STEM Inclusive Teaching Practices Webinar Series: The Biocultural Labels Initiative
A Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Reading List, with Special Emphasis on Natural Sciences and Natural History Museums
As the hub for digitization of U.S. natural history collections, iDigBio aims to engage our community in promoting a more diverse, equitable, inclusive, and actively anti-racist community. To that end, the iDigBio team focused on issues of Education, Outreach, Diversity, and Inclusion has compiled this reading list to begin conversations in the classroom, in museum collections, and among colleagues.
February 2021 Biodiversity Spotlight
Photo courtesy of Jeffrey Weinell, University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum
STEM Inclusive Teaching Practices Webinar Series: Socially Relevant Teaching in the Time of COVID-19
EDSIN (Environmental Data Science Inclusion Network),
iDigBio Natural History Collections Summer Internship 2021
WeDigBio 2020
Contributed by: Libby Ellwood, Austin Mast, Robert Bruhn and Kevin Love
November 2020 Biodiversity Spotlight
October 2020 Biodiversity Spotlight
Contributed by Cat Chapman
Have you ever been out on a walk through nature, or even in your neighborhood, and saw what appeared to be a clump of tiny leaves, debris, or lichen… only to see it move?
Upon closer inspection of this mysteriously motile clump of detritus, you may see that it has tiny little legs underneath it. It’s alive!
Meet the trash bug!
Scientist in the Spotlight: Diego Barroso

Biodiversity Spotlight: September 2020
Written by Erica Krimmel.
An Introduction for Educators to the WeDigBio Event, a Global Data Creation Campaign
Botany Students Study Effects of Climate Change — Using 100-Year-Old Plants
What can 120-year-old flower buds neatly pressed to paper teach you about climate change? As it turns out, a lot.
Nineteen botany students had the chance to dive into more than a century of California’s plant data this spring in an exploration of the nuances plant life using computer programming and statistical analyses.
Biodiversity Spotlight: August 2020

Scientist in the Spotlight: Jennifer Zaspel

SPNHC 2020 Educational Materials Share Session
Biodiversity Spotlight: July 2020

STEM Inclusive Teaching Practices Episode Four
Episode Four
Title: Beyond Techniques: A Phenomenological Approach to Inclusive Teaching
Scientist in the Spotlight
Biodiversity Spotlight: June 2020
STEM Inclusive Teaching Practices Webinar Series: Episode Three
May 2020 Biodiversity Spotlight
Article by: Nattapol Kraisitudomsook, PhD student from the Smith Lab at the University of Florida
José Fortes, iDigBio PI, Awarded 2019-20 Teacher/Scholar of the Year
Education, Outreach, Diversity and Inclusion Open Office Hours
Webinar: Introduction to Arctos for Teaching Collections
Title: Introduction to Arctos for Teaching Collections
Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Time: 3pm ET
Where: https://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/room
Presenter: Anna Chinn (Assistant Collections Manager, Chicago Academy of Sciences / Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum)
April 2020: Biodiversity Spotlight
Margay
STEM Inclusive Teaching Practices Webinar Series: Episode Two
First SciComm 101 Workshop
February 2020 Biodiversity Spotlight

Aye-aye, Daubentonia madagascariensis
STEM Inclusive Teaching Practices Webinar Series: Episode One