It's so baked into our field it's hard to even see sometimes. Or maybe it is that the funding incentives had been fairly reasonable until recently ...

I can’t imagine what it was like to be a victim of Hewstone, but I recognise how important this article is for the women he harassed. At the same time, I’m shaken that our community stayed silent for so long. I have deep respect for the women who exposed his wrongdoing.

I know several of the women who were harassed by this guy. They had real courage to testify. He engaged in serious professional retaliation against women.

This needs to end. I've seen how many people curry favor with known sexual harassers and how the worst can still manage to leap from job to job.

I now enough to know that there are more than that, going back a long time. In the aftermath, the institutional response—both from our department and also EASP—was disillusioning.

Ugh, I'm so sorry, Michèle. It took me way too long to understand what was going on.

I was so naive back then. I hope that I would be able to see the signs (that, with hindsight, were absolutely there) today.

No, that's right. Still, it's so important for there to be a public record. Early career scholars and even academic institutions on other continents are often not in the right whisper networks—I know I and my lab mates weren't.

No one at the department or university ever spoke to us about why he "retired" in 2019. Not one word about harassment.

So fucked up. It's been disheartening to learn how many have been affected by his long history of harassment. I only learnt about this at the end of my studies, and only thanks to colleagues who broke the department's request to be silent about it.

Sexual harassment is a scourge to academia and should have no place in our field. That it still does is, in part, because institutions still value academic prestige over the untold harms done to often early career scholars.

I am so grateful to Katherine Griffiths for finally exposing all of this after years of willful cover-up and institutional failure. I know many of us have not been quiet on this in private but it is so important for this to be on the public record.

I view this as something we've all suspected, but the stark detail in this paper is shocking and frankly depressing. We're at the end times of online panel-based survey research.

I know. It's a heavy blow to science (and to our kind of science in particular) that will be felt for years, even if it is all undone.