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[-] fuck_you_spez@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Hero.

I love everything about how she's calling out the culture in her realm of academia and casting it in Stone by being the first pages of her book.

Sucks it all happened. But proud to have it justly put on blast.

[-] Trollception@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago

Absolute legend

[-] oftheair 68 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

For anybody having difficulty reading the text:

Anti Acknowledgements

There have unfortunately also been people who have been less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, because I know I am not unique in this experience.

No thank you to the physics study association that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a 'stripper name' within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of "computer girl". No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to 'apologise' months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so "no hard feelings remain hopefully". And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was "surprising" that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with "you should consider it". No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists "don't know how to design an experiment". No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the executive board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up to a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted.

I wish I could tell you this has all made me stronger somehow but in reality it has only shattered my confidence. You have made me feel like I do not belong in science and I cannot forgive you for that.

-Rachel

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

Dammit. Should have checked the comments first.

[-] oftheair 1 points 8 hours ago
[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Because I squinted my way through the image first. I should have read the comments first.

[-] oftheair 2 points 8 hours ago

Yeah. We had to do that kind of too, so we decided to type it all up. Opened up a notepad like program and wrote every single thing in the image, then went back to check for mistakes we made. We missed a few but the browser's spell checker picked them up thankfully 🙂

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

It's greatly appreciated, even though I derived no benefit. You make lemmy better.

[-] oftheair 1 points 4 hours ago

Thank you. We try!

[-] JacksonLamb@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

What she has been through is awful.

I wish though that more people knew the difference between an Acknowledgements page and a Thank You page.

This should properly be titled Anti Thanks.

Acknowledgements should only cover individuals and institutions whose contributions are a direct factor in the material body of the text.

[-] wolfpack86@lemmy.world 10 points 8 hours ago

You should let her know so you can make your way into the next printing

[-] WilloftheWest@feddit.uk 47 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Bravo to the exceptional bravery on display here. I'm sure the majority of PhD graduates, including myself, wish they'd had the gumption to name and shame the suppressing factors contributing to a toxic academic environment. Reading this makes me kind of appreciative that my troubles were only administrative mismanagement and an inexperienced supervisor.

Also what the hell is up with TU Delft? It's only partway through March and this is the second time this year that I've seen a PhD candidate publicly call out the institute.

[-] xye@lemm.ee 26 points 1 day ago

Unfathomably based.

[-] SolidShake@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

why is this rachel too scared to name names?

[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 13 points 19 hours ago

Libel lawsuits are a bitch.

[-] LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 5 points 13 hours ago

And this burden of proof is on the accuser.

I don't doubt the stories, but a court would see it in a different way for a good reason. It's hard to find a solution between slander and rightfully calling someone out.

[-] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 day ago

This sounds like the University of Ottawa. Watching physics professors sexually harass the few women in our class was disgusting.

[-] jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 day ago

can't wait to experience that myself!! 🥰

[-] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Does anyone have info about the lawsuit

[-] Zacryon@feddit.org 15 points 1 day ago

Reminds me of Sabine Hossfelder, a physicist, who had made some similar experiences.

https://youtu.be/LKiBlGDfRU8

Proof that educated people can still be immensely stupid and be utter human trash.

[-] Nalivai@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago

It's sad that she decided to channel her experience into transphobia, as if punching down will somehow make up for all the punches she got.

[-] Zacryon@feddit.org 6 points 1 day ago

Really? That's news to me.

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

She also made a video extolling the virtues of capitalism and how science wouldn't have progressed without it, but then oddly went on to make videos about why she had to leave academia because of profit motive forcing her to research things that didn't matter but got grant funding to keep her alive, without making the connection that the profit motive that destroyed her dream is due to capitalism.

Not to mention, she's fueling anti-science perspectives.

[-] oftheair 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Also, she's very ableist in that she is against autistic people

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[-] AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.com 5 points 23 hours ago

Love the part on the video where essentially she says "I was given my first research position thanks to a grant for women. Also, there should be no research grants for women". Piece of shit.

[-] Darkmoon_UK@lemm.ee 5 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

To be clear, you are criticising Sabine for saying there should be no research grants for women? If so, you perhaps misinterpret her meaning?

If I know Sabine at all from her videos, she would have meant that in an equal world, grants aimed specifically at either sex should not be necessary.

That's quite different from a "raise the drawbridge" stance - but I'm a casual viewer, so please be kind while putting me right, if warranted.

[-] AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.com 6 points 15 hours ago

in an equal world, grants aimed specifically at either sex should not be necessary

Not quite, I'm afraid. Her point was essentially "I had very good grades, so I would have been hired anyway, but instead of hiring me normally, they hired me through this grant for women, which is a form of discrimination". She's not explicitly saying "kick the ladder when I'm up top", but it's essentially the conclusion. She mentions it on the "what's wrong with academia" thingy video.

[-] serenissi@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Not a physicist but fuck it is so relatable.

[-] NotLemming@lemm.ee 112 points 1 day ago

Normalise this. In the past women would have been accused of being unprofessional to have called men out like this. That's the only reason why every woman doesn't do it.

[-] match@pawb.social 17 points 1 day ago

normalize it to the point that the anti-acknowledgements name names

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago

This seems to be the Netherlands (TU Delft). Maybe it's normal there.

[-] LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 4 points 13 hours ago

I don't think so. Academia is still a pyramid system, and a lot of people want a post-doc or not burn bridges

Fuck these misogynistic pigs, idiots like these need to be called out more often. It's too bad she couldn't give names out and completely humiliate and ruin them.

[-] mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago

A dot point list would have made this more readable. Just saying.

[-] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 day ago

The irony in how badly you are missing the dot point

[-] scratchee@feddit.uk 24 points 1 day ago

It may be in a scientific paper, but this is more of an anecdote about the various issues the author encountered, rather than something intended to be actionable and clearly delineated as you’d expect in the body of a scientific article. Therefore a more literary style is appropriate for this section.

My mental model is that bullet points are for when you expect a reader to go over the points with a highlighter, prose for when you want to produce an emotional response. This feels more like the latter.

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[-] _lilith@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

and she should smile more too right? god you are a cunt

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