Some science twitter highlights #3

Honorary doctorates are awarded to recognize a person's significant contribution to a field without completing usual requirements (eg. PhD thesis). I wonder if more lab managers, lab/field assistants should be considered after years of research and contribution to published work?

— Lee Constable (@Constababble) November 24, 2018

I finally had the time to sit down and read through this entire post and it was amazing. Please, academia friends, read it all the way through. https://t.co/jKY1JKLA6c

— Phoebe Cohen (@PhoebeFossil) November 27, 2018

This thread by NYT reporter Amy Harmon ended up being published in print in the paper:

1. It was for the 40th anniversary of NYT’s Science Times that I looked at #metoo in science this past week. So it was gratifying that several top scientists I talked to credited science journalism with prodding action on sexual harassment. https://t.co/1Aou5UqOtG

— Amy Harmon (@amy_harmon) November 24, 2018

One thing I wish academics talked about more openly: Prestigious institutions are conservative institutions. They may employ some radicals, but these institutions are not going to support anything that causes them to lose their power. They're firmly on the side of the status quo.

— Mar Hicks (@histoftech) November 19, 2018