I'd also add that many of the things being worked on by this community are implicitly or explicitly intended to promote equality and diversity, to protect vulnerable ECRs, and so on. This goes far beyond the institutionised norms that implicitly tolerates harassment
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But I think we agree! I just don’t think it’s helpful to say that there is a general problem, because then we keep bad actors - which is what we all want to avoid!
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I don't believe it's a few rogue bros. I think toxic masculinity and other toxic behaviours that we see like bullying stem from systemic social issues which intersect with science whether open or not and we need to be vigilant.
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And yes, like with open source and tech generally (if you saw that piece) it's possible for open science to end up less inclusive than the field(s) baseline(s).
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