Prof. Anima Anandkumar

Okay so this is "interesting".... It highlights a lot of arguments brought by people that complain about gender equality, diversity movements and positive action. It would be worth for @CERN to release a rebuttal of these arguments to explain why they are short cited.. 1/https://twitter.com/drc83/status/1046447853739159552 …

And do not capture the whole cultural context that we live in. For example saying that the lack of diversity in science is due to a non-uniformity in ability across gender (or ethnicity) is just wrong. You cannot ignore the socio-economic contexts that pushes certain members 2/

of the population to favour certain disciplines. 3/

Also stating that "smart" people don't have as much implicit bias would deserve a citation or two to reputable studies (if they can find it... Which I doubt) because it seems like an easy cop out to say they are unbiased and just looking at the data. 4/

This is seriously an issue with scientists: we need to get over the fact that we are human, we are biased, we need to be able to look at ourselves and our actions critically if we want to better ourselves and make a difference. 5/