"It took her nearly two decades to find a permanent academic position. She found occasional work as a visiting professor, filling in for someone on leave for a year or two. She earned grants to fund her research... but she was often living on unemployment benefits" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s...

This is an important series of interviews by Prof. Gita Chadha. Continuation of the series on women faculty at @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social. Gita is a sociologist archiving these important conversations. youtu.be/Jh0_fA3WIgc?...

📺The recording of last week's discussion is now available to view. Thanks for following this series! Hope to be back with more soon... youtu.be/kx3lcJZu2jM

Meet the panellists! Here's your last chance to register for this discussion with @stemthegap about their fascinating work looking at their institute through a sociological lens. 👋🏾Let us know you are interested at bit.ly/humaniities 9 May, 2025 at 4PM

⌛️To close out the mini-series where we 'gazed' at the IITs through a humanities & social sciences lens, we are hosting a live online discussion with the folk at @STEMthegapindia Yes, it's free to attend! ✍🏾Register at www.bit.ly/humaniities to receive an invite.

⛹🏿‍♀️"the built environment of the institute nudges women to keep to academic practices, even as it lets the men flit between academics, recreation, and sports." The latest in our #HumanIITies series thelifeofscience.com/2025/03/20/t...

A glimpse into how space, layout and infrastructure in an engineering institute produces different experiences for its male and female students. Part of our #HumanIITies series. thelifeofscience.com/2025/03/20/t...

We've all heard about the supernumerary scheme at the IITs, but how successful has it actually been, what is its origin story & where to from here? @STEMthegapindia answers these with 1st hand examples from IIT Delhi. #HumanIITies thelifeofscience.com/2025/03/12/i...

7 years since launch, the supernumerary scheme to boost % of women at IITs remains understudied & misunderstood. STEMtheGap at IIT Delhi has analysed the scheme's working & the experiences of women in an IIT campus in its wake. An explainer. #HumanIITies thelifeofscience.com/2025/03/12/i...

The Holberg Prize committee making a statement - a good choice too. Especially in relation to what's happening in the US and at Columbia... #STS #histstm #postcol

What do Fields Medallists Maryam Mirzakhani and Vaughan Jones have in common? Joan Birman! On International Day of Mathematics, better known as #PiDay here's a replug of our story about this hidden figure in maths, who will turn 98 years old this year❣️ thelifeofscience.com/2024/06/08/j...

"Representative share of women should be made mandatory in decision-making bodies related to strategy resource allocation, talent management, and career progression across organisations in the science sector." - Soumya Swaminathan in a #IWD2025 @htTweets opinion piece.

How to keep more women in research. Ahead of International Women’s Day, four female researchers (incl. @kimholzmann.bsky.social, @aislingbrady.bsky.social and @mbigoni.bsky.social) discuss the barriers and opportunities they have experienced. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...

”Constantly, I’ve been trying to do things at IIT Delhi without rejecting the institution as such.” LabHopping’s month-long special series #HumanIITies kicks off with this interview of sociologist Ravinder Kaur by Aashima Dogra. Do read. thelifeofscience.com/2025/03/04/r...

First up, an interview with Ravinder Kaur whose sociological work at IIT Delhi has directly shaped at least one national policy and should inspire our other STEM institutes to take similar cold, hard looks at themselves 👀 #HumanIITies thelifeofscience.com/2025/03/04/r...

Just in time for #InternationalWomensDay2025 but too impatient to wait... All this month, we have for you enlightening & introspective stories that view IITs in a way we rarely get to. #HumanIITies a special series in collab with the folk at STEMtheGap.

Just finished Invisible Women by @ccriadoperez.bsky.social, a powerful investigation into the gender & sex data gaps that impact every level of society. You think you're aware of the problem (at least I thought), but it's so much worse than you ever imagined. More significant than ever.

My friend Babita Paudel has been featured in Nature. She is paving the way for Nepalese women in STEM. Go Babita! doi.org/10.1038/d415...

Written for all who mentor or coach in universities, this book addresses a critical question: how can mentoring and coaching conversations be effective and accessible ways to support researcher and academic development? #ResearchCulture #ResearcherDevelopment blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

A fascinating 2023/24 study of publishing timelines over 140,000 academics in STEMM showing discipline & country-specific attrition of academic careers from the publication of first paper. The probability of continuing after 19y just 38-43%. Interactive maps at: public.tableau.com/app/profile/... 🧪

A study of 86,000 scientists shows only 26% of women continue publishing after 19 years vs. 36% of men. Not "giving up"—many shift to impactful careers. But academia still isn’t built to support women long-term. #WomenInSTEM #GenderEquality #Science www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"The journey toward gender equality in STEM is ongoing, but the steps we take today will shape a better future for generations to come. ...we not only enhance the opportunities for women but also enrich the entire STEM community" #WomenInSTEM theceomagazine.com/business/inn...

Disappointing new study showing - once again - that women are leaving research careers at far higher levels than men If you're interested to read about strategies to reverse these types of curves, check out our recent #Cell perspective- link below ⤵️ #WomeninSTEM 👩‍🔬👩🏾‍🔬🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“Women are asked more questions during a seminar and the questions asked of women presenters are more likely to be patronizing or hostile. These effects are not due to women presenting in different fields, different seminar series, or different topics…” www.nber.org/papers/w28494

Yearly reminder to those writing letters of recommendation: Do not comment on a woman's smile in your letter! Please, use one of the gender bias calculators every time. Super quick and easy way to check your bias www.tomforth.co.uk/genderbias/ slowe.github.io/genderbias/ #ffs #WomenInSTEM

#Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 2

After a painstaking process of sifting through 18,000+ studies for potential eligibility, we synthesized: -145,000+ children -33 nations -98 studies -40+ years of research For fellow academics and researchers out there, here's the abstract of our key findings (there's a lot to unpack!).

'women leave academia overall at higher rates than men at every career age, in large part because of strongly gendered attrition... ...women leave or consider leaving because of workplace climate more often than work-life balance' New study: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #womenInStem #PalAss24

The science behind winning a Nobel prize? Being a man from a wealthy family: "A lot of talent is wasted in a world where more than half of laureates come from households in the richest 5%" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #WomeninSTEM #NobelPrize #Feminism #Science #Chemistry #Physics #Biology

I wrote this a while ago to cover this exact thing and to make junior colleagues feel better when things don't work out... www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/guest-blog-t...

I participated in a faculty panel a few weeks ago in which senior (ahem) faculty gave advice on careers in academia by pretending luck had very little to do with our success. One piece of advice riled me up, in which it was argued that a reason for their success was their ability to say no. 1/

"Women full professors are 19% more likely than men at the same career stage to leave academia, as compared with 6% for women assistant professors and 10% for associates."

When people say something to make you angry. Listen, use it and move on. Rejections: jobs, papers: are part of the journey. Know when to drop a project, discuss with PI & others. Panel discussion Mario de Bono, IST Austria #EMBOneuropeptides @embopress.org

On THE Campus: Women in academia are promoted at far lower rates than their male peers and are under-represented in senior positions. To fix this, universities will need to embrace systemic change, says Rachael Jefferson @charlessturtuni.bsky.social #AcademicSky #EduSky

UC’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program hailed as a national model for faculty inclusivity - www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/ucs-pos...

Reading the paper in Cell about how to close the scissor plots in gender representation at senior academic positions, I feel just a touch of pessimism. Having reached a level of seniority (middle management) I didn’t think I ever would, I read these great ideas wanting more, much more /1.

We had heard about the challenges posed by motherhood within academia, but what about the previous stage? @ecfreewoman.bsky.social & I wrote our story for @science.org on how the academic system makes it almost impossible for women to even plan for a family ❤️‍🩹: www.science.org/content/arti...

In this Review, Cheryan et al. describe how access, masculine cultures & positive experiences come together to shape women's participation in STEM fields and therefore explain gender disparities 🚨FREE🚨to access until Dec 2! go.nature.com/4fRjkdb #psychology #psychscisky

This table highlights #challenges & some #solutions: - Parental leave support to hire a technician - On campus childcare - Grants for transition to independence - Transparent faculty hiring procedure - Training to avoid implicit bias - "Help platform" to counteract harassment - & much more.. 5/

Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️ So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality? We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary #WomeninSTEM www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 🧵 1/

Reposting this as there are now 135 amazing scientists on this list, so make sure you follow some of the recent additions (and let me know if you’d like to be added yourself)!

🏆Cancer biologist Bushra Ateeq has won the 2026 TWAS Award in Medical & Health Sciences (shared with Ester Sabino of Brazil). Other Indians to win are mech engineer Suman Chakraborty & physicist Satishchandra Ogale. More on Bushra's work here: thelifeofscience.com/2018/08/02/b...

I started an India Science Sky starter pack for Science folks from/in India. Still very small and nowhere near comprehensive. Please suggest other folks I may have missed. go.bsky.app/AyVeLHA

I couldn’t find a starter pack for POCs working in STEM, so I started one myself - my network here is still small and I didn’t want to assume how people identify, so please reply or DM me if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/BJkKQVR

“There is a cost for success in STEM academia. The few minoritized people who seem to thrive might be doing what psychologists call ‘high-effort coping’” True words by Jean King, and gosh, do I not feel it.

Our new paper shows that men benefit from couples' long-distance joint moves more than women do, in both Germany and Sweden. Is this just b/c men are usually the main breadwinner? No, it's hard to explain the patterns we see w/o a gender norm prioritizing men's careers. www.nber.org/papers/w32970

Looking for inspirational women in neuroscience to follow? We made a starter pack of Stories of WiN interviewees and our team members! 💜 #WomenInNeuro #StoriesOfWiN go.bsky.app/PCteLM8

Congratulations to our co-founder, @cprofaci.bsky.social! This is so well deserved 💜 The Stories of WiN team is so proud of you!

Number of women speakers: 4/17 Number of Indian women speakers: 3/14 Any ideas on who the organizers are? Hello @EMBO ! Can you please verify that the events supported by you need at least 30% women representation?

Should we be surprised that ChatGPTs and other LLMs quickly devolve into deep sexism? 🤔 0/15 faculty are women at the Wadhwani School of Data Sciences and AI