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Science and sexism: In the eye of the Twitterstorm

Nature volume 527, pages 148–151 (2015)Cite this article

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Social media is shaking up how scientists talk about gender issues.

When Fiona Ingleby took to Twitter last April to vent about a journal’s peer-review process, she didn’t expect much of a response. With only around 100 followers on the social-media network, Ingleby — an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Sussex near Brighton, UK — guessed that she might receive a few messages of support or commiseration from close colleagues. What she got was an overwhelming wave of reaction.

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Morello, L. Science and sexism: In the eye of the Twitterstorm. Nature 527, 148–151 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/527148a

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