Notices by Irene Zhang (irene@discuss.systems), page 2

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)

@adrian yup.

@secretasianman @adrian my favorite one that I got was: I like how Irene laughs at her own jokes

@secretasianman @adrian yeah, the worst part is that he wasn’t wrong!!

@adrian just a note: you can enjoy this because you probably rarely get comments on your appearance on course evals but you might want to put a TW on it for women who teach. I wanted to dye my hair pink in grad school and Hank forbid it because he “wanted people to remember me for my work, not my hair”

@skinnylatte loool

PSA for #cat owners: they make puzzle feeders for wet food and they are super cute!! Our cats love them, it makes meal times last longer, keeps Miso from gobbling up his food and going after the other cats and Max likes the experience of getting all the last bits out after the other cats have left.

Don’t worry, those pedestrians are *poor* people. https://mastodon.social/@BenRossTransit/113741945325663404