I hear you but may I put in a good word for Steven Universe?

I agree, and I also think it's bad even if the target of the joke is otherwise privileged and/or morally repugnant - what's your feeling there?

This is approximately as mysterious as deeply knotted proteins and probably involves some of the same paradoxes

... Antonymous is in my swipe-to-type dictionary? Guess it's handy for... linguists?

I was pleased to see an antonymous survey from @hhmi-science.bsky.social about mentoring evaluation of my former postdoc advisor, a number of years out. That's one great way to make change - if it's mandatory for the faculty member and the results have real consequences, positive or negative

I just feel sad that there aren't better structural approaches to reduce bad behavior, mitigate the harms, and help people heal and recover

It's all a bad scene. I'm glad people do speak up quietly and personally to the extent they feel safe. It definitely does good. It's not a great stance to put the burden on survivors of those situations to fix them or save others from them

Maybe we have a somewhat more widespread, hierarchical, and connected mentoring and professional network structure than some other areas, but maybe that's pretty common too

All probably mostly the same familiar issues for any kind of abuse or harassment in a professional setting. Not sure science is that unique. And some of the kinds of bad behavior that go on in labs are the same ones that happen in other spheres too

...which looks like opening up old wounds, yours and likely others' -- maybe you should get all their consent first? -- when maybe by this point you feel like you've finally gotten past everything yourself and don't have to feel bad about it anymore!

Even in the best case scenario where your career trajectory is least subject to that mentor's future influence, it feels like there's real risk of being judged by others for impugning them without sufficient cause, unless you really go all in and make a very clear and fierce case...

It is interesting to think about how this is different depending on whether you have a basically supportive/functional or a basically abusive/dysfunctional advisor - besides that second case being overall worse, I think the emotional stress is distributed very differently

a-NO-ther RING was MADE

"Daylight Wasting Time" is more like it

In my first Editorial as Associate Editor for @conphysjournal.bsky.social, we help combat this lack of training by providing some "tips and tricks" for writing constructive peer reviews, based on our collective experiences as editors for multiple scientific journals.