www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... it was very hard not to read this and wonder if it'll be one of those "we're not prepared for the next pandemic" headlines from 2017-2018 because of how politically and economically fragile it all sounds

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can't take "LLMs are people" discourse seriously when we haven't even convinced everyone that all people are people.

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We found that the most gendered experience wasn’t work-life balance, the focus of most retention efforts. It was feeling devalued, in formal evaluations, but particularly in everyday interactions. Unlike every other topic, the gender gap in devaluation was larger among more senior faculty.

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Learning how to do careful qualitative research was one of the highlights of my PhD. It was emotional and often difficult to read these responses, but it gave me a clearer view of the problem than my work analyzing employment records did.

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6,500 academics across 300 US institutions responded to the prompt. I was absolutely floored. As a computer scientist, my instinct was to analyze these responses with NLP-based methods. But after I read a few, it didn’t feel like we could do justice to these responses without reading them ourselves.

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