Anja KleinNov 24, 2022
We as members of the board and the Best Practice group of stsing e.V. have published a statement and call for action in response to the accounts by Claudia Schwarz-Plaschg and Lee Vinsel: https://stsing.org/abuses-of-power-metoosts-and-how-wedosts
#MeTooSTS #WeDoSTS
Abuses of power, #MeTooSTS and how #WeDoSTS? | Doing Science and Technology Studies in and through Germany

…concerning current debates of reported harassment and abuse within the community of STS scholars.

Show threadAnja KleinNov 24, 2022
It includes a call for participation, we "invite everyone to join our next virtual meeting that will provide an open space to discuss these issues and jointly explore possible action. Dr. Jana Lasser, member of the network against power abuse in science has accepted our invitation to support us...
Show threadAnja KleinNov 24, 2022

We also invite all STS researchers to join the next workshop about "Circulations of STS research(ers) and good academic research practice and working conditions" during the sts-hub in March 2023 which will be followed by a discussion with researchers, experts and activists."

@i_ngli @stefanlaser @jul_ie_m
@janalasser
@simulo #MeTooSTS #WeDoSTS

Show threadTomás CriadoNov 25, 2022
@AnjaKlein @i_ngli @stefanlaser @jul_ie_m @janalasser @simulo dear all, thanks for this. After reading your statement I have been thinking of something that I hope is of relevance: Good practices or trying to do better are crucial, but if ANT has taught us anything is that the social is not just an intersubjective domain, there is material delegation & translation...
Show threadTomás CriadoNov 25, 2022
@AnjaKlein @i_ngli @stefanlaser @jul_ie_m @janalasser @simulo and beyond ethical approaches, this is a challenge of institutional design: remaking the socio-legal assemblages of professorial exceptionalism, creating legal binding changes, allocating money to positions working for the workers not the institution, and having effects beyond shaming (sanctions?)
Show threadTomás CriadoNov 25, 2022
@AnjaKlein @i_ngli @stefanlaser @jul_ie_m @janalasser @simulo I understand this exceeds STS, and in the DACH world this would imply a massive institutional overhaul, much deeper than what IchBinHanna started, which sometimes was more about entitlement & better positions than undoing the way things work (will life-long civil servants help change their exceptionalism?)
Show threadTomás CriadoNov 25, 2022
@AnjaKlein @i_ngli @stefanlaser @jul_ie_m @janalasser @simulo and the institutionalisation of a community- driven and egalitarian project like stsing might perpetually be thwarted by the massive stone-like fixity of the institutions it operates in. Certainly, as we say in Spanish "taller towers have crumbled". I'm just concerned that ethics is also the language of...
Show threadTomás CriadoNov 25, 2022
@AnjaKlein @i_ngli @stefanlaser @jul_ie_m @janalasser @simulo empty PR statements, like that of the department of the keynote guest or the euro organisation's president. Empty because the people implied in the scandal only need silence to go forward doing the same, and if not the network will. This is not about good will, it's about unmaking, translating otherwise
Show threadStefan Laser🗜️Nov 25, 2022
@tscriado @AnjaKlein @i_ngli @jul_ie_m @janalasser @simulo This is key, I agree, unmaking. We weren't as quick as others with a statement because of all those things you assembled so eloquently. But solidarity is a start. And then there are many struggles to be had, so we try to start somewhere, connecting with #IchbinHanna
Show threadTomás CriadoNov 25, 2022
@stefanlaser @AnjaKlein @i_ngli @jul_ie_m @janalasser @simulo unmaking in practice: a temporary ban of supervision or PI duties, and being able to sit in committees (peanuts for people with permanent life- long contracts, since they're in essence 'the state'), let's see how long the network holds like that or let's trace its metamorphosis
Show threadsarahschoenbauerNov 25, 2022
@tscriado @stefanlaser @AnjaKlein @i_ngli @jul_ie_m @janalasser @simulo but let’s stay mindful about what social media debates can and cannot do and resolve. So thanks again for your initiative stsing! Looking forward to March and constructive reflexive discussions 🙂 the editorial team of easst Review will host an issue in spring about #WeDoSTS #MeTooSTS
Show threadTomás CriadoNov 25, 2022
@sarahschoenbauer @stefanlaser @AnjaKlein @i_ngli @jul_ie_m @janalasser @simulo why can only a full professor supervise a PhD? (Many places in Europe have other approaches to this and I'm not sure the quality is affected). If a bottleneck was engineered to reflect a power structure, and only a handful of people can do it, there will be chokepoints
Show threadTomás CriadoNov 25, 2022
@sarahschoenbauer @stefanlaser @AnjaKlein @i_ngli @jul_ie_m @janalasser @simulo put otherwise: the suffering of the PhD students dealing with the chokepoint might have needed to be a reason to transform this, if anyone really cared, but who does?
Show threadTomás CriadoNov 25, 2022
@sarahschoenbauer @stefanlaser @AnjaKlein @i_ngli @jul_ie_m @janalasser @simulo on the emptiness: there's so much that a statement can do, for sure, but why is binding institutional design not at the core of those statements? None of this is new, now it's just maybe public. Also, ethics can be the most terrible of ways to create a gaslight
Show threadTomás CriadoNov 25, 2022
@sarahschoenbauer @stefanlaser @AnjaKlein @i_ngli @jul_ie_m @janalasser @simulo let's leave for another day why people do their PhD in certain toxic places, I don't know whether we'd love to know the answers to that question
Show threadIngmar Lippert
@tscriado @sarahschoenbauer @stefanlaser @AnjaKlein @jul_ie_m @janalasser @simulo I suggest we formulate various ways of what it could mean, for those with permanent positions, to not tolerate the practice of tolerating abuse, beyond rhetorics... What might it mean to enact #WeDoSTS?
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Show threadAnja KleinNov 28, 2022

@i_ngli

I discussed #MeTooSTS at lenght with a non STS-related senior researcher and their point was that a lot has to do with prevention and senior scholars in power actively and continuously sensitizing themselves regarding power imbalances and intersectionality. 1/3
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Show threadAnja KleinNov 28, 2022
@i_ngli
It is a problem in academia that leadership training is not required to get to these positions and I think these + supervision should be mandatory. This is the “start with oneself” approach. The other part is to actively speak out against tolerating abuse (so that people and younger scholars who may depend on you can hear you!),... 2/3
Show threadAnja KleinNov 28, 2022
@i_ngli
... to create pathways for feedback and criticism that maintain anonymity (if necessary) and stop hiding behind younger scholars who address these issues. 3/3