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Sam Giles
@GilesPalaeoLab
Fossil fish palaeobiologist | @RoyalSociety Research Fellow | Academic Keeper @LapworthMuseum | #QueerInSTEM | 🏳️‍🌈 | currently mostly migraines |she/her/hers
May 12, 2022 • 18 tweets • 10 min read
A thread of the 'top' universities in #REF2021 ranked by their #GenderPayGap and #EthnicityPayGap. The UK university median gender pay gap is 14.7%; the UK university median ethnicity pay gap is 9%.
#REFresults #REF 1. Loughborough University. This university has a median gender pay gap of 31.3% and a median ethnicity pay gap of 11.1%.

2. University of Exeter. This university has a median gender pay gap of 21.7% and a median ethnicity pay gap of 12%.

#REFresults #REF2021
Jun 4, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Natural history museums and palaeontology are complicit in racism and colonialism. Our discipline was founded by racists, slave owners, looters. We have to acknowledge this in our displays and lectures. Not doing so is covert racism, and keeping silent on this is not enough. George Gaylord Simpson ignored that the original discovers of the some of the first North American vertebrate fossils were Native Americans, giving credit instead to the French expedition leader