Hey #AcademicTwitter, since it's course evaluations season, you should make sure to remind your students about the well-documented racial and gender bias in student course evals. Yesterday I had multiple students say they've never had a faculty member talk about these biases.

There are some great resources that exist for talking to students about this, like this google doc compiled by @rebeccakreitzer @prof_mirya and @ellenmkey that documents the scholarly research demonstrating these baises: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14JiF-fT--F3Qaefjv2jMRFRWUS8TaaT9JjbYke1fgxE/edit

There's also this great visualization tool that you can use to show the gendering of qualitative evaluations of faculty. I've included some examples that I often use with my students: http://benschmidt.org/profGender/# 

Obviously a short discussion of what course evaluations are used for, the gender and racial biases that plague them, and why students should complete them thoughtfully and intentionally won't solve all of the systemic inequalities and biases in the academy...

...but at the very least we can make students aware of how evaluations reproduce implicit biases and nudge/cue them towards more thoughtful and reflective evaluations. Especially if you're a cis-het-white-dude like me who benefits from these biases!