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  1. David Alex Lamb @[email protected] ·

    TIL about the Finkbeiner test, which requires that an article about a female scientist avoid gender bias by not mentioning several irrelevant aspects of her life, *including* that she is the "first woman to...". An unsharable FB post pointed out that if "..." is winning some award, that says more about the prize committee than about the woman.
    #ScienceJournalism #ScienceAwards
    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finkbe

    #sciencejournalism #scienceawards