I dunno. I was raped by an ex-boyfriend who put my clothes back on me and pretended like it never happened. Until drunkenly confessing some weeks later. I shorted out pretty hard. I even went out on another date with him (maybe two?) before coming to my senses. If I had been in love with him, or we had been going out…

Amen. The lack of care Jezebel commenters have for disenfranchised women, minorities and poor people is fucking sickening.

Yeah, I'm not seing the outrage. Maybe it's the outlets I read, but I get kind of tired of the 'You will be covered in SHIT and VOMIT, and you will go out with friends in a shit-covered shirt and not notice and they'll ask you to leave the bar because you're covered in HUMAN FECES' articles. And I understand wanting…

And the no-butt cleavage daisy dukes sentiment. I was seriously afraid to sit on things with bare legs when I was in grad school, for fear getting greased with someone's spray-on butt tan.

If Republicans ever have enough political power to abn abortion, they won't. This whole schtick is lucrative for them: they get to stump for 'moral right' (raising a shitload of money), waste time in the legislature and then drain state coffers fighting legal battles over their stupid, and often unconstitutional laws.…

It's pretty awful. And because students are either on the school insurance, a spouse's, their parents, or insurance that they purchased (government grants don't give insurance here ... go figure), the documentation for how to claim their meager benefits is very sketchy. I've been encouraging the women I work with to…

It depends on the institution. A lot of places don't have by-laws that have caught up to this type of threat. Normally, you get a student forwarding you something, and ask what they would like to see happen and what would make them feel comfortable. Usually, that's moving groups. So I let them move, and speak to the…

That's interesting; I admittedly don't think a lot about online learning. Do you feel you've gotten adequate training to manage these types of situations? I was always really bummed out by the resources for behavior management at every institution I've been at.

50:50 on stalking (the f/f I'm not sure was sexual in nature and never heard the follow-up), all three unambiguously sexual advance situations were men.

I could go either way about it. In a decade in higher ed, I've had to intervene and break up lab groups maybe 6 times. Not all the things were sexual, but most involved persistent seuxal advances or borderline stalking behavior. So I can see it happening.

Jesus, I hope she doesn't have to drop the class. This is something the professor absolutely should know how to handle because, in my experience, it's not that uncommon.

At the university where I currently work, grad students don't get anything. They basically have to quit their jobs (and lose their insurance) for the duration of 'leave'. But it stops the clock on your dissertation defense countdown!

I've enjoyed reading her thoughts on not being a parent. I'm kind of excited about this, because I think she'll have interesting things to say on parenthood now that she's made the choice to go that way.

Something tells me the OP has never had something go seriously wrong with a pet. Even though we had well over ten grand in our emergency fund, it's not like we wouldn't miss the five grand we spent when our year-old puppy was mauled by another dog. I don't miss the 22 bucks a month I spend on her insurance, at all.…

Of course. I actually do a lot of teaching, so feel free to get back at me if you ever have questions about nont-traditional academic stuff.

I feel bad for always being the voice of 'write a goddamn letter to SOMEONE', but there you go;)

That's exactly what I said in my comment, wow good job.

PhD biologist, actually. I'm going to give you some info without giving too much, since the exact details of my position are really unique, though the position itself is not. I finished up my PhD a few years back, working with a variety of questions, many relating to 'big data' and extracting biologically meaningful…

The language in the paper is very descriptive to the specific sample, and didn't seem to imply an undue level of conclusiveness. What passages did you find innappropriate?

I mean, I don't disagree that the headline isn't great, but I think the author does a pretty good job of qualifying the results in the text.