Sebastian Cesario

The author is a tenured professor in a STEM discipline. Sebastian Cesario is a pseudonym.

6 Posts

An Unhelpful Study about Women in Physics

Moreover, the conclusion that harassment drives women from physics contradicts publicly available data on the progression of women in physics careers.

Sebastian Cesario

13 Jun 2019 · 7 min read

Scientific Progress and the Culture Wars

Luckily for sane people everywhere, project insiders have so far refrained from going to the media and dishing on which team members did or didn’t pull their own weight.

Sebastian Cesario

15 Apr 2019 · 8 min read

Schrödinger’s (Wo)Manhood

Reconciling the two official gender narratives requires threading a needle fine enough to separate matters of personality and identity from preferences for how one spends a large portion of their waking hours.

Sebastian Cesario

14 Nov 2018 · 8 min read

Shibboleths That Exclude in the Name of Inclusion

Does the applicant have experience teaching students from a variety of backgrounds? Have they worked respectfully and effectively with those students?

Sebastian Cesario

25 Jun 2018 · 12 min read

Unconscious Bias Training as a Management Tool

Training on ‘unconscious bias’ is the punishment that hiring committees face for not hiring enough female and (non-Asian) minority professors.

Sebastian Cesario

4 May 2018 · 3 min read

Gender Bias in STEM—An Example of Biased Research?

This can only go on for so long before people push back.

Sebastian Cesario

29 Aug 2017 · 9 min read