Marc Robinson-Rechavi
#WomenInSTEM Emilia Huerta-Sanchez searched for women who are the acknowledgements instead of being authors for contributions which should justify authorship. She's now starting a podcast interviewing women who have been in science for a long time. #SMBE2023
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Show threadAlbert CardonaJul 25, 2023
@marcrr Classic papers by Hubel and Wiesel are notorious in this respect: women in the acknowledgments credited with doing all the experiments.
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Show threadAlbert CardonaJul 25, 2023

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Years ago I made a brief twitter thread about it. Can easily be verified by reading the acknowledgment section of Hubel and Wiesel’s papers in the 60s. Take for example their most cited paper, from 1962 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1359523/

Here, “technical assistance” is doing a lot of work. The pattern repeats in most if not all papers. In modern times likely all these women would have been first and middle authors. The result is they were denied credit to contemporary eyes.
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Receptive fields, binocular interaction and functional architecture in the cat's visual cortex

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