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PODCAST 131: Professor Tania Reynolds on the Controversy Over Female Mentorship in Academia

Quillette, Tania Reynolds

2 Jan 2021 · 1 min read

University of New Mexico social psychologist Tania Reynolds speaks with Jonathan Kay about Nature Communications‘ questionable decision to retract a controversial article, the intrusion of ideology into scholarship about academic mentorship, and the principles of evolutionary biology that may affect female professional relationships.

Prof. Reynolds originally wrote about this issue for Quillette in November.

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