• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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    No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists “don’t know how to design an experiment.”

    That’s just what physics does to your brain. They’re all like that.

  • Seeker of Carcosa@feddit.uk
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    Bravo to the exceptional bravery on display here. I’m sure the majority of PhD graduates, including myself, wish they’d had the gumption to name and shame the suppressing factors contributing to a toxic academic environment. Reading this makes me kind of appreciative that my troubles were only administrative mismanagement and an inexperienced supervisor.

    Also what the hell is up with TU Delft? It’s only partway through March and this is the second time this year that I’ve seen a PhD candidate publicly call out the institute.

  • PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca
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    This sounds like the University of Ottawa. Watching physics professors sexually harass the few women in our class was disgusting.

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    7 hours ago

    Never let the actions of others dictate your future. If you have a goal never never give up.

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      1 hour ago

      Spoken like a true man. I’m a victim of sexism in STEM, now resigned to finish my degree in Japanese rather than deal with the awfulness that is men in Engingeering.

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      Simpler said than done. Of course I agree with you, but we need deeper changes in our society, in our behaviour as people. If you get told time and time again, that you’re worthless, can’t achieve anything etc. that’s going to leave a mark. Sure, encouraging to not let that dominate one’s thoughts is a useful skill. But it shouldn’t be necessary in the first place.

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        You can also have a chance to get out of such a negative surrounding, connect with people that respect you and do actions that raise your self esteem (back).

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    17 hours ago

    Normalise this. In the past women would have been accused of being unprofessional to have called men out like this. That’s the only reason why every woman doesn’t do it.

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    Fuck these misogynistic pigs, idiots like these need to be called out more often. It’s too bad she couldn’t give names out and completely humiliate and ruin them.

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      Only if the accusations are true. It is just a post on the internet, there is no proof any of this is true or factual. Don’t be in such a hurry to harm others and damage their lives.

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        As a woman, and having known many other women, I can promise you that none of what is mentioned is particularly far fetched. It’s sad, but we all have multiple stories like this. Almost any woman could put together a similar paragraph of incidents she has personally experienced.

        Edit to add: she didn’t even name anyone! No one is harmed, except the people who know they should be ashamed of themselves.

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          As a man I’d have never believed how common such behavior is. I’d have thought that’s really outlandish.

          Now I’ve gone through the (probably stereotypical) process of a guy having a daughter, she’s an adult now.

          What she told me - no, all this stuff isn’t unusual at all. The first time she was afraid (and called me as she already had a phone of her own) she was not even 10 years old, riding her bike from my place to the ex-wife’s place, teenage boys catcalling her.

          There’s a lot of us men around who find it hard to believe, because it doesn’t happen to US. But it does. Frequently.

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            I know it never happened around me personally, I’m tall and mean looking, but working in service for over a decade and most people don’t know how bad it is. You learn that the restraining order needs to happen BEFORE it gets worse not as it gets worse. And none of that protects workers traveling to work. You can’t let anyone walk alone to their car alone after close, and if a guy comes in and asks for an associate with those creep vibes, and they aren’t known to the associate or a part of their private life in anyway, you need to aggressively fight it. On visit two looking for her, you have to pull her behind closed doors and report to the police he’s stalking and get a restraining order. SECOND VISIT. Anything less and you’re letting to go way to far.

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        As the husband of a woman with a PhD, let me assure you that I have witnessed several of these first hand when I travel with her to conferences.

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      It may be in a scientific paper, but this is more of an anecdote about the various issues the author encountered, rather than something intended to be actionable and clearly delineated as you’d expect in the body of a scientific article. Therefore a more literary style is appropriate for this section.

      My mental model is that bullet points are for when you expect a reader to go over the points with a highlighter, prose for when you want to produce an emotional response. This feels more like the latter.

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      If you are unable to read a paragraph, you need to spend your time getting a referral to speak with a neurologist, not commenting on Lemmy.

      Oh sorry, let me help: spend time make plan speak brain doctor, no make mean comment here. danger! brain sick or hurt! make speed!

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          oh no! the brain injury is worsening! he’s lost his understanding of hypocrisy entirely! someone call for a wellness check!

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    I appreciate her telling it like it is and not bowing to a pressure to please.

    Found an article speaking more about it, if anyone is curious about the context/her work.

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    Shoutout to the physicists dismissing biologist experiment design as a whole instead of across sexual or gendered lines.

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      I don’t really understand how that one was a problem if they’re also a physicist, or even if they’re a biologist. Nothing wrong with some fun rivalry.

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        When I was at college us physicists would joke about the biologists and the chemists and the mathematicians and the engineers, and in turn they’d joke about us, and we’d all have a good laugh over it.

        I suppose it would come down to the context and how it was said.

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        There’s always rivalry between physicist and biologists. Or chemists and biologists. Or biologists and biologists. Damn biologists, they ruined biology!

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    Fucking relatable.

    No thank you to the hundreds of years of chemist men taking credit for women’s discoveries.

    No thank you to the old white Persian man gate keeping chemistry from Ukranians and older women in my class.

    No thank you to the sexist math book author who used shoeless women in a kitchen as a word problem example.

    No thank you to Amazon for banning my 15 year account for calling the sexist math book author out in reviews.