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🧮📈 Meet Prof Margaret Wu, emeritus statistician @unimelb who works on educational assessment. In the ‘70s Wu worked on the Watterson estimator, a statistical test to evaluate the genetic diversity of a population. New @wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_… #WomeninSTEM
Wu’s contributions to computational biology were unearthed by Emilia Huerta-Sánchez @BrownUniversity and Rori Rohlfs at @SFSU. 😅 #HiddenNoMore
GA Watterson went ahead and published their parameter as a single author publication w/ > 3,000 citations. Wu, who is mentioned in the acknowledgments, was not encouraged to complete a PhD.
Wu went on to have a phenomenal career in educational assessment. She is critical of standardised assessment and has become an advocate for better public understanding of statistics. (aph.gov.au/DocumentStore.…).
Thank you to the UG team who meticulously searched ~900 papers + identified Wu as a repeat contributor 🌈Samantha Kristin Dung, Andrea López, Ezequiel Lopez Barragan, Rochelle-Jan Reyes, Ricky Thu, Edgar Castellanos + Francisca Catalan, the scientific community owe you a drink 🍻
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The @Wikipedia page of Dr Clarice Phelps (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarice_P…), researcher @ORNL, has been nominated for deletion because the references fail to establish notability. 🙏🏽 Please vote en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia… and help improve the biography. #BHM #womeninSTEM
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but there’s relatively little written about her from reliable sources. Idea: universities, learned societies, news websites, start profiling these innovative and inspiring underrepresented minority scientists. It would help the @WikiWomenInRed squad a lot!
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On Friday I spoke at a CERN workshop on gender and high energy physics. I shared the work of @PhysicsNews’ Juno Award, the @1752Group and other evidence-based institutional programs. The head of theory @CERN gave a 30 minute Damore-esque manifesto against #womeninSTEM.
After my talk (indico.cern.ch/event/714346/c…), he told me British undergraduates faced huge debts after their studies because of the amount of money we spend on equality and diversity training. Apparently #womeninSTEM in Italy face no debts or sexism...
Short summary of Strumia’s talk: women aren’t as good at physics as men and they’ve been allocated too much funding/ been promoted into positions of power unfairly. He said this to an audience of early career #womeninSTEM.
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Why do I care so much about getting a copy of #Inferior into all schools? Because I don’t want to just tell girls they can do anything. I want them to read it, be empowered, and join our fight for equality. #thisgirlcan justgiving.com/crowdfunding/i…
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