this post was submitted on 14 Mar 2025
1404 points (98.7% liked)

Science Memes

13430 readers
3147 users here now

Welcome to c/science_memes @ Mander.xyz!

A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.



Rules

  1. Don't throw mud. Behave like an intellectual and remember the human.
  2. Keep it rooted (on topic).
  3. No spam.
  4. Infographics welcome, get schooled.

This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.



Research Committee

Other Mander Communities

Science and Research

Biology and Life Sciences

Physical Sciences

Humanities and Social Sciences

Practical and Applied Sciences

Memes

Miscellaneous

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 77 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

For anybody having difficulty reading the text:

Anti Acknowledgements

There have unfortunately also been people who have been less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, because I know I am not unique in this experience.

No thank you to the physics study association that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a 'stripper name' within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of "computer girl". No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to 'apologise' months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so "no hard feelings remain hopefully". And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was "surprising" that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with "you should consider it". No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists "don't know how to design an experiment". No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the executive board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up to a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted.

I wish I could tell you this has all made me stronger somehow but in reality it has only shattered my confidence. You have made me feel like I do not belong in science and I cannot forgive you for that.

-Rachel

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

You're welcome! 🙂

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Dammit. Should have checked the comments first.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Because I squinted my way through the image first. I should have read the comments first.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah. We had to do that kind of too, so we decided to type it all up. Opened up a notepad like program and wrote every single thing in the image, then went back to check for mistakes we made. We missed a few but the browser's spell checker picked them up thankfully 🙂

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's greatly appreciated, even though I derived no benefit. You make lemmy better.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Thank you. We try!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Hero.

I love everything about how she's calling out the culture in her realm of academia and casting it in Stone by being the first pages of her book.

Sucks it all happened. But proud to have it justly put on blast.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Absolute legend

[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Bravo to the exceptional bravery on display here. I'm sure the majority of PhD graduates, including myself, wish they'd had the gumption to name and shame the suppressing factors contributing to a toxic academic environment. Reading this makes me kind of appreciative that my troubles were only administrative mismanagement and an inexperienced supervisor.

Also what the hell is up with TU Delft? It's only partway through March and this is the second time this year that I've seen a PhD candidate publicly call out the institute.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The amount of dudes in this comment section who really aren't getting it is astounding...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

is it not normal to assign stripper names to all the women you want to have sex with?

/s

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago

Holy shit. Get em.

[–] [email protected] 117 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Normalise this. In the past women would have been accused of being unprofessional to have called men out like this. That's the only reason why every woman doesn't do it.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago

normalize it to the point that the anti-acknowledgements name names

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This sounds like the University of Ottawa. Watching physics professors sexually harass the few women in our class was disgusting.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Start creating a list of them...

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The university does this actually. It’s called the faculty list of tenured professors.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago

Unfathomably based.

[–] [email protected] 141 points 4 days ago (4 children)
load more comments (4 replies)
[–] [email protected] 100 points 3 days ago (14 children)

Shoutout to the physicists dismissing biologist experiment design as a whole instead of across sexual or gendered lines.

load more comments (14 replies)
[–] [email protected] 74 points 3 days ago (11 children)

Fuck these misogynistic pigs, idiots like these need to be called out more often. It's too bad she couldn't give names out and completely humiliate and ruin them.

load more comments (11 replies)
[–] [email protected] 146 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (7 children)

Name dropping TU Delft is surprising to me! ETA: found more info here, but not about the lawsuit piece.

https://delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/a-no-thank-you-to-the-person-who-assumed-i-was-the-coffee-lady

load more comments (7 replies)
[–] [email protected] 73 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I appreciate her telling it like it is and not bowing to a pressure to please.

Found an article speaking more about it, if anyone is curious about the context/her work.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

can't wait to experience that myself!! 🥰

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago

Does anyone have info about the lawsuit

[–] [email protected] 87 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Fucking relatable.

No thank you to the hundreds of years of chemist men taking credit for women's discoveries.

No thank you to the old white Persian man gate keeping chemistry from Ukranians and older women in my class.

No thank you to the sexist math book author who used shoeless women in a kitchen as a word problem example.

No thank you to Amazon for banning my 15 year account for calling the sexist math book author out in reviews.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Reminds me of Sabine Hossfelder, a physicist, who had made some similar experiences.

https://youtu.be/LKiBlGDfRU8

Proof that educated people can still be immensely stupid and be utter human trash.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 days ago (6 children)

It's sad that she decided to channel her experience into transphobia, as if punching down will somehow make up for all the punches she got.

load more comments (6 replies)
load more comments (3 replies)
load more comments
view more: next ›