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Mary K. Gaillard, physicist who broke a ceiling in subatomic research, dies at 86

August 1, 2025 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Mary K. Gaillard NYT obituary on August 1, 2025 tells a tale of sexism in the sciences. No Nobel for you young lady, wrong gender. Overcoming discrimination in a mostly male preserve, she did groundbreaking work that showed experimentalist physicists where and how to look for new particles.

Posted in: Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Feminism, Obituaries, Science Tagged: Bruno Zumino, CERN, discrimination, experimentalist physicist, female physicist, Fermilab, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Mary K. Gaillard, National Science Board, University of California Berkeley

Use of ‘sexist’ and ‘racist’ in the New York Times increased over 400% since 2012. Why?

February 26, 2022 by sergneri Leave a Comment

In The Guardian: Use of ‘sexist’ and ‘racist’ in the New York Times increased over 400% since 2012. Why? We analyzed 27m news articles published between 1970 and 2019. Our study reveals a substantial shift has occurred, and it may have important implications. by David Rozado, Musa al-Gharbi and Jamin Halberstadt Contemporary US media workers … [Read more…]

Posted in: Ethical and green living, Politics, Racism, Science, Thinking about, Trump Tagged: #MeToo, antisemitism, discourse, discrimination, gender, homophobia, Islamophobia, prejudice, print media, race, sexism, sexuality, Television, transphobia, US media, white supremacy

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