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🧵 Listed "shitty professors": Nick Longrich @NickLongrich, Alice Gast @Alicegast, Brian Wansink @BrianWansink, Aubrey De Grey @aubreydegrey, Fiona Watt @fionamarywatt, Eric Lander @eric_lander, Nazneen Rahman @rahman_nazneen, Jeremy Hughes @JezHughesCBE
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“I credit him for the career that I have right now. Yes, there is sexism in science. So to have someone like David tell me: ‘You’re good, you’re smart … I support you – I can tell you how much that meant.” Kate Koch, former member of David Sabatini @DMSabatini's lab
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🧵Headlines from David Sabatini @DMSabatini's five year #MeToo saga lnkd.in/p/eDnpCC_X as covered by Nick Paul Taylor, @ky_lahucik @maxonwifi @joshuarhett, Kathianne Boniello, @newsmark02, James Gordon, @meredithwadman @SnoozyWeiss @juliabonavita13 @will_potter @ToriaWrites
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Replying to @AdamRochussen @LocasaleLab
Adam Rochussen it seems you know very little about how academic hierarchy works in cases of research misconduct including bullying or fraud. I am sure that @TheCrick carried out a very low standard investigation with a predetermined outcome that the supervisor is not guilty
🧵 Retraction Watch should look into how Professor George Kassiotis’ supervision over the PhD student Kevin Ng @TheCrick led to the retraction of TracerX study. Should the research integrity investigation have been broader (i.e., looked at all Ng papers)?
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Replying to @timrpeterson @LocasaleLab
I think the take home message relating to David Sabatini @DMSabatini’s quest for redemption is “don’t shit where you eat”
Replying to @BRAINCURES
Fate and the fallen star
Judge rules that two competing lawsuits involving former MIT professor David Sabatini and a female scientist can move forward
Former MIT biologist, who lost positions after engaging in a prohibited sexual relationship, accepts new science job in Prague
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A highlight of some of the #MeToo headlines around David Sabatini @DMSabatini
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Replying to @biogerontology @DMSabatini
Thanks to billionaire Bill Ackman @BillAckman and his wife @NeriOxman @PershingSqFdn and Jan Konvalinka @konvalinka_jan @IOCBPrague, I would say the prominent professor David Sabatini @DMSabatini fared pretty well after #MeToo sexual harassment accusations from Kristin Knouse
Bill Ackman provides fresh start to @DMSabatini.
The @nytimes last March wrote that @BillAckman’s @PershingSqFdn was one of the most pugnacious activist investors, willing to wage noisy public battles against companies to force changes in their strategies
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🧵 For scholars without access to money, or anyone who is emotionally fragile or vulnerable in any way, the path to a victory is almost impossible. It’s hard to experience your own university attacking you, trying to destroy your character and bankrupt you
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🧵 Whistleblowers in university or research institute settings need greater protection. See lnkd.in/deXQi9Qn for a survivor's guide to whistleblowing
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🧵 Should academic misconduct be catalogued? Proposed US database that would require universities to register research fraud and workplace harassment sparks debate @maxdkozlov @Nature
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Replying to @BRAINCURES @NobelPrize
Nobel prize judges quit over handling of sexual misconduct allegations. With seats on the jury intended to be for life, no one has ever technically left the secretive Swedish Academy – but Peter Englund, Klas Östergren and Kjell Espmark have all resigned
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Replying to @LocasaleLab
Why did the Francis Crick Institute @TheCrick’s corresponding authors Kassiotis, Julian Downward and Charles Swanton not respond to Retraction Watch’s @RetractionWatch question on how the manipulation went unnoticed by the other 48 authors on the paper?
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Replying to @SumihaRamendra @RetractionWatch
There are many issues with Kevin Ng’s PhD supervisor George Kassiotis that @RetractionWatch should cover considering that @TheCrick pushed out the whistleblower who raised issues about this professor’s lab management style using a non-disclosure agreement
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🧵Institutions must be willing to remove individuals from leadership roles. Procedures for investigating allegations of bullying, harassment and other misconduct need to be independent, transparent & centred around people’s experiences-Ferhan Sağın @Nature
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Replying to @BRAINCURES @NobelPrize
@minikerri & Chris Ryan @Nature ask How to win a @NobelPrize?
In the entire twentieth century, only 11 Nobel prizes were awarded to women. Since 2000, women have won another 15 prizes.
Almost 54% of all Nobel prizes were awarded to people in North America
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Replying to @BRAINCURES @NobelPrize
We know many women are succeeding and thriving in STEM, but they don’t always get the recognition they deserve. The @NobelPrize sends the wrong message to future generations when they see zero women among the newly named laureates-Gibson, CEO @AWISNational
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🧵 To mark World Suicide Prevention Day I repost an article I wrote about bullycide that accounts for at least 22 preventable children deaths per day. Bullycide often occurs with children who cannot cope with the chronic abuse of bullying. Read on here
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🧵 More than 7,600 researchers in 93 countries who responded to @Nature’s 2020 postdoctoral researcher survey revealed that nearly half of the respondents wanted help for depression or anxiety caused by their work #MentalHealthMatters #MentalHealth
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🧵 #NationalPostdocAppreciationWeek @Nature’s 2020 postdoctoral researcher survey of more than 7,600 researchers in 93 countries revealed that: Nearly half (49%) of 7,600 respondents wanted help for depression or anxiety caused by their work
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🧵Toxic bosses: why do companies protect managers who make working life hell? Bullying, manipulation and intimidation can destroy lives, yet abusive authoritarians continue to rise to the top. How do they get away with it – and can they be brought to heel?
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In relation to sexual harassment here is some of the David Sabatini @DMSabatini "pass the harasser" saga
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🧵 There seems a huge gap between identifying a gene implicated in a disease and actually finding a way to prevent or treat that disease. Is this an efficient model for drug discovery? @eric_lander @NatRevDrugDisc
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#BrokenAcademia #STEMToo
Eric Lander is getting uncanceled. The genomics pioneer left the @WhiteHouse after being accused of bullying. Now, on the verge of his return to the @broadinstitute, colleagues are speaking up for him @goldbergcarey @BostonGlobe
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🧵 Universities UK @UniversitiesUK, an advocacy group for higher education institutions, issued guidance in 2016 for tackling harassment and sexual misconduct, which according to the 1752 Group @1752Group was “only implemented in Oxford last year, in 2025
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🧵 According to a Freedom of Information request made by student newspaper The Oxford Student @TheOxStu regarding sexual misconduct at the university from 2017/18 to 2021/22, there were a total of 12 sexual misconduct complaints against staff @AnveeBhutani oxfordmail.co.uk/news/233414…









