Snark Attack

Scientist, mycologist, evolutionary biologist, turtle enthusiast, atheist, humanist, and MacGyver wannabe.

[Snark Attack @SnarkAttackPlan]

For International Women's Day, I'm finally sharing my story of being bullied out of a PhD. I'm disgusted by the lack of accountability I encountered from people who are supposed to deal in facts.
Including a female dept head & a Title IX coord.

#IWD2021 #ChooseToChallenge

[Harrison H. Smith ✞ @HarrisonHSmith]

I’m not gonna name names, but I was told by someone close to Charlie Kirk that Charlie thinks Israel will kill him if he turns against them.

[Snark Attack @SnarkAttackPlan]

@FranksFiles @Acyn ugh *2021.

[Snark Attack @SnarkAttackPlan]

@FranksFiles @Acyn except on January 6th, 2020, obviously.

[Andrew—#IAmTheResistance @AmoneyResists]

Just a reminder to all Active Duty members of our military including National Guard members:

[Snark Attack @SnarkAttackPlan]

@TheAnnualRant @innobrew @Katy_Brown4 You're missing the part where it was during a question and answer period during a big conference. He took time that was meant for anyone who had actual questions, and for people that might want to collaborate in the future, then used it to denigrate the speaker.

[Snark Attack @SnarkAttackPlan]

@Katy_Brown4 When I refused to stand for it anymore, from a student 2yrs behind me, because I found out he was doing the same gaslighting/negging to other women: I was treated like an unreasonable bully and thrown out on my ass. Good luck.

[Snark Attack @SnarkAttackPlan]

I got this shit from a student two years behind me. He had already had issues with other women in the dept when I tried to get help. I was treated like a bully and thrown out for the symptoms of my anxiety/depression. He couldn't troubleshoot PCR in his 3rd yr, but he's a PhD.

[Katy Brown @Katy_Brown4]

1/ A thread on my recent experience of bullying by a senior academic at a conference, which included him telling me I should be 'ashamed', pointing his finger in my face and calling me a 'disgrace'.

We absolutely must not stand for this kind of behaviour.

[Snark Attack @SnarkAttackPlan]

@MSAFungi @MSAStudents @plantdisease Chris Smyth manipulated Dave -- mostly at my expense -- throughout his entire PhD. I know nobody really cares about women in science, but I won't be around to warn other women about the behavior that derailed my career, so I'm doing it here.

[Snark Attack @SnarkAttackPlan]

@ProfessorFungus Hey! Remember when a male student was harassing and gaslighting me and you let him play you for a fool? I sure do. You flaunted your tenured straight white male privilege in my face while I begged you to confront the evidence and explain where I was wrong.

[Snark Attack @SnarkAttackPlan]

You didn't just fail me as an advisor. You failed to treat me with basic human decency.

I thought considering the possibility you are wrong was part of being a scientist. Obviously not.

You are a coward, an enabler of misogyny, and far from an ally for women in science.

[JAMESON @schnabelhaus]

@AndyKimNJ If this comes as a surprise to any American adult, that is someone who has not been paying attention to politics. Many people have been warning for several years what the right wing extremists are doing. They are NOT "Republicans." The GOP has been taken over by authoritarians.

[Snark Attack @SnarkAttackPlan]

Can we talk a out the fact most anti-abortion rhetoric comes from a church that has done nothing but enable pedophiles?

#RoeVsWade

[Snark Attack @SnarkAttackPlan]

This was the part of my experience as a PhD student in the Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology department at Penn State everyone who could have helped me decided to ignore. I would tag my former department head, Dr. Carolee Bull, but she blocked me. 🙃

[Snark Attack @SnarkAttackPlan]

Too bad there's not really a safe/reliable way to collect any of it without putting people who don't want to be pregnant in an even more vulnerable position.

[Snark Attack @SnarkAttackPlan]

Looks like the United States is about to generate a lot more data on whether or not tear gas causes miscarriages. #RoeVWade #RoeOverturned #RoeVWadeLeak #RoeVWadeprotest

[Snark Attack @SnarkAttackPlan]

We don't have enough evidence to support a link, but it's unethical to study it, so we just have a bunch of anecdotal evidence from various protests in Chile, Beijing, Portland, etc. https://t.co/MPAo6dWZqC

[Snark Attack @SnarkAttackPlan]

If it was fine for a male student to spread lies about me, it should be more than fine for me to spread the truth about how Carolee Bull treats female students when it matters the most. #DontBeACarolee

[Snark Attack @SnarkAttackPlan]

She didn't seem concerned when another student was slandering me, but she sure blocked me quickly when I tried to share my experiences re: her treatment of women in academia. Instead of actually trying to do better or help me rationalize her actions. #DontBeACarolee