Stuck in my mind today. In science/research, we tend to value success & intelligence over trust and relationships. “Hard” skills over “soft” skills (I detest this dichotomy). This continues to deepen inequities & leakage of incredible minds & talent. How can we invoke change?
@queenofpeat I guess I just decided -tho it took awhile- that science would be more impactful if we acted like whole, breathing, loving humans who deciphered data, not neutral dispassionate left-brain automatons. We can make change by modeling it. As everything we know and love is at stake❤️
@queenofpeat We need to get past super chickens in science ted.com/talks/margaret…
@queenofpeat Perhaps the first step is to ditch or revamp different rankings of Unis and scientific institutions - as when there is KPI, people will focus on optimising towards that KPI.
@queenofpeat No bs, no hyperbole,... I have a career "committed to this", actually,... Indeed, "proof", "credential", the "data" "hard Science" needs, what have so many been taught to think & believe was "the real work", eh? <bow> Many others, but as one "expert in this",... <bow> I'm "here"
@queenofpeat If enough of us aspire to make that change, and I think we should, we need to reimagine our reward system (what counts towards career success) to reflect what we value. We currently do NOT measure the impact of our work because that is hard. We only measure
@queenofpeat We had the question the other day what is the most important thing in a PhD student. For me honesty and trust is way more important than intelligence.
@queenofpeat I feel we got the balance right on our recent @cryoskills course - polar science is as much about good teamwork as it is about knowing the science.