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[–] Zacryon@feddit.org 18 points 3 days ago (10 children)

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.

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

[–] DaveyRocket@lemmy.world 40 points 3 days ago (7 children)

She’s a great science communicator. Another famous Youtuber (Captain D) called her “the Jenny Nicholson of science” her Dark Matter video is my favorite, though her Gell-Mann Amnesia video is a “must watch” imho.

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

Not a physicist but fuck it is so relatable.

[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 72 points 3 days ago (5 children)

This just makes me sad. How can science advance, if we gatekeep one half of human population? In my academic career I have consistently found women to be smarter and better than men. Yet, these misogynistic ideas seem to persist. We deserve better than old farts with even older bias heading the institutions that make up our society.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 37 points 3 days ago (4 children)

It's exactly that is why they're kept down. Tiny men are afraid that they won't seem as smart as the woman in the room.

As a man, I try to be different. I mentor the women around me and encourage them to do more, be better. I successfully got one of my mentee to negotiate her salary just yesterday even though she felt uncomfortable doing so. Try to be the change we need

Never understood why some people so desperately need to be the smartest being in the universe. You're a magic meat computers running on a system of hormones so complex that tweaking their balance just a bit can cause unforseen permament consequences. None of us have the right to call ourselves "smart". Just chill and do your best.

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When I was in elementary school, we always had a table at the back where the advanced students would do more difficult stuff than the rest of the class while not being completely isolated. The table was always me and 5 or 6 girls. When we graduated high school, I was the top-ranked boy - and the 22nd-ranked student overall. I just took it completely for granted that girls were smarter than boys (although I did perceive the very strong anti-intellectual culture among boys which seemed more impactful than native abilities).

It wasn't until I went to college that I started encountering the belief that men were fundamentally smarter than women, even though every college and university I've attended had more women than male students and the women had much better academic performance. That was my first taste of the power of group delusion.

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[–] regrub@lemmy.world 76 points 4 days ago

Now I want an anti-acknowledgment section in my dissertation too

[–] grue@lemmy.world 55 points 3 days ago

I read the first sentence in that big paragraph and thought "wow, going straight to the biggest problem right out of the gate instead of building up to it, huh?" Then I kept reading and realized the entire paragraph was about that same thing. Holy shit, that's a lot of sexism!

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago

Beautifully spoken

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 26 points 3 days ago

Acknowledgmen't

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