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Author Archives: Athene Donald
Doing Your Bit
When you have vulnerable people being harassed, what can you do? And I mean you. I have written a lot recently on my blog about the importance of bystanders. To learn more, I attended a recent training session regarding Bystander … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Equality
Tagged Bystander, harassment, intervention, toxic
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Science and Government, Science in Government
Before pre-election purdah set in, two interesting reports got published, one with more fanfare than the other. The one with more publicity attached was the long-awaited report (Changes and Choices) on options for future international funding by Adrian Smith and … Continue reading
Posted in Research
Tagged Adrian Smith, Areas of Research Interest, Jon Agar, Public Laboratories, RSRE
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Bias in Publishing
You’ll have heard the story about women whingeing about how their proudly-submitted papers got rejected by a premier journal without being sent out to referees. Or that the comments they received from referees were unduly harsh, but a male colleague’s … Continue reading
Posted in Research, Women in Science
Tagged editors, pipeline, Royal Society of Chemistry, success rates, UKRI
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Who’s a Crazy Bitch Then?
I was interested to read an article (not such a recent article in fact, but I’ve only just come across it via Twitter links) describing the misogynistic name-calling of senior women in Canadian universities. Headlined ‘The “crazy/bitch” narrative about senior … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Women in Science
Tagged Carole Cadwalladr, misogyny, Miss Triggs, name-calling
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Seeing Red
Is anger a good spur to getting on and getting by? The recommendation to use it as a positive force came from three eminent colleagues this past week. I had the enormous pleasure of facilitating (I think that’s the right … Continue reading
Posted in Women in Science
Tagged Carol Robinson, Daphne Jackson Trust, Julia Goodfellow, Julia Higgins
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