Attention Melbourne STEMMinists! Last minute #stemministbc meetup this Monday 18th Nov, 7pm @ Gin Palace. Our book is The Testaments by Margaret Atwood. As always book reading optional cathartic stemminist discussion compulsory. Join us!
@stemminist#WomenInSTEMM @mirandacumpston
Such a privilege to be part of this! From all our Melbourne members, thank-you @DrCFord. For us itβs not a club itβs a community & one we cherish. #WomenInSTEMM#STEMMINISTBC
4 days to go to the opening of Her Placeβs exhibition at Morwell Library by Harriet Shing MLC on Thursday 4 October, 4.00pm. The exhibition features 10 trailblazing women including pioneering CFA volunteer and chicken farmer, Pat Bigham.
#badasswomen#trailblazers#countrywomen
"As engineers what we are doing is designing things for society ... so really our workforce should be reflecting that society."
@RomaTheEngineer on the need for a diverse #STEM community
π£ New month, new book! Our Sep/Oct pick is βBad Bloodβ by @johncarreyrou It tells the story of the rise & fall of the female-led Silicon Valley start-up @theranos
However, mentor-mentee relationships are, by definition, unequal. Mentees are more vulnerable and more likely to disproportionately suffer in a dysfunctional relationship. The paper defines mentorship malpractice as behavior that puts a menteeβs academic career at risk.
Have you experienced bullying in science or academia?
Please share your experiences in this anonymous Guardian survey. Your story could be the flake that starts the avalanche!
#EndAcademicBullyingx.com/hannahdev/status/10217β¦
This needs to stop...
βyou find yourself in a workplace where everything feels wrong. Your supervisor intimidates you and you receive upsetting e-mails, but the institute leadership seems indifferent. You are aloneβ
#MeTooPhd@ProfessorIsInnature.com/articles/d41586-0β¦
βYoung scientists who say they were bullied found the system inadequate because no one to whom they could complain (was) truely independentβ
#TaleAsOldAsTime
βWe will never know how many promising scientific careers around the world have been brought to a premature end because young researchers felt they could not continue to work under a bullying senior figureβ @NatureNews
.@JillGallagherAO#NAIDOC18:
Though we were great hunter-gatherers,we did more than that.We were farmers; developed aquaculture & preserved foods such as eels through smoking. We had our own medicines, we did brain surgery, long before @WEHI_research existed!
#BecauseOfHerWeCan