I’ve been sharing canine science at @DoUBelieveInDog since 2012 with the wonderful @DogSpies. It started as a pen pal style blog and grew into an amazing, supportive community of researchers, Sci-commers and everyday doggy folk. It has led to #scicomm opportunities and been fun!
I’ve earned my #SciComm stripes through independent research, being a consumer, watching others, making mistakes, adjusting & trying again. One nice thing the pandemic offered is the chance to do a discounted Grad Cert in #SciComm@ANU_CPAS, learning from @willozap@lindyorthia
This has prompted me to think more broadly about taking #animalwelfare science and sharing it more broadly. To support a community of people to share #science, opportunities & help one another in this space and let more people know our work exists. Cue @YAWScience#scomweb2020
The rest of today I’ll be fine tuning the @YAWScience website for launch. Happy to also chat #scicomm, #animalwelfare#science, #dogs, pandemic lockdown life, or anything else you fancy. I’ll be in and out for a few hours, then back for a solid stint once kiddos asleep.
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2/Our findings suggest that student evaluations of teaching seem to measure *conformity with gendered expectations* rather than teaching quality
A cause for concern given the integration of SET data into performance profiles, and management and organisation of teaching practice
3/Before I go on, in terms of the necessarily binary reporting, it is very important to say here that we recognise the ‘pluralities inherent in gender(s)’ that complicate simple binary approaches to gender (Weerawardhana, 2018, p.189), and we do discuss this in the paper
On important background, in March 2020 the IOC recognised harassment and abuse as a current human rights challenge, and in particular recognised that LGBTQI+ athletes are at “particular risk of harm and structural discrimination”
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The IOC now recognise female eligibility regulation *as an organisational violence issue* and as systemic discrimination
[I'll do another tweet thread on this later, drawing on my own research on this]
I want to address a narrative that we see around women’s sport and inclusion (particularly from those who seek to exclude trans women & women with sex variations from women’s sport), and how this narrative is part of a bigger pattern that functions to keep women small
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I have been hearing more frequently the narrative that women's sport apparently exists as a 'protected category' so that women can win (because, on this account, without it no woman will ever win again)
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This is:
a) *not* the reason why women's sport exists as a category,
and b) it is *not* true that no woman will ever win again.
This narrative is profoundly paternalistic and keeps women small.