THREAD: let’s have a wee chat about academic bullying and twitter. Shall we start with an exemplum?pic.twitter.com/Y8YOReghcm
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THREAD: let’s have a wee chat about academic bullying and twitter. Shall we start with an exemplum?pic.twitter.com/Y8YOReghcm
First up, the details: senior academic #1 in this scenario is Guy himself. He did not say “don’t be a twat”. He called two graduate students twats directly, without engaging with any of the substance of what they wrote, and via quote tweetpic.twitter.com/Wg8WCr0Lua
Grad student in this scenario was only tweeting “shite,” as Guy puts it, if you think that expressing a desire for less racism is shite (or that not rolling over when a senior academic falls you a twat is shite). (Also he didn’t stop tweeting, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)
Re: Senior academic 2—senior academics, note that current grad students and ECRs have lived their entire adult lives with social media. We *understand* how it works. We can do things like convert PDFs without asking for help, and we *know* that people google us.
Is it possible that those of us who speak out about racism (or misogyny, or homophobia, or, hmm, idk, bullying) don’t actually want to work with team “call grad students twats”?
Also, trust me, seeing a senior academic be SILENT doesn’t make us think that they’re a “top bloke” (I can’t help but notice that the senior academics in this scenario are all dudes). It makes us think that at best they don’t give a crap about other people.
Also, it doesn’t take many senior academics treating me or my friends like shit before I don’t trust them.
Let’s be clear: bullying grad students and ECRs is about power, and control, and about trying to silence our voices. Vague threats about how speaking up about oppression on twitter is going to “tank” our careers is just another part of that, and it’s not going to work.
Tho I will say, since according to this “senior academic” tweeting “shite” has consequences for one’s career, @UniOfYork @UniOfYorkHR @yorkmedieval are you aware that you have faculty behaving like this toward grad students/ECRs? I hope you protect your students!
I informed the head of his dept for the twat comments but evidently that did nothing.
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