#volunteering for ecology fieldwork stuff (which is then required as experience for jobs and stuff) | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

dykegeology · 10 months ago

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Stuff that's like 'we want to increase representation of women + people of colour in science' and it's like yay awesome so you're you're going to do stuff about systemic discrimination, and racist and misogynistic views about only white men being good at academic stuff right??? and they're like 'lol noooo we are just looking at doing more focus on scientific communication rather than maths and programming because everyone knows only white men can do those things, and women and people of colour hate data and love Community' and it's like wow what if I put 10000 funnelweb spiders in your house

#there's a pretty good lgbtq science group here that like. does stuff about how much like networking stuff to get into particularly like #volunteering for ecology fieldwork stuff (which is then required as experience for jobs and stuff)#is really a) often super informal and just people getting picked that the organiser wants to go #which is obviously a massive issue for discrimination stuff #and b) a big issue for people that don't have the time do do that kind of stuff if they're working multiple jobs or also caring for a famil #which impacts people already impacted by systemic inequality more #BUT THE AMOUNT OF STUFF THAT'S LIKE 'WE'RE SUPPORTING WOMEN IN STEM BY DOING LESS MATHS BECAUSE WOMEN CAN'T DO THAT' 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

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