Cheering Women On It's been wonderful to have so many women to cheer on lately, with sunshine and exuberance pouring out from the Kamala Harris campaign and the Olympics. All that accomplishment could even rise above the head-spinning levels of racism, misogyny, sexism, and transphobia it triggered. Most of the backlash is what you would expect, but something about transphobia used to perplex me.
Checking in on the pandemic's impact on women in science....with real relief at what I found! Science's diversity problem could have gotten a whole lot worse. It was a heavy, heavy lift : We should applaud people's progress accordingly! My latest post @PLOS :verified: #WomenInSTEM #Covid image