@haroldpollack @DinaPomeranz @priyavshan @TrevonDLogan @dynarski @causalinf I find myself thinking back to my first year in graduate school, when someone in authority—I think is was department chair Mike Spence—said: "When you are a TA, never hit on the undergrads. It is unfair to them. They cannot know whether you just find them cute or whether you 1/
@haroldpollack @DinaPomeranz @priyavshan @TrevonDLogan @dynarski @causalinf are trying to extort sex from them by withholding the teaching, advising, mentorship that is their due. Moreover, your knowledge of your own psychology is so poor that not only can they not know, you cannot know either. Just don't do it." That is not a hard concept to grasp. 2/
@haroldpollack @DinaPomeranz @priyavshan @TrevonDLogan @dynarski @causalinf That is something that should be obvious to everyone who ever finds themself in some position of authority or influence. It is trivial to recognize that, as it is trivial to recognize that there is a point at which you cannot be just one of the guys-and-gals no matter how much 3/
@haroldpollack @DinaPomeranz @priyavshan @TrevonDLogan @dynarski @causalinf you would like to.
And yet we see this. We must have _a lot_ of this—given how little of it becomes public...
I have only run into it once in my career: when I was parachuted into a Ph.D. committee at the last moment because Jeff Sachs's wife had discovered his advisee- 4/
And yet we see this. We must have _a lot_ of this—given how little of it becomes public...
I have only run into it once in my career: when I was parachuted into a Ph.D. committee at the last moment because Jeff Sachs's wife had discovered his advisee- 4/
@haroldpollack @DinaPomeranz @priyavshan @TrevonDLogan @dynarski @causalinf mistress and he had pulled her funding. And just now there is Nezar al-Sayyed, with whom I have served on many committees, had many excellent conversations, and learned a lot from. How many people I have brushed by in my career have done equivalents that I know not of? 5/END
