Notices by Irene Zhang (irene@discuss.systems)

I thought I might start compiling a list of all of the things that UW did wrong and other departments should avoid. But it got so long …

1. One of the men reported the women for creating a hostile work environment because they were talking about women’s health issues. A faculty member suggested that the women start a women’s lunch and limit their discussions there

I wrote a blog post about my job! Since a lot of folks have written about what it is like being faculty (in particular Vijay's excellent book), I thought it would be useful to write something about being an industrial researcher. So if you are wondering what it is like being an MSR researcher, I've tried to give folks a peek into my role.
https://irenezhang.net/blog/2024/03/27/msr.html

It was really meant to be a summary of my experiences from the last 6 years but it turned into an acknowledgement of the lovely people that I have worked with since I graduated!

After 6 months, the #UWAllen School’s HR investigation finds no evidence that rises to the level of harassment and blames me for not gaslighting the women about that. The report, which is presented as neutral and definitive, contains a number of errors, including accidentally publishing my name and mixing up the women. It concludes with the same set of recommendations that the women raised in their original letter 6 months ago.

I wrote a blog post about what it is like being #womenintech within the framework of #moralphilosophy and ethics. #consistencyforthewin https://irenezhang.net/blog/2024/07/24/misogyny.html

Request for feedback: now that it has been a few weeks since the UW HR report and it has become clear that the admin is not going to really change anything or hold anyone accountable, I want to write a postmortem about the situation and my experience. What would you as an academic or member of my research community want to know??

@skinnylatte it’s also near a really nice movie theater with the big recliner seats and the downtown Sheraton and Hyatt so convenient for conferences!

This week in memes. It’s been a rough week so all I can do is laugh. https://universeodon.com/@jaykuo/114008617426084936

@jaykuo I love me a good taxonomy.

@regehr @ricci @palvaro yeah, y’all dodged a bullet based on how he treats grad students. I gave him a talk as a first year grad student when he was at Google and funding our lab. He told me I was never going to get my research published (presumably because he wasn’t able to get similar research published). I published that work the next year in OSDI. Regardless of what he thought, it’s just an asshole thing to say to a first year.

The average woman’s career trajectory. The alligator is people asking you to fix harassment.

For everyone that has been following the situation at the University of Washington Allen School, the HR report is done after 6 months. The full report is linked in this article. https://www.dailyuw.com/news/independent-investigation-finds-uw-systems-lab-conduct-not-harassment/article_d0dce740-e1ed-11ef-9c45-5fc644de6b05.html

@jbowen lol yeah will update

@jbowen it’s just funny because I did this last time too, even though my sister has also lived in Madison for a few years and worked at UW

@Em0nM4stodon @JessTheUnstill this was my solution. I literally got an unwellness cat.

@Em0nM4stodon @JessTheUnstill oh my bad, here are some photos of said cat. #cats #cattax

@Em0nM4stodon @JessTheUnstill while we were out of town he stole a bagel from our friend that was house sitting. This was captured on camera.

Well, the UW HR report on the sexual harassment situation has been released and unsurprisingly they are trying to blame me. For what? They have determined that *legally* what happened cannot be classified as sexual harassment so clearly I should have gaslit the women and told them that. 🤦♀️

@adrian @lindsey UW is so bad that they don’t even let the teaching faculty read their own reviews. They get a buddy that filters them first. Not that it’s super better to read this stuff about your colleague …

@adrian for Elba and the other women teaching faculty, the complaints are constant and don’t just come from explicit requests for feedback. One student complained that her voice was “annoying”. It’s depressing. (Not tagging her)