A staff group founded at Cambridge in 2023, supporting members facing institutional retaliation.
Andrew Gelman is Professor of Statistics and Political Science at Columbia University. He’s famous for his book (co-authored with others) on Bayesian Data Analysis. His substack has tackled the emerging scandal at Cambridge University here, comparing it to the Theranos scandal and…
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Sometimes a single post captures, with uncomfortable precision, the mix of emotions many of us are struggling to articulate. It reflects not only the depth of feeling across our community, but also our grief that something…
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The death of Dr Jane Ying Wu, covered in Nature Careers (2026), is a profound tragedy. Following an administrative investigation at Northwestern University that resulted in the loss of her laboratory and funding, she was left…
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Recent disclosures in The Times and Daily Telegraph concerning Simon Goldhill must have come as little surprise in King’s College or the Classics Faculty at Cambridge. His aggressive pattern of conduct extended over many years —…
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Following last week’s diary entries on the impact of bullying on a young academic, this week another victim from Cambridge University steps forward to speak out. In this instance, the mistreatment of the early career researcher…
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Too often, the voices of those who have suffered bullying in Universities go unheard. Their pain is hidden behind a culture of fear and silence. Their experiences are dismissed by the very systems and people who…
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Appointment committees are a common arena in which bullying can occur in academic life. In hiring, scholarly excellence competes with baser emotions like: “He’s my collaborator,” or “She laughed at my conference talk in 2019.” or…
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The 21 Group has been receiving complaints about bullying from staff in UK Universities for over a year. One subject stands out as the worst for bullying and harassment. It is cancer research. We are aware…
