The Crick Caetano Reis e Sousa Katrin Rittinger Sam Rodriques eriksahailab SantosLaB Sateriale Lab The Scaffidi Lab Andreas Schaefer Ben Schumann The Serio Lab Jim Smith Jesper Svejstrup Laboratory Swanton Lab Ed Tate Tedesco Lab Sharon Tooze Moritz Treeck Turajlic Lab @ The Crick Turner Lab Tybulewicz Lab ule_lab Sila Ultanir Peter Van Loo Folkert van Werven J.P. Vincent Lab @jpvincentlab.bsky.social Carola Vinuesa Vousden Lab Louise Walport @petrzzz Carlos Minutti KU Leuven The Crick inherited a male-dominated Faculty from our legacy institutes–only 18 of the 94 Group Leaders were women. This means there are fewer women in our senior leadership resulting in fewer female role models and fewer women on our Committees-Paul Nurse crick.ac.uk/sites/default/…

Academic bullying – one of many stories tieteentekijat.fi/en/academic-bu…

Academia provides an interesting setting to understand bullying. Such behaviors appear unfortunately more common in higher education than in other industries: 33% of academics report being victim of #bullying versus 2% to 20% in other industries Zoé Ziani, Ph.D. theorgplumber.com/posts/bullying…

“I lost my job, our entire family income and nearly my sanity. There are silenced victims like me all over the country trying to rebuild our shattered lives while the perpetrators carry on building their careers” Hannah Devlin Sarah Marsh #scicomm #scipol #RRI theguardian.com/education/2018…

Does science have a bullying problem? Here is what nature headlines over the past 5 years suggest linkedin.com/posts/krzyszto…

Headlines on harassment in science in nature: 2016: How should science funders deal with harassers? 2022: How hiring policies can help end workplace #harassment? 2023: Sexual #HarassmentInScience: tackling abusers, protecting targets, changing cultures linkedin.com/posts/krzyszto…

🧵The Academic Parity Movement Academic Parity Movement 4th Annual STEM The Bullying: Stakeholder Insights Conference 1) Michael Lauer talks about NIH Efforts To Support A Safe And Respectful Workplace youtu.be/Un7DDz90svM?si… #AcademicTwitter #ResearchIntegrity #STEMToo #scicomm #MeToo

Grim illuminating 🧵on academic #bullying 🙏Krzysztof Potempa H/T Richard Le Blanc including reference to work of my colleague Ken Westhues on academic #mobbying (web.archive.org/web/2011072418…) & great work by Morteza Mahmoudi, PhD Academic Parity Movement Janet Hering Sense about Science #AcademicTwitter

Morteza Mahmoudi, PhD, a co-founder of the Academic Parity Movement, says he welcomes 21group. Having a central organization to which targets of bullying can go for support is crucial for building collective strength to advocate for more effective policies nature nature.com/articles/d4158…

The Illusion of Protection: Whistleblowing & Whistleblowers in Medical Research Dr. Nancy Olivieri for Academic Parity Movement STEM the Bullying 2024 Annual Academic Parity Movement Meeting m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih0M1E…

🧵A professor from Leiden University Leiden University, together with a former employee has been guilty of long-term unacceptable and often transgressive behaviour in the form of abuse of power and manipulation. This led to a culture of fear among staff universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2024/0…

🧵Professors removed for misconduct by Leiden University: 1) Report slams Dutch archaeologist Hofman & Hoogland couple for intimidation, abuse of power, and theft of human remains Martin Enserink 2) Astronomer Tim de Zeeuw barred for ‘extremely unacceptable’ behavior Cathleen O'Grady

Many questions are coming from our academic community. Who is it? Why has he not been sacked? What exactly did he do? Why was this unacceptable behaviour not noticed and punished sooner? How could this have been prevented? How should I myself behave? linkedin.com/posts/krzyszto…

🧵 Silicon Valley investor has pledged $1 million to help pay the legal costs of scientists being sued for flagging fraudulent research. Yun-Fang Juan Yun-Fang Juan hopes Scientific Integrity Fund will make speaking up about wrongdoing less intimidating science.org/content/articl…

Janet Hering As women leaders in academia, we can help to ensure that allies are: (1) identified, (2) hired when possible, (3) put in positions where they can make a difference and (4) not penalized in their career advancement because of their strong support for women epistimi.org/blog/the-impor…

🧵 Portsmouth University University of Portsmouth received a stinging verdict and now have to pay £450,000 in damages. Of course, this is not the total cost. The University had to pay its own HR and legal department, external solicitors and a barrister to represent it at a 5 day hearing

Academic Parity Movement APM Newsletter Academic bullying as a racialized phenomenon in STEM higher education ojed.org/index.php/jis/… A matter of time? Gender and ethnic inequality in the academic publishing careers of Dutch PhDs by Anne Maaike Mulders, Bas Hofstra Jochem Tolsma direct.mit.edu/qss/article/do…

Academic Parity Movement Academic Parity Newsletter—The news and media Maxine Singer obituary: biologist who shaped genetic engineering and fought discrimination Georgina Ferry nature.com/articles/d4158… The complainant. A historian crafts a Title IX case against her abuser Joy Neumeyer chronicle.com/article/the-co…

The United Kingdom (UK), like many other countries, has no laws or legally enforceable standards governing research integrity. It relies instead on employer led self-regulation based on a national code of conduct Lex Bouter The BMJ #ResearchIntegrity bmj.com/content/386/bm…

Lex Bouter The BMJ UK Research Integrity Office The UK Research Integrity Office report "Barriers to Investigating and Reporting #Research Misconduct" understates the need to correct the published record & retract fraudulent, fatally flawed, and ethically unacceptable publications as quickly as possible linkedin.com/posts/krzyszto…