#BropenScience is a serious thing. Open Science is mostly a white, straight, male area. It can be really aggressive, it can be really gatekeepery. But the goal of Open Research is so good, so we all need to help work on this.https://twitter.com/o_guest/status/1144318502175682560 …
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Great term!
@o_guest! I wish I had known it when I first read this: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/18/magazine/when-the-revolution-came-for-amy-cuddy.html … Critique the science, not the person. Let's not have a science version of Gamer-gate.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Yes, indeed. Serious criticism is possible without bullying. But somehow the internet can help make trolls appear even when those criticising are "right". There are always people who prefer to hurt others than have a constructive discussion.
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It was the other day somebody blocked somebody else on their personal Twitter account and even though I bet no specific parties were trolls, trolls magically appeared to make a disagreement very toxic. And I say "trolls" as loosely as possible, they are probably scientific peers.
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The medium matters, the context matters, the wording matters, and sadly who you attract matters. There are trolls who literally only want to hurt others (explicitly or just because they have no ability to understand what harm they are doing).
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They are not specific to open science, they are specific to the internet and the world generally. And movements need to make an active effort to keep them at bay.
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