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Bianca de Haan
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology & cognitive neuroscientist with a passion for attention (+ archery, metal, singing, and my cat). Opinions solely my own. She/Her
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B&SPlease enjoy these ducks changing their minds
Scrümbled Eggs 
All jokes aside, remember what Christmas is really about, people.
Rich people being terrorized by spectres until they agree to pay their employees a living wage.
Tony PenninoTell your department chairs, your deans, your provost. #academia #AcademicMastodon #academicchatter @academicchatter
Thankfully, Covid symptoms are all gone now
Alex Danvers@erinnacland @academicchatter if someone is publishing one paper every 5 days or less, then we know that "publishing a paper" doesn't mean just one thing. There is no way that authors could be doing the amount of work a typical grad student does to get a publication every 5 days. Instead, they are putting their names on the publications of all the papers coming out of a lab group + a larger network of collaborators. Sometimes this involves little more than reading over & approving a draft.
Kit Yates"Forget the work-from-home revolution or quiet quitting: The Covid-19 pandemic’s biggest impact on the US labor market will be as a mass disability event. It’s a shock that the economy is not well prepared to handle."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/mass-long-covid-disability-threatens-the-economy/2022/12/07/e2a70158-762f-11ed-a199-927b334b939f_story.html
#CovidIsntOver
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/mass-long-covid-disability-threatens-the-economy/2022/12/07/e2a70158-762f-11ed-a199-927b334b939f_story.html
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The Duality of XanNormalise being wrong. Normalise admitting to mistakes and changing your opinion as you learn more. It's how we learn. It's part of being human.
Prof Christina Pagel#Covid
Essentially, we're hardly vaccinating now, we're def in another wave, as well as covid, flu hosp admissions increasing rapidly & NHS strain still severe.
If eligible, get your covid & flu jabs & don't mix if you're sick (regardless of whether it's covid - no one wants your cold or flu either).
Mark Rubin“Reviewers attribute independence more ‘naturally’ to men than to women.”
New study conducts qualitative interviews with grant reviewers and finds that they are biased against women when evaluating the independence of early career researchers.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-022-00563-w
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The gendered nature of independence in the context of research funding and excellence - SN Social Sciences
The notion of junior scientists’ independence has increasingly become relevant in the evaluation of scientific excellence. In this paper, we deconstruct independence—as an element of excellence—in the context of reviewing a prestigious European Research Grant. Conducting qualitative interviews with this grant’s reviewers, we reveal five different dimensions of how reviewers construct the notion of independence: two dimensions are directly linked to the applicants’ relationship to their supervisors: reviewers were talking about independence as a result of emancipation from the applicants’ (former) supervisor and as a concept that researchers need to negotiate with them. Beyond, three topical dimensions of independence could be identified, referring to originality, networks and mobility. We further show that gender is deeply inscribed into these dimensions, especially when reviewers use their own biographical background for assessing the independence of an early career researcher. These experiences are subject to gender bias through (i) individual stereotypical pictures of masculinity and femininity and (ii) the specific norms of scientific disciplines and structures. These individual gendered constructions of independence might give space to gender bias in the assessment of independence and thus of excellence.