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Got Bias? Adventures in Academic Publishing

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“ … find one or two male biologists to work with (or at least obtain internal peer review from, but better yet as active co-authors), in order to serve as a possible check against interpretations that may sometimes be drifting too far away from empirical evidence into ideologically based assumptions .”                                                      -Reviewer to @FionaIngleby Yep. The recipe for a manuscript to some “colleagues” apparently requires a pinch or two of male. Luckily the internet is a thing, providing the venue to expose this heaping pile of horseshit...  very quickly even more awesomeness emerged on the twitter #AddMaleAuthorGate THANK YOU Leon Eyrich Jessen ‏@jessenleon & Mick Watson ‏@BioMickWatson   Importantly, journalists and academics have already delivered great coverage and exquisite essays on event #721 of recent descriptions of gendered experiences in academia. In recent years, studies have reported real world disparity of invitations to talk