Fieldwork for All
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February 11 marks the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. PLOS ONE is marking this day by handing over our…
The scenario is fictional, but the problem is all too real: A group of scientists is conducting research deep in the Andes…
By Anson Mackay…
By Anson Mackay…
Revisiting Alison Mudditt's 2018 post on sexual harassment in our community. What has changed in the last three years, and what…
Stanford Earth recently transitioned the Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) into its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI…
Stanford Earth recently transitioned the Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) into its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI…
As part of an effort to celebrate and discuss identity, six Stanford Earth community members talk about how their identities as…
Fieldwork is often framed as central to geoscience research. What fieldwork comprises varies across geoscience disciplines and…
Below you’ll find a document I’ve been thinking about for more than a decade. I teach marine science field skills to…
Trigger warning: this post discusses tactics used by sexual harassers to evade justice and the impact on survivors. Today…
The power dynamics at play in any workplace sexual harassment scenario are "heightened" in Antarctica, one researcher said.View…
Encountering Inappropriate and Sexist Behaviours during…
Content warning: This article contains examples of body-based and sexual terms applied to geoscience concepts. In some cases…
In 1872, the British Challenger expedition sailed around the globe on a voyage to study and sample the world’s oceans. The…
by Abby Rosenberg (@AbbyRosenbergMD) I didn’t want to be another “me too” story. I am becoming one, now, because I believe in…
Women scientists are uniquely positioned to understand the environmental challenges — such as drought, floods, extreme weather…
[This is a copy of my blogpost, previously on thespectroscope.com.]Recent news is full of headlines such as Congresswoman…
Guest post by members of the Early Career Scientist Policy Subcommittee Emily Lescak, Giovanna Collu, and Lacy…
Thanks to everyone who sent in a question. I know there are a quite a few more who were also interested in the responses. While…
Trigger warning: this post describes an investigation and experience of sexual harassment. On 19 January 2018, I wrote to the…
In this episode, Ivan and Liz talk with Gina Baucom, Assistant Professor in Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at…
Authors Julia Shaw Research associate, UCL Camilla Elphick Psychology PhD candidate, University of Sussex University College…
Also this week: 50 shades of grey green, the best (?) pedagogical technique you’ve never heard of (?), and more. From Jeremy…
We have all been shocked and disgusted by painful stories of harassment over recent months, so why have we heard nothing from…
Yesterday was International Day of Women and Girls in Science and it was great to see all the different faces of women and…
Far away from the red carpets of Hollywood, an aspiring scientist in Guyana, South America, is being discouraged by her parents…
The cold impartiality of science has something to add to the individual experiences of sexual harassment we've read about this…
It's Time for Science and Academia to Address Sexual MisconductAlmost every woman in science has either personally experienced…
Last week many of us were at the Ecology Across Borders meeting in Ghent, catching up with friends, making new friends, and…
This post Entomologists Say Harassment and Bullying in Science are “#NeverOK” appeared first on Entomology Today - The latest…
[Possible trigger warning] “What I shall try to show, without carping, will be that there is a very good reason why the erotic…
Dr. Lisa Whitenack is an Associate Professor of Biology of Allegheny College. She is a shark paleobiologist, studying modern…
*edited 19 Oct to add stats on men being harassed/assaulted in academia. Last night I couldn’t sleep. I lay in bed and listened…
This morning I came to a realization that shocked me and that made me quite painfully aware of my own biases. Already a couple…
There’s a lot of discussion about the problematic Google manifesto, and one of the issues brought up is the science of sex…
The sciences are overwhelmingly hostile to women, and in astronomy, it’s doubly bad for women of color. New research published…
Public consciousness of the stunning lack of diversity in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields…
Intro from Meghan: This is the follow up to Gina Baucom’s guest post last week on her experience asking on twitter about sexist…
Here is a reminder: safety comes first. I recently heard some reports from a student who was working with lab group in the…
Kate Clancy is someone who I admire. She is someone who says stuff the needed saying. Like pointing out the high incidence of…
In the spirit of my “So you’re going camping for the first time” post – which came about as a result of a Twitter conversation…
Jen Dylan provides advice to graduate students for dealing with sexual harassment.
Survey of Academic Field Experiences (SAFE): Trainees Report Harassment and AssaultKathryn B. H. Clancy , Robin G. Nelson…
What do you do when you’re a graduate student and you’ve been sexually assaulted by the PI of a very exciting…
Every female scientist has a story.One woman was warned not to wear her wedding ring to job interviews. Another noticed that…
Representative Jackie Speier recently introduced legislation that would connect incidents of sexual harassment by university…
Zach Weinersmith’s Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal reminds us that the public at large believes in the results of science…
Today’s guest post is brought to you by three post-docs: Amy Boddy, PhD, Arizona State University, Michelle Kline, PhD…
Not at all surprising, but so terribly depressing to read that similarly to Geoff Marcy, UC Berkeley found the Law School Dean…
I recently had a conversation with a male friend at another institution. While he is successfully advising graduate students of…
I’ve had several people contact me with an interest in doing archaeological research in Cambodia and questions about becoming…
The paper draws on the literature of feminist political ecology and geography, which examines...
A Google search for the exact phrase “barriers to women in science” brings up 85,000 results. “Barriers for women in science…
Today’s post is a follow-up to a recent post by Dr. Rebecca Rogers Ackermann, a Biological Anthropologist at the University of…
Astronomy. Astronomy again. Molecular biology. Story after story about sexual harassment of students and trainees by…
Zuleyka Zevallos, Swinburne University of…
Tomorrow at close of business we will close nominations for this year's Censor of the Year (COTY) award -- send your nomination…
A prominent scientist has stepped down from his position at a large research university after an investigation found he had…
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Zuleyka Zevallos, Swinburne University of…
“Jade of the Sea” Oh come on! Just as the world begins to apply pressure to elephant poachers and ivory consumers in an attempt…
I find myself often thinking of the Make Love, Not Warcraft episode of South Park. Every time Stan, Cartman, Kyle and Kenny…
It’s time for some real talk, dear readers.I was recently asked a question by a student that I’ll admit threw me. I was…
It’s time for some real talk, dear readers.I was recently asked a question by a student that I’ll admit threw me. I was…
It’s resolution season, which means we’re spending more time than usual assessing ourselves, our efforts, and our goals. I’ve…
It’s resolution season, which means we’re spending more time than usual assessing ourselves, our efforts, and our goals. I’ve…
The below post was written by a contributor who wishes to use the pseudonym ExUngueLeam. The author is a junior astronomer…
In 2013, paleontologist Lee Berger led an all-female team of excavators in a trip into a small chamber in a South African cave…
In honor of Open Access Week, I was delighted to contribute to a panel, hosted by the ASU library, discussing the pros and…
The astronomical community was rocked recently, when, on Oct.9, BuzzFeed broke the story that a UC–Berkeley investigation found…
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Salt is a preservative right? It makes your skin tough, doesn't it? I hope so. I'll take the bumps and skids and obstacles I've…
I’m not writing this in hopes that you’ll congratulate me. This is just meant to give readers a peek behind the curtain.I’m…
It’s a bumper season for sexism in science. Earlier this year, the media was abuzz with a startling revelation: sexism in…
This week’s guest blogger is Nicole E. Cabrera Salazar, an NSF Graduate Research Fellow and Chateaubriand Fellow at Georgia…
This week a woman scientist tweeted sexist comments made about one of her studies during the peer-review process. BuzzFeed News…
Field season is coming up fast as the spring semester winds down, and even though I’m done with fieldwork now, it’s on my mind…
When a CNN article titled “The Myth about Women in Science” came crawling across my feed, I have to admit that I wasn’t…
WHAT IS HARASSMENT? Thank you for asking! Harassment is any "unwelcome conduct that is based on race, color, religion, sex…
A student recently dropped by to tell me about an exciting opportunity. She was going to spend a few weeks doing research in a…
Are sexual coercion, harassment, and even rape "biological imperatives"?
My 'Word Of 2014'…
2014 has been an exciting year for PLOS ONE. We saw the journal reach a milestone, publishing its 100,000th article. PLOS ONE…
As 2014 comes to a close, I thought I’d take up the annual task of rounding up the best of Savage Minds and the…
As 2014 comes to a close, I thought I’d take up the annual task of rounding up the best of Savage Minds and the…
Follow-up post where I share a list and chart of 2014 Top 25 Paywalled and Top 25 Open Access Outputs in the 2014 Altmetric…
Last week, the world watched as a team at the European Space Agency landed the first spaceship on a comet. During the landing…
Last week, the European Space Agency’s Spacecraft Rosetta put a washing machine-sized lander named Philae on Comet 67P/Churyumov…
Last week, the European Space Agency’s Spacecraft Rosetta put a washing machine-sized lander named Philae on Comet 67P/Churyumov…
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It’s been a tough week for social justice in academic science. There was a series of racially insensitive tweets about “overpopul…
It’s been a tough week for social justice in academic science. There was a series of racially insensitive tweets about “overpopul…
The New York Times has featured an op-ed in the Sunday Review with the provocative title, "Academic science isn't sexist." For…
You may have read in late September that the ratio of women receiving Royal Society funding has “plummeted from one in three in…