...academia often meant relocating, even to find a post doc position. And the whole career process was tough on women - a lot of people were doing long or multiple postdocs before finding faculty positions. So a lot of women left for the private sector.

... were disproportionately women at the time. I don't know if that's still the case, but it was very much true back then, and it wasn't hugely surprising: a lot of them were people who had met spouses in Boston, and those spouses had good jobs, and the academic market was tough, so staying in...

I responded: "when I see some qualified male applicants." The guy looked absolutely floored. So I invited him to sit down and listen to the factors that were making my group so woman-heavy. One was that we hired a lot of newly minted PhDs in life sciences, and the people leaving academia...

Who the heck is Liz Plank?

I was gonna reup this on Christmas Eve but maybe should go early

The thing they never admit is that facts be damned, white men are superior to us in conservative world view, and if they are not ruling over us all, something has gone wrong and must be avenged sevenfold. It would go so much faster if they would.

LOL

And I am including myself in this because I was frankly on the verge of The Poster's Madness myself yesterday morning and touching some grass was the only thing that kept me from saying things I would have regretted to nice people.

nonwhite couple living among neighbors who can levy $650 fines for purely subjective reasons (and presumably those fines become liens) for what they do with their private property. Uh huh.

I wonder why the war on Christmas people haven’t stepp— oh that’s why.

When mediocre children of the lower 1% have been told they didn't get the job because of affirmative action b/c their parents would call the mods if the truth - they're just not very good - came out.