Challenges and Initiatives in STEM Fields

In this episode, the MIT Press Director and Publisher, Dr. Amy Brand, joins Jon Krohn to discuss open-access publishing in data science and how to address the inequalities that exist for women and minorities in STEM.

In this episode you will learn:

• What it’s like to run the prestigious MIT Press [4:34]
• How open access makes scholarly work more impactful [6:34]
• How publishing outstanding STEM books for broader audiences, including for children, can help address STEM biases [19:28]
• Amy's award-winning documentary Picture A Scientist [25:28]
• What it's like to executive produce a documentary [37:24]
• What can be done to change STEM to make it more welcoming to minorities [48:44]
• The best open-source model going forward [58:26]
• What fascinates Amy about natural language processing [1:01:30]
• How author metadata in standardized taxonomies can help authors receive the credit they deserve [1:04:50]

Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/567