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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (2 children)

For the number of times women were straight up erased from their scientific achievements I think we can keep choosing them to represent the team for a bit.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This. Men got so angry when this story dropped and took personal offense to the fact a woman did something important and valuable. The amount of times women have had their work stolen and taken credit for by some bro far outweighs the recognition.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Or maybe attribute everyone equally - regardless of gender / sex, since that doesn't matter to what they do? You don't fix injustice with more injustice by skipping the contributions of other teams and only singleing her out.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Science is teamwork, but the contribution of different team members is usually not all the same. There's no way for us to know who did most of the important work. We have to put trust in the team that they chose their representative fairly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You replied to the person explaining this and ignored all of it - she was one out of 3 teams, each using different methods to arrive at the same conclusion. They simply made a photo of her when she got a result and was excited. They didn't "choose a representative". She said "everyone deserves the credit". So why are you pushing this, instead of saying "all the teams deserve credit and this is a cool photo"?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I do think the other teams deserve credit as well, just like her team does. I thought it was discussed whether it was right for her to represent her team.

Also, the fact that there were 3 teams doesn't mean we cannot celebrate the happiness of one of their leaders.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm fine with this.

As long as the team gets recognition in the more formal documents then let the media have whoever they'd like.

It's like doing set up for a show. Let the headliner be the focus but acknowledging the people who made it happen is really nice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Definitely, I've not heard of any shenanigans with their paper. So they still get credit. It's just not a media headline.