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Papers are routinely credited to their first author. Everyone understand the co-authors also took part. She also clearly credits the rest of the team in the pos
by scott_s 8y ago
Papers are routinely credited to their first author. Everyone understand the co-authors also took part. She also clearly credits the rest of the team in the posted BBC article.
- cs02rm0 8y agoShe does clearly credit the rest of the team, which is admirable as she's also clearly been key to this piece of work. Somehow though my facebook feed is already littered with images saying she was single-handedly responsible and no one's talking about her. https://bit.ly/2Gkfk7f https://bit.ly/2Gkfk7f
- pbhjpbhj 8y agoNow we just need the BBC not to wet themselves because a woman #gasp# can do science.
- black_puppydog 8y agoI guess that's gonna happen once these things become so commonplace as not to qualify to be "news". So... they're working on it I guess :D To clarify: I don't doubt women can do science, just empirically, they don't get to do it as often (at this level) as men.
- njepa 8y agoThere is actually nothing really in the BBC story about being a women other than in the context of her getting attention on twitter, but barely that. I think whoever changed the title might have been confused as well. It doesn't refer to woman as gender but woman as subject as in e.g. "the man walked his dog".
- scott_s 8y agoThey are not doing that.
- iron0013 8y agoyou seem pretty eager to get upset about something!