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Strong Women, Wise Words
Today I read two interviews with academic leaders, strong women both working in decidedly male-dominated fields. Their experiences are salutary and their advice worth taking to heart, much of it applying regardless of gender. Firstly, and more famously at least … Continue reading
Posted in Science Culture, Women in Science
Tagged Economics, luck, Minouche Shafik, Rama Govindarajan
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Unconscious Bias 2.0
‘Unconscious bias’ has become very much part of the conscious process that many organisations try to bring to bear on their decision-making, be it with regard to promotions or appointments. However, what do they mean by it and how do … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Science Culture, Women in Science
Tagged appointment committees, CV, promotion, publishing
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Cynical and Irritable
‘This is not an era in which good things are taken at face value. We are cynical, irritable and tired, and if there is a bad intention to be read into anything, someone will scratch away at it until they … Continue reading
Posted in Science Culture
Tagged committees, pandemic, resilience
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Scientists Who Stand Up to be Counted
In the UK the pandemic is rushing towards its second anniversary, changing, but no less dangerous for the life we used to think was ‘normal’, and indeed our very lives. During this time, as a scientist I have had confidence … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Science, Science Culture
Tagged abuse, David Spiegelhalter, Devi Sridhar, pandemic, Sander van der Linden
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Self Confidence Amidst a Pandemic
I am sure readers share my gloom at the necessity of re-introducing tighter restrictions in our lives as Omicron spreads. It’s almost two years since the virus first swam into public view in the UK, twenty-one months since academics rapidly … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Science, Science Culture
Tagged ECRs, Omicron, seminars, webinars, Zoom
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