of InterSECT job simulations) with Harinder Singh (2021)
- Contributed science policy/government job titles to crowdsourced document on possible careers for PhDs in biomedical science (IUPUI Graduate and Postdoc Careers) (2021)
- Co-designed, launched and executed SciPol SoundBites, JSPG‘s weekly science policy podcast; interviewed authors from published issues and conducted outreach (YouTube, SoundCloud) (2020)
- Participated in AMA Series for the ASCB membership (online community), answering questions on training early career researchers in science policy (2020)
- Contributed to synthesizing mentoring climate guidelines for institutions to adopt in order to create actionable change for ECRs within institutions, resulting from a multi-stakeholder mentoring meeting (Future of Research) (2019)
- Contributed to designing the crowdfunding campaign Let’s put mentoring at the heart of academia (Future of Research) (2018)
- Contributed to Funding Resources for Early Career Researchers collating data project on fellowship opportunities (volunteer data input) (Future of Research) (2018)
- Started the Science Policy Enthusiasts LinkedIn Group (2017)
- Policy: Data Collection for Advocacy (as part of InterSECT job simulations) with Gary McDowell & Thi Nguyen (2017)
- Contributed to Rescuing Biomedical Research (RBR) Writing Program (2016)
- Contributed to FLSA and Postdocs resource on monitoring institutional compliance with the FLSA (2016)
OTHER PROJECTS
- Career Outcomes Taxonomy Crosswalk Tool: Collins, Tammy R, Deepti Ramadoss, Rebekah L Layton, Jennifer E MacDonald, Ryan Wheeler, Adriana Bankston, C. A Stayart, et al. 2021. Making Strides in Doctoral-Level Career Outcomes Reporting: Surveying the Landscape of Classification and Visualization Methodologies and Creating a Crosswalk Tool. OSF. June 26. doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/DWNRK.
- Contributed content to NSPN Graduate Education Handbook (highlights the need for resources to help trainees succeed and advocate for policy change within the university) (2021)
- Contributed to section on Barriers to University Education for SACNISTAs (as part of a SACNAS Government Relations Subcommittee write-up) (2021)
- Collaborated on the project When Postdocs Go to Court to create a CC BY 4.0 licensed open database postdoclegal 1.0 in Github (with Jennifer Miller and Melania Abrahamian) (2021)
- Used methods from open notebook science and empirical legal research to create an open dataset to study how postdocs interact with the US legal system (Researchgate project)
- Led by Jennifer Miller as part of the Mozilla Open Life Science (OLS) Mentoring & Training Program (graduation presentation by Jennifer Miller OLS-3 – recording)
WIKIPEDIA EDIT-A-THONS
- SACNAS x 500 Women Scientists Wikipedia Edit-a-thon breakout room leader, creating and editing Wikipedia pages for women and non-binary people of color leading STEM (2020)
- Contributed to creating and improving Wikipedia pages about Black academics and social justice as part of #Strike4BlackLives (2020)
VIRTUAL DISCUSSIONS & SUMMARIES
- Curator, @IAmSciComm twitter account, December 2020 (summary)
- Curator, @AGU_SciComm twitter account #SharingSciFri, July 2020 (Sharing Science Program) (summary)
- COVID-19 Scientific Engagement Twitter chat guest, April 2020 (blog post) (on behalf of JSPG)
- Biochemistry ACS & ACS Central Alliance National Mentoring Month Tweet chat participant, January 2019
- ASBMB The Wellness Issue Tweet chat guest, January 2019
- Curator, @realscientists twitter account, November 2018 (initial post)
- Curator, @RecoveringAcad twitter account, October 2018 (Twitter moment summary of my curation week)
- Postdoc Appreciation Tweet chat guest (organized by ASBMB), September 2018 (NPAW 2018 – Leveraging your postdoctoral experience to pursue other career paths & Open discussion on the postdoc experience)
- A Healthy Democracy Requires Honesty & Accountability tweet chat co-organizer, August 2018 (tweet chat, Twitter moment by UCS)
- Engaging ECRs in advocating for science and scientists tweet chat co-organizer, Future of Research blog, May 2018 (tweet chat – also contains information about multiple advocacy-related events, including a Tweet chat with the #AdvForSci hashtag)
- ASBMB’s official meeting tweeter (with Randi Ulbricht & Amber Lucas), ASBMB meeting, San Diego, CA, April 2018 (related post)
- #MentoringFutureSci: How should we mentor junior scientists? tweet chat co-organizer, September 2017
- #FORchangingscience: Ideas and resources for effecting change in science tweet chat co-organizer, July 2017
- #MarchforSciencechat: Communicating your message through science tweet chat co-organizer, April 2017
- All about postdocs at #NPA2017 summary, March 2017
- Future of Research-related tweets at 2017 AAAS meeting summary, February 2017