News
5 January 2024: New article accepted. “Practices and Typologies for Using Organizational Data to Identify Potential Leaders for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion within Institutions” in International Journal of Leadership in Education. Co-authors: Michael Simeone, Kimberly A. Scott & Elizabeth Wentz.
19 December 2023: New article published. “Institutional Values Influence the Design and Evaluation of Transition Knowledge in Funding Proposals at NOAA” in Philosophy of Science. Co-authors Gina Eosco, Joseph Conran, and Laura Newcomb.
12 October 2023: New article published. “An account of conserved functions and how biologists use them to integrate cell and evolutionary biology,” in Biology & Philosophy. Co-author with Beckett Sterner and Jeremy Wideman.
Projects
Current
2022–Present.
National Science Foundation: “Collaborative Research: Explaining Differential Success in Biodiversity Knowledge Commons.” Intermittent Co-PI. More.
Previous
2022–23.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Data Governance and Computational Organizational Analysis for the Weather Program Office, the Office of Science Support, and Performance Risk and Social Sciences Office.
2021–22.
National Science Policy Network: “The Role of Scientist Networks in Science Diplomacy.” Interview project for policy report about how scientists working abroad connect with similarly situated researchers of shared nationality. More.
2022 Primary Report [publisher]
2020–21.
American Association for the Advancement of Science: “SEA Change Institutional Bronze Application for Arizona State University.” Conducted quantitative trend analyses of ASU and co-wrote 17k word award application. More.
2021 SEA Change Award to Arizona State University
2018–21.
National Science Foundation: “Data and the Future of an Empirically Grounded Research Community for Broadening Participation in STEM.” Network analysis and interview study of K-12 STEM education researchers. Final manuscripts in preparation. More.
2013–17.
Center for Biology and Society: “Network Evolution Project.” Designed and conducted research and wrote research reports.
2016 School of Life Sciences Dissertation Completion Fellowship
2010–17.
Center for Biology and Society: Embryo Project Encyclopedia. Editor in Chief of open access outreach publication about the history of developmental biology and reproductive medicine. 2.5 million+ annual page views.
2018 Joseph H. Hazen Prize awarded by the History of Science Society for outstanding career contributions in education and outreach. More.
2015–17 Institute of Humanities Research-funded subproject: Reproductive Health Arizona.
Publications
Research
Practices and Typologies for Using Organizational Data to Identify Potential Leaders for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion within Institutions
Steve Elliott, Michael Simeone, Kimberly A. Scott & Elizabeth Wentz Forthcoming. International Journal of Leadership in Education doi.org/10.1080/13603124.2023.2272157 [publisher]
How Data Governance Principles Influence Participation in Biodiversity Science.
Beckett Sterner and Steve Elliott. Forthcoming. Science as Culture doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2023.2214155 [publisher] [preprint]
Institutional Values Influence the Design and Evaluation of Transition Knowledge in Funding Proposals at NOAA.
Steve Elliott, Gina Eosco, Joseph Conran, and Laura Newcomb. 2023. Philosophy of Science 90: 1286–96. doi.org/10.1017/psa.2023.39 [OA publisher] [preprint]
An Account of Conserved Functions and How Biologists Use Them to Integrate Cell and Evolutionary Biology.
Beckett Sterner, Steve Elliott, and Jeremy G. Wideman. 2023. Biology & Philosophy. doi.org/10.1007/s10539-023-09933-x [publisher]
Unified and Pluralistic Ideals for Data Sharing and Reuse in Biodiversity.
Beckett Sterner, Steve Elliott, Edward E. Gilbert, and Nico M. Franz. 2023. Database. doi.org/10.1093/database/baad048 [publisher]
Help with Data Management for the Novice and Experienced Alike.
Steve Elliott, Kate MacCord, and Jane Maienschein. 2022. In The Dynamics of Science: Computational Frontiers in History and Philosophy of Science, edited by Grant Ramsey and Andreas De Block, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 132–43. doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv31djr2f.11 [publisher] [preprint]
The Need for American Scientific Diaspora Networks.
Isabel Warner, Elana R. Goldenkoff, Barbara Del Castello, Dorothy L. Butler, Steve Elliott, Alessandra C. Zimmermann. 2022. Journal of Science Policy and Governance 20: doi.org/10.38126/JSPG200308 [publisher]
Recognize and Alleviate a Resource Management Conundrum Facing Science Diaspora Networks.
Dorothy L. Butler, Barbara Del Castello, Steve Elliott, Elana R. Goldenkoff, Isabel A. Warner, and Alessandra C. Zimmermann. 2022. Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics. doi.org/10.3389/frma.2022.898770 [publisher]
Research Problems.
Steve Elliott. 2021. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 72: 1013–37. doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axz052 [publisher] [preprint]
Proof of Concept Research.
Steve Elliott. 2021. Philosophy of Science 88: 258–80. doi.org/10.1086/711503 [publisher] [preprint]
Bats, Objectivity, and Viral Spillover Risk.
Beckett Sterner, Steve Elliott, Nate Upham, and Nico Franz. 2021. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 43: 1–5. doi.org/10.1007/s40656-021-00366-x [publisher] [pmc]
STEM Diversity and Inclusion Efforts for Women of Color: A Critique of the New Labor System.
Kimberly A. Scott, and Steve Elliott. 2020. International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology 11: 374–82. [publisher]
Gray Literature
Science Diaspora Networks: A Report on their Goals, Functions, and Future.
Dorothy L. Butler, Barbara Del Castello, Steve Elliott, Elana R Goldenkoff, Isabel A. Warner, and Alessandra C. Zimmermann. 2022. National Science Policy Network, Washington, D.C. [publisher] [repository]
The Aims and Structures of Research Projects That Use Gene Regulatory Information with Evolutionary Genetic Models.
Steve Elliott. 2017. Dissertation. [publisher]
Embryo Project Social Media Handbook.
Steve Elliott and Paige Madison. 2016. Version 1.1. [publisher].
Embryo Project Encyclopedia Article Handbook.
Steve Elliott and Erica O’Neil. 2015. Version 2.1. [publisher].
General Audience
Steve Elliott. 2010. “The Mechanistic Conception of Life (1912), by Jacques Loeb.” The Embryo Project Encyclopedia. ISSN: 1940-5030 embryo.asu.edu/handle/10776/1987.
Steve Elliott. 2010. “’On the Nature and Process of Fertilization and the Artificial Production of Normal Larvae (Plutei) from the Unfertilized Eggs of the Sea Urchin’ (1899), by Jacques Loeb.” The Embryo Project Encyclopedia. ISSN: 1940-5030 embryo.asu.edu/handle/10776/1976.
Steve Elliott. 2010. “The Organism as a Whole (1916), by Jacques Loeb”. The Embryo Project Encyclopedia. ISSN: 1940-5030 embryo.asu.edu/handle/10776/1988.
Steve Elliott. 2009. “’Experiments on Artificial Parthenogenesis in Annelids (Chaetopterus) and the Nature of the Process of Fertilization’ (1901), by Jacques Loeb.” The Embryo Project Encyclopedia. ISSN: 1940-5030 embryo.asu.edu/handle/10776/1989.
Steve Elliott. 2009. “’Further Experiments on Artificial Parthenogenesis and the Nature of the Process of Fertilization’ (1900), by Jacques Loeb.” The Embryo Project Encyclopedia. ISSN: 1940-5030 embryo.asu.edu/handle/10776/1977.
Steve Elliott. 2009. “Jacques Loeb (1859–1924).” The Embryo Project Encyclopedia. ISSN: 1940-5030 embryo.asu.edu/handle/10776/1678.
Steve Elliott. 2009. “Julius von Sachs (1832–1897).” The Embryo Project Encyclopedia. ISSN: 1940-5030 embryo.asu.edu/handle/10776/1691.
Steve Elliott. 2009. “’Mechanistic Science and Metaphysical Romance’ (1915), by Jacques Loeb.” The Embryo Project Encyclopedia. ISSN: 1940-5030 embryo.asu.edu/handle/10776/1994.