Live from La Farine: My colleague Michael O'Hare has had it with the U.C. Berkeley administration.
It seems to me that Gibor Basri, Claude Steel, Nick Dirks, Janet Napolitano, Monica Lozano, and Jerry Brown have some explaining to do, and should do it very quickly:
: Serial Sexual Harasser Geoffrey Marcy: Irony Bonfire at Cal: "Astronomer Geoffrey Marcy is a big deal in big science, apparently on the Nobel Prize short list...
...A Sirius-level magnitude star in Berkeley’s constellation. For a decade, at least, he’s also been a serial harasser of women and on notice about it, in a field that has a big problem treating women as colleagues. Not a careless act or slipup: a long-time hobby.
Everyone knew about it; women had a whole network to warn each other about him. You will, however, be pleased to know that Cal deeply deplores this behavior, and after six months of finding out what, apparently, any one in the exoplanet trades could tell them, he has been given a sharply worded admonition and told to not do it any more! His department chair, who presides over a faculty of 21 men and 3 women, counsels them that the episode is ‘hardest for Geoff in this moment’.
No, really; this guy thinks this is something that happened to Marcy!
And in case you think the god of irony is on travel today, that chair is also our Vice Chancellor for Equity and Inclusion.
