I want Berkeley's lack of response to be surprising but it isn't.
The amazing outpouring of support from the astronomy community - the 2,500 signatures, the Berkeley astro grad student letter, the Berkeley astro postdoc letter, the Berkeley astro faculty letter, the many blog posts, the many tweets, and so on - all of that, now THAT is surprising to me, and in the best possible way.
Edit: And FWIW the author, Ghorayshi, did a biology degree at Berkeley, I think a Master's? So maybe she had connections in the astronomy department, in HR, or involved with EEO stuff who clued her in. Clearly she was able to track down at least one of the still-unnamed complainants though, as well as getting interviews w/ people in or previously in that department.
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Date: 2015-11-05 10:19 pm (UTC)I want Berkeley's lack of response to be surprising but it isn't.
The amazing outpouring of support from the astronomy community - the 2,500 signatures, the Berkeley astro grad student letter, the Berkeley astro postdoc letter, the Berkeley astro faculty letter, the many blog posts, the many tweets, and so on - all of that, now THAT is surprising to me, and in the best possible way.
Edit: And FWIW the author, Ghorayshi, did a biology degree at Berkeley, I think a Master's? So maybe she had connections in the astronomy department, in HR, or involved with EEO stuff who clued her in. Clearly she was able to track down at least one of the still-unnamed complainants though, as well as getting interviews w/ people in or previously in that department.