Geerte Slappendel
@geertes.bsky.social
Policy advisor and researcher on EDI in biomedical sciences. Knits her way through meetings.
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esp in light of this recent research, I just want to recognize the significance of you succeeding anyway, despite this awful barrier. www.nber.org/papers/w34456
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November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
esp in light of this recent research, I just want to recognize the significance of you succeeding anyway, despite this awful barrier. www.nber.org/papers/w34456
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“Why do women, especially women of color leave physics?”
Oh I dunno maybe because you do have to be fucking crazy on a level to put up with this shit for your entire career and not walk away bsky.app/profile/chan...
Oh I dunno maybe because you do have to be fucking crazy on a level to put up with this shit for your entire career and not walk away bsky.app/profile/chan...
In the meantime, he got the professional networking opportunity, and I didn’t. And Lawrence Krauss gets to write nasty things about me in the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times gets to write about me like I’m a crazy queer bitch who hates men.
That’s the other side of these emails
That’s the other side of these emails
November 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
“Why do women, especially women of color leave physics?”
Oh I dunno maybe because you do have to be fucking crazy on a level to put up with this shit for your entire career and not walk away bsky.app/profile/chan...
Oh I dunno maybe because you do have to be fucking crazy on a level to put up with this shit for your entire career and not walk away bsky.app/profile/chan...