Azhir Mahmood  🚀 🤖 🧬 🧠 🪐

Still can't believe that a *particular* white working class PhD student dismissed that students of colour are less likely to consider academia because... HE happened to have a Muslim science teacher. That's it folks, an anecdote is enough to dismiss the representation problem.

Really tired of academics trying to oppose EDI initiatives solely based on what they observe or feel when there's a wealth of literature, opinion pieces and social media posts about it. It's quite narcissistic and a terrible research practice - how can you be an academic?

Wait, what?

This Ph.D. student (at the time) refused to believe that students from ethnic minority backgrounds would have a barrier in seeing themselves as academic careers or scientists because he happened to have a Muslim chemistry teacher. Oh & initiatives for BAME students are racist.