Library Guides: Diversity in STEM: Diversity in STEM on Social Media

Social Media and STEM

Social media can be a great place to discover diverse resources in STEM but can also be hard to classify. For those interested in social media, the resources below may be interesting and relevant.

Blogs

Blogs can also be great places to find more diverse voices in STEM. There are a lot of diverse blogs out there; these below are just some of our favorites:

Cite Black Women
A movement that engages with social media and aesthetic representation in order to push people to critically rethink the politics of knowledge production by engaging in a radical praxis of citation that acknowledges and honors Black women’s transnational intellectual production.
DisabledInSTEM
DisabledInSTEM was started by one disabled scientists with the goal of wanting to help make the path more accessible for future generations. This initiative strives make a space for anyone who identifies as disabled, neurodiverse, or chronically ill.
LGBTQ+ in STEM
This project showcases LGBTQ+ people in the STEM fields, showing the diversity of people that can be found in roles all across the STEM disciplines and hopefully providing some role models for people who are either at a junior stage in their careers, or who are only currently considering the possibility of going into a STEM field.
Lost Women of Science
The Lost Women of Science Initiative is a non-profit educational organization with the overarching goal of inspiring girls and young women -- especially those from communities chronically underrepresented in the STEM professions -- to embark on careers in STEM. The Initiative’s flagship is its Lost Women of Science podcast, producing four multi-episode seasons per year.
Voices
Blog from Scientific American magazine that explores and celebrates diversity in science.
Women@NASA
Written by women who work at NASA.

Twitter

Twitter can be a great resource to broaden your knowledge of diverse topics - particularly those in STEM. If you are familiar with Twitter, try browsing the following hashtags to locate more resources:

#BLACKandSTEM
#CiteBlackWomen
#DisabledInSTEM
#ILookLikeAnEngineer
#LatinxandSTEM
#QueerinSTEM

Read through PBS's NOVA article, "Inaugural 'Black in X' Weeks Foster Inclusivity and Empowerment in STEM" published in 2020 that discusses "Black in X" STEM events and initiatives.

Reddit, an online forum with a variety of channels, also known as "subreddits", that are dedicated to different themes and topics. Each subreddit has different tones and rules utilized by the community. If you're familiar with Reddit, the following subreddits highlight interviews conducted by asynchronous "Ask Me Anything" (AMA) sessions with professionals in STEM fields as well as communities dedicated to women in STEM:

AMA posts on r/Science
r/Science's AMA (ask me anything) program has been discontinued, but its large archive of posts, with good diversity of topics and authors, remains available.
r/LadiesofScience
A subreddit for women who work in, about, or around science (or would like to).
r/womenEngineers
Review this subreddit for information about women in engineering professions.