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Euan McKay
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Academic. Comms, scicomm, Japan, history, LGBTQ+. 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧🇯🇵🇮🇹🧪
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Beautiful view at Senjōjiki Cirque.

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A cloudy view from 2,000 metres up. As in you can’t see anything but the inside of a cloud.
September 14, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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Nice day trip yesterday to Gujo Hachiman in Gifu. Not so many tourists like Takayama etc. but has a castle, old town, great food… well worth a visit. About three hours by lots of local trains from Nagoya, but the journey is part of the charm.
Restaurant on the way from the station to the town centre. Traditional Japanese wooden construction. Looking downriver from the town centre. Mountains in the background to a row of traditional Japanese buildings built right over the river. Hida beef lunch. Japanese style lunch with thinly sliced Hida beef with sweet miso sauce cooked over a mini brazier on the table. Looking up at Gujo Hachiman castle main keep from the entrance. The castle was rebuilt in 1933, the oldest wooden reconstructed castle in Japan.
May 5, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Lungeanu, A., & Contractor, N. S. (2015). The Effects of Diversity and Network Ties on Innovations: The Emergence of a New Scientific Field. American Behavioral Scientist, 59(5), 548–564.

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This study examines the influence of different types of diversity, both observable and unobservable, on the creation of innovative ideas. ... Our longitudinal model is based on a unique data set of 1,354 researchers who helped create the new scientific field of oncofertility, by collaborating on 469 publications over a 4-year period. We capture the differences among researchers along cognitive, country, and gender dimensions, as well as examine how the resulting diversity or homophily influences the formation of collaborative innovation networks. We find that innovation, operationalized as publishing in a new scientific discipline, benefits from both homophily and diversity. Homophily in country of residence and working with prior collaborators help reduce uncertainty in the interactions associated with innovation, while diversity in knowledge enables the recombinant knowledge required for innovation.
February 19, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Backes-Gellner, U. & Veen, S. (2013). Positive effects of ageing and age diversity in innovative companies – large-scale empirical evidence on company productivity. Human Resource Management Journal, 23, 279–295.

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This article investigates how age diversity within a company's workforce affects company productivity. It introduces a theoretical framework that helps integrate results from a broad disciplinary spectrum of ageing and diversity research to derive empirically testable hypotheses on the effects of age diversity on company productivity. It argues that first the balance between costs and benefits of diversity determines the effect of age diversity on company productivity, and that second the type of task performed acts as a moderator. To test these hypotheses, it uses a large-scale employer–employee panel data set. Results show that increasing age diversity has a positive effect on company productivity if and only if a company engages in creative rather than routine tasks.
February 18, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Faccio, M., Marchica, M.-T. & Mura, R. (2016). CEO gender, corporate risk-taking, and the efficiency of capital allocation. Journal of Corporate Finance, 39(), 193–209.

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We extend the literature on how managerial traits relate to corporate choices by documenting that firms run by female CEOs have lower leverage, less volatile earnings, and a higher chance of survival than otherwise similar firms run by male CEOs. Additionally, transitions from male to female CEOs (or vice versa) are associated with economically and statistically significant reductions (increases) in corporate risk-taking. The results are robust to controlling for the endogenous matching between firms and CEOs using a variety of econometric techniques. We further document that this risk-avoidance behavior appears to lead to distortions in the capital allocation process. These results potentially have important macroeconomic implications for long-term economic growth.
February 17, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Gulamhussen, M. A. & Santa, S. F. (2015). Female directors in bank boardrooms and their influence on performance and risk-taking. Global Finance Journal, 28, 10–23.

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We assess the role of women in bank boardrooms in a sample of 461 large banks from OECD countries. After controlling for bank and country specific effects, we find that the presence and percentage of female directors in boardrooms have a positive influence on performance. We also find a negative relation between the presence of women in boardrooms and risk-taking. These relations hold for the supervisory board, and with some exceptions for the audit committee. For a sub-sample of 134 listed banks we find that markets positively value the presence of women on the board, supervisory board and audit committee.
February 16, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Rosenkranz, K. M., Arora, T. K., et al. (2021). Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Medicine: Why It Matters and How do We Achieve It? Journal of Surgical Education, 78(4), 1058–1065.

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Diversifying the medical work force is critical to reducing health care disparity and improving patient outcomes. This manuscript offers a comprehensive review of best practices to improve both the recruitment and the retention of underrepresented minorities in training programs and beyond.
February 15, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Gurin, P., Dey, E., Hurtado, S. & Gurin, G. (2002). Diversity and Higher Education: Theory and Impact on Educational Outcomes. Harvard Educational Review, 72(3), 330–367.

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In the current context of legal challenges to affirmative action and race-based considerations in college admissions, educators have been challenged to articulate clearly the educational purposes and benefits of diversity. In this article, the authors explore the relationship between students' experiences with diverse peers in the college or university setting and their educational outcomes. [...] The results of their analyses underscore the educational and civic importance of informal interaction among different racial and ethnic groups during the college years. The authors offer their findings as evidence of the continuing importance of affirmative action and diversity efforts by colleges and universities, not only as a means of increasing access to higher education for greater numbers of students, but also as a means of fostering students' academic and social growth.
February 14, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Freeman, R. B. & Huang, W. (2015). Collaborating with People Like Me: Ethnic Coauthorship within the United States. Journal of Labor Economics, 33(S1), S289–S318.

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By examining the ethnic identity of authors in over 2.5 million scientific papers written by US-based authors from 1985 to 2008, we find that persons of similar ethnicity coauthor together more frequently than predicted by their proportion among authors. The greater homophily is associated with publication in lower-impact journals and with fewer citations. Meanwhile, papers with authors in more locations and with longer reference lists get published in higher-impact journals and receive more citations. These findings suggest that diversity in inputs by author ethnicity, location, and references leads to greater contributions to science as measured by impact factors and citations.
February 13, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Herring, C. (2009). Does Diversity Pay?: Race, Gender, and the Business Case for Diversity. American Sociological Review, 74(2), 208-224.

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The value-in-diversity perspective argues that a diverse workforce, relative to a homogeneous one, is generally beneficial for business, including but not limited to corporate profits and earnings. This is in contrast to other accounts that view diversity as either nonconsequential to business success or actually detrimental by creating conflict, undermining cohesion, and thus decreasing productivity. Using data from the 1996 to 1997 National Organizations Survey, a national sample of for-profit business organizations, this article tests eight hypotheses derived from the value-in-diversity thesis. The results support seven of these hypotheses: racial diversity is associated with increased sales revenue, more customers, greater market share, and greater relative profits. Gender diversity is associated with increased sales revenue, more customers, and greater relative profits. I discuss the implications of these findings relative to alternative views of diversity in the workplace.
February 12, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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Join us for the next #JSF social online about use of AR and AI in communications from Lester Kok Wei Ming, Senior Assistant Director for Media Relations at Nanyang Technological University.

Thursday, 6 January, 7 pm (Japan time).
Register from the JSF website: https/japansci.com/socials

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NTU’s use of augmented reality and AI in communications Lester Kok Wei Ming, Senior Assistant Director for Media Relations, Nanyang Technological University
January 14, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Tomomi Okubo from OIST will talk about the art of media relations.

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July 11, 2024 at 12:15 PM
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Join us for the next JSF Social on Thursday, 18 July at 7 pm Japan time to hear about media relations at the University of Cambrdge and OIST.

Craig Brierley will talk about getting your research into the news.

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July 11, 2024 at 12:14 PM
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Our second speaker is Holly Seale of the School of Population Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of New South Wales. She’ll be talking about supporting communication during the COVID-19 pandemic: development of a vaccine glossary.

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Our second speaker is Holly Seale of the School of Population Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of New South Wales. She’ll be talking about supporting communication during the COVID-19 pandemic: development of a vaccine glossary. #JSF24
May 15, 2024 at 6:02 AM
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Our first speaker is João Cardoso from Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology of the University of Coimbra / Tokyo Polytechnic University. He’ll be talking about crafting a transmedia storytelling universe for health communication.

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Japan Scicom Forum Meetup. Crafting a transmedia storytelling universe for health communication. João Cardoso, Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology of the University of Coimbra / Tokyo Polytechnic University. Thursday, May 16 at 7:00 to 8:30 pm (Japan time). Online. Organized by @euanmckay and @iyoumek.
May 13, 2024 at 4:25 AM
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JSF Social on Thursday 16 May 19:00 Japan time! Drop in to hear about #transmedia and the development of glossaries to help in health communication during #COVID.
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This week! Free and online. Join two guest speakers and a friendly community of scicommers for an informal conversation on Health Communication. Pre-register to get the zoom link: https://japansci.com/socials. Thursday, May 16 at 7:00 to 8:30 pm (Japan time). Organized by @euanmckay and @iyoumek.
May 13, 2024 at 4:23 AM