I didn’t have a single problem in undergrad, and literally my first week of grad school, another student told me I couldn’t do physics because I was a little girl. SO. I hope you have a better experience. The fraction of women in physics drops the higher up you go (grad school, post doc, faculty,) but on the bright…

Please tell me Rand Paul will write another Facebook post about snatching victory from the hands of Gollum.

I’m in astrophysics. Based on my experience with other fields of physics, I would definitely say the latter, but that’s just me.

I’m in astrophysics and everything I’ve heard/experienced directly or through friends has been from other areas of physics. It may be because I’m still early in my career, but I think this is all a good sign that people are coming forward and action is being taken. NASA, AAS - I don’t know if institutions in…

I could say the same about being civil or noticing the gender of a person’s username. Yet, here we are.

Most of these games are intended for young men, not all of them. Loren from the screenshot above has an equal amount of male nudity and is one of the most gay/lesbian-friendly games on Steam.

Not saying I agree to one room for any animal, but the poster never said four.

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There’s too much politics involved to make sure they’re all good at their jobs. I went to grad school in a STEM field, and there was a particular professor who was terrible at teaching and advising, to the point that the grad students more or less blacklisted him. But he earned so much money from research, the…

I was at a large school too, but I only TA’d as a grad student, and there was an open invitation to email me for an appt. They probably felt less comfortable with professors. And most of that was with a difficult class (physics) that had a relatively high failure rate.

I’m always happy to see new studies about this - I’ve wondered for awhile how pronounced the effect is.

I got several visitors, and a lot of them were the more quiet female students. I was always curious if the relative ratio of “drop-ins” was related to the gender of the teacher.

I could see a young person deciding to pay the extra money out of laziness, or to save time. I took a desktop but I ended up carting it around to a few LAN parties.

I’ve been excited to play this game for awhile, but this description of how you solve the puzzles is super confusing.

That was a lot of stuff, but I agree with most of what you said here. (Btw, tone-policing is ignoring a person’s point because of their tone.) I guess it’s just no surprise to me that people are prickly about an issue like this, and prone to watching for attacks. If you weather it and hear them out, it’s the best way…

Are you including the responses to you, specifically? I try to always keep things civil, but those commenters have a point, too. You don’t feel comfortable talking to the women in your life, and you focused on the punishment a guy got for being sexist rather than how it made women feel. When people pointed it out, you…

What you label as “progressive” is practically the definition of feminism, and the pc police is mostly a myth. What happened here is that Jez posted a click-baity article, as they do, and a lot of people didn’t look deeper. That’s a problem with the Internet at large, not the left specifically. Last I checked, a…

Didn’t Jez have a guest article from Hollis once? I’ve been trying to remember where I’ve seen her.

A lot of people are upset about this, but what’s the alternative? Criminal punishment for repeatedly being rude to people? This is not the same thing as guys who threaten physical and sexual violence, and I’m worried those cases will be all the more ignored.

I’m not sure how accurate the game values are. Heroes of Might and Magic seems waaaay easier than Starcraft. Maybe if they’re going by the first games only.