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Some view bringing on Marc Tessier-Lavigne as Xaira’s CEO as an unexpected move. He resigned just seven months ago from his position as Stanford president following explosive reports that his laboratory at Genetech had manipulated research data Marina Temkin
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Shrouded in secrecy: how science is harmed by the bullying and harassment rumour mill

Instrumental social justice in higher education: Eight surveys for workplace bullying and social justice research
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Imperial College London What is ‘good science’ and ‘good practice’? These phrases are interesting because they point in two directions. On the one hand there is the ‘headline’ success of institutions: grants won, league tables scaled, top journals stormed, & media time guaranteed
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🧵I expected to see generally poor compliance with [best use] guidelines. However, the low figure of 4% compliance with best practice was quite a shock
—Paul Workman, former CEO and President of The Institute of Cancer Research The ICR, who was not an author on the study

Would be great if true “report harassment or risk losing Wellcome funding” Holly Else
#ResearchCulture #ReImagineResearch

nature Sarah Wild After Chapman first went public about her experience, women reached out to her from all over the world to share theirs. “People were like, ‘I was raped, but I can’t say anything’ or ‘I was sexually assaulted, and I couldn’t say anything’, ‘I had to leave’, and ‘I’m under an NDA’

🧵The bully was able to disrupt the entire department in 3 waves. I finally quit. Life was too short. My career was damaged, & 20 years later, one of the allies of the bully ended up being the husband of my last boss who was also a gaslighting power player
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🧵Work cultures that are based on peer assessment are generally founded on equality & collegiality. This idealistic approach, however, overlooks the fact that senior researchers always have power based on their position in the workplace in relation to ECRs
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Should academic researchers collaborate with a known or suspected bully?

nature Sarah Wild If an employer asked for a reference, for example, a former institution could state that the person had been dismissed for misconduct. As things stand, neither party is required to request or provide such information and the new institution might not know to ask Georgina Calvert-Lee

🧵 ‘I hope you die’: how the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic unleashed attacks on scientists. Dozens of researchers tell Nature they have received death threats, or threats of physical or sexual violence

🧵Only 33% of scientific researchers worldwide are women, and just 4% of science The Nobel Prize winners have been female, the Fondation L'Oréal said.

'If we want to fully harness the potential of #women in research, they must feel safe'-Palt CEO

Phys.org
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🧵 In Brazil, one in two female researchers has faced sexual harassment

A survey by the Brazilian Academy of Sciences ABCiências bolsters calls to tackle the problem

—Meghie Rodrigues Meghie Rodrigues
#ResearchCulture #WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience #scicomm #STEM
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🧵This collection of career resources, including a Working Scientist podcast series sponsored by the International Science Council International Science Council, explores freedom and safety in research and how this is curtailed by external social, political and economic pressures
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🧵 Among the 2006 survey participants, an overwhelming proportion of participants reported either experiencing (84%) or witnessing (59%) abusive supervision, or both (49%). While a majority of perpetrators were male, they were proportionately no more likely to abuse than females

🧵Graduate students and academic researchers should not have to be legal scholars to win protections. Another problem is how much the fate of a PhD student or postdoc depends on a supervisor who controls funding for their position, and when they can submit a dissertation or paper

🧵 This article explores how the United Nations treats whistleblowers and highlights the whistleblower heroes who blew the whistle on sexual harassment, sex trafficking, and corruption at the United Nations?
#SustainableDevelopmentGoals #SDGs #SDG16
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To be robust peer review needs to be more structured. By that, I mean that journals should provide reviewers with a transparent set of questions to answer that focus on methodological, analytical and interpretative aspects of a paper Mario Malički nature
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