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[–] oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 73 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

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

[–] SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago

You're welcome! 🙂

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Dammit. Should have checked the comments first.

[–] oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 days ago

Thank you. We try!

[–] fuck_you_spez@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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 2 days ago

Absolute legend

[–] WilloftheWest@feddit.uk 52 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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.

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago

Holy shit. Get em.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The amount of dudes in this comment section who really aren't getting it is astounding...

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

is it not normal to assign stripper names to all the women you want to have sex with?

/s

[–] NotLemming@lemm.ee 114 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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 19 points 3 days ago

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

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[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Start creating a list of them...

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 37 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The university does this actually. It’s called the faculty list of tenured professors.

[–] pebbles@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago
[–] xye@lemm.ee 24 points 3 days ago

Unfathomably based.

[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 140 points 4 days ago (4 children)
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[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 99 points 3 days ago (14 children)

Shoutout to the physicists dismissing biologist experiment design as a whole instead of across sexual or gendered lines.

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[–] Blazingtransfem98@discuss.online 73 points 3 days ago (10 children)

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.

[–] flora_explora@beehaw.org 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

While I agree with the first part of what you said, I don't think the longterm solution is to call out individuals and make their lives horrible. It sure is a good way to maybe deter a few people from doing those misogynistic things. But what we need is actual structural change. It shouldn't be possible these people to do such things in the first place without being sanctioned. And we should educate people more on feminism and intersectional struggles in general.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago

counterpoint: many people fundamentally need to be shamed if they're being shitheads, or they will never improve. The important part is just that they also need to be given a clear way to redeem themselves.

Naming and shaming is part of the structural change.

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[–] cleanandsunny 144 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (7 children)

Name dropping TU Delft is surprising to me! ETA: found more info here, but not about the lawsuit piece.

https://delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/a-no-thank-you-to-the-person-who-assumed-i-was-the-coffee-lady

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[–] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 73 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I appreciate her telling it like it is and not bowing to a pressure to please.

Found an article speaking more about it, if anyone is curious about the context/her work.

[–] jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 3 days ago

can't wait to experience that myself!! 🥰

[–] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 87 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Fucking relatable.

No thank you to the hundreds of years of chemist men taking credit for women's discoveries.

No thank you to the old white Persian man gate keeping chemistry from Ukranians and older women in my class.

No thank you to the sexist math book author who used shoeless women in a kitchen as a word problem example.

No thank you to Amazon for banning my 15 year account for calling the sexist math book author out in reviews.

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[–] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

Does anyone have info about the lawsuit

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 93 points 4 days ago (11 children)

There is an excellent Science channel on Youtube and Nebula with a Physics PHD who's made some eye-opening content about harassment and misogyny in STEM and Academia.

https://www.youtube.com/@acollierastro

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