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In the U.S., navigating STEM with marginalized identities can affect scientists' communication practices. There is a critical need for science communication training that accounts for the historical oppressions, discriminations, and inequities of marginalized communities. In this paper we analyzed 712 participant responses from ReclaimingSTEM science communication workshops to understand how marginalized scientists' identities influence their science communication practices. We found that participants' experiences of exclusion and hostility in STEM spaces influenced their engagement in science communication. Scientists from marginalized backgrounds aim to change the culture of STEM through their communication efforts to promote a sense of belonging for their communities. 

Wearable positioning sensors are enabling unprecedented opportunities to model students’ procedural and social behaviours during collaborative learning tasks in physical learning spaces. Emerging work in this area has mainly focused on modelling group-level interactions from low-level x-y positioning data. Yet, little work has utilised such data to automatically identify individual-level differences among students working in co-located groups in terms of procedural and social aspects such as task prioritisation and collaboration dynamics, respectively. To address this gap, this study characterised key differences among 124 students’ procedural and social behaviours according to their perceived stress, collaboration, and task satisfaction during a complex group task using wearable positioning sensors and ordered networked analysis. The results revealed that students who demonstrated more collaborative behaviours were associated with lower stress and higher collaboration satisfaction. Interestingly, students who worked individually on the primary and secondary learning tasks reported lower and higher task satisfaction, respectively. These findings can deepen our understanding of students’ individual-level behaviours and experiences while learning in groups.