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#PHYSİCS #STEMToo “Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.” Maya Angelou

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Rollofthedice @hotrollhottakes.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
well, holy shit. www.anthropic.com/news/fable-m...
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Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
The US government has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 13/06/2026
It seems suddenly relevant to repeat this: we should be building lots of little, independent, community-controlled and open alternatives to Big AI.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
A federal judge just ordered the Trump administration to reinstall exhibits and signs relating to slavery ​and climate change that it ⁠had removed from ​parks and monuments nationwide
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Trump administration must restore history, science materials at parks, US judge rules
A federal judge ordered the ​Trump administration on ‌Friday to reinstall exhibits and signs touching on ​topics like slavery ​and climate change that it ⁠had removed from ​parks and monuments nationw...
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it. www.nature.com/articles/d41... h/t @maartenp.bsky.social
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Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI
Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 23/05/2026
sometimes I wonder if people in other fields have any clue what we go through as women in computational fields... (graph from: www.npr.org/sections/mon...)
graph from https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-women-stopped-coding showing medicine, law, and physics as lines going up for percentage of women, while computer science goes dramatically down from the 1980s roughly
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Reviewers in two groups were given identical resumes for Emily Clarke and James Clarke and told they had used AI. Emily's was 2x as likely to raise doubts about competence. "She can't even write a CV herself." But James "just needed a bit of help." fortune.com/2026/05/10/i...
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AI generated identical resumes for a man and a woman: Hers was more likely to be labeled 'weak,' while his got a 97% approval rating | Fortune
“If people believe they will be judged more harshly for using AI, they are less likely to adopt it—regardless of their capability."
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
A response that just floors me every time is "the anti-ai movement is ableist." Do you see those kinds of posts? After all the eugenics coming out of the mouths of AI evangelists, treating AI as a boon to the disabled is just...I can't tell if it's AI-driven delusion, stupidity, or paid propaganda.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
AI boosters are infiltrating our journal editorial boards and I am deeply worried. We urgently need more Critical AI Literacy for Psychologists.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
"Fake citations have turned into a nightmare for research librarians, who by some estimates are wasting up to 15 percent of their work hours responding to requests for nonexistent records that ChatGPT or Google Gemini alluded to." open access link: archive.ph/qt59c 2/🧵
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AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Good decision and statement! 👏👏 "(...) preserving the integrity and reliability of the ACL proceedings is our responsibility and these measures are necessary to uphold the standards of our community and to ensure that the work published remains a credible resource for future scientific inquiry."
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ACL Statement on Desk Rejecting Papers with Hallucinated References
Official website for the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 14/05/2026
Published with some minor changes! Please share widely. 😊 Guest, O., Suarez, M., ... & van Rooij, I. (2026). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Digital Culture & Education, 16(2), 85–118. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Journal: www.digitalcultureandeducation.com/volume-162
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Volume 16.2 — Digital Culture & Education (ISSN: 1836-8301)
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 14/05/2026
Please journals, do the same.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 13/05/2026
And the tech companies wonder why people hate them so much.
Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents have to find a new power source after their energy source looks to redirect lines to data centers
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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Meanwhile the ACM Digital Library is creating AI “podcasts” of papers with no author approval that of course contain inaccuracies (including e.g. misgendering authors) I don’t care about copyright. Legal /= ethical & academic institutions are embarrassing themselves www.404media.co/asu-atomic-a...
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University Professors Disturbed to Find Their Lectures Chopped Up and Turned Into AI Slop
ASU Atomic, a new tool in beta at Arizona State University, takes faculty lectures and chops them into extremely short clips, that AI then attempts to turn into learning materials.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
It is really this easy. Take any *cognitive capacity* X. For instance, X = reasoning, learning, communicating, summarizing, reading, writing, etc. If any one asks: Can an LLM do X? You can answer: “No, LLMs cannot do X, because X is a cognitive capacity and LLMs have none” LLMs are decoys.
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Grifters who Run Universities 1 Former ANU Vice Chancellor ran major cost-cutting program Hired close friend with no qualifications as Prof in Cyberbetics Resigned with > 400k A$ payoff Returned to ANU as Prof Now suspended for serious misconduct www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/educati...
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Katy Milkman @katymilkman.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I'm co-organizing a free, 2-day Zoom workshop from the NAS & hope you'll consider attending! 📅 April 23-24: Discuss how we can enhance scientific integrity in the social and behavioral sciences REGISTER: www.nationalacademies.org/projects/DBA... PROGRAM: www.nationalacademies.org/cdn/material...
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 11/04/2026
we’ve talked a lot about how AI might con people into believing bad things, but it is sad to think of how it will also make us stop believing in wondrous things too
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
“Feel free to adapt and reuse. No attribution needed (…) If you make an adaption that you also want to share, I’d love to know about it, too.” irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/04/08/r...
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Refusal to Review
I wrote the below email, when invited to review a paper that was partially processed by ChatGPT. As I imagine the email could be useful inspiration for others, I decided to make it available. Feel …
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
No shade to the OP for admitting this, but it shocks me that people my age don’t know this. You fundamentally cannot understand how the world functions, how power works, if you don’t know history.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Totally normal 👀 www.linkedin.com/posts/itsmrm...
Screenshot from part of this LinkedIN post https://www.linkedin.com/posts/itsmrmetaverse_agiskeptics-ai-superintelligence-ugcPost-7445116785474826242-w6GO?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAAAFk0BcBSukv5EZ8IStyE-ugz6Io2JLp0iQScreenshot from https://www.linkedin.com/posts/itsmrmetaverse_agiskeptics-ai-superintelligence-ugcPost-7445116785474826242-w6GO?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAAAFk0BcBSukv5EZ8IStyE-ugz6Io2JLp0iQScreenshot from https://www.linkedin.com/posts/itsmrmetaverse_agiskeptics-ai-superintelligence-ugcPost-7445116785474826242-w6GO?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAAAFk0BcBSukv5EZ8IStyE-ugz6Io2JLp0iQ
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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
We wrote a book about AI, Class, and Capitalism! *Why We Fear AI* argues that, fundamentally, AI is a tool of class war from above, a tool for surveillance, labor control, and wage depression. Get it from your local bookstore if you can! A quick 🧵1/4
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Why We Fear AI: On the Interpretation of Nightmares
On the Interpretation of Nightmares
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Katia Schwerzmann @katschwerzmann.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Consider signing this open letter. We must fight against the auto-destruction of the university as an institution where skills essential to democracy are being learned and practiced: reading, interpreting, writing, formulating research questions that go beyond the normative rationality of LLMs
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 30/03/2026
Reminder to academics in Europe, the union has out backs in principle including @ucu.org.uk in the UK and @fnv.bsky.social in Netherlands because this is a book by @etui.bsky.social @etuce.bsky.social See thread:
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Left: washing machine with the words “Critical Washing” on it

Right: A quote: “"When we critique AI, we should do so with intellectual honesty and in a principled way. Utmost care is needed to avoid ethics washing, greenwashing, and generally — what we dub — critical washing. Critical reflection cannot be reduced to a mere ‘check box’ before unleashing AI technologies in our daily life after all (as has been done in other areas such as vaping and combustion engines). Researching and reflecting on the harms of AI is not itself harm reduction. It may even contribute to rationalizing, normalizing, and enabling harm. Critical reflection without appropriate action is thus quintessentially critical washing.”

—Suarez, Müller, Guest, & van Rooij (2025) https://zenodo.org/records/15677840
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
In other words: "Tobacco company asking smokers what they really hope to get out of smoking.” Read olivia.science/before/ by @olivia.science
Anthropic asked 81,000 people what they want from AI.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 23/03/2026
More recent people are Elgin and Egan which also helps to avoid just reading men too. mitpress.mit.edu/978026203653...
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True Enough
Philosophy valorizes truth, holding that there can never be epistemically good reasons to accept a known falsehood, or to accept modes of justification that ...
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 23/03/2026
Open access: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255160... bsky.app/profile/fran...
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Deflating Mental Representation
Philosophers of mind tend to hold one of two broad views about mental representation: they are either robustly realist about mental representations, taking t...
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 15/03/2026
I wrote something (not directly about AI) on cryptogyny — sorry still depressing, BUT ☺️ I do end on actionable things and some fun examples along the way, such as "Comparing [the 108 women scholars until 1800] with 58,995 [men], we find that they were on average better"‼️ olivia.science/cryptogyny
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Cryptogyny
On the systematic obfuscation of women's contributions.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
📚 Reading Women in Cognitive Science 📚 “Recommendations for readings are welcome, especially in the history of cognitive science (prior to 1950s, and the older the better).” irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/02/15/%...
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📚 Reading Women in Cognitive Science 📚
Occasionally, I make threads on social media about papers and books that I read. It helps me focus and process deeper when I share highlights and thoughts with others. In this blogpost, I compile a…
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 18/03/2026
The wholesale failure of the mainstream so-called "AI ethics" project is because it is instead a successful process of creating industry stooges, who walk amongst us, hollowing out future colleagues and posturing provocatively about the inevitability of the future theintercept.com/2019/12/20/m...
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How Big Tech Manipulates Academia to Avoid Regulation
“AI ethics” is a field that barely existed before 2017. It’s become a Silicon Valley-led lobby to avoid legal restrictions of controversial technologies.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
"Women adopt AI at rates 25% lower than men. This isn’t a guess. It’s the finding of a Harvard Business School meta-analysis examining eighteen studies, over 140,000 participants, across multiple countries." "Every AI Company Is Building a Different Wife" abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built...
Every AI Company Is Building a Different Wife
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
one of many reasons that the organized critique and refusal movement is overwhelmingly led by women (yes including women computer scientists, cognitive scientists, and engineers)
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
📚 Now reading 📚 Cavendish, Margaret (1666). Observations upon Experimental Philosophy. (Edited by Eileen O'Neill, in 2012: www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...). Will be compiling some quotes and thoughts over time. Pin📍or bookmark this thread if you want to follow along. 1/🧵
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Margaret Cavendish: Observations upon Experimental Philosophy
Cambridge Core - Philosophy Texts - Margaret Cavendish: Observations upon Experimental Philosophy
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
'Young people are quickly becoming so dependent on A.I. that they are losing the ability to think for themselves. And rather than rallying resistance, academic administrators are aiding and abetting a hostile takeover of higher education.' Cheery news from Columbia University's Dean of AI. 1/3
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Opinion | A.I. Companies Are Eating Higher Education
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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
I'm pretty sure I know. They aren't. We're not going to really be able to make a lot of progress in dealing with the implications of this tech unless and until we get rid of all this "woo-woo" talk about LLMs. Anthropic pushing this line is PR, unserious.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 04/02/2026
The only surprise is they admit it
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 01/02/2026
more tobacco parallels h/t @lewan.bsky.social > In the 1990s Philip Morris implemented a 10-year “sound science” public relations campaign to create controversy regarding evidence that environmental toxins cause disease. ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10....
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Legislating “Sound Science”: The Role of the Tobacco Industry | AJPH | Vol. 95 Issue S1
In the late 1990s, in an effort to dispute the link between secondhand smoke and lung cancer, Philip Morris initiated a campaign to legislate “sound science.” The campaign involved enacting data acces...
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 05/02/2026
They want to make it so publicly-funded academic knowledge production ends — the core unique role of universities — accidentally or on purpose, they want it to stop... > It’s going to start getting really, really hard to get faculty to do stuff other than show up in their classroom.
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Trans News Network @transnews.network · 06/02/2026
Richard Dawkins. Steven Pinker. Lawrence Krauss. Jonathan Haidt. Robert Trivers. Prominent atheists and scientists who have pushed anti-trans propaganda for years. They all had ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Some received huge research grants and island trips, and all of them benefited from their ties.
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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Are there moral limits to advancing a research career? "Antonio Damasio..the director of USC’s Brain and Creativity Institute approached Jeffrey Epstein in 2013 and asked the convicted child sex offender to fund robotics neuroscience research" #AcademicSky www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2026/02/02/u...
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USC professor asked Jeffrey Epstein to privately fund research in 2013
Emails from Epstein’s inbox show the Brain and Creativity Institute director met with the financier years after his 2008 conviction.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 09/02/2026
It's just statistics repackaged from long ago and it's not useful in this form except for furthering fascism
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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
just going to leave this here academic.oup.com/ej/article/1...
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Publishing While Female: are Women Held to Higher Standards? Evidence from Peer Review
Abstract. Female authors are under-represented in top economics journals. In this paper, I investigate whether higher writing standards contribute to the p
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 10/10/2025
"We document the participation of women in European academia [from the year 1000 to 1800]. A total of 108 women taught at universities or were members of academies of arts and sciences. Comparing them with 58,995 male scholars, we find that they were on average better." doi.org/10.1093/ereh...
table 1 from David de la Croix, Mara Vitale, Women in European academia before 1800—religion, marriage, and human capital, European Review of Economic History, Volume 27, Issue 4, November 2023, Pages 506–532, https://doi.org/10.1093/ereh/heac023
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old uncle BATface @catfacejoe.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
when it's definitely going the way you thought it would
discord research

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
We present a typology of traps to avoid: 1. Believing that AI systems are minds 2. Believing that AI systems are theories 3. Believing that cognitive science can be automated. Learn to recognise and avoid these traps. Failure to avoid leads to numerous problems. 3/🧵
Table 1: Typology of traps, what goes wrong if not avoided, and how the traps can be avoided. Note that all traps in a sense constitute category errors (Ryle & Tanney, 2009) and the success-to-truth inference (Guest & Martin, 2023) is an important driver in most, if not all, of the traps.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 30/12/2025
"Great man theorising requires the (re)orientation of the theory to direct all credit to one person (or a biased subset of a select few) reminiscent of monarchy—far from the pluralistic or meritocratic facade science often hides behind" doi.org/10.1007/s421...
Great Man Theorising
Most of the work on women scientists fits the “history of great men” mold, with women simply substituted for men. Thus, we have many biographies of great women scientists. These biographical studies of women scientists, for the most part, place the achievements of Marie Curie or Rosalind Franklin within the male world, demonstrating that women have, in fact, made important contributions to what has been defined as mainstream science. Yet the focus remains on the woman as exceptional—the woman who defied convention to claim a prominent position in an essentially male world. One of the problems with this approach to history is that it retains the male norm as the measure of excellence.

Londa Schiebinger, 1987, p. 314On the one hand, it is common knowledge that scholarly activities are the fruit of the labour of teams of so-called great men’s students, mentees, collaborators, and partners. While on the other hand, the formal archival record gives a dramatically different account attributing such scientific outputs solely to individual men, and more recently individual people generally. To wit, great man theorising is ‘an important obstacle to building theory’ (van Rooij , 2021; also see van Rooij , 2022). Great man theorists fabricate and/or obscure anecdotal and historical evidence to ensure the credit is directed at the target prestigious figure. For example, Pythagoras is overwhelmingly named and credited, but he had many women disciples, who were philosophers and mathematicians in their own right, whose writings survive to this day, and after his death, Theano (a woman, possibly his wife) took over as head of his academy (Schiebinger, 1987; Wider, 1986). To give another example, Lavoisier, the chemist credited with discovering oxygen, was also a woman: Marie Anne Paulze Lavoisier. She could have been credited jointly with her husband, but was not (Eagle & Sloan, 1998).Great man theorising requires the (re)orientation of the theory to direct all credit to one person (or a biased subset of a select few) reminiscent of monarchy—far from the pluralistic or meritocratic facade science often hides behind—where few are in power and get credit, while many toil unseen (see Birhane and Guest , 2021, for more on how to deal with this). In reality, none of the research would be possible without all the laboratory members and students. Even if (in the unlikely case) the singular so-called great person is indeed generating all the ideas, the mental space they enjoy is only possible by the grace of their students, mentees, and employees.
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
So many prominent Chinese-American scientists whose lives and careers were turned upside down in the first Trump administration. The 5 year retroactive punishment is like penalizing something for an ‘infraction’ which was not even an infraction when the action occurred. How does this make sense?
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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Israel becomes the first country in the world to ban the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders. Let that sink in. File under "Things you do when you are committing genocide"... www.nbcnews.com/world/israel...
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